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Music-DJ-Audio-Production-SoundDesign-MusicSupervision-Strategy. Food-News-Laughs-Dogs-TheGoodStuff. “A State that’s untouchable like Eliot Ness”
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I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.
Three years ago a series of racist threatening letters were sent to the Victorian Greens. They were covered in white supremacist hate, swastikas and explicit threats against my life and my family. They were reported to police. But as far as I know nothing came of it 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Menacing letters sent to politicians bear hallmarks of Sydney mosque threats
The ABC can reveal two of the threatening, hate-filled letters sent to Lakemba Mosque this month bear close resemblance to similar racist letters sent to multiple politicians since 2022.
www.abc.net.au
February 20, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.
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"The judge upbraided the Meta team and said if you guys have recorded anything, you have to dispose of it or I will hold you in contempt," Jacob Ward, a technology journalist and the host of the Rip Current Podcast, told CBS News, calling the incident "an extraordinary misstep" by Meta.
Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial
A Los Angeles judge ordered Meta officials to remove their AI glasses at a trial over the impact of social media on users.
www.cbsnews.com
February 19, 2026 at 11:15 PM
"The judge upbraided the Meta team and said if you guys have recorded anything, you have to dispose of it or I will hold you in contempt," Jacob Ward, a technology journalist and the host of the Rip Current Podcast, told CBS News, calling the incident "an extraordinary misstep" by Meta.
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“The inquiry found 12 former & current public servants had breached the APS code of conduct on 97 separate occasions.“
While a 10 year old is imprisoned for just being fucking hungry.
#Auspol
While a 10 year old is imprisoned for just being fucking hungry.
#Auspol
![Article excerpt
That inquiry found 12 former and current public servants had breached the APS code of conduct on 97 separate occasions. Two were former agency heads, Campbell and her successor at the Department of Human Services, Renée Leon, whom the royal commission found misled the Commonwealth Ombudsman and oversaw an "excessive" delay in securing legal advice from the Solicitor-General despite increasingly serious warnings for months during her tenure and early signs that there could be legitimate challenges to
robodebt.
Only the former secretaries were named.
Of the 10 other staff, only four were still serving at the time of the APSC's investigation. Of those, one
"retired" before sanctions could be applied, and the remaining three were recommended for sanctions
"including reprimands, fines and demotions" "The sorts of action or inaction that constituted these breaches include failing to exercise proper diligence in preparing policy, legal or implementation advice," the APSC's now former commissioner Gordon de
Brouwer wrote in a statement. "[And] failing to inform others or escalate a matter when the person had a reasonable concern that the policy was unlawful or the advice was inaccurate [and] failing to act on lawfulness or truthfulness given all
the information that a person has gained over a reasonable period of time." While Britton was never directly copied into legal advice that the Department of Social Services possessed that stated unequivocally that robodebt's use of wholesale income averaging to raise debts was unlawful,
the royal commission found he was sent a key list of DSS dot points that said as much. "The proposal fundamentally changes the assessment of income within the social security system and is
not supported by current policy or legislation," the dot points said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r7xvfsy43zjk35fu36gvjdrc/bafkreid5wtlgemyzs3itpj7apxtuskrjwldyzabelzek6goqp4x72w5ubq@jpeg)
February 20, 2026 at 12:41 AM
“The inquiry found 12 former & current public servants had breached the APS code of conduct on 97 separate occasions.“
While a 10 year old is imprisoned for just being fucking hungry.
#Auspol
While a 10 year old is imprisoned for just being fucking hungry.
#Auspol
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
February 20, 2026 at 1:43 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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#auspol Palantir
So why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? And how has the company secured multimillion-dollar contracts and top security clearance from government departments and agencies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPUs...
So why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? And how has the company secured multimillion-dollar contracts and top security clearance from government departments and agencies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPUs...
