Osman Faruqi
@osmanfaruqi.bsky.social
Australian icon.
Co-host of the Lamestream pod
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Co-host of the Lamestream pod
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Two great reads on Lamestream today: An analysis of the political response to Bondi, and a look at how Australia’s gun laws haven’t kept up to speed with weapons manufacturers.
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How Politics Took Over Our Response To Bondi. Plus, How Weapons Companies Beat Australia's Gun Laws
Four days of relentless pressure from an alliance made up of Benjamin Netanyahu, right-wing politicians, and the most senior journalists and editors in the mainstream media, pushed the Prime Minister ...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Two great reads on Lamestream today: An analysis of the political response to Bondi, and a look at how Australia’s gun laws haven’t kept up to speed with weapons manufacturers.
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www.lamestream.com.au/how-politics...
The protest/speech/liberties crackdown in Australia right now is obviously much more significant than what occurred post 9/11. Also striking is how completely silent progressives are on it. Minns has announced the outlawing of protests and the Greens are ?
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The protest/speech/liberties crackdown in Australia right now is obviously much more significant than what occurred post 9/11. Also striking is how completely silent progressives are on it. Minns has announced the outlawing of protests and the Greens are ?
Incredibly craven stuff by the AFR in their editorial.
Happy to crackdown on all speech except don’t take away our right to be anti-immigration.
Happy to crackdown on all speech except don’t take away our right to be anti-immigration.
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Incredibly craven stuff by the AFR in their editorial.
Happy to crackdown on all speech except don’t take away our right to be anti-immigration.
Happy to crackdown on all speech except don’t take away our right to be anti-immigration.
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Amazing job with today’s episode @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social
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December 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Amazing job with today’s episode @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social
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Thoughtful, critical analysis of the Australian media’s response so far to the #Bondi attack on Lamestream - notes much of the framing is coming from national / Federal politics journalists, distinct from the local, investigative reporters
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December 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Thoughtful, critical analysis of the Australian media’s response so far to the #Bondi attack on Lamestream - notes much of the framing is coming from national / Federal politics journalists, distinct from the local, investigative reporters
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Fantastic episode of Lamestream by @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social this morning. Great, careful, analysis of how Australia's media has gone off the deep end over the last few days
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Fantastic episode of Lamestream by @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social this morning. Great, careful, analysis of how Australia's media has gone off the deep end over the last few days
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Nick's shoutout even more relevant after appalling coverage of Bondi by mainstream media.
Uncritical parroting of Netanyahu and Hanson,
blaming protestors,
and ramping up anti-migrant racism.
Great ep from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social .
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Uncritical parroting of Netanyahu and Hanson,
blaming protestors,
and ramping up anti-migrant racism.
Great ep from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social .
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...
December 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Nick's shoutout even more relevant after appalling coverage of Bondi by mainstream media.
Uncritical parroting of Netanyahu and Hanson,
blaming protestors,
and ramping up anti-migrant racism.
Great ep from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social .
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...
Uncritical parroting of Netanyahu and Hanson,
blaming protestors,
and ramping up anti-migrant racism.
Great ep from @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social .
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...
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.
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.
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.
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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.
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.
The ABC has hired Latika Bourke, after discussions with Waleed Aly fell through, to co-host its global affairs show - which will move from being made weekly to daily: www.lamestream.com.au/latika-bourk...
Latika Bourke In, Waleed Aly Out As ABC Expands Global News Show
The ABC has hired Latika Bourke to co-host its foreign affairs radio show and podcast, Global Roaming, after Waleed Aly was earmarked for the job.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The ABC has hired Latika Bourke, after discussions with Waleed Aly fell through, to co-host its global affairs show - which will move from being made weekly to daily: www.lamestream.com.au/latika-bourk...
Incredible how worked up people got about this take, which was sensible and obvious at the time, and has only become more necessary in the years since.
Years ago @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social did a hot take that Twitter [as it was then] should be nationalised because it was too valuable a piece of social infrastructure to remain in private hands, and time has proven him right beyond all expectations
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Incredible how worked up people got about this take, which was sensible and obvious at the time, and has only become more necessary in the years since.
This is pretty funny. Why is The Guardian’s political editor endorsing “legitimate concerns” around migration and complaining Hanson is being distracted from trying to address them?
And further to this: what are the "legitimate concerns about the rate of overseas migration"???
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is pretty funny. Why is The Guardian’s political editor endorsing “legitimate concerns” around migration and complaining Hanson is being distracted from trying to address them?
Thank you Greens for helping speed up approvals for the business community 🙏🏽
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thank you Greens for helping speed up approvals for the business community 🙏🏽
Even enviro groups, who are notoriously cowardly and weak, think this bill sucks. All the Greens are doing if they vote for it is telegraphing to Labor they are terrified of standing up to them, and taking one of their key issues off the table for this term of parliament. Pathway to 5% of the vote.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Even enviro groups, who are notoriously cowardly and weak, think this bill sucks. All the Greens are doing if they vote for it is telegraphing to Labor they are terrified of standing up to them, and taking one of their key issues off the table for this term of parliament. Pathway to 5% of the vote.
