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Most rich dickheads are never going to leave a cool city just because you raise their taxes or elect socialists or whatever because cities are where all the fun stuff is and they know it

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

Has anyone ever heard a politician or media organisation ask any Israeli representative whether Palestine has a 'right to exist'? Unbelievable this phrase is still used to describe Israel with sympathy.. 'Line up the tanks and destroy and annihilate.. Gaza lost its right to exist on the 7th'

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Yes please… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Violence against children in conflicts hit ‘unprecedented levels’ in 2024, with most abuses committed in Gaza, UN says.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

I doubt the ABC is fulfilling even 25% of its charter these days: no doco, education, natural history, or proper archives units, few/no opportunities for original comedy shows, especially written or hosted by women, a disapparated arts coverage, no science on TV, no international service ...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Speaking quite firmly, I don't really sympathise with the war aim "dismantle illegal nuclear arsenal" when waged by a country with an illegal nuclear arsenal. Like on any level.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Remember these people - already starved and weak- are forced to walk up to 10km to pick up this food and carry it back to wherever they have managed to make a temporary home

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

“any harebrained idea” says NSW Premier Chris Minns on elected NSW Legislature Council members querying a NSW police-declared hoax that Minns responded to by shouting <mass casualty event> and rushing through hate crime laws.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Iran is a threat to the whole world” — No, the real threats are clearly Israel and the U.S. Iran isn’t out here committing genocide, bombing half the planet, or stealing land. People need to open there fucking eyes.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Photo of the Day. Credit to Palestinian photographer, Saeed Jaras. Posting this here because hardly any mainstream media outlets will publish it. An ongoing genocide silenced. #Gaza

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

1st time: Israel denies involvement 2nd time: Israel also bombing Iran so no one notices 3rd time: “the latest”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"I've done the homework I swear, just trust that we need a war" Read more: chaser.com.au/world/netany...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

The Vice Chancellors of Australian universities are the best paid in the world…and they love to pay big consulting firms for advice on cost cutting…maybe we aren’t paying them enough? Maybe they aren’t paying enough millions for consultants…or maybe Neoliberalism has us on the wrong path yet again

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Yeah I think it was pretty obvious from the get go that Israel had no intention of withdrawing from the land they had seized in Syria but plenty of people instead gave them the benefit of the doubt

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

When reporting Israel's attacks on Iran it's important journalists remember Israel is a genocidal state, whose armed forces in the past 2yrs have murdered tens of thousands of civilians, many of whom were children and babies. So maybe not treat everything they say with total credulity

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Israel has killed over 400 Palestinians & injured 3,000 since it imposed its deadly aid distribution mechanism in Gaza. This mass slaughter 'relies on luring thousands of starving civilians to aid distribution centres only to come under direct fire' #auspol euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Jim Chalmers says that there's an appetite in Australia for government to be bold and ambitious. We agree! There's no shortage of bold ideas. Governments just need the courage to implement them. Here's a freebie to start off: Stop approving fossil fuel projects! #auspol

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

it's been 21 months of escalating genocide & today is the first day a senior government bureaucrat called to tell me a poster in the background of my zoom call is violent* the poster as it literally appears in my background:

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

in the very stupid decade of the 1960s, the US government once constructed an artificial ionosphere by dumping a half billion little needles into space they’re mostly gone now, except for some “clumps” from bad deployments, which are tracked as debris to this day

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Earlier today my friend texted me, “Trump just called for unconditional surrender” and I didn’t know if he was referring to Iran or New York City.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

While everyone’s watching Tehran, the genocide continues.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry. (1/11)

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Israel hasn't stopped gunning down the Palestinians they're starving, as those Palestinians try to feed themselves There is nothing wrong with continuing to say it: these are war crimes, this is genocide, this is murder. It must be stopped, and those perpetrating the crimes must be held accountable

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Hear, hear second that! 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Netanyahu’s illegal, unilateral attack on Iran is just his latest violation of international law. The United States must not be a part of this war. My full statement:

submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

I don't know if anyone has written about this, but the thing where Google's engineers have designed this software program to spit out text that simulates contrition, grovelling apology feels like something close to admission that they've designed a program they KNOW is fraudulent +are covering it up

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

I hate that our continued existence relies on the answer to the question ‘just how horny are evangelicals for the rapture?’

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

submitted 4 days ago • 119 comments

a welcome reality check on this day of saturation level copaganda.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

to all the nice people who asked me what help I needed after that ridiculous QLD politician stole a $15,000 literary award from me, I need an income. Freelance work/writing gigs. I need people to mention me around tables discussing opportunities for writers. Work such as >

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Wasn’t on my bingo card …

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

About a decade ago, a bunch of data rights advocates I’m friends with had this convo about teaching our children only to create ‘trophy holder’ online presences linked to real names. Happy, smiley accounts. Nothing political or controversial: bunny rabbits, kittens, blue skies, and good teeth

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

" This is OUR attack on Iran. "

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

submitted 7 days ago • 620 comments

Albo’s new slogan: A better future… for consultants, weapons dealers, and landlords. Everyone else can eat inflation. #auspol

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store. Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman was more than just the state House’s top Democrat, according to those who knew her.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

submitted 6 days ago • 265 comments