Concerned global citizen living in Oz
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Indigenous people make up < 4% of our population. There have been 12 deaths in custody this year. Jewish people make up <.5% of our population. Thankfully none have died as a result of antisemitism. Where is our Special Envoy To Combat Anti-Indigenous violence and neglect, @albomp.bsky.social?
Zali Steggall says there’s “no comparison” b/w yesterday’s “racist march organised by Neo Nazis” to the “hundreds of thousands, millions I think when you add up all the diff protests” who “march for humanity” against Israel’s “purposeful starvation” of the people of Gaza.💥 #Abc
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Has Jillian Segal said anything about yesterday’s marches?
Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
The only ones who felt a “sense of pride” were the racist morons who read this kind of sh*t and the soulless ghouls who pocket a Murdoch media paycheque They can Sieg Heil all they like but Labor are still firmly in power and, aside from Indigenous Australians, we’re ALL bloody migrants!
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Israel is after the total annihilation of Gaza and all its people, in the most monstrous ways imaginable, and unimaginable! 💔💔💔💔💔😢🤬
I always hire a lawyer to fix my car Why would I hire someone who’s a trained mechanic to fix my car 🙄
Exactly - Once TFG's gone, we'll demand the Impeachment process of Vance then military tribunals for ALL complicit regime ReTrumplicans. That's the best case scenario for them. No more Congressional hearings or court proceedings that will go on for years and years without accountability.
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Happy Sunday everyone! #flowersonsunday #stunday #bloomscrolling #coneflower #sunrise
Why has Trump been attacking unions and workers’ rights? He wants working people to feel helpless and divided. Trump and his billionaire backers realize that the collective power of a unified labor movement outweighs their own power. Know this: Workers outnumber the oligarchs.
Stonewall, a charity and advocacy group for queer people, is pinkwashing arms manufactures that supply weapons to Israel. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza against Palestinians. These arms manufactures use pinkwashing to give themselves credibility despite profiting of genocide. #Gaza #queer
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
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
Amanishakheto, Kandake (reigning queen) of Kush (Sudan) early 1stC CE. Her pyramid looted in early 19thC, with treasures now on display in Berlin. More about Kandakes in my book Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy 4 Sep @wearefootnote.bsky.social #womenwhoruledtheworld
If Lley doesn’t discipline Senator Nampijinpa Price for supporting a Nazi rally she’ll lose any credibility she ever possessed. No negotiation with neo Nazis, no forgiveness, no excuses. Lley has to choose where she stands, for or against. There’s no middle ground. Nampijinpa Price has chosen.
Science is real
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
The #SundayShot Is FINALLY up for your viewing pleasure and should now be more or less a smooth watch (although Wendy is mostly a disembodied voice…)! So please do watch (& subscribe) as @arielbogle.bsky.social, @wendybacon1.bsky.social & @boganintel.bsky.social are great. youtu.be/cWigtErbgfs?...
Uluru, Australia A spiritual place deeply embedded in the beliefs and traditions of the indigenous people- can only be photographed in certain places to respect the beliefs of Anangu. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIconic #Stunday #Photography
This ABC News piece on the anti-immigration rallies today refers to "Federal government frontbencher Amanda Rishworth" (not Govt Minister Amanda Rishworth?) Yet refers to "Shadow Attorney-General Julian Leeser". Is this #sexism or just anti-Labor phrasing? 🤔 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
Here’s what we are barreling towards: India and China sign massive trade agreements (coz of Trump), buoyed by Russian and Iranian oil. New markets and alliances open up in the East, all with the US on the outside and without the sway they once had. This is the price of America First.
India and China fought a war in 1962 over border disputes. They’ve never been allies, which has been to our geopolitical and economic advantage. Thanks to Trump’s insane tariffs the two manufacturing/pharma/tech giants are teaming up, accelerating their rise…and our subsequent downfall.
