Shapiro: J.D. Vance is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do. What we need right now is not idiotic gaslighting from the sitting VP He should be ashamed of himself—and he’s not. I think that speaks to the weakness of his character.

"‘Stanner’s “great Australian silence” has now apparently been extended to Palestinians. Like “good” Aboriginal people, “good” Palestinians must now be invisible, silent and complicit in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza." - Melissa Lucashenko

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

JUST NOW: At end of press conference, Gov Tim Walz (D-MN) quotes George Orwell “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" (Some Congressional Democrats used same quote Tuesday, on 5-year mark of Jan 6)

Jesse Ventura on the right side of history yet again.

There is no question of what happened. Ice approached the victim to intimidate, create fear by pulling her out of the car and putting her face down on the ground. That is their M.O. When she wasn't going to let that happen, she was shot. All 3 had a part in her death.

You can see it here. Right up to the end. She believed she was living in the land of the free. He brutally showed the unpalatable truth, which is now fully revealed by your elected representatives and most favoured media. Belittling, othering, hating, lying. Her today, you tomorrow.

The video evidence appears to undermine elements of the government's narrative of what happened in Minneapolis. https://cnn.it/4qqhOUQ

The transformation of ICE into a type of national police force, backed, in some cases, by soldiers from the National Guard, has been covered as immigration story—but these forces are reshaping democracy for all of us. Listen to 'Autocracy in America' here: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

THIS IS WHAT THE BEZOS THE KKKLOWN PAYS FOR WITH $$$ AND PROPAGANDA ASSISTANCE: "WARTIME IN AMERICA" TO "DEFEND THEIR CULTURE." NOBODY IS FOOLED AS TO WHAT IT IS AND WHO OWNS IT. BETTER FUCKING HOPE TO HELL YOUR KKKRISOTFASCIST END OF DEMOCRACY SUCCEEDS, CHAMP. YOU ARE LOCKED IN NOW. #BOYCOTTWAPO

New video! Appalling. bsky.app/profile/greg...

She was murdered, not fatally shot, not killed. Murdered!

The dystopia of a criminal president sending his own army of goons into "blue" states while pretending to "fight crime."

Renee Nicole Good had “stopped to support our neighbors” when she was fatally shot by an ICE officer in a confrontation on a residential street in Minneapolis, her wife said. https://wapo.st/4soM6sC

#Butterflies This should not be the issue...would we NATO live up to an Article 5 obligation to defend it! Europe & Canada need to put troops on the ground now if invited. If we'd done it in Ukraine in 2022 Russia might have thought twice. Words will not stop Trump.

The height of hypocrisy. Abandoned Net Zero, opposed every attempt to mitigate the climate catastrophe and then shows up for the bushfire photo op. Shame on Sussan Ley. #auspol

I ordered one of Randa's books yesterday. A few family and friends back home in Adelaide aren't going any more. (They were regulars) I'm sure we are not alone. The board really fucked up.

No board needs a real estate agent though.

Gotta disagree, Jessie. All boards of cultural institutions need people who work in or have experience of the relevant arts industry or area. An Arts Festival board needs artists. The State Library of Vic board has no publisher, author, historian, researcher, library-user rep or writing academic.

This is heartbreaking. I attended my first Adelaide Writers' Week in the mid 80s & instantly fell in love with it. It was unique in Australia, a place of bold imagination & profound love for the written word. Appearing as an author was a highlight of my life. Ignorant, bigoted thugs have killed it.

Definitely noticing a distinct pattern where there's zero arts people involved 😔

Even absent the Palestine aspect, this sort of failure to understand aritsts and the arts, from a board, would become more frequent, the greater inequality grows

Jonathan Green also

Yes I saw Laura withdrew, but as a Staff Elected Director she would be pretty well untouchable for now. She sets a good example for the others to follow.

logic dictates the Arts community must organise their own festivals, no outside influence, grass roots, organic, pick a town that can cope with the numbers and watch it flourish....or remain in the cities but choose sympathetic venues

The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.

The problem here is these people are all about personal reputation management rather than community accountability.

Nazi Elon Musk's biggest scam was helping felon Donald Trump steal 2024 election & then doing MASSIVE damage to our federal gov, the American people & our allies via Musk's DOGE scam. Fraud included Musk terminating investigations into him & his businesses & awarding federal contracts to himself.

Entire Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank are being erased. Bulldozed, dismantled, disappeared. Here’s what’s happening and why it matters. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/isra...

He shot her in the head, then called her a “fucking bitch.” That isn’t self defense, it’s an angry execution.

NGC 7380, Wizard Nebula app.astrobin.com/i/d6pwe0 #Astrophotography

The ArtsHub list is at 90, but given it doesn't have eg Brigid Delaney, John Lyons, Bob Brown, Marian Wilkinson, it's a good bet the real number is over 100. www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

“As Louise says, friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you.” First they came for the…… And I did not speak out Because I was not a……. Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me #Auspol

How many citizens were killed by police in each country between 2010-2019: Canada: 305 France: 233 Germany: 100 Australia: 53 United Kingdom: 22 United States: 15,008

Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them. Margaret Atwood She laughed at him. He killed her. Then he called her a "f*ck*ng b*tch"

"The categories of what is unsayable & who is silenced will inevitably grow. Today it is Gaza, but next it could be the environment or social policy. As we see in the US, the slippery categories of terrorism & community cohesion are ever-growing as forces of oppression." Flanagan nails it, as usual

ACCURATE.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Letter from 11 South Australian cultural leaders labels cancellation of Palestinian-Australian’s participation a ‘grave mistake’ which brought festival into disreput

I don’t think this new angle changed anyone’s mind, because everyone is already dug into their partisan foxholes, but it should very clearly at least show you that she wasn’t trying to run over this officer. That narrative was bullshit. ICE agent should be charged with murder.

While Renee Good's lifeless body was slumped in her blood-filled car, this was going on just a few feet away. Bystanders who tried to help her were pepper sprayed by ICE.

Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. This is not an administration, it is a crime spree.

Now we know one more of their weaknesses... ICE Kryptonite is ice Break out the Super Soakers 😆 😎 😉

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

Even if she was it is still murder and trump is responsible

#misogyny101 #waronwomen