Word.

A message from a Global Sumud Flotilla participant, to be shared in the event of interception. If communication is cut, assume they have been detained and raise your voices louder. Demand safety, release, and the end of the illegal siege. Your solidarity is protection...... 🧵255/...⤵️

I'd love to know how much of this is not kids being prevented access, but adult men and women now having to use their real IDs and thinking twice about it.

Now we have the Trump Administration's "nice university ya' got there, shame if anything should happen to it" campaign centered around a mafia-style protection racket they call "The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Did we help make it happen? 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Which is the point.

Tim Apple sucks big elephant dicks.

I think about Levin, the president of Stanford, from time to time. He had a golden opportunity to hold the pandemic’s greatest disinformation spreaders accountable and instead he scolded their critics. Pathetic institutional cowardice I discuss at length…

Oop. Turns out that voters blame the GOP more for the shutdown by an average of 12 pts.

Heard you were calling generals fat when the booze had you feeling brave

My latest article in The Shot "The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club" #pffft theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

This is brilliant! Wish we could do the same in Australia. www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/sol...

Yep I will hopefully they’ll take half the liver out and the growths aren’t cancer Give him my best wishes Angie we both could use good luck

Oh wow Angie hope he’s ok I’m going under Thursday hopefully this time . It’s your partners kidneys iirc

Donald Trump's declaration of Antifa as a terrorist organisation was followed by an executive order called, Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence. This defines who can be designated as a terrorist by the administration.

Trump and Pete Kegsbreath treated a military speech like showtime at the Apollo - and they BOMBED. Rick and Maya break down their flop address tonight at 7 PM EST: https://youtu.be/8AgZbRPnYDI

While he lets the thousands of soldiers and federal workers in his district go without pay, Rob Wittman ate $90 steak with wealthy donors. Republicans don't care about you. https://www.virginiascope.com/wittman-holds-fundraiser-as-the-government-shutdown-looms/

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That’s how he had money.” Who was Epstein blackmailing? Well, look who shut down the government to hide the files. Maybe they know. https://bit.ly/475oQal

Take your own advice, Kash. Release the Epstein files. https://youtu.be/ZSCd39cfU94

Q: Do you think these tariffs are worth it? Laid off John Deere employee: It's really killing us. We were told that they were going to do everything we could for the American workers, and we're seeing quite the opposite

“intercepted in international waters” by a military force is an attack. “Captured” in international waters is abducted. These are illegal acts of aggression. How anyone can keep providing cover - including the Australian public broadcaster - for the Israeli military at this point is beyond me.

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

#LibSpill This Trumpy knob believes he is a very special boy. He is not. He’s a cardboard cutout cockhead. #AusPol

John Birmingham has a point. open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Now this is news.

I’ve got bad news. You have to be able to get organised as a group and cooperate to get the big jobs done. Sacrifice. And for once I’m not talking only about C19. Good luck.

An ageing population in old housing stock without air conditioning. Grim.

Brisbane isn't much good in an RV if you aren't staying in a van park. Dump points are almost non existent, and one existing one we tried, had been chained up rather than let the people at the homeless camp use it! As for water...

“Though this was utterly unthinkable even five years ago, it’s now reflected in poll after poll, and is so entrenched it’s hard to imagine it can be reversed.” The assault that has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians has driven US support for Israel “off a cliff” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10....

Great interview as things just keep getting more dire in the US and Palestine. Faaark. #auspol #uspol @davemilbo.bsky.social @emmashortis.bsky.social @theshot.net.au youtu.be/MM6cXjTBJ0U?...

As I said last week. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

It was cut from the story but I also discovered the government had a report on the structure of the triple zero custodian since November last year and the role still isn't filled. I think a lot of it can be put down to the need for legislation and how the delay in the election has cut sitting days

The telco sector has been complaining the past few months about being overregulated so I decided to go back and see what Optus had said recently.

Correct. sciencebasedmedicine.org/unkind-large...

The wisdom of the crowd ...

Another mass shooting in the US. Lucky the government has its priorities right ...

1 transgender shooter GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!" 47,209 white male shooters GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

Turns out it’s possible to board and take control of a ship without exploding it.

This headline. Someone at our ABC thought they were being clever. Possibly the dumbest headline of the year so far. #OurABC

In this video I discuss how our medical establishment spoke about the virus and natural immunity in positive, glowing terms. rumble.com/v6z2qkk-the-...

Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals | Pete Hegseth | The Guardian share.google/rjtmq1xg6r8a.... #News

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Stephen Colbert rips into anti-windfarm wingnuts' claims about bizarre diseases & symptoms they reckon are caused by wind turbines. Item based on my research. youtu.be/VVcYpXKNGiE Our free book on it all here open.sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/files/978174...

This guy had nasty things to say to me because I said this last year.

add it to the list

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country” Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

God I love a bit of good news.

Huge and important decision. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".