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[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

Check out the holocaust Western governments are pretending doesn't exist.

[Aida S @aidasadun]

Macklemore just issued another statement. What a man!

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

"If we want to oppose this new fascist strain, we really have to get a move on. 'I don’t tend to use this language, I try to be measured, but I think I’ve earned the right to escalate,' she says. 'The moment we’re in, people are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough.
Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.' https://t.co/T3lT9Q0CUI

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

Time to say goodbye:

This is a Cerulean paradise flycatcher, one of the rarest birds in the world.

For more than a century it was believed to be extinct—known only from a single specimen collected in 1873—until one was found in the last fragments of its ruined forest in the 1990s.

The few found since live only on the island of Sangihe, Indonesia, where the Baru Gold Corp has finally obtained permission to mine the island.

On September 8, 2026, the CEO, Terry Filbert, issued this statement: "Baru’s team of mining and finance professionals boasts extensive experience in starting and operating gold and coal assets. Baru is positioned to become Indonesia’s next gold producer."

The locals have fought this for years, fearing for their settlements and water supplies, but they and this beautiful and unique little bird don't matter to the Indonesian government as it continues its large-scale environmental destruction.

[Mohammed jawad 🇵🇸 @Mo7ammed_jawad6]

Just ten minutes ago, a 10-year-old girl was walking down the street right in front of my eyes…

She was walking through an area we are told is “safe,” a little girl carrying nothing but her innocence and a life she deserved to live.

Suddenly, she was shot by a tank and killed before my eyes.

She was only ten years old… Her life ended in a single moment, in a place we were told was safe.

What kind of safety is this? Where are our children supposed to go if even the places called “safe” cannot protect them?

How long will the children of Gaza continue to pay the price?

Where is safety, world?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: French researcher Stephanie Lamy exposes the network of “race realists” who hunted Jason Arday like prey, and the media who fell into his trap. If it seems like the news cycle has “moved on” from this story, ask yourself why?

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[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

There seems to be very little recognition from Israeli officials and soldiers that when they boast about killing people, they are talking about real people whose lives they ended. This courageous aid worker did nothing to deserve to be killed, does not deserve to be called a legitimate target after she was murdered, and those responsible should still be prosecuted.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

“The convoy lacked clear markings.”

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

There was a pivotal moment when a responsible & resourced news org could have investigated the race science network behind the Jason Arday allegations.

It is a tragedy that hasn’t happened until now but this is a much needed corrective from @NafeezAhmed & @BylineTimes

https://t.co/zwGUGSkh5S

[Ore Nicole @Ore_Nicole]

They’ve started to clean up articles about Jason Arday, but people have already taken screenshots and called those publications out. Why are they removing the articles now? Stand by what you wrote, cowards.

[Alex @Alexraphaello]

@spectator Fuck you you despicable cunts. I would say that I hope everyone involved with your publication feels this shame for the rest of their miserable existence, but anyone capable of shame would never work for your fascist rag anyway. Scum.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t know who will care about what I’m saying, but the situation here in Gaza is literally spiraling out of control in a terrifying way.

We are living in an area that makes up no more than 30% of the entire Gaza Strip, and this area has been reduced to rubble and tents. We are besieged by land, sea, and air. There is no real way out and nowhere we can escape to. There are cranes and massive sand embankments surrounding Gaza, and people are living under constant surveillance and fear. You cannot leave, and you cannot choose where you want to go. All you can do is wait.

Water stations have almost completely stopped operating because fuel and oil have run out. The tents have been torn apart and worn down by the extreme heat, and people are living inside them in conditions that are impossible to describe. Hospitals have been extensively destroyed, with medicines and medical supplies unavailable, and even basic diagnostic and treatment equipment has become extremely scarce. Almost everything is prohibited from entering Gaza, and even what is allowed in is subject to approval and restrictions.

The entire education system has collapsed. Schools have been destroyed, children have been deprived of their education, and families are sleeping on the streets or living in tents that offer no protection from the extreme heat, cold, or any other danger.

The reality here is far worse than anything I can write. Words cannot convey the scale of what we are experiencing, and no single photograph can show what it is like to watch an entire city collapse before our eyes.

We are not living a normal life. We are simply trying to survive. Besieged from every direction, without a home, without safety, and without any clear way out.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

They are all our children. Look what we’ve allowed happen to them.
The genocidal apartheid regime are doing it and the ‘West’ are their cheerleaders.
And our silence permits it.

[Brent Hodgson @BrentHodgson]

If Kobie could read the signs, she'd see:

- A Cantonese butcher
- A Taiwanese restaurant
- A Tianjin restaurant
- A Nepali restaurant (with Nepalese making 15.8% of the suburb's population)
- Dishes from Jiangsu, Teochew and Beijing - three separate cultural/language groups in Mainland China
- A shipping business whose model depends on customers proudly sending Australian-made gifts (of high quality milk formula, Merino bedding, and high-quality vitamins) to loved ones across Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the US
- A yoga studio run by a trilingual Hong Konger, with trainers from Beijing, New Zealand, Sydney
- A supermarket with traditional characters on one side (海龍) and simplified on the other (海龙) showing the Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong migration wave being replaced by a Mainland Chinese wave

And if she panned her camera over the road, we'd be seeing Singaporean, Malaysian and Vietnamese restaurants too.

To be describing this as a "monoculture" is a thinly veiled dog-whistle to: "all Asians are the same".

If Kobie cared to look, she'd be describing this as a melting pot - diversity in practice, coming together as a shared community - not a monoculture.

Anyone with an atlas or a recipe book could tell you that's not a monoculture.

It's Dal Bhat Tarkari next door to Pho, next door to Boba, next door to Nasi Lemak, opposite Nanjing Duck, next door to Yum Cha.

If Kobie cared to look, she also wouldn't be using this video to try to tell a story of "suburbs full of people who have refused to assimilate for decades".

The changing signs (already visible in the video) show it's just the latest chapter in an ever-changing story of a suburb where SEVERAL generations of new Australians - from MANY different cultures - have got a start: first Italian and Greek Australians, then Hong Kong born Australians, then Mainland Chinese Australians, and now increasingly Nepalese Australians.

To those who don't see it yet, ask:
- Where did the Greeks, Italians, and Cantonese Hong Kong shop owners who used to be there go?
- Where did their families go?
- What happens to the people behind the windows when the shop signs fade and change?

Those Australians deserve better than dog-whistling and divisiveness.

[Josh Butler @JoshButler]

The Morrison govt changed the line from "young" to "one" in 2020, explicitly to be more inclusive to Indigenous Australians, and recognise multiculturalism

By the by, the anthem's second verse also says:

"For those who’ve come across the seas, We’ve boundless plains to share"

[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.
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[💧Dr Richard Sallie MD FRACP🇺🇦🇺🇦 @DrRichardSallie]

Pauline Hanson is scheduled to address the National Press Club on **Wednesday, 17 June 2026, from 11:30am to 1:30pm. I have some questions for her, in case the assembled journalists can't think of any:

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

It’s so crazy that we’re watching a real genocide on our phones and nothing is being done about it