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[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@MarioNawfal Same old shit

[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@JJKALE2 Yeeessssssss

[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@SandyHorne61 Oh Sandy your photos are gorgeous, especially when I’ve just looked at my iPad and seen this pic 🙏🏻🤩😍

[Ellen Sandell @ellensandell]

Pauline Hanson clearly doesn't know the first thing about First Nations people in this country.

It's a privilege to live alongside the oldest continuing culture on the planet.

[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@grantcohn @AFL We’ll miss you Grant, loved your food journeys, Australia is a fabulous country - we are lucky🤩and Patrick is number 1😂

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

reposting hannah’s words because i couldn’t have said it better

[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@SandyHorne61 Both ideas sounded great Sandy - glad though you did pick up a camera

[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@mackaysuzie If she ‘appears to be polling better’ - I would be more inclined to think they are the cooker/racists voters who think that being belligerent and hateful is strength - similar to Trumpism in the US…..

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

For doing nothing but trying to reduce violence against women and people in minority groups, witches, we’re now ourselves repeatedly threatened with violence.

Usually by men with the biggest fame, most money and most powerful media platforms in the country.

The irony would be incredible, if it weren’t 100% true.

On Friday, it was (predictably) Karl Stefanovic’s turn. As the keynote speaker at Prince Alfred College’s Old Boy’s dinner in Adelaide (as we posted on last week), he said this:
“The outspoken podcaster didn’t miss when taking aim at his critics, referencing the MFW (Mad F***ing Witch) Facebook page that condemned Prince Alfred College’s decision to welcome Stefanovic to their annual dinner. The page had earlier launched a #KancelKarl campaign targeting Stefanovic and calling for advertisers to pull funding from his Nine shows. ‘I would love to see – this is going to be a tricky one for you – I would love to see those mad witches with a spitfire up their arse’ he said to loud applause and cheers from the audience.”
https://t.co/K5GaUxrPeC

Yep. Just for wanting him to stop breathlessly adoring Nazis (among other transgressions) on his new podcast, Stefanovic publicly stated he wants us blown up using bloodthirsty war rhetoric (a Spitfire is a British WW2 fighter plane, for those who don’t know). The quote also has a crude and possibly intended sexual context as used against a woman or group of women, which makes it even more depraved and threatening.

Is this kind of language the “Free Speech” you’re so fond of calling for, Karl? Blowing us up for wanting you to stop the racism and hate? Why is the freedom to say what you want only for YOU?

And yeah, if asked about this now Karl will say it was “just a joke” to get a laugh from an adoring room full of wealthy older men. But this is what men like this always say, isn’t it? And as women we know it’s all “just a joke” … until it fucking isn’t.

He’s not unique in this technique, of course. He’s just the latest in a long line of men who want women they disagree with maimed or killed or burned at the stake. We still have three Admins living away from home (at great expense and astounding hardship) due to credible personal threats made by Sandilands. And we face waves of abuse and violence on our threads and in our DMs every single day we call it out.

Yet now, Stefanovic feels free to add to all this by saying he wants us Admins violated and destroyed merely for objecting to his showcasing a violent racist. This is so often where they end up going, witches. When over-privileged men don’t get their way. Because they can’t take any kind of criticism or censure or being called to account, no matter how reasonable it is.

So here’s the big question, witches. Was Stefanovic always like this and just hid it while on mainstream television, or has he just recently developed (because he’s now unshackled from his pesky bosses at Nine) this new and public wish to have women who disagree with him blown sky high?

Whatever the answer, there’s little we can do about his and other mens’ hatred of MFW but keep calling it out, and keep going with our campaigns to expose them, explain their shitfucked actions, and successfully get them as far away as possible from us and anyone who also cops their filth, lies and hate.

So with your support, that’s exactly what we’ll do.

Oh, and fuck off forever, Karl.
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We won’t stop till advertisers stop funding filth. Go to https://t.co/gefVqPNM7A to learn how to contact advertisers. Or go directly to FOE lists for ongoing campaigns here: https://t.co/Es49qK4TCo . Send all responses you get to [email protected].

