GrumpyOldDad.bsky.social

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

Stop penalising people on Jobseeker payments during heatwaves Heatwaves are the deadliest environmental disaster in Australia. We need to make sure everyone can prioritise their safety, and the safety of their family and communities when it gets hot. Unfortuna...

We are grateful for the solidarity from @swelteringcities.bsky.social in the campaign to stop compulsory activities for people on Centrelink payments during heatwaves.

You can support the campaign by signing and sharing the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

Sen. David Shoebridge:

Palantir, the far-right US data corporation, has just been given security clearance with access to secret Australian govt data.

They're enabling ICE surveillance and helping target the genocide in Gaza.

It's time ban them from govt contracts and all our data.

#auspol

Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute charged with conspiracy in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan today by the AG for raising costs and destroying the climate.
www.freep.com/story/money/...

"That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I," says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in response to JD Vance's defense of the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis.

"I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."

And tax the life out of the Billionaire Trust-Fund “babies” who enable the Fascists, Zionists, Christian Nationalists and Nazis

#HateNeverWins
#FuckMurdoch and his #MurdochGutterMedia

Yep, Rupert is a trust fund baby. