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[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Wilcox. #auspol #BaffleNoMore

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

Yes folks, cost of living, wars (Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine) are distressing enough but another bigger challenge confronts us: climate change. All of Europe now in heat extremis. All populations should be demanding urgent global mitigation: decarbonisation of earth’s thin biosphere.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Amanda Vanstone unloads on Pauline Hanson’s “legacy”
“What’s she achieved? Two fifths of sweet you know what all!”
“bloody nothing!”🔥🤣
“It’s all about her, she doesn’t give a rats about you.”💥💯

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

Intriguing how the media subjects the "teals" to far more critique than they give Hanson, even though community independents are a more authentic expression of the much vaunted "fed up" voter vibe.

Kinda like an admission the media know ON is a con, but prefer not to mention it.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Karl Stefanovic being sacked for platforming Tommy Robinson this week isn’t completely about who he interviewed — it’s about how. Robinson is a former British National Party member turned white supremacist agitator who pushes “Remigration” — the forced removal of non-white people — in coded language. Stefanovic never raised any of it. He told Robinson he admired his “tenacity and courage,” agreed when Robinson talked about whipping up anger to “cause an earthquake” — “why not, this is a great country and it’s so lost” — and asked him how the right could “take power” here within three years. He posted himself with his arm around Robinson, the two laughing together. That’s not investigative journalism. That’s normalising an extremist.

There’s nothing new about journalists interviewing extremists — done properly, it’s some of the most important journalism there is. When BBC’s Question Time put BNP leader Nick Griffin in front of 8 million viewers in 2009, the panel tore into his Holocaust denial and links to extremist groups on live television. When Vice News embedded with white nationalists in Charlottesville in 2017, the resulting documentary won a Peabody and four Emmys — for capturing them in their own words, threats included, with nothing softened. Hard questions, no flattery, the extremist exposed rather than humanised. Stefanovic did the opposite.

This is the same Stefanovic who once praised multiculturalism on air and told his own immigrant grandparents’ story. His podcast now runs on the opposite frame entirely — Hanson as his debut guest in January, back again in May, a Robinson interview landing six days after Hanson told the National Press Club “we must be monocultural.” No explanation was ever given for his complete ideological about-face. The timing lines up with one thing only: his move from network TV, where this would never be allowed to air, to an unaccountable, monetised podcast where it can.

Why? Money. Kyle Sandilands took a $12 million payout from his old network and is now openly “sharpening” Hanson’s messaging on a new show. Multiple high-profile broadcasters landing on the identical politics in the identical commercial window isn’t conviction. It’s a market — and sadly platforming white supremacists and normalising them is what’s currently selling.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

If you have a brain, you have bias.

Negative information shapes our behaviour far more than positive — because negative can actually kill you. Missing a threat can be fatal. Missing a reward usually wasn’t. So the brain evolved to weight negativity, bad news, danger, and loss more heavily than good news, positive experiences and gain. This isn’t a personality flaw or a character weakness. It’s a primal survival mechanism. The brain’s core job has never been to make you happy — it’s to detect threats and keep you alive.

Decades of psychological research confirm it: Baumeister et al.’s “bad is stronger than good,” and Kahneman & Tversky’s work on loss aversion both show negative information is processed faster, remembered longer, and weighted more heavily than positive information of equal size.

That’s exactly what grievance politics exploits. Politicians who understand this don’t need facts on their side — they need repetition. Flood people with messages that the country is failing, that they’re worse off, that someone is taking what’s theirs — and you don’t need to persuade anyone- you just need them to feel threatened. You’re hijacking a threat-detection system that’s been running since before language existed.

It’s how Trump won. It’s the same mechanic running through One Nation’s playbook here. Manufacture the grievance, flood the feed, and let biology do the rest.

The problem isn’t that people are gullible. It’s that fear is a much louder signal than truth — and they know it.

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

Hey @grok, does Israel have an AI system named “The Gospel” that an Israeli officer admitted mostly kills women and children?

Be concise. No spin.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Protests in Albania are escalating, with demonstrators now calling for the resignation of the entire government amid growing anger over the proposed Kushner-Ivanka Trump development project.

What began as opposition to a luxury development is rapidly turning into a broader political crisis.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢🇺🇳 NEW: A UN Commission of Inquiry has concluded that “Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children,” finding Israeli authorities and security forces have committed genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Gaza, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank.

