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A work in progress.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

On occasion, I just like to remind everyone that rapist Brock Allen Turner goes by the name Allen Turner and lives in Ohio. So he is now rapist Allen Turner.

His victim, Chanel Miller, wrote a memoir called "Know My Name," identifying herself and coming forward in the most courageous way. Chanel is bi-racial (Chinese and American) which may be why the judge refused to properly sentence Turner. She's also the author of a children's book and a coming of age story. A success in every way.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Greta Thunberg: “It is shameful that those who are protesting against genocide are being repressed, while the real war criminals walk free and get away with mass slaughtering... Free Palestine, the fight will not stop.."

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

We are currently hosting a RC for people who overwhelmingly support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and don’t like the pushback that they are receiving.

We should be hosting an RC into the dozens of women that are murdered in our society.

The political class is a disgrace.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Reporting on Israel the last few years, low-key one of the harder aspects is how much Zionist nonsense you need to let inside. Moronic, racist, unhinged unreality. Supremacist bloodlust dressed in a victim complex. Even their ideas are traumatising. It's pure soul poison.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

@JasonClareMP Over 24 hours later @JasonClareMP and your post has been viewed almost 35,000 times - and has only managed to garner 78 likes

That's an approval rating of 0.2%

Australians by their very nature, loathe being censored and constrained, especially by a foreign nation

[Margie Jones @MargieJay50]

There are no words to respond to Kon’s tweet below other than a huge sigh of sadness or scream of frustration.
This is a Wilcox cartoon from 2018. 8 years on, domestic & family violence is still a scourge - in fact, arguably it is worse.
#DVRoyalCommission now.

[Sam Connor @criprights]

Give that judge a fucking medal.

@ShereleMoody

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Over 115 million website requests in 10 days. People are seeing what israel did, that is for sure.

It is a big weight off our shoulders to know that many website mirrors now exist around the world, and that this archive can never be deleted.

Thanks to all those who helped get the word out & who downloaded copies/ are seeding this project on torrents.

We are working on uploading the remaining footage to the live site in the coming weeks.

https://t.co/CvAhZusa6H

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

Don’t tell me we are doing enough to end the epidemic of male violence against women and children, we are not. We have hundreds of billions of dollars for submarines but won’t even fully fund federally women’s refuges and prevention programs for women and children’s safety.

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

I think this was (unintentionally) a very important part of the hearings. Looking forward to seeing how it’s dealt with in the report.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

This tweet is breathtaking in its weasel-wording, disingenuous bullshit @JasonClareMP

You belong to a government that's hunted and haunted your fellow Australians speaking out against Israel, censoring any and all ideological speech and smearing thousands of good people with your false 'antisemitism' labels.

Your government is responsible for the greatest witch-hunt upon the Australian people in living memory, allowing your own taxpayer funded envoy, Jillian Segal and her cohort of paranoid, mendacious Israel lobbyists, to eradicate free speech, and have artists, academics, journalists, and ordinary Australian people living in fear for their jobs and their physical safety.

Your government’s single-minded zeal to elevate the interests of the Israel lobby above any other Australian’s rights has ironically emboldened racism, created greater resentment against Jewish people and destroyed social cohesion. Yet instead of using the words your government has bludgeoned us with for 3 years now - Israel and antisemitism - now you're suddenly shrinking from the very the words you’ve been holding above Australian’s heads for so long by replacing them with the word ‘racism’ - and you think nobody will notice?

It's too late to change the words now. It's too late to try to slither into an entirely different agenda now and pretend nobody will see it.

You’ve supported a coordinated campaign of fear and censorship against your own people and yet here you are, twisting yourself into knots by pretending that somehow - all of this - all of these millions of dollars and resources and lives that have been spent hunting Australians on behalf of the Israeli government - somehow my fellow Australians, somehow this year’s long witch-hunt is now just about 'racism'.

If it was all about racism, where is our Anti-Racism Envoy? Where is our Royal Commission Into Racism? Where are our anti-racism laws? Where are the anti-racism check cards against the universities and the arts and everything else? "Yes, despite us incessantly and obviously elevating the Israel lobby above any other Australian, it’s really just been about ‘racism’ all along."

It’s not. None of it is. It’s about protecting the interests of a foreign nation, Israel, while you bow to the USA’s demands. You know it. The Australian people know it. At least have the decency to own up to that.

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[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Remember when Albanese said “We want to see the Strait of Hormuz opened and we want to see no privatisation and no tolls."

I wonder if he meant just no Iranian tolls but he’s super OK with Trump tolls?

Let’s wait and see.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

PEN America, an organization founded to defend persecuted and censored writers, has once again made a mockery of itself with its call to protect Israeli writers from discrimination.

Yes. Israeli writers.

Its most recent screed, “A Silent Moratorium,” is so tone deaf and embarrassing that it triggered a widespread backlash. PEN America’s president, Dinaw Mengestu, resigned in protest.

PEN America accepted money from the Israeli government to fund its literary festival for five years and only stopped in 2017, following heavy criticism. It failed to defend the few courageous voices inside Israel who denounce Israeli apartheid and genocide, or did so only belatedly. It remained silent as Palestinian writers were deplatformed or blocked from publishing. It regularly promoted Zionist authors such as A. B. Yehoshua, who has long dismissed the reality of settler-colonialism in Palestine. It co-sponsored a book event with Zionist actor Mayim Bialik, who has donated to the Israel Defense Forces, is an outspoken ceasefire opponent, regularly circulates anti-Palestinian and Israeli military propaganda and frames pro-Palestinian activism as “antisemitic.”

PEN America placed an employee under investigation for sharing an article critical of Zionism and later fired him after he wrote an article explaining why he was placed under investigation. It functioned as a propaganda arm for the Biden administration and Ukrainian government, including cancelling a panel that included Russian writers — under pressure from PEN Ukraine — despite the fact that they were critics of the Russian government. It amplified lies about Julian Assange and refused to classify him as a journalist.

PEN America’s board includes writers such as George Packer, labeled one of “Bush’s useful idiots” by Tony Judt for cheerleading the invasion and occupation of Iraq, along with real estate and investment firm CEOs. It has been hijacked by wealthy backers, corporate donors and apologists for imperialism and genocide.

PEN America lost its way over a decade ago, when in 2013 it appointed a former Clinton State Department official, Suzanne Nossel, as its Executive Director. That year, I won the PEN Center USA First Amendment Award. I was scheduled to participate as a speaker at the PEN World Voices Festival when Nossel’s appointment was announced. I refused to take part in the festival and resigned from PEN America in protest.

PEN America’s latest post, which refers to the genocide in Gaza as a “war,” is in the spirit of Nossel. Nossel participated in the State Department’s efforts to discredit Assange and the WikiLeaks disclosures. In May 2012, when NATO held a “Summit Meeting” in Chicago, Amnesty International USA — with Nossel as the executive director — sponsored a “Shadow Summit.” She dotted the city with billboards reading: “NATO, Keep the Progress Going. Human Rights for Women and Girls in Afghanistan.” Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who once said 500,000 dead Iraqi children killed by U.S. sanctions was “worth it,” was invited to speak at Nossel’s event. Nossel left Amnesty International USA within a year, before ending up at PEN America. She resigned in 2024 after numerous writers — angered at the organization’s failure to defend Palestinian writers — withdrew from the annual PEN World Voices Festival in New York and Los Angeles, resulting in the cancellation of the event and its annual Literary Awards.

PEN America was once run by writers who fought on behalf of writers persecuted across the globe. I knew some of them, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Robert Jay Lifton, Joan Didion and Russell Banks. They were fierce critics of U.S. militarism, capitalism and imperialism. They were steadfast champions of freedom of expression. They would be sickened by what PEN America has become.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

HE HAS A NAME!!!!!!!

Malone Mukwende.
He created the first clinical handbook dedicated to diagnosing diseases on Black and brown skin.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Sometimes I think about this tweet and how the joke wouldn't hit the same if someone generated the same image using AI, even if the two images were visually indistinguishable. The craft that went into the image matters as much as the image itself.

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

For heaven's sake , please please peace in #Gaza . So horrible , so tragic , so utterly pointless.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Was he more baby-faced than the 12-year-old he raped??

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Unsurprisingly, the Old Media have ignored this woman’s testimony. Doesn’t fit the prevailing narrative.

[blakandblack @blakandblack]

.@TracyWesterman has fact checked Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address and found 18 false and / or misleading statements.