Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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If an entire civilization dies tonight it will have happened without any real pushback from Congress and, it has to be said, without a lot of specifically directed public protests against this war from the American people

Let's hope this wields some influence.

I'm really dying for someone to ask me about what the pope said, what with him saying we shouldn't do war, we shouldn't do AI slop, and we should have universal healthcare.

The sort of disingenuous 'logic' which insists if you don't support illegal incursions into countries involving destruction & civilian death you therefore support oppressive regimes is exactly the sort of brain dead bullshit causing such contempt for politics & media these days.

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon

Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy

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This is keeping me up at night right now.

Israel has banned Medecins Sans Frontieres from operating in Gaza, rounding off a banner year for inhumanity.

“As long as the night of error obscures this….truth, then “there is no room for others either, for children, for the poor, for the stranger”…Yet, where there is room for the human person, there is room for God; even a stable can become more sacred than a temple.”

Pope Leo: “While a distorted economy leads us to treat human beings as mere merchandise, God becomes like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person. While humanity seeks to become “god” in order to dominate others, God chooses to become man in order to free us.” Full homily:

Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack. No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

John Q. Public@publius24.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization

Underrated

Trev@drunkorsonwelles.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Early Bird Charles V 🤝 Diet of Worms

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k

Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

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Today's Gospel reading seems apt: Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly.

7 news just reported that "Tristan Shool-ka-te" won his 1st round match. This very white guy www.atptour.com/en/players/t...

Tristan Schoolkate | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis

Official tennis player profile of Tristan Schoolkate on the ATP Tour. Featuring news, bio, rankings, playing activity, coach, stats, win-loss, points breakdown, videos, and more.

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Having lived in the country for the past 6 and a half years I catch very few trains. There is a man in front of me watching very loud TikTok videos. Is this considered normal behaviour in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Five?

Is there a line with "view from nowhere" reporting at the ABC? Do they have to report the false claims of every dictatorship in the same way as the Trump Administration?

Nobody seems to be highlighting that the new Pope is a mathematician. I look forward to the reprint of his book flying off the shelves. academic.oup.com/book/50039/c...

Introduction

Abstract. IT is recognized generally that traditional deductive arguments for the existence of God are fallacious or at best inconclusive. However, the rec

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Is the ABC election computer broken? These two images don't match up

Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge... The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2y ago

It is really wild how the fossil fuel industry in Aus has managed to spread the false perception that the Aus economy relies on fossil fuel sector jobs + cash www.industry.gov.au/publications... australiainstitute.org.au/report/clima...

I am shocked at this. I thought it would be higher.

Universal. My @smh cartoon.

But also "don't protest because it costs so much for the cops" is some insane level of broken thinking