Please also support our work to get rid of Vile Kyle: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month:
https://t.co/LES4fbWnAs

#ToYourBrooms

[ADAM @adamemedia]

You can literally just post "Netanyahu is a war criminal " and get one thousand likes.

[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@s_m_marandi @KevorkAlmassian @TarikCyrilAmar Love you Seyed! I’m Australian and I’m not proud of the ABC in this country and all other media……Thankyou for being calm and truthful…..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[politic@l spinner,,, 🔥🍺 No DMs sorry @Justabogan]

👀

[Russell Drysdale :Best wishes Dr Haines. @Russputin2]

Christopher Pyne lied on ABCs' $ 0.73c report last night, claiming that Lib Crims & Malcolm Fraser were "the father of Multicuralism in Aus" & also, they invented SBS.

I've got News for Chris & its all bad!
Al Grasby was its' actual Daddy & SBS was a Whitlam Govt Initiative , like all the Bridges & other Projects Gough created, Libs cut the Ribbon & claimed credit.

1973 – The Hon Al Grassby MP, Minister for Immigration in the Whitlam Government, issued a reference paper titled A multi-cultural society for the future.
1975 – At a ceremony proclaiming the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, the Prime Minister, the Hon Gough Whitlam referred to Australia as a 'multicultural nation'.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

The future is clear. I need a podcast. “Nazi & Nice,” I’ll call it: matey, jokey, hour-long chats with some of the world’s nastiest RWFWs. Sure to be a hit.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Hanson is a fucking disgrace: a rancid little merchant of resentment who sells cruelty as courage, division as patriotism, and fear mongering as leadership.

This 👇 is Hanson’s politics in one clip: suspicion first, facts never, and contempt either way.

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Why does Australia continuously pander to toxic stale pale males? 🤮

#auspol

[Louise Greene @GreeneLouiseAus]

I am absolutely fed up with the relentless targeting of Grace Tame.

Let's be clear. There is a difference between fair criticism and a public pile-on. What we keep seeing directed at Grace is not constructive debate. It is constant scrutiny, personal attacks, outrage cycles and a level of judgment that seems reserved for women who dare to speak too loudly, too honestly or too unapologetically.

Grace Tame survived child sexual abuse. She helped change laws. She gave a voice to countless survivors. She has spent years doing work that most people would never have the courage to do.

Yet the attacks never seem to stop.

A few weeks ago it was the Prime Minister taking aim at her. Now it's Charlie Pickering. Before that, countless commentators, columnists and social media critics. Different names, same pattern.

And frankly, it disgusts me.

No, women in public life should not be immune from criticism. Nobody is. But there is a world of difference between criticism and the kind of sustained public hounding that seeks to diminish, discredit and exhaust someone.

As someone who has experienced public judgment and media attacks, I know how destructive these campaigns can be. They reduce human beings to caricatures. They erase context. They encourage outrage while ignoring the very real emotional toll on the person at the centre of it.

What troubles me most is that women who survive violence are so often expected to be perfect. The moment they become angry, outspoken, political, imperfect or inconvenient, they are treated as fair game.

Grace Tame has contributed more to the conversation about sexual abuse and survivor advocacy in this country than most of her critics ever will.

Maybe it's time some of the men lining up to take shots at her stopped and asked themselves a simple question:

Why are they spending so much energy attacking a survivor instead of supporting the change she helped create?

Enough. #gracetame #charliepickering

[cmdibley @cmdibley]

For those of you who say voting Independent & Greens is a wasted vote, spend some time watching these guys in Senate Estimates saving our democracy & holding Ministers & public servants to account. Two of our hardest working, most effective Senators ever.

[Dawn @Dawn35628551]

@Naila_Ayad @raywilton4 I do remember this from years ago, a Palestinian man trying to shield himself and his child from IDF gun fire, not sure if it was Gaza or West Bank. I remember it very clearly.