Michael Swanson

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

This Should Be Headline News!
Every American Should Be Outraged!

The obligation not to aid the crime of aggression is on all states. Multiple European states are violating that obligation and are directly complicit in US/Israel aggression against Iran. We already knew about the UK. And now there are reports of German and Ukrainian involvement as well.

Israel says commando raid deep in Lebanon failed to find remains of Ron Arad Airman shot down in 1986; Hezbollah says IDF troops tried helicopter landing in Nabi Chit, triggering clashes, airstrikes, with 41 killed; IDF: troops did not face fire; PM stresses 'personal commitme...

The IDF killed 41 people in Lebanon while trying (unsuccessfully) to recover the remains of an airman shot down 40 years ago.

THREAD:

The University Antisemitism Report Card project by Czar Segal is not new.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in America run a similar process and have done so since circa 2024.

V2.0 of the ADL report card came out in March 2025.

Coincidentally Segal was in the US at the same time.

The Light and the Hill - Michael West The Australian Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose. What does Labor's retreat from reform mean for Australia?

"Power unused in the face of injustice is not restraint. It is a choice"

The Labor Party has drifted from its historic purpose, retreated from reform. Andrew Brown with the 1st in a series - what it means for Australia.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/the-light-an...

HRANA update: at least 1,205 civilians killed, including at least 194 children

@JesseBrown Not seeing this obvious point made elsewhere, so here goes: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers referenced Oct 7th, a day when Jewish men, women and children were brutalized, burned alive, raped and kidnapped, then she immediately said "my heart is with the people of Palestine." This was a heartless and hateful statement. Quote Radheyan Simonpillai @JustSayRad · Mar 4 Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is returning her TFCA award best supporting performance in a Canadian film, following the organization's decision to censor her acceptance speech during Monday night's gala. Here are excerpts from Elle-Máijá's email to the TFCA, shared with permission.

If you subscribe or listen to 'Canadaland' (the biggest "progressive" podcast in the country) please know that it's founder Jesse Brown is actively attacking Indigenous women who speak out against Israel's genocide

Zionist “Vexatious Legal Action” Against Kostakidis Will Go to Trial, After Failed Mediation The Zionist Federation’s legal complaint against renowned journalist Mary Kostakidis over social media posts critical of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza will proceed to a defended hearing.

AU. Zionist “Vexatious Legal Action” Against Kostakidis Will Go to Trial, After Failed Mediation.
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/zionist...

a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Re. That trump statement about the British coming in only at the end of wars. Apart from being ironic on a potentially record breaking number of levels, this is what alliances mean to the Americans: little if anything. Australians need to understand this.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

its not “humanity” dropping the bombs and setting the oil fields on fire tho is it. Repeatedly launching shonky rockets to explode mid-air is a pretty exclusive hobby. Most people are not abusive image generator enthusiasts.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Right let’s get this over with early…

INTERNATIONAL MEN’S DAY

Thursday 19 November 2026

ORGANISE YOURSELVES

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Penny Wong says the reason the war on Iran is worth supporting is it will
“keep Australians safe”

Supporting an illegal war for regime change with no evidence of a threat will not keep us safe. It will create a new wave of terrorist groups & who hate us like after Iraq. #auspol

feels appropriate to bring up the "if you can walk to the cafe but the barista has to drive an hour to work there, you dont live in a walkable community, you live in a theme park" anecdote here

Some fun facts in this article about the woman in this video!

The say “I am alive” comic

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

imagine if the president of the United States were personally directly responsible for your child being raped

‘From one catastrophe to another’: Lebanese Australians look on in horror as relatives flee homes With friends and relatives in danger amid bombing in parts of Lebanon, many diaspora members are suffering a heavy psychological toll

“I’m living in two places,” she says. “Mentally, I’m not here.”

She barely sleeps and is hypervigilant, checking her phone at all hours, fearing the worst for her family – who are all in Lebanon.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

More than 180 authors quit writers' week. Many returned for a DIY replacement Constellations emerged from the ashes of Adelaide Writers' Week, which was cancelled after authors withdrew over censorship. Organisers share how it came together and lessons for the future.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Really decent piece from Hannah Story that centralises Indigenous voice of Ren Wyld on the grassroots SA event that rose from the ashes of AWW .

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid's experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt…

More than 180 authors quit writers' week. Many returned for a DIY replacement Constellations emerged from the ashes of Adelaide Writers' Week, which was cancelled after authors withdrew over censorship. Organisers share how it came together and lessons for the future.

We stood together against anti-Palestinian racism and they cancelled our festival. So we organised our own.

Very tired now, but very proud of Constellations!

Great in depth coverage from Hannah Story here

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Schools and hospitals, next will be universities , while murdering as many innocents as they can.

Jillian Segal’s office hand-picked candidate to assess controversial university antisemitism report card Greg Craven, a former vice-chancellor of Australian Catholic University, chosen after no other bids made for the tender

Mates helping mates is a crime now is it?

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

No one had ever thought of Greg Craven as an eminent jurist.