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Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

Israel has declared the Madleen (With Greta Thunberg on) a security threat, it is jamming their electronic systems and circling them with combat drones. If it blows them up Israel will surely declare it an 'accident' but it will be their most blatant War Crime yet.

The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality

So they’re now threatening to kill Greta Thunberg

If only Australian media wrote about Israeli terrorism like Israelies write about Israeli terrorism

A controversial humanitarian organisation backed by the United States and Israel did not distribute any food aid yesterday, accusing Hamas of making threats that "made it impossible" to operate in the enclave, which the Palestinian militants denied

youtu.be/ZMDpmlJBG4Y?... Laura Tingle and Richard Dennis expose the absolute lies about the benefits of Australian gas exports. Please watch and share.

ER doctor here! Please seek medical attention (go to the ER) if you are hit in the head with a ballistic. “Less lethal” weapons kill people all the time, in addition to causing permanent disabilities. If you don’t feel safe disclosing that you were protesting just say you were hit in the head, etc

This is an enormously important and impressive report. You can read and download the report for free. Climate heating North West Shelf Toxic Fossil Methane Gas The Full Implications Written by eminent experts. 👇👇👇

Things we should not forget #66: The NACC effectively allowed Scott Morrison to stay out of prison by doing absolutely nothing to seek justice for RoboDebt deaths & misery.

“I don’t hold a hose” #NeverForget #auspol #NotMyKing

💥 @repdangoldman.bsky.social speaks out about his confrontation with “plain-clothes ICE agents” wearing masks. “You can’t require Columbia University to ban masks in order to get federal funding while you turn around and have federal government enforcement law enforcement agents wearing masks.”

Trump is a Russian asset.

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

“Salmon farming companies should pay a royalty to the Tasmanian government for the use of waters which are ‘owned’ by the state government on behalf of the people of Tasmania,” - Saul Eslake Our research shows the tax paid by the three largest salmon farms has been near-zero. More here:

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

Not forgotten- my #Gaza cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Strongman” politicians project their supposed strength by attacking immigrants, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. But these groups of people aren't the "threats" we should be worried about. Who is? The oligarchs who earn their keep by exploiting the rest of us.

Reminder that our Constitution guarantees due process to ALL persons — not just citizens — and enshrines habeas corpus as a fundamental right. Either everyone has due process — or no one does.

Dr Assal Rad— "Hey @nytimes.com @cnn.com @apnews.com @theguardian.com, this is what an appropriate headline looks like when Israel violates another ceasefire and bombs the capital of a sovereign nation."

"We were instructed that we could not talk about the attack, and if we did, we would be in major trouble. That was the major beginning of the cover-up in our eyes. The big part of the cover-up was already underway in Washington." zeteo.com/p/coverup-su...

Red Cross chief pleads for international action to stop Israel's slaughter in Gaza. “Humanity is failing in Gaza… We cannot continue to watch what is happening. It’s surpassing any acceptable legal, moral, and humane standard.” #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

Peace and security across the Taiwan Strait and in the Asia-Pacific will henceforth greatly depend on the wise responses of Beijing against a secessionist island and an aggressive, but erratic, US. #auspol #USChina

you build colonial white patriarchies on stolen Indigenous land, aggressively resisting women’s suffrage and Black liberation well into the twentieth century. Those in power are superficially accountable to each other, not to the vast majority of the population, except on one day every four years.

The destruction of more than 90% of #Gaza's housing units, the risk of famine for the entire population and the forced displacement of 90% of Palestinians in the enclave represent "a people being entirely stripped of its human dignity". #auspol

The worst political abuses, of women, young people, those with less, are so often first trialled in immigration systems. This othering is deadly, and as we saw with Morrison, inevitably worked its way into his broader politics. Refugee justice is everyone’s business.

Every panel of this cartoon

Scott Morrison is almost certainly one of the “Robodebt Six” referred to the NACC for criminal and civil action. In Australia we don’t pursue him: we rig the NACC, refuse to investigate…then award him with honours. “Decision” still nowhere… (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/government-r...

www.change.org/p/stop-scott...

It’s not ‘uneconomic’ to build houses in Australia. Builders & developers are doing very nicely. High income earners are spending a fortune on extensions & holiday homes What’s ‘uneconomic’ is thinking builders will ever build small houses for the poor instead of big ones for the rich

#ClimateChange #Science #Environment

FULL Story!. Abrego Garcia Coming Home. Shove it MAGA! krassencast.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Linda Mamoun— "This should be on the front page of every U.S. newspaper. Why isn’t it?"

Hopeful news for the end of the week. Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) has just won a crucial court battle, allowing it to press ahead with a legal challenge to the final approval for Woodside’s Scarborough Gas Project. #auspol #EDO

Francesca Albanese on the actions of Israel— "What is unmissable is the intent to destroy the Palestinians."

Oh look, Env Minister Murray Watt could approve a brand new coal mine in the next 10 days. @australiainstitute.org.au #CoalMineTracker 1/2

India: COVID-19 cases are on the rise, 21 deaths in 48 Hours. Among the dead: a 22-year-old girl, a 23-year-old girl, and a 27-year-old man. The surge in COVID-19 cases this year is due to 4 variants – LF.7, XFG, JN.1, and NB.1.8.1. www.patrika.com/en/national-...

Its 2025 We have a Labor government But we still have ENORMOUS inequality in education and funding A rich private school can afford this - where are world-class architects commissioned to build public schools in Australia? WTF!!

In fairness, what’s happening in Israel / Palestine IS complicated if you’re trying to defend Israel.

A leaked report has confirmed what Larrakia people and environmental experts have been saying all along — Labor's Middle Arm Gas Hub is an ecocidal disaster in the making. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia won’t receive any submarines, but only after spending tens of billions. 🤦‍♂️ #AUKUS #auspol

🚨BREAKING: Israeli bulldozer destroys facilities of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, while military vehicles open fire at the surroundings. Israel intensified its attacks against the hospital in recent weeks, destroying the only kidney dialysis facility in northern Gaza Strip.😪😪😪😪😪🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