James Meissner

He/Him. Secondary HASS teacher (Civics and Geography specialist). Passionate about democracy, education, and cats.

[James Meissner @meissnereffect]

@Cadeyrnn Your orange is much better than ours 😅

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

You bombed historic churches in Gaza and Lebanon and massacred entire Christian families

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Every now and then make sure to spend a night far away from big city lights.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” — Omar El Akkad

[The Chaser @chaser]

"You can't expect me to pay attention to what the hosts are saying without it."

[Subtly Said @subtlysaid]

I know Australia is far from perfect, but I am proud of our resistance to the far right political nonsense.

Now it's time for Labor to do better.

#AusVotes2025 #ausvotes #auspol

[Jesse Munro @jesseSPANNER]

#AusVotes2025

[Dr Vyom Sharma @drvyom]

I hope one day I'll find someone who believes in me like James McGrath believes in pre-polls.

[6 News Australia @6NewsAU]

#BREAKING 🚨 Peter Dutton has lost his seat of Dickson to Labor’s Ali France, 6 News projects

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.
Pro-Aboriginal is not anti-white,
nor does loving your culture mean you are less Australian.

These things are not mutually exclusive

A history denied is compelled to repeat itself; and each year on January 26th, we celebrate the trauma inflicted on Aboriginal people.

From a position of science, it is the denial of trauma that compounds and magnifies the original trauma; because you are forced to expend more energy 'convincing' people you have experienced trauma rather than on healing from the trauma itself.

The denial extends to invisibility.
Aboriginal people are not celebrated for our contribution to this country on January 26; and there is not greater injustice than to feel invisible. To feel as though you matter less.

I am a proud Australian and I would like the basic right to celebrate that.

But until we have a maturity of leadership that has the bravery and honesty to acknowledge our past; our future will continue to be limited by ignorance,

#changethedate

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Many folks wrongly assume education is a ship that runs itself. It can’t work if teachers aren’t fully funded, if their students aren’t invested in learning, if their parents aren’t invested in them. “People are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” We can’t let that be our fate.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I do think it’s a worrying trend that so many folks are advocating never exposing teenagers to Shakespeare or the Arabian Nights because they might be a bit bored. as educators, it is not your job to entertain them, it is your job to awaken their lifelong curiosity.

[The Conversation @ConversationUK]

Most ‘words of the year’ don’t actually tell us about the state of the world – here’s what I’d pick instead https://t.co/nUaxsrqKHB

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

backsliding into fascism just 80 years after WWII is like failing an open-book test in a room where the answers are written on the board and also being constantly read out loud over a loudspeaker

[emmy rākete 🇵🇸 @cannibality]

Every time Māori use a haka in the context of our national politics, Americans get mad at us about it. They want our culture to be a packaged product they can consume in the as entertainment. It's imperative we don't let them reduce us to monkeys dancing for them on cue.

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

I despair of the ‘leaders’ of the so-called ‘civilised’ nations, rushing to congratulate a felon, fascist and serial sex predator.

Morals, ethics, truth and integrity seemingly mean nothing.

[James Meissner @meissnereffect]

@Birmo Simon, surely as someone who professes to support classical liberal values, you would recognise that Donald Trump is the antithesis to those values? The rule of law, human rights, due process, and the world's 'peace & prosperity' are all threatened under his presidency.

[Paul Savage @comedysavage]

Erasing anti genocide imagery on tv show called "Big Brother" is, I have to say, too on the nose.