Some principles for euthanizing the rentier in a renewed democracy. 🧵 Rather than asking how to protect democracy from finance, we must ask how to redesign finance so that democratic commitments become the highest-priority promises in the system.

Absolutely incredible as Australia's opinions of the US continue to plummet Albanese and Labor keep pushing us closer and closer to the US. www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/... Also worth noting this change began before Trump under Biden.

watched this, thought huh yeah i guess this sad old woman is kind of funny, moved on. ran into it a bunch more times kept wondering what i was missing about this heartbroken grandmother. oh. it's mick jagger

maybe if England hadn't Brexited the attacking third of the pitch things would have turned out better

I think Tuchel has to take a lot of blame for this loss. England have been weirdly passive all tournament. Argentina looked so much better than England in the second half.

We on the left really need to start treating the UAE with the same contempt for its (US-enabled) genocide in Sudan as we do Israel for its (US-enabled) genocide in Occupied Palestine.

Looks like Labor’s whole AI pitch today treats the problem as datacentres taking too long to get approved, but that was never what people were worried about. People hate having no say at all while big tech gets the green light faster and faces less scrutiny than ever.

Whenever you read "fast-track approvals" and Albanese in the same sentence, you know it is going to be some predatory corporate interest he is caving in to. It's the stuff that would benefit ordinary Australians that he goes slow on. #inequality #auspol

the inquiry was established following a “growing presence of ideological extremism targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples” since October 2023 and a terror attack on “Australian” soil this year. Yes, really.

What we saw at the RC was someone who only seemed interested in protecting Israel’s reputation – a rogue genocidal state that has targeted and killed 20,000 children. No broadcaster should be vetting its journalism against Israel's PR objectives (although it seems most already do!).

“I find that the MSO would have taken the same actions if Mr Gillham had expressed a political belief in support of Israel” I’m sure Mr Federal-court-Justice-Graeme-Hill isn’t stupid enough to actually believe what he has said right there. What does that make this judgement he has just handed down?

my dude you're outhasbaraing the IDF

Incredible research. "The findings also suggest contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations, which hover around 1 million people, haven’t returned yet to their preinvasion numbers." For those like Abbott who try argue the benefits the English invasion brought Aboriginal people.

Referring to Palestine, Egyptian football coach Hossam Hassan: "In the country where kids are being killed, they wear the jerseys of Argentina, Barcelona, City, Real Madrid. These kids love you and they love football. But they are being killed and you're still silent." Preach.

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

Maine Democrats having an extraordinarily deep bench going into 2026 thanks to a large, term-limited legislature, then proceeding to put forth possibly the two worst people on the entire bench for Senate, is an incredible bit I have to say

Israel’s control over Palestinian freedom of movement is deadly—and that’s deliberate. Israel controls where Palestinians can go, including whether they can get medical care or reach an ambulance. Israel has killed many Palestinians like baby Ahmad by enforcing restrictions like these.

Commentators saying there was some guy in the stands who has a "See Ronaldo score live" as a bucket list item he's willing to pay top dollar to see. Not sure why, Ronaldo's scored hundreds of times, it's not that special. Now, watching Joe Gomez score live, that's a bucket list moment.

Great Thread on the World Cup

AND ANOTHER THING. Why is the prime minister on a podcast. Go to work bitch

The Albanese Government continues to underwhelm on LGBTIQ+ rights, this time refusing to accept any recommendations relating to our communities made via the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review. So disappointing - but by now, sadly to be expected. #auslaw #auspol

I am so sorry but Balogun's red card being rescinded is very funny. Just the literal manifestation of a million jokes about Trump and FIFA. At least the corruption this time didn't lead to the death of tens of thousands of migrant workers.

Imagine if the RC had actually asked him about these tweets. I wonder if he would have had a moment of self-realisation. "You know dehumanisation almost led to my murder. I've dehumanised Palestinians. Is there a link here?"

Council removed it in under 24 hrs

hell yeah brother

Darcy Byrne, the bully boy Mayor of the Inner West, is creating a profile as Albanese’s designated successor by vocally opposing poker machines. But when the ABC’s Jane Norman asks him about @albomp.bsky.social’s “gambling reform” legislation he – of course– endorses the meaningless drivel #auspol

I actually think my preferred question is; "What are Israel's responsibilities as a State?" Because the ICJ found it was to leave the Occupied Territories, pay reparations and end Apartheid. So why does the State of Israel violate those responsibilities?

Tech should be designed to serve our collective well-being. But today, a handful of billionaires pull the strings that shape our lives. To change that, we need to understand how these systems work, what a better technological future could look like, and how we can build it together.

A big part of the reason why the 1SS has been gathering more support in recent years is that Israeli political parties across the spectrum are all adamant that they will never give up control of the Territories, and people believe them, at which point the logical next step is to demand equality.

Free Tibet activist, 52, self-immolated outside the United Nations in NYC earlier tonight. Beside him, the Tibetan flag. Around him, papers with big letters printed out: “China out of Tibet.”

Colonial frameworks can still work if both sides to it are in fact indigenous to the territory in question, because they are not exclusive moral judgements.

300 people in Gaza have died waiting for life saving medical treatment abroad because Israel is delaying/preventing them from leaving. One of those people was Sabers mum.

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

At least eight people were killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Monday, including a 23-year-old mother and her 1-year-old baby. The mother and her child were killed in a strike on a displacement camp in the enclave's southern city of Khan Yunis. www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-06...

Forcing transparency from Labor. This time on the toxic deal where Australia hands over $2.5 billion to Nauru as part of an attack on refugees' rights. After a vote in the Senate brought on by the Greens, Labor must now make public the secret agreement within the month.

6 years on from the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, that day & few days following still hurt. People I had got to know, friends & allies went dark, not all of them but alot. They deleted their socials, accounts scrubbed clean, gaps in conversations. Some... 1/

There is something very funny about an interview that is all about how the candidate lost an election because of antisemitism; only to then check the religion/identity of the guy who won.

Just another empty suit. Honestly what is it with these smart, genteel men like Emmanuel Macron and Malcolm Turnbull being such massive failures?

It's actually really shocking how little coverage this is getting just about anywhere!

'Social cohesion' is a fantasy when the Government imposes hierarchies of racism. This so-called Social Cohesion Education Hub includes 24 resources on Antisemitism but just two on Islamophobia and one on First Nations hate.

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It's interesting how divisive this movie has been. It seems like you either really love it or hate it.

This is a lovely review that highlights what alot of people love about this movie. But as someone who hated it (sorry) here is what I had trouble with. *spoilers* 1/

Ever so often I look in my diary to see what's coming up in the week, I see the word "retreat" and I am briefly excited about this relaxing event I've forgotten all about. Then I remember that a week ago I found nits in my child's hair.

The Christian Brothers were effectively a criminal gang where 22% of the brothers committed child sexual assault. They saw the law and survivors coming after them so hid their assets and cash in a separate legal entity. Together we need to fix this for survivors.

I especially love this diagram.