Hayden
@bychero.bsky.social
Naarm/Melbourne
I ain’t making anyone’s starter pack.
Same handle as over on the other place.
I ain’t making anyone’s starter pack.
Same handle as over on the other place.
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The share of Americans who disapprove of ICE tactics in polls: 60+ percent
New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”
New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”
January 24, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The share of Americans who disapprove of ICE tactics in polls: 60+ percent
New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”
New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”
Penny’s really looking forward to welcoming Isaac Herzog, though.
Israel should be expelled from the UN.
This week, Israeli forces stormed and destroyed the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem after forcing UN staff out at gunpoint.
This is a sustained attack on the primary international agency keeping Palestinian refugees alive.
This week, Israeli forces stormed and destroyed the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem after forcing UN staff out at gunpoint.
This is a sustained attack on the primary international agency keeping Palestinian refugees alive.
January 24, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Penny’s really looking forward to welcoming Isaac Herzog, though.
If you do one thing today and one thing only, make it reading this thread and then sending it everyone you know.
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
January 23, 2026 at 12:20 PM
If you do one thing today and one thing only, make it reading this thread and then sending it everyone you know.
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Scoop: One of the first acts of Australia's new anti-corruption watchdog, NACC, was to carry out $30 million of office fit-outs.
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
January 21, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Scoop: One of the first acts of Australia's new anti-corruption watchdog, NACC, was to carry out $30 million of office fit-outs.
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
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Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
Weird that it’s turning out to be the providers, not the recipients, ripping off the NDIS.
It’s almost as if the Morrison government was so incompetent that it’s taken three years of organised work to clean it up. Incompetent and/or corrupt.
#AusPol
It’s almost as if the Morrison government was so incompetent that it’s taken three years of organised work to clean it up. Incompetent and/or corrupt.
#AusPol
Director of NDIS provider charged over alleged $3.6m fraud
Australian Federal Police allege Billal Chami submitted claims for supports and services never provided to participants.
www.abc.net.au
January 20, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.
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“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe.
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
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“COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A bipartisan group of lawmakers who traveled here on an urgent mission to reassure Danish leaders amid President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to acquire Greenland had a straightforward message.
In an interview between high-level meetings, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin summed it up this way: “Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending.”
Durbin added: “I don’t know if that’s possible.”
The four-decade veteran of Congress, who’s been on dozens of CODELs, wasn’t just referring to Trump’s apparent determination to take over the Danish territory at all costs, or Republicans’ hesitation to openly defy him. Durbin was giving a sobering assessment of Congress as a supposedly coequal branch of government.
Over the span of several decades and under the leadership of both parties, lawmakers have ceded their authority to the executive branch on everything from war powers to tariffs to the power of the purse. Hill leaders have prioritized avoiding politically difficult votes or been slow to react – or done nothing – as presidents repeatedly pushed the limits of their own power at the expense of Congress.
“It’s not just this moment or this president,” said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who co-led the delegation. “What makes this moment so hard is, if Congress can’t stand up in the face of something where there is no strategic value and lots of strategic harm…is Congress really willing to exert its authority at all?”
That’s what made this particular CODEL so uniquely difficult — and surreal.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreibjseyx4567lbf33ldoqqe66czitqhdzl7ppsi4s3swrfyo6dtwsu@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:55 PM
“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe.
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
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Australian officials are currently trying to scheme up ways to sneak the president of Israel into the country for a visit without him getting confronted by massive anti-genocide protests.
Read that again.
When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.
Read that again.
When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.
January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Australian officials are currently trying to scheme up ways to sneak the president of Israel into the country for a visit without him getting confronted by massive anti-genocide protests.
Read that again.
When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.
Read that again.
When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.
The world is being held hostage to the whims of the smallest micro man who has ever walked on this earth.
Trump sent this letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in regards of not getting a Nobel...
Honestly at this point in time they should announce that the Epstein Victims will receive a Special Nobel prize.
