"yes, the state of Israel has a right to exist—but Israel’s regime of Jewish-Zionist privilege may not." foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/i...
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"yes, the state of Israel has a right to exist—but Israel’s regime of Jewish-Zionist privilege may not." foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/i...
"Israel is committing both genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel has long maintained its actions in Gaza are self-defence and that genocide allegations are politically motivated." Imagining ABC's both-sides reporting of The Holocaust; plenty of space for the German response?
US Democrats are too easily distracted from the determined power grab by the most dangerous man to ever occupy the White House, says @sifill.bsky.social sherrilyn.substack.com/p/emergency-...
Too polite, @australia.theguardian.com. More accurate headline: 'Nazi Musk pushes lies again'. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
With a few honourable exceptions, the double standards underlying mainstream media's indulgent treatment of Katter are so ingrained, they don't even notice. But who am I kidding? For old guard media, self-reflection is not a skill readily engaged on *any* issue.
A key finding that demands action. Not just from craven legacy media who banned the G' word, but also: - govts still arming Israel - US politicians still taking AIPAC bribes, and - Trump and his sociopathic associates who dehumanize Palestinians in pursuit of a real estate 'deal'. #GazaGenocide
Australia the same. The major political parties on the take from fossil fuel companies call it "partnership".
For those of us that missed the nazis, nazi-adjacents, not really nazis just a bit white supremacist rallies yesterday... here's First Dog www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"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
Or putting it more strongly: anyone talking about housing affordability but refusing to consider tax concessions for investors is paving the way for even greater wealthy inequality and homelessness.
Anyone talking about housing affordability not mentioning the capital gains tax discount is not talking about housing affordability.
But just before he goes, could RFK Jr provide some of his special health advice to Trump?
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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
The important thing is that any toxic compound must be free of food dye.
It's not a 'clash' if it's neo-Nazis storming a group of people - it is an attack. Also, it's always ok to punch a Nazi. Hope that helps.
The Global Sumud Flotilla left Barcelona yesterday to break Israels siege of Gaza. Over 50 ships from 44 countries are taking part.
The arrogant white supremacist Trump regime doesn't even bother hiding it.
Trump's trade adviser dehumanizing a Black woman on the Federal Reserve Board. Pure racism.
"The documentary draws on testimony from Palestinian health workers, witness accounts, and official reports from human rights agencies, to examine allegations of attacks, detainment and mistreatment." Must watch: out tonight. As Andy notes, this is the doco the BBC refused to screen. #GazaGenocide
"It's not alarmist to say that these are goons, this is a secret police that is going into our cities to kidnap people, abduct people off the streets" @katmabu.bsky.social on the dangers of ICE agents and potentially troops roaming the streets of Chicago.
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"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign." 🎯Bernie Sanders. But just before he goes, could RFK Jr provide some of his special health advice to Trump? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
ICYMI, some useful advice to us in Australia on tackling big tech, from @mariaressa.bsky.social - but has broader relevance. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As right-wing oligarchs were buying up mainstream and social media, the mistake everyone else made was thinking that these purchases were based on a normal assessment of value. Remember when Elon Musk “overpayed” for Twitter? They understood that controlling the message and narrative is priceless.
"The greatest threat we face today isn’t any individual leader or government – it’s the technology that’s amplifying authoritarian tactics worldwide, enabled by democratic governments that abdicated their responsibility to protect the public." But we can fight big tech says @mariaressa.bsky.social
As was clear from The Voice referendum, Price trades in disinformation, division, racist tropes and far right fear-mongering. So no wonder she supported the Cookers & Nazis rallies. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
"To date Armstrong has been given benefit of the doubt, despite her parting story for News Corp that faithfully ran a picture of Anthony Albanese under lurid page-one headline: 'A WIN FOR HAMAS'." The bigger issue: if ABC needs a new journo, why *ever* recruit from Murdoch's propaganda machine?
For those who see Aussies using the term 'Cooker'
The Powerful Owlet and its parent seemed to decide to ignore the mobbing and go to sleep. #brisbane #birds #wildoz
Lots of wattle out this morning in #Tidbinbilla reserve.
Top of Gibraltar Peak, #Tidbinbilla.
"The Zionist institutions of Australia who’ve been shrieking their lungs out about pro-Palestine protests these last two years seem to be pretty chill about actual Nazis marching through their streets."
"The global political theater of 'recognizing a Palestinian state' only creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel’s apartheid regime." #SanctionIsraelNow #FreePalestine www.972mag.com/palestinian-...
Just as well there has been no Senate Inquiry into #AUKUS. When the pesky truth emerges, it would only exacerbate the public's lack of support.
