Jewish descendent of holocaust victims and survivors here. What he said was fine. Neighbours hiding minority children from uniformed government thugs in service to a nativist agenda is bad enough. I'm sure Anne would have preferred people spoke up BEFORE the Nazis got to the death camps stage.

White racist literally threw a bomb at black people to kill them, apparently not a sufficient cause to have a moral panic, special envoy, national introspection, royal commission, terrorism declaration, new laws, 1,000 op-eds in The Australian. We're struggling to identify why that might be.

Ilhan Fucking Omar!

The reason why the Yeti and co are suddenly talking in terms of ‘lowering the temperature’ is because Minneapolis has taught them that, presently, MAGA would lose a civil war. It’s a strategic retreat to regroup & hope that it’ll cause the winners in that city/elsewhere to demobilise.

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

Yeah, but it’s a dry heat

Walz’ line is essentially that fascism just needs to become more orderly.

all those people in this fascist administration looking askance at the yeti like "... sir, we were just following your example..."

look, as an Iranian American I can safely say that no one really cares about kidnapping and hostage taking at foreign embassies and it is not something that countries hold long grudges about - so I think this will quickly pass.

I cannot see a problem with the Albo govt laws that deepen restriction on public expression of hatred on race, colour, national, or ethnic grounds. There is the caveat that they should be carefully reviewed before passing into law. But, I see no problem in criminalising core right-wing beliefs.

Given that people who vote for fascist parties and candidates are often doing so as an attempt to regulate a disregulated nervous system, a very appropriate headline indeed.

Hopefully it’s just classical Marxism.

So I have been going to the same GPs office for a long time but in recent years the lead receptionist (who also usually answers the phone) has been this incredibly attitude thick openly hostile gay. As a senior millennial gay I’m like should I kick off here? Health receptionists should be NICE!

Sushi shops in Melbourne preparing for the absolute onslaught today.

The curse of Bolsonaro is spreading. www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...

Oh, ABC. One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time I finish my song?

The Revolution can simply punish all ICE recruits as equally guilty, even if they ‘only’ did their induction one day before the Winter Palace was seized.

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.

The ideal would be a person that is simultaneously Lenin, Sverdlov, and Trotsky all in one human package.

Weather For Tennis by Hilary Duff is fucking incredible. If you look at those lyrics, you can learn an awful lot about my life over the past nearly four years.

#AcademicSky I find this so disheartening. Feels like we're racing to the bottom. (and we know it, but will do it anyway, as is often the case with races to the bottom).

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.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the evergrowing masses of our century. — Hannah Arendt

Shut down ABC Australia's US news bureaus. Once again, they're producing meaningless both sides bullshit about the US govt doing fascist crap, making sure to give prominent coverage to statements by serial liars that are clearly untrue. There's goddam video!

At this point any media outlet both-sidesing what even the New York Times admits was a murder is actively assisting a racist, fascist regime. This @abcnewsbot.bsky.social article is absolute garbage - centralising the gov't accounts and failing to point out the direct contradictions. ABC is cooked

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Some might want to read up on what happened to a certain German paramilitary group, full of thugs and extremists, who thought they were doing the regime's bidding.

Yes, well, the endpoint of conservatism is fascism.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

We used to joke that MAGA would defend Trump nuking Greenland. It's not a joke they absolutely would. Would (maybe) take a few days to a week but they would all get on the same page. These are fascist, terrorist, death cult demons. If you can't acknowledge that you're part of the problem.

I don’t think I’ll ever live any further north on this continent than Melbourne. It’s just too hot. Byyyy crikey if we don’t have the iciest winter in years coming up… 😡😡😡

A decisive tell as to whether you have fundamentally good politics is whether you think people talking like Lenin is a good thing. In case it isn’t clear, talking like Lenin is a very, very good thing.

The only way through is the liquidation of the historically and socially exhausted nation-state system into an international socialist republic.

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

Area newspaper wants higher unemployment.

More specifically: a male narcissist that you share a house with and after years of picking up after them you reach your breaking point and hold them accountable not by asking them for anything but simply by describing their behaviour.

Ah, sorry, but it actually does work like that if you have an armed revolutionary mass that is bloodthirsty and loyal to the Revolution. Sorry!

when you realize that the American unipolar global order was suppressing long-forgotten levels of public Frenchness

Guest was trying to tell me that “they” are not only trying to cancel Australia Day but also ANZAC Day. I asked who “they” are. “The Muslims.” Okay, Sir. This is an accommodation reception.

Really in need of a sadistic masseuse. Will take any recommendations.

Lovely Altona day.

On my way to Altona Meadows to inspect an Hyundai Sonata 2007 (stopped for a quarter pounder to fuel that bike ride).

This is how New Jersey does it: Bruce Springsteen tells ICE "Get the F out" as he urges people to "stand against heavily armed mass federal troops invading an American city using Gestapo tactics against our fellow citizens." He then dedicated the song “The Promised Land” to Renee Good.

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

I don’t know how the narrative of American democracy can survive this. The country voted to give the nuclear codes to a mental toddler who’s going to start a war because he didn’t get a participation trophy.

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

My anti-car crusade creeping into my work doing reception in accommodation. “I would strongly advise against driving into the CBD” a regularly used sentence. Doing Good Works.