Don't assume that because they're idiots they're not a real threat. Don't assume that because you laugh at them they are a joke. Don't assume that because they are small they can't take control. Take a lesson from here, stop them now, utterly, and conclusively. -From Threads
I hope the Prime Minister and all the State Premiers will be as quick to stamp on the rights of the anti immigration protestors as they did for the rights of the climate protesters.
substack.com/@broadwaybab... Doctors, scientists & medical experts are leaving the CDC. They are quoting eugenics behind these new FDR jr MAHA policies. It’s culling of our herd from the disabled, elderly, those with pre existing conditions & all who are NOT able to pay taxes to support the rich.
Wrong . He was AWOL for 11 days while he was practicing his attempted assassination in Butler 🤷♀️
And they are preventing anyone else accessing it. Protecting the wealthy again
I thought his administration didn’t believe in science and modern medicine?! Unless of course they need it.
He disappeared for 10 days last year, after the Epstein docs were released, then held a rally in which he staged a mock assassination (with photo ops and 2 dead people) to divert attention from Epstein. So get out the popcorn.
A malignant narcissist who has had a mic in his face every day for months suddenly doesn't have a mic in his face and is avoiding it? Yeah, something is going on.
RFK Jr : SSRI’s could be to blame for school shootings 😳😳😳. This Aussie : No… it’s still the lack of gun control. It’s always been the lack of gun control. Maybe go after that instead 🇦🇺🙄.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
"The President, on his own, can't tax the American people. That's what King George III tried to do – we had a revolution about that." Neal Katyal
America doesn't need a lawyer playing doctor – let alone one who's a cult-following science-denier. Get RFK jr the fuck out of our government. Now.
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
JD Vance says he's prepared to become president "if, God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens." This the same JD Vance who's taken 8 vacations in the first 7 months of 2025?! If he can't cope with the non-existent workload of being VP, how would he cope as US President?! #USPolitics
Many Americans online suggesting the solution to #USschoolshootings is for schools to employ armed retired US military to patrol the schools. They cannot imagine that the issue is people's access to guns. The UK, Australia and NZ had mass shootings and they changed their gun laws. #GunControlNow
Will the world do nothing, as Israel murders every Palestinian man, woman, child in Gaza? And murders every Palestinian journalist reporting this genocide? Then stay silent as Israel annexes a graveyard? Utterly obscene. 😥 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
Has the AJA condemned the literal Nazi rally tomorrow? Or still just the anti-fascist/pro-Palestine rallies every other week?
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
“Bourdain freely acknowledged that part of the reason he continued to work at such a frantic pace might have been a fear about where his mind might go if he ever sat still,” Patrick Radden Keefe wrote, in 2018.
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
Pro-gun groups are mobilising against gun laws, and celebrating the increase in guns in our community. We've launched a petition to create a National Firearms Register to help close dangerous loopholes and better protect public safety. Can you sign and share? ▶️ theaus.in/firearm_regi...
No I'm not racist. I don't care if Israel is run by Catholics or the Archangel Gabriel Israel is a terrorist state that starves children, deliberately bombs hospitals and burns people alive in refugee tents It's a disgusting excuse for a nation and your religion has nothing to do with my disgust
Just dropping by to remind everyone that Bob Katter's grandfather was Lebanese. Wonderfully, beautifully Lebanese. 😎
The performative "Australian-ness" of Bob Khittar makes sense now. Desperate to appeal to Aussies to feel like he's part of something. But internalised racism prevents him from being whole. Not realising his Lebanese story is v͟e͟r͟y͟ Australian... 🧵
Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
This needs to be a lesson for all US allies. This is how the US values allies. This is how the US treats allies. Perhaps we should cease being US allies? #AusPol
I framed this incorrectly. It’s not about us ceasing to be US allies, it’s about accepting that the US has ceased to be allies with anyone. The US has abandoned any normal international relationships, we need to adjust to this reality. And cancel AUKUS. #CancelAUKUS #AusPol
Pushing out top officials. Firing hundreds of lifelong public health experts. Trying to slash the CDC’s budget by billions. How is this “Making America Healthy Again”?
