Simon O'Connor

Our country is becoming increasingly harder to recognise.
What is happening to Australia?
Stand up for what is true.
Stand against all that is false.

[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

@MFWitches And now the federal president of the Liberal Party.

What a disgrace.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

A lot of people are saying on social media today that a public campaign against Premier Jacinta Allen using the phrase “Ditch the Witch” isn’t sexist because they’ve heard of MFW and know we proudly use the word witches.

Please.

They must not have heard about how we started, which was as the result of an extraordinarily sexist text message sent by Peter Dutton to a mate, and which he accidentally sent to a woman journo instead.

They must not understand history, in which all women who were in the slightest way outspoken or different or not perfectly aligned with patriarchal requirements were called witches and often viciously murdered for their so-called sins.

And they must not understand parody, in which we witches have re-claimed the word “witch” to mean all women who protest the outrageous misogyny so many men practice with barely any constraint.

Because we’re here to clearly say that yes: the campaign against Allen is deeply sexist, just as it was sexist when it was used to denigrate then-PM Julia Gillard (pic in comments), and when it’s been used to stir up hatred towards any women with power or influence or anything other than simply being perfectly pretty and perfectly unheard.

What’s more, the campaign couldn’t be anything BUT deeply problematic, funded as it has been by a consortium of what appears to be a deeply right-wing group of men who want nothing more than to oust Allen from her job, and promoted widely in #NewsCorpse publications in ways which further harm Allen and her government:
“‘[Allan] doesn’t answer questions. She’s not accountable to everything … It’s just how people are feeling. That’s what they’re resorting to’ Puleo said. ‘That’s not a political ad. It’s basically what the Victorian public feel’.”
https://t.co/GQ2N1VsQiN?

The campaign is despicable, and the billboards should be banned. Today. Anything else is unacceptable, and does nothing but show the endemic hatred for women among large sections of conservative men and politics in this country (and among many progressive men and groups too, but that’s another story).

For fuck sake, ban these billboards. They’re hate speech. And us calling ourselves witches as a way to parody that hate will never make the use of the word okay in other settings and formats.

That’s all.

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[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

@malcthorne @MikeCarlton01 @Truth89821534 Indeed - as evidenced by the plant in pride of place in Lyle Shelton's garden:

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

I have never understood why the RWFWs are so utterly obsessed with other people’s bodies…gender…sex lives…bedroom behaviour. Is it something to do with their toilet training ?

[stranger @strangerous10]

ABC hypocrisy, sacked Lattouff for sharing post on genocide in Gaza but are backing in Charlie Pickering for giving his “own view" after he platformed known DV abuser/fmr IDF member Avi Yemini to attack DV survivor Grace Tame. No lobby complaints here, Pickering is safe🙄#auspol

[Phillip Adams @PhillipAdams_1]

DC’s new reflection pool

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught.

A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.

1. I have the right to do it.
2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump.
3. People don’t care.

That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now.

Please stand up and prove him wrong.

