A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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"Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods and the wild, wild grief of the bereaved."
"Despite the overwhelming evidence we see before us, still nothing changes." #genocide

10,000 people are becoming homeless every month – you’d think the government would do something about it | First Dog on the Moon As the kids are all saying, the purpose of a system is what it does

"Very convenient for the government that the poor are too tired to fight back.."

"Until they aren't.."
#homelessness
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I’m with stupid - The Shot There’s always been a healthy level of stupid in Australian politics, but let’s face facts: the collective intelligence of the...

Here's my latest piece for The Shot @shotau.bsky.social on Aust's political IQ

".... with the election of Babet, certainly Pauline Hanson must have been relieved to relinquish her reigning senate title as Most Likely To Confuse Themselves With A Push-Pull Door."

😎

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Sold.

Peter Dutton accused of ‘disgusting’ political point-scoring after synagogue fire – then attacks Jewish Labor MP Josh Burns says he has been standing up for his Melbourne community ‘every day’ as Chris Bowen calls for national unity

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Sewing the seeds of division at every given opportunity with whatever it takes to become Prime Minister.

What a grub.

I will never, ever get over this.

1000 people — maybe even more — had their welfare payments unlawfully CANCELLED because Dept of Employment / Services Australia can’t read their self-defeating legislation that dictates mutual obligations to jobseekers. Latest in a series of bungles. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

Nancy!!
Soooo, so glad that you pulled your boots on and made it across.

Welcome to the nice place!
🌈🌻

Arrest warrants issued for genocidal babykiller, Benjamin Netanyahu  - The Shot The ICC has proven it has eyes and brains and has issued warrants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity.

Dave Milner on fire in The Shot: "This is us. This is mainstream, ruling class Australia."

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Sign the Petition Bring back Sarah Macdonald on ABC Radio Sydney 702

I’ve signed the petition to keep Sarah Macdonald at ABC Sydney. Getting rid of her while they keep people like Macca is beyond me.

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It would be good for Australians if Paul Brereton, the head of the #NACC, bothered reading his own legislation.

That would be helpful and oooh I dunno, might be something the public expected from him in his ~$758,000 a year position

Vibes....

I've just made my first starter pack of Aussie Independent Journos. If I've missed anyone, please let me know & I'll add them. Somehow Kylie's mug ended up in the middle & there was no way to get rid of her. She goes, She goes, she just won't go #auspol #ausmedia #ausnews
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Dump AUKUS. Spend the money rebuilding a fairer, kinder, better educated, renewables powered , cleaner, safer, more harmonious society.

Dump AUKUS. NOW.

Thinking of survivors today, and all those who tried to come forward and weren't heard, or were deliberately silenced.♥️

Discredited Brereton should stop whingeing and resign from the NACC The National Anti-Corruption Commission head devoted a major speech to explaining why he shouldn't resign. It perfectly demonstrated why he should.

The NACC has still produced no significant corruption findings.
But instead of talking about Paladin, Eastern Australian Agriculture water deals, Robodebt execs, Stuart Robert, etc etc etc, we’re talking about Paul Brereton.
Read the room, mate.
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We need electoral reform, but not in the form of a stitch up that favours the 2 party system and locks communities out of democracy. The government’s electoral reform bill needs proper scrutiny. Watch. Part 2.

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

There's an opportunity for an Australian political party to do actual, real things at the moment with clear majority public support. But they can't, because they've been caught up in terminally failing political spivery and orthodoxy for so long, it doesn't compute to them. /n

Breaking:

An emergency public holiday has been declared for Australia for tomorrow (Monday, November 18).

Everyone gets the day off, with triple pay.

Everyone also gets a $50 gift voucher at their local bottle shop.

All deadlines are extended, and all planned tasks will be considered completed.

Sweet! 🤠

(Oddly, the boss is requesting the source of my 'news'..🤔)

Just sitting back with a glass, enjoying this newly found space in the BlueSky... realising that the anxiety has disappeared and I'm not holding my breath.

Feeling... #grateful for small things.

Why is Labor rushing to legislate fundamental changes to our electoral system?

With 180 pages of explanatory memorandum and 230 pages of amendments, this bill, likely to pass with Lib/Lab support, will entrench the Lib/Lab duopoly.

Like Alex, everyone who cares about democracy should be angry.

I wish for a world where one day people get more upset by genocide than they do about decorative windows.

“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged” The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percen...

Ethnic cleansing.

“1.9 million people have been displaced in Gaza out of a population of 2.2 million people.

“Israel’s actions have intentionally caused the mass forced displacement of the majority of the civilian population of Gaza.”

Human Rights Watch

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*sound up*

You made my day.🙏
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