Ruth le Cheminant

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

YouTube video by George Harrison Brandon Flowers, Britt Daniel, Dhani Harrison, Wayne Coyne & "Weird Al” Yankovic "Handle With Care"

last night I stumbled across a 2015 live cover of "Handle With Care" by the Traveling Willburys. It's so good I have to share.

Brandon Flowers, Britt Daniel, Dhani Harrison (George Harrison's son), Wayne Coyne & "Weird Al” Yankovic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP1k...

David Rowe zero net.. Financial Review

Renewable energy investment continues to surge around the world.

And under our Government, Australia will be part of this change, we won't miss out on the benefits.

just so you know people in Australia are watching closely...

“Why did the Palestinians initiate this on Oct 7?”

Max Blumenthal : “They didn’t. This war has been going on for 75 years. Israel initiated it in 1948 by ethnically cleansing 750,000 people.”

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

David Rowe red carpet..
Financial Review

Hiding the truth.

'Regulation' in Australia is so often a group of overwhelmed, understaffed and underpaid public servants, overseen by overpaid managers & PR language-pulverisers on a perpetual Lazy Susan twirling between 'regulator', 'lobbyist' and 'industry'.

Miriam Margolyes denounces Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, sharing she has lost friends and family members over her outspoken views.

#FrancescaAlbanese #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

Take the time to watch the whole thing. Deeply moving.

Two scenes. Scene 1: man beside corpse wrapped for burial with PRESS flak jacket on top, Netanyahu on other side. Man says, “Why did you kill him?”.Netanyahu replies, “Because he was Hamas.” Scene 2: same set up, man says, “How do you know he was Hamas?” Netanyahu says, “Because we killed him.”

Killing journalists.
My @smh cartoon.

Journalists covering the aid air drops say they have been warned by Israel not to film Gaza from the air or the air drops will stop. (Do they not want us to see the scale of the damage?)

“International journalists have not been allowed inside Gaza.”

Marion Scrymgour makes history as first Aboriginal person to chair the House of Representatives Tiwi and Anmatjere woman Marion Scrymgour MP has made history as the first Aboriginal person to chair the House of Representatives Chamber.

Tiwi and Anmatjere woman Marion Scrymgour MP has made history as the first Aboriginal person to chair the House of Representatives Chamber, as a member of the Speaker’s Panel.
womensagenda.com.au/politics/loc...

i love holding real news in my hands

This Statue Of Liberty Street Art Made MAGA Mad — And The Artist Is Unrepentant “I stand by what I’ve done," Judith de Leeuw defiantly told HuffPost amid backlash from Trump loyalists, including one GOP lawmaker who said the piece "disgusts me."

“I stand by what I’ve done," Judith de Leeuw defiantly told HuffPost amid backlash from Trump loyalists, including one GOP lawmaker who said the piece "disgusts me."

BREAKING: Gavin Newsom has just torched Trump, Stephen Miller and the whole administration. 🔥

It comes after armored vehicles and armed federal agents stormed MacArthur Park in LA today.

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Goodbye Trump, hello Asia’ is the EU’s new trade strategy. Will it work? Ursula von der Leyen wants the EU to team up with a 12-nation Pacific trade group. That could serve as a new platform for fans of rules-based trade.

‘Trump’s unilateral & arbitrary tariffs — which could ratchet up to 50% from July 9 if EU & US fail to cut a trade deal — response? To team up with a Pacific-centric trade group that includes like-minded nations such as Japan, Australia, Canada & Mexico. #TACO #auspol www.politico.eu/article/good...

YouTube video by Seth Abramson Hounds, “America”

😢

Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food,...

More than 400 people in Gaza have now been killed trying to reach food at sites run by the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’. “The attempt to survive is being met with a death sentence,” says Jonathan Whittall, UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).
news.un.org/en/story/202...

Love the post by @tabathasouthey.bsky.social that puts the depth of political thinking by the echelons of the USA Federal government.
I do not feel secure at all!!

bsky.app/profile/taba...

Albanese government criticised for ‘weak’ response to US attacks on Iran as experts decry ‘flagrant breach’ of law Former adviser to Penny Wong argues Australia should make clear ‘we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order’

The US bombing Iran is a flagrant breach of the international rules-based order, said Allan Behm, special adviser at the Australia Institute.

Australia should have “made clear we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order”. #auspol

Isn’t it marvellous.

The USA bomb Iran (was this influenced in any way by Israel…we ponder?)

And is this in the hope we will be distracted and forget about the situation in Gaza?

Ethnic cleansing can be so messy and best executed without an audience.

#Auspol