Hermitesse in the city, poet, lover of science and Socratic method, shedding light in this demon haunted world...
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We are paying Jillian Segal $1,000 a day plus the salaries of her SIX taxpayer funded staffers etc etc etc, all up costing Australians well over $1 million a year ... for this. This is completely unacceptable on every level, @albomp.bsky.social. Fix this. End this. #auspol
David Pope in Canberra Times
but but but..it's the Golden Age surely
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The “race science” aspect functions at elite levels in the US & UK - entwined with dark money outfits and entrenched around politics. Networks interconnected with Advance long promoted fake science suggesting race (class, sex) biologically determined and ranked. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
The impact of these interlinked groups in Britain has been dramatic and a vicious blow to actual social cohesion. www.hachette.co.uk/titles/sayee...
It’s hard not to see Jillian Segal, antisemitism envoy, remaining silent when actual Hitler-praising Nazis are violent here as 🚨 🚨🚨. The networks of influence that link “libertarians” with white supremacists promote “race science” and Islamophobia. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
he is a hollow man
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Worth bearing in mind when you hear Michelle Rowland carrying on like a pork chop today about the Robodebt class action settlement
Worth noting today that none of these people have suffered any kind of inconvenience let alone punishment for their role in the fatal #RoboDebt scheme… #NACC #Auspol
It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
If we have special envoys to tackle racism for specific races and cultures who experience racism, why is there no special envoy to tackle racism against First Nations people? #campsovereignty
No comments from our 'antisemitism commissioner' on last Sunday's Neo-Nazi protests and violence..... Apparently.. Jews aren't scared of violent Nazis, but they are terrified of university students wearing scarves... Things that make you go, hmm 🤔
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A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...
it's consistent with stoking racism against First Nations people in media and government, silence is complicity and endorsement
“‘Nakba All Over Again': West Bank Palestinians Still Displaced More Than 6 Months After Israel Forced Them to Flee” The Israeli operation in Jenin, Tulkarm, and other cities, has displaced more than 40,000 people – the largest mass displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in decades.
It’s almost as though universities have been taken over by a class of soulless executives who loot their public institutions for perks and salaries
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#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
yummilicious looking
Hmmm, wonder if it was possible to invoke the Blackadder-Macbeth manoeuvre ... saying Lebanese instead of Macbeth ...
Sabra Lane this morning 'to conquer Gaza'..
The journalists and politicians pretending that right now is somehow different to every single moment since late 2023 make me sick to my stomach. They are all complicit and none of us should ever forgive them.
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I've collated a list of fossil fuel sponsorships in Australia since 2022, which I call the Chumps List. The Chumps List is now a website for easier access. www.chumpslist.org
clockwork orange..
good luck, masters is real gruelling, but once you've done it's a great feeling
Here’s a star Australian writer & speaker that would grace any arts event. Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has been targeted by unnamed people in a pressure group intent on censoring her, damaging her career, & restraining other writers. Any organisation which bows to this discrimination will be disgraced.
chuffed.org/project/1432...
Hitting me hard. In Vienna my grandmother hid my mother from Russian soldiers known for raping and worse during the occupation, after the Nazis did the same in WWII. My grandfather had been forced to flee to Poland because he refused to join the Nazi party. He walked back a skeleton after the war.
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Yesterday, some 5000 of us marched in little Canberra. Proud to march with a strong Jewish contingent.
Video version of the New Politics podcast, #MarchForHumanity - also looking at what the next steps are. #auspol @dlew919.bsky.social youtu.be/KGNIXpVm3f0?...
Only caught part of today's #SundayShot program with Dr Scott Burchill, @amyremeikis.bsky.social, @richarddenniss.bsky.social, @instanterudite.bsky.social & @davemilbo.bsky.social but this seems like a good companion illustration to some of the discussion
John *$#! Howard www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjH1...
Yes, having half a brain seems prerequisite to supporting Donald Trump.
