“But there comes a point where a party’s performance is so dismally bad that it marks an interpretable event, expressive of deeper movements in the political structure. In this election, Australia’s Liberal Party passed that point some time ago.” Guy Rundle predicting last week back last year.

What Rachel said. I reckon there have been more mentions of the word "genocide" in Australia's mainstream media in the last two days than in the previous two years.

I'm sorry, abolishing ICE is now off the table as the centrist compromise. The floor is now The Hague.

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Chaooooos Under Heaven, etc.

Two playlists as a salve for these dumb times. 1. DJ Douggpound’s excellent recommendation of the Supreme playlist curated by Aphex Twin. I’ve listened to the first ten bangers. There’s one hundred and ninety one tracks. Go: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Julian calendar New Year was yesterday, so here’s a Happy New Year classic for all my movie whores

Realised this in 2020 after leaving Young Labor. Mind you I was in the Left too, and let me tell you, not much difference. They’re a fascist rabble in all but name. A disgrace to the trade union movement.

...The fuck is this? www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

"If you had any self-respect, you would not be on any podium again, ever, sounding off about anything. Because comrades if we were in the 30s I would have taken you out and shot you". Adam Tooze correctly assessing the Democrat establishment. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“And here we land, with […] the vandalism of many of our cultural institutions and freedoms as a result. And for what? The silencing of testimony about a nation whose infamy during this period has already been assured by history.” rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.

All Peter Malinauskas' words about Randa Abdel-Fattah are a false equivalence, ignoring the dynamic of oppressed and oppressor. Palestinian resistance is legal and justified. Israeli genocide is not. I've seen far too many dead kids to tolerate any of this racist, moronic dribble.

They're targeting Renee Good's widow because they don't want her talking. If they can manufacture charges, most defense attorneys will tell her not to speak with media even if she did nothing wrong

"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

I am heartened by all the solidarity shown to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. At the same time, if all of those ABC journalists reported truthfully on the Gaza genocide from the beginning, none of this would have happened. Zionists would not have had impunity to destroy culture here.

Imagine loudly saying “hey do you see ICE brutalizing people? That’s where your healthcare subsidies went” which is the easiest possible thing to say. Not even controversial

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen *Everyone has stories like this*

I cannot wait to see this man dragged for libel. Randa has excellent legal representation.

The Malinauskas Test is like the Pub Test, except you've had 28 bourbons and have spent the last 4 hours listening to Joe de Bruyn's greatest Shoppies lectures on the predestination of Australia's political and cultural order

I don't give a fuck what insipid slogan Democrats come up with about ICE. they are not coming to help the people or they would have by now. The ordinary people of Minneapolis have done more for our rights over the past week than elected Democrats have done in decades

📢 We’ve heard calls not only to investigate how the Bondi massacre occurred but to place universities, protest movements and migrants under suspicion.

Hello, I am leaving Twitter (again!) I've been struggling to open this app instead of the evil one, because of the brain rot I have acquired on the evil one, but I'm only posting on here from now on! Come say hi so I know who's here/what's good! And pls scream at me if you see me on the bad one.

Eildon. Video via @leighroyyyy on TikTok. #VicFires

Crazy how the US has got ICE just executing people in the streets, bombing foreign countries and kidnapping their leaders and wife and Albo is just gonna send them $400 billion for funzies

Dessler’s doing a classic Steve Martin bit here…

'The Maritime Union of Australia & the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) firmly & unequivocally oppose the US military invasion carried out against Venezuela'; the Electrical Trades Union awaits further information on its impact upon duck-hunting. www.mua.org.au/MUA/Content/...

I know this one's been shared a lot but this snippet is pure poetry ❤️

Who’s booking the Venezuela Comedy Festival?

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

A piece for our times: Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

Excellent list of stuff to do to completely escape the heatwaves Wednesday and Friday.

when nothing mattered for 40 years as we slowly sank from neoliberal to neocon to trumpism as everyone slowly melted their brains with technology, and at the same time slowly constricted any fun out of societ with tired moralism while the wealthy priced us all out of house, food and home

This new era of American expansionism will fundamentally recast the global order. The UN is over. Any country that remains allied to the US through this era will be complicit in the collapse of democratic freedom as a concept.

You know, maybe we should’ve Cut The Tag, like Paul Keating said once. No time like the present.

what the fuck (copy and paste)

Everyone today.

Just imagining a world where the ALP had dumped AUKUS and the LNP alone were still clinging to the view that the US was the great protector. “Small target” oppositions lead to bad government policies.

What a year. Started with tragedy, ending with _literally_ a car crash.

Sunday 11 January, 12pm - State Library

New Year’s Eve.

Happy Die Hard

Four more work days, then I’m done for the year.

“Too young for social media but old enough to be tried as an adult in a court of law”

If young people didn't care at all about the genocide in Palestine, and if a certain social media platform hadn't been used to post thousands of videos documenting Israeli state terror, do we think a ban on social media for teenagers would be actually happening in Australia right now?

What the social media ban assumes about our society is that the places where adults congregate to share ideas are never safe for children. And it’s wrong

Escalation of decay, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

Just watched The Hack on Stan, about the News of the World hacking scandal, and the Guardian’s efforts to expose it, leading to the Leveson Inquiry. Quite recent history - amazing how Murdoch’s power was barely dented by the whole affair.