not purging these orgs of their war criminals and putting them through public show trials then lifetime sentences was the death knell for the west. Every person that interfered with a corpse, killed or abused a detainee, etc... should have been dragged through the streets behind a ute, on fire.
I distinctly remember Howard saying "this is not a war on Islam" and the line going around in the army at the time was "no, it's a war on muslims"
I cannot stress enough how fucken cooked the western militaries are after Bush and Obama.
too many people simply do not understand there is a couple of decades worth of military recruits who joined to kill muslims. Not everyone joined to kill muslims after 2001, but a fucking shit ton of people did. And they were not silent about it - they got the fucken crusader-aligned tattoos FFS.
A militarised look for Victoria police @ today’s Melbourne rally calling for an end to Israeli massacres. We *sound* angry, as the West’s leaders help this crime against humanity extend through a 3rd year, but the coalition doesn’t act out (unless there are actual Neo Nazis, w 👮‍♀️ protection) #auspol
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Israel's relationship with Democrats on Capitol Hill is rapidly deteriorating, with a growing number of lawmakers saying they can no longer support U.S. funding for even the country's defensive weaponry. Why it matters: Opposing the use of American taxpayer dollars to fund Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system was "seen as insanely fringe four years ago," Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) told us. No longer. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told us he "cannot support more military assistance" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he has "supported Iron Dome in the past, but there doesn't seem to be any accountability." Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) told us he doesn't think that position is "wildly controversial in light of what the Israeli government has said for a long time." "I think many of us are in the place of saying, 'They have enough money to wage the wars they're doing, they don't need our money, period," said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.)
Multiple incumbent members of Congress are saying tonight that they concur with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that US-taxpayer funded military assistance, including Iron Dome and Arrow, should end.
“Anybody that moved from that riverbed, even to put their hand up, [the Israelis] would shoot them.”
Another GHF whistleblower contradicts Israel's lies about their war crimes. From Rhana Natour @dropsitenews.com #GazaGenocide
www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-ghf-s...
Fucken lol
Don't quite know how I strayed into Bluesky's land of poetry, but this nugget of gold certainly made it worthwhile!
They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused.
Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.
the devil just blinked
Snap, no they have not suggested this and it seems like it’s exactly what we need?! Ahhhh
Human in the genocide To the drone flying above, replaying a man's cry, "Help, I'm injured" in Libnan, or the wordless wail of a baby in Gaza, yes I know these people are most likely fictional traps to get one to crawl out of rubble and into a sniper's scope- you are asking, who will die for the chance to be human? And if no one answers, you will report: no people are left in the area, mission accomplished. Yet I have seen, over and over, my kin hurrying on hands and knees into death for the chance, however slim, to recover the buried, the brutalised and broken, with love in their hearts and a curse on their lips. Praise God! Praise God! We will never be defeated @omarsakrpoet
In these ghoulish tactics, we can see the true hate--how they fear and loathe our humanity, our legendary hospitality, our inexhaustible generosity, our dust-stained fingers, our calloused hands reaching again and again into the rubble. They aim to destroy humanity itself. They will not succeed.
The Poems I Couldn't Write This Week The poem about two Afghan boys whose throats were opened by Australian men. The cynical poem about there being no reason. The poem where they still live. The eco poem about the river the cut boys were left in. The enraged poem about the graceless water. The war poem on the devastation of Empire. The war poem about artists whose taxes paid for the devastation. The family poem about my mother once again not meeting me at the cemetery. The redacted poem using military language like it can be salvaged. The spiritual poem exploding over intended and unintended targets with no effect. The transactional poem that requires an effect. The bilingual poem that swallows God. The servile that licks the boot of the buyer. The political that invents a moral arc of democracy. The ancestral that won't let the dead rest. The dark that refuses to kill the poet. The domestic that imagines itself as separate from all the others. The poem that poems. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. The mistranslated: verily we belong, and verily we return.
In light of the news about BRS being arrested for his war crimes in Afghanistan, and the sickening attempts from racists to excuse his villainy, this week’s throwback poem is from my third collection, Non-Essential Work.
A boy who was wrongly identified, profiled because he was Aboriginal, searched even after police realised they had the wrong person.
An innocent child, just trying to get home – publicly humiliated, a gun drawn on him.
Where was the outrage then?
People are expressing outrage about how Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested, saying it was too public. He was arrested with no cuffs, not a hand on him, despite facing allegations of war crimes.
I can’t help but think of the young Aboriginal boy wrongly arrested at gunpoint by the AFP on a Canberra bus.
Is this the original? I saw the image I posted on Twitter.
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Israel's illegal invasion and ethnic cleansing of Lebanon. Not "contributing to" it is the literal sole cause of it. @SenatorWong The conflict in Lebanon is contributing to a humanitarian crisis. As UN Security Council members meet today to discuss the protection of UN and Humanitarian Personnel, Australia and partners call for international humanitarian law to be respected, and aid workers to be protected. 9:09 AM • Apr 9, 2026 • 10.7K Views Years of this passive language has desensitised us. Is the law being "disrespected"? No. It's being criminally breached by Israel, over and over again, which in turn, obligates states to react, to punish, to sanction. When someone is murdered, you do not "call for" the murderer to respect the law, you arrest them.
Years now of calling for these murderers to stop killing everyone and start "respecting" the law - this would be evil and absurd by itself, but to do this while also arming the murderers and funding them and calling them your "friend" makes this a uniquely ghoulish exercise of propaganda.
Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.
We lived right next to one in the Guro district in southwestern Seoul—one of the most densely populated cities in the world—and it was easily the most beloved landmark in the neighborhood aside from the actual Gaebongsan Park (woodpeckers!), which it connected to a different park across the road.
Don’t threaten us with a good time
I didn’t even know he knew the word “scientists”. But he proceeded to tell me Godzilla was just a lizard and then the scientists made him a monster and wrecked his home so he was mad. Which, yeah, fair enough bro. I just did not have existential rage on my bingo card for 6am chats on no sleep.
My son sat bolt upright this morning, going from sleep to 100% awake in an instant like the Terminator, like all three year olds, and as he did he said, “Dad, do you know why Godzilla was angry?”
Then as I stared exhaustedly at him, he said with horror and awe, “Because the scientists made him.”
imagine raising your babies to believe in doing this, to justify this, to complain about feeling isolated for supporting this.
Absolute bombshell on Fox News. An expert National Security Analyst confirms the Trump administration is completely purging the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth has fired over a dozen top generals, including the heads of the Navy and Air Force, right in the middle of a massive war.
This man’s expression says it all lmao. “We are so fucked.”
Maybe have a drunk former TV host run your military and a rapist pedophile former TV host run your country was a bad idea.
BREAKING: War Secretary Pete Hegseth is removing two additional Army generals tonight: Gen. David Hodne, head of Army Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., chief of the Army chaplain corps, The Washington Post reports P ? Insider Paper * @TheInsiderPaper- 5h BREAKING: Secretary War Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement — CBS News
Firing your generals is famously an action taken when you’re winning, your enemy is “totally defeated” and you’re going to wrap up your incredible victory in 2-3 weeks
