Came here to say this

No

Wanganeen-Milera goal 😍 #portvsaints

Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu
He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli

So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔

Bocadillo de chocolate

"I Will Not Comply": Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System's Board Rutherford County Library System's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board

RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

This is the job, folks!

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Medicide. Australian healthcare's tight links with Israel, despite Gaza - Michael West State governments and major hospitals deeply embedded in Israel's health 'ecosystem', while Israel refuses to help 20,000 injured in Gaza.

Wondering why the IDF soldiers are doing their R&R in Australia
There are some answers here
You won’t like this
I don’t

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"You're giving away your natural resources...I find it mind-boggling." @josephestiglitz.bsky.social

Australian beer drinkers pay more tax than gas companies pay in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year! #auspol

Ed Husic is calling on Dr Jim Chalmers to consider embracing the ACTU’s proposal for a 25 per cent tax on gas exports, which would raise $17bn a year.

Read more: https://theaus.in/3N4w7jR

“The debate over the capital gains tax discount comes down to a very simple question: who do you think should pay more income tax?” writes Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist at The Australia Institute.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3OHEXVa

Breaking: Sophie Scamps will boycott QT in parliament today in protest against Isaac Herzog’s visit. Says he should not be in our parliament - “with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags” bcoz it “normalises” Israel’s “atrocities” in Gaza. #auspol

So apparently soon I could face up to TWO YEARS in jail for political art that says “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” if someone "takes offence". This is what Crisafulli is proposing in QLD. Acceptable speech is narrowing in real time. And it's fckn terrifying.

What things like the attempted terrorist attack in Perth and Scott's public Islamophobia speak to is the deep social division our governments and media have facilitated by the self-evident hypocrisy in how they've dealt with the past two years of domestic rupture arising from Israel/Gaza.

johnmenadue.com/post/2021/10...
Important read

Meanwhile Canadian PM Carney can read , write and think independently. His speech at Davos will go down in history. Australia must choose to stand up. But I know it won’t

It is so important to keep stressing the fact of One Nation funding and policy direction is not coming from Queensland racist simpletons. It’s far right US money and a far right US agenda

The AFP’s secretive new anti-protest command Rex Patrick is a former senator from South Australia. Before that, he was a submariner in the Navy. Last year, he noticed a reference to a new arm of the Australian Federal Police called the AUKUS Co...

Did you know that there’s a secretive new command of the AFP to protect AUSKUS and US military assets? But more tellingly it has the remit to quash anti-AUKUS protest anywhere. 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the...

No. Of course not. That’s not how Australia works. That information must be kept on the quiet

Book recommendation: Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan. Devoured it in a couple of days.

"This is further evidence that the share of Australia’s wealth held by the very rich is increasing.”

Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260112-ca...

‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being

If sport is sugar, the arts are fibre

This from Ben Quilty hit hard

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

If it didn’t work they wouldn’t try to ban it

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

I've heard some recently suggest that protesting is ineffective and potentially a waste of time/resources/efforts.

I think this is a pretty solid rebuttal to that notion. Worth a read.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Made a conscious decision to focus on AI/bigtech in early 2025 and I'm glad I did

It's a systemic attack on both the means of climate action (evidence-based facts, the written / spoken word, visual communication) and the ends (trying to stop fossil fuel use). I think it's starting to sink in, now

Boomers who answered the landline

I think romance is dismissed as not important because women like it

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In Melbourne’s Springvale, one in four residents speaks Vietnamese at home. Another 10 per cent come from China or Cambodia. In Sydney’s Fairfield, one in four residents were born in Vietnam, Cambodia or China. In Sydney’s Five Dock, long after the heyday of immigration from Europe, one in seven residents still speaks Italian at home. In Melbourne’s North Caulfield, 41 per cent of residents are Jews, including hundreds who have lately fled South Africa. Dandenong now has an official Little Indian Cultural Precinct, with 33 Indian businesses. Such colonising will increasingly be our future as we gain a critical mass of born-overseas migrants. Like tends to attract like and these new colonies can then more easily keep their cultures thanks to satellite TV, the internet, and cheap travel.

In Andrew Bolt's infamous 2018 "tidal wave of immigrants column", he specifically singled out Jewish communities as 'part of the problem'

The idea that the far-right, anti-immigration parties and xenophobe media are going to protect the Aus Jewish community is absurd

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