Prospero

[Josh Bornstein @JoshBBornstein]

Authoritarians and fascists target science, reason, knowledge, expertise and intelligence. Universities represent all those things. Ultimately these attacks lead to a nihilism which we see in the US under Trump and in the collapse of the Liberal Party here.

[Wattle the day "From the river to the sea" @NotSoTravelled]

The very powerful pro-Israel/pro-genocide fools in Australia, think that they're winning by cancelling this esteemed surgeon. But they're losing big time - Australia loves an underdog, and we love our brilliant heart surgeons.

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

If you served in the IDF since Oct 2023 you should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes.

- UN Commission of Inquiry

[m. barnes @mbarnes49021432]

Australia cannot afford to silence its talented doctors, scientists, artists, academics. We have too few of them. Silencing them will send them away and we cannot afford a brain drain of any magnitude. Modern history has a good example of the folly of doing this. Pivotal in Germany's loss of WWII was its pre-war rejection of scientists who migrated to USA, UK. You need to sort out the mess you've made of this NOW @AlboMP. ⬇️ #auspol

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Journalist charged with doing journalism.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Australia is rushing into a nuclear future with little preparedness — and even less public support.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Superb (short) speech in NSW Parliament by Stephen Lawrence - following the release of the UN Report concluding Israel’s killing of children is ‘targeted’ - urging us all to confront the reality of what Israel is doing

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Albanese is taking a giant gamble with the fate of our nation.

“Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam both warned against surrendering Australian sovereignty to US military and intelligence interests.

“But AUKUS and the Albanese government’s foreign policy have deepened that dependence.”

Fraser, Whitlam, Albanese and national sovereignty https://t.co/1m9EWmYRAJ

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

Read more here: https://t.co/sCKzq5mq5u

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Explain this to me.

We have entire careers built on showing that exercise, diet, sleep, and other health behaviors can modestly attenuate age-related neurodegeneration. The effects are often small—2% more hippocampal volume here, a little more cortical thickness there, improvements in functional connectivity, etc.

And we celebrate it (rightfully). Millions of people exercise every day chasing those gains—including people living with Parkinson’s.

But suggest wearing a mask to reduce repeated exposure to a virus with growing evidence of long-term neurological and cognitive consequences, and suddenly many of the same “health behavior” experts are like:

“Yeah… I’m not doing that.”

The disconnect is fascinating.

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

It took me a couple of days to read the latest @UN Commission of Inquiry's report on how Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. I had to stop, again and again, just to breathe. The level of devastation, the detail, the evidence, it is overwhelming.

The findings are devastating and unequivocal: Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in #Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank.

At @Amnesty, we documented the genocide in Gaza in our report published in December 2024, and more recently detailed evidence of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. We know the patterns. We have exposed the atrocities. Yet reading this report still shakes you to the core. It goes deeper into the intent, into the systematic nature of the violence, into the unbearable reality that children themselves are being targeted.

This is not collateral damage. This is not incidental. This is deliberate. Children, killed, maimed, traumatized, deprived not only of safety, but of any possibility of a future. Entire generations being erased in plain sight.

How much more evidence does the world need? How many more reports must confirm what is already undeniable?

Governments cannot continue to look away. Silence and inaction, in this moment, are complicity.

This must end. Israel must be held fully accountable.

🔗https://t.co/n6K8HpK3nh

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Whistleblower insider reveals Microsoft’s key surveillance and data roll in Israel’s slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

Microsoft hosted 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone call data in the Microsoft Netherlands data center, with additional data stored in the Irish data center.

“This data is used by the Israeli military to identify targets for airstrikes, arrests, and blackmail from the entire Palestinian population.

“It is also used as training data to build AI-targeting programs.

“These programs invent arbitrary justifications to murder non-combatants, intentionally adding civilian workers to the Israeli military’s generated ‘target bank’.

“The programs also facilitate massacres of entire families at once.”

https://t.co/AGtkU1q9o9

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

***** Highly Recommended
Every word. By Louise Adler in @deepcutnews - a devastating account of the charade this is turning into:
If the Royal Commission is serious about antisemitism, it should look at the Israel lobby – Louise Adler
Trivialisation of antisemitism at the Royal Commission will not make Jews, or anyone else, safer.

https://t.co/ko40Ui0gKC

[William Peynsaert @PeynsaertBill]

Woman posts Israeli murders of Palestinian children and is... branded a terrorist by the UK
Sarah Wilkinson is a 61-year-old British pro-Palestine activist and independent journalist who has spent years campaigning for Palestinian rights. She has written for MENA Uncensored, sought to join humanitarian missions such as the Freedom Flotilla, and has become one of the most prolific online chroniclers of life and death in Gaza.

By her own account and that of supporters, she dedicated much of her life to documenting a conflict that much of the Western media either ignored or covered only intermittently.

Then, in August 2024, British counter-terrorism police raided her home, seized her electronic devices and arrested her over material she had posted online. Whether one agrees with every opinion Sarah Wilkinson has ever expressed is not the central issue.

The undeniable fact is that countless posts on her accounts documented Palestinian civilians, including children, killed in Israeli military operations. The children remain dead. The destroyed neighbourhoods remain destroyed.

Yet the woman sharing those images found herself investigated under terrorism legislation. It is a remarkable inversion of moral focus. When documenting civilian suffering attracts the attention of counter-terrorism police, while the suffering itself risks becoming background noise, a disturbing question presents itself:

what exactly is being protected, the public from dangerous ideas, or governments with blood on their hands from uncomfortable realities?

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Macdonald Witch Hunt. Melbourne Uni cancels surgeon - Israel lobby pressure - Michael West
Vicious determination to cancel anyone who may think ill of Israel’s conduct. The harassment and bullying knows no bounds. https://t.co/GoItY1fLlz

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

UN commissioner says all IDF soldiers arriving in Australia should be considered as suspects in war crimes.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Jewish Zionists are silencing our doctors, our artists, our journalists, our academics & why are you allowing this to happen to our country @AlboMP ????????

[Daniel Best - Author @20thCenturyDan]

It's time that these complaints are made public. A person has the right to know who their accusers are, and those accusers have the right to explain themselves and face the same scrutiny that they want others to.

No more of these anonymous complaints.
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[Deborah Holloway 😷 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @DebHolloway]

I understand that children bring illness home. I have read the studies, especially re: SARS-C0V-2. And I have been alive for more than six decades so I have seen it happen multitudes of times.

Here's the thing, though. Kids don't have agency. Adults do. Forcing kids into daycare or schools with no mitigations is the problem, not the kids. The governments, "public health," school boards, etc., THEY are the problem and that's why the kids keep getting sick, and why they keep bringing illnesses home. /1

[LPC @landpalestine]

Palestinians were given plastic bags with the weight of their children in them when kids were blown up by Israel they couldn’t tell who was who.

A mother said, “I dont even know if this is my son.”

. I am so sorry maryam bialik after you saw someone with anti zionist shirt

She’s crying because someone wore a T-shirt she didn’t like meanwhile people are losing entire bloodlines