Basil Brush🦊

The future is education & science, Renewable energy, EV’s water rights for the environment, wildlife & marine conservation, no CSG. I support Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Peter Gardner @PeterDGardner]

Perth’s largest electric bus depot opens with charging for 132 buses https://t.co/Lxn0OIGLCu

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

SHE WAS ONLY 23. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS TORTURED HER, THEN EXECUTED HER IN BUCHA.

Her name was Karina Yershova. She was 23 years old when Russian forces occupied Bucha in March 2022. She had already fled Russian occupation once before. In 2014, her family escaped from Donetsk, hoping to rebuild their lives somewhere safe. They settled near Kyiv. Eight years later, the same war caught up with her.

Karina left home and never returned.

Weeks later, her body was discovered in a mass grave near St. Andrew's Church in Bucha. The injuries described by her family were horrifying. Her fingernails had been torn away, her hands showed signs of burns, and she had suffered a gunshot wound to her leg. She had been shot in the head. Her family believed the injuries to her hands indicated that she had fought desperately against her attackers.

According to a journalistic investigation, an elderly couple, Viktor and Natalia Mazokha, tried to help Karina. They, too, were killed by a Russian soldier.

Karina was buried in a closed coffin. Her mother, Alyona, overwhelmed by grief, tried to force it open to see her daughter one last time. Relatives had to stop her. The condition of Karina's body was so terrible that her mother was denied even that final goodbye.

Think about what this family endured. They lost their home in Donetsk in 2014. They fled to escape Russian occupation. They spent years trying to build another life. Then Russia invaded again, and their 23-year-old daughter ended up in a mass grave.

This is what Russian occupation meant for Karina Yershova. Not liberation. Not protection. Torture, execution, and a mother standing over a sealed coffin, begging to see her child.

Karina should have had decades ahead of her. Viktor and Natalia should have lived to old age. Instead, three lives were destroyed, and three families were left with grief that no passage of time can erase.

Remember their names: Karina Yershova, Viktor Mazokha, and Natalia Mazokha.

Those responsible for their deaths, including anyone who ordered or enabled these crimes, must face justice.

[Basil Brush🦊 @fox66]

Note to the pathetic real estate boys: Ukraine is fighting for its life against a brutal, vicious invader, so basically go fuck yourselves.

[𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Tweet4AnnaNAFO]

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺

Abu Dhabi’s big diplomatic breakthrough by Trump’s real-estate boys: Zelensky had to sit them down and explain, like they were five, that Ukraine isn't a distressed asset in Florida.

"I've had to explain this to the Real Estate Bros Kushner & Witkoff: the Donbass isn't my personal property to flip. I can't just gift them an extra two kilometers because it makes the term sheet look cleaner or because someone in Moscow offered a 'package deal'. The Donbas is not my building. People live there.

Try thinking about it as if Russians had already taken half of Florida and were asking Trump to hand over the rest so you two could finally close the deal and go back to building luxury resorts on the rubble."

Once again, Ukraine rejected the US plan to gift its regions to Moscow.

[Basil Brush🦊 @fox66]

@AaronDodd Avoid letting a political party determine your preferences; doing so suggests a lack of effort.

[Basil Brush🦊 @fox66]

How low can they go?

[Aaron Dodd, Curmudgeon @AaronDodd]

Lie down with dogs...
Here we have the Libs openly stating they consider the racist, antisemitic bigots of #OneNation as preferable to Labor. Draw your own conclusions.
#auspol #springst

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

This is Vanessa Hudson, CEO of Qantas, who scored $6.4 million in pay, bonuses, shares etc last financial year. Qantas itself made $1.2 billion after tax. Hudson is now sacking 850 workers, outsourcing their jobs to India. Disgusting.

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Of course Jess Wilson will preference One Nation over Labor and Greens.

Wilson’s father is a MAGA conservative & Jess has referred to her Daddy as “my hero and inspiration”.

Also Wilson’s husband is a grub & was forced to quit Liberals over homophobic slurs.
#VicVotes #auspol

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

The guards in North Vietnam's prison camps had a nickname for one young American sailor: The Incredibly Stupid One.

In August 1969, they sent him home. It backfired on them. He walked out with the names of about 256 American prisoners hidden in his head, set to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm.

