Wendy

Passionate mother and grandmother, desperate seeker of truth, serenity and compassion in a bewilderingly complicated universe.

[Dr Josie McSkimming @JosieMcskimming]

‘Australia’s budget would remain mired in deficit for more than 10 yrs under One Nation’s plans for lower migration, delivering an economic blow that would drive up national debt by an extra $275 billion.’
Yup.
https://t.co/5EbZjWxlCb

[Anne Summers @SummersAnne]

This needs to be widely known. No woman should support #Paulinehanson while every woman in Australia should applaud @JacquiLambie’s courage offering her own experiences of vaginal prolapse and bladder incontinence, a condition shared by 1000s of Aussie women.

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Rare to see a politician of principle from any party. I applaud his stance & Lydia Thorpes. https://t.co/OeXqTiGKDG

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Given these grossly overfunded private schools do no better academically than under funded public schools, once SES background of students is taken into account, what on earth are private schools doing with all that money? https://t.co/tD7phNn8tB

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

This is utterly barbaric - who are the people conducting this parliamentary inquiry?

I want their names.

[Wendy @Wendyanneross]

If you or I hacked Medicare, we'd face jail time. An OpenAI agent did it in June, and right now nobody may ever have to answer for it. Sign the petition: tell Albanese to make AI CEOs and their companies answer for their AI's crimes. https://t.co/meWuplt9rR

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

We have a system that tackles inflation by suppressing the household income of workers while protecting housing wealth & corporate profits. Until the concentration of wealth in the country is confronted, working people will keep paying the price.

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Signed. Please do so too. This is shameful, cowardly policy.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

One Nation are all for forgiveness and moving on when their own MP shares his history of drug use, but when young kids have the same past, One Nation wants them locked up as long as possible. It's bloody shameful.

[stranger @strangerous10]

“When you come home to Australia, Border Force ask you if you’ve been hiking or been to a farm. But they don’t ask you if you’ve been fighting in a war. How cooked is that?”

[tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ @zhaabowekwe]

We CAN do something. Check your labels. Boycott palm oil, force industry to stop committing ecocide.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Warren Pickering exploring his sexuality isn't an issue, and nobody is arguing otherwise. Malcolm Roberts may, of course, require a separate briefing. Nor, on their own, are his drug use or three DUI convictions.

People fuck up. People change. People can deserve grace.

But grace is exactly what One Nation has spent decades refusing to extend to people it finds politically useful to demonise.

Immigrants are criminals. Single mothers are welfare cheats. Muslims can’t be trusted, becuase "there are no good muslims". Australia will be "swamped by Asians".

There’s something depressingly familiar about this strain of conservative politics.

Gay people are easy to condemn until a conservative discovers their own son is gay. Voluntary assisted dying is easy to oppose until a conservative watches someone they love endure a long, painful death.

Then, suddenly, complexity exists. Suddenly lived experience matters. Suddenly compassion becomes possible, and empathy activates when the suffering enters your own house.

Now their own leader has a complicated past and we're being invited to discover nuance, forgiveness and redemption,

Sure, but also, fuck that.

If your compassion only extends to people once their story becomes your story, it isn’t much of a moral principle.

When you’ve built a political movement denying grace to others, you don’t get to demand it the moment you need some for yourself.

One Nation built a political strategy out of hate and grievance, and tried to dress it up as patriotic principle. That's why the hypocrisy is so complete when the rules suddenly change for their own.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

I do not care what Minister Wong’s personal feelings are about Israel’s latest atrocity, I don't care about her outrage, I care about actions. The Government must impose the sanctions and material responses needed. Until they do their words are distractions.

[amante2 @AmeliaBee7]

In a country grappling with a femicide epidemic, Canavan blames the victims, specifically women teachers, because educated women are particularly threatening to fundamentally emasculated misogynists

This is from the man who blamed his mummy for his own citizenship mess
Pathetic

[Kathy Lette @KathyLette]

What do you call a woman who uses the rhythm method? Mum…So hooray for Melinda Gates & Olivia Rodrigo for raising $20 million for Planned Parenthood at a #DaisyChain benefit. If only women ran the world. Now THERE’S a concept.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

We’re pissed, witches.

