I see the Democrats continue to be the most useless people on the face of the planet.

Australia: where you can go to prison for saying #RiverToTheSea but boo at a 60 thousand year old Indigenous culture and completely get away with it. Disgraceful.

Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

This is what you call a nightmare blunt rotation.

The absolute state of this gormless fool.

He seems to be doing this quite a bit lately. Don't like my invitation on your behalf, of someone linked to genocide? Too bad. Police too violent? Naaah. Protest? Nuh. Not acting on review findings? So? Unhappy to be affiliated with facist USA? I'm not. 😒 We see you Albo. You're a disappointment.

One of the most pathetic pictures of anyone I've ever seen

What a disgrace.

Vale to one of Australia's greatest cartoonists and artists - Jon Kudelka

It cannot be stated strongly enough how much we have completely lost the plot.

Our government crossed a line by inviting a war criminal - they can’t uncross it.

Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad. Goddamn I will miss him

The share of Americans who disapprove of ICE tactics in polls: 60+ percent New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”

Penny’s really looking forward to welcoming Isaac Herzog, though.

If you do one thing today and one thing only, make it reading this thread and then sending it everyone you know.

Bloke autographed bombs. Investigation complete. #AusPol

Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted. Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.

“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe. Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?

Australian officials are currently trying to scheme up ways to sneak the president of Israel into the country for a visit without him getting confronted by massive anti-genocide protests. Read that again. When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.

The world is being held hostage to the whims of the smallest micro man who has ever walked on this earth.

1. These are concentration camps, whose purpose is ethnic cleansing and state terror. 2. Democrats not calling to abolish ICE are complicit with fascists. 3. Any govt who fails to condemn the Trump regime's behaviour at home and abroad is complicit with fascists. That's you @albomp.bsky.social.

If you haven't yet, make sure you block @icegov.bsky.social Block ICE

This is remarkable. More remarkable in light of current events is that the Australian government has not updated this since 19 November. Compare this with some of the places the Australian government ranks as requiring a high degree of caution. Total negligence and cowardice.

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If Greens support this fascistic bill and enshrine Zionist capture, it will destroy them. Your voters will see sellouts and cowards caving on our liberties because you're not up for the fight. Because you're scared of getting yelled at in the newspapers. @davidshoebridge.bsky.social

Imagine a political ideology so evil, so despised, so racist and murderous, so globally unpopular - but also so entrenched in Western establishment depravity - that your government (with the opposition), would seek to make criticism and protest of it illegal. Imagine that.

@senatorwong.bsky.social still think it’s a great idea to invite Herzog here do you?

Nothing says social cohesion like inviting the guy who autographs his bombs before blowing up children. #auspol

I can just see it now too - one way or another, the ABC will cave to this. It won’t be today or tomorrow and it won’t be direct in the same way that for example Antoinette Lattouf was. But I’d bet my bottom dollar the ABC will eventually penalise or sideline Lyons and Tingle.

Solidarity with Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah. We stand against this retrograde decision and with the countless authors withdrawing in support of Randa and her work.

Rolling out the red carpet for the president of a genocidal apartheid state that’s murdered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and other Arab civilians is a good thing. Hope you don’t sleep well, Penny.

The one rule that always hold true for these far right pieces of shit is that they also possess the glassiest of jaws. They actively seek to destroy the world for everyone who isn’t rich, white and male, but a widdle expletive makes them piss their pants. They are the absolute smallest of men.

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.

If there was any justice, Musk would be under arrest now, and X would be closed down.

A *very* weird statement by Tracey Whiting announcing her resignation as chair of the Adelaide Festival board.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

This is really fascinating - and does give me a small sliver of hope.

There is not one part of this that isn’t immensely chilling.

Hitler alleged all sorts of things against the government and leadership of Czechoslovakia. I would advise the "Maduro's no angel" crowd to just stop. Whatever his personal sins and the government's failings, it just isn't the point.

Why the fuck are we still in an alliance with this regime?

yet again remembering senator chris murphy admitting right in public on twitter that we tried to coup venezuela in trump's first term and he was talking about this not to condemn it but to bemoan how trump bungled the job and embarrassed the US

Just your occasional reminder that Venezuela’s oil reserves are greater than Saudi Arabia’s, and nearly 4X those of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

Chris Minns wondering if anyone will think it is too early to ban protests against the US

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Hey chat remember the times (yes, that’s plural) when people had themselves convinced that Trump wouldn’t be a warmonger. I sure remember.

Centrists seem to have no idea how illegitimate and undemocratic they now appear to huge masses of ordinary people. The cowardice, the hypocrisy, the lies, the selling out, the fascistic overreach to support Israel's depravity. Business as usual is just waking people up.