CherylSlocombe

Interested in sport, politics, literature, history, music,film, education, Melbourne Football Club [AFLW /AFLM]Feminist, Mother & Grandmother, teacher unionist

[Abul Rizvi @RizviAbul]

To do a costing, you have to have some idea of how a policy would be implemented (eg Hanson’s mass deportation policy). Why would One Nation have any idea how any of its policies (ie thought bubbles) would be implemented?

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Simon Banks @SimonBanksHB]

And today

One Nation voted against those tax cuts for working Australians too

[Gianluca Martino @gianlucamart1]

🧵"Desidero che la Papamobile venga trasformata in una clinica mobile e donata ai bambini di Gaza"
Questa è una delle ultime volontà di Papa Francesco prima di morire.
Ad eseguire la disposizione di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano incarica il cardinale svedese Anders Arborelius che a sua volta incarica la Caritas svedese per la trasformazione del veicolo.

Quando la stampa dà la notizia dell'incarico alla Caritas svedese di trasformare la Papamobile in clinica mobile per i bambini di Gaza, scatta la solidarietà dei cittadini svedesi che in pochi giorni inviano alla Caritas cospicue donazioni.

Grazie alle somme raccolte, la Caritas, non solo riesce a trasformare la Papamobile in una clinica mobile fornita di attrezzature mediche di ultima generazione, ma acquista altre 12 ambulanze da inviare a Gaza.

A novembre dello scorso anno, quando i lavori sulla Papamobile sono ultimati, per celebrare l'evento e assolvere all'ultima volontà di Papa Francesco, il Vaticano sceglie Betlemme, la città simbolo per eccellenza della cristianità, la città dove nacque Cristo.
In Piazza della Mangiatoia, il cardinale Anders Arborelius benedice la Papamobile e le ambulanze in partenza verso Gaza.
La Papamobile viene rinominata "Veicolo della Speranza".

Passano giorni, settimane e poi mesi ma gli occupanti israeliani non consentono alla Caritas di fare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza a Gaza.
I rappresentanti del Vaticano e della Caritas chiedono più volte spiegazioni ma Israele si prende gioco di loro inventando storie assurde.
"Non è pervenuta alcuna richiesta di autorizzazione"
E poi ancora: "I materiali sanitari all'interno della Papamobile potrebbero finire nelle mani di Hamas ed essere usati come armi".

E intanto la Papamobile, trasformata in un gioiello della tecnologia medica, in grado di curare 200 bambini al giorno, è ancora lì, dopo sette mesi, sotto una teca in un parcheggio a pochi metri da Piazza della Mangiatoia in attesa di raggiungere i bambini di Gaza.

In uno stupendo articolo scritto dal cardinale Arborelius su ICN, Independent Catholic News (*link nel primo commento) il cardinale si rivolge alle autorità israeliane, chiede, quasi supplica, di lasciare entrare il Veicolo della Speranza ma non rinuncia a scrivere: "Negare le cure mediche ai bambini significa oltrepassare un limite morale che dovrebbe turbare tutti".

Limite morale che non turba i leader politici occidentali che ostentano senza ritegno la loro fede cristiana ma restano in un vile silenzio mentre la colonia di plastica denominata Israele umilia il Vaticano prendendosi gioco delle ultime volontà di un Papa.
Che schifo!

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Pete Hegseth arrived in France for official D-Day commemoration events, bringing along his wife and six children on what appears to be a taxpayer-funded family trip.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Bessent Couldn't Name The Case.

Asked what ongoing litigation prevents him from discussing Trump's audit status, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the matter was tied up in court.

Then Rep. Linda Sánchez asked a simple follow-up:

Which case?

He couldn't name it.

Sánchez pointed out that the only litigation she was aware of involved the $1.8 billion DOJ fund and said that case doesn't address presidential audit immunity.

That's what made the exchange awkward.

The administration says litigation prevents answers.

Congress wants to know which litigation.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I’ve taken a lot of hits, and I’ve deserved some of them. I beat myself up over them more than you can imagine.

But the grace people have shown me here is truly humbling.

Some of the kindest words have come from the people you’d least expect.

And for that I am so grateful.

This isn’t about me. It’s about every person in recovery who shows up and tries again.

And to everyone still in the fight tonight: you are not alone, I see you.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

"Ireland refusing to play Israel would not end the suffering in Gaza.

But it would be a statement...heard far and wide that Irish football will not pretend that this is the normality when it’s really a catastrophe.

