CHRIS HEDGES says his talk at National Press Club on “The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists” - focusing on the amplification of Israeli lies in the press - has been cancelled. “In the interest of balancing out our program”, chief executive of NPC Maurice Reilly open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

Apple fascist enablers

Gas companies (and the Albanese government) stealing from Australians #vulco

New data shows the US dollar still dominates foreign exchange markets – despite Trump’s economic chaos #1003GIR

Fight the fascists

Australia's household debt servicing ratios up but rates are coming down. My vibes are that there's about to be a big house price rise and we'll get to see how many times annual income average price levels can go, especially in Sydney and Brisbane (GC and SC). www.rba.gov.au/publications...

Is Australia about to enter a new era of commodity pessimism? #vulco #3012GIR www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Untitled (Green on Blue) https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4926

Maybe spend the money on public housing?

Pimps for Israel

An embarrassment that we are connected to this ...

When's the coup happening?

“Israel has been conducting this type of campaign from day one: of saturation bombing, mass slaughter, destruction of all infrastructure that can sustain life – … ; for significant periods it has amounted to the imposition of mass starvation” Chris Sidoti www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Our political class are a disgrace ...

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

Board of Peace. Today’s Age cartoon.

Australians don't like Trump much ... nor are they optimistic about what's coming ... From Essential #1001GIR #3012GIR

The opening paragraphs - it's like, I don't know, Shakespeare, or Beethoven. You know it's great. Everyone knows it's great. But then you encounter it directly, in its own context, and you can only say, man this is so great.

When intentional and active cruelty becomes government policy, you get Nauru. It is designed to harm people in a vision shared by Labor and the Coalition. 📷 @fionakatauskas.bsky.social

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days” It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

Fascism: the preferred vehicle for late predatory capitalism

Money money money

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

This is our key ally.

Australia's ally murdering fishermen and joking about it.

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Australians breathe a sigh of despair

More opposed to government 'spending' when in opposition. Tax expenditures need to be seen as spending

Is he a Republican plant?

This is just embarrassing. Roll over lay down

Is anyone surprised? “The agency responsible for delivering AUKUS has spent 5 times what it first planned for consultants..The agency, ranking second-worst in the public service in a 2023 census..has prompted fears it is contracting out some of its core functions” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

READ: Studies consistently show that Jewish Israelis view Palestinians as less than human. This deep-seated racism is rooted in the Zionist colonial project and helps explain the broad support for the Gaza genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/in-i...

Our ally the fascist state

Fascist uni does what?

Those photos plus the ones coming up may just have historical purchase ...

Look at this video. Take a long, hard look at this scene. Masked federal agents, armed like soldiers on a battlefield, a dozen of em, taking down & detaining one immigrant. On our streets. Take a long, hard look at this. And then pass it on to others. This is Trumpism. This must not be who we are.👇

Someone is talking sense!

Jeffries at high school, head being held deep down in the toilet: “We hope and expect that the bullies will soon cease flushing.”

Look at these Nazi Jackboots

These attitudinal changes among Australians - especially toward the United States - are significant. Can security elites convince Australians that going to war alongside an authoritarian state is something we as a society want to do ... #3012GIR poll.lowyinstitute.org/report/2025/...

Sometimes - for no reason at all - I look back at what the former ABC chair Ita Buttrose said during this front cover story for Stellar magazine.

There's always enough money for cruelty

Decades of copaganda left Americans with the fantasy that the solution to injustice is recourse to the law.