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When we most need clear thinking abt threats (ISIS, gun availability, racist & lethal ideologies), & elevation of acts of courage, & care for all communities hurting, Minns, unforgivably, serves up inflammatory conflation of anti-genocide rallies w the terror attack
Feel 🤢 abt what 2026 will bring
Feel 🤢 abt what 2026 will bring
![Excerpt from The Guardian
Bondi beach terror attack
(Headline) NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack
Chris Minns says state 'can't risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:klj5q7cnbmt4pryeaegonnhi/bafkreicqrxg3cvzkfhf7bcljck5z2p4e5erynhahnzlrwzejfwgwnhie3m@jpeg)
December 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
When we most need clear thinking abt threats (ISIS, gun availability, racist & lethal ideologies), & elevation of acts of courage, & care for all communities hurting, Minns, unforgivably, serves up inflammatory conflation of anti-genocide rallies w the terror attack
Feel 🤢 abt what 2026 will bring
Feel 🤢 abt what 2026 will bring
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None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
None of this is “good faith political debate,” and it’s not a coincidence that all these outlets are suddenly interested in the same “discussion” at the same time.
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
Treating women’s humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away
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Seeing a lot of takes that violence is not the answer. Nope.
It is in fact good to pop a fascist sex pest in the mouth, especially if he’s cosplaying as a boxer. Any ethical framework can bear that load. Enjoy it, it’s beautiful.
It is in fact good to pop a fascist sex pest in the mouth, especially if he’s cosplaying as a boxer. Any ethical framework can bear that load. Enjoy it, it’s beautiful.
December 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Seeing a lot of takes that violence is not the answer. Nope.
It is in fact good to pop a fascist sex pest in the mouth, especially if he’s cosplaying as a boxer. Any ethical framework can bear that load. Enjoy it, it’s beautiful.
It is in fact good to pop a fascist sex pest in the mouth, especially if he’s cosplaying as a boxer. Any ethical framework can bear that load. Enjoy it, it’s beautiful.
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Think this brings the number of candidates "dismissed" by the Junta's election commission to about 90*? Numbers aside just adds to the mountain of evidence that the upcoming "election" in Myanmar is just a sham, a façade, undemocratic & should not be recognised at all by anyone.
#RejectShamElection
#RejectShamElection
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Think this brings the number of candidates "dismissed" by the Junta's election commission to about 90*? Numbers aside just adds to the mountain of evidence that the upcoming "election" in Myanmar is just a sham, a façade, undemocratic & should not be recognised at all by anyone.
#RejectShamElection
#RejectShamElection
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Cannot believe how concussed the discussion is in Australia. We have a major security problem - two extremists training with (?) ISIS overseas and had easy access to guns – and Sussan Ley is releasing an Action Plan that is like "We will amend the Australian Research Council Act"
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Cannot believe how concussed the discussion is in Australia. We have a major security problem - two extremists training with (?) ISIS overseas and had easy access to guns – and Sussan Ley is releasing an Action Plan that is like "We will amend the Australian Research Council Act"
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John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
John Howard pushed for the invasion of Iraq, which was one of the dominoes which created the conditions for ISIS and caused untold human misery we are still dealing with today. He refused to acknowledge racism was a main driver of the Cronulla riots.
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Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.
Hanson at the Bondi memorial calling for students to be "rounded up" and cuts to immigration. The crowd muttering in agreement, and giving her a huge round of applause once she finishes.
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
Everything is about to get so much worse in Australia
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Hanson is calling for tougher hate speech laws, while she is currently in court trying to appeal against her loss in a hate speech legal case. A fact not mentioned by a single outlet covering this story.
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something quite relevant to this that I completely forgot I wrote a few months ago"
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
December 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
something quite relevant to this that I completely forgot I wrote a few months ago"
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”
More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...
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The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?
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For a particular type of political bad faith actor, it was more like 48 minutes.
Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of the country is doing the things they feel are right, which is community.
Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of the country is doing the things they feel are right, which is community.
For about 48 hours Australians lived out of a sense of our shared humanity - grieving with those who grieve, waiting hours do donate blood - some political leaders got uncomfortable with that & have turned to the path of stirring up division & putting people into hierarchies
December 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
For a particular type of political bad faith actor, it was more like 48 minutes.
Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of the country is doing the things they feel are right, which is community.
Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of the country is doing the things they feel are right, which is community.
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The machine of vengeance and hate that is now being stoked by many in the press and political circles will never make anyone more safe. Not my community, not your community, not any Australian. /3
December 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The machine of vengeance and hate that is now being stoked by many in the press and political circles will never make anyone more safe. Not my community, not your community, not any Australian. /3
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Whatever differences we have, we can all agree, I hope, that everyone has an equal right to live in safety. Any innocent life taken by terror or warfare is one life too many, no matter whether they are Palestinian or Jewish or anything else. /2
December 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Whatever differences we have, we can all agree, I hope, that everyone has an equal right to live in safety. Any innocent life taken by terror or warfare is one life too many, no matter whether they are Palestinian or Jewish or anything else. /2
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As a Palestinian, Australian, Sydneysider, and as someone who has led and organised many of the major Palestine protests in Sydney, I have a duty in this moment to foster togetherness and offer whatever support I can to the Jewish community in this time of grief. /1
December 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
As a Palestinian, Australian, Sydneysider, and as someone who has led and organised many of the major Palestine protests in Sydney, I have a duty in this moment to foster togetherness and offer whatever support I can to the Jewish community in this time of grief. /1
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Josh Frydenburg climbing over a pile of bodies to launch his political comeback is genuinely one of the most repulsive things I've witnessed in Australian politics. Have some shame.