A reminder for western legacy media, who still insist on equating Jewish views on Israel with Zionist ideology. And assuming broad Jewish support for the #GazaGenocide.
Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي— "PHOTO—Israelis bringing their children to obstruct aid trucks entering through Allenby bridge in Jericho to head to Gaza where 2 million people are being systemically starved & bombed. "August 4, 2025. "3:00 a.m. "What a depraved society."
Musk’s DOGE burned $21 billion in six months. Fourteen billion paid to workers not working. Six billion more in severance. IRS cuts may cost up to $2.4 trillion. USAID slashed, food and meds spoiled. One million dead already. Trump calls it savings. The math calls it a crime.
Gabriel Shipton tells PK her reported no of ppl marching in Sydney is “very low”,said to be “over 200K” & spks of marching with his brother Julian Assange “It was a family day…it wasn’t big aggressive protestors…walking back across the bridge we saw pram after pram after pram” #Abc #FreePalestine
MSM be like 'Multiple dozens of ppl took to the Sydney Hamas Bridge, demanding Anti-Semitic things. Cuntstable Skullkicker said, 'It was the scariest moment of my life, surrounded by scarves and prams'. The PM, in response has vowed to help drop more non-lethal bombs on Palestine
Adani! I don’t want to say I told you so but … Actually yes I do. I told you so! — First Dog on the Moon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A bit of welcome democracy within the usually expedient ALP 👇Dear Labor AUKUS dissidents please get Defence Minister Richard Marles to release all AUKUS contractual documentation. Australians deserve to see the guarantee that we’ll actually get the N subs we’re already paying for upfront.
Happy Friday, COVID-safe friends. New research published this week shows that COVID wakes up dormant breast cancer cells. Wear the damn mask..
JUST IN: Heard Island Government responds before the midnight Tariff deadline with what can only be described as ice cold diplomacy. @cnn.com @msnbc.com @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @theguardian.com @australia.theguardian.com @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com @theonion.com
Original title: Mind prison.
“It’s now totally impossible for me to know whether I’m better than Naomi Benson. Or Katie Wilson for that matter,” 14-year-old Lily Marsden reported. “I literally don’t know whether to feel good about myself or not”. theshovel.com.au/2025/08/01/t...
What Gaza's civilians need now is immediate opening of crossings, safe land corridors under international supervision and meaningful enforcement of international law. End the siege, hold responsible parties accountable and restore dignity to the people of Gaza. #auspol #israelpalestine
As we reflect on the impact of Pediatric Long Covid on families and the closure of most clinics in the US, we desperately need pediatricians to support kids. While there is no cure, there are treatments. #PedSky #LongCovidKids #pwLC #pwME
In a sick world, centrism makes monsters of us theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
One Nation Senators turn their back on First Nations people by refusing to respect Welcome to Country, and there's zero consequences. But speak out for starving Palestinians and that results in punishment? What kind of Parliament is this?
I wish Faruqi gets invited directly (not part of any delegation) to take part in any peace talk/Middle East negotiations, and bypass the immoral pack
The Australian Labor Gummint support Australian companies PROFITEERING off GENOCIDE whilst censuring anyone opposing genocide. They are a disgrace to the human race.
Faruqi held a sign: “Gaza is starving. Words won’t feed them. Sanction Israel.” Labor and Liberal censured Faruqi and banned her from taking part in any overseas parliamentary delegations. Labor and Liberals on a unity ticket to punish truth before they ever confront genocide.
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How's the double standard! Mehreen said what we all think and gets sanctioned, the racist One Nation twats turn their backs on Welcome to Country and no one blinks FFS
The Senate has sanctioned Mehreen Faruqi for her #GazaGenocide protest. But apparently no problem at all with the government continuing to send weapons components to assist the genocidal Netanyahu regime to commit further war crimes. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
First Dog, with the skills young people really need. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Censuring a Senator because of this.
Faruqui is right: past time for Labor to do, not just say. What is happening in Gaza is so obscene a “progressive” government must step up. What line has to be crossed before Labor do, rather than say something? What is Albanese waiting for? What’s the line? How much worse does it have to get?
