Katia

I paint. I write. I like to hug cats and pat dogs. An Aussie living with a Frenchman who bakes great muffins.

[Katia @AbsolutelyKatia]

What we silently tolerated is not ok.
When we are made uncomfortable by someone else’s behaviour, IT IS NOT OK.
When we have to change our conduct to avoid someone else’s actions, IT IS NOT OK.
We do not have to be silent and tolerate any of this.
The world is waking up. #metoo

[Katia @AbsolutelyKatia]

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[AFP News Agency @AFP]

A Chinese naval cruiser fired live rounds Saturday during a task force drill in the sea between Australia and New Zealand, government officials said, prompting an alert to commercial air traffic.
https://t.co/vh4is99O7G

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

If we abandon Ukraine - Poland is next. You know what’s going to be a lot more expensive than finishing this war and forcing Putin out of Ukraine? A third world war and a second Marshall plan. We are arguably in the most important moment in geopolitics since WWII and our President is letting a strongman castrate us and our ally.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

There is a deep state- his name is Elon Musk. He’s taken billions from the federal government and is now in control of the President.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

These are your words of the week
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
https://t.co/Hi4TjTeSKZ

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I would pay money to be a fly on the Oval Office wall when Trump sees this

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Received this memo from constituents abroad on a US military base who are parents in the DOD school system. They’re outraged that censorship like this is happening against military families. One asked a school official why they removed photos on the walls of Susan B. Anthony and Dr. King but not Leonardo DaVinci and was told: “He was a real historical figure.”

[Katia @AbsolutelyKatia]

Meanwhile, in Australia.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

More than 100 venomous snakes found in Sydney yard https://t.co/kQpFhDIzob

[Samantha Ratnam @SamanthaRatnam]

We all knew what a 2nd Trump presidency could bring, but some days can still leave you utterly floored. 

The Labor Government must oppose President Trump’s threats against the Palestinians with everything it has.

Australia must not play any part in it.

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

The forcible displacement of 2.2 million people from Gaza is not an “audacious” or “controversial” idea of Trumps. It’s ethnic cleansing, it’s criminal, the forced and permanent displacement of Palestinians.

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

I feel so sick. Watching Trump talking about Gaza like a real estate development that he was going to clean out, ethnically cleanse. There he was saying that the two state solution is officially dead & Gaza unliveable forever while Netanyahu sat there grinning who made it so.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

There is much more I want to say on this but if you’re in the US right now, you need to understand that Silicon Valley is your creepy ex boyfriend. Who’s now conspiring with Donald Trump. They have your data & it can & will be weaponized against you.

[Katia @AbsolutelyKatia]

Make America Selfish Again

[Department of State @StateDept]

Today, @POTUS signed an Executive Order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and prohibiting any future funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Near East (UNRWA). The Executive Order also requires the Secretary of State to review and report to the President on which international organizations, conventions, or treaties promote radical or anti-American sentiment. https://t.co/GtzbBzA6ci

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is a coup. There’s no other way to describe it.

https://t.co/Sy1soDzzqu

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now referring to Elon Musk as an “unelected oligarch” and encouraging people to call their elected representatives to ask them what they plan on doing about it.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It’s all theatrics and performative.

Trump creates the problem or challenge.

Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge.

Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages.

Rinse and repeat.

Theatrics. That’s it.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

What is happening to USAID will cost untold lives around the world, devastate America's standing, and massively empower China and other countries. There's no excusing it - it's a shameful, stupid, self-own without excuse and a harbinger of even worse to come.