Tim Rust

Have you ever considered how this hypocritical performative nonsense just increases people's disdain for politicians? You're in a position with a substantial majority to actually do something and you trot out a shopping trolley.

No Arab is going to win a Wolf Prize unless the Israeli government changes fundamentally, and the idea that there's no Arab literature is stunning in its ignorance

Oh my god #USA, please sort yourselves out starting with the midterms. Your government is being run by actual morons who either deliberately lie through their teeth about everything important or are too stupid to know they're lying through their teeth about everything important.

Fucked up in the studio shredding non-Euclidean riffs on the four dimensional AliExpress guitar neck

cough cough australian politicians you up?

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”

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

Does this include wage theft, unpaid superannuation, and phoenixing? #askingforafriend

Taps sign. See?

Seriously? You're the goddam prime minister, presiding over a deliberately destroyed welfare system.

We can't have an Indigenous voice to parliament, or even a broadly Jewish one, but an apparatus extending beyond a foreign government into the government of this country is fine

this is the good kind of pedantry

On Albo's post about the Kmart wishing tree - he's getting flattened. We pay our taxes to cover the needs of all Australians. But it's now going to the American war machine, Israeli weapons manufacturers and fossil fuel multinationals.

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The party of championing individual liberties strikes agen. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Funding for disability and health is "unsustainable", they tell us, but there's always wads of cash for more protection for pollies, beefing up ASIO's surveillance of us, and arming cops, isn't there

Rather than recalculate these, Labor passed new legislation to retrospectively validate debts they had already conceded were illegal. Now people are having to go back decades to find evidence with which to defend themselves. This is beyond indefensible. Spitting in the faces of Robodebt victims.

"It is blatantly irresponsible for politicians like Jess Wilson to be linking legitimate and peaceful protest of Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the Bondi terror attack. We unequivocally condemn her mislabelling of peaceful protest as antisemitic." @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social statement. #springst

What we already know is a Jess Wilson-led Liberal Party will scrap Victoria's Treaty process that's been 10 years in the making & ongoing That's sufficient information to take a decision Will public institutions, civic orgs & leaders committed to Walking with First Nations honour their commitment❓️

If you can’t string together some adjectives about your own child you probably shouldn’t be in charge of anything……..

Any school that responds in these ways should immediately have all taxpayer funding removed along with their charitable status simple #AusPol #AusNews www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/educ...

But, by a strange mechanism, the airport private monopoly is to be maintained.

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

To be fair she is talking to David Speers. I'm surprised she isn't talking slower and using diagrams.

AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid

But above all the noise and tumult of the crowd could be heard the merchants’ voices loudly advertising their products. “Get your fresh-picked ifs, ands, and buts.” “Hey-yaa, hey-yaa, hey-yaa, nice ripe wheres and whens.” “Juicy, tempting words for sale.”

How lucky am I? I picked up a mate walking home from his morning bus run and he took me to see a Bower Bird nest. It was decorated at the entrance with Quandong fruit to entice the lucky lady in and furnished with coloured glass and stones to impress her.

The fact that this is the top news story on News Ltd Australia tells a story...

They "unsurfaced" them did they, from the public facebook page?

"Beware of any Christian movement" would be enough for me.

Did Hell Freeze Over? Mark Kenny on #Insiders correctly points out it's not just Social Media that's to blame for Hate Speech, it's also the 'traditional' media. Murdoch (not named 🙁) has a long tradition of angertainment. #auspol #journalism #HateSpeech #HelenHaines

Imagine if teens weren’t targeted but had access to free tertiary and TAFE level education courses! Imagine if police didn’t target them driving around in their expensive European vehicles! Imagine if teenagers and adults had access to reasonable affordable levels of #YouthAllowances & #JobSeeker

policing cannabis causes massive harm in targeted communities. Criminalisation, poverty, trauma, all directly caused by police.

The PM'S MATE

I think we should do things Nazis cannot do. Nazis shrink the human story of Us. They cannot expand it. I’d say we should expand Us to include all humans. That’s a good goal. I think our story is "Exclusion of any kind is bad for the team." That's a good story. www.the-reframe.com/us-and-them/

Cogito Ergo Get Some

"I was fine when they were assholes to other people but not when they were to me."

Don’t see any of those Very Wise Commentators calling for a good hard look at the failures of our mental health system. Too woke I guess

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.

If pollution laws meant anything (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha) then both Canberra and the WA government would immediately move to shut down Chevron’s Gorgon plant

#Australia Not all men, but certainly this one?

A brief history of Australia. The Irish can’t be trusted. The Chinese can’t be trusted. The Jews can’t be trusted. The Greeks can’t be trusted. The Italians can’t be trusted. The Slavs can’t be trusted. The Vietnamese can’t be trusted. The Chinese can’t be trusted. The Muslims can’t be trusted…

For decades we were told that this plant could exist because “carbon capture and storage” was going to sequester carbon in bedrock — Dear Reader, they told that lie so they could sell gas.

Whether Netanyahu survives or not, no-one likely to form a government will dismantle apartheid, ethnic cleansing or the #GazaGenocide. And not while other nations continue to give Israel impunity for its crimes.

(It's Jorkin Dapeanus Vance)