Diana

I think NSW police said 90k was on the bridge, so I’m guessing the discrepancy is from the huge numbers on the Southside who didn’t get onto the bridge before police shut it down.

Israel was the precedent.

If you're not identifying yourself as a law officer, surely the public can only assume that you are committing a crime?

Surely it's only a matter of time before a US civilian injures or shoots a masked, unidentified "ICE agent" who is in the process of kidnapping someone in a public space?

If taxes were being reduces from 4% to 0.1%, would they still say that growth would be stimulated? What about all the necessary public goods (roads, education, healthcare, basic research, government bureaucracy, functioning courts, etc) that are necessary for growth?

Well-meaning economists who are conceding that Trump's tax cuts will "no doubt stimulate growth, the question is by how much" should all hang their heads in shame, because they fail to account for the foundational economic principle: the law of diminishing returns.

Maybe combine with use of the ICEBlock app?

Concentration camps (with merch!). Gestapo. Forever War. Genocide. A system of indentured serfdom, slavery, for farm workers seized by ICE. A useless corporate press championing this descent into racist, violent fascism. What a shitty July 4th, America

I feel like the odds of a US debt crisis within the next decade is now better than a coin toss.

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000

The list is 1,227 pages long.

The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.

The first 381 pages are all children.

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When lawlessness is permitted it encourages further lawlessness. If justice is not allowed under law then it can only be gained extra-legally.

From now on I’m going to refer to the Trump admin as the “US regime” because that’s honestly what they deserve.

Raf Epstein rips into “friends & colleagues” in the media for not asking “whether or not what Israel is doing is illegal” in Iran & “not even asking questions about what the intelligence is”
Phil Coorey “I don’t think they care”
Epstein “But that’s the problem!”💥 #ABCInsiders

Further demonstration of the Trump admin's inability to do any 2nd order thinking is how Trump's two-facedness when it comes to his Iran "peace talks" will inevitably persuade any trade partners (esp. China) that nothing he says can ever be trusted & they should always prepare for the worst.

Thinking very much about this today re. Israel

Why do accessories design even bother making clutches that can’t fit a smartphone?

Making friends again with France, the only other country apart from US and China with submarine capability in our region, seems like a pretty good idea to me.

Just bringing this pre-election tweet back.

We call them collaborators where I’m from (Shanghai).

Neo-colonialism is having our national wealth be siphoned off by former great powers for the promise of security that they can’t afford to provide.

So as Richard Marles is still insisting that Australia is not involved in the Middle East, I hope he is also considering what it would mean for Australia to be strategically wedded to a US that could justify any number of hostile actions in the Indo-Pacific under the rubric of “self-defence.”

The US and Israel are apparently the only two countries in the world who are allowed to attack another sovereign nation preemptively, illegally, without international condemnation, under the fuzzy rationale of “self-defence.”

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

Also possible!

Kind of hoping DJT goes full Putin and throws Musk in jail. That might be the wake up call America’s oligarchs need.

If my arithmetic is not mistaken, this throws the Liberal party leadership vote into question.

YouTube video by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Is this the beginning of the end of the American empire?

Atypical bluntness from the SMH. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWHk...

Each international student is like a small business making a decision on where to invest up to hundreds of thousands of dollars for the next 4 years, and DJT is telling them the US is not a bet worth taking.

If Trump has his way, he'll throw the US economy into a crisis as sharp and as brutal as Venezuela's. Good luck trying to find a country to accept all your economic refugees then.

It’s the job of the opposition, surely, to connect the corruption to the economic effects of that corruption. But I suppose people don’t really trust the Dems right now.