“While we wring our hands over 15 dead on Bondi Beach – and rightly so – we’ve said nothing about over 70,000 Palestinians killed since Oct 2023, the majority women and children. No condemnation of hospitals bombed, aid workers targeted, starvation deployed as weapon.” theaimn.net/nothing-to-s...

Good article Michael 🙏🏽 I note with interest that ASIO claim they signed off on the younger guy as "No longer a threat" He was watched from Oct 2019, then suddenly ceased being watched in March 2020 - coincidentally the beginning of the axing of 100s of ASIO staff and when covid began in earnest .

Like everything the Trump Republican Party does and says, this is bullshit. What 100 million deportations really looks like is masked thugs on every street. It is 1 in 3 people. Chaos, lawlessness, poverty, deprivation, fear everywhere. Families torn apart. Brutality as governance.

What exists, but shouldn’t? Billionaires

A wife beater and a thief. Liberal party MPs starting the year in custody. But will still be MPs? And paid?

Belated #amReading post, my last books of 2025 Weyward by Emilia Hart was a gift from my stepdaughter who always chooses great feminist books. A great read blending contemporary issues with historic fiction.

The entire Gen X is feeling a disturbance in the Force. I reckon a streaming service could do well having well curated music video shows from different years.

Theme for 2026 You don't have to take this crap You don't have to sit back and relax You can actually try changing it I know we've always been taught to rely Upon those in authority But you never know until you try How things just might be If we came together so strongly youtu.be/k5HfOipwvts?...

Taking this whole vibe into 2026 #FuckOffFascists

"Spain sparks International applause and cheering" It's Netanyahu who sparks fury. The genocidal maniac criminal.

The more grateful I am, the less I argue with reality; I see what is given, accept what I cannot command, and use well what is within my power. Iki "The more beauty I can see"

Exposing Murdoch's News Corp news creation factory has been IA's task for 15 years. Another Sydney Daily Travesty chapter in a long and sorry saga here.... #7 TOP IA STORY OF 2025: Daily Telegraph tries to stage antisemitic incident @michellepini.bsky.social independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

Well done Chris Minns for turning NSW into an Israeli police state. Trump would be proud of your achievements.

Japan: Diarists have chronicled the comings and goings of cherry blossoms each year since A.D. 812 The 20-year average is on the steepest decline since records began, and has moved in perfect correlation with the age of burning fossil fuels Another one of my charts of the year

Just the ticket for me!

We are subsidising the ultra rich while starving public services of funds and trapping Australian people in poverty & sickness. Life under oligarchy in the 21st century. Just like life as a peasant in mediaeval times but with added consumerism.

The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.

"If you tax billionaires you won't have billionaires anymore." Threatening us with a good time, again.

Pro tip for a timeline cleanse: mute the names of all political leaders, and follow accounts of animal pictures. Feel your outlook on life improve instantly!

Clearly the NSW premier will now allow feminist groups to carry firearms, if he is consistent

Off to the office on my holidays, today. It's my day to restock the community pantry we keep stocked year-round. As I count my blessings at the end of a tough year, the fact I am working with a team who want to build community is high on the list. 💚 I am so grateful🙏

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

I was just looking back though my journals for this year Do you realise Trump hasn't even been President for a year?!?!?!😱 So much destruction and hate in so little time 😵‍💫

He and his nasty cronies Stuart Robb & Alan Tudge demonised vulnerable people over fake debts worth just a few thousand dollars, then took hundred of thousands from taxpayers to defend themselves from accountability 🤮🤮🤮

I wrote to Albanese via the form on the APH website. Amongst his many cowardly acts, he no longer publishes email addresses for government ministers. He can't face the public because he knows he's a shitty PM.

I LOVE salmon but no way would I buy this toxic swill

Heads should roll over this. Absolute assholes. Prison for life, at the least.

I loathe them, and I judge their owners as having small penises

The proto-Nazi Republican thugs are still covering their faces to hide their shame, I see

While Chris Minns makes it illegal to protest... What a monstrous man, covering for the genocidal Israelis instead of taking action.

The 3 Buddhist steps to repairing any relationship – immortal wisdom on love from the great Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh www.themarginalian.org/2021/10/10/t...

The White House comments are worthless bullshit anyway. That's the story, CBS

We're becoming an authoritarian right-wing one-party state and we didn't even need a coup this time out. Just a bunch of shitty newspapers and massive sellouts across politics/civil society

That's a hard pass for me, for now 🇨🇦 💪👊🖕🇨🇦

We need to stop talking about a “crisis of trust” as if the public are behaving irrationally. We have a crisis of *trustworthiness* in politics, and we seem deeply in denial about it. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

#AmReading Mercy, the first book from the series Dept Q TV shows are based on. Haven't seen the TV show, this is a Bookclub read. Has anyone seen the show? Can't say I am loving the book. Pretty formulaic, a bit racist & this audio version has awful narration. English voice acting of Danish.

Gun lobby wins out over sense & humanity So much false outrage. Guns won't be banned but protest will.

But of course Albo the Spineless has contracted with Palantir

Anyone that would believe Peter Thiel even cares about making something safe is clearly not paying attention. He's a nasty, greedy, hoarding rentseeker who does nothing but exploit people & resources for his own gain.

Every wondered how many guns are in your suburb? We have built a tool that shows registered firearms by postcode across NSW. www.toomanyguns.org Having access to data can help us all understand how our gun laws are actually working (or failing to work!)

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. - Thich Nhat Hanh

I've been watching the original Prime Suspect miniseries on ABC iView. Season 3 includes a cop getting bitten by a rent-boy with AIDS. It seems to me that recent TV drama doesn't handle issues like this. What do you think?

In good news, I saw pics today from the Men's Choir my Qigong teacher's husband performed with - all middle-aged & older men. An engineer in the group made them all heart lights to wear 😍 All these rotund, hirsute fellas with glowing hearts on their bellies. They look like Care Bears, says teacher 🤭

Reminder that Jillian Segal's husband donated $50 000 to Advance Australia, an extremist right‑wing anti‑immigrant and anti‑Muslim lobby group. #auspol

Substack is requiring age verification. As if teens are on there 😑. They're using a company that is being sued in multiple class action for data theft. I thought I could restart my writing there. I looked at Ghost but it has no audience function. I was just starting to get some subscribers there.