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[Dirtyleftie @CraigSarg73]

Political parties raising money isn't unusual.

Labor does it. The Liberals do it. The Greens do it. One Nation does it.

The difference isn't that One Nation is asking for donations.

The difference is that "Fire the Liar" isn't really a campaign about policy. It's a campaign built around anger.

The message isn't "help us solve housing", "help us lower power bills" or "help us improve health care".

The message is essentially: "You're angry. So give us money."

That's what makes me uncomfortable.

Australians are doing it tough right now. Every party has the right to ask for support. But when a campaign is designed primarily to inflame outrage and then immediately convert that outrage into donations, I think it's fair to question what's really being sold.

Support a party because you believe in its ideas.

Support a party because you think its policies will improve the country.

But if a political movement relies on keeping people permanently angry so the donations keep flowing, that's not leadership.

That's a business model.

[Lesley Steedman @LesleySteedman]

A Senator missing from Parliament 88% of the time would be sacked in any other job..

[Josh Butler @JoshButler]

bizarre excuse for why Hanson misses so much parliament - "she's leader of the party & asked to go to a range of things"

Too busy for... one of the main jobs of a politician? The prime minister & opposition leader, famously, go to parliament all the time. They even televise it

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Imagine paying your mortgage for a full year, then having interest applied as if you'd never paid a cent.

That's HECS today.

That's the deal we hand young Australians. It's wrong and unfair.

[Tim @Timmeh1985]

What are people carrying on about?

There is a head clash, along with his shoulder also hitting Koula’s head. No wrapping motion and it took a player out of the game.

Easy send off. Stay mad.

#origin

[Lucia @lfsleigh]

What the fuck?! As a NSW fan, how on earth are we currently ahead? I am absolutely flabbergasted we came back after that woeful start! Is this real life? #origin

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Does anyone still have doubts that Palestinians are being tortured and raped? This is how Israel treats international protestors in public. What they do to Palestinians in private is a million times worse.

[Sohrab Ahmari @SohrabAhmari]

How is Ben Gvir not the Israeli government. He is literally a minister who controls police forces!

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

Also important to understand that Ben-Gvir posts torture videos like that all the time, with Palestinian prisoners.

And the world has been silent until now, when Europeans appeared in the videos instead of Palestinians.

[Etan Nechin @Etanetan23]

Ben Gvir inadvertently did journalism a service. Without his public broadcasting of the abuse, flotilla detainees' testimonies would have been met with denial and a smear campaign against them and reporters who carried their accounts.

[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.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Breaking @smh:

ABC, SBS reject @AlboMP & Jillian Segal's definition of antisemitism.

The ABC warned that examples associated with the definition: "risk conflating legitimate political and policy critique with antisemitism."

SBS: “We will not be adopting the IHRA definition”.

[Lucia @lfsleigh]

Why has the semi and finals voting data by country not been released yet? They usually do it shortly after the contest ends #Eurovision

[moonsprout🌙🌱 @MoonsproutWitch]

I’m glad PCOS is being renamed to include the metabolic aspect but I still don’t think it’s going to do much to combat the fatphobia ppl with this condition face.

As long as weight loss is still seen as treatment for metabolic conditions I really don’t think much changes.

[Ben Marmarelli بن مرمريلي בן מרמרלי @mrmrly44557]

A very serious investigation has been published in @nytimes about rape and sexual violence carried out by the authorities in Israel. I am also quoted in this article as one of many, many people who provided accounts to this newspaper, which is considered extremely pro-Israeli.
In response, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote that these are antisemitic “blood libels.” It is clear that the reports already published by Al Jazeera in 2024, and by me in 2025 when the BBC censored and deleted the interview with me, are true.
People simply need to listen to Palestinians. But the world does not listen to Palestinians. It only listens when it is written in The New York Times — and now it is written there.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[Lucia @lfsleigh]

For the first time in over a decade, I didn’t wake up at 5am to watch #Eurovision. While it’s sad to see the contest I love go this way, you can only say that they did this to themselves.

[Lucia @lfsleigh]

Getting out of Sydney airport is absolute chaos right now, must be a huge accident up the road as all three lanes are completely shut down, no traffic allowed to move at all. Been waiting for a looooooong time - gotta say, I did not miss Sydney traffic!

[S.🎧 @1ssve]

3 stages of working your job on Friday:
1. Let’s finish the week strong
2. I’ve done enough this week
3. Nobody f—king message me

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE