Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

If enough women start refusing to take their husband's name due to the difficulty of getting drivers licenses and being able to vote then maybe, just maybe that will make the bastards doing this to women think twice.

This is not ‘social cohesion’ – it’s just a tighter net to trap us all https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/this-is-not-social-cohesion-its-just-a-tighter-net-to-trap-us-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-is-not-social-cohesion-its-just-a-tighter-net-to-trap-us-all #auspol

Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.

#BREAKING 🚨 Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, has released a statement condemning "unprovoked violence and aggression" from NSW Police against Muslims praying in Sydney's Town Hall Square "There cannot be any justification for this behaviour"

Good to see an MP call it truthfully

"Luckily the police seemed more than excited to step in and get as violent as needed to make sure he doesn't feel homesick" - Premier Minns chaser.com.au/national/nsw...

There's a reason why we say ACAB. The cops showed up today ready to crack heads, and took every opportunity to show protestors who's boss. The ones not actively salivating at the prospect were nonetheless standing directly behind their compatriots. Dogs the lot of em. #auspol

Can anyone explain why NSW Police all have Thomas Sewell style NSN moustaches? I get some of those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses but this is a bit blatant. Injuries here and clear footage of police brutality. All yours Chris Minns #auspol

Bathurst Street a few minutes ago. Not America, not Iran - Sydney Chris Minns incited this police violence. #auspol

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

The Israeli president Herzog gets asked a straight question about the protestors who are concerned about 70,000 dead Palestinians, and in his answer managed to both accuse those protestors of wanting to destroy Israel, and avoid mentioning the Palestinians at all. Absolute gutter politics #auspol

Please, please, media outlets, remember the C word: context. You can’t discuss Trump’s apes post - or his ‘blame a staffer’ excuse - if you’re not also factoring in and reminding your viewers/readers about his birtherism, his ‘send her back’ remarks, him calling Somalis ‘low IQ’.

Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

Murderbot should be studied for how they've weaponised cliffhangers. Peak potency bingeability.

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

It's such an interesting feature of these times that fantasised paedophilia is constantly invoked by reactionary conservatives as a boogie-man (eg to demonise trans people) but actual predatory child sexual abuse is always downplayed as a moral panic. Speaks to a deeply internalised conflict.

Let's get this straight. Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election. After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties. Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ukraine confirms that the new whitelist for their Starlink terminals is working to maintain internet on the frontlines. Russians confirm that they are now f*cked and none of their Starlink terminals are working.

nobody had to tell you that woody allen is in the files. You assumed he was. We all did. Like, that one was a freebie

Excellent news.

"The (UN) commission of inquiry has found that Herzog has incited genocide... Someone who incites genocide does not satisfy the good character test for entering Australia. On the contrary, a person who incites genocide should be arrested on arrival and tried under Australian and international law."

Right-wingers are always whining about George Soros this and that, but as of today, Elon Musk had 104 times Soros's wealth, and spent more money to sway the 2024 election than anyone has ever spent on any election in the history of the world. So all those Gomers can fuck right off.

Pauline Hanson is there for the ppl. The richest, fattest cats, that is!!! #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I don't agree historians will be stunned, they've seen thIs throughout history, in the USA.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Gen X Dads! Are they our biggest threat to social cohesion? What does that even mean?! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labor has invited the head of the country that is still doing this to millions of occupied people for a state visit - it’s hard to believe really.

There was a reason my parents told me “Focus on school for now” when I hit my teens. I was never a beautiful girl, and I was never in movies that sexualized me in in any way. But it didn’t matter. It was about access. I still got harassed. The 2000s were a bleak, bleak time for young girls.

And ICE shot out the windows of apartments nearby. They used this munition to do it. They also shot people with this.

This is the beginning not the end of how surveillance will change America. We could stop it. We should. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Russian mass Blitz air raids on Ukraine occur about every 10 days - it takes fascist Russia that long to stockpile drones and missiles and prepare the attack. There were big attacks on Jan. 9 and Jan. 20, so the next attack window opens Jan. 30 - just as temperatures dip again.

put this in the Sizzle yesterday: that Pauline Hanson song that "hit #1 on the iTunes charts"? It might have topped the charts with as little as 374 song purchases (so, like, $800 bucks). My next investigation: who is still buying music outright from iTunes in 2026. thesizzle.com.au/p/t...

Terrifying to think that today's heat will be a regular part of our kid's and grandkid's futures. As Labor - opens another new fossil fuel project - logs another native forest - legacy media/ABC refuses to play its vital role - and Australians vote for all of it! ☹️ #auspol

Holy shit some loon tossed a nail bomb into a huge crowd in perth yesterday. I didn't see this in the news at all! He could've killed dozens... I guess because he's not isis it's just not a big deal huh? #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/wes...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Look if you keep talking about non-voters and you're not mentioning voter suppression in the same breath, you're not serious about addressing the problem of people not voting www.brennancenter.org/topics/votin...

Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least 11 Palestinians Wednesday, including three journalists who were working with the Egyptian Committee for Gaza Relief. Mohammad Qeshta, Abdul Ra’ouf Shaath and Anas Ghunaim were killed when an Israeli missile struck their vehicle.

“The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging” My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

A divided Europe seems too timid and risk adverse to actually deploy such drastic actions. But unless they do, they're going to continue being chipped away at by Russia, China and now the US www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.

Australian Multiculturalism doesn't extend to Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Climate change is really, really expensive

This is the energy Dems need in the US. No more apologizing or groveling. They're taking your country apart. Stop them.

So true. “Had the world stood up to Netanyahu as he illegally annexed more and more of Palestine then we wouldn’t be talking about the U.S. colonising Canada and Greenland” Dr Daniel Goyle

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

"Minns says ‘no silver bullet’ for shark attacks after third incident in two days". Yeah there is - the same solution he has for every problem. Give police more powers and ban the sharks from protesting.