Jan Stephenson
@janstephenson12.bsky.social
Newcastle NSW Australia
@JanS12VotedYes at the other place.
Interests: music, art, reading, gardening, social justice, human rights, politics, ethical journalism. Retired, worked for lawyers 43 years.
@JanS12VotedYes at the other place.
Interests: music, art, reading, gardening, social justice, human rights, politics, ethical journalism. Retired, worked for lawyers 43 years.
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The point about the Advance donation issue is the hypocrisy. Jillian Segal wants to police everyone’s speech while defending her husband’s right to fund an organisation that propagates racism. Her position is untenable.
July 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The point about the Advance donation issue is the hypocrisy. Jillian Segal wants to police everyone’s speech while defending her husband’s right to fund an organisation that propagates racism. Her position is untenable.
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Doctors in Gaza are now reporting that the Israeli military is shooting Palestinian teenage boys in the genitals. They're luring them in with food, then shooting them in the testicles.
This. Is. Genocide. Horrific beyond words.
This. Is. Genocide. Horrific beyond words.
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Doctors in Gaza are now reporting that the Israeli military is shooting Palestinian teenage boys in the genitals. They're luring them in with food, then shooting them in the testicles.
This. Is. Genocide. Horrific beyond words.
This. Is. Genocide. Horrific beyond words.
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Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
July 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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Segal does not represent Jews Against the Occupation ’48 views and experience in any way. She is viewed as a special envoy to protect Israel’s interests, not to combat antisemitism. #auspolo #SpecialEnvoy #IsraelPalestine
'No' to Jillian Segal's antisemitism action plan
Representing Jews Against the Occupation ’48 (JAO48), I would like to share our response to Jillian Segal’s “antisemitism action plan”. In short: we reject it.
johnmenadue.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Segal does not represent Jews Against the Occupation ’48 views and experience in any way. She is viewed as a special envoy to protect Israel’s interests, not to combat antisemitism. #auspolo #SpecialEnvoy #IsraelPalestine
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I am struggling to comprehend that I am living in a time when my government (and a Labor government at that), the opposition, the establishment media and other assorted 'social commentators' are telling me to love and support Nazism, now labelled 'Zionism.'
I mean ... no. Fuck off. #GazaGenocide
I mean ... no. Fuck off. #GazaGenocide
June 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I am struggling to comprehend that I am living in a time when my government (and a Labor government at that), the opposition, the establishment media and other assorted 'social commentators' are telling me to love and support Nazism, now labelled 'Zionism.'
I mean ... no. Fuck off. #GazaGenocide
I mean ... no. Fuck off. #GazaGenocide
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"For the better part of a decade the public broadcaster has been repeatedly buffeted off-course by members of its board going weak-kneed before the gripes of the persistent and the powerful even when those complaints have little, if any, merit."
– @lintonbesser.bsky.social
ABC #MediaWatch 30Jun25
– @lintonbesser.bsky.social
ABC #MediaWatch 30Jun25
June 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"For the better part of a decade the public broadcaster has been repeatedly buffeted off-course by members of its board going weak-kneed before the gripes of the persistent and the powerful even when those complaints have little, if any, merit."
– @lintonbesser.bsky.social
ABC #MediaWatch 30Jun25
– @lintonbesser.bsky.social
ABC #MediaWatch 30Jun25
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Louis Theroux's #TheSettlers is a doco on the ultra-nationalist Israelis who have invaded and illegally occupy land in the Palestinian territory of the #WestBank. The doco explores their views, actions, and plans for #Gaza. Deeply disturbing. #FreePalestine iview.abc.net.au/show/louis-t...
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
In the occupied territory of the West Bank is a growing ultra-nationalist community of Israeli settlers. Louis meets prominent settlers and discovers the consequences of their activity - and their pla...
iview.abc.net.au
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Louis Theroux's #TheSettlers is a doco on the ultra-nationalist Israelis who have invaded and illegally occupy land in the Palestinian territory of the #WestBank. The doco explores their views, actions, and plans for #Gaza. Deeply disturbing. #FreePalestine iview.abc.net.au/show/louis-t...
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Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran
June 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran
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June 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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The US bombing Iran is a flagrant breach of the international rules-based order, said Allan Behm, special adviser at the Australia Institute.
Australia should have “made clear we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order”. #auspol
Australia should have “made clear we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order”. #auspol
Albanese government criticised for ‘weak’ response to US attacks on Iran as experts decry ‘flagrant breach’ of law
Former adviser to Penny Wong argues Australia should make clear ‘we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order’
www.theguardian.com
June 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The US bombing Iran is a flagrant breach of the international rules-based order, said Allan Behm, special adviser at the Australia Institute.
