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[Julie Anonymous @anonymous_julie]

@KarenSalitis @Rep_Stansbury @nytimes And look who's doing the reporting.

None other than Australia's Jonathan Swan. Who called out Trump lies first time around.
https://t.co/2oB3s9OwuD

[Karen Salitis 🇺🇸♥️🤍💙🇺🇸 @KarenSalitis]

@Rep_Stansbury @nytimes Paywall removed. Gift article from New York Times magazine about the VP, Chief of Staff, DOJ and FBI colluding to cover up Epstein by the White House. A long, but good read for those who would be interested.

https://t.co/JVWS17P6zb

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

This is Trump’s Watergate.

Today, the @nytimes released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House. 

Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there:
- Trump quashing the files
- The VP, COS, DOJ, FBI, and others colluding in the Situation Room to stop their release and compliance
- Officials lying to the public 
- Admin in-fighting and exits
- Officials who appeared in front of Congress during this time

Read the report here: https://t.co/prgyF2Isfg

[stranger @strangerous10]

“We are here to make sure Pauline Hanson knows that there are so many people in WA who reject her hate-filled & divisive brand” - her “Trump-style politics.”

[itsallgood @TSzolkowski]

In support of this good accountability measure from David, it's also essential. It's an anathema of a democracy "for the people" when we see so much grift between lobbyists, elites, policy, corporations and the rule of law. We used to talk about metaphorical corporate "fat cats" when I was at university and that stills seems to be the status quo. Especially the newly emergent Empire building of pax Judaica and "friends of Israel" ideology, technology, and military alignment for which I absolutely, resolutely despise because Israeli leaders should be arrested for their "alleged" war crimes in Gaza. Get the "alleged" Benjamins 🤑and the "alleged" Shekels 🤑out of Australian politics and restore Australian values that are based in 21st century morality.

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Huge win on lobbying reform today with reports the govt will establish a public register for sponsored pass holders replicating the voluntary register I established, limit access to the building & publish more information about who has access.

We still need more reform to ensure ALL lobbyists (not just 3rd party lobbyists) are properly regulated by a body with teeth, and to shut the revolving door between government and industries.
https://t.co/oeNJmEFgrt

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Look at this astonishing chart and tell me we don't have a billionaire wealth problem.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

AFP urged to investigate Australians allegedly involved in Gaza genocide | Pearls and Irritations
‘The referral is supported by a substantial evidentiary dossier prepared by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP), .. cont https://t.co/MKWZNG3HnR

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Nearly 60 years after Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty, killing 34 Americans, Congressman Thomas Massie is demanding a reckoning.

Al Jazeera’s Ava Warriner explains the attack, the alleged cover-up that followed, and the questions that remain unanswered.

[Sahar A @Sahar_A_Writes]

@cheryl_kernot At this point, the deceit & dishonesty from Israeli Deputy FM Sharren Haskel is beyond grotesque. The real question is why the ABC keeps inviting her back on #abc730 to peddle these brazen distortions without being held to account. A complete failure of journalism.

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Israel’s Dep Foreign Minister bemoans the fact that some Israeli children had to spend the night in shelters. Wilfully oblivious to the 2 years of suffering of Palestinian children- highest number of child amputees,only tents to shelter in. Spare us the hypocrisy.#abc730

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

‘Dark forces’ are attempting to take hold of country’s peak legal body.

👉 High Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones has accused rightwing Samuel Griffith Society of a US-style plot to covertly take control of the High Court by stacking it with conservatives. https://t.co/473rKeMbyG

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel killed 37 civilians, including 3 children, each day for 100 days.

Israel has killed 3,650+ civilians, 245+ children, 339+ women, 27 journalists and media workers, 130+ health workers and paramedics, 7 UN peacekeepers, and displaced over 1.2 million in Lebanon in 100 days.

Should we wait—just as the Palestinians have waited for nearly three years now—while the genocide continues and close to 80,000 innocent civilians among them have been killed until the international community put an end to Israel impunity?

