Claim: Mamdani is a communist. False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Greens national conference is a fun place to half recognise a bunch of twitter characters lol

Let's goooo

Huge news from the ACT! Laws closing the loopholes exposed by Bird v DP have passed today. This means institutions can no longer hide behind technicalities to avoid responsibility for child abuse. Survivors deserve justice. Every state and territory must follow the ACT's lead.

The decision by the Queensland Health Minister to reinstate a ban on puberty blockers for trans kids is a bloody disgrace.

To do so literally hours after the previous ban was overturned in court is particularly cruel and callous. 🧵(1/4)

Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days - News From Antiwar.com Israeli attacks have killed at least 198 Palestinians and wounded 786 in the Gaza Strip over 72 hours, according to death toll updates released by Gaza's Health Ministry, as Israel continues its US-ba...

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days”

It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

Going on bluseky instead of X is just slightly less addictive largely cos this place doesn't seem to have as much unhinged discourseTM yet

'Psychologically unsafe': ANU work halt ordered over Renew program Staff allegedly coerced into voluntary redundancy applications.

CW: ⚠️Suicide ⚠️
Solidarity with staff at the ANU's College of Arts of Social Sciences.

Staff and students have long been ringing the alarm bells on the Renew ANU program and every new revelation only reinforces their call for it to be stopped and scrapped.🧵

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906834...

Solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza upon the latest egregious breaches of the ceasefire. Australia must end all weapons exports to Israel and actively support an end to the occupation and a free Palestine ✊🇵🇸

Having refreshed the results a ridiculous amount of times hoping for more data, very much appreciate this explainer 🙏

I love when public office holders talk about how fundamentally evil the institutions they work for are *after* they leave office 🙃

This piece from Antony Green seems a decent reason Australia should consider list PR for some upper house elections imo antonygreen.com.au/wa-legislati...

(ballot papers are gonna be utterly insane lol)

Tiny quote PR election

I don't understand why Americans aren't lining up to vote for these people

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect

You can say almost anything about Palestinians in the Western media, and suffer no consequences.

That's what Dan Hodges' nauseating comments underline.

But if we normalise this sort of depravity, the consequences will be catastrophic 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/palestinia...

(obviously I'm exaggerating, but nonetheless; joke country)

It's so cool that when democrats are in power America has an unelected de facto legislature of 9 people who can do what they want, but when Trump's in power they just done matter

We are not afraid to be vocal in our allyship, and we will back you fiercely.

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

(9/9)

🧵 It's been a really difficult time for trans folks in the last few weeks.

The US election has had a reverberating impact on all those whose human rights and dignity has been dragged out for political debate once again

(1/9)

Yes, both done by horrific racists

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over!

Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

Hey I called it

Really not remotely the point but I absolutely hate Americans counting presidents twice if they're not consecutive, Trump is very clearly the 44th president, not the 47th

We'll keep sailing until Palestine is free. End the illegal siege and blockade of Gaza. End the genocide. [Free Gaza Australia logo beneath the text]