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“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it “ - GEORGE ORWELL

[Larissa Waters @larissawaters]

Laws to strip women of abortion rights in SA were defeated last night, due to the tireless work of advocates fighting to protect access to healthcare.

But it was shameful to see Labor Premier Malinauskas vote alongside right-wing MPs to trample abortion access.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

So, let's recap, shall we?

This week the @PressClubAust managed to:

* cancel at the last minute, the questions and subsequent presence of renowned journalist Margo Kingston, who’d travelled over 2 days to Canberra to ask her question of Pauline Hanson – and yes, they were questions initially requested and organised by the Press Club itself 9 days ago.

* cancel the press gallery membership of long-term journalist, Greg Jericho, allegedly because he works for the @TheAusInstitute. Although Greg has been employed by the Aust Institute for 4 years, his membership cancellation only came yesterday after he publicly called out the Canberra press gallery - which is of course a highly fortuitous coincidence and not at all connected to his criticism.

* somehow allowed a person or persons unknown to enter the Press Club premises and put up a 3 metre wide electronic banner, without anybody in the Press Club noticing them doing it. How several people enter a private club carrying something that large, then proceed to wire it up on an open stage and nobody at the premises noticed in any way, is yet another display of the NPC’s staggering incompetence.

* release an unnecessarily detailed, high-school level statement about said banner incident, a statement that reeks of defensiveness and hysteria, while also prejudicially naming an alleged culprit and arguably sinking to the bottom of the barrel in terms of the journalistic standards it supposedly represents. Read it below and remind yourself that people who work with words for a living wrote that.

* allowed the speaker, Pauline Hanson, to defame one of their own - a journalist from the Guardian who dared to ask a hard-hitting question - by calling her "trash". This was only weeks after calling the same journalist a "nasty bitch". Mirroring, Trump’s “Quiet piggy” incident, the journalist's alleged colleagues all sat mute, as did the moderator, Tom Connell from Sky News during the abuse. No rebuke, no blow-back, no support for their fellow journalist, standing alone under Hanson's hissing vitriol. Just pusillanimous silence.

The National Press Club outdid their already dubious reputation this week, spraying themselves in a spectacular shower of self-inflicted shit – wall to wall, dripping effluent.

Australians currently suffer some of the most timid, captured political journalism in the western world, and if the actions of the #NPC this week are the metric, then we can all see why.

What a national and international embarrassment of an organisation meant to serve as a vital democratic institution and a cultural conscience – and one that has offered us neither.

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[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Data centres eat electricity.

But their waste heat?

Finland turns it into home heating.

Cities are plugging data-centre heat into district-heating systems — cutting waste and cutting emissions.

[Rob Mitchell @RobMitchellMP]

When questioned on Robodebt deaths the Member for Hughes says just move on. Cold, callous and typical Liberal Party view

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

Many don’t realize that the first people Hitler sent to his concentration camps weren’t everyday Jewish citizens, but his political opponents. So, when Trump rants about retribution, locking up his opponents, and giving them “very long sentences,” I can’t help but take him seriously… because history teaches us that is what fascist dictators do during their “Day One” period to consolidate their power. (After all, if you’re hellbent on staying in power but aren’t likely to win the next election, you can’t have your political opponents running around free.)

To keep fascism out of our lives, vote for democracy!

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Let’s get 500 retweets on this as soon as possible to humiliate Donald Trump. The greatest political ad ever made.

[Peace ♥️💛🖤 @Diggerlovi23521]

Today X is pissing me off. 🤬🤬Our PM buys a home with his Fiance. #MainstreamMedia never mentions that #Dutton owns 16 properties and a SHOPPING Centre. 🤬🤬🤬
#AlboAndJodieDeserveAHome
If you don't agree block me.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Well, well, fecking well. It's always the ones you most suspect.

You've got a big mess on your hands now little boy.

You know, eventually they caught up with Al Capone too. They got him for tax evasion. Anywhoo - enjoy this next new ride.

#karma

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Is there anything sadder than two former Liberal MPs - both kicked out by their electorates - still trying to stay relevant by manufacturing sexist melodramas that exist only in the confines of their desperate little minds?

Jumped-up, dobbing little arseholes, the pair of them.

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

Worst President EVER, YES or no?

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

It was only 10 years ago a bastard called Geoff Shaw almost single-handedly destroyed abortion law in Victoria & the women of Australia are always only 1 or 2 bastards away from having our bodily rights destroyed and we should never fucking forget it.

https://t.co/xOIRsmPtNk

[Ashley Greene @dazzaroo54]

My God how do they get into the senate👇#qt

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

1/Trump is trying to convince people there will be no place for them in Kamala Harris’ America. It is the same strategy he has always used: Divide people—stoke hate. Stoke fear about the changing demographics that mean we are rapidly becoming a majority-minority country.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

RT if like us you hope Rupert Murdoch dies before he gets to overturn the family trust which ATM effectively gives control of the #NewsCorpse empire after his death to his 3 relatively decent children instead of to his 1 grotesquely evil one?

[slsandpet 🐨🐨🖤🍉Dr @slsandpet]

This👇👇

I agree completely
Who else agrees with Greg here?

[Gary Fallon @GaryFallon2]

Just a reminder that Donald Trump was barred by New South Wales Police from applying for the Sydney casino licence in 1987 because of his links to organised crime. And NSW Police knew a thing or two about orgainised crime back then!

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

I am in awe of the courage of Afghan women, singing & speaking out in defiance of the stupid, pompous, weak men of the Taliban. May they sing and laugh and speak loud & long. #Afghanistan #women

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

This "policy" to exclude people from Medicare is despicable, @AustralianLabor @Mark_Butler_MP. We are an extremely wealthy country. Change this. Make it a priority.

"Siya was born in Melbourne but excluded from Medicare." #auspol
https://t.co/QoXORF8mbh

[Caroleeena 🍉 @Caroleeenalala]

This is a Tim Walz initiative that hasn’t been mentioned much. It's Visionary!
These alternatives to lawns absorb more CO2, eliminates herbicides & mowing, increases the health of the soil biome compared to monoculture grasses & can eliminate the need for watering!
Win!