Honestly at this point in time they should announce that the Epstein Victims will receive a Special Nobel prize.
![Nick Schifrin
@nickschifrin
NEW:
@potus
letter to
@jonasgahrstore
links
@NobelPrize
to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
1:31 AM · Jan 19, 2026
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January 19, 2026 at 9:44 AM
The world is being held hostage to the whims of the smallest micro man who has ever walked on this earth.
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1. These are concentration camps, whose purpose is ethnic cleansing and state terror.
2. Democrats not calling to abolish ICE are complicit with fascists.
3. Any govt who fails to condemn the Trump regime's behaviour at home and abroad is complicit with fascists.
That's you @albomp.bsky.social.
2. Democrats not calling to abolish ICE are complicit with fascists.
3. Any govt who fails to condemn the Trump regime's behaviour at home and abroad is complicit with fascists.
That's you @albomp.bsky.social.
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
January 19, 2026 at 1:56 AM
1. These are concentration camps, whose purpose is ethnic cleansing and state terror.
2. Democrats not calling to abolish ICE are complicit with fascists.
3. Any govt who fails to condemn the Trump regime's behaviour at home and abroad is complicit with fascists.
That's you @albomp.bsky.social.
2. Democrats not calling to abolish ICE are complicit with fascists.
3. Any govt who fails to condemn the Trump regime's behaviour at home and abroad is complicit with fascists.
That's you @albomp.bsky.social.
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Hard to reconcile the ICE account being here.
People are banned for threats, but ICE can shoot completely innocent people dead, commit countless acts of violence, break the law, yet still be allowed here?
There's something fundamentally wrong with that.
It's not like there's shortage of evidence.
People are banned for threats, but ICE can shoot completely innocent people dead, commit countless acts of violence, break the law, yet still be allowed here?
There's something fundamentally wrong with that.
It's not like there's shortage of evidence.
January 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Hard to reconcile the ICE account being here.
People are banned for threats, but ICE can shoot completely innocent people dead, commit countless acts of violence, break the law, yet still be allowed here?
There's something fundamentally wrong with that.
It's not like there's shortage of evidence.
People are banned for threats, but ICE can shoot completely innocent people dead, commit countless acts of violence, break the law, yet still be allowed here?
There's something fundamentally wrong with that.
It's not like there's shortage of evidence.
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January 13, 2026 at 12:17 PM
This is remarkable.
More remarkable in light of current events is that the Australian government has not updated this since 19 November.
Compare this with some of the places the Australian government ranks as requiring a high degree of caution.
Total negligence and cowardice.
More remarkable in light of current events is that the Australian government has not updated this since 19 November.
Compare this with some of the places the Australian government ranks as requiring a high degree of caution.
Total negligence and cowardice.
January 17, 2026 at 1:00 AM
This is remarkable.
More remarkable in light of current events is that the Australian government has not updated this since 19 November.
Compare this with some of the places the Australian government ranks as requiring a high degree of caution.
Total negligence and cowardice.
More remarkable in light of current events is that the Australian government has not updated this since 19 November.
Compare this with some of the places the Australian government ranks as requiring a high degree of caution.
Total negligence and cowardice.
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very important concerns🔥🔥🔥
January 16, 2026 at 2:56 AM
very important concerns🔥🔥🔥
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If Greens support this fascistic bill and enshrine Zionist capture, it will destroy them. Your voters will see sellouts and cowards caving on our liberties because you're not up for the fight. Because you're scared of getting yelled at in the newspapers. @davidshoebridge.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
If Greens support this fascistic bill and enshrine Zionist capture, it will destroy them. Your voters will see sellouts and cowards caving on our liberties because you're not up for the fight. Because you're scared of getting yelled at in the newspapers. @davidshoebridge.bsky.social
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Imagine a political ideology so evil, so despised, so racist and murderous, so globally unpopular - but also so entrenched in Western establishment depravity - that your government (with the opposition), would seek to make criticism and protest of it illegal. Imagine that.
