🚨Networks of bogus “news” pages are being used to spread vast amounts of pro-Hanson and One Nation propaganda on social media — as Hanson bans actual media. Pages aggressively spreading calculated disinformation in mass MAGA attack. Investigation 👇 theklaxon.com.au/i7z3

Sham pro-Hanson "news" pages flood social media – as One Nation bans actual news - The Klaxon

Networks of sham “news” pages on social media are being used to spread vast amounts of pro-Pauline Hanson and pro-One Nation propaganda — as Hanson bans actual media.

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This is so deeply disturbing to read, If it eventuates it would in essence be One Nation now running immigration policy for the Albanese Government and them abandoning migrants and refugees in a desperate attempt to win votes. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Tony Burke delays speech expected to reveal sweeping migration cuts

The ABC understands the cuts to migration numbers are contentious within Labor, but no reason for the delay is given.

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theaimn.net/the-weaponis... Segal “…has no legislative power to compel any institution to do anything. Her role is advisory. Yet Segal’s demanded sweeping legal & institutional changes that were never debated in Parliament. As one commentator noted, “This isn’t policy, it’s a Kafkaesque nightmare.”

The Weaponisation of Antisemitism

The Weaponisation of Antisemitism – How an Unelected Envoy and a Contested Definition Are Silencing Healthcare Workers Dedicated to healthcare workers around the world who take a stand against genocid...

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"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

🚨NSW Liberal MP Damian Tudehope introduced the "NSW Reformers" to their key backer - an illegal donor - at an event at his home....featuring Miranda Devine... theklaxon.com.au/2pmp

Tudehope introduced key funder to “NSW Reformers” - The Klaxon

NSW Liberal MP Damian Tudehope introduced the “NSW Reformers” to publican backer Michael O’Hara at an event at his home featuring Miranda Devine.

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Still, Albo does nothing 🤬 What a weak, tokenistic, man he has become. #AusPol

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 3d ago

David Pocock left stunned as Luke Bateman who has recovered from a serious gambling addiction also reveals he was being offered drugs, Pocock “The actual leaders of these companies knew what was happening?” Bateman “Not only did they know, they were participating in it.”💥

#BoycottQantas #auspol

Qantas denies outsourcing move that could see 1000 jobs shifted to India

Qantas claimed it was looking to use technology in ways to “modernise the way we work”.

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Also relevant for New Zealand First youth wing events.

The Press@thepress.co.nz · 3d ago

A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.

This disgusts me It’s Israel The murdering State

Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d ago

Dutch doctors and activists displayed 1,400 pairs of white shoes in a square in the Netherlands in memory of fallen healthcare workers in Gaza. This is heartbreaking.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI disclosed that one of its cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems had escaped from a controlled testing environment and hacked into another technology company. Here’s how that attack happened:

Another #witmonth ready transcript release! This episode, we’re talking about why there is such a wealth of contemporary books by Japanese women available in English. Also Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (trans Ginny Tapley Takemori). readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Epis...

Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · 4w ago

Summer project while the podcast is on hiatus? Get transcripts up for the early episodes!

Free #witmonth story via Lunch Ticket: "Girl Friends" by Kaori Ekuni (translated by @sharni.bsky.social) “When I take the call from Taki—which I didn’t want to take, but anyway—I’m naked. It’s a fine Saturday afternoon.”

Girl Friends - Lunch Ticket

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A new #senryu from @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social solitary bee the long dark hole I dug for myself Thanks to Orrin Prejean and @pippaesque.bsky.social for taking this!

Some extra tickets have been released out our sold out events at Byron Bay Writer's festival. I'll be discussing Women Who Win with literary icon Louise Adler. Grab yours! www.byronwritersfestival.com/festival/fea...

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Delighted that my poem “I had a” is published in Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social alongside an excellent group of poets and artists. Thanks to the amazing head editor Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & editor Lowena Olver. A draft appeared on #poemsabout #poetrycommunity #Oulens …

I had a by C. Oulens — Full House Literary

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Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”

I have just written a piece talking about how important people like Campbell are to the radicalising Right Noise Machine. The class war project couldn’t work without them. lucyham29.substack.com/p/postscript...

Postscript: Toby Young interviewed at ARC by posh Aussie prat Will Kingston

It is important to recognise how deeply reliant the plutocrat- and industry-funded Atlas Network ops are on a range of enmeshed media voices to disseminate the messaging.

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The Hubble space telescope takes a new photo of Uranus.

During the drought, I left out a bucket of water to help wildlife. I'd never seen any frogs around here but one found it and left tadpoles. Now I'm chilling outside and listening to little peepers peeping all around me. It's really cool. That one bucket led to all this life and sweetness.

"Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds" Tegan George thepoint.com.au/new/260731-a...

Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds

New analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction po...

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Bible thumping MAGATs.......

Look at this #haiga by the wonderful @biswajitca.bsky.social in the new @prunejuicejournal.bsky.social ! #haiku

Holy shit this is like the list of Browns starting QBs since 1999 but for sex criminals.

Pacific Antifascist Research Collective@pacantifa.is · 5d ago

Here is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.

TIL that 'tontoism' (cutting out words others may deem necessary) is racist, and that 'telegraphese' might be a better term. But also wondering - if you're under 50, does the idea of telegraphese evoke anything in you? (Doesn' just apply to haiku) #writingcommunity storywrite.com/column/15818...

who gathers all the moments I fail to notice? the smell of cedar just before the rain a shirt sleeve brushing goldenrod the brief hesitation on the edge of a stranger’s smile someone must have been awake #poetry

#Auspol Atlas Network partner ppl tend to scrub their (private) school history. James (Andrew’s son) Bolt scrubbed Scotch College pre career at the IPA. John Roskam = Xavier College. Will Kingston (UK Atlas) boasts of Sydney’s Shore on his. It’s class war. lucyham29.substack.com/p/postscript...

I’d submitted a few months ago & realised I hadn’t heard anything back - was convinced it was a rejection but thought I’d better check - turns out the lovely editor had overlooked my submission & although it’s too late to be published this year it will be next year - glad I chased up ✨

Toshiko Tamura was an actress and early feminist novelist. In 1911, her husband successfully pressured her to publish a short story in a competition—she won first prize and gave up her acting career to write. When she died, she left her royalties to establish a prize for women writers. #witmonth

Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · 5d ago

#womenintranslationmonth begins August 1, and RJL is psyched! Every day in August, we'll be posting a short bio of a Japanese woman writer* who takes up feminist themes in her stories. Stay tuned for an August episode on Japanese Women Writers.* readjapaneseliterature.com/Book+lists/J...