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Avril
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Queer. Cisgender. Feminist. Aunt. Living with gratitude on Wurundjeri land. Sometimes speak for God, but never officially for the Uniting Church. She/Her @docavvers
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Israel tests ceasefire by breaking it by blowing up some more civilians, gosh, hope the ceasefire can stand up to the test
October 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Just hit me: if Australia had responded to the 2002 Bali bombings proportionately to the way Israel responded to October 7, we would have invaded Indonesia for 124 days and killed some 11,600 Indonesians.
October 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Balance in journalism can be good, but you don’t balance truth with lies.” - Chris Hedges #SundayShot
October 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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"four Australians...shared shocking stories of sexual assault, physical violence, threats of murder and degrading treatment at the hands of Israeli soldiers" @deepcutnews.bsky.social

If this is what 'the most moral army in the world' does to foreign nationals...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/shut-the-f...
'Shut the f--k up or we'll gas you' – Australian flotilla activists allege direct threats from Israeli minister
Australians aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla claim Israeli soldiers sexually assaulted them in captivity
www.deepcutnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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One of the things that absurdist protest accomplishes is making the people cracking down on it look absolutely ridiculous.
ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.
🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒
October 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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From the other place. No peace without justice.
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We know how the evil and monstrous terrorists treat their hostages. We must not rest until all the hostages are free. #FreeTheHostages www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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"Noon: Return of the Hannibal Directive – kill everyone

"Despite calling the Hamas fighters monsters for killing civilians, the cold reality is that the Israel Defence Force killed many more civilians that day than Hamas."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
7 October 2023: Return of the Hannibal Directive and the genocide starts now - Part 2
By noon on 7 October 2023, news of Palestinians taking hostages grip the attention of Israel’s top military and political leadership who are gathered in the “Pit”, the Kirya bunker in Tel Aviv.
johnmenadue.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder when today the g3n0c1de deniers say, “You didn’t even let us grieve. Protests started on October 8” that from October 7 people were protesting the lies about ‘beheaded babies’ that made it obvious that Izrale was going to use October 7 to commit g3n0c1de.
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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according to this poll, the political class - major party politicians, corporate media outlets, institutions like Creative Australia and the ABC when they yield to orchestrated pro-Israel campaigns - represent about 20% of the general population on Gaza.
NEW: Australians overwhelmingly recognise and oppose the genocide in Gaza and want the government to do more to stop it, according to a new poll released today.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/australian...
Australians overwhelmingly back sanctions on Israel, new poll finds
'Sizeable majority' of voters across political lines want Israel to end genocide in Gaza
www.deepcutnews.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Oh my goodness! Two (2) people were killed in Manchester and all the Z10nists are demanding that we must all stop what we’re doing and do performative mourning? The same people who have been berating us for not caring about Sudan and Myanmar?
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” — Biden never made this simple demand, despite 15 months of relentless Israeli slaughter of Palestinians during his presidency
October 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
H@m@S has agreed to return all the hostages. Since this is the only reason God’s special little flowers have been fighting (since 1948) I assume that they will all now withdraw to the land allocated to them in UN resolution 181. Because it’s only ever been about the hostages!
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Now remember, children, don’t protest too ‘roughly’. The delicate little petals experience that as ‘violence’. Whereas I bet the good Rabbit believes committing genocide is simply ‘self-defence’.
September 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Bret Stephens? Bret Stephens? Where have I heard that name before, I asked myself as I peaked through the paywall at Melbourne’s Age. Then I remembered. Thank you, @ifbookspod.bsky.social. Goodness, the Australian MSM is cooked!
September 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Dealing with Chris Sidoti describing the absolute and utter evil that is Izrale by making bobbin lace.
September 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Australian govt thinks it's 'job done' by recognizing Palestine.

Next steps reminder:

"1. Impose targeted sanctions on Israeli government officials responsible for war crimes.
2. End the two-way arms trade with Israel.
3. Hold Israel accountable for its blatant violations of international law."
Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide.

Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...
September 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM