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[Grumpy @slothgrump]

@Stoobleberger @Banana50005 @strangerous10 @JJKALE2 You do realise you are grist to Segal's million?

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Unlike @AlboMP and Jillian Segal, I believe that criticism of Israel cannot be regarded as antisemitic.

Therefore I will not accept their definition of antisemitism. It is divisive, it's bad for social cohesion, and an ominous sign for the future.

Whose with me?

[Grumpy @slothgrump]

@Stoobleberger @strangerous10 @JJKALE2 Shame on you for your plain antisemitism. Your view of Jews is what led to the millions murdered in the Holocaust. Israel's appalling excesses in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon are no justification for Jew hatred.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They have a word for every form of resistance.

If you fight with weapons, you are a terrorist.

If you fight with boycotts, you are antisemitic.

If you fight with words, you are spreading hate.

If you fight with international law, you are politicizing the courts.

If you document the casualties, you are spreading propaganda.

If you mourn publicly, you are inciting violence.

If you survive and refuse to be silent about surviving, you are a threat to stability.

There is no form of resistance they will permit.

Because the point was never to find a form of resistance they could accept.

The point was to make resistance itself the crime, so that the original violence, the violence that created the conditions requiring resistance, could be discussed, if at all, as an unfortunate but necessary background detail.

The trick is not complicated.

It just requires everyone to look at the resistance and never at what produced it.

They have spent centuries perfecting the art of controlling where you look.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Let me be very clear: opposing the genocide in Gaza is not antisemitism.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The AI world is being reduced to two tribal labels:

China AI = open AI = authoritarian AI.
U.S. AI = closed AI = democratic AI.

The absurdity is almost perfect.

China offers open weights, local deployment, lower costs, and greater technological autonomy—and this is called “authoritarian influence.”

American corporations keep the models closed, control the infrastructure, set the prices, rewrite the rules, and can revoke access at any time—and this is marketed as “democratic AI.”

In this new theology, openness becomes authoritarianism, while corporate monopoly becomes freedom.

The argument is no longer about what the technology does.

It is about who is permitted to define the rules.

“Democratic AI” apparently means intelligence owned by American companies.
“Authoritarian AI” means intelligence the rest of the world can actually possess.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Why are Western governments continuing to sell arms to the United Arab Emirates while it is arming the genocidal Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. Fat profits do not justify complicity in genocide. https://t.co/wqJqeYl8hR

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The Israeli lobby spent $30 million to beat me, but America won because an entire generation is now aware of their corrosive influence on our government. Every elected Republican in Congress is bought, captured, or intimidated by them to some degree. I am the last who is not.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here is the question that European civilization has never answered:

At what point, in the five hundred years of colonial practice, should a European person have been expected to know that what was happening was wrong?

Not 1945. That is too easy, and too convenient.

1904, when the German Empire issued a written extermination order against the Herero people and generals carried it out and soldiers followed orders and administrators recorded the deaths and the skulls were shipped to universities for racial science.

At that point, should someone have known?

1890, when the systematic amputations in the Congo were being photographed by missionaries and the photographs were being published in European newspapers and reformers were raising the alarm and Leopold II was receiving those reformers in his palace and explaining that the civilizing mission required certain difficult measures.

At that point?

1830, when the Trail of Tears was a policy debated in the United States Congress and approved by elected representatives and challenged by lawyers and litigated to the Supreme Court, which ruled against it, and then carried out anyway.

At that point?

1619?

1492?

The question matters because the defense of European civilization against the charge that the Holocaust was colonialism coming home always rests on the assumption that colonial violence was invisible, unexamined, a product of its time.

It was not invisible.

It was photographed and debated and reported and litigated.

It was chosen.

At every decision point, by specific people with names and offices and moral agency, the choice was made to continue.

The Holocaust produced Nuremberg because the victims were European and the defendants were the enemies of the victorious powers.

The colonial period produced nothing comparable because the victims were not European and the defendants were the victorious powers.

That is the only reason one has a trial and the other has a museum of natural history.

Same civilization.

Same logic.

Different documentation.