As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE. That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist. Language has been turned on its head. The law has been turned on its head. Murdering children is righteous. Trying to stop it is terrorism.
that's chickpea goodness
duckety duck dr Toshi thank you for sharing this
Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 30 June to 13 July 2025 In the last fortnight, COVID cases decreased by (-19.5%), while influenza increased by (+24.4%) and RSV increased (+0.6%). 🔹COVID: 13,165 🔹Influenza: 41,734 🔹RSV: 13,394 Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
3-4 of influenza for every one COVID case. Sounds about right from what I am seeing bsky.app/profile/thec...
Santos has committed three decades’ worth of damage to the environment, but it’s one of only two big gas companies located in Australia. With foreign investors wanting to buy Santos, what does this mean for Australia’s future? @markogge.bsky.social #auspol
what what is it?
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As Jonathan Miller explains to Enoch Powell here. bsky.app/profile/gyle...
3. They warn of violence in the streets, while subtly inciting it. When it happens, they will shake their heads and say "I told you so".
2. And it is dressed in respectability. The people telling you this wear nice suits and ties, live in fine houses, write columns for newspapers that have been in print for centuries, punctuate correctly. But they are as thuggish as any street racist throwing a bin at a hotel housing asylum seekers.
1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people. It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
🔴Tax-Dodging Billionaires Are Being Let off the Hook by HMRC, Warn MPs Prosecutions of wealthy tax evaders have collapsed, with MPs warning that UK authorities are failing to keep track of those avoiding their dues bylinetimes.com/2025/07/16/h...
From The government that continues to punish people for daring to be unemployed and thinks housing is a wealth creation vehicle not a human right ... seems normal
The Department of Social Security is worried Australians will think feeding and housing people via Centrelink payments is a luxury compared to Defence spending on submarines and bombs. Out-of-touch Canberra Bubble thinking strikes again www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I am prone to fatalist climate doomerism. But is it really too late? | First Dog on the Moon
I am prone to fatalist climate doomerism. But is it really too late? — First Dog on the Moon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Absolute rubbish. It was first reported in Feb - she knew, as did the government. No one did anything. They hoped no one else had noticed. Has she denounced Advance? No. Has she condemned the donation? Also no.
Jillian Segal sagt, es ist verboten #pffft
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In September 2024, I put up a twitter post on behalf of my friend Liz and her charity aid group #AKWAK (Australians Knitting For War Affected Kids). You all gave so generously. Here are the photos from the kids and families at the refugee camps - with transport paid for by you. Please share 🙏🏽
Long article - but important for the details on just how much the 'war' in Gaza has been extended by Netanyahu for reasons that are just about his personal survival. And what's even worse is how the US - and too many western powers - have uncritically backed him. [Thank you Quentin for the link]
“forcibly concentrate civilians in unsafe camps…” wait, that sounds like something we’ve heard of before…
"Just think of the tragic, unbearable irony: the Israeli government—founded in the aftermath of the Holocaust—is now building a massive concentration camp for an entire population." #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
Appalled by The Age editorial #Melbourne saying continued protests for Palestinian safety and justice are “tone-deaf intransigence.” Excellent rebuttal here. Imagine such protests for Jewish safety in 1940’s Germany described in this way 🤯 There is *never* an excuse for apartheid/ethnic cleansing.
"There is no security in a deal that sacrifices Australia’s sovereignty. There is no gain in a deal that could change on a whim depending on whichever hawk had the leader’s ear." Exactly, @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Why we need Albanese not just to 'get louder about sovereignty', but #DitchAUKUS.
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Full episode: Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6Xn9... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkC...
If you are left wanting for a more objective analysis on the Aus trade crisis then you got on @abcnews 'Insiders', Warwick Powell @baoshaoshan joins the latest @Boganintelpod to give a high quality review on the role Australia can play. Full episode link in comments 👇
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Mena Casement 