Albanese and Wong: We invited Herzog to Australia because the Jewish community wants him here.

Meanwhile:

Your government is grotesquely complicit, Australia. But you don't need to be. In times of atrocity, you have a moral obligation to dissent and resist. I learnt this through Holocaust education (somewhat ironic, nowadays). This is where protests start. Free Palestine, free us all

Why Victoria is prone to 'some of the scariest fires' in the world Some of the world's most destructive bushfires take place in the southern state. Its unique mix of fierce winds, high fuel loads and rugged terrain are to blame.

Here, on the ABC, is an entire article on Victorian bushfires ... with not a single mention of climate change www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

🚨 BREAKING | The whereabouts and health status of Palestinian resident of Paterson, New Jersey, Leqaa Kordia remain unconfirmed as of Sunday evening, her family and legal team say, following her emergency hospitalization on Friday. Kordia on February 6 reportedly suffered a medical emergency—identified by a formerly detained individual as a fall resulting in a head injury and seizure—at the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas. Her legal team contacted 16 hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, but none confirmed she was a patient. While ICE officials confirmed to her attorneys on Saturday morning that she was hospitalized, they did not disclose the facility's name or her current condition. Kordia has been in ICE custody for nearly a year, since March 13, 2025, when she was detained during a routine immigration check-in. Advocates and legal filings strongly suggest she was targeted by the Trump administration for her pro-Palestinian activism, specifically her participation in the 2024 Columbia University protests. Despite an immigration judge twice ordering her release on bond, ICE has utilized "automatic stays" to keep her detained.

Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman We can’t find Leqaa Kordia in any hospital. This is abduction upon abduction. Please help us get the word out and pray for her. She truly is a light being kept in dark dungeons. http://Bit.ly/freeleqaa

🚨 BREAKING | The whereabouts & health status of Palestinian resident of Paterson, NJ, Leqaa Kordia remain unconfirmed as of Sun. evening, her family & legal team say, following her emergency hospitalization on Fri.

Kordia on Feb. 6 reportedly suffered a medical emergency—identified by a formerly...

Thanks to your support, our full-page ad is in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Over 1,000 Jews and thousands of allies have signed our open letter to say that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not welcome here.

Help us spread the word!

Larissa Waters asks AG’s Dept if they’ve checked if there’s adequate FamilyV services for First Nations ppl in NSW after the recent murder of 2 FN women in Lake Cargelligo
Dept says they don’t know of any checks or if FV services even exist where the murdered women lived #auspol

BE/AE: Before Epstein / After Epstein Every day we keep carrying on as normal, every hour that we allow these people to stay in place, we doom our children to their unconscionable world of techno-feudalism, sacrifice, and exploitation.

'Every day we keep carrying on as normal, every hour that we allow these people to stay in place, we doom our children to their unconscionable world of techno-feudalism, sacrifice, and exploitation.'

My latest:

'BE/AE: Before Epstein / After Epstein'
www.boganintel.com/p/beae-befor...

Activists announce new, bigger aid flotilla to set sail for Gaza in March Global Sumud Flotilla to carry up to 1,000 activists in largest-ever 'coordinated humanitarian intervention' for Gaza.

Global Sumud Flotilla to carry up to 1,000 activists in largest-ever 'coordinated humanitarian intervention' for Gaza.

We will socially cohere, and we will like it.

It's such an interesting feature of these times that fantasised paedophilia is constantly invoked by reactionary conservatives as a boogie-man (eg to demonise trans people) but actual predatory child sexual abuse is always downplayed as a moral panic. Speaks to a deeply internalised conflict.

In late 2025 the RSF, alongside the SPLM-N (al-Hilu), seized Aldashol in South Kordofan. On Sun., the Sudanese Armed Forces said they had retaken the city after it had been under siege for more than 2 years, bringing the army closer to breaking the RSF siege on nearby Kadugli. The advance follows...

US protesters banged pots and pans all night outside a heavily secured hotel in Minnesota where they believed Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino was staying.

