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US military strikes on the Ras Issa Port in Yemen on April 17 caused dozens of civilian casualties. The decision to strike the port while workers were present shows a callous disregard for civilian lives. The attack should be investigated as a war crime.

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🚨Another HUGE bit of news tonight; in collaboration with the Trump admin, Texas just kicked 20,000 undocumented college students — people who grew up in Texas and graduated from high school there — out of eligibility for in-state tuition. This may force thousands to drop out.

submitted 16 hours ago • 118 comments

Some more context to understand the relationship between the ALP and fossil fuel exports - we're leading the world in expanding coal exports! This just in from the @iea.org: www.iea.org/reports/worl...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Last week at the Australian gas industry conference, all I heard was about how hard it is to do business in Australia and that the govt needs to get out of the way and definitely not tax them...

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

The ALP needs to focus on the "powerless" aspect of the LNP. The LNP literally do not matter. Change the fricken country and leave them withering. Stop feeling like you need to ask the LNP's (or media's) permission to change things.

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens. He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions. Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

submitted 14 hours ago • 91 comments

Today is a national day of action on Palestine. Help push our government to stand against this genocide. Make your voices heard.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Good to see the state branch sticking to their principles.

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

The Latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social and I talkin' bout GDP, Min wage and TACOs australiainstitute.org.au/post/why-aus...

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

We finally did it. Susan Collins says she's "concerned" about a course of action that will kill over 20 million people. To all the people who joked that if Trump was Hitler she'd express "concerns" about the Holocaust, you were right.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

The Oz seems very upset that Jim Chalmers won't negotiate with a party whose votes he does not need and who completely disagree with his policy.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

Ms. Rachel says she’ll keep advocating for children in Gaza, even if it means risking her career

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

The Samuel Griffith Society is constantly the bottom dwelling pondscum of the Australian legal profession. It was created as a racist response to First Nations human rights and continues in existence to platform sexual predators.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

THREAD: 1. The legal profession’s rehabilitation of the reputation of former High Court Justice, Dyson Heydon continues. At a conference of the Samuel Griffiths Society in August, Mr Heydon is on the speakers’ list, along with former Commonwealth Attorney-General, Christian Porter. #Auspol #Law

submitted 19 hours ago • 50 comments

Much of the media will hold Democrats accountable for the words of a random liberal online but give Republicans a free pass on the white nationalists and conspiracy theorists they actually meet with in person and follow online.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

"I was just following orders."

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63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

The Onion does not use AI in any way. Our newspaper is proudly made by actual living people. AI makes bad, boring shit, and people make art. Subscribe to us instead: membership.theonion.com

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

I’ve been waiting for @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov to take the lead on opposing these government-sanctioned kidnappings (and by waiting I mean leaving angry voicemails at their offices for weeks). Their inaction makes them complicit.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

When “diversity of viewpoints” means platforming neo-Nazis.

submitted 23 hours ago • 51 comments

“Civilians are being coralled and lured to militarised sites with the promise of aid and food … but they have to risk their lives just to get a few parcels of food for their families. “People are being shot at - killed - just to get food for starved families.” Alexandra Saieh, Save The Children

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Now that the count is over, time to update my polling graphs vs the election outcome. (There's still 100,000 votes not in the AEC's notional 2PP count; too few to make a difference. They may never get to them.) 1. The two party preferred polling was simply way out. There's no nice way to put this:

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If the North West Shelf is Murray Watt's idea of a great deal I'd love to play Catan with him

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Interesting, if you go to the ABC News website, looking under "Politics" or "Australia Votes", there's an article on Liberal Tim Wilson winning the seat of Goldstein. You have to search for the report on community independent Nicolette Boele winning Bradfield from the Liberals! #auspol #AusVotes25

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

i am simply floored to learn this about a guy who held a nazi rally at madison square garden eight months ago

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

White people celebrating Ukrainian resistance while calling Palestinian resistance "terrorism" is all you ever need to know about the state of the world in the year 2025

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

submitted 1 day ago • 3319 comments

Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

hahaha someone just texted ABC Sydney to say <100 vote recount outcomes should trigger a by-election because their friends were overseas dahlink and did not vote because their vote never felt like it counted before bahahaha okay mate sounds like great use of a million public dollars or two.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

🚨 This is massive news. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to hear it. While they've not said anything on the details, we can say with confidence they will now look at matters other than the current mutual obligations framework. We can all think of one or two legal issues of that description.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I went through a 6mo hiring process for a WaPo job in 2022, finally got an offer, then passed after passive-aggressive convos that culminated w/ the hiring manager asking me to take down a post I'd written a couple years prior lightly criticizing efforts to incorporate AI into newsrooms. So: lol.

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When Anthony Albanese appointed Peter Khalil as special envoy for social cohesion, the PM said Khalil would "report directly to him". A FOI request to the PM's office uncovered zero reports (and just an email and a calendar entry) from the now-eliminated role. www.crikey.com.au/20...

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The Bradfield result means these are the final numbers in the House of Representatives: Labor 94 seats Coalition 43 Greens 1 Others 12

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It sounds like the AEC has a few more appealed ballot papers to consider this afternoon before officially announcing the Bradfield result but the Liberal Party has reported that they have lost. Here is my latest line graph showing how Boele ended up leading by 27 votes.

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So, it turns out the Envoy for Social Cohesion has not been doing much social cohesing www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/04/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Not only is this disrespectful to people writing their subs, the AI will get them wrong, not be able to register anything not written in English, miss the nuance of individual submissions. Please for the love of god have mandatory digital literacy training for MPs so we can avoid this in the future.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This is abuser-level gaslighting from the Albanese government

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

🤣😂🤣 #happypride

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Teal candidate Nicolette Boele has seized the once blue-ribbon seat of Bradfield after a recount of the north shore seat, beating Liberal hopeful Gisele Kapterian by just 27 votes in one of the tightest elections in history. tinyurl.com/3crnrw68

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At the Nuseirat Corridor: Israeli aircraft are firing on civilians gathered to wait for morning humanitarian aid.

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Disintegrate. My @smh cartoon.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Excellent column by Ross Gittins "If you want to govern Australia effectively – you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to stand up, but still wants to enjoy the spoils of office." www.smh.com.au/business/the...

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

The gas industry, run by sociopathic millionaires, provides nothing to Australia. This filthy, illness-causing, & cultural/climate/enviro vandal-vampire industry is sucking out the money that should be going to schools & hospitals while the gormless government skips about going la la la.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How are the toadying podcasters, and ALP influencers and think tankers justifying the NWS extension decision?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

'Prior to Mr. Wasserman’s Harvard Law School graduation, HLR must retract the [letter of reprimand.] Any record of his discipline must be permanently expunged.' the weight of the federal govt coming down like 'you told a racist white boy he did a bad thing and we need you to formally take it back'

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 2 days ago • 1186 comments

Good morning Homes Vic

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