Sonia B C

historical fiction fan, always learning, spirituality, travel 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 , humour, I ❤️NYC, introvert, 📖, 🏖 🇦🇺

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Dutch doctors and activists display 1,400 pairs of white shoes in a square in the Netherlands in memory of fallen healthcare workers in Gaza.

[Hugh Riminton @hughriminton]

What mere columnists take a thousand words to say, @cathywilcox1 delivers in 69.
And in coloured ink.

[jamie @gnuman1979]

Exactly.

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

🌸 Blooming with positivity 🌸

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

I've looked through thousands of photos from the Milan Cortina Games.

There are more iconic shots.. More memorable moments... But this right here is my favorite.

Australia's Abbey Willcox (aerials) looks like she's handplanting on the mountain.

📸: Patrick Smith/Getty Images

[Peter Murphy @PeterWMurphy1]

I've attended many rallies in Sydney: anti-nuclear, anti-war, climate action, gay marriage, Voice, pro-Palestine.

At the #HerzogNotWelcome rally tonight, I was genuinely afraid of our NSW Police. Protesters were peaceful & cooperative. The police were angry & violent. 😔 #nswpol

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

David Marr, my distinguished successor at Late Night Live flew to Melbourne to interview the legendary Barry Jones. A must listen, koala stamp program.

[Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins]

I know a Jason Statham plot when I see one

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Cancelling a Palestinian intellectual to pander to the absurd whining of the pro-Israel lobby backfired. It should not have taken a genocide to get here. But the arc of history is now finally bending.

#PalestineEffect

[Sahar A @Sahar_A_Writes]

Unflinching, Louise Adler challenges the moral disorder of Jillian Segal's exclusionary antisemitism plan; its mark on Australia's conscience:

How may First Nations—victims of daily racism—"feel about priority given to 120,000 well-educated, mostly affluent individuals"? #auspol

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

*** Excellent OpEd by Richard Flanagan on the significance of @adelaidefest canceling @RandaAFattah
‘With Australians horrified by the Bondi mass murder, insidiously linking a writer with that massacre is an appalling slander, vile in itself. But in saying one Australian writer cannot speak, inevitably more and more Australian writers will find themselves also unable to speak – first at festivals, soon in universities, then on public broadcasters.

And the categories of what is unsayable and who is silenced will inevitably grow. Today it is Gaza, but next it could be the environment or social policy. As we see in the United States, the slippery categories of terrorism and community cohesion are ever-growing as forces of oppression.

Randa Abdel-Fattah is charged with having given profound offence with past social media posts – but then so too has Tony Abbott been charged with giving profound offence to many Indigenous Australians in the past. Both have new books out, both were invited to speak at the AWW, yet only Tony Abbott remains welcome. Some may not like what Randa Abdel-Fattah has to say, but then others may not like what pro-Israel writers who are also to speak at AWW have to say either. And that is the point – all deserve to be heard.

It is no secret that this decision came about because of intense political pressure from the South Australian government. The festival board’s statement clearly implies this and goes further by announcing a new “special committee” to oversee all future programming that will have “ongoing engagement with relevant Government agencies and the appointment and/or advice of external experts”. For special committee read political commissars overseen by the state. For external experts read lobby groups. And yet we know that a society that allows its politicians and special interest groups to decide who gets to speak and who doesn’t is on a dangerous path.’

https://t.co/6VUHO7XvcY

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The insane amount of snow fallen on the western Italian Alps in the last two days, visualized.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The Archbishop of York has revealed he was 'intimidated' by Israeli militias during visit his to the Holy Land this year.

Most Reverend Stephen Cottrell said he was stopped at checkpoints, and militias told him he could not visit Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

Oh, look who allowed rapid-fire shotguns into the country 👇👇👇

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

"The majority of Australians reject antisemitism too. The majority of Australians are peaceful. The majority of Australians also have the right to peacefully protest against Israel and its genocidal policies."
— Ronni Salt
https://t.co/EltX7wlvNM

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

Anyone in mind?

[The Chaser @chaser]

Sydney Morning Herald begins work on article about what Zohran Mamdani’s win means for the Sydney housing market

[Chukwüderä @chukwudera_ng]

Patriarchy must d!e