Ever since the horrific acts of brutality by NSW Police against peaceful protestors on Monday night, Chris Minns has backed their actions. This is very very disturbing. Here's (some of) what I said in Parliament about it.

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You breached your own character and hate laws to grant him a visa. We are not the problem. Your lack of leadership is.

There is no procedural scenario where he "wins" on some genuine technicality at blocking a Dem-majority Congress from being seated. It's literally send in the army to shut them down and haul them off kind of territory and nothing short of that. At which point we have bigger problems than con law.

Some things are worse but big picture is this still mostly a rehash of 2020. They can and will do lots of damage in the attempt, but they are nowhere close to having the procedural levers and consolidated control to pull it off. We're not going to end up with a purged fake stolen Congress in 2027.

We are world news but not in a good way #auspol

Wednesday and all talk is if Angus Taylor will challenge to be leader of an irrelevant party. @amyremeikis.bsky.social has you covered, but with actual news on things that affect your life #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

“It was Australian soldiers who liberated the Holy Land” Mate, you’ve literally bulldozed our war graves in Gaza

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WeRateDogs takes on the surveillance state

Russia is coercing the families of Ukrainian prisoners of war to register Starlink terminals for use by Russian troops on the battlefield; Russian forces struck the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast with glide bombs on Feb. 10, killing an 11-year-old child and her mother; and more.

#UkrainianView Hi friends, please share this post and recommend it to people who might be interested 🙏 Thank you very much!

“measles doesn’t negotiate” speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2026/02/05/w...

Daily news in Ukraine. And the most terrifying thing that I'm not crying anymore. Sometimes there're moments when I cry like an injured animal. But not on a daily basis, as it was at the beginning of full-scale invasion #Ukrainianview

A whole new meaning to cohesion is going in NSW.

Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.

Blatantly disgraceful, inflammatory comments from Karl Stefanovic & gaslighting comments from Minns after egregious police violence against worshippers performing sunset prayers they were running late at observing Minns:“NSW Police would never, ever have deliberately provoked the Islamic community”

Not blocking a road, not marching. Just performing sunset prayers The obfuscating, gaslighting, reality-denying doublespeak from Minns & NSW Police leadership is deeply disrespectful & sickening

We did it🥹

And that is possible. Symbols of fascism and murderers are in demand... — it’s a decision made by specific people: Kirsty Coventry, Emma Terho, and Ivo Ferriani. 👌 #UkrainianView

Yep Vic are absolutely no different to NSW or anywhere else for that matter re unprovoked violence. Remember that iconic high five? I follow a blackfulla academic who was appalled by the violence but appreciates the “value of the police” … I mean where do you go with that?😪

Putting Mandelson to one side, so much of what Jonathan Pie says about UK Labour applies equally to @australianlabor.bsky.social. It's enough to make one weep if only you weren't so angry. #auspol #ukpoli

Dernière minute; Affaire Epstein : un diplomate français cité, le ministre des Affaires étrangères saisit la justice

“Society pays a price for the Commonwealth’s love affair with these multinational consultancies, where everyone’s at the champagne bar congratulating each other on the extraordinary profits they’re making.” satpa.pe/McgzW6X

It’s my last day of hearing from Govt on why you’re not allowed to see anything about where Govt intends to put #AUKUS ☢️ waste. The 👇list of excuses👇 is long. It’s politically sensitive, you’re illiterate, and the remedy to illiteracy is to keep you illiterate 🤦‍♂️. #FOI #auspol

Why fund the Marxists in the English department when you can fund the “generative language arts”? Why fund the art department (which reeks of linseed oil) when you can fund “creative co-design”? And so on.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... “We are disappointed that it is a Labor govt – a govt we worked to elect – that presided over the terrible erosion of civil liberties in NSW & we are deeply distressed it is a Labor govt that enabled the violence we saw against protesters at Town Hall”

it’s interesting to see how they frame these things because they still get so much engagement on Facebook and places like that. Several paragraphs in, far past that headline, you get to this: nypost.com/2026/02/07/h...

Spoiler: it didn’t

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Pavel Durov finally found his tongue and criticized the Russian censorship measures regarding Telegram, comparing them with those in Iran. Credit where credit is due.

Mini-essay 🧵: Words matter. But I don't agree with these authors' conclusions. They note that the term "provider" deemphasizes "professional identity...because differences in training and expertise among clinicians are not recognized; others have found it to be ambiguous and disrespectful." 1/10

Everything else aside, I would urge folks not to just assume we will see a return to traditional departments and majors. The critical and creative disciplines will be rebranded as “innovation” as institutions pump money into new units and programs in the scramble to remain relevant.

The footage of Police dragging & brutalising men at prayer 🙏 makes me physically sick! 💔😢😡 They weren't in the middle of a "riot", everyone was respecting their space, except the brutish Police. Blatant lies from authorities. Minns Labor has lost our family vote here. #NSWPol #Auspol

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It appears that after losing Starlink in Ukraine Russians have blocked Telegram in Russia, which likely was used for communication at the frontline. The Russian war effort is going „well“, apparently.

Infrastructure rot intensifies. The downstream opportunity costs of the SME are compounding across the domestic front.

The far right in power always co-opts culture – in France, it has already begun | Alexander Hurst

So according to the NSW Police Minister, the cops lack the emotional maturity and training to be trusted near crowds, and people should be gentle with their precious little feelings. I mean it's something we all knew, it's just bracing for them to admit it.

Superb Northern Territory Content.

This is maddening nonsense from Albanese. Herzog is the President of *Israel*. He’s not the “head of state” for Jews. This transformation of Jews into some convenient monolith is perverse.

Genuine news headline from Germany: “British PM Starmer survives Monday, politically”. 😂

The NSW government claims everyone 'lacks context', so we spoke to an officer hear his story. chaser.com.au/general-news...

Not sure why the ABC thinks we're going to come to its aid when they finally destroy it.

@irishrainforest.bsky.social has shown that trees are much better at planting trees than humans ever will be - the only exception when humans are needed to plant trees is in situations where the indigenous trees are no longer present to plant themselves Imagine humans asking trees to deliver babies

Excellent piece. In any case, the 'trilateral peace talks' are a grim farce: Putin is only interested in coercing Ukraine into surrender, & the US seems content to go along. It makes no sense for Europe to try to join in; it should focus on strengthening UA & weakening RU, militarily & economically.

Wtf did they think was going to happen when they invited a war criminal who signed bombs destined to annihilate children…a member of a govt already dividing Australians. It’s the govt people are protesting…not the people. …and we should always be able to protest governments no matter which ones.

Report by Jason Staines re CSIRO cuts identifies a "shared concern that Australia is drifting toward a model of public science that is increasingly short-term, reactive and fragile, even as national challenges become more complex and interlinked." www.croakey.org/public-good-...