Doug Hegdahl was a 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice from Clark, South Dakota. Before dawn on April 6, 1967, he stepped onto the deck of the cruiser USS Canberra while she was firing on the coast in the Gulf of Tonkin.

"All I know is, I walked up on the deck, it was dark and they were firing, and the next thing I recall I was in the water."

He floated for hours. Vietnamese fishermen pulled him out. On his own ship, the morning muster came up one man short. The crew searched twice and concluded he had gone over the side.

His captors refused to believe anyone falls off a warship by accident. They beat him as a spy.

So he gave them what they wanted to see. He told them he could not read or write. When an interrogator asked what he wanted most, he said, "Why, I'd like a pillow, Sir."

They stopped worrying about him. They handed him a broom and let him sweep the camp.

Every yard he swept was a chance to learn another name.

An Air Force prisoner named Joe Crecca taught him how to memorize. Name. Date of capture. How he was captured. A dog's name, a kid's name, a Social Security number, anything a family could check. Verse after verse, he sang it to himself until it stuck.

He also went after the camp trucks with a little dirt in the fuel tanks. Five of them stopped running.

The prisoners lived by a rule: nobody accepts early release while his brothers stay behind. Hegdahl did not want to go. His senior officer, Lt. Cmdr. Richard Stratton, made it an order. As Stratton later explained it:

"You are the most junior. You have the names."

On August 5, 1969, the North Vietnamese released him as a propaganda gesture. Back home, he sang the list to American officials. Families who had been told their sons were missing learned they were alive.

The next year he flew to Paris and confronted North Vietnam's delegation over the treatment of American prisoners. Stratton later believed it helped keep him alive.

They called him the dumbest man in the camp.

He carried more than 250 families home inside a nursery rhyme.

[J @FitzJimx]

@6NewsAU I dont think ppl in Kew have an appetite for an LNP/ON coalition to be honest.

[Basil Brush🦊 @fox66]

@levandovsky @judyfree10 👍🏻😎

[🕶️🦉Sassy Leo 🦉🕶️ @Loud_Lass]

She has done it again
Hanson is a fucking p.o.s a rapist apologist
Rape and sexual abuse is not fucking political
It's Criminal !
This is what this woman stands up for criminal abusers
#auspol

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The major problem with some very rich people is that they have no sense of value at all...except money

That becomes their only motivation and they can't quite believe that other people don't think the same way

It's a disease. of course

Very infectious, too

[Jordan - The EV Guy @JordanEVGuy]

Feel free to thank an EV driver for that cleaner air you’re breathing.

[Basil Brush🦊 @fox66]

Bad luck for the compromised and corrupted LNP and One Nation 🔥

[Renew Economy @renew_economy]

Rio Tinto’s Jerome Pécresse says coal power has priced itself out of the equation for Australian smelters, making the shift to renewables a matter of survival
https://t.co/XrstdCHjPt

[𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗢𝘀𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 PhD, FRSA. @call_me_tomasso]

Pubic Elf Warning...

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

Dear people of Victoria. Please do not vote for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation candidates. Her political base comprises white supremacists, neo-Nazis, antisemites, racist dog whistlers, Islamophobes. She is now trying to be all things to all people. In power she will broker uncontrolling guns, work choices2.0, horror cuts to services. https://t.co/uufBhKooFy

[Basil Brush🦊 @fox66]

A Cooker I encountered attempted to explain how she would improve Australia, yet when I asked for details, he struggled to respond. #CultOfGrifters

[🕶️🦉Sassy Leo 🦉🕶️ @Loud_Lass]

#onecon
#auspol

[Haydar Özkan @haydarozkan06]

Maracay hayvanat bahçesindeki fil Lucki öldü. 80 yaşındaydı ve hayatının her dakikası hapiste geçti. Tüm dünya diz çökmeli ve özür dilemeli.

[Basil Brush🦊 @fox66]

In Victoria, Labor appears to be the sole rational choice 🤔

[Wazza from Melbourne @Melbourne_says]

There is an election just weeks away in Victoria.

These two headlines were published today.

This is the company Jess Wilson is choosing for Victoria.

Don't say we didn't warn you. 👇🏼

[bradpsychology @bradpsychology]

Come on Victoria. We defeated the Nazis once. We don't want them back.
https://t.co/hmX0rEmce0