"Even when their reports reach Western media, Palestinian journalists are systematically denied the right to be credible and authoritative about the fact of the genocide they face. Palestinians must be verified." #GazaGenocide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
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The 'How to Profit from Genocide' vultures are circling.
"gratitude" is white supremacist code for 'that brown boy needs to know his place'. Vance is odious. #ZohranMamdani will be New York's next mayor. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Those who faced genocide "would themselves establish that haven on the ground of others, forcibly displacing Palestinian families and denying them any right of return ...A state born of history's most sustained sophisticated atrocity and yet itself pursuing permanent occupation & expansion by force"
Farewell to the Global Sumud Flotilla at the Port of Barcelona. August 31, 2025/©ÁlvaroMinguito for @elsaltodiario.com
The US tourism industry's efforts to pretend that Trump doesn't matter are not working. youtu.be/s68Y_DgQDn0
But: - we know that figure is a gross underestimate - even on Israel's figures, at least 83% of Gaza deaths are civilian, and most of those are women and children, and - it's not a war it's a genocide.
All the war outside starts here at home If they didn’t have our money they’d be fighting it alone Doesn’t matter what your silly little signs have to say Cause the genocide is funded by the taxes that you pay www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvgr...
Just for fun, I did a search on "Chief Justice Roberts" and "rule of law". This is the self-justifying bullshit that AI gave me:
No time for such distractions as concern for the spread of #WhiteSupremacy and neo-Nazis, Andy. Government have much higher priorities, like ensuring that they stamp out any protests against Israel's #GazaGenocide.
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.
Irony bypass and hypocrisy overdrive: "Opposition Leader Sussan Ley urged people not to let hatred and fear tear at the country’s social cohesion." ...says the leader of the Opposition that used hatred, fear, racism and disinformation to defeat The Voice referendum. #auspol
Good report. But the headline is a bit misleading, as it implies politicians who attended these #WhiteSupremacy rallies are in a separate category to neo-Nazis. The likes of Hanson, Roberts and Katter are, at the very least, nazi-adjacent. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
UNGA should hold its September meeting in Geneva to allow Palestine to participate. This will also send a message to the Trump regime on their breach of long standing law requiring access to all UN representatives. Please sign petition [link in article] and repost. dawnmena.org/unga-move-se...
Good news shark nets will be removed from our Northern Beaches for a trial run. Hoping it’s permanent Here’s a refresher course: PS: yes I know there’s a typo … clever you.
The sweeping plains at Boolcoomatta. Being in this country makes you realise just how insignificant you are in the scheme of things. I find it strangely exhilarating.
The Special Envoy and her past connection to ECAJ really demonstrates the appointment should never have been made in the first place.
Buffoons in the Nazi/Cooker rally today were denying to me that they were at a Nazi event. They shouldn’t be allowed to continue to do so. @albomp.bsky.social & other leaders need to act hard. Drafting RW policy to appease them only entrenches their far Right positions. #Auspol
Or do both.
Today's Sunday Shot is belatedly here. Tune in for me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social, Wendy Bacon and @arielbogle.bsky.social. Pulling apart the narrative around Iran, Israel, and the march of the white supremacists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWig...
Racist Morons for White Australia on the streets today ... I don't know which town or city this is, but there's hardly anyone there. And those asked to speak can hardly string two coherent sentences together. #auspol #AustraliaHasABlackHistory #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBeAboriginalLand
The Coalition's most senior Jewish representative says the Albanese govt's criticism of Israel has "de-legitimized Jewish people". As a person of Jewish background, I say that Leeser's stupid, irresponsible conflation of Israel criticism with "the arsonist's fuse" de-legitimizes himself. #auspol
Excellent reporting by Nabil Al-Nashar in Sydney, highlighting references to the Great Replacement Theory, denial of First Nations heritage, and racist anti-migrant views. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
JUDAISM ✡️ 💜 Dozens of LA County Jewish clergy rallied at the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, blowing shofars to mark the beginning of the sacred month of Elul in the Jewish calendar as a moral cry for an end to the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, 🧵 Source: www.instagram.com/p/DN7JUcVjp-...
This is a very good move. On their regular beach cleans, Surfrider Foundation (Aus, report this as one of the most collected pieces of rubbish!
"Trump’s initiatives, as devastating as they have been, do not yet come close to matching the range and depth of the Red Scare. But then again, he’s only getting started." #ZionistMcCarthyism has already had an impact, including Trump detaining #FreePalestine activists, and blackmailing unis.
You'll be fine, Sandy. Most people there will be at least as anxious as you!
Pigeon guillemots at Deception Pass State Park, Washington state.
