Alessandra

Littérature / Politics junkie / Sucker for a clever bon mot / A touch of sass / Red lipstick wearer / Human Rights / International Lawyer 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇦🇺

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@MikeCarlton01 Let’s not engage in the lazy+ dangerous habit of blaming an entire religion. Yes, the man who stopped the gunman was Muslim. Criticism must be directed where it belongs: at jihadist ideology, extremist networks, and governments that enable or excuse them. Correct facts matter.

[BNO News @BNONews]

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@miriamcosic Media response this evening to Bondi beach appalling and unforgivable act of violence. has been chaotic and irresponsible. Should the Media be Censored? When it Comes to acts of Terrorism, the short answer is: Yes!!!!!

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@AlboMP Just like the “common good” extended to Qantas…where you used your position of power to benefit yourself?

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@hughriminton @MikeCarlton01

[Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut]

Always odd how “libertarians” really believe in freedoms that are only linked with corporate profits.

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@Peter_Fitz Brittany Higgins knew they would say she was drunk, play footage of her from that night, show her texts - she knew how they would spin it and she decided to continue to press charges anyway- because none of it is relevant to her being raped.

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@MikeCarlton01 Brittany Higgins knew they would say she was drunk, play footage of her from that night, show her texts - she knew how they would spin it and she decided to continue to press charges anyway- because none of it is relevant to her being raped.

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@MikeCarlton01 Credit to the police. Again running towards danger. #BondiJunction

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@MikeCarlton01 The latest scenes and stories from #Bondi are a gut punch to all Australians. What we’re seeing is so ghastly that becoming numb to it should not even be an option.

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@JoshButler Credit to the police. Again running towards danger. #BondiJunction

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@JoshButler Indeed. Truly heart-breaking. Evil & insanity. This #Bondistabbing spree has rattled a country unaccustomed to recent acts of mass violence that has no place in Australia. My thoughts are with the victims of these horrific acts this afternoon & all those that have lost loved ones

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@wendy_harmer Credit to the police. Again running towards danger. #BondiJunction

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@Kate_McClymont Truly heart-breaking. Evil + insanity. This stabbing spree has rattled a country unaccustomed to recent acts of mass violence that has no place in Australia. My thoughts are with the victims of these horrific acts this afternoon and all those that have lost loved ones.

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@hughriminton Israelis and Palestinians desperately need another Anwar Sadat. Such a figure, sadly, is nowhere in sight not. 2 state solution. Instead, we have two cynical time-servers — Netanyahu and Abbas — and the fanatical hard men of Hamas.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Andrew Feinstein, genocide scholar and Jewish former member of the ANC, on western complicity in the Gaza genocide:

'The so-called western world is prepared to sacrifice the entire architecture of international law that has been in place post-World War 2 specifically to prevent there being another genocide like the Holocaust.. so Israel can continue to murder 247 Palestinians on an average day – 47 of whom will be women and 117 of whom will be children.

'We are prepared to throw it all out. That is the point of crisis our politics is at right now.'

Watch more here: https://t.co/UeXPdVIwv6

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@AustralianOpen @bondisands @wwos @espn @eurosport @wowowtennis It's not over yet...🔥

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@TheMatildas Hats off to these athletes … Lot of love and respect for this team. Lets goooooo #Matildas  You made a lot more friends and did your country 🇦🇺 proud!! #AUSFRA

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

@TheMatildas Hats off to these athletes … Lot of love and respect for this team. Lets goooooo #Matildas  You made a lot more friends and did your country proud!!

[Alessandra @AlessPickings]

The case of Kathleen Folbigg became a contest between cutting-edge science and an Australian court system that ignored it. Just as racism is embedded in the legal system, so is misogyny.

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

Kathleen Folbigg pardoned after 20 years in jail over deaths of her four children https://t.co/LqN2Hn8DTU