Pissed off, that is.

HUGELY fucking pissed off, that is.

Because in just three days, a delegation of up to 40 IDF personnel will land in Australia to compete in the @sydmarathon.

This reporting is from independent news organisation @MichaelWestBiz earlier today:
“As many as 40 former and current IDF soldiers and associates are coming to Australia to compete in the Sydney Marathon on August 30, a trip sponsored by AIJAC and the Zionist Council of NSW. The series of events is likely to be controversial. Australian Chris Sidoti, UN Human Rights Investigator, has called for Israeli military personnel who have served in Gaza to be interrogated for war crimes. The events are showcased on the Zionist Council of NSW Facebook page and are being billed as a ‘peace delegation’.”
https://t.co/avgkb7SpEM

Fuck.

The first few pics below are from Michael West’s Twitter feed, and they explain just why these current- and ex-soldiers coming here to compete is so outrageously horrific.

So while other organisations are asking people to contact their MPs and Senators to ask why the fuck these murderous fuckbuckets are being granted visas (and you’re certainly free to do that), instead we’ll do what witches do, and ask you to ask the Sydney Marathon why on earth they’ve accepted this team as a competitor. Even more importantly, we’re asking you to contact these sponsors (taken from the Marathon’s own website at https://t.co/ZPcxwqy9bQ) and ask why they’d want their brands associated with such bloodshed and depravity.

We haven’t had time to provide contact details for these corporations, but please google yourself and politely get in touch with as many as possible:
ASICS @ASICSaustralia
Australian Olympic Committee
Better Beer @BetterBeer
Chemist Warehouse
Clean Vibes
Destination NSW @destinationnsw
Feetures @Feetures
Greater Sydney Parklands
GU
Hubspot
iFit
La Roche Posay
Lifesavers
Mark Your Moment
No-Pure
Nova Entertainment
PainAway
Porsche @Porsche
Powerade
SBS
Shark/Ninja @SharkNinja
Shokz Headphones
Sydney Opera House
TATA/TCS Consultancy Services @TCS
Telstra @Telstra
Therabody
Toby’s Estate
Transurban
Up & Go
Vaseline
W Hotels @w_hotels
YoPro

Please do this as soon as you can, witches, because the event in question takes place this coming weekend. We need to ask some hard questions about what these companies are happy to be associated with, and why. As always, please send any responses you get to [email protected].

And if you don’t have time to write emails (or even if you do), please tag one or a lot of these companies in the thread below, to more quickly let them know what they’re doing to their brand safety.

The vast majority of Australians support Jewish people, but strongly oppose the actions of the Israeli government and its genocidal armed forces. For this reason there is NO PLACE in this country for members of those armed forces here, particularly as a way to soften their image and endear themselves as a group to this marathon event. It’s despicable. And it’s wrong. And it shouldn’t be fucking happening.

Please, do take action, witches.

It matters.
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#ToYourBrooms

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where men apparently need more “training” to learn how not to disrespect women and their fans and the media report on this as if it’s just fine and fucking dandy?

#NewsCorpse

[Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @JonesHowDareYou]

"It’s 𝘯𝘰𝘵 the foreigners, legal or illegal, who are pissing on us; it’s the billionaires who own the media and the internet and can pay the debts of the political parties they want to control, and fuck the rest of us."
https://t.co/UUKTNCuzUc

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

@EVERALDATLARGE I was interviewed by Four Corners so I could explain the algorithm. The whole system is so flawed that it cannot be defended no matter how much the Minister tries

[Bernard Keane @BernardKeane]

spare us the confected outrage @SenatorWong

An Australian was murdered by the IDF and you and @albomp did nothing except issue limp platitudes

https://t.co/4fy3r5EhTB