What does justify a royal commission is the actions of the NSW government and NSW Police in the lead-up to and events of last night in the Sydney CBD. Any internal investigation will have no credibility.

We'll say it again: "social cohesion", to those who chant it, means maintenance of the status quo which privileges them, and silencing of everyone else. In the mouth of a Labor MP, it is an expression of the deepest hypocrisy.

In Australia The Police Beat You Up For Opposing Genocide Australian authorities were fully aware that inviting Israel’s president was going to ignite unrest and furious opposition. They invited him anyway, and sent in the police to assault the protesters. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-austral...

Sack Minns

Early on in my campaigning journey - I was on my walk & got chatting to a bloke about politics & our then MP - & he said ‘just give me someone to vote for’ - so I did. We have to get more credible candidates on the ballot! Australians will respond - with their vote! #auspol

I think it was his former Secretary of State during his last term (from the rotating round of Secretaries of State back then) Rex Tillerson, who when asked what Trump was really like, responded bluntly: He's a fucking moron.

The #SundayShot returns this weekend! Please join @davemilbo.bsky.social and me on Sunday morning plus our expert panellists @emmashortis.bsky.social and @marquelawyers.com.au and Dave interviews The What & The Why's Nick Hanna. It will be good to be back!

The perpetrators - who look remarkably like members of the black-shirted mob that marched on NSW Parliament last month without any interference 🧐

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

Assistant police commissioner Peter McKenna: "It was really quite precarious at times for our officers who were significantly outnumbered by the protesters and the people who wanted to act in a violent and offensive manner." #auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

While the ADF is struggling to recruit young soldiers the IDF is on a recruitment drive for young Australians. Curtain-raiser for Israeli Scouts investigation @yaakov_aharon #auspol Michael West Media The West Report www.youtube.com/watch?v=20fx...

An Elon Musk ally installed in the US government said in a late night email going into Saturday that the office behind a popular free online tax filing option would be shuttered – and its employees would be let go... #ElonMusk..#GOP..#whitenationalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump has announced his cabinet.

Israel is destroying infrastructure in the West Bank for no particular reason…Just because they can… Israel is committing war crimes. x.com/muhammadsmir...

Inflation has fallen, but prices won't be coming down. What does that mean? - ABC News #Auspol #Inflation apple.news/AQsVmZE2qRGy...

Bastards.

The willingness of our politicians, institutions and corporations, from the ABC down, to allow themselves to be intimidated like this speaks to the fragility of our democracy. Lattouf, Sakr, Lalor and now Sabsabi. By being so gutless, these organisations make us all vulnerable to authoritarianism.

It is the job of the artist to provoke, to be controversial, to be outspoken, to get us to think. Isn't that one of the main points of art? If we start cancelling every artist because they "create debate" then who the hell are we as a society? Craven cowards. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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the major parties have seen their primary votes fall from 96% in 1975 to 68% in 2022. they had two options to arrest the decline: 1. win back trust with good governance & good policy 2. rig the system tonight they chose to rig the system. a dark day for australian democracy.

Hasbara from Israel allegedly uses exaggerated antisemitism claims to silence critics & boost support for Israel. It's accused of demonising Palestinians & using social media to bully, spread deep fakes & lies. Foreign interference? www.auspol.info/2025/01/is-f...

So true. Australia’s human rights can be whipped away by a proIsraeli lobby group in the blink of an eye. #ABC #ItaButtrose #Journalism #HumanRights www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/10/a...

Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding freeze This is the first time in Trump’s second term that a federal judge has accused his administration of defying a court order. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

The stuff of nightmares.... www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/t...

Anyone surprised? 😡

Two days after @albomp.bsky.social gifted $800M of our money to pay for US shipyard investment and jobs, the Labor Govt has refused to disclose #AUKUS cost sharing arrangements. But I guess we know what sort of deal Richard Marles got. Pity poor taxpayers. #FOI appeal lodged! #368B #auspol

As broken as the USA has become over the last three weeks, please don't sane-wash American foreign policy of the last few decades. They have killed MILLIONS. Don't pine for the CIA of old, they've always been a fucked up imperial institution. Don't forget the Dems paid for a genocide for 15 months.

Let’s get this straight. Particularly for the likes of ABC journos who constantly let News Corp set the news agenda. News Corp is not doing journalism when they create fear campaigns and smear Labor govts. They are intervening in politics as players AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH!

Pay attention here (if you can) because Michaelia is actually singing the core messaging the Liberal party will rely upon in this coming election "External fears+internal fears+Peter Dutton will protect you" Or . . . Beecawz Paytah Dutt'n iz thu laydah aynd we awll wanna feeyal prutektd Andrehw

Scapegoating refugees has always been a deliberate ploy by governments to distract from their own domestic failures. Pandering to Reform UK will backfire — and vulnerable people will pay the price. End dangerous crossings by opening safe routes for fellow human beings instead.

New from 5 former Treasury Secretaries: “We take the extraordinary step of writing this piece because we are alarmed about the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments, which would be unlawful and corrosive to our democracy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

Correct.

(1/X) I still want this account to be mostly jokes, but I think we need to be realistic about what we’re facing. It’s likely going to take mass protests stop the country from devolving all the way into fascism

That sounds like something bad.

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.

Excellent discussion about tariffs and industrial policy between @drodrik.bsky.social and @martinsandbu.ft.com! Rodrik talks about Trump’s tariffs as an ineffective Swiss army knife to industrial policy. I would specify that it is a one-blade army knife. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

All to pay for tax cuts for very rich people

74% of Americans, including 54% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats, disapprove of Trump's pardons for Jan. 6ers convicted of violent crimes. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...