I don’t know what to get anyone for the holidays. Why is everyone so difficult to shop for. Unlike me, who is so easy to shop for, because I only want unconditional love, constant attention, and diamonds

From 11.45 am today in the Senate Estimates hearing I will be asking questions of the Anti-Semitism Commissioner. You can watch online here www.youtube.com/watch?v=wblc...

Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee [Part 1] | 02/12/2025

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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It’s hard to capture in a pic the size/energy of the crowd ready to march over the Syd Harbour Bridge but the station announcer at Wynyard:“don’t worry about tapping off, Transport NSW will work it out, gates are open, you’re heading for George St to the park, keep going, let’s free Palestine” 💕💕

I’ve seen estimate of 100,000-300,000 people in today’s march. A sobering thought: these are also the conservative (100k) realistic (300k) estimates of people israel massacred in Gaza.

Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉@joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · last yr.

It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity

German public media are running fact checks on just how starving individual children are, while serious journalists propose that maybe the children are predisposed to hunger due to inbreeding (also they have low IQ, apparently). Germany unhinged is a truly terrifying spectacle.

Denazification was never completed

Adrian Daub@adriandaub.bsky.social · last yr.

German public media are running fact checks on just how starving individual children are, while serious journalists propose that maybe the children are predisposed to hunger due to inbreeding (also they have low IQ, apparently). Germany unhinged is a truly terrifying spectacle.

Glen Le Livre's infamous cartoon made flesh.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last yr.

From a viewing platform in Israel, observers watch Gaza’s destruction through binoculars

The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...

The New York Times commitment to Zionism begins with its own staff

The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza...

mondoweiss.net

there are 100,000 watching the Lions vs Wallabies game in Melb tonight. That, by conservative estimates, is the death toll in Gaza: an entire stadium of people, gone (the realistic death toll is 4 x this)

Me in @crikey.com.au about Jillian Segal's plan to "combat antisemitism". In universities, repression is already present. This is already the climate that we work, teach, and study in. Segal's plan, if adopted, will make our conditions much more precarious www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/15/i...

How to silence academic speech on Palestine

Jillian Segal’s proposal seeks to mobilise the IHRA definition of antisemitism and would have far-reaching implications for students and staff across Australian universities.

crikey.com.au

my @newyorker.com column this week goes in depth on how using AI makes us less original, unique, and creative as writers, thinkers, and communicators. Various new studies are proving that AI is a rampant force of homogenization: www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts

Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.

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a very small gripe in the scheme of things, but I remember the days when fascist leaders had to be charismatic, powerful orators to sweep a nation in their bloodthirst. This dude announces WW3 like a failed middle manager on the verge of a breakdown

They just wanted flour. Israel gave them bullets. This is not war , it’s hunger genocide. They died with empty hands, hoping to feed their kids. Flour bags on backs. Bodies on wooden planks. We carry both now. Gaza is starving , and bleeding.

BREAKING: Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israeli troops shot and killed at least 20 hungry Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others while they waited for food at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oq5i6c

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The DC shooter's neighbor was perfectly on message. Solidarity, sir.

I initially shared the 14,000 babies figure reported by BBC after it was said by a UN leader. The time reference of all those babies’ impending starvation death was inaccurate. I have now deleted that video. My sadness & heartbreak over orchestrated harm to human life remains

Antoinette Lattouf@antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · last yr.

These are genocidal acts and war crimes. Fixating on whether 14,000 babies starve in 48 hours or over months is a distraction — a deliberate one — from the horrifying truth: the evidence is overwhelming, and the killing, bombing and strategic starvation is ongoing.

Via Haaretz: Netanyahu has repeated his mission, saying “we are going to take over all of Gaza”, admitting that aid is being allowed in, only because Israel’s reputation is being damaged. Yet our politicians pretend that Israel is not committing genocide or ethnic cleansing. A disgrace.

Nah, the Oz media is still dancing to Israel’s tune, even when they are stepping up the genocide. Shocked I tells ya.

Jessie L@jessielilley.bsky.social · last yr.

Australian scholar, Melanie O’Brien (President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars) said “Israel’s deliberate denial of food, water, shelter and sanitation was the key factor in her determination that the military campaign was a genocide.” All Oz media will quote her tomoz right?

Anything to say, at all, about this? I’ve only been waiting 19 months Curious to know whether Aus, under your gov, still supports International Law and the Geneva Convention? @albomp.bsky.social #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death

As the total ban on any humanitarian aid entering Gaza stretches into its third month, doctors warn babies are starving in hospitals.

abc.net.au

I have a request. Please set aside 10 minutes today to read this article from my friend & human rights expert, Noam Peleg. Don’t scroll without opening the link to your web browser. Once you read it, sit with your rage & grief. Send it to someone. talk about it. groundup.org.za/article/yoli...

Yoliswa Dwane Lecture: the war on Palestinian children

“A nuclear power considers a sick baby to be a security concern.”

groundup.org.za

the only rewards are this: the decline of conservative media & of Zionist institutions as political forces that have thrown their support behind a political party that failed in an historical way the two are connected

Tim Dunlop@timdunlop.bsky.social · last yr.

Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.

here’s to 3 more years of a cowardly, spineless political party that will take no meaningful action on anything, except gaslighting us into thinking this is the best we can do

When we call for politicians to "do something," this is what we mean. Not speeches or op-eds or campaign rallies, but using every tool available to disrupt the advance of fascism.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.

Monica Isham is the 1st woman & 1st minority to serve as a circuit court judge in Sawyer County. In an email to all Wisconsin state judges she said: “If there is no support for us, l will refuse to hold court. If this costs me my job or gets me arrested, then at least I know I did the right thing.”

If you're close with him, can you please reach out so I can keep you updated? For slightly stupid reasons that Anthony would specifically hate, his family doesn't have his phone at the moment, and so we can't get people's phone numbers. His wife and son are being supported as best we all can.

I know my brother @swearyanthony.bsky.social has a lot of people he cares about on here. While not everyone knows about the connection, a lot of people who follow me also follow him. This seemed like a way to get the word out: Anthony is currently in ICU in a critical condition after a head injury.

The Nationals get less support nationally than the Greens, but have an outsized influence over policy. This is who the deputy prime minister would be under a Coalition government. It's not a fringe view – it's the leader of the junior coalition partner saying we don't think some kids deserve rights

Amy Remeikis@amyremeikis.bsky.social · last yr.

The Nationals leader has just said children who commit crimes should have their civil rights "put aside" if anyone was wondering how the campaign was going.

The Nationals leader has just said children who commit crimes should have their civil rights "put aside" if anyone was wondering how the campaign was going.

We have let this terrorist, genocidal state get away with a holocaust.

porkroll@helloporkroll.bsky.social · last yr.

Whatever you believe about the war in Gaza, this account by the Israeli military is complete bs. They lied. And they lied about an atrocity. Israel Says Its Account of Rescue Workers Killed in Gaza Was Partly ‘Mistaken’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...