"Deport New Zealand born immigrant Thomas Sewell" LOL www.change.org/p/deport-new...
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"Deport New Zealand born immigrant Thomas Sewell" LOL www.change.org/p/deport-new...
Can pretty much drop the adjacent these days
The first story I did for Crikey back in 2021 was reporting on a leaked neo-nazi manual showing how "media baiting" — aka tricking journalists into writing about them — was a major strategy for them. www.crikey.com.au/20...
Yes Vance and Thiel and Rubio and everyone else is awful and need to be destroyed, but don’t let that diminish your joy when the bigoted, self-aggrandising, white-supremacist , corrupt child-rapist dies.
Yeah, he's dead.
Thiel. Vance, sure, but Thiel will have total control… in fact there’ll be a further entrenchment of power for the capitalist oligarchs.
I’m not sure what comes before “speaking out against Nazis” in the job description of an antisemitism envoy, but apparently there are quite a few things…
Hey I think we have found some of Albo's Good People™, also awesome having white journos cheerfully fan the flames against colleagues like Nabil
![Nabil Al-Nashar (ABC News Journalist and TV Reporter) on LinkedIn: Just a sample of the abuse I’ve copped online since covering the “March for Australia” yesterday. Literally over a 1,000 messages. Neo-Nazi’s and/or their sympathisers have called me a “rat” ,”dog”, “poison”, “grub”, “invader” and way more colourful and creative descriptions. (Hat’s off to those who put in a bit more effort) While privately, I’ve had support from my colleagues and bosses at the ABC, it’s been eye-opening to learn some fellow Australians only accept you if you’re the right skin colour. It doesn’t matter if you’re law-abiding, pay your taxes, watch the footy and love a bbq, just as much as the next Aussie, or how much you love this country…to them if you’re not white, you’ll never be Australian. [Multiple screenshots of racist abuse]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xdnipexki6uc22sii2tb56zt/bafkreicgkstgsmqnjfhzyt5rq33sezksoqy6xzmi62rnuf2t6tudzp74mm@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Day two of Jillian Segal - the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia - being silent on the actions of a political cult that executed the Holocaust, protesting in the streets of Australia and attacking First Nations people. Apparently first they came for mob, but I was very busy.
(*from 2023*) "In both your cases your prospects of rehabilitation are good” www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10...
I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant
How the hell is this only 1hr 10min?
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
![Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.[1] Genocide justification differs from genocide denial, which is an attempt to reject the occurrence of genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. According to modern international criminal law, there can be no excuse for genocide.[2][3] Genocide is often camouflaged as military activity against combatants, and the distinction between denial and justification is often blurred.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreia4twc2qbwkmn3ozstknikbeo5xx56elnzdkycdjkzfkwehmvk4jq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
There is no excuse now (not that there ever was) for any govt to continue normal relations with Israel.
A Green Senator was sanctioned for protesting genocide. Y'day we saw one MHR & 2 Senators speak at the nazi rallies ...... yeah I know the answer.
Ley is drowning. She has been swept up by the hard right in her party (most of them) and has no ability to swim against the current. The LNP is irrelevant and becoming more entrenched in that position every day.
"With Australia’s transport emissions at a near-record high, the Productivity Commission is more worried about subsidies for electric vehicles that are just 1% of the cars on our roads, than it is about subsidies for enormous 4WDs that now dominate suburban streets." @richarddenniss.bsky.social
New Australia Institute analysis has found that some red tape might have kept Australians warmer and kept power bills down. “‘Cutting red tape’ is often code for watering down laws which keep Australians safe from businesses abusing their power.” - Jack Thrower @jack-thrower.bsky.social #auspol
Sure, this piece from @roycerk2.bsky.social is depressing AF, but it is very well written. What you need to know about the algal bloom in SA: "a spreading, imperialistic, green-tinged cloud that began to sweep through the ocean."
The Australian public deserve to know what the Government knows about the risks of climate change, especially when our governments are spending billions on fossil fuel subsidies. For more info on the risks of climate impacts ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...
"The minute climate change affects your suburb, the minute that damage is likely, now you can't get insurance." The Federal Government needs to release the National Climate Risk Assessment, which contains vital information about future climate change disasters. #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Anyone talking about housing affordability not mentioning the capital gains tax discount is not talking about housing affordability.
White House releases photos of President Reagan healthy and barbecuing this weekend.
I guess antisemitism isn’t concerned with Nazis?
The special envoy role is transparently 100% an Israel war crime protection racket, but still crazy you wouldn't bump out a token two-line statement saying it is also bad when neo-nazis lead marches and violently assault women
If you have managed to ascribe 'legitimate concerns' to people who will march with nazis and think we have too many Indians nowadays, but offered no such extension to people seeking a little less genocide, congratulations you are officially a fucking disgrace
Tiny white text on page 172 of the EIS: "My grandmother loved nothing more than approving this coal mine under NSW environmental law. It would mean the world to me if you could..."
Has Jillian Segal said anything about yesterday’s marches?
Israel murders journalists. Keep their voices alive. #JournalismIsNotACrime
Israel murders journalists www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Seriously so
Truly brilliant coverage by a student journo and a young photojournalist. There is hope for the future of news media.
