EmmaB Therapist/Counsellor

Social Justice. M. Couns. Grad Dip Couns. B.Psych. Counsellor. Loves a red. Twt own.

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

I spoke to 3AW as to why I was peacefully protesting One Nation. They have a right to hold their events, as we live in a democracy and we as Melburnians have the right to peacefully protest them to send a message that we welcome migrants & refugees & reject the politics of hate

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

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

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Ha sido un honor mantener este nuevo encuentro con el Papa León XIV antes de su intervención histórica ante las Cortes.

Compartimos el compromiso de defender el valor de las migraciones y los derechos de todas las personas.

España seguirá apostando por el diálogo, el multilateralismo y el entendimiento entre los pueblos.

[Professor Georgina Long AO (Bluesky @gvlongphdmd) @ProfGLongMIA]

Vale Richard.

I am deeply saddened to lose such a cherished colleague. Richard was a truly extraordinary pathologist - the 'pathologists' pathologist' - who also made generous time for clinicians navigating complex diagnostic cases, understanding that an accurate tissue diagnosis was critical to patient care. His knowledge was vast, his skill exceptional, with an unparalleled eye for accurate tissue diagnoses, and the precision to apply decades of experience where it mattered most.

He shared his expertise widely: through consultation on external specimens, through diagnostic and classification frameworks now used worldwide, and as a devoted teacher and mentor. Richard has left an indelible mark on all who had the privilege of working alongside him. 

My thoughts are with Richard's family during this difficult time, particularly his wife Katie and children Emily, Matthew, and Lucy.

See tribute on @MelanomaAus website >  https://t.co/cAYaKPl2oA

[Antoinette Lattouf @antoinette_news]

Stories that didn't get much (or any) MSM coverage:
A new report on Australia manufacturing explosives used by Israel, BHP's case against Michael West Media & a coal miner takes a turn, the US wants Australians' biodata + Wong sanctions violent settlers

https://t.co/TibZl7fcDz

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

"So far this year 34 women have been killed by their partners"

"Budget found $604m for antisemitism .. found nothing to increase domestic violence services"

Andrew Brown on the silence. Part 1
#auspol

https://t.co/wgAY7idRlL

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🍉🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

Wilcox. #auspol #Sorry

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghadam received death threats for posting videos of women receiving haircuts on Instagram.

So she decided to troll the Islamic Regime and their oppressive mandatory hijab laws in the most epic, hilarious way possible. 😂

[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

A well-argued rejoinder to the bilious tide of saint-claiming going on right now. From a business owner/originator who clearly knows what he’s talking about. Bravo

[EmmaB Therapist/Counsellor @baxtere]

@mike5627 @MarioNawfal Yep. You can get them in all sizes and colours from your local stationary shop. Cheap as chips!

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

This guy, Tom Nichols, is one astute observer. A devastating look at the Orange Oaf stumbling to a humiliating defeat.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it.
https://t.co/WtiJcw7PUO

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

A group of Australian citizens were kidnapped on international waters and beaten senseless on camera by their captors - Israel

The most prominent Israel advocate in Australia - Jillian Segal - has so far said nothing about the welfare of her fellow Australian citizens nor condemned this atrocious abuse of human rights and brutality by her home state of Israel

Jillian Segal is an employee of the Australian people charged with promoting "social cohesion" and her silence on this blatant Israeli abuse of her fellow Australians is a disgrace to these abused citizens and to the Australian taxpayers who fund her

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Las imágenes del ministro israelí Ben Gvir humillando a los miembros de la flotilla internacional en apoyo a Gaza son inaceptables.

No vamos a tolerar que nadie maltrate a nuestros ciudadanos. En septiembre anuncié la prohibición de acceso al territorio nacional de este miembro del gobierno israelí. Ahora vamos a impulsar en Bruselas que estas sanciones se eleven a escala europea de manera urgente.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

My latest article for the @shot_au on the Pauline Hanson grift machine

"Pauline Hanson – who thinks the Murray Darling Basin Plan is the name of her plumber Murray’s work schedule – now wants you to believe she’s going to save them."

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https://t.co/VQGUkGrlcs

[Dire-Wolff - Koko Muluridji Country @redclaw42]

A must read for those sick of the flood of political disinformation in Aus and its list of funders…

[stranger @strangerous10]

American author Fran Lebowitz on ABC730 completely wipes the floor with Donald Trump.
“It’s not that he’s crazy, it’s that he’s stupid.” “Incredibly stupid.”🔥
Ferguson “What about charming…lots of ppl say he’s charming, do you believe that?”
Lebowitz “No, I do not.”💥