David

🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Plants, cats, history, travel, and an interest in what's happening in the world.

[David @NewtownDave]

@sspencer_63 My great-great grandfather was a boat person arriving from Pomerania in the 1870s, am I still a wog according to One Nation?

[David @NewtownDave]

@RadarLanark Enjoy. 😀

[David @NewtownDave]

@QldGov The bus service I rely on has become infinitely worse since your Government changed it. I have no reason to thank you. 🤬I wish the minister actually used public transport to get to his/her public engagements. Maybe they might see how difficult it is for us peasants.

[David @NewtownDave]

@tomdflynn @Michael94858047 I have a feeling he doesn’t know the difference.

[David @NewtownDave]

@JJKALE2 🤣🤣🤣 What a scumbag!

[David @NewtownDave]

@splendid_pete 😀😀

[David @NewtownDave]

@DrNeilStone He is loathsome, isn’t he.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too.

[David @NewtownDave]

@JustinWolfers Thank you, Justin.

[David @NewtownDave]

@DrNeilStone He has done enough damage to the world and US.

[David @NewtownDave]

@strangerous10 I listen to John Lyons and Matthew Doran on the ABC.

[David @NewtownDave]

@abdwad4800 @waqasmughalpk @lesliem_f 1948.

[David @NewtownDave]

@NAAF0Racoon 🤣🤣

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.

And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.

I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!

[Winsor Dobbin @winsordobbin]

Australia's coastline is officially measured at 59,736 kilometres. Hard to believe three second-hand reject submarines from the US will aid our defensive capabilities despite the enthusiastic blurtings of @RichardMarlesMP We are being conned people.

[David @NewtownDave]

@yanisvaroufakis Is there any ‘country’ more evil than Israel? Putin’s Russia is just as bad.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

@yanisvaroufakis @MikeCarlton01 Having followed international conflicts for 50 years, my conclusion is that Israel is the most evil of them all. Israeli society is clearly deeply damaged. What was once intergenerational trauma has now warped into intergenerational paranoia & violent hatred. A pariah state

[David @NewtownDave]

@LabAgainstWar @FeathersMcGee AUKUS was Morrison’s attemp to wedge Labor in the 2022 election. Labor fell for it and now we will be paying $368 billion plus for a dud scheme. We should get out of it now!

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Iran fires missiles at Gulf States—we all condemn—and the whole world stands up condemning Iran.

Israel wipes out entire villages and bombing cities thousands of years old in Lebanon, the World is silent.

Zero deaths in Gulf States.
3,324+ killed in Lebanon.

Double standards.