watching this trashy netflix romcom "nobody wants this" about the lady from the good place dating a rabbi and discovering jewish culture and nobody ever mentions israel or genocide, but theres a purim costume party and one of the background characters is just wearing a giant red triangle costume lol

someone threw a bomb into a crowd of First Nations people and their supporters yesterday and yet the response seems to be a collective shrug of the shoulders, wild how differently its being treated from other similar events

Not today, or any day

a bus driving over bubble wrap

If you're interested in reading Randa Abdel-Fattah's actual views, instead of reading the various (mis)interpretations of them by bad-faith actors, here they are:

even with minns' draconian new anti-protest laws, the cops are too scared to try to stop this

even with minns' draconian new anti-protest laws, the cops are too scared to try to stop this

genuinely wild to hear it admitted openly like this

bourgeoisposting: you know how in zombie movies nobody has ever seen a zombie movie, nobody on grand designs has ever watched an episode of grand designs ever. oh its gonna take 6 months and youve got five hundred pounds with no contingency for cost overrun? do you know what show youre on?

mood

holy shit lol its wild how much the us has pissed away its hegemony, american century of humiliation in full swing

talking to a very apolitical normie friend yesterday, i mentioned the state of the world, she launched into a rant about the bully getting away with everything and nobody stopping them, and that russia and china should invade america to stop them, if you americans are wondering how things are going

pew pew look at this shit lmao

It's not hypocrisy, it's capitalism. The bizarre behaviour of Western states and leaders often seems to betray a moral double standard. But in fact it is all perfectly consistent with a single standard, namely, the objective of maintaining the conditions for capital accumulation in the core.

lmao

Meanwhile in the UK, a Palestinian *citizen* of Israel has won his asylum battle and has been deemed a refugee due to the "substantial evidence of systematic discriminatory practices against Palestinians in Israel: apartheid, forced removal, restrictions of rights and exclusion from society”.

I dare you to watch this, meat-eaters, egg-eaters, dairy consumers. Look at the suffering you cause. That, at least, you owe them. #Dominion #GoVegan

if you look across the west right now you will see every mainstream "progressive" party utterly failing to meet the seriousness of the moment, and this consistency is evidence that this is not an individual failure of nerve but rather a systemic, structural failure of bourgeois liberalism itself

this afternoon, we are defying the nsw anti-protest laws

Israelis have been attacking Palestinian bus drivers at unprecedented rates in the last year. “When they understand the driver is Arab, violence erupts.”

if you look across the west right now you will see every mainstream "progressive" party utterly failing to meet the seriousness of the moment, and this consistency is evidence that this is not an individual failure of nerve but rather a systemic, structural failure of bourgeois liberalism itself

just prompted me to dig through a few old photos i took on may day in trinidad in cuba some years ago

the greens will fatally wound themselves if they pass this bill with whatever token amendments theyre grasping for. it would be an absolutely generational betrayal of everything that theyve claimed to stand for, and theres plenty of historical evidence that minor parties are never forgiven for that

The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social " urges pause on rushed and dangerous hate speech Bill"

Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against Premier Malinauskus. This will be a very revealing case, if it gets to court

real hard not to think of this in the american context right now

for all those talking about "social cohesion" and "religious extremism" in a*stralia, betar is one of the groups that the australian jewish association (aja) pals around with

For anyone overseas, this saga is absolutely insane. The Adelaide Festival, the second largest arts & cultural festival IN THE WORLD, is currently haemorrhaging because the Writer's Week board disinvited a Palestinian author. The Director disagreed. She's now stepped down & is fighting back.

hell yeah, @cathywilcox.bsky.social, go off 🔥🔥🔥

the main thing i see people missing from iran discourse is what happens if the protestors won? the idea that they could be allowed to form an imperfect but better society just seems so naive and fanciful given everything weve seen and know from the past decade+

Not content with destroying Adelaide Writers Week, they are now going after WOMADelaide bc ... a Palestinian DJ #whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/is-womadelai...

hey remember a decade ago when the us invaded and kidnapped the president of a sovereign state

now this is a statement

if you wanted to give yourself psychic damage seeing the worst take on iran

seems like those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty?

now this is a statement

if you want to encourage writers who havent yet withdrawn from the adelaide writers week to do the right thing and withdraw in support of randa abdel-fattah, this post and the followup has all those i could find with a bsky account (from a quick search)

to add to this, in the union movement we say "touch one, touch all" and its striking that this concept was organically grasped by almost everyone booked for the festival except for the former "labor" party premier who immediately decided to scab

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

The pro-Israel establishment is acting out in this manner because solidarity with the Palestinian cause is a direct threat to its network of imperialist norms and US alliance. If our institutions of culture show it up, then the only fig leaf against widespread popular sentiment is the media & govt.

kids these days don't know how to impress Jodie Foster

"social cohesion" is a bullshit propaganda dogwhistle that we should never legitimise, but if it were ever used genuinely and not always cynically it would be exemplified by the incredible solidarity shown by writers pulling out of the adelaide festival en masse in support of randa abdel-fattah

bob carr whitesplaining how palestinian people should shut up and stop being counterproductive in talking about their own genocide

pretty telling that the example albanese gave for why we need a royal commission is deborah "acktually its ephebocide" conway

“If you attack somebody with a chemical weapon that is especially lethal against people with a medical condition, the medical condition is not to blame for their death – you are," said anticop's Tom Raue www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/sydney-... @anticopofficial.bsky.social

me too buddy

cool apparently ive attracted the attention of some new nafo pals, sup guys

nobody in this dogshit colony has copped more vile abuse and targeted harassment from zionists than Randa, for being a proud Palestinian academic who speaks up about genocide. she has never stopped fighting no matter how much theyve thrown at her - we all owe her our absolute unreserved solidarity

I don’t find it productive to shame people for ‘showing up late’ wrt to social awareness. We all show up when we show up. But I strongly encourage new people who show up to do so while assuming a listening posture. I promise, we’ve heard your ideas & opinions before, back when we were less informed.

people are withdrawing from Adelaide writers week faster than can be reported. In addition to the names listed here are Ren Wyld, Emma Shortis, and Fiona Katsaukas. Important detail: the only creative, Stephen Page, has left the Adelaide Festival board. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...