#MarchforAustralia is the stupid end of the ultra rich’s eugenics. They believe they are genetically better and deserve everything, while we deserve to die out. The Nazis and Cookers think the wannabe aristocrats will give them a pass for white skin. Wrong, it’s class war too. #auspol
"clear analysis of the failings of the tax system presented by Grattan Institute CEO Aruna Sathanapally at the roundtable did not deserve to be dismissed by the PM as academic talk. This challenge must not be allowed to be considered too hard; it will only get harder." @juliannes.bsky.social #auspol
"Russia uses information manipulation 'to swing international opinion to legitimise Russia's war of aggression' and distract focus from its attacks on civilian targets and infrastructure and its alleged war crimes." An important story. When will we get the one about Israeli propaganda? #SundayShot
Yep. But pretending it's not a catastrophic disaster as an excuse to maintain 'business as usual' just puts off the inevitable reckoning and a worse economic hit.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
Yet most US media still fails to join the dots between - RFK Jr's Darwinist view of health - Republicans cutting programs for poor children - Trump & Miller's racist deportation and immigration policies. Dr Daskalakis's letter explicitly names eugenics. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
This is also the eugenics plan of Peter Thiel , JD Vance, RFK Jr Stephen Miller, Russell Vought. . . .
"The ocean's fucked". But "the Malinauskas government has maintained an uncomfortably close relationship to the oil and gas industry" And fossil-fueled Albanese doesn't dare call it a "disaster". Excellent report from @roycerk2.bsky.social . #ClimateCrisis #auspol drilled.media/news/algal-b...
If you’re a feminist you can spend your whole life grappling with the inadequacy of narrative to convey reality or summon enough political will to enact change. But if you’re a fascist you can just use narrative as a hammer to claim ownership of reality and beat material conditions into conformity.
'The only democracy in the Middle East' has the same absence of accountability and flagrant propaganda as Stalin's Russia. Or the Trump regime.
I am sworn off #insiders, but sounds like this was a thinly disguised excusing of violence.
"all Trump is doing is spinning more fantasies with his minions like Blair and Kushner about some future when Gaza is cleansed of Palestinians and they have a free hand to do with the land as they will." The 'How to Profit from Genocide' vultures circle. Blood still wet on Blair's hands from Iraq.
Meanwhile, the Mango Mussolini has signed an exec order to jail people for burning the flag but if people use the flagpole to bash cops, they get a pardon and a government job.
But Satan is clever.
If the National Guard start making compost heaps, there is plenty of bullshit they can use coming out of the White House.
As govt prepares to remove children from the NDIS, the agency in charge of the scheme has been torn to shreds by the administrative review tribunal for breaking the law, 'repeated non-compliance' and conduct that constitutes contempt. A pattern emerges. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
In case you missed it earlier this week and want something to read on your Sunday morning 👇 #AusPol #BloodyHoward
Instagram influencer Adventorin goes viral after demonstrating how simple it is to climb over the U.S. Border Wall.
Better headline: The President of Israel endorses expanded colonial occupation and #EthnicCleansing of Palestine.
“We need to end our complicity in the genocide.” Australian senator Nick McKim has urged the government to halt the export of weapons components to Israel and to impose sanctions on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what he called his “cabinet of war criminals.”
Julian Leeser and co should apologise to Australians for tarring them with accusations that turn out to be unfounded, that were always unfounded. Rather than blaming the Albanese govt, what has the Netanyahu govt done to exacerbate antisemitism? #insiders
"Russia uses information manipulation 'to swing international opinion to legitimise Russia's war of aggression' and distract focus from its attacks on civilian targets and infrastructure and its alleged war crimes." An important story. When will we get the one about Israeli propaganda? #SundayShot
Just as well @boganintel.bsky.social has some WD-40 on his garage shelf. Might come in handy with this morning’s rusty internet connections. #SundayShot
Great T-shirt @instanterudite.bsky.social ! #SundayShot
I had the chance to talk with @scottdetrow.bsky.social for “All Things Considered” about my belief that an important line was crossed in America this month: www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...
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One of the ways governments destroy trust is through secrecy and half-truths, says @amyremeikis.bsky.social . And the Albanese government is taking unaccountability to a new level. #auspol #SundayShot www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
The Albanese government is going for the gong as the most secretive and unaccountable in Australia's history. #auspol
Hello Tony. Just a reminder that as one of the Twelve Steps for TA [Truthaholics Anonymous], it is David Speers who has to apologize to you. #insiders #SundayShot
We’re here! Please join us at 9am for #SundayShot #auspol > www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
"Australians have been offered no explanation now about what Iran has to gain from attacking Jewish Australians or their premises by remote control. Instead, Netanyahu revels in the credit for Australia’s unprecedented expulsion of the Iranian ambassador" #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...
Must read: Ahmad Ibsais on the west's performative shift to [finally] acknowledge genocide - while still ignoring Palestinians.