Predictably, the #Trump fascist regime expects the #media, public interest #journalism to churn out pro regime #propaganda. This is a Trump war of choice. He owns it. Poorly conceived, inadequately planned. Opaque goals. Driven by #Netanyahu. #Iran #democracy #Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/w...

"’Mr President,’ said a reporter. ‘You've said the war is “very complete” but your defence secretary says, "This is just the beginning”. So which is it?’ … ‘Well, I think you could say both,’ he parried.” #Trump busking the #Iran war? #USA #Israel #fascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

OPINION There’s always been “fakery” in war based images from the landings in Normandy to the raising of the Iwo Jima flag. Some of our most iconic, indelible images are confected. But generative #AI has taken #propaganda & our global information ecosystem into roiling, uncharted waters. “Reality”?

Matt Canavan, from far-right, ratbag fringe dweller to alternative deputy PM. The #journalism coverage of his seizing of the National Party’s parliamentary leadership, has been, overall, vastly underwhelming in reportage, contextualising, analyses of Canavan’s ascension. #democracy #auspol

As this edition of the “Main Justice” podcast series highlights, the #Trump administration has now “normalised” baldly & blatantly ignoring #USA court orders. #ruleoflaw #democracy #fascism podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/m...

Huge kudos to @deniseshrivell.bsky.social. Grassroots #democracy & grassroots #media are spawning & crossbreeding newer, more accurate, reliable & authentic forms of #journalism. Will it be enough to turn back the degradations being wrought on our democracies & the global information ecosystem?

Currently, a cogent, unflinching, code of #ethics seems crucial to the survival & #democracy role of public interest #journalism, which is being buffeted & eroded from multiple quarters incl #AI. Key to the #Trump #fascism project is cowing, capturing, curbing, controlling, crushing the #media.

OPINION #PeteHegseth seems to have no belief in or commitment to the role of a #freepress in a robust & healthy #democracy (which the #USA has not been for a very long time. Corporate media #journalism is hobbled by its own distorted internal cultures, #capitalism & #Trump intimidation) #fascism

Tensions” between the military & the #media go way back. (The late Philip Knightley examined it in detail in his book, “The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq”.) But #PeteHegseth has taken it to a whole new & extreme level. #Trump #fascism #propaganda

“ #China has two significant advantages over its geopolitical rivals. Many of its new cars run on electricity. And that electricity is mostly powered by sources at home.” #USA #Iran #Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

On this I profoundly disagree with @senatorwong.bsky.social She has extensive intelligence resources. It is not “difficult to judge from afar”. Classic weasel words. The far right, corrupt #Netanyahu regime is repugnant, reprehensible. Not Australian values. Slaughtering civilians, babies, children.

OPINION Benjamin #Netanyahu has spent much of his political life trying to make war with #Iran seem not only inevitable but overdue. Thus, for the Israeli prime minister, the latest conflict was a victory the moment it began”. #Trump #USA #Israel #fascism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

#Trump MAD.

“Lately, Manu Ebert has been trying to keep his #AI from humiliating him.” #coding www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

“Grammarly’s AI-powered ‘Expert Review’ promises ‘writing feedback by subject-matter experts,’ and if you write about #journalism, there’s a good chance that includes you.” #AI #writing www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...

“it’s all because he’s a profoundly deranged man. At what point should a news organization devoted to impartiality start stating the obvious conclusion, even if it’s offensive to a small minority of people, most of whom don’t consume their news anyway?” #journalism presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

I think you know when a broadcast reporter has hit the sore spot with #Trump. He resorts to personal insults. Spits the dummy. Lately we are seeing a renaissance in that fundamental #journalism technique: the well framed, forensic question. With context. #USA #fascism

OPINION #Netanyahu has been driving the #Iran war with deadly, ruthless, strategic aims. Slaughter as many Iranian civilians & destroy as much infrastructure as possible. #Trump was & is remarkably hazy & shapeshifting. All over the shop. Flailing. #Israel #fascism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...

OPINION @jenpsaki.bsky.social Melania #Trump presided over a meeting of the UN Security Council two days after Trump started a war of choice with #Iran. The meeting was focussed on “children in conflict zones”. The #USA strike killed 160 people, mostly girls, at a school. youtube.com/shorts/KfFAf...

PM @albomp.bsky.social, reform ambition free, has been a galling disappointment across many fronts. He seems definitively the wrong man to creatively, courageously meet the epochal challenges facing Australia. His reflexive support of the #Trump illegal war against #Iran may be his biggest blunder.

“More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of @anthropic.com , published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious #AI future. Its title, “Machines of Loving Grace”. How will later generations judge this period? #dystopia flip.it/YCFecr

“Donald #Trump hit back at #GOP Senate majority leader John Thune over the latter’s refusal to alter rules to force a vote on the Save America act, a sprawling bill that would upend elections for American voters amid the midterms.” The #BigLie lives on? #fascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#NACC? A dud. #auspol #corruption www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Huckster #Trump has completely screwed up his #Iran war venture. A debacle. No overall detailed plan. No strategic goals. No defined exit. Day-to-day, hour-to-hour improvisation, replete with lies & contradictions. Just stunningly stupid & reckless. #Netanyahu is playing him like a cheap fiddle.

“ #Iran dramatically escalated its strategy of striking civilian infrastructure & transport networks across the Gulf attacking commercial ships & targeting Dubai’s international airport as US & Israeli warplanes launched new waves of strikes on the Islamic Republic.” #Trump #Israel shorturl.at/nGpT8

Says the flailing #USA president with a clear & accelerating “cognitive deficiency”? #Trump #fascism

“An ongoing military investigation has determined that the #USA is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials & others familiar with the preliminary findings.” #Trump bullshit denials? #Iran #fascism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

In the least charitable—& probably accurate—view, Trump went to war with #Iran out of a delusional faith in himself. He believed that the worst-case scenarios that have deterred past presidents from attacking Iran wouldn’t come true for him, because he is Donald #Trump.” flip.it/CszLm4

“The actual #Trump is so solipsistic, so plainly consumed with narcissism, so deeply indifferent to the details of governance & so eager to satisfy his basest impulses that there was little chance he’d ever complete the authoritarian consolidation of his dreams.” #USA www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o...

We have failed. Again. Thanks @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social @australianlabor.bky.social #Iran #Netanyahu #Trump #fascism

I really thought we lived in a society & a #democracy that abhorred #bigotry, discrimination, #racism of all kinds. I’m dreamin’ But I’ve known that for a while. #auspol

I heard Murray Watt in parliament today superciliously dismiss @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social Greens motion on #Islamaphobia. He claimed @australianlabor.bsky.social is against #bigotry of all kinds. I don’t believe that for a nano second. There’s so much evidence to the contrary. #auspol #racism #Islam

OPINION The Huckster, #Trump, an endlessly lying, flailing, befuddled #USA commander-in-chief. Fully exposed. A war of choice. Now a debacle. Illegal. Poorly planned strategically & logistically across the #MiddleEast. Profoundly immoral. Civilian slaughter. Blood lust. youtube.com/watch?v=GyJH...

OPINION/REPORTAGE @arimelber.bsky.social Most serious #USA #journalism outlets are reflecting the same theme: #Trump is all over the shop. Flailing. Incoherent. Any semblance of a plan is that there’s no plan. The Huckster is doing improv. Out of his depth? #Iran youtube.com/watch?v=Lb60...

“Mike Johnson, the speaker of the #USA House of Representatives … declined to condemn Republican lawmakers who recently made Islamophobic comments, saying only that he had spoken to them about their ‘tone’”. The Squeaker confusing form & content? #bigotry #GOP www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Leavitt argued that the act—if realized—would not prevent married women from voting. Seconds later, she admitted that the bill actually would require married women & anyone else who has changed their name to re-register before they vote.” Turnout 2024: 65%. #Trump #GOP #democracy flip.it/2Aj_iy

“ #AI criticism – or ‘doomerism’, as the technology’s proponents view it – has been mounting across sectors. But when it comes to its impact on students, early studies point to potentially catastrophic effects on cognitive abilities & critical thinking skills.” www.theguardian.com/technology/n...