Julie O'Brien

World weary woman who reads - a lot.
Hate corruption, hypocrisy (particularly the religious kind) & total absence of compassion re our refugees. Loathe LNP.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Here it is in a nutshell.

The #NACC is - as I keep yelling - not a corruption investigation unit at all. It's not.

It's a public-service, education & teaching unit.

A very expensive $80 million a year one, that does no corruption investigation at all but instead, 'educates'.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Cry harder, bitch.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Artem Koval, 12, has died after more than a week in hospital.

His 8-year-old sister, Arina, was killed in the same russian attack six days ago.

A brother and a sister. Both killed by russia.

And the world keeps looking away.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Zali Steggall praises Helen & Phil Haines after they raise an incredible $1M + for Save The Children. 👏👏 & says we can all learn from them.
“We have heard your words loud and clear, kindness over hate.” 🩵 #auspol

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

If this doesn't inspire you to get off your ass and save our democracy, nothing will. In this moment in history, as Trump is systematically destroying the republic, this is the most consequential video y'all are going to see.

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

Are there ANY candidates in the upcoming Israeli elections who DON'T want to murder Palestinians and steal their land?

It would appear that every single candidate supports genocide. It's not just Netanyahu.
#IsraeliTerrorism #IsraeliWarCrimes
#EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Brazil President Lula da Silva:

“I want to say loud and clear: The Prime Minister of Israel is carrying out a GENOCIDE against women & children. This is a historical FACT.”

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"'It’s collective punishment’: nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron displaced as Israeli forces take over homes
Families forced to flee as Netanyahu tries to prove security credentials after two Israeli soldiers killed days before election"
https://t.co/o3d4lX5ZPx

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Two+yrs ago I said: " I long for the day there will be an investigation on the role of Western media in the genocide in Gaza".

From the very beginning many authoritative media have acted unprofessionally and irresponsible.

My last report proves there is more. And it's ugly.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out

🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: https://t.co/D6whnBEhW4

🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET

Livestream details will follow.

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Suspect most Australian media won’t read it because they might have to reflect on their role in a genocide.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Boom. 💥

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Don’t become numb to this. It’s disgusting and dangerous racism and if Rogers wins next month it’ll only escalate.

Sick, sick stuff.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Brazil President Lula da Silva:

“What Israel is doing in Gaza is like what Hitler did to the Jews.”

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Damn! Trump sure is pulling in the crowds!!! Oh wait, my bad, that was Barack Obama last night in Michigan.

[Acyn @Acyn]

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet. He just seems to have trouble pronouncing it when it's my name. 

I don't care how he pronounces my name. I don't even care that he remembers my whole name. Because he can just go on and call me senator after November.

[Derek Frangos @enemyofsymmetry]

Elon Musk is without a doubt the most grotesque example of extreme wealth being mistaken for virtuous genius that I’ve ever seen, no contest.

A dude whose business empire has had the exceptional luxury of upwards of $38 BILLlON in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits that lectures us on government waste, fraud, and abuse.

He takes a literal fucking chainsaw to government aid, while hundreds of thousands die from the lack of access, and simultaneously engorges himself at the public pig trough of endless money.

He then takes the grift cash to buy elections, outright rig them, gains extraordinary access to the backrooms and convinces panting sycophants that he’s “fighting the establishment.”

He IS the establishment.

Years and years of missed deadlines, self driving promises just around the corner. Spectacular theatrical marketing presentations presented as new technology, with an army of ball riding zombies to explain why his latest failure is actually evidence of 5D chess wizardry.

All in line to be the friend he doesn’t have.

He was emailing Epstein to find about the “wildest parties” on child rape island, and you people still clamber.

Speaking of mouth breathing followers, the cult surrounding him is even more disturbingly dangerous.

Every glaring contradiction becomes an insult worthy misunderstanding.
Every dumb comment is a masterpiece. Every legitimate totally fair criticism becomes proof that the questioner is stupid, jealous, or secretly working against humanity itself.

It’s so blatantly a cult.

At what point does this bizarre admiration become deliberately and completely giving up independent thought?

You can acknowledge the success of his companies and the remarkable engineering feats without cosplaying that he’s some infallible prophet.

And give his employees some credit.

He’s a trillionaire with huge political influence, a pretty pathetic appetite for public attention indicative of someone that’s insecure, and a documented history of promise after promise that he doesn’t deliver on.

Please, don’t confuse money with intelligence.
They rarely go hand in hand.

Also, realize that proximity to great power is not synonymous with moral authority. The truth is historically the opposite.

And for fucks sake, stop worshipping people who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

I rather like this.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Fuck Putin. Fuck Trump. Fuck Musk.