Choosing

Bet he’s sweating now

Currently watching the Polish Netflix series ‘Lead Children’ (Ołowiane dzieci). From an activist perspective, the political machinations are all too familiar and enraging

I watched it yesterday."From an activist perspective, the political machinations are all too familiar and enraging" 100% agree

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...

"I was among the protesters attacked by police" – Senior journalist - The Klaxon Senior journalist was among those attacked by police at the protest against the visit by Israel President Issac Herzog. "We were assaulted on the streets of our town by police itching for a fight," wr...

Senior journalist Peter Lalor was among those attacked by police at the protest against Israel President Issac Herzog.

“We were assaulted on the streets of our town by police itching for a fight". theklaxon.com.au/g2vd

"I was with a 72-year-old woman who’d asked the police how we should get out of there, when suddenly the police charged with horses & began pepper-spraying people. It was a dangerous situation, the crush was terrible & people were struggling to breathe" Peter Lalor from article.

Fucking abhorrent.

From the article

"These police were spoiling for a fight. Some had jaws set, others chewed on gum with an almost manic intensity before attacking. It was like they were itching for a fight"

International Childhood Cancer Awareness Day 2026 In Australia, 86 children are diagnosed with cancer every month, and on average, 12 of these kids will not survive. On average, cancer kills three children every week in Australia, more than any other disease. It's heartbreaking and we need to do more to stop it. And that's why I'm taking up this challenge to walk 172km in honour of my son and all the other kids going through hell facing this illness.

Hey. I’m doing this walk-a-fucking-lot challenge to help raise money for the Children’s Cancer Institute - Australia’s only independent medical research body dedicated to curing childhood cancer. Next month I aim to walk 172km, and if you want to support, chip in here www.ccia.org.au/fundraisers/...

AUKUS is sinking and Labor responds by making up a $30 billion un-budgeted AUKUS announceable for the SA State election. This stuff is straying so far from reality.

#ResolvePM ALP 32 L-NP 23 ON 23 Grn 11 IND 6 other 5

No 2PP provided. My estimate 53.8 to ALP (+2.6)

Poll uses data with Taylor as hypothetical leader prior to spill outcome.

Trump’s Losing His War in Minnesota. He’s Ready to Declare ‘Mission Accomplished’ Trump may trim back his terror campaign in Minneapolis, because it’s bleeding political support. It’s not over.

"officials in the Trump-Vance administration and others close to the White House paint a stark portrait of a president attempting to save face and declare “Mission Accomplished,” as one Trump adviser ironically puts it, after starting a war that Team Trump knows it’s losing badly."

The property I'm renting has been sold & I have to vacate by March 5, but I haven't been able to find a new property. The prospect of being homeless at 80 terrifies me. I am focussing on the Mornington Peninsula, but am willing to consider just about anywhere. If you are aware of something DM me.

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Today’s Sunday Age cartoon.

The Expediting Authoritarianism of Trump’s USA Has Taken Root in Australia The onslaught of sanctioned police violence seen on NSW streets during the Herzog protest revealed that Trump-style authoritarianism has taken root in Australia.

"Once NSW police had kettled in the crowd of tens of thousands so it could not disperse, it then charged with brute force, fists & horses, and this unbridled violence amounted to police officers acting with impunity because they’d been guaranteed it"

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-exp...

Utter madness, really stupid decision

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

‘Attack on freedom of speech’: Labor faces grassroots push to reject Qld hate laws The Labor opposition is facing pressure from a grassroots movement to vote against the state government’s hate speech laws.

New: Qld Labor is seriously considering opposing the criminalisation of phrases “from the river to the sea” & “globalise the intifada” in the state govt’s hate speech laws, as a grassroots group within the party launches a push to reject the legislation. Story w/ James Hall

NSW police say agreement to allow Muslims to finish prayer at Sydney protest didn’t reach officers Men praying were grabbed at Sydney town hall rally against Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s visit

You’d think some instinct around decency might have kicked in regardless of whether the senior’s message got through?

#auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal

“the fate of more than 2,500 people, arrested for supporting Palestine Action..remained uncertain after Mahmood said she would appeal..Additionally, the 3 judges..said banning order would not be quashed until both sides had been allowed to make representations”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

ABC News headline: Muslim men had permission to pray before officers removed them from Sydney protest, police say

NSW Police admit the Muslim men had received police permission to pray during the Sydney protest before they were disrupted by officers!

Imagine the media outrage if this had been a Jewish group or a group of Catholic nuns! #SydneyProtest
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Pretty amazing stuff here in Senates, Wong says she was unaware that the chair of an organisation behind illegal settlements (something Australia is supposed to sanction) entered the country as part of Herzog's delegation.

DFAT eventually say the delegation was handled by PM&C not them.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Genocide is the story, not antisemitism The Australian government’s response to Gaza, and its handling of President Isaac Herzog’s visit, has blurred the line between antisemitism and criticism of Israel. The result is deeper division, weak...

"Genocide is the story, not antisemitism"

"The lobby has been exerting destructive power for decades. Its role as an agent of foreign influence for Israel should be publicly examined"

(@albomp.bsky.social's grovelling is repugnant)

#auspol #Israel #genocide

johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

A rather blunt conclusion👇 to this 👉 article. #AUKUS #auspol www.eurasiareview.com/13022026-bli...

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