➡️ The commission found the deliberate targeting of children is “one of the key elements establishing genocidal intent” and said Israel is pursuing “a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children.”

➡️Among its findings, the commission said Israel has:
🔹 “Deliberately shot children in vital organs using precision weapons”
🔹 Attacked homes, schools, displacement camps, and neonatal and maternity care centers, harming newborn survival and Palestinians’ reproductive future
🔹 Used starvation through blockade and siege, causing child deaths and severe malnutrition
🔹 Arrested, tortured, and subjected Palestinian children to sexual violence in detention
🔹 Destroyed healthcare, orphanages, and education, obstructing children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development and undermining the foundations of Palestinian society

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Antony Green - elections @AntonyGreenElec]

Oops. The graphic didn't match the Morgan poll, or the script and someone's used the One Nation two-party figure. It seems to have been fixed back to 31% in a later story but this graphic and story are still on Sunrise's Youtube channel.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

This "monoculture" shit Pauline is forcing into the discourse

MSM journos, please ask her how she would enforce cultural apartheid

Pies? The anthem on a loop? Police raids of the Shawarma carts at the Dandenong night market?

Don't normalise her insane racism, you fkn numpties

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Yes, we’re considering running a new campaign protesting that one of @Channel9’s main “stars” is now interviewing violent fascists on his podcast.

We’d need support and assistance to run this campaign, but are up for it if we can get enough enthusiasm.

Please like, comment and/or re-tweet if you’re in favour.

Anyone?

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

It's absurd that large mining companies receive huge taxpayer-funded diesel subsidies while everyone else pays. Fuel excise doesn't go to roads it goes to general govt revenue.

Treasury forecasts the fuel tax credit scheme will cost the budget $47 billion over 4 years. Coal companies alone could receive another $6.2 billion if more mines are approved.

It's time to end fuel tax credits for large mining companies.
https://t.co/cEiwSiv56M

[Kirsti Miller @KirstiMiller30]

History being repeated. I’m sure not many Australians know about the 1940s campaign to establish a Jewish community in the Kimberley’s. Gina’s father Lang was an influential supporter of it.

Lang Hancock was an outspoken supporter of Dr. Isaac Steinberg's proposal (known as the Kimberley Plan) to establish a Jewish settlement in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Hancock, a prominent pastoralist and mining magnate, advocated for the plan as a means to develop the remote northern region of the state. His support was rooted in his broader belief that populating and developing northern Australia was vital for the nation's progress and security. The settlement proposal, led by Steinberg on behalf of the Freeland League, ultimately failed after facing staunch opposition from the federal government and concerns over establishing autonomous enclaves.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

H5 bird flu has now reached the Australian mainland. Overseas, this virus has already killed millions of birds.

For Australia’s threatened species, the risks are serious. Experts warn it could push species like the orange-bellied parrot and Australian sea lion to extinction.

The govt should urgently invest $200 million over two years to tackle invasive species, restore habitat and reduce predators so critically endangered species have the best chance of surviving this outbreak.
https://t.co/ELZJrYa7Dn

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Because of YOU my paper on Attachment Theory & Aboriginal ppl hit the top 2% of research globally & the editors responded by making it FREE access. I’m posting it here first!
This only happens for the most consequential papers.
No paywall. Read now & share widely

https://t.co/Y0YXXcNN4O

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The media has not bothered to thoroughly fact check Hansons National Press Club address so I’ve done it for them. 18 false and / or misleading statements. John Paul Janke was the journalist who pushed back on her claims and Sarah Martin questioned her about her daughters position as campaign advisor (rightly so) and was called a “trashy journalist” by Hanson and told she would be banned from future pressers. Nothing else was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

How’s this flow of Gina logic

"That important culture, could flourish again, if we also offered free land, be that near prairie if suitable, or elsewhere near Townsville, to the Israelis and transport here for their skilled people, immediate families and equipment, and encouraged the Israelis to develop and build their advanced war drones, and or other advances in defence, and or improve upon their Israeli style domes, and manufacture them here to sell to our country to help make our people and critical infrastructure safe."

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

🔴Lebanese Ministry of Health:

4,106 civilians killed and 12,153 wounded by Israeli attacks since March 2nd.

Report from Sohmor, where the Israelis slaughtered a family of four.