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

BREAKING📷 A woman donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Three weeks later, her son a convicted tax criminal was pardoned. His pardon application literally mentioned her donation.
Her name is Elizabeth Fago. Her son, Paul Walczak, had pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes. The pardon application filed on his behalf explicitly cited his mother's million-dollar donation to MAGA Inc. as a reason he deserved clemency. Trump signed the pardon. Walczak walked free and was relieved of more than $4 million in restitution he owed.
That is one entry on a donor list of 58 people who gave a million dollars or more.
MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, has now raised over $305 million since the 2024 election five times more than any presidential super PAC in history at this stage. The Brennan Center called it "completely unprecedented." Ninety-six percent of it came from donors giving $1 million or more. Sixty-two percent from those giving $5 million or more. This is not a grassroots operation. It is a pay-window.
Here's what the donor list actually shows.
https://t.co/s5GJV5zpIa's parent company, Foris Dax, gave $30 million — while it was under SEC investigation for allegedly trading unregistered securities. The SEC investigation was quietly dropped in March 2025, two months after the donation.
The Winklevoss twins gave $1 million — also while their crypto platform Gemini was under SEC investigation. That investigation was dropped in February 2025.
Energy Transfer, the Texas pipeline company, and its CEO Kelcy Warren gave a combined $25 million — while Energy Transfer was actively suing a federal regulatory agency in court.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25 million — as the Trump administration was actively shaping AI policy in Silicon Valley's favor.
Then there are the appointments. Benjamin Landa gave $5 million then became Trump's ambassador to Hungary. Kelly Loeffler and her husband gave $5 million she now runs the Small Business Administration. Warren Stephens gave $2 million now ambassador to the United Kingdom. Jared Isaacman gave $2 million now NASA administrator.
And Isabela Herrera, a 25-year-old self-employed financial consultant whose only prior political donation was $20 to Pete Buttigieg in 2020, somehow contributed $3.5 million to MAGA Inc. Her father a Venezuelan billionaire facing federal bribery charges was pardoned by Trump in January 2026. Campaign Legal Center has filed a formal complaint with the FEC alleging she was a straw donor for her father.
This is not dark money. This is public record.
Every dollar, every favor, every pardon. Filed with the FEC. Sitting in plain sight.
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[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

@JayJay91341991 Beats the hell out of me. 🤬

[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

They remain the #CoalitionOfCorruptionHypocrisyAndLies 👇

[Squizz @SquizzSTK]

Tim Wilson gets caught blaming Labor for data when the LNP was in government🙄

Jim Chalmers "I wonder why he's including Mar 2022 and pretending Labor was in office .. that was the biggest fall in productivity in more than 40 years! So it always pays to check the numbers"

#qt

[stranger @strangerous10]

Pocock presses Wong who says we all ‘prefer' an independent inquiry into abuse of Aussies off a flotilla but will instead push for a ‘swift’ & ‘transparent’-internal Israel led investigation🙄

Pocock ‘if we prefer an independent one, why has the govt not asked Israel?’🔥#auspol

[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

@ddale8 Whenever #MadKingDonald is speaking, #MadKingDonald is lying.

[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

So what does #MadKingDonald have on all of them? 👇

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

GOP politicians selling their souls to MAGA

[Politikarma @politikarma]

@RonniSalt @BelindaJones68 @cheryl_kernot @GregWithers3 @iamthenas @BevFloyd10 Largest (serial) donor to @AustralianLabor is Zionist businessman Anthony Pratt.
Zionist influence over @AlboMP @Tony_Burke is problematic - as evidenced by appointment of Zionist Jillian Segal.
The tail is wagging the dog…and filling its ears with propaganda
#auspol

[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

@MichaelWestBiz Very happy to hear this, Michael. 👍

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

#OneNeuronParty 🤦‍♂️👇

[blakandblack @blakandblack]

The woman who would be Prime Minister … she’s only marginally literate (at best), she’s uninformed, has no worked through policies, worse, she has no idea of the impacts her uninformed rants would have on the economy, if implemented…

[EVERALD COMPTON @EVERALDATLARGE]

History of #politics reveals #PaulineHanson is one of the long term stayers. 30 years since she was first elected. Now for first time she is touted by media as future PM. This is nonsense. Her political power is based on her NOT being the government. She is just a skilled stirer.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! Imagine if Hunter Biden invested in a company and three months later the White House rushed a $620,000,000 Pentagon loan to it.

That’s exactly what Don Jr. did with Vulcan Elements. Stephanie Ruhle calls it corruption. Republicans call it “Tuesday.” The valuation jumps from $200 million to $2 billion.

Your tax dollars. Their bank account.

[Simon O'Connor @monocon]

Well, America - when are you going to say something?
Anything?

Or are you going to continue to say & do nothing?👇

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.