[Grumpy @slothgrump]

@DavidPocock And serious development and adoption of prefab housing. All of this will be best accomplished by public enterprise. The post WW2 housing commissions' vast developments were a huge success by the standards of the day.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

As Israel accelerates the transformation of unauthorized outposts in the occupied West Bank into formal settlements, the UN Secretary-General reiterates that "all settlements, including outposts…, constitute a flagrant violation of international law." https://t.co/MXCeDnkmfH

[Prof Kathy Eagar AM @keagar.bsky.social @k_eagar]

@aparachick @philmupp1 I hope the next federal parliament has twice as many independents as now. Husic would be a brilliant independent and so would many others. The Labor machine is very tight and in some aspects effective. But each year it stands for less and less and represents less of us

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

GAZA: THE SUFFERING CONTINUES

Today in Gaza, most of the TV cameras are gone and media interest has declined. But, more than nine months after the announcement of a supposed “ceasefire”, the suffering of the Palestinian people continues.

Today, 92% of housing units in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, 70% of the entire population lacks adequate housing and is forced to live in makeshift shelters, 86% of agricultural water wells have been damaged, the vast majority of households report significant challenges in accessing safe and clean sanitation facilities and 90% of all energy infrastructure has been destroyed.

And what about the children? Today in Gaza, 91% of school-aged children do not have sustained access to in-person education, 93% of school buildings will require full reconstruction or major rehabilitation to be functional again and 70% of infants and young children under two years of age are experiencing moderate to severe food insecurity.

All of this is taking place after the horrific destruction that Netanyahu’s extremist government brought to Gaza over the last three years: more than 73,000 Palestinians killed and 173,000 wounded — mostly women, children and the elderly. In addition, virtually the entire infrastructure of Gaza was destroyed.

Israel now controls an estimated 70% of Gaza, well beyond what they agreed to, and has built dozens of military outposts inside Gaza since the “ceasefire” began. In the nine months since the “ceasefire” was announced, Israel has killed at least 1,150 Palestinians, including a family of six last week.

Now, as if to remove any doubt about their intentions, senior leaders of the Netanyahu government are moving to make the occupation permanent. Recently, a number of government ministers led thousands of settlers to the Gaza border demanding new illegal Jewish settlements be built there. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stood up and said "Gaza is ours."

The shameful fact is that the United States is complicit in everything that is happening in Gaza. We have funneled tens of billions of dollars in military aid to an Israeli government that has consistently violated international law and whose leader is a war criminal.

The good news is that the American people are catching on. More and more Americans — Democrats, Republicans and independents — are demanding that we stop all military aid to Israel and use our considerable leverage to end the suffering of the Palestinian people.

Enough is enough! Congress must listen to the American people. NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $719 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $255 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $212 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Labor saddles the country with highly enriched nuclear waste makes Australia a nuclear target, cuddles up to Trump, puts militarism before hospitals, abandons our sovereignty, builds public housing for US marines and welcomes US nuclear armed subs and bombers. It is sickening!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The Trump administration admitted in court that it canceled billions of dollars in federal funding “based solely” on whether a state voted for Trump.

Using taxpayer dollars to reward political allies and punish opponents is not democracy.

It’s authoritarianism.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Albo asserts the National Conference was “purposeful and united”.
United in denial of a genocide and purposeful in avoiding debate on AUKUS.
This is not democracy in action. It is a denial of reality and a craven act of capitulation to US warmongering and hegemony.
Disgusting!

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

The NT govt is throwing its support behind 12 new data centres and gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. Fracking Beetaloo threatens the NT's water and river systems, and could release up to 1.4bn tonnes of greenhouse gases - it's been compared to a "carbon bomb", increasing Australia's carbon emissions by 20%. Data centres use huge amounts of water and energy. We need the federal government to require new renewable energy and sustainable water use for all new data centres and AI infrastructure, and we shouldn't approve new data centres until those protections are in place. https://t.co/V8ZeD5ZhEK

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You're NOT struggling because immigrants took your job. You're struggling because billionaires took your wages.

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

Building submarines is the “pride of the nation” says Marles and SA Premier says the scale of the AUKUS investment is equal to 15 hospitals! I’ll take hospitals before submarines any day. Jobs building hospitals, homes, and dealing with global warming better than warmongering!