Did Trump post a week-old golfing pic as if it were today? That would really thicken the plot, huh?
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
The Trump plan for Gaza includes genocide.
If he does finally kick it, all the establishment Democrats will jostle for a spot to line up solemn-faced at his funeral and give grabs like “he was a force of nature, he really changed the way politics worked in this country”
✊🏾🖤💛❤️
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wrote with confidence that the city was "a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents..." From A Paradise Built in Hell:
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
I'd be happy if today's events -- neo-Nazi leadership of a series of white nationalist processions -- meant more people took anti-fascism seriously. That would be both ace & grouse.
The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years. CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years. But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures. Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.
Reading Facebook comments on news articles about the marches today, and a lot of Nazis are trying hard to say they were not at a Nazi rally…
australiainstitute.org.au/post/whos-go...
The JCA is just a brilliant organisation. Doing great work at no small risk to their livelihoods, given the pressure from other groups against speaking against the action of Israel’s govt.
Each day more and more Jewish people are speaking out against Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. Last Sunday, we came together on Gadigal land as Jews opposed to Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza. If you want to join this growing movement, you can take action at: linktr.ee/jewishcouncil
Yeah so the nazis & flagwits rlly smashed the Camp this arv0. I reckon love & solidarity is rlly needed right now. t.co/LWqbdx7GDm
We have literal nazis on the streets and not a word from the tax payer funded anti-semitism envoy Jillian Segal. Maybe because they aren't students with Palestine flags protesting Israel's genocide. #auspol
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The Governor of Indiana's arrogant ignorance is staggering 👉🏼he apparently has never read the constitution doesn't understand habeas corpus and is dumber than a fifth grader! 🤨 👉🏼how freaking brain dead do you have to be to vote an ignorant moron like this into the governors office?? 🥴👇🏼
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Quick someone think of a national security angle to the Taylor Swift engagement so that I can convince my editor to let me write about it
Is the Micah Parsons trade Biden's Katrina?
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
If you have a Neo-Nazi leader (Tom Sewell) speaking at your rally, its a Neo-Nazi rally. This is not difficult.
Katter is not an “eccentric” and the media really needs to stop soft soaping him.
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-... Resistance against Israel is required
everyone please say something nice now about JD to cheer him up
I’ve seen “Dave” you can’t fool me.
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
At least we know he remains dead on the inside.
this might be my fav one yet because usually there's only one but this time we got a double scoop of the most tedious person around
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
“My deepest fear is that we are close to a tipping point where even if a significant majority of Americans decide that they want to change course, they won’t be able to. The cascade will have doomed liberal democracy.” www.thebulwark.com/p/democracy-...
He is seriously ill. Pumped full of steroids. But in this timeline no joy occurs
I’ve turned out against N*zis. And that was because actual N*zis backed transphobes across Australia we out numbered them in the most joyful way everywhere. I’ll not be engaging in their nonsense tomorrow. My love and solidarity.
Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. At approximately 5:00 AM, the levees broke, flooding 80% of our city. As a result, an estimated 1400 people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. Over half of the victims were Black.
Appropriate mausoleum I reckon
Weekend at Bernie’s. Weekend at Mar-a-Lago.
Alas I believe this is the case
Thought and prayers until it is confirmed
Glorious rumour that Trump is dead
youtu.be/co6WMzDOh1o?...
Right now, he both is and isn't.
Although being on holidays when there will be a worldwide day off of celebration might be bad for crowds.
The good news is RFK jr is in charge of Trump’s medical care…
If he is dead, I just feel sorry for the formerly second dumbest person in the world
On holidays and if he is dead this will be the best holiday ever.
Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳
I fucking despise Chuck Schumer
Seems an important task… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
somehow the story is actually stupider than the stupid headline
Impossible to find anyone worse to advise on this issue. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wednesday night. With an armed cooker on the run …
This is the dumbest propaganda fake statistic I've ever seen. It presents in a rate of per million population when there's only 2.8 million trans people in the entire country. A single trans mass shooter would show up in this and that's exactly what it shows.
While (ex-ABC) Stephen McDonell is still there, working for the BBC; has been the whole time.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
When the history of the rise of fascism in the UK in the 2020s gets written, the complicity of the BBC will require a full volume of its own.
It is never acceptable to physically threaten a journalist — it is particularly unsettling that Mr Katter would invite journalists to attend a press conference and then threaten them for simply asking a reasonable question. #MEAAmedia www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
We've been investigating the Nasser Hospital attack on Monday, which killed 22 people – including 5 journalists. Here’s what we found ⬇️
While we're on racism and Katter. His electorate of Kennedy is named in honour of the white supremacist Edmund Kennedy who called for the extermination of indigenous Australians and the removal of children from Nth QLD to Tasmania. It's 2025, and we have a federal seat named after this scumbag.
Ostapenko is the worst loser in sport. Annoying her must be so very satisfying #USOpen
Hey, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, have you literally just not left your apartment? They’re in every single metro station, all over the mall, and doing checkpoints on 14th and U. DHS is all over Hispanic neighborhoods and harassing uber drivers. You genuinely cannot not see this. Go outside.
