Ali B

[Ali B @AliB5000]

@aparachick ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[𝓓𝓮𝓵 @delonperc]

I wish more people would understand that autistic social trauma doesn't always come from bullying, sometimes it just comes from nobody wanting to be your friend and people subtly excluding you

[Ali B @AliB5000]

@aparachick Yesss well done 👏

[Ali B @AliB5000]

@aparachick @SandyHorne61 Oh wow! I get mine every year, that's all I'm eligible for. Do we know if we will be able to pay for them? I'm not due until December so I'll miss the October cut off 😪

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Unhinged gaslighting from the government, yet again. That's the opposite of the problem! Datacentres are springing up at lightspeed, in stark contrast to many other types of developments. They lie and they lie and they lie.

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

More women have been murdered since 2024 by men than all Australians killed by terrorism globally in the past 100 years. Yet there are no Royal Commission’s for women still. No emergency task forces. No addresses to the nation. No days of mourning

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Give that judge a fucking medal.

@ShereleMoody

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[Ali B @AliB5000]

@aparachick Woop well done!

[Lammy @Lammyisback]

Can I just say being autistic as an adult is actually horrible. People have zero patience for adults with autism.

[Ali B @AliB5000]

@aparachick @virgotweet Hugs to you today, your mum sounds just like you 💕❤️ x

[Ali B @AliB5000]

@aparachick ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
/2 sources

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Trump came to power partly by a spineless, toe licking media that sane-washed his every utterance and treated him like a normal person - now look at him

Australia - we're in deep trouble

This is Australia's legacy media today, right down to the ABC

Sane washing a maniac

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[Shane Bazzi @shanebazzi]

Pauline Hanson attacking migrants, Muslims, and transgender people won’t make your life easier or better.

Racism, Islamophobia and transphobia won’t fix the housing crisis, cost of living crisis or climate crisis. It won’t make your bills, groceries or rent cheaper. It won’t increase your pay or work conditions. It’s a tired, ugly and harmful distraction.

Hanson serves the 1%, the billionaires and big corporations, not ordinary working class people who are really struggling.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I’m constantly astonished that billionaires would rather ignore the climate crisis and prepare to live in a bunker with dvds and baked beans than devote a modicum of their bottomless wealth to saving the planet where we have fresh fruit and soft grass and blue skies.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

It is time for civil disobedience. And to call on all good Australians to stand against this atrocity.

Disabled Australians are having their NDIS funding cut in droves.

They are suiciding and in some cases killing their children.

One woman’s suicide failed.

She had set herself on fire, in her wheelchair. Her bedsheets hadn’t been changed for nine months.

She remains in hospital.

People will take their lives rather than forgoing seeing their families or children, rather than going into institutions.

@Mark_Butler_MP had the absolute gall to go on @InsidersABC on Sunday and say that disabled people were being ‘anxious.’

As we die.

@AlboMP says he is a member of the Catholic Church, @ACBC1. @SydneyCatholic @Cath_Religious @SydneyCatholic @PerthCatholic @auscaths @catholic_weekly I went to St Norbert College as a child, but it has been a very long time.

Is this still in the Bible?

“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

- Gospel of Matthew 25:40

What about this?

“Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind…”

- Book of Leviticus 19:14

Their cuts - which are not related to fraud, you can read out this here https://t.co/KgKxuyl0WO.

Euthanasia/assisted suicide has almost doubled in WA and has risen in every state, significantly in most.

The #RoboNDIS and #RoboAgedCare algorithms have already caused sweeping cuts to our lives.

And all because our govt chose non existent AUKUS submarines rather than care and support, breaking their promises to disabled Australians and other voters.

This, sirs, is demicide.

Who will hear us?

@AngusTaylorMP - you too are a Christian, are you not?

Imagine what it is like to be an Australian with Down syndrome in 2026 and read the comments about why you should have been aborted. https://t.co/W1KekRZ4TD Right or wrong, pro choice or pro life, eugenics is now all the rage.

And not one of you men who say you believe in a God will stand for us like the Lion of Münster did when the Nazis slaughtered disabled people during T4. None except @JustinGlynSJ and a few others.

Tomorrow we will be calling on our faith leaders in a Call to Conscience, and I hope that those who purport to follow the Word will make a stand for life, for humanity, and for those who have been deemed unworthy of life by the Australian government.

People are sending me photographs of their dead disabled children.

We are better than this. #CallToConscience

[Hugh Riminton @hughriminton]

GetUp says it did the banner stunt that disrupted Pauline Hanson speech at the NPC

[Robyn @robynbryant33]

#IStandWithGregJericho