@amiyatzin.bsky.social Dachau began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Auschwitz began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Majdanek began as a "work-conditioned housing" facility. Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social 1d Utah has just approved a 1,300-person "mega camp" for homeless individuals, This camp lacks transportation, features locked units, and even imposes forced labor. They refer to this facility as "work-conditioned housing," but we simply call it what it is: modern-day internment.

This is hell.

It was David McBride who blew the whistle, triggering the Brereton report & laying the groundwork for Ben Roberts‑Smith’s charges.
The thanks he got was jail, while war criminals roamed free.
It’s about time Roberts-Smith is put away for good, but McBride must be released.

"What can Democrats do?"

When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him.

So, you know, that.

Black and white photographs of Parramatta Centenary Uniting Church. People are seated at tables on a raised stage and on the ground floor, engaged in discussions and working on laptops. A large wooden cross is visible on the brick wall behind the stage. People focused on their laptops, printed materials and a QR code flyer are visible on the table. Other attendees are seated in the background. Other people standing together, smiling and laughing. Some attendees are visible mingling in the background near the entrance. CLDC in full launch!

My lawyer Nick Hanna (@nicholashanna1 on insta) + his colleagues have started a not-for-profit law centre Civil Liberties Defence Centre (@thecldc on insta) that will provide pro bono assistance to people facing legal issues like me. Please support them at cldc.org.au

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks.

The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

Photo of Chris Bowen NEW EPISODE | Australia’s fossil fuel subsidies are out of control Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

Fossil fuel subsidies are growing faster than spending on the NDIS.

@rodcampbell.bsky.social says it’s time to call out the idea that governments can’t afford to support Australians in need, yet can dish out $31,020 per minute on climate-destroying subsidies. #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/3PHIcMu

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

As a middle power, Australia should be careful what it wishes for when it comes to an illegal war with Iran | Andrew Wilkie I resigned from the intelligence services over the fraudulent case for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And I see some alarming parallels with this case

Do we really want a world where the strong can do as they please and the weak suffer as they must? I wrote for The Guardian today about why Australia shouldn’t stand for this, and why international law matters for a middle power like Australia #auspol #politas

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

John Ryan ... A nation that can instantly fund war but debates funding healthcare has a values problem, not a budget problem.

This 😏👇

Alan MacLeod—

"This is how media lies to you in real time."

TCF mentioned

This would have been very helpful to me on my 30s, 40s. So in case it is of benefit to you

I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!

Australian media isn’t covering this but what’s happening in Cuba is dreadful. Trump signed an executive order cutting off Cuba’s last oil supply. Ten million people are paying with their lives. Sewage systems are failing, food is rationed, it’s getting worse.

Just putting this out here- #gracetame

New research shows that at least 83,177 soldiers and police officers are currently deployed across six provinces in Papua which includes 56,517 from the Indonesian armed forces and 26,660 from the National Police projectmultatuli.org/en/a-lopside...

I've never seen a boy called a 13-year-old man. And I've never seen the phrase "underage man".

I'll just leave this here

I sincerely hope that the Greens in Aus and NZ are taking notes on Zack Polansky and Zohran Mamdani's campaigns. With the right comms team, they can replicate that success. #AusPol #NZPol

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Immigrants have done more for this country than billionaire tax dodgers ever will. Share if you agree! #auspol

A landmark private prosecution has begun in 🇦🇺 #Australia following a joint complaint submitted to the government by the @hindrajabfoundation.be, the @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social, and the Australian National Imams Council concerning the conduct of Isaac Herzog.

A photo of Randa wearing a silk, Olive dress, with her long brown hair out and foliage out of focus in the background. Black text on a light yellow rectangle was added that states, '2nd event added. Sun, 29 March, 6.30pm - 7.30pm Concert Hall, City Hall'.

NEW EVENT ADDED | Discipline: Randa Abdel-Fattah in Conversation

Randa Abdel‑Fattah's recent novel Discipline follows the intersecting lives of Hannah, a young Muslim newspaper journalist, and Ashraf, an academic. It is a timely exploration of truth and power.

Book tickets at bit.ly/462nCvT

There aren’t many rules but this is one of them

Isaac Herzog, a foriegn man, born in London, now lives in an 80 year old illegally occupying apartheid state committing a genocide on Palestinian Lands,
Has stood up today and asked Australians not to import conflict.
He is not Australian,he has no ties here. He is the imported conflict.

LETTER TO PREMIER MINNS from James R Dear Premier Minns I was arrested yesterday outside the Sydney Town Hall yesterday evening charged with assaulting a police officer. During my violent arrest I sustained several bloody injuries. I can barely walk today and my right kidney hurts very badly as a result of its being punched. Or perhaps I have a cracked rib? The demonstration was pretty much over when the police, backed up by eight or so fellow officers on horseback, started to aggressively push the crowd south, into an already very crowded space. I have witnessed this tactic before - used by police to generate a violent retaliatory response. Up until then the police had been calm and respectful of we demonstrators. Then, they changed and became violent, as the footage you would have access to makes clear. Clearly, someone in the chain of command instructed the police to create chaos and violent confrontations in order to retrospectively justify the large police presence yesterday, to use as evidence in support of the banning of future demonstrations, and in the hope that the media will play along and hold we demonstrators responsible for inciting violence. Was it you who issued the edict to foment violence or someone else in the chain of command? After 5 hours in a police cell with no offer of water or medical attention for my various injuries I was released without charge - the 'assault police officer' allegation having been dropped when it became apparent, from body cam footage, that I had not done so. 1am a 76 year old filmmaker and journalist and request a response to this letter and an indication of whom I should approach within your government to have my spectacles and torn short replaced and my medical expenses paid? cheers

Photo Police brutality

Photo Police brutality

“Was it you who issued the edict to foment violence or someone else in the chain of command?
After 5 hours in a police cell with no offer of water or medical attention for my various injuries I was released without charge - I’m a 76 year old filmmaker & journalist,“
#Auspol