December 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Josh Frydenburg climbing over a pile of bodies to launch his political comeback is genuinely one of the most repulsive things I've witnessed in Australian politics. Have some shame.
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Australia is more urbanised today than it was in 1996. Opponents of a new round of gun control are going to find themselves even further on the fringe than they were in 96. Especially if it focuses on use case.
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Australia is more urbanised today than it was in 1996. Opponents of a new round of gun control are going to find themselves even further on the fringe than they were in 96. Especially if it focuses on use case.
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Just say ‘I like driving over the speed limit’ why debase yourself like this
August 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Just say ‘I like driving over the speed limit’ why debase yourself like this
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
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I find it fascinating watching Aussies sitting in a prosperous, functional, well-governed country with an unglamorous but adequate government, and somehow managing to direct their hatred against these things, rather than focusing on shitheads like Dutton/Joyce/Hanson who are trying to destroy it
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I find it fascinating watching Aussies sitting in a prosperous, functional, well-governed country with an unglamorous but adequate government, and somehow managing to direct their hatred against these things, rather than focusing on shitheads like Dutton/Joyce/Hanson who are trying to destroy it
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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All heritage is Hogwarts, in that it’s part of a children’s story designed to coddle you, and make you feel special, and make you believe that old places lend their significance to the people who use them. Being pandered to is no way to live an adult life though.
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
All heritage is Hogwarts, in that it’s part of a children’s story designed to coddle you, and make you feel special, and make you believe that old places lend their significance to the people who use them. Being pandered to is no way to live an adult life though.
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Yesterday the Junta in Myanmar bombed Mrauk-U Hospital in Rakhine state, killing 33 & injuring close to 100 people.
And they want people to think their sham election is a path to peace? Nah they need to be removed from power entirely & held to account for their crimes
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
And they want people to think their sham election is a path to peace? Nah they need to be removed from power entirely & held to account for their crimes
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
APHR Condemns Myanmar Military for War Crime on International Human Rights Day—Bombing of Mrauk-U Hospital - APHR
JAKARTA, 11 December 2025—ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) condemns in the strongest possible terms the December 10 attack on Mrauk-U General Hospital located in Rakhine State—a war crim...
aseanmp.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Yesterday the Junta in Myanmar bombed Mrauk-U Hospital in Rakhine state, killing 33 & injuring close to 100 people.
And they want people to think their sham election is a path to peace? Nah they need to be removed from power entirely & held to account for their crimes
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
And they want people to think their sham election is a path to peace? Nah they need to be removed from power entirely & held to account for their crimes
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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This Manhattan Institute poll of the right is legitimately fascinating
it is still a Manhattan institute poll tho
I was trying to figure out how these two claims line up
would have generally thought more than half of Holocaust deniers are anti Jewish manhattan.institute/article/the-...
it is still a Manhattan institute poll tho
I was trying to figure out how these two claims line up
would have generally thought more than half of Holocaust deniers are anti Jewish manhattan.institute/article/the-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This Manhattan Institute poll of the right is legitimately fascinating
it is still a Manhattan institute poll tho
I was trying to figure out how these two claims line up
would have generally thought more than half of Holocaust deniers are anti Jewish manhattan.institute/article/the-...
it is still a Manhattan institute poll tho
I was trying to figure out how these two claims line up
would have generally thought more than half of Holocaust deniers are anti Jewish manhattan.institute/article/the-...
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So, being a holocaust denier doesn’t make you anti-Jewish if you support Israel?
Like, I know where this has been coming from, but surely when they say it out loud they realise how batshit it sounds?
Like, I know where this has been coming from, but surely when they say it out loud they realise how batshit it sounds?
there is an explanation in the write up
I see what you did there Manhattan Institute
I see what you did there Manhattan Institute
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So, being a holocaust denier doesn’t make you anti-Jewish if you support Israel?
Like, I know where this has been coming from, but surely when they say it out loud they realise how batshit it sounds?
Like, I know where this has been coming from, but surely when they say it out loud they realise how batshit it sounds?
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Fantastic news! Kerala continues to set the pace for how to approach extreme poverty
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
How Kerala eliminated extreme poverty | Brookings
Jayant Menon and Vinod Thomas examine how Kerala nearly eliminated extreme poverty through sustained social investment, targeted safety nets, and community-led monitoring.
www.brookings.edu
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fantastic news! Kerala continues to set the pace for how to approach extreme poverty
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
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I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly