For overseas viewers here’s the ABC Compass doco on Antony Lowenstein questioning Israel’s 20 year mistreatment of the Palestinians: The Australian Jew dubbed traitor for speaking out against the war in Gaza | Compass | ABC In-depth - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=iOSMdS…

Incredible historical document here: Blinken says Israel’s PR is failing because social media allows people a direct look at what’s happening, shorn of the ability to mediate it, and it lands with emotional resonance. Romney then says yes, that’s why we moved to ban TikTok

This is SAS medic Dusty Miller's interview with Nick McKenzie Nick McKenzie 60 Minutes Australia on the war crimes at Sarkhume, Afghanistan in March 2012, while under the command of LtCol Jon Hawkins, who is now CEO Omni Executive Pty Ltd. The Australian legacy media are so completely…

On Monday Myanmar had its hottest day on record, an unbelievable 48.2C (118.8F). Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, China, and parts of India have also been struck by record breaking temperatures above 40C. These temperatures will kill thousands. 1/2

did y’all know that there are so many displaced ppl in sudan that states have had to open schools to house them? there isnt a single unoccupied school or hostel in sudan. ppl have been sleeping in classrooms, football fields, & basketball courts for over a year. #KeepEyesOnSudan

yes, the NYPD did indeed print their own custom oversize and poorly blown-up mock-up of an anodyne entry in a series of pamphlet-length introductory college level textbooks to wave around on TV to show how student protestors are terrorists who must be crushed

'Hamas was guaranteed by the US…that Israeli forces will not continue fighting once the hostages are released [but] an Israeli official told Haaretz that 'Israel will, under no circumstances, agree to end the war as part of a deal' and is determined to enter Rafah.'

2020: I’m voting for the adults in the room.

2024: We regret to inform you the adults in the room are genocidal maniacs.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Federal Government has awarded over $700,000 in contracts to “PwC’s Indigenous Consulting” as it moves to resume giving taxpayer cash to disgraced consultancy PwC Australia, despite ongoing criminal investigations...
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Andrew Bartlett I dunno how you’re wrong. It’s literally here:

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I am happy to be corrected if I’ve got it wrong, but isn’t it already ALP policy to recognise Palestine as a state? (“as a priority”)

I’m not sure what needs to be weighed up? Maybe just implement your own party’s policy. Given you’re the govt etc

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Central (Hyndburn) council election result:

GRN: 41.9% (+41.9)
CON: 26.4% (-23.0)
LAB: 24.1% (-26.4)
WP: 7.5% (+7.5)

Green GAIN from Labour.

sotn.newstatesman.com/2024/05/britai…

Dramatic Labour losses in Blackburn proper to independent candidates. Coming from nowhere to win 50%+ in many wards. sotn.newstatesman.com/2024/05/britai…

Despite everything that is awful with the world, I hope I will never stop getting at least a small bit of enjoyment out of the oddity of electorate names in the UK.

(Also nice to see the 2 conservative parties get smashed, in this fairly minor example)

Combating antisemitism by banning the head of Jewish studies nothing to see here

Quite a statement by the International Criminal Court, asking that they stop being 'intimidated' and 'threatened' (no brownie point for guessing by whom...)

We can only imagine the pressure they must be under...

And those threats are real: remember that the US has a law…

a win away in the Hamburg derby tonight will see St Pauli, Jackson Irvine and Connor Metcalfe promoted. What a way to go up that would be.

Day 570: Just three weeks to go today until #FreeDanDuggan faces extradition to the US for doing his job - which is not a crime in Australia. An Aussie citizen and father of six, Dan made his home here 22 years ago. He and his family have been abandoned by our Government who…

When the world feels too dark, read a children's book.
When you need to feel hope, read a children's book.
When you need to believe in magic, read a children's book. Children's lit is a balm to those worn out & in need of wonder. Never dismiss these books as 'just for children.'

Oof #CalvinandHobbes