Bovino has reportedly been reassigned, after one of his agents shot and killed US citizen Alex Pretti on Saturday.

Dispatch from an Australian Summer Feeling the heat on several fronts

Posting again because we’re in the thick of it.

Australia cancels visa of Israeli influencer accused of ‘spreading hatred’

Australia cancels visa of Israeli influencer accused of ‘spreading hatred’ https://aje.news/g2mk1d

Thanks to the ABC for this great reporting.
#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Thanks for turning out in big numbers #Naarm to acknowledge that the 26th was the date of the colonial invasion of the country we call Australia. The national use of the date is recent. We don’t have to party of the day that signalled the start of genocide. #SurvivalDay #Auspol #Melbourne

Protesting Israel’s genocide on Oct 7 was called “disrespectful”.
Celebrating First Nations genocide on Jan 26 is called “patriotic”.
The double standard tells you everything.
#auspol #InvasionDay

A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

This is a must read about mis- and disinformation in #Australia. Also look at the #Senate inquiry at this link www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

The frontline of Australia’s family violence crisis Family violence in Aboriginal communities is a national crisis – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 33 times more likely to be victims of domestic violence, and eight times more likely to...

Wanted to do a show that cut through all the noise and bs on a day like today. So we spoke to CEO of Elizabeth Morgan House, Kalina Morgan-Whyma on the domestic violence crisis in Aboriginal communities. 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the...

🚨 Three Palestinian Journalists Working with Aid Organisation Killed in Israeli Strike Targeting Their Marked Vehicle in Central Gaza. The three journalists—Mohammed Salah Qashta, Abdul Raouf Samir Shaath, and Anas Ghanem—were working with the Egyptian Committee for aid in Gaza, providing media coverage. Footage of the aftermath of the strike in Al-Zahraa city showed the targeted vehicle clearly marked with the Egyptian Committee’s logo. Footage taken by Drop Site contributor @Abdsabbah91 shows the arrival of the bodies of two of the journalists, Mohammed and Abdul Raouf, with committee workers and mourners present. 🎥 Video by Khames Alrefi

🚨 3 Palestinian Journalists Working w/ Aid Organisation Killed in Israeli Strike Targeting Their Marked Vehicle in Central Gaza.

The three journalists—Mohammed Salah Qashta, Abdul Raouf Samir Shaath, and Anas Ghanem—were working with the Egyptian Committee for aid in Gaza, providing media...

Source in St. Louis saw these B2s and said they were in fact heading SE, not NE

Would Trump time a bombing of Iran so that he could gloat about it in his Davos speech?

Here is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitting the goal of U.S. sanctions is to make ordinary Iranians so miserable that they rise up and overthrow the government. This is the kind of thing everybody knows but is rarely admitted openly.

So Trump ordered the government to buy mortgage backed securities to lower mortgage rates, and it started to work, then Trump prosecuted the Fed chair and threw tariffs at Europe and Canada over Greenland.

Mortgages spiked right back up, but at least we own a lot of loans!

Well done to the Albanese Government, the Greens and the Teals for passing the firearm legislation. Grounded in evidence based solutions that will reduce gun deaths and violence in Australia. Shame on Coalition and One Nation for not supporting making our whole community safer.

Israel isn't a country. It is a bipartisan project of Western supremacy. It is supercharged methods of domination and extraction. It is an assault on morality and truth, DARVO personified. ICE and police train with the IDF. It is fascism, and it's coming for the rest of us.

Good on Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.

A Premier publicly likening an academic to far-right terrorists is indefensible.
He should retract the comments, apologise, and resign.

Israeli occupation forces have stormed the Shuafat refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem for a third consecutive day, carrying out raids & arrests, Shehab Agency reports. Large numbers of soldiers, including undercover units, have entered the camp’s streets & neighborhoods, firing stun grenades and...

Fuuuuck

Not as upsetting as a cartoon, obviously, but terrible nonetheless