George Hirst
@crankycurlew.bsky.social
Artist/wanna-be screenwriter, politics junkie, Yunbenun admirer, half of Cranky Curlew Productions. He/him. Tropes: When we all back the underdog. crankycurlew.com.au
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Deeply concerning use of state force to effectively silence those advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign
Satat Sampada founders Harjeet Singh and Jyoti Aswathi say allegations are ‘baseless, biased and misleading’
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Deeply concerning use of state force to effectively silence those advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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I wrote to my MP.
"We try to live lives full of purpose, of service and usefulness to others. What purpose are our lives if we don't help Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed stay alive? We will all have failed so badly. Please, please help stop this."
Find yours here:
members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
"We try to live lives full of purpose, of service and usefulness to others. What purpose are our lives if we don't help Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed stay alive? We will all have failed so badly. Please, please help stop this."
Find yours here:
members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
I wrote to my MP.
"We try to live lives full of purpose, of service and usefulness to others. What purpose are our lives if we don't help Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed stay alive? We will all have failed so badly. Please, please help stop this."
Find yours here:
members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
"We try to live lives full of purpose, of service and usefulness to others. What purpose are our lives if we don't help Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed stay alive? We will all have failed so badly. Please, please help stop this."
Find yours here:
members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
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DANISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER: “🇺🇸 had 30 bases on Greenland, why did you leave? You can resume that tomorrow without attacking a NATO ally… the rationale lacks factual foundation and doesn’t stand any logic testing.”
(Unless the point is to hurt us and end NATO, a Putin/Xi goal)
(Unless the point is to hurt us and end NATO, a Putin/Xi goal)
January 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
DANISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER: “🇺🇸 had 30 bases on Greenland, why did you leave? You can resume that tomorrow without attacking a NATO ally… the rationale lacks factual foundation and doesn’t stand any logic testing.”
(Unless the point is to hurt us and end NATO, a Putin/Xi goal)
(Unless the point is to hurt us and end NATO, a Putin/Xi goal)
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Please repost, like, share this video far and wide. This video is hard to watch but we must fight misinformation. The Trump administration is lying...as always!! We need to get justice for Renee Nicole Good and her family.
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Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko)
New camera angle out of Minneapolis. This is murder. And I think a Minneapolis jury would agree.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Please repost, like, share this video far and wide. This video is hard to watch but we must fight misinformation. The Trump administration is lying...as always!! We need to get justice for Renee Nicole Good and her family.
substack.com/@adamparkhom...
substack.com/@adamparkhom...
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Has there been any public update about the homeless woman who attended a police station on the South Coast in NSW and then died in her car in the police station car park, and wasn’t noticed until she was decomposing?
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Has there been any public update about the homeless woman who attended a police station on the South Coast in NSW and then died in her car in the police station car park, and wasn’t noticed until she was decomposing?
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Vicious attacks on Cathy Wilcox for this perceptive cartoon,
including the standard accusations of "antisemitic" and "Jew-hater", only go to prove her point:
The Israel lobby in Australia is, indeed, a lobby for Israel.
As an Australian of Jewish background, #IStandWithCathyWilcox. #auspol
including the standard accusations of "antisemitic" and "Jew-hater", only go to prove her point:
The Israel lobby in Australia is, indeed, a lobby for Israel.
As an Australian of Jewish background, #IStandWithCathyWilcox. #auspol
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Vicious attacks on Cathy Wilcox for this perceptive cartoon,
including the standard accusations of "antisemitic" and "Jew-hater", only go to prove her point:
The Israel lobby in Australia is, indeed, a lobby for Israel.
As an Australian of Jewish background, #IStandWithCathyWilcox. #auspol
including the standard accusations of "antisemitic" and "Jew-hater", only go to prove her point:
The Israel lobby in Australia is, indeed, a lobby for Israel.
As an Australian of Jewish background, #IStandWithCathyWilcox. #auspol
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Since the Royal Commission is looking likely, maybe they should also investigate how an anti Palestine, anti Arabic and anti Moslem culture in government, art and media organisations has arisen.
January 8, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Since the Royal Commission is looking likely, maybe they should also investigate how an anti Palestine, anti Arabic and anti Moslem culture in government, art and media organisations has arisen.