Australia should have “made clear we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order”. #auspol
Australia should have “made clear we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order”. #auspol
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I'm not enjoying the reboot of the "Unprovoked War in the Middle East" reality TV show.
It's just as pointless, but the actors are even stupider. And, frankly, I didn't think that would be possible.
It's just as pointless, but the actors are even stupider. And, frankly, I didn't think that would be possible.
June 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I'm not enjoying the reboot of the "Unprovoked War in the Middle East" reality TV show.
It's just as pointless, but the actors are even stupider. And, frankly, I didn't think that would be possible.
It's just as pointless, but the actors are even stupider. And, frankly, I didn't think that would be possible.
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It's nauseating if not sinister to watch the ghoulish line-up of Vance, Rubio and Hesgeth behind their Presidential caricature as he gloats about acting wingman for a war criminal.
June 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's nauseating if not sinister to watch the ghoulish line-up of Vance, Rubio and Hesgeth behind their Presidential caricature as he gloats about acting wingman for a war criminal.
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"—nowhere [else] on Earth—is an entire population, young/old, locked inside a flattened, walled-off strip of land, bombed from the air, shelled from the sea & systematically starved under total siege.
"Gaza is not a battlefield. It is a prison. A graveyard."
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-...
"Gaza is not a battlefield. It is a prison. A graveyard."
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-...
War on Gaza: How Israel is replicating Nazi starvation tactics
The weaponisation of food echoes the horrors of the Jewish ghettos, as Palestinians are pushed beyond the limits of human endurance
www.middleeasteye.net
June 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"—nowhere [else] on Earth—is an entire population, young/old, locked inside a flattened, walled-off strip of land, bombed from the air, shelled from the sea & systematically starved under total siege.
"Gaza is not a battlefield. It is a prison. A graveyard."
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-...
"Gaza is not a battlefield. It is a prison. A graveyard."
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-...
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Trump would hate to know that TACO is still the #1 trend on X and Bluesky...
And he'd meltdown if this post were to go viral.
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
It's genius, because it's true.
ICYMI:
And he'd meltdown if this post were to go viral.
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
It's genius, because it's true.
ICYMI:
Trump lashes out over viral 'TACO trade' meme. What does it stand for?
President Donald Trump was confronted with an acronym pointed at his trade policy this week.
abcnews.go.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Trump would hate to know that TACO is still the #1 trend on X and Bluesky...
And he'd meltdown if this post were to go viral.
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
It's genius, because it's true.
ICYMI:
And he'd meltdown if this post were to go viral.
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
It's genius, because it's true.
ICYMI:
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Opinion | While France, the UK and Canada condemn Israel and threaten it for mass starvation and ethnic cleansing, Australia sits limply by, saying little. @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.
Labor's middle-way timidity on Gaza genocide sums up Australia's indifference
Labor has tried to walk a fine line on Israel's actions in Gaza. The ramping up of genocide and ethnic cleansing has made that strategy unviable.
www.crikey.com.au
May 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Opinion | While France, the UK and Canada condemn Israel and threaten it for mass starvation and ethnic cleansing, Australia sits limply by, saying little. @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.
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Listen to what this good man has to say! 👇
April 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Listen to what this good man has to say! 👇
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Laura Tingle “The only really major policy that the Coalition keeps coming back to in terms of spending restraint is beating up public servants.”💯💥 Sad but true.
March 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Laura Tingle “The only really major policy that the Coalition keeps coming back to in terms of spending restraint is beating up public servants.”💯💥 Sad but true.
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Why do all these people want Dutton, The Thug, to be Prime Minister ?
February 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Why do all these people want Dutton, The Thug, to be Prime Minister ?
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Dutton flat-out lied. Why won’t journos just say it?
April 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Dutton flat-out lied. Why won’t journos just say it?
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400, mostly women and children…
Israeli airstrikes death toll tops 400, mostly women and children: Gaza health authorities
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the attacks after Hamas refused Israeli demands to change the ceasefire agreement. The White House said it had been consulted and voiced support for Israel’s ...
www.smh.com.au
March 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
400, mostly women and children…
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Canada’s Ambassador to the U.N. calling it like it is.
Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.
March 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Canada’s Ambassador to the U.N. calling it like it is.
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Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.
March 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.
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Maestro David Briskin led the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra and the audience in a rousing rendition of O Canada before the opening of Swan Lake. #ElbowsUp is not one of ballet’s traditional positions of the arms, but everyone in Canada is adapting.
March 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Maestro David Briskin led the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra and the audience in a rousing rendition of O Canada before the opening of Swan Lake. #ElbowsUp is not one of ballet’s traditional positions of the arms, but everyone in Canada is adapting.