NEW: We’re launching the Trump World Cup Chaos Tracker to compile a record of how Trump’s racist, violent policies - coupled with FIFA’s corruption - are impacting this tournament.
#FootballAgainstFascism#WorldCup
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Hard to keep track of all of the MAGA World Cup racism, corruption & incompetence isn’t it?
Thankfully we now have a tracker to log every last fuckery of this disgraced tournament👇👇
Would dearly love to have been fly on wall in strategy meetings behind decision by brand Gwyneth Paltrow to shill for Israeli real estate company founded by Netanyahu’s mate accused of various securities frauds to flog a luxury block in the town named after the father of Zionism
We stopped hearing about hostage crisis in Israel & Palestine because 100% of the remaining hostages are Palestinian .... being tortured, raped & starved to death.
CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”
My piece in the @GuardianAus today arguing govts can't afford to repeat the mistakes they made with the gas industry.
With huge investment in data centres - why aren't we asking what this is all for and how Australians are going to benefit from it?
If we do want data centres and multinational tech giants are going to use Australian land, Australian energy, Australian water & Australian workers to build the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution, then Australians deserve a fair return.
That's the lesson we failed to learn with gas. We shouldn't wait another generation to learn it again.
https://t.co/HJvwk474L9
Meanwhile in Australia, Lockheed Martin keeps sending F-35 fighter jet parts from stocks in Australia — approved for export by Australia’s Defence Minister — to Israel on Thai Airways.
‘Maersk is still shipping weapons parts to Israel despite denial, new report says’
https://t.co/uJx8hvTZII
Today at #PMQs I raised the 32 dodgy UK ‘charities’ who’ve sent almost £30m to illegal Israeli settlements.
Constituents will be appalled that they, the taxpayer, have likely subsidised this by over £5m.
Why is @ChtyCommission asleep at the wheel when their job is to stop this?
Why did every Australian government from Chifley to Rudd, 1945-2010, not allow permanent US military bases in Australia?
Because when you allow bases you give up sovereignty.
Gillard changed it, and now, as a US diplomat told me, Australia is effectively under US occupation.
We've stopped talking about Taylor's "Cayman Is. Entity" which was paid $80,000,000 for water.
The deal was set up & approved by the $32,000 a day drought envoy Barnaby Joyce.
The water ended up being imaginary, the money very real, has never been recovered.
He wants to be PM!
More women are killed by femicide in Northern Ireland by white men than any other race or nationality.
Where are the riots for that?
#Belfast#Ulster#NorthernIreland
This is how Belfast looks on my femicide map.
Each of the ~1,000 pins is for a woman or girl murdered in Belfast between 1900 - 2025.
Almost all of them murdered by men and mostly by the type of men who were strolling around Belfast tonight wrecking their own city. /1
1 in 20 Catholic families were burned out of their homes in Belfast in 1969.
As one scholar put it, at the time it was "the largest forced population movement in Western Europe since the Second World War."
UK court shields German insurance giant Allianz in unprecedented legal assault on Palestine activists
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A British court has granted permission for German insurance multinational Allianz to pursue a near $400,000 civil lawsuit against pro-Palestine activists, sparking outrage over the weaponization of the legal system to crush dissent. The activists, known as the Allianz6, targeted the company’s UK offices in 2024 and 2025 over its financial ties to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.
Despite facing ongoing criminal trials, the defendants must now mount an expensive civil defense after a London judge rejected their request to delay the corporate suit until their criminal proceedings conclude.
The multi-billion-dollar insurance giant aggressively escalated its financial demands by tacking on an additional $267,000 for "reputational damage" after the activists requested a pause. The targeted activists argue that Allianz is utilizing predatory civil litigation to bypass British juries, which have increasingly acquitted Palestine solidarity campaigners in criminal courts. Without access to financial aid for legal representation in the civil venue, the defendants face the prospect of lifelong financial ruin for exposing corporate complicity in Israeli war crimes.
The legal maneuver marks a dangerous precedent in the systemic suppression of the Palestine solidarity movement within the UK. By forcing activists into a lower-threshold civil court while denied juries, the British judiciary is effectively enabling multinational corporations to bankrupt protestors before they even stand trial.
🚨BREAKING: Epstein file says Trump knew about underage sex parties occurring at his golf course and that revenue from the club was used to fund them.
Trump has known for days this was about to be published in his home state of Florida.
https://t.co/NrVeCtDXRJ
Ayoub Junaid broke his medical glasses after falling down.
After a video went viral, he received a replacement – but his mother says he still needs surgery, which he can’t get under Israeli blockade.
Ahead of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, journalist @NoahShachtman details the intrusive surveillance machine that billionaire Knicks owner James Dolan has built at Madison Square Garden.
"Every sports venue is going to have security measures, of course, and many of those may involve facial recognition. But no venue in the country deploys facial recognition so widely and weaponizes it in the way that James Dolan does.
"He uses facial recognition not just to suspected troublemakers out, but more importantly he has all sorts of enemies lists, and those enemies include people that he might be in legal disputes with, people that might have tweeted mean stuff at him.
"And in our story for Wired, maybe the most shocking thing was there was a trans woman who — for the crime of being trans — was surveilled by James Dolan's spy machine second by second, minute by minute, even when she went into the bathroom, when she came out, because James Dolan didn't want her close to the team."
Do you know how the truth about Epstein stayed buried for decades?
By keeping the most important conversations behind closed doors.
Today, Bill Gates will testify about his relationship with Epstein and what he knew. There will be no cameras, no public hearing, and no opportunity for the public to see the testimony for themselves.
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