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This is Renee Good.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
January 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
This is Renee Good.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
She was a mother of a six-year-old child.
She was an American citizen.
She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”
And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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January 7, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Shadow Home Affairs Minister on #RN just now. Claims Liberals want an #RC for 'transparency', so nothing happens behind closed doors.
For the sake of 'transparency', I'm assuming they now support the immediate public release of the sealed section of the Robodebt RC, for 'transparency' 🧐 #auspol
For the sake of 'transparency', I'm assuming they now support the immediate public release of the sealed section of the Robodebt RC, for 'transparency' 🧐 #auspol
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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The Trump AUKUS protests are coming. Govt secretly earmarks $200m for anti-US Protest Force to guard US and UK interests in oz. @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social on @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOI scoop
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Australia’s New AUKUS Protest Police | The West Report
YouTube video by The West Report
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January 7, 2026 at 7:33 AM
The Trump AUKUS protests are coming. Govt secretly earmarks $200m for anti-US Protest Force to guard US and UK interests in oz. @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social on @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOI scoop
youtu.be/HverWMzaiGY?...
youtu.be/HverWMzaiGY?...
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Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
The movement to ditch democracy in favour of start-up cities run by CEOs | CBC Radio
What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement th...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Canadian radio doco about the current techno fascism with @quinnslobodian.com and others, including myself (for about 15 seconds). www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
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"This isn’t the same as calling this a “war for oil.” It’s more an invitation to oligarchs to join in his conception, such as it is, of the future world order"
^^ a very important distinction
^^ a very important distinction
Trump openly told oil execs in 2024 that he'd govern in their naked financial interests if they raised $1 billion for his campaign. He's now taking this further, telling them they'll reap great riches if they buy into his vision of imperial hemispheric dominance. 5/
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January 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
"This isn’t the same as calling this a “war for oil.” It’s more an invitation to oligarchs to join in his conception, such as it is, of the future world order"
^^ a very important distinction
^^ a very important distinction
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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Check out my new commentary, in which I provide 2 new versions of healthism - antiscience healthism and reverse healthism
January 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Check out my new commentary, in which I provide 2 new versions of healthism - antiscience healthism and reverse healthism
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Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth.
This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth.
This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.
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Australian Industry Group has warned the power grid is not ready for the projected growth in power demands for data centres, and the consequences could be severe for homes and businesses www.afr.com/policy/energ...
‘We are not ready’: Business sounds alarm on data centre power use
Huge power demands by data centres could force industrial businesses to wind back their operations, warns a top business group.
www.afr.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Australian Industry Group has warned the power grid is not ready for the projected growth in power demands for data centres, and the consequences could be severe for homes and businesses www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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I am a non-seroconverter for the measles vaccine. This means I have no immunity to measles despite being vaccinated multiple times. By ensuring your vaccinations are up to date you help limit the spread of measles, which by extension protects non-seeocoverters such as myself
*sigh*
Reminder: Are your vaccinations up to date? Are your children's vaccinations also up to date?
Reminder: Are your vaccinations up to date? Are your children's vaccinations also up to date?
If you were in Perth between the 6th and 27th Dec. 2025, check the measles alert and listed sites www.health.wa.gov.au/news/2025/me...
January 5, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I am a non-seroconverter for the measles vaccine. This means I have no immunity to measles despite being vaccinated multiple times. By ensuring your vaccinations are up to date you help limit the spread of measles, which by extension protects non-seeocoverters such as myself
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Oi you can’t use the K word around here mate
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Oi you can’t use the K word around here mate
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January 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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The duopoly have rewritten the election rulebook, making it almost impossible for independents to stand and win. Zoe and I are in the High Court challenging this rigged rulebook to ensure choices remain on election day. Please chip in to help us👇. #auspol
The Fair Elections Case | High Court Challenge
The major parties have re-written the rules to rig elections in their favour. But Zoe Daniel and Rex Patrick are fighting back, all the way to the High Court.
www.climate200.com.au
January 5, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The duopoly have rewritten the election rulebook, making it almost impossible for independents to stand and win. Zoe and I are in the High Court challenging this rigged rulebook to ensure choices remain on election day. Please chip in to help us👇. #auspol