We are watching another genocide unfold right in front of us in Lebanon and the world is silent.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of ​​Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.

A video that the world must never forget.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Always amazes me how the US can start an unprovoked war of aggression on the other side of the planet and then claim it is "launching self-defense strikes" there.

These military forces are nowhere near the United States. The Iranian government says the Apache helicopter that was shot down "was not flying over international waters," but even if it was, it's absurd to claim "self-defense" against a country that has been defending itself in a war you started.

These freaks really do operate from the premise that the entire planet is their property, and that any failure to respect its property rights shall therefore be viewed as an act of aggression.

I mean, just look at who's making this statement. US "Central Command" is the unified combatant command responsible for military operations in the middle east. The US military has separate unified combatant commands for every part of the globe:

• Central Command (CENTCOM) for the middle east.
• Africa Command (AFRICOM) for Africa.
• Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) for Asia, the Pacific islands, Australia and Antarctica.
• European Command (EUCOM) for Europe.
• Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) for South America.
• Northern Command (NORTHCOM) for North America.

No other country on earth does this. No other military power is segmented into areas of responsibility spanning every continent on earth. This is because normal military forces are used to defend the actual, official country they belong to, whereas the US military is used to dominate the entire planet.

And in that sense it's actually entirely reasonable that the US "Department of Defense" changed its name to the Department of War. The US military is never used to defend the actual, official country of the United States of America; it is only ever used to prop up the globe-spanning imperial power structure it commands.

This is not normal. It is a freakish aberration without historical precedent. The world cannot know peace until the US empire is dismantled.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck.

And they're asking themselves a simple question:

Does anybody in Washington know that I am alive?

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Pressure works.

[Larissa Waters @larissawaters]

You would think pulling the strings of a political party would be enough influence for one person, but apparently not.

Gina’s getting into the media business.

What could possibly go wrong…

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

A lot of people are saying on social media today that a public campaign against Premier Jacinta Allen using the phrase “Ditch the Witch” isn’t sexist because they’ve heard of MFW and know we proudly use the word witches.

Please.

They must not have heard about how we started, which was as the result of an extraordinarily sexist text message sent by Peter Dutton to a mate, and which he accidentally sent to a woman journo instead.

They must not understand history, in which all women who were in the slightest way outspoken or different or not perfectly aligned with patriarchal requirements were called witches and often viciously murdered for their so-called sins.

And they must not understand parody, in which we witches have re-claimed the word “witch” to mean all women who protest the outrageous misogyny so many men practice with barely any constraint.

Because we’re here to clearly say that yes: the campaign against Allen is deeply sexist, just as it was sexist when it was used to denigrate then-PM Julia Gillard (pic in comments), and when it’s been used to stir up hatred towards any women with power or influence or anything other than simply being perfectly pretty and perfectly unheard.

What’s more, the campaign couldn’t be anything BUT deeply problematic, funded as it has been by a consortium of what appears to be a deeply right-wing group of men who want nothing more than to oust Allen from her job, and promoted widely in #NewsCorpse publications in ways which further harm Allen and her government:
“‘[Allan] doesn’t answer questions. She’s not accountable to everything … It’s just how people are feeling. That’s what they’re resorting to’ Puleo said. ‘That’s not a political ad. It’s basically what the Victorian public feel’.”
https://t.co/GQ2N1VsQiN?

The campaign is despicable, and the billboards should be banned. Today. Anything else is unacceptable, and does nothing but show the endemic hatred for women among large sections of conservative men and politics in this country (and among many progressive men and groups too, but that’s another story).

For fuck sake, ban these billboards. They’re hate speech. And us calling ourselves witches as a way to parody that hate will never make the use of the word okay in other settings and formats.

That’s all.

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[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

What happened to Lebanon’s right to defend itself? Does any country have the right to defend itself from Israel? Who’s going to stop this terrorist state?