January 14, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Imagine a political ideology so evil, so despised, so racist and murderous, so globally unpopular - but also so entrenched in Western establishment depravity - that your government (with the opposition), would seek to make criticism and protest of it illegal. Imagine that.
@senatorwong.bsky.social still think it’s a great idea to invite Herzog here do you?
The Israeli military is reportedly planning to restart intensive military operations in Gaza in March, targeting Gaza City.
According to The Times of Israel, the operation would push the yellow line ceasefire demarcation west toward the coast of the Gaza Strip.
According to The Times of Israel, the operation would push the yellow line ceasefire demarcation west toward the coast of the Gaza Strip.
January 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
@senatorwong.bsky.social still think it’s a great idea to invite Herzog here do you?
I can just see it now too - one way or another, the ABC will cave to this.
It won’t be today or tomorrow and it won’t be direct in the same way that for example Antoinette Lattouf was.
But I’d bet my bottom dollar the ABC will eventually penalise or sideline Lyons and Tingle.
It won’t be today or tomorrow and it won’t be direct in the same way that for example Antoinette Lattouf was.
But I’d bet my bottom dollar the ABC will eventually penalise or sideline Lyons and Tingle.
God this is just unending. The pro-genocide lobby group delights in trying to destroy livelihoods and honest reporting.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: pro-Israel activists go after ABC journalists John Lyons and Laura Tingle
A new email campaign is targeting the respected journalists for withdrawing from the Adelaide Festival
www.deepcutnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:33 AM
I can just see it now too - one way or another, the ABC will cave to this.
It won’t be today or tomorrow and it won’t be direct in the same way that for example Antoinette Lattouf was.
But I’d bet my bottom dollar the ABC will eventually penalise or sideline Lyons and Tingle.
It won’t be today or tomorrow and it won’t be direct in the same way that for example Antoinette Lattouf was.
But I’d bet my bottom dollar the ABC will eventually penalise or sideline Lyons and Tingle.
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Solidarity with Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah. We stand against this retrograde decision and with the countless authors withdrawing in support of Randa and her work.
January 13, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Solidarity with Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah. We stand against this retrograde decision and with the countless authors withdrawing in support of Randa and her work.
Rolling out the red carpet for the president of a genocidal apartheid state that’s murdered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and other Arab civilians is a good thing.
Hope you don’t sleep well, Penny.
Hope you don’t sleep well, Penny.
January 13, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Rolling out the red carpet for the president of a genocidal apartheid state that’s murdered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and other Arab civilians is a good thing.
Hope you don’t sleep well, Penny.
Hope you don’t sleep well, Penny.
The one rule that always hold true for these far right pieces of shit is that they also possess the glassiest of jaws.
They actively seek to destroy the world for everyone who isn’t rich, white and male, but a widdle expletive makes them piss their pants.
They are the absolute smallest of men.
They actively seek to destroy the world for everyone who isn’t rich, white and male, but a widdle expletive makes them piss their pants.
They are the absolute smallest of men.
Unbelievable. I told the Sky News guy to fuck off with his questions and now *that* is the story.
This hungry beast is insatiable.
How’s that Royal Commission into Murdoch media going?
This hungry beast is insatiable.
How’s that Royal Commission into Murdoch media going?
January 13, 2026 at 12:47 AM
The one rule that always hold true for these far right pieces of shit is that they also possess the glassiest of jaws.
They actively seek to destroy the world for everyone who isn’t rich, white and male, but a widdle expletive makes them piss their pants.
They are the absolute smallest of men.
They actively seek to destroy the world for everyone who isn’t rich, white and male, but a widdle expletive makes them piss their pants.
They are the absolute smallest of men.
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this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
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When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.
January 11, 2026 at 11:28 AM
When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.
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If there was any justice, Musk would be under arrest now, and X would be closed down.
Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.
‘Add blood, forced smile’:
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’:
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:12 PM
If there was any justice, Musk would be under arrest now, and X would be closed down.