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Very good idea. Should be rolled out to adults as well! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Nasser Hospital massacre in Khan Younis showing the second strike hitting rescue workers following the initial strike. This is not a mistake. This is Israeli genocide policy. A double-tap strike on a hospital isn’t a mishap—it’s a calculated war crime. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
Francesca Albanese— This camera should be exhibited one day in the Genocide Memorial built in memory of the innumerable victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Shame on all journalists not raising their voice against the massacre of their brave Palestinian colleagues while documenting the genocide.
With news of further bombings of hospitals in Gaza overnight, Jewish Council executive officer @sarahschwartz.bsky.social explains that this is deliberate, this is a campaign of targeted killings of journalists and we need to take action and end the two-way arms trade with Israel now.
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
This is the first article in our series telling positive stories of refugees in Scotland. Meet Motaz Amer. His family fled war in Yemen when he was 9. 10 years later he is advising the Scottish Government, supporting its refugee integration strategy. www.thenational.scot/news/2540848...
I remind people again that Erdoğan’s march towards autocracy began somewhere between 2008-11. Ending the independence of the central bank in Turkey happened in 2019, 16 years after he became PM. Trump has been President for 8 months.
Me, tryna figure out what’s going on with his hand…
Never give up hope.
This constant drama with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the utter refusal by the Regime to just admit they fucked up and leave him alone is a perfect distillation of how incompetent and cruel they are.
Ashley says cancer doesn’t kill people and we shouldn’t surgically remove it. Coffee enemas, instead, are curative, she says. Telling people with cancer they shouldn’t have surgery, which may be their best chance at a cure, is diabolical. Here’s how we know whether surgery will help someone. 1/2
I hope you noticed thru the entire conference his left hand was covered with his right hand. HE IS NOT WELL. His speech and declarations are showing signs of his declining mental abilities. IMO concern should be on the less than BRIGHT BULBS who listen and ENACT his fantasy dreams of NOBEL PRIZE.
We the People know what he has in that old demented corrupt criminal brain. He's talking about a civil war!
2016 & 2024 elections were about revenge hatred misogyny racism. It was never about prices. It was clear who he was since the 80s. Ppl preferred an evil crim narcissist authoritarian over voting for a women.
Last week Trump said he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. Today he just said “a lot of people” want “a dictator.” See where this is going?
This blood is on the hands of every politician who protected, enabled, made excuses for, or closed their eyes to Israel’s genocidal actions.
And even now, in western media's reports on Gaza, they so rarely do their job and expose the systematic lies of the Israeli propaganda machine. More often than not they just repeat them. #GazaGenocide
To be clear what happened here. Israel bombed a hospital. They waited for paramedics and first responders to arrive. Then they bombed it again. This is known as the 'double tap'. You are watching unfathomable evil, armed and facilitated by the West.
You cannot make it up, we are debating Labor's first housing bill this Parliament. To build public housing for US troops under AUKUS. More below 👇
‘How am I supposed to explain this to my children?’ is one of the laziest copouts that bigots have been allowed to weaponize against social progress. “I don’t know.“ is perfectly acceptable in any situation and “Let’s find out together.” is one of the most precious ways to engage with your child.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... exclusive from @lisacox.bsky.social
Thank you @jackohman.bsky.social for the excellent column in the SF Chronicle about this! #SupportHumanArtists #NoAI #AB412 Also, don’t forget to sign our petition in support of @bauerkahan.bsky.social’s AI Copyright Transparency Act (link to follow). www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
The Western world needs therapy. It does not know itself. Routinely "appalled" and "concerned" about the war crimes it arms, pays for, and covers up politically. It asks us to sever ourselves from reality in order to cope. On an individual level, this is unhealthy. On a societal level, it's suicidal
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