Meet Big Brother: Palantir’s Australian expansion
YouTube video by Crikey News
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2026 at 1:02 AM
#auspol Palantir
So why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? And how has the company secured multimillion-dollar contracts and top security clearance from government departments and agencies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPUs...
So why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? And how has the company secured multimillion-dollar contracts and top security clearance from government departments and agencies?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPUs...
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This is a crime.
If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment.
This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.
If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment.
This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.
Trump: "I want to let you know that United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace." (Congress has not appropriated this money!)
February 20, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This is a crime.
If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment.
This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.
If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment.
This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.
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Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.
BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.
February 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.
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it's funny that KPMG still believe they have a corporate reputation to protect
February 19, 2026 at 5:10 AM
it's funny that KPMG still believe they have a corporate reputation to protect
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oh no, audiences will be devastated.
they love KPMG's logo
they love KPMG's logo
KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker
KPMG asks Sydney writers’ festival to delete its name from website after Randa Abdel-Fattah confirmed as speaker
Festival confirmed writer and academic would appear in two sessions in 2026 following disinvitation from Adelaide event
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Global accounting giant KPMG has distanced itself from the Sydney writers’ festival, requesting its name be removed from the event’s website where it was listed as a corporate partner.
The move follows the festival scheduling Palestinian Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah to speak at two sessions in this year’s event. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
oh no, audiences will be devastated.
they love KPMG's logo
they love KPMG's logo
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84 years sounds like a long time. And I know in some ways it is. But it's also not that long. I still have living relatives who were in the camps and who were old enough to remember it. This isn't abstract or ancient history. It's part of the living memory I grew up with.
84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.
February 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
84 years sounds like a long time. And I know in some ways it is. But it's also not that long. I still have living relatives who were in the camps and who were old enough to remember it. This isn't abstract or ancient history. It's part of the living memory I grew up with.
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"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
February 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)
#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️
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This is the inevitable consequence of law-making by moral panic
Police have seized five posters from the window of a Canberra bar "depicting Donald Trump, J.D Vance, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin dressed in Nazi-like uniforms" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Bar declared crime scene as ACT police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new hate laws
Police have seized five posters on display in the window of a Canberra bar, declaring a "crime scene" while they investigate the artworks under new Commonwealth hate laws.
www.abc.net.au
February 19, 2026 at 2:51 AM
This is the inevitable consequence of law-making by moral panic
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Been a day. I heard the Albo interview on Sydney radio this morning. Very interesting to hear him celebrate his government restricting kids access to social media, for the good of children, after saying that Australian kids stuck overseas as ‘the responsibility of their mothers’. 🗑️
February 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Been a day. I heard the Albo interview on Sydney radio this morning. Very interesting to hear him celebrate his government restricting kids access to social media, for the good of children, after saying that Australian kids stuck overseas as ‘the responsibility of their mothers’. 🗑️
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How in one interview our Prime Minister can celebrate protecting Australian children from the interwebs, while saying other Australian children should be ultimately left stateless, because of their mothers, is just beyond me.
February 19, 2026 at 10:39 AM
How in one interview our Prime Minister can celebrate protecting Australian children from the interwebs, while saying other Australian children should be ultimately left stateless, because of their mothers, is just beyond me.
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Anyone else like me pissed off at the ISIS brides treatment claiming they’re a threat to Australia while ignoring the real threat of IDF soldiers returning to Australia unquestioned? These women weren’t killing kids and unarmed civilians, IDF soldiers on the other hand….
February 18, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Anyone else like me pissed off at the ISIS brides treatment claiming they’re a threat to Australia while ignoring the real threat of IDF soldiers returning to Australia unquestioned? These women weren’t killing kids and unarmed civilians, IDF soldiers on the other hand….
