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When I saw the disgusting "trump Gaza" video this morning, the bile rose to my throat. I won't share it. Instead, help me promote this counter narrative by Tala, from Gaza. "Gaza is not yours to take. Gaza is ours, and we are still here. This is our land." BRAVO to her strength and DEFIANCE. 🥹💪

submitted 13 hours ago • 338 comments

As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.

submitted 15 hours ago • 81 comments

Don’t worry about truth in advertising, let’s start with facts in journalism. Instead of simply publishing Dutton's comment as stated inside quotation marks, it'd be far more accurate to start the quoted paragraph: "The Opposition Leader asserted, without evidence, that...." #AusPol #auspol

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Musk fueled chaos as SpaceX debris crashes into Poland, leaving flaming trails in the sky. A Falcon 9 rocket made an ‘uncontrolled’ re-entry, scattering wreckage near Poznan. No casualties. Musk treated like a genius, when he’s just a power crazy billionaire! www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

America’s Godfather

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“We cannot assume America has any altruistic regard for AUS.” - Malcolm Turnbull #auspol

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

6th most signed petition in the country and 53 away from 1000. 21 days to go to have your say on our relationship with the fascist US Govt. www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"Trump did not run on a promise to unleash an unelected billionaire to slash-and-burn through the government, firing tens of thousands of employees and arbitrarily canceling contracts and federal programs. And even if he had, that still wouldn’t make it legal." -- @lizdye.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

submitted 7 days ago • 745 comments

Now this, I can co-sign.

submitted 7 days ago • 189 comments

So I heard Clive started a new political party ... #auspol

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Dutton's out on Facey today, trying to tell his followers that he'll get inflation back on track. Someone want to send him Liberal Lies card #1 to remind them it's already been done? #auspol www.facebook.com/reel/6370917...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Wealth is not a right, it’s a privilege and all privilege comes with responsibility.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Dutton: No vision but division. No policy but animosity. #auspol #AusVotes2025

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Australia's autonomy from the U.S. has never been more vital https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australias-autonomy-from-the-us-has-never-been-more-vital,19449?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #Auspol

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Peter Dutton plans to butcher the public service, DOGE style. The last time the LNP tried that they just shoveled cash to the big 4 consulting firms so we got shocking waste, corrupted governance, rampant secrecy & hopeless service. #TaxLawLeak #auspol

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

#Trump retreat emboldens Putin and Xi. Australia must rethink its whole US relationship #auspol #USPolitics www.theage.com.au/national/tru...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 12 days ago • 2402 comments

Never has there been a greater need for Australia to turn away from its military alliance with the United States and forge an independent and peaceful foreign policy. In fact foreign policy should never be in the hands of the Defence Forces .. they have a conflict of interest. #auspol #AUKUS

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

Nailed it…

submitted 14 days ago • 355 comments

But plastic straws are back…

submitted 13 days ago • 1123 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 13 days ago • 787 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 13 days ago • 421 comments

Pretty damn good framing for Dems

submitted 14 days ago • 570 comments

First, they came for democracy. But I did not speak up, because at the time, my team was winning... #auspol

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

musk is to government waste and his contracts as oj was to looking for the "real" killer

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

The fix is in We've known from the start this would be a major party stitch up to lock out new community-backed independents. Giving more taxpayer $$ to pollies with no truth in political advertising protections is particularly shameful👎 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

No one should have any illusions about Trump’s trade ‘diplomacy’. It’s America First enforced by crude, strong arm tactics. Australia must respond with strength, putting critical minerals supplies, #AUKUS and JDF Pine Gap on the negotiating table. #auspol

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

Verbal commitment? So it’s not in writing? Rightttt. Sorry but it doesn’t work that way, we owe nothing. In fact if it’s true we are in Surplus to America, then it’s them who need to pay back the debt they owe Australia.

submitted 15 days ago • 14 comments

"The Trump administration is now an active and direct threat to Australia and the world." "The America we thought we knew is gone and it is not coming back." @emmashortis.bsky.social, Director of International & Security Affairs @australiainstitute.org.au, at the #ClimateIntegrity Summit.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Seriously, when are we getting out of AUKUS? #Auspol #AUKUS

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Niki Savva is absolutely on the money with her scathing assessment of Dutton & his many failings. What makes this piece even more credible is that Savva is a Lib - & she has more courage of conviction & competence than any of the rancid rabble that passes for journalism in this country right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Do I have this right? Elon Musk - the guy in charge of preventing wasteful spending - dropped $40M on a Super Bowl ad? We could permanently house 800 homeless veterans for $40M. Or provide five million meals to the hungry. Or replace lead pipes in 8,500 homes.

submitted 17 days ago • 935 comments

This is being introduced today by crossbenchers. Will be interesting to see how it goes. We at 4 Corners rely on whistleblowers from all walks of life who see poor behaviour/corruption/abuses & cannot stay silent. It leads to law reform/overhall of institutions. www.hrlc.org.au/news/landmar...

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Instead of committing to the future of Whyalla’s steelworks, yesterday @albomp.bsky.social transferred $800M to the US to pay for US shipyard investment and jobs. In response, today Trump has announced steel tariffs. Insult and injury for our steel industry! #auspol

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

I’m sure “DOGE” will be all over this.. truthout.org/articles/tes...

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submitted 18 days ago • 137 comments

PM Albanese Please pledge to unhitch our wagon from this runaway train #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

As an ex-submariner, I can tell you #AUKUS has nothing to do with the defence of Australia; it's about North America, a predatory republic, docking its nuclear boats here to have its orchestrate war with China on our soil, along with the CIA/Mossad embedded into the defence department/Gov. #Auspol

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

So we’re signed up for AUKUS with a country that openly defies/denies international law. That could take our defence forces to some even darker places.

submitted 19 days ago • 61 comments

This is a bad deal for Australia. We must get out. We need to rethink our alliances and build some new ones with our neighbours and other functional democratic countries.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments