Eric Browne

They Killed Alex Pretti—Then Tried to Trade His Death for Voter Rolls Pam Bondi’s “law and order” letter reads like extortion, ICE keeps stacking bodies, and D.C. keeps pretending this is normal politics.

They killed Alex Pretti—then tried to trade his death for voter rolls. Pam Bondi’s letter reads like extortion, and D.C. keeps acting like this is normal politics. Abolish ICE has to become a movement. open.substack.com/pub/professo...

Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza Reporters had been in car on way to new camp, says media group, as two 13-year-old boys killed in separate incidents

The “most moral army” in the world loves killing civilians especially children, medics, journalists and indeed any human it can target!
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Aside from this being incorrect - the underlying rule on sovereignty and statehood is the Montevideo Convention, which doesn’t imply defence capabilities - this is illuminating on what is now pseudo-official U.S. policy: any territory you cannot defend is fair game for someone else

Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it.

We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS.

✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Today, @wikipedia.org Turns 25!
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AUKUS has tied Australia to a sinking nuclear defence enterprise called the United Kingdom. It’s not just a retired UK Admiral, the UK Audit office has tracked the structural failures for years. But don’t worry, Marles and Meade say it’s “on track” - they are dangerously deluded

Colombian President Gustavo Petro:

Guardian Essential poll: Australians back emissions target while One Nation support doubles Poll finds One Nation’s primary vote has doubled to 13% since the May federal election

Australia's racist party doubles its support since the May 2025 election

Centrist Labor government will absolutely see this as a sign that it needs to be more racist (and in doing so, actively feed more support for One Nation and lose support for themselves)

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, major UN report finds Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, according to the "most authoritative assessment" to date.

What is the threshold for sanctioning PM Netanyahu and his govt?!

Signatories to the genocide convention like 🇦🇺 must take action in the face of genocide, including taking measures to stop it.

The global community has to do more.
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Who’s Cory Bernardi?

Wow, what a stunning photo !!
Thank you Sandy.

YouTube video by withMEAA Stop Killing Journalists

Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

The numbers are simply unprecedented - these are their names

Please watch the whole video. @withmeaa.bsky.social

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Israel kills 61 people in Gaza City, at least 100 across enclave The surge in Israel’s bombardment in the north of the Gaza Strip comes as it plans to seize Gaza City.

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 61 in Gaza City, as Al Jazeera reports intensified strikes in the north while Israel prepares to seize Gaza City aje.io/io4cij

Labor keeps ‘dire’ climate report under wraps The government has delayed the release of a “shocking” assessment of global warming’s effect on the economy, just weeks before its 2035 target decision.

Concerning reports the unreleased National Climate Risk Assessment is “dire” and “diabolical”.

It maps what the people & places we love stand to lose from climate change.

We should know this before the govt sets our 2035 emissions target

Release it now.
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‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza

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Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic When it comes to the horrors of genocide we say these words with an ironic frequency. How do we short-circuit the re-run of this pitiful, shameful cycle? Today will be a hard day for Sydneysider Mirela Muratovic, a survivor of the only recognised genocide in Europe since the end of the second world war: Srebrenica. During the 1990s Bosnian war Srebrenica was designated a United Nations-protected “safe area” – a label that came to mean nothing. Continue reading...

Thirty years ago we said never again, Srebrenica. How much longer before we declare: never again, Gaza? | Ed Husic

One of the reasons Twitter became the place for govt feeds was that it used to be possible to view all of (non-private) Twitter without being logged in, hence making it function like a mini blog. That ended under Musk, and really should have been the end of it.

Poland will temporarily reinstate border controls with Germany and Lithuania Poland will temporarily reinstate border controls with Germany and Lithuania. Prime Minister Donald Tusk made the announcement on Tuesday, after Germany announced stricter migration policies under Cha...

Schengen is being structurally dismantled, and nobody seems to care

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Imagine this is you.

You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.

The Lattouf Affair and the Jewish Critics of Israel-in-Gaza Thermidor is a sub-stack seeking to understand the backlash against the great Antinomian Revolution of the 1960s and beyond that overturned conventional values of centuries and is now increasingly und...

A very interesting and sharp post by Robert Manne about the pro-Israel lobby and its attacks against other Jews.
Manne is always necessary reading to me. (Obviously I thank him for his kind words.)

After a secret hearing I wasn’t allowed to attend, the ART has ordered evidence tendered by the Govt is to be kept secret, along with the name and employer of the person giving the evidence. It’s an extraordinary attack on open justice. The ART declined to give reasons. #auspol

The @albomp.bsky.social govt is being awfully quiet about Lattouf v ABC

Not even any expressions of "grave concern" about the craven capitulation, unlawful behaviour & derogation of public interest journalism by ABC senior management?

No interest in the integrity of the national broadcaster?

Antoinette Lattouf has won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC.

A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette

Among the dead are at least 27 people killed in an Israeli strike on civilians waiting for food in central Gaza, an attack that also wounded dozens and turned a relief site into what one Palestinian official called an “open field of death.”

It is shocking that 22 years after the US, UK and Australia went to war in Iraq based on the WMD lies, we see mainstream media headlines today running Trump's Iran "weeks away" from a nuclear weapon claim without explicitly framing it as directly contradicted by his own intelligence community

Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say One of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.

Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say reut.rs/4kJ6zUF

#freedomflotilla #madleen #gaza #palestine #greta

4June 1989, the massacre of the peaceful demonstration for democracy in Tienanmen Square. Not a mention in any online mainstream media on the anniversary of this terrible event from which democracy in China shows no sign of recovering.

Richard Marles’ first order of business at the 2025 Shangri-La Dialogue should have been the trade war the US is waging across our region, bringing great instability. Australia doesn’t need sycophants representing us on the world’s stage. #auspol