Pook

Progressive Melburnian. Kooyong constituent. Also @pmfvic.bsky.social

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Very funny

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MUST WATCH:

Clip from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness"

Rob Reiner (before his death) as George Washington.

Trump is going to hate this.

[Pook @pmfvic]

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[Pook @pmfvic]

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[Futurefocused @hmlgreener]

The Christian Brothers criminal organisation.

[Pook @pmfvic]

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[Pook @pmfvic]

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[Tagesspiegel @Tagesspiegel]

Vor dem Brandenburger Tor hat die @polizeiberlin Wasserwerfer aufgefahren – zur Abkühlung in der #Hitzewelle in #Berlin. Sie fährt weiter zum Platz der Republik, Potsdamer Platz, Roten Rathaus und zur Jugendfarm im #Mauerpark. Unser Hitze-Blog: https://t.co/wHGMFnWV4i

[Pook @pmfvic]

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[MFWitches @MFWitches]

*****BIG BREAKING NEWS, WITCHES*****

Yes, witches, we do believe Karl Stefanovic has been dumped from Channel 9’s “Today” breakfast show this evening, as reported in the pics below.

If true, this is an enormous and much-deserved win for us.

We won’t stand for the racism and hate espoused by Tommy Robinson via Stefanovic’s podcast. Nor do we care about whether the departure was manipulated or planned, or whether it makes Stefanovic some kind of martyr for the far right.

Our job is to call out racism and hate, and we will do that and campaign against it wherever we see it.

Congratulations, witches.

We did it again.

Get on board or get out of the fucking way.

#KancelKarl
#ToYourBrooms

[Kenny Devine @TheKennyDevine]

One Nation plans to put an end to foreigners buying up Australian land by giving it to them for free.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Albo says it’s a “fact” that One Nation “pretend" to stand for battlers.
“They have planes given to them by Australia’s richest person”
“They want it to be easier to sack people”
“They oppose increases in the min wage”💥
The banner at NPC said it all really #auspol

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
/2 sources

[Pook @pmfvic]

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[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

I don't understand this whole growing thing in Oz politics, about being "patriots" & embracing "freedom".
Far from being patriotic, it feels like warmed over MAGA nonsense that wont pull in anyone who isn't already there?
The quote is from Tony Abbott who's just become Lib Prez.

[Pook @pmfvic]

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[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“If the full unredacted Epstein files were to be released, the world would know in an instant that Trump not only abused under-aged girls, he trafficked them along with his best friend and associate for well over a decade, Jeffrey Epstein.

Ghislaine Maxwell, of course, knows this - and it is why Todd Blanche visited her in prison, arranged for her cushy transfer and probable commutation of her sentence, if not an outright pardon.

They met to get their stories straight and protect the boss. My friend who was groomed by Trump, who began flirting with her when she was twelve years-old and taking figure skating lessons at his ice rink in Central Park, later told me of the awful crimes Trump and Epstein perpetrated in his NYC townhouse, knows how prominent a role Ghislaine played in the operation. So do many other survivors.

As does Melania Trump, who often partied with Ghislaine around town at events, and was no stranger to the underworld and deviant proclivities of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. No matter how dumb she plays it regarding the matter now.

Trump’s own children and his one living ex-wife all understand the dynamics and criminal exposure of their father should more of the Epstein files be released.

None of them will talk, or lift a finger on behalf of justice for the thousands of victims. Vanky herself swam in the same circles as a teenage model signed by Elite Models’ founder John Casablancas, with the blessings of her own father.

One must ask why the story went away so quickly in the mainstream media - after Melania’s bizarre presser at the White House concerning the Epstein files and the insinuations regarding the ex-girlfriend of Paolo Zampolli.

Zampolli had a modeling business that clearly served as a front for sex trafficking young women and girls to wealthy clients, of which Jeffrey Epstein was in fact a partner.

He now holds an official position in the current administration, as U.S. Special Representative for Global Partnerships. Does giving such a man a prominent role feel like the actions of a POTUS who is innocent, or a passive player in the Epstein files?”https://t.co/dcDESHUIWd

[Pook @pmfvic]

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