"Albanese's target, a compromise of expedience over evidence, of cowardice over vision, of today over a plan for tomorrow." #auspol #climatecrisis www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...

Civil society leaders urge UN member states to act on Gaza ahead of UNGA - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/civil-society-leaders-urge-un-member-states-act-gaza-unga-convenes

"The global pressure on Israel, which many have likened in the last week to Apartheid-era South Africa, is slowly mounting." But: - Israel's genocidal conduct is worse than apartheid-era South Africa - the global response is far weaker, and - most govts are ignoring international law. #GazaGenocide

Do think it is genuinely interesting how quickly Western liberal interest in the Syrian cause fell off after December 2024.

Macron announces that Portugal will also recognize the State of Palestine this Monday at the United Nations General Assembly

The self styled leader of the opposition in Israel and nominal liberal Yair Lapid declares that he will take no part in a government that has Palestinian citizens of Israel represented in it. Jewish supremacism is the consensus opinion among the Zionist bloc, from left wing to right wing.

The thing is, I just really fucking hate bullies, and what's getting me down is that I thought other people did too.

Brazil 🇧🇷 has submitted a declaration of intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Brazil, invoking Article 63 of the ICJ Statute Making it the 13th country to join the case. go.icj-cij.org/46Rpjfl

“This is not a red wheelbarrow. The man in the photo is not a farmer. There are no white chickens, no rain water. This is a father pushing a wheelbarrow that carries the slaughtered body of his child.” @mosababutoha.bsky.social

The Cultural Destruction of Gaza pen.org/report/all-t...

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which killed 31 journalists and media support workers on September 10th, marks the deadliest global attack in 16 years and the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded. cpj.org/2025/09/isra...

Israel wanted me to back down by killing my family | Wael al-Dahdouh - https://www.middleeasteye.net/video/israel-wanted-me-back-down-killing-my-family-wael-al-dahdouh

More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies. www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...

Comedy and laughing at the oppressors is a very very powerful weapon. Its listed within the ‘Rules for radicals and it’s one of the first things that Dictators ban. Fear is one of the pillars that consent to govern rests upon, comedy dispels fear.. Straight out of Hitlers playbook

Stunned and sickened to learn for the first time that 31 Yemeni journalists were killed by Israel last week. HRW says they hit a media center housing the headquarters of two newspapers. A analyst is quoted saying staff gathered to prepare the next edition of one paper.

I hope he won’t mind me saying this but John Lyons is one of Australia’s best and most fearless journos. We spoke briefly about his philosophy: report the truth regardless of how much heat might come his way, or otherwise, move aside and get a job in PR.

A child cries while carrying his younger sister on his shoulders, walking along the long displacement route from northern Gaza to the South. The suffering of innocent children is unbearable 💔 The US vetoed to stop this last night #UnitedNationsSecurityCouncil resolution calling for a ceasefire

I was pleased to chat with @australia.theguardian.com team who actually looked at the Age Assurance trial data, finding racial & other biases of concern before the trial are still very evident in the trial's actual data (downplayed in the official summaries): www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

#BREAKING | Anti-Genocide protesters block a main road near the IDF HQ in Tel Aviv with a big sign saying "Stop The Genocide"

Remorse™

India has broken my graph. 30 GW of renewables added so far this year, ahead of 28.6 GW for all of 2024. robbieandrew.github.io/india

Anera’s staff members share the grueling reality in Gaza. Time is running out, and we call on member states of the UN to speak up for humanity sooner than later. @aneraorg.bsky.social www.anera.org/blog/gaza-le...

For the record this is also something which worries me in Australia. Fudging the law to declare non-existent "groups" as terrorists or designating groups as terrorists before they've actually committed terrorism is a concerning and anti-democratic trend. bsky.app/profile/elis...

This piece goes into excellent detail on how Biden repeatedly undermined Obama and Hillary Clinton on Israel-Palestine

At this point to report on Israel’s denials is to legitimise them. The entire press should be on notice: regurgitating genocidal propaganda will have legal consequences, and the tribunals of tomorrow won’t buy your silly cowardly excuses.

Doctors Without Borders reports that Israel fired upon a clearly marked MSF water truck. This was deliberate. How many times do we need to go through the same cycle: Israel targets humanitarian vehicles and aid workers, and then says: “Whoopsie! It was an accident, believe us!”

Cracker of a chart

The government says from 2035 to 2050, the biggest absolute cuts in emissions across all sectors will come from transport. But gov stats show that from 2005, transport emissions have just continued to grow. How's this going to work?

At least 40 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City as residents described nonstop Israeli attacks, from drones and jets to explosive robots used to destroy neighbourhoods, medical sources and witnesses told Al Jazeera aje.io/mespwe

"The Shame of Our Time"

Islamophobia special envoy Aftab Malik gets emotional as he speaks about some recent Islamophobic incidents in Australia “A man told a Muslim couple that he would love to kill their 3 children” Where has media been on this? Silence. #Abc

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ has joined Slovenia’s national broadcaster RTVSLO in pulling their countries out of the 2026 Eurovision Contest if Israel is a participant. Will our national broadcaster SBS who produces & airs Eurovision in Australia follow suit? They must.

You can't be a centrist under a fascist regime. You're either fighting, or facilitating. There's no secret third thing. Except dead, I suppose.

A safe climate needs a minimum of 75% target. This sets Australians on the more dangerous risk trajectory of climate impacts, identified in the government’s very own risk assessment released earlier this week.

Gift link for the afternoon crowd I write on why palestinian statehood recognition schemes are a trap www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-st...

Israeli tanks were seen in two areas of Gaza City that are gateways to the city centre, the news agency Reuters reported on Thursday, quoting residents. Internet and phone lines have been cut off across Gaza since Wednesday after Israeli forces targeted routes and infrastructure. 1/3

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

"[Climateworks] CEO Anna Skarbek says its modelling has found that Australia can reach an 85 per cent cut in emissions by 2035 with solutions that are already out there." Albo is selling out the nation and our future with the cowardly 62% target.

Giving billions of Australian dollars to the US for AUKUS was stupid enough when it retained a semblance of democracy Now it just looks crazy and evil

The march. My @smh @theage cartoon.

#Gaza is not just facing a humanitarian catastrophe. It is facing the systematic destruction of a people. Doctors in Gaza know they cannot stop a genocide. But world leaders can, if they choose to act: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a... What’s this sound like?

The playbook is Palestine. Always been. If the fascists can convince you to look away, to stay quiet, to weigh the odds, to hesitate on speaking up -- about literal genocide -- the fascists can get away with anything. All they have to do is lie loudly, retract quietly, and do crimes relentlessly.

Literally fascism. Literally what the Nazis did with Horst Wessel.

Heavy from Craig Corrie—the dad of young American Rachel, killed by Israeli soldiers in 2003 as she protested Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes: "People talk about this human rights champion…I just think of this…Strong woman, and a cute little girl, and all the stuff in between…I miss her."

"Documents show that significant bus reform was recommended by [Victoria's] Department of Transport [but] rejected by cabinet in 2023. "The Department recommended a new bus network with buses every 10 min on a 1.6km grid throughout the city." www.melbournefoe.org.au/documents_sh... #auspol #vicpol

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

"Almost uniquely on the international stage, Albanese could decide to dedicate his prime ministership to making the case for a rapid change on climate. He has a stonking majority and a progressive crossbench that wants deeper cuts. If not now, when?"

"The 62-70% emissions target is a slap in the face to the people growing Australia’s food. It is nothing short of betrayal to farmers around the country and the generations who come after us."