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Always good when proof of stupid laws rushed through parliament occurs quickly
Police have seized five posters from the window of a Canberra bar "depicting Donald Trump, J.D Vance, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin dressed in Nazi-like uniforms" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Bar declared crime scene as ACT police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new hate laws
Police have seized five posters on display in the window of a Canberra bar, declaring a "crime scene" while they investigate the artworks under new Commonwealth hate laws.
www.abc.net.au
February 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Always good when proof of stupid laws rushed through parliament occurs quickly
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Am thinking the Sydney Writers Festival has just become much improved
February 19, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Am thinking the Sydney Writers Festival has just become much improved
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Federal police raided Dissent Bar in Canberra and stripped anti-fascist posters off the walls under Labor's brand new hate speech laws. Not a Nazi compound. A local café with political art. This is what biased laws look like in practice. 🧵
February 19, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Federal police raided Dissent Bar in Canberra and stripped anti-fascist posters off the walls under Labor's brand new hate speech laws. Not a Nazi compound. A local café with political art. This is what biased laws look like in practice. 🧵
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Pauline Hanson has spent decades demonising Muslims in the Senate with zero consequences, but put an anti-fascist poster on your bar wall and the AFP comes knocking. Labor's first scalp under their hate speech laws isn't a hate group and that says everything.
February 19, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Pauline Hanson has spent decades demonising Muslims in the Senate with zero consequences, but put an anti-fascist poster on your bar wall and the AFP comes knocking. Labor's first scalp under their hate speech laws isn't a hate group and that says everything.
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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Maybe we should have a referendum on the fossil fuel industry’s voice to parliament?!
February 19, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Maybe we should have a referendum on the fossil fuel industry’s voice to parliament?!
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Three points:
1️⃣If you can noodle around on timing and there's no urgency, it's a war of choice.
2️⃣Wars of choice require Congressional approval. Read the Constitution.
3️⃣If there's no vote, and ANY troops are injured or killed, the blood is on Trump and GOP hands, 100%.
1️⃣If you can noodle around on timing and there's no urgency, it's a war of choice.
2️⃣Wars of choice require Congressional approval. Read the Constitution.
3️⃣If there's no vote, and ANY troops are injured or killed, the blood is on Trump and GOP hands, 100%.
February 18, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Three points:
1️⃣If you can noodle around on timing and there's no urgency, it's a war of choice.
2️⃣Wars of choice require Congressional approval. Read the Constitution.
3️⃣If there's no vote, and ANY troops are injured or killed, the blood is on Trump and GOP hands, 100%.
1️⃣If you can noodle around on timing and there's no urgency, it's a war of choice.
2️⃣Wars of choice require Congressional approval. Read the Constitution.
3️⃣If there's no vote, and ANY troops are injured or killed, the blood is on Trump and GOP hands, 100%.
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The world is watching!
When a nation cages children, strips rights, silences dissent & weaponizes poverty, the world doesn’t call it leadership!
It calls it Crimes Against Humanity!
Survivors demand Justice! Children deserve to be Safe!
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy
When a nation cages children, strips rights, silences dissent & weaponizes poverty, the world doesn’t call it leadership!
It calls it Crimes Against Humanity!
Survivors demand Justice! Children deserve to be Safe!
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy
February 18, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The world is watching!
When a nation cages children, strips rights, silences dissent & weaponizes poverty, the world doesn’t call it leadership!
It calls it Crimes Against Humanity!
Survivors demand Justice! Children deserve to be Safe!
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy
When a nation cages children, strips rights, silences dissent & weaponizes poverty, the world doesn’t call it leadership!
It calls it Crimes Against Humanity!
Survivors demand Justice! Children deserve to be Safe!
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy
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Ski mountaineering, or skimo, makes its Olympic debut in Milan on Thursday. It's the first new Olympic winter sport since snowboarding in 1998. Here's what to know.
Ski Mountaineering Makes Its Olympic Debut at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games
Ski mountaineering tests strength and endurance as athletes race uphill on skis and on foot before going back down.
nyti.ms
February 18, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Ski mountaineering, or skimo, makes its Olympic debut in Milan on Thursday. It's the first new Olympic winter sport since snowboarding in 1998. Here's what to know.