ASIO, our national security gatekeeper, not.
03.03.2026 07:40 — 👍 306 🔁 126 💬 38 📌 7ASIO, our national security gatekeeper, not.
03.03.2026 07:40 — 👍 306 🔁 126 💬 38 📌 7Hanson recently paid tribute to our 🇺🇸emperor at Mar-a-lago. One Nation busted a few years ago by Al Jaz begging for 💰 to "change the electoral system in Australia" from 🇺🇸Koch corporation, owned by mega🇺🇸#AtlasNetwork funder oil-zillionaire Charles Koch. Here's Mal Roberts disinfo org for 🇺🇸big oil:
03.03.2026 03:30 — 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2Cool with this, @albomp.bsky.social? No problems there? #auspol
03.03.2026 03:42 — 👍 51 🔁 20 💬 7 📌 1Holy fucking shit
03.03.2026 03:25 — 👍 51 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 3I'd like to hear the answer to this - especially seeing as this govt has let AI into the treasury already FFS. Some people, me for one, wonder why AI safety wasn't publicly assessed *before* we infested the whole country's money system with it.
03.03.2026 05:37 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Relevant to news that the UK will first run a pilot of the teen social media ban, I wrote about Australia's evaluation of its own ban.
This study is an admission about the unknown impacts of the ban. (Outside of politics, it's a good thing to admit you're uncertain!)
"For my sins, I understand that accursed platform and its highly manipulated rhythms like I understand how to fart. The near instantaneous and utterly implausible quantity of likes for such an unpopular, uncharismatic man pumping out such a complicit, lame tweet, well, it’s all a bit sus. "
03.03.2026 01:44 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Wise words from Alan Behm, former senior public servant and advisor to Penny Wong.
We don't have a nationalized public cloud, we don't have a national public internet provider, we don't have a public social media site—all things most Canadians actually use and need on a daily basis—but sure, let's spend billions in public funds making a public AI first.
02.03.2026 17:08 — 👍 71 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 0
Every Australian political party meeting I see pics of brings just one word to the front of my brain:
AMWAY
⚡️ Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square In Iran, the U.S. and Israel are employing tactics used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the “War on Terror” and Trump’s recent attacks on alleged drug boats in the Carribean. Story by @SayahTweets and @MazMHussain for Drop Site News
⚡️ Witnesses Describe Horror Scene After “Double-Tap” Bombing Kills Over 20 at Popular Tehran Square
In Iran, the US & Israel are employing tactics used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the “War...
Story by Reza Sayah & @mazmhussain.bsky.social for Drop Site News
www.dropsitenews.com/p/tehran-ira...
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
02.03.2026 20:39 — 👍 7804 🔁 2165 💬 114 📌 68If bombing solved things, we'd have found out before now, I feel. It's certainly had enough tries at it.
02.03.2026 14:33 — 👍 81 🔁 28 💬 8 📌 1World Press Freedom Canada's keynote speaker for its awards ceremony this year is David Frum. Hacked emails show he wrote speeches for Israel's UN ambassador and then a profile of the same ambassador. newrepublic.com/post/201498/... 1
02.03.2026 23:37 — 👍 74 🔁 44 💬 6 📌 5SMH story: Opinion Middle East at war Trump’s opening military strike was ‘exquisite’. Now comes the tricky bit “I don’t think he has a plan and that’s the problem,” security expert John Bolton says. Peter Hartcher Political and international editor
How wretched do you have to be to think John Bolton is someone whose views we need to hear from at this time?
02.03.2026 21:13 — 👍 59 🔁 9 💬 7 📌 0
Anthony Albanese’s refusal to assist Australian women and children in Syrian detention camps will define his prime ministership, not as caution but as moral failure and political smallness, writes Jack Waterford.
#AustralianPolitics #Syria #HumanRights #Leadership
Alan MacLeod—
"This is how media lies to you in real time."
BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.
02.03.2026 20:52 — 👍 10445 🔁 4376 💬 201 📌 255Senator Murray Watt @MurrayWatt The Greens are right now supporting the Coalition to deprioritise our Closing the Gap debate, led by the Indigenous Affairs Minister Malarndirri McCarthy, for a stunt on Iran. This from the party that has no Indigenous representatives in any level of Australian government. 10:15 AM · Mar 2, 2026
#BREAKING 🚨 The Australian Labor Political Party has issued a second statement on their support for Trump and Netanyahu's illegal war on Iran. To explain their position to the Australian public re: their obligations in a representative democracy? No, it's to have a fucking whinge about the Greens.
02.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 80 🔁 22 💬 10 📌 2About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.
02.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 1958 🔁 704 💬 27 📌 42
🚨NEW: After a Sports Hall in Iran Was Bombed, Witnesses Describe Chaos & “Continuous Screaming”
Several hours after a bomb struck a girls’ elementary school & killed 165, a strike on the town of Lamerd killed teenagers in a gymnasium.
Story by Mahmoud Aslan
www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-lamer...
Also Politico in the USA is very much the "insiders say" style of journalism.
02.03.2026 03:45 — 👍 39 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 2
Drop Site has extensive original reporting on the U.S.–Israeli bombings, including on-the-ground coverage from Iran documenting the killing of civilians, as well as reporting on the wider regional fallout.
Read our full reporting on our website. Link in reply.
“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son
02.03.2026 00:09 — 👍 3336 🔁 611 💬 70 📌 30Bomb hospitals, bomb schools, close off access to food and medicine - there's a word for it.
02.03.2026 05:26 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
02.03.2026 03:59 — 👍 801 🔁 553 💬 6 📌 13
if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE
it will result in dead trans people
and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing
you see the pipeline right?
we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die
WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS
Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.
Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran
02.03.2026 02:37 — 👍 4687 🔁 762 💬 72 📌 34
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