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Today, I’m releasing the City’s preliminary budget. After years of fiscal mismanagement, we’re staring at a $5.4 billion budget gap — and two paths. One: Albany can raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and the most profitable corporations and address the fiscal imbalance between our city and state. The other, a last resort: balance the budget on the backs of working people using the only tools at the City's disposal.   The first path matches a structural crisis with a sustainable and fair solution. I know where I stand. New Yorkers voted for bold change and competent leadership. We will deliver both, and we look forward to partnering with Albany to protect working New Yorkers.

Photoshopped image of Klansmen in a boardroom. Headline: One Nation calls party room meeting to discuss Hanson's latest tirade

"Thank you to Gina for flying us all to this meeting." chaser.com.au/national/one...

The Swiss commentator is telling viewers about Israel’s war crimes that the team’s pilot has openly supported while the Israeli bobsleigh team is racing.

@heardislandgov.bsky.social stay safe little ones. We need you to keep the protest strong.

You can not take citizenship from an Australian citizen. The high court has made it clear. If you are Australian, you are allowed entry into Australia. Doesn’t mean authorities won’t follow up or monitor you, but short of a complete border closure, you can’t be denied entry.

David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

Not that it was ever in doubt, but the gas companies' jimmies are very rustled, so here you go:
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

Israel lobby sells stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors - Michael West The Australian Jewish Association is promoting an Israeli real estate scheme selling stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors.

Israel lobbyists AJA promoting a real estate scheme selling stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors.

#ASIC is inquiring
No response by AJA yet
@sstephanietrann.bsky.social @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social investigate
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

This, @albomp.bsky.social is a disgrace. We can find 100's of $billions for obsolete war toys that we'll never see

Want to discuss national security?

Nothing makes us more secure than advanced research, science and developing technology

Give 'em enough $ & they might be able to grow you a spine

Look, I could understand banning immigration from the genocidal, apartheid, terrorist State of Israel pending freedom and equality for Palestine, but Gaza? Somalia? There's truly no low too low for white supremacists. #auspol

Europe’s growing fight over Israeli goods: Boycott movements mushroom

Europe’s growing fight over Israeli goods: Boycott movements mushroom https://aje.news/azayka

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

France has confirmed that a special prosecutorial team will review the Epstein files.

More countries should be doing the same. 👏

CSIRO funding falling short by ‘at least’ $1 billion Internal correspondence and Senate submissions show the CSIRO is running out of money and may lose its position as a leading research agency.

Australia’s national science agency needs “at least” another $1 billion in funding over the next decade to arrest an existential slide propelled by crumbling facilities and the “sovereign risk” of losing its position as a national and international leader in research. satpa.pe/TGSCfvn

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.

It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

Sign the Petition Hold Chris Minns accountable for police brutality against Sydney protesters

c.org/Jr4YKwFJC6

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When politicans fail, police go rogue, justice fails to protect - Michael West Herzog has departed, leaving behind anger and less social cohesion, while politicians, justices and NSW police have many questions to answer.

on the NSW SC decision to not overturn Major Event declaration by NSW Tourism Minister. As Wendy Bacon shows, the decision turns on judicial deference to police (assumed officers act reasonably) and judicial interpretation of a political event as “cultural”.

michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...

www.instagram.com/reel/DSuNRCz...

An event in a synagogue in Caulfield, Melbourne, today with representatives flogging "real estate developments& opportunities" in so-called Israel. Encouraging people to steal more Palestinian land& tear people from their homes. These ghouls live amongst us & get full backing from government
#auspol

Assal Rad @AssalRad In today's episode of things you don't see in Western media. = •HAARETZ Twilight Zone 'Israeli Troops Have Nothing Else to Do, So They Shoot Our Children. They Come Here to Hunt' 8:01 AM.2/14/26

NSW Police return to normal duties.
Ignoring AVO breaches, searching "suspicious" people of colour, slow response times to DV calls, pushing gay men off cliffs and kidney punching members of the public.
Meanwhile, celebrations will continue at the JBoD for a successful IDF integration program.🌟🇮🇱🇦🇺

#auspol #Australia
From Facebook
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is refusing to tell whether she disclosed she was a senior official of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, who changed its bio for Segal after The Klaxon exclusively revealed she remained one of its top office holders.

Gaza families bury bodies and remains of unidentified victims In a scene reflecting the brutality of war and the violation of the dignity of the dead, families in the Gaza Strip on Friday buried a new batch of unidentified victims’ bodies after they were handed ...

68 bags of “unprecedentedly shocking” incomplete & unidentifiable remains dumped by the israelis in Gaza, are buried in Deir al-Balah
english.palinfo.com/news/2026/02...

I stand with Francesca Albanese. She is a truth teller, a chronicler of injustice, and is opposed to a system that has created & sustains the conditions for genocide. She is the best of humanity. May we all fight against that very system, every way possible, for collective liberation.

Seeing that young man on the ground, held down by two NSW policemen, repeatedly punched in the kidneys on both sides, sickened me.
We can only hope that the inquiries into the police properly examine the brutality clearly on display.

Another Friday special

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

From the river to the sea
#freepalestine