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[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Andrew Brown:

"@AlboMP handed Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. No election. No parliamentary vote. A 3yr commission reporting to the PM, with a mandate reaching every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract & visa file in the Commonwealth."

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“There are villages that I visited in years past that are now just gone.”

Journalist @infinite_jaz says Israel’s pogroms in the occupied West Bank are strategic and organized, not random acts of violence as they are often portrayed in the press.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Andrew Brown:

"Remember the referendum in which Australians voted to create a Voice to Parliament for Israel? You don’t. It never happened. We got one anyway."

Brilliant read. What would we do without independent journalist? Pls Support @MichaelWestBiz.

https://t.co/gAsqrsoswX

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

AOC just went on ABC’s This Week and defended Hasan Piker:

“Much hay was made about the fact that we lost young men in the last election — Many of the same consultants that are wringing their hands today were the same ones talking about how we have to go on Joe Rogan and not be so willing to engage in cancel culture.”

[Scott Burchill @IRanalyst]

He's suffering from limelight deprivation syndrome - better known as irrelevance - so @australian gave him an op ed space as a consolation prize for being "snubbed" by the Royal Commission

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The highlighted paragraph is inaccurate as written. Reuters describes Israeli operations as “scaled back,” not halted, while Palestinian field reports recorded gunfire, tank fire, artillery and incursions across Gaza on Aug. 5-8, with one Palestinian person killed on Saturday.

The claimed return to the Yellow Line is also unsupported: the agreed line left Israel controlling roughly 52% of Gaza, while the latest public Israeli estimate put its forces at 67–70%. Any tactical pullback from still deeper positions is not a return to the ceasefire line.

▪️Axios’ Ravid reports that the White House views PM Netanyahu’s rejection of the 15-point roadmap as election-season positioning and is accepting of his “political needs” if he follows U.S. demands, especially by “restraining” attacks.

▪️A U.S. official also said Netanyahu promised Jared Kushner he would give the plan a chance and curb attacks, while Washington and mediators press Hamas to start disarming.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i'm white lmao

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Israel’s plan is for endless war on Palestine and its neighbours. The world needs to see this and act with sanctions and isolation. Without this there is no path to achieve peace with justice.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Palestine activist charged with a criminal offence, faces 5 years in jail and has driving restrictions on his Uber for pestering his local MP over Gaza with email.
#whatsthescam #auspol #nswpol
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[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is a non-story given Hasan Piker long ago disavowed Hasan Piker’s 9/11 comments.

Also will Mike Rogers be asked to disavow Trump’s repeated racist remarks - including his racist attack on El-Sayed and his wife today? Or will media asymmetry continue when it comes to Dems?

[Acyn @Acyn]

El-Sayed on Hasan Piker: To sit here and play gotcha politics with a dumb thing somebody said out of context…I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do rather than this idea that we're so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020 but we seem to want to bring it back.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Is Hasan Piker somebody that should have a role in the Progressive movement going forward?

AOC: Many of the same consultants that are wringing their hands today were the same ones talking about how we need to go on Joe Rogan and we need to be not so willing to engage in cancel culture. 

Democrats can go on. Joe Rogan, Democrats can go on Fox News. Democrats have a responsibility to build a winning coalition, and young people are engaging in mediums and conversations that we have a responsibility to attend to and be responsive to.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Donald Trump posted a graphic targeting Abdul El-Sayed and his wife, comparing them to him and Melania with the caption “Two Very Different America’s.” Here’s how El-Sayed flipped it right back on him live on CNN:

El-Sayed: Yeah, he's right. One in which your overlords are two people who don't like each other, but joined in the interest of making billions of dollars off of you.

Or two people who genuinely love each other, enjoyed some pancakes together, want to come together to build the kind of America where they can raise a family and know that that family is going to have the good things.

So, yes, you got two different visions of America. Donald Trump's vision is the one you're living in right now. Can you afford your gas? Can you afford your groceries? Do you believe, when you look your kids in the eye, that they're going to have a better future than you did?

And Sarah and I are running because when we look our daughters in the eye, Emmalee and Shireen, we want them to believe that they're every bit as able to have a better future than the one that they could have had under the Trump administration. That they can live together with their sisters and their brothers in America in a way where they lock arms to build the good things that they deserve together.

Where they know they'll have the healthcare that they need and good jobs, and that they don't have to go 15 minutes and know that there are kids who live 15 minutes away whose lives are very, very different than theirs because we've been, for far too long, okay with a level of inequality in this country.

I want them to live in an America where they can breathe clean air and drink clean water.

And actually, Sarah and I like each other. I don't know about the First Lady and the President, but from what I've heard, it's a bit of a rocky road.

[Regular Spacepath @RSpacepath]

@UKElects_ @AusPoll6 What happens when Labor is bending over backwards to let the woke pro-Israel people kill free speech and crack down on protest.

[Regular Spacepath @RSpacepath]

@RedRecliner @AusPoll6 They're more pro-Israel and pro-warmongering than even Labor!

[Regular Spacepath @RSpacepath]

@Doom_N_Gloom_D @AusPoll6 No, actually Labor is bending over backwards to let the woke pro-Israel people kill free speech and crack down on protest.

[Regular Spacepath @RSpacepath]

@MoparGirls @AusPoll6 No, actually Labor is bending over backwards to let the woke pro-Israel people kill free speech and crack down on protest.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Right wingers will correctly point out that this is inhumane and then support ICE detention centers

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli on Britain:

We broke the boycott against Tommy Robinson, who is one of the important figures and one of our great friends in Britain.

We are connected not only by the fight against radical Islam, but also by shared values.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Informative.