Michael Gavin Roche (he/him)

Irish immigrant roots | born Australia | living in Naarm

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

I think Cathy Wilcox was rather restrained.

[Michael Gavin Roche (he/him) @mgroche]

@JaneTurnbu39169 Tim Wilson

[Deng Nguyen @deng_nguyen]

The candidate is wearing a police ankle bracelet. What could possibly go wrong. #SAvotes

[Ben Rothenberg @BenRothenberg]

A trend that should be getting more attention, I thought:

Marinko Matosevic, convicted of flagrant violations including blood doping and clenbuterol, became the FOURTH Australian man in the last 16 months banned for a doping offense.

Read the details:

https://t.co/Ek6CRqAoDe

[Michael Gavin Roche (he/him) @mgroche]

I think I know where Sarah Ferguson is going with this interview with Iran’s foreign spokesperson but it’s backfiring badly #abc730

[Amy Remeikis @AmyRemeikis]

Just your regular reminder that John Howard never pushed back against Pauline Hanson and One Nation policies. He embraced them, which is how he outflanked them, while also setting the stage for what the Liberals are today. The myth that he 'pushed back' truly needs to die.

[Tony Windsor @TonyHWindsor]

This is a deliberate attempt to maintain the political rage against the Prime Minister and milk a tragic event.
A Royal Commission is not for you to prescribe the outcome @JoshFrydenberg particularly if it is about all forms of hate speech and the drivers of that hatred.

[💧simon holmes à court 🦋 @simonahac]

like romeo, the liberal party has taken its own political life after believing a fatal lie — that net zero policies have driven up power prices.

a once-serious party undone by reckless ignorance.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

It works !

[Allegra Spender @spenderallegra]

What an absolute disgrace that former Wallaby, Senator David Pocock has been excluded from the Parliamentary Sports Club because he raised concerns about the club’s links to the gambling industry.l

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

A big four consultancy firm has used AI in a report that had several errors, and charged the Australian taxpayer with the bill. I am livid.

[Michael Gavin Roche (he/him) @mgroche]

@just_brash @6NewsAU The word didn't work for Dutton

[Michael Gavin Roche (he/him) @mgroche]

@davegraney He's better than the other two

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MAGA world flies into panic mode as the grandmother of Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin Tyler Robinson reveals that his entire family is hardcore MAGA.

The Republican narrative has collapsed in record time...

“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat," the suspect's grandmother Debbie Robinson told The Daily Mail.

“I’m just so confused. [Tyler] is the shyest person. He has never, ever spoke politics to me at all," she added.

The Daily Beast reported that both of Robinson's parents are registered Republicans who hold hunting licenses. They appear to be run-of-the-mill conservative gun nuts.

In the immediate aftermath of Kirk's assassinations, Republicans rushed to blame Democrats. Donald Trump pointed a finger at the "radical left" and MAGA influencers, including Donald Trump Jr., gleefully embraced the false narrative that the shooter was transgender.

We now know that the alleged shooter was a 22-year-old white Mormon man from Utah. It seems increasingly likely that he was a far-right supporter of the white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The engravings on the bullets found appear to be references to memes popular within Fuentes's "groyper" movement. Groypers despised Charlie Kirk because he wasn't right-wing enough for their taste and they believe that he sold out the "America First" movement.

One bullet was engraved with the phrase “Hey fascist! Catch!" but it does not appear to be a left-wing "antifa" message as Republicans originally claimed. Instead, it seems to be a reference to a satirical slogan in the popular video game Helldivers 2. Video games are a crucial cornerstone of the bizarre groyper worldview, along with misogyny and racism.

In the coming days we will no doubt learn more about this twisted shooter and his hateful beliefs but we cannot allow Republicans to slink away without taking responsibility for their lies. Yesterday, they were promising now civil war. Now that it appears the shooter was one of their own, they want to move on.

We must hold them accountable. The shooter is not transgender, is not a Democrat, and is not an immigrant. He's an unstable homegrown white man with access to firearms. America's gun violence problem is a Republican problem.

Please retweet and ❤️ to spread the truth!

[Ben Pennings @BenPennings]

Crime writer Val McDermid is a legend, would pit her against JK any day. As a parent with a trans young person, I absolutely adore these champions 💚

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Queen Tingle in the house.
Finally someone decent on the panel.💕
#insiders #auspol

[Michael Gavin Roche (he/him) @mgroche]

@toiletpaperaus1 Are these the people who voted for Peter Dutton?

[Luigi Gatto @gigicat7_]

One of the most iconic tennis photos of all time. Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe in Jamaica 1978 😍

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Carlos Alcaraz signs the camera for Jannik Sinner after he retired from their match in the Cincinnati final:

“Sorry Jannik ☹️”

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

📍Glastonbury

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