Simon Rosenberg

Through Starlink and SpaceX, there are huge risks having Australia’s critical infrastructure so dependent on a foreign network controlled entirely by one erratic, psychopathic, white-supremacist corporate owner. And the Albanese govt's risk management strategy? .... 🤞 #auspol

"The migrant vote no one saw coming" My latest looking at a strange new #auspol trend: 'Wogs for Hanson'

As @sulliview.bsky.social makes clear, the relationship between journalism and democracy is crucial. It's a tragedy that so few Australian legacy media political reporters appear to understand that. #auspol margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/countdown-...

Sounds all too familiar #auspol .

x.com/morgfair/sta... Beatrice Keul, a Swiss former pageant contestant, told committee staff Trump “violently raped” her in a suite at New York’s Plaza Hotel during his November 1993 American Dream pageant. She says earlier that day, Epstein approached her & introduced himself as “Don’s best friend”

An immediate reaction is to say the Albanese government has learned nothing from #robodebt. But perhaps they have learned only too well how to punch down on welfare recipients with onerous, cruel and illegal conditions. #poverty #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol

So after all the Howard Govt's efforts in bugging the East Timor government to get Woodside an advantage in the Sunrise gas project, Woodside is selling out for not much. Little Timor now left with job of finding partners to finally develop the thing. www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jon...

It's not just political rhetoric that's boiling over Cartoon by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social View the cartoon on The Point: https://sbrew.link/ok1x3HwZ

"Independents seeking to break into parliament for the first time would have been the biggest losers. Nicolette Boele’s successful 2025 campaign ... $746,000 worse off if the new rules had applied." @paulkarp.bsky.social @politico.com has the court docs. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

The standards you walk past, or fail to report on, are the standards you accept.

Questions from Sen Shoebridge in #Estimates last night revealed that CASA has been caught napping on Nauru Airlines. Haven't been doing their due diligence on major staffing changes, on safety or the high incidence of flight turnbacks, or on its troubled finances. CASA needs to lift its game fast.

The Australian political & media class may read this and smugly think: 'We're not as bad the US'. But all the signs are that, without real change, we are heading in a similar direction. And as grievances build, we will need far more than "civility" to maintain a fraying social contract. #auspol

As ex-CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour has said: good journalism is "truthful, not neutral". Too many Australian mainstream reporters pursue a stupid and dangerous version of neutrality, which results in giving equal time to fascist liars.

🧵. "Now one of two major political parties has been molded in [Trump's] image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women."

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

what walls ..?

What we have known for years from independent and international news is finally newsworthy here.

"The calls for civility only ever come in response to legitimate democratic pushback – not the issues fuelling dissent."

It's been over a decade, but the Mango Mussolini has finally acquired a rudimentary understanding of how democracy is supposed to work.

Yes, the US and all governments should cease funding and trading arms with Israel. The other issue is diplomatic cover. If all western nations who pretend to uphold international law actually did so, support for the apartheid, genocidal, ethnic cleansing rogue state would crumble overnight.

Vivek Ramyswamy’s wife discovers her husband is a horrible person, actually. 😐 🎥: @flowersintheflesh on Threads

Here's a map of where the "Mutual" obligations guide is going! So grateful to those who ordered free copies so far. Can't wait to get them in the post. Whether you're a welfare recipient, community sector worker or just want to support people on Centrelink, get them here: bit.ly/OrderMOsRigh...

The ombudsman agreed that the government failed to learn the lessons of #robodebt. But it's the opposite. For #agedcare, #NDIS, #jobseeker payments & employment services, the Albanese govt has learned precisely how to apply cruel, arbitrary & dehumanizing policies to the most vulnerable. #auspol

There are decades of evidence of Trump's sexual assaults. And for decades he has gotten away with it. The culture of impunity for wealthy, powerful men, and the denigration and dehumanization of victims/survivors, is obscene. #EpsteinFiles #misogyny

"Four more years will leave an indelible mark on Israel’s image. By their end, one fears, these words may be prohibited from publication. Perhaps the Haaretz newspaper itself will be banned." - Gideon Levy pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...

In the last 24 hours there has been much focus on the unexpected victory of Lula in Brazil. But as a signal of hope for a more participatory democratic future, Serbia is the real beacon.

"Attitudes excusing violence against women are a stronger predictor of violent extremism than race, religion or political leanings. When women stop running for public office, our democracy is at risk." @mon4kooyong.bsky.social #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

“They have dragged people from their houses, and prevented the media from getting into the district to cover up what is happening. “Netanyahu and his gang are using Palestinian land to displace Palestinian people, closing the city, closing the mosque, to achieve their political goals.”

Well done #MediaWatch for exposing the Murdoch media’s farcical climate-denying attempts to undermine the Bureau of Meteorology. The Australian’s latest toxic contribution to raising the temperature. #NewsCorpse #auspol

Brazil, Serbia, and next week, the US.

"Anthropic model accessed voter information" Yes the info is publicly available (for a fee) but "the model bypassed a paywall in accessing the information, according to Georgia officials and Anthropic." www.axios.com/2026/10/25/a...

When Angus Taylor "reads the room", he thinks he is in the members' bar at The Commonwealth Club. #auspol

"Civic society and NGOs will need to heighten pressure on governments to regulate in the public interest. ...How can an industry expect to have social licence if the public has no idea what is taking place behind those big, ugly walls?" Great summary of the key issues. #DataCentres #AI #auspol

“I don’t think we ridiculed or trivialised [Jacqui Lambie’s medical condition] at all - it’s satire.” This is One Nation’s cartoon creator. He thinks he is a gift to politics. #misogyny #racism #abc730 #auspol

Everybody is talking about Lula, but actually the victory in Serbia of a student-led, anti-government group fronting candidates from across society is almost more interesting for what it says about the potential to genuinely transform politics with the right movement at the right moment.

Illegal expansion of settlements and terrorism by far-right 'settler' groups in the occupied territories will continue, whoever is PM. At best, a new government would only "slow down the extremely crazy acceleration" of these crimes. Unless, of course, other governments uphold international law.

24 social housing apartments in Paris, with a mass timber structure and concrete cladding Love the large, openable timber windows! By Atelier de Chézy Architecture

🚨Gina Rinehart has sought to insert herself in the Haines attack, despite being one of the nation’s biggest funders of hate. The biggest funder of both One Nation and far-right Advance refuses to say if they should tone down their hateful rhetoric... theklaxon.com.au/gzks

PHON & LNP will dutifully complete the work of fossil fuel sponsored #AtlasNetwork think-tanks that spunoff Advance to kill the Voice referendum, then offshore wind, now the Vic govts clean energy rollout & VNI-West project. All this racism is cultivated solely to protect Big Fossil power & profit.

What's wrong with our media & political establishment in one podcast: The ABC seeking 'advice' on how to address Australians' political & economic grievances from a neoliberal ex-minister for finance, who has done more than most to create those grievances. #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The issues that sent young French people into the streets are are just a more extreme version of what is facing Australians. #auspol

Starlink / Starshield speeds have finally been restored fully for Ukraine. Elon Musk was the person who restricted them and he has been lying about everything related to this crisis the last two weeks.

So on-brand for the IDF to demolish the home of someone who exposed their war crimes. #PagerAttacks #Lebanon Criticism is really not their thing, is it? substack.com/@wyattreed/n...

"request"? Like his insurrectionist father made a similar request?