The Greens trying to cut a deal with the government on this terrible enviro bill is incredibly dumb, and the best way to lose a bunch more seats at the next election imo.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Greens trying to cut a deal with the government on this terrible enviro bill is incredibly dumb, and the best way to lose a bunch more seats at the next election imo.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
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Captain Carlton, the AFL mascot accused of causing an "anti-semitic furore" when he "stormed out" of a bat mitzvah after learning he would be performing for Zionists, lays out what actually happened for @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social in Lamestream:
Exclusive: Carlton Mascot Breaks Silence After Being Fired For Leaving IDF Fundraiser
After a media storm, the man behind Captain Carlton lost his job. In his first interview, the young man at the centre of it all, speaks to Lamestream.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Captain Carlton, the AFL mascot accused of causing an "anti-semitic furore" when he "stormed out" of a bat mitzvah after learning he would be performing for Zionists, lays out what actually happened for @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social in Lamestream:
There is some smart analysis in the UK and US Guardians on Mamdani but here we get takes from guys who spend their careers trying to elect our version of Cuomo.
Mamdani’s win in New York offers Australian progressives both inspiration and caution | Stephen Donnelly
Mamdani’s win in New York offers Australian progressives both inspiration and caution | Stephen Donnelly
His campaign’s optimism and movement-building could resonate here – not to tear down the system but to rekindle belief
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I’ve been visiting New York for the better part of 20 years as a political consultant, on my way to and from election campaigns elsewhere in the United States. Being there for the historic NY mayoral elections this week, I was struck by how abuzz the city was with political energy – not seen since Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
Mayoral races usually pass unnoticed – yet this one gripped the nation: a contest between the old and new Democratic party, embodied by former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and first-term Queens councillor Zohran Mamdani. Continue reading...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
There is some smart analysis in the UK and US Guardians on Mamdani but here we get takes from guys who spend their careers trying to elect our version of Cuomo.
Exclusive from me: The mascot Carlton fired for alleged anti-Semitic comments and “storming” out of a bar mitzvah breaks his silence to share his version of events. Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, the Herald Sun didn’t speak to him before writing their story.
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Exclusive: Carlton Mascot Breaks Silence After Being Fired For Leaving IDF Fundraiser
After a media storm, the man behind Captain Carlton lost his job. In his first interview, the young man at the centre of it all, speaks to Lamestream.
www.lamestream.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Exclusive from me: The mascot Carlton fired for alleged anti-Semitic comments and “storming” out of a bar mitzvah breaks his silence to share his version of events. Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, the Herald Sun didn’t speak to him before writing their story.
www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-ca...
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The latest edition of @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social's Lamestream is a cracker. As progressive parties around the world are handed more and more platforms, Australia's Greens could learn a great deal by listening in:
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November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The latest edition of @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social's Lamestream is a cracker. As progressive parties around the world are handed more and more platforms, Australia's Greens could learn a great deal by listening in:
Not for the first time, Australia's biggest, self-declared progressive news organisation re-writes independent media coverage of a story and pretends like they are the first too it. The Guardian is actually third to the story on Hedges and the NPC (after Lamestream and NPC) but doesn't mention that!
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Not for the first time, Australia's biggest, self-declared progressive news organisation re-writes independent media coverage of a story and pretends like they are the first too it. The Guardian is actually third to the story on Hedges and the NPC (after Lamestream and NPC) but doesn't mention that!
Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine.
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Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine
Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".
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October 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine.
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This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
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In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
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Why Jimmy Kimmel would have never been cancelled in Australia
We need to be careful about how we separate true hate speech from satirical speech. In America, it seems, differentiation is out of favour.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
www.smh.com.au/national/why...
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
www.smh.com.au/national/why...
A less than ideal family tree
September 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A less than ideal family tree
The people running the once quite good and important newspapers in this country are absolutely taking the piss. The worst columnist in the country doing a completely incoherent interview with a seemingly self-published author who isn’t sure what she believes in www.smh.com.au/national/peo...
‘People don’t want to have this conversation’: Virginia Tapscott’s uncomfortable crusade
With childcare in crisis, the freelance writer feels vindicated in challenging the status quo.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The people running the once quite good and important newspapers in this country are absolutely taking the piss. The worst columnist in the country doing a completely incoherent interview with a seemingly self-published author who isn’t sure what she believes in www.smh.com.au/national/peo...
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i don't think Australian journalists are aware of how deep we are into The New Stupid. They certainly aren't equipped to deal with it. They are being asked to parse hieroglyphics at breakneck speed when they're modes of thinking are stuck somewhere around 2012.
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
i don't think Australian journalists are aware of how deep we are into The New Stupid. They certainly aren't equipped to deal with it. They are being asked to parse hieroglyphics at breakneck speed when they're modes of thinking are stuck somewhere around 2012.