Do not play the games."

Eoin Doyle👏🏻
https://t.co/OHE8ZT49tN

[Ron Baumann @Baumann_Mac]

It infuriates me that the people we trust with our most sacred duty, caring for our parents at their most vulnerable, are among the most undervalued workers in Australia.

We live in a country where a person looking after a corporate spreadsheet is routinely paid vastly more than a person looking after a human soul.

What makes this even harder to stomach is the relentless political rhetoric we so often hear from racist, grifting politicians and media folk who use their platforms to dehumanise non-citizens, temporary residents, and migrant workers, painting them as a burden on our society. Yes, I’m looking at you,@PaulineHansonOz @AngusTaylorMP @SenatorCash @mattjcan @Barnaby_Joyce @Bobkatter @BenFordhamLive et al.

Walk into any aged care facility in Australia, and you’ll see the truth: it is these very workers who are holding our healthcare system together. While politicians trade in cheap division, these temporary and migrant workers are doing the heavy, essential lifting, contributing far more to the fabric of Australian society than the politicians vilifying them ever will.

Mum passed away last night. It wasn’t sudden. I’d been saying goodbye to her in pieces for years as dementia slowly eroded the woman she used to be. When the end finally came, it was quiet, expected, and peaceful. But knowing it’s coming doesn’t make it much easier.

In the midst of the grief, my mind keeps returning to a group of people who deserve more respect, honour, love and, of course, money than society currently gives them: the aged care workers at Mum’s facility, and thousands of others around the country.

Unless you've watched a loved one go through the late stages of dementia, it’s hard to comprehend what aged care workers actually do.

They don’t just work a shift. They navigate confusion and fear with infinite patience. They handle the deeply intimate, physical realities of human decline with total dignity. They learn the quirks of a mind that is unravelling, figuring out just how to soothe a sudden panic, or how to feed someone who has forgotten how to swallow.

They did all of this for my mum. In her final years, when she could no longer tell us what she needed, the staff at her facility became her translators, her protectors, and her surrogate family. They made her final years tolerable and comfortable.

The nurses, personal care assistants, cleaners, social workers, kitchen staff and lifestyle coordinators who looked after my mum saw the woman she used to be, even when the dementia hid her. They treated her with the same tenderness you would show your own mother.

And when the time finally came, and in the days leading up to, they made sure I was ok, as well.

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

Woodrow Wilson had a stroke and they kept it a secret. FDR couldn't walk and they kept it a secret. Eisenhower had heart attacks and they kept it a secret. Reagan had colon cancer and dementia and they kept it a secret. Trump's health is much worse than whatever they let us see.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed to death in Gaza in 2003 by an Israeli army bulldozer destroying sections of Rafah city, wrote in her diary:

“I just want to write to my mom and tell her that I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature.”

Rafah, like the rest of Gaza's cities and villages, is now gone – laid waste in that genocide Rachel Corrie saw unfolding 20 years earlier.

[GBX @GBX_Press]

British woman on BBC:
"The oppression didn't start on October 7."
"You say 'Israel has the right to defend itself' — but what about Palestine, whose land was taken? Didn't it have the right to defend itself?"
"You speak of hostages. What about the Palestinian children under rubble — or in prisons? They are hostages too." 🇬🇧🎙️🔥🇮🇱🇵🇸💔

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

'Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave': What the Israeli Army Did in 1948, Revealed https://t.co/PDJzML1KNZ

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Jared Kushner thought he could quietly pave over a protected coastline for a $4B resort. A foreign government just froze the bank accounts behind it, leaving him totally silent. Read: 👇 https://t.co/st16fQYO5c

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Norway's national team posed for an iconic image to mark their first appearance at the World Cup in 28 years. "I wanted to dress them up as Vikings." https://t.co/4tuDy4BgOf

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The tapes from these cameras?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Trump goes on a weird tangent and explains that because he’s not running for office again he didn’t need to speak to farmers anymore, and he could instead be in the White House watching television.

“I got elected. Wha the hell am I here for?

Someone please take Grandpa’s keys.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Spread the word: Thomas Massie is pushing for the second most notorious pedophile in history to testify before congress about the Epstein files.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Read this sentence. Your tax dollars pay for this.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

PM Edi Rama said that no amount of protesters can stop him, so the Albanians took that as a challenge!!!

Protests against Kushner's Epstein Island 2.0 continue into the night.