Little Australia

Yank in Oz.

[Little Australia @LitThom]

6 years ago an Australian murdered 51 Muslims in a mass shooting.

51. 6 years ago.

#ChristchurchKillings

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

Reacting to Bondi Beach attack, Mayor Eric Adams says:

“That attack in Sydney is exactly what it means to ‘globalize the Intifada.’ We saw the actual application of the globalization of the intifada in Sydney...”

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The unthinkable has happened. DOJ lawyers in RI are under federal judicial scrutiny for misconduct, and the longstanding “presumption of regularity” is lost.
https://t.co/O6vdRYTVf3

[Adam Houda @LawyerAdamHouda]

'Australia has a legal obligation to act in response to Israel’s crimes. Here’s how' - by the esteemed Chris Sidoti
https://t.co/diIGlVIwsS #IsraelIsATerroristState #GenocideInPalestine #FreePalestine #auspol

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Oh no, Jon Snow is a legend and was a journalistic hero of mine for so many years when I was getting started as a journalist in the UK. https://t.co/SGFI1W99Ew

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

My one ask to everyone right now: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Never forget that the biggest victims of cancel culture have always been Palestinians and supporters of Palestinians and in this case someone who just mentioned the word Palestinian.
https://t.co/ABOIu3GmRF

[Ron Baumann @Baumann_Mac]

It infuriates me that the people we trust with our most sacred duty, caring for our parents at their most vulnerable, are among the most undervalued workers in Australia.

We live in a country where a person looking after a corporate spreadsheet is routinely paid vastly more than a person looking after a human soul.

What makes this even harder to stomach is the relentless political rhetoric we so often hear from racist, grifting politicians and media folk who use their platforms to dehumanise non-citizens, temporary residents, and migrant workers, painting them as a burden on our society. Yes, I’m looking at you,@PaulineHansonOz @AngusTaylorMP @SenatorCash @mattjcan @Barnaby_Joyce @Bobkatter @BenFordhamLive et al.

Walk into any aged care facility in Australia, and you’ll see the truth: it is these very workers who are holding our healthcare system together. While politicians trade in cheap division, these temporary and migrant workers are doing the heavy, essential lifting, contributing far more to the fabric of Australian society than the politicians vilifying them ever will.

Mum passed away last night. It wasn’t sudden. I’d been saying goodbye to her in pieces for years as dementia slowly eroded the woman she used to be. When the end finally came, it was quiet, expected, and peaceful. But knowing it’s coming doesn’t make it much easier.

In the midst of the grief, my mind keeps returning to a group of people who deserve more respect, honour, love and, of course, money than society currently gives them: the aged care workers at Mum’s facility, and thousands of others around the country.

Unless you've watched a loved one go through the late stages of dementia, it’s hard to comprehend what aged care workers actually do.

They don’t just work a shift. They navigate confusion and fear with infinite patience. They handle the deeply intimate, physical realities of human decline with total dignity. They learn the quirks of a mind that is unravelling, figuring out just how to soothe a sudden panic, or how to feed someone who has forgotten how to swallow.

They did all of this for my mum. In her final years, when she could no longer tell us what she needed, the staff at her facility became her translators, her protectors, and her surrogate family. They made her final years tolerable and comfortable.

The nurses, personal care assistants, cleaners, social workers, kitchen staff and lifestyle coordinators who looked after my mum saw the woman she used to be, even when the dementia hid her. They treated her with the same tenderness you would show your own mother.

And when the time finally came, and in the days leading up to, they made sure I was ok, as well.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Hey media

Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

This is excellent.
Problematic Pickering "also perfectly embodied everything rotten about Australia’s legacy comedy scene: comfortable, captured, terminally unfunny and full of lame opinions that ridicule genuine champions of the people while kissing the boot of our masters."

[Gianluca Martino @gianlucamart1]

🧵"Desidero che la Papamobile venga trasformata in una clinica mobile e donata ai bambini di Gaza"
Questa è una delle ultime volontà di Papa Francesco prima di morire.
Ad eseguire la disposizione di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano incarica il cardinale svedese Anders Arborelius che a sua volta incarica la Caritas svedese per la trasformazione del veicolo.

Quando la stampa dà la notizia dell'incarico alla Caritas svedese di trasformare la Papamobile in clinica mobile per i bambini di Gaza, scatta la solidarietà dei cittadini svedesi che in pochi giorni inviano alla Caritas cospicue donazioni.

Grazie alle somme raccolte, la Caritas, non solo riesce a trasformare la Papamobile in una clinica mobile fornita di attrezzature mediche di ultima generazione, ma acquista altre 12 ambulanze da inviare a Gaza.

A novembre dello scorso anno, quando i lavori sulla Papamobile sono ultimati, per celebrare l'evento e assolvere all'ultima volontà di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano sceglie Betlemme, la città simbolo per eccellenza della cristianità, la città dove nacque Cristo.
In Piazza della Mangiatoia, il cardinale Anders Arborelius benedice la Papamobile e le ambulanze in partenza verso Gaza.
La Papamobile viene rinominata "Veicolo della Speranza".

Passano giorni, settimane e poi mesi ma gli occupanti israeliani non consentono alla Caritas di fare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza a Gaza.
I rappresentanti del Vaticano e della Caritas chiedono più volte spiegazioni ma Israele si prende gioco di loro inventando storie assurde.
"Non è pervenuta alcuna richiesta di autorizzazione"
E poi ancora: "I materiali sanitari all'interno della Papamobile potrebbero finire nelle mani di Hamas ed essere usati come armi".

E intanto la Papamobile, trasformata in un gioiello della tecnologia medica, in grado di curare 200 bambini al giorno, è ancora lì, dopo sette mesi, sotto una teca in un parcheggio a pochi metri da Piazza della Mangiatoia in attesa di raggiungere i bambini di Gaza.

In uno stupendo articolo scritto dal cardinale Arborelius su ICN, Independent Catholic News (*link nel primo commento) il cardinale si rivolge alle autorità israeliane, chiede, quasi supplica, di lasciare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza ma non rinuncia a scrivere: "Negare le cure mediche ai bambini significa oltrepassare un limite morale che dovrebbe turbare tutti".

Limite morale che non turba i leader politici occidentali che ostentano senza ritegno la loro fede cristiana ma restano in un vile silenzio mentre la colonia di plastica denominata Israele umilia il Vaticano prendendosi gioco delle ultime volontà di un Papa.
Che schifo!

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Sure. You'd just need to:

1) Forge her signature (commit a felony).

2) Hope your forgery is sufficiently accurate

3) Hope that she (intended voter) doesn't call election office and ask about why she never got a ballot (in which case that mail ballot would be deactivated, and it would be investigated if returned)

4) Hope that she doesn't send back a replacement ballot or show up to vote in person (in which case the same as #3 would happen).

But more importantly, instead of showing us a picture of a mail ballot (which could just be from anywhere and is not evidence of material fraud), why don't you answer:

Where are the mass arrests? Trump has been in office for 18 months now. And there have been lots of ambitious Republican prosecutors and sheriffs in office for 6 years since the 2020 election.

And together they've scraped up a handful of individual voters. A few noncitizens vote. A few people voting in multiple jurisdictions.

Hundreds of thousands of hours have been searching. And yet...

What you have is, at best, evidence of a clerical error that yielded no harm.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He also then rejected and disowned that guy, treated victims on 9/11 in New York, and served in Iraq where he saved the lives of US troops and eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

But the The Free Press won’t tell you that because The Free Press is trash.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed to death in Gaza in 2003 by an Israeli army bulldozer destroying sections of Rafah city, wrote in her diary:

“I just want to write to my mom and tell her that I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature.”

Rafah, like the rest of Gaza's cities and villages, is now gone – laid waste in that genocide Rachel Corrie saw unfolding 20 years earlier.

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

The perpetrators of the 2004 spying on #TimorLeste’s maritime boundary negotiating team have asked Attorney-General @MRowlandMP to issue a ‘secrecy certificate’ over why they say they shouldn’t have to confess to the sordid gas theft crime everyone knows they facilitated. #auspol

[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

@commandant64907 He was never a communist. He went to Spain as an anti-Stalinist, anti-Fascist democratic socialist & returned as an even more committed anti-Stalinist, anti-Fascist democratic socialist.

Anything else I can clear up for you today?

[Michael O'Hanlon @MichaelEOHanlon]

Deeply worrisome: https://t.co/yOCkI43bhE

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[Cory Archibald @CMArchibald]

In the last 24 hours I have repeatedly started, then deleted, a post responding to the nasty anti-Muslim, racist attacks against @HamawyForNJ. I keep trying to find the words for the forceful, eloquent defense Dr. Hamawy deserves, but I can't. I'm too angry.

So let me be crystal fucking clear to the scum at that dishrag of a "newspaper", @nypost, the shameless editors of the @nytimes, the vapid hucksters of @FoxNews, and gutless cowards like @RepMikeLawler and @RepMoskowitz:

Adam Hamawy is a hero and a patriot with more courage and integrity than any of you could dream of.

Unlike Jared Moskowitz or Mike Lawler, he actually served this country in uniform, deploying to wars *we* started so he could stitch up our wounded troops. There are people who are alive today ONLY because Adam Hamawy was their doctor when it counted. One of them is your colleague, Senator Tammy Duckworth.

In Gaza, he pieced together children blown up by AMERICAN bombs you ghouls shipped over there. Bombs dropped by our supposed allies. They offered to evacuate him on account of his American passport. But he refused to leave his patients or his crew until the criminal apartheid state allowed a new rotation of doctors in.

That's a level of courage and moral conviction that neither Lawler or Moskowitz nor any other lawmaker participating in this nasty campaign could hope to achieve.

For you to question his patriotism or his Americanness in service to a foreign dictator is pathetic.

You trot out our troops like stage props when you want a photo op, but you wouldn't know real service if it was handed to you on a platter at an AIPAC dinner.

Your despicable smear against this war hero doctor spits in the face of everyone who has ever served. Including my father.

But the jig is up on your crybully routine. There's no amount of Islamophobic hysteria you can spin up that will make millions of Americans forget the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians you gleefully pushed into death, disease, and displacement with OUR money and weapons.

Whatever you're selling, only AIPAC is buying. Adam Hamawy is going to Congress, and you can go to hell.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Can you imagine how explosively the right would shit themselves if a group of Muslims were driving around London impersonating police officers and intimidating non-Muslims under the justification of countering Islamophobia? The shrieking about "Sharia law" would shatter glass.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Wait…Did he just say checkered past ? I’m 28 felonies, 6 bankruptcies, and an Epstein bromance short of his checkered past.

[Nick McKim @NickMcKim]

Yesterday we learned that Labor and the Liberals are working on a bilateral agreement to approve Tasmanian logging operations. This is being done before the relevant environmental standards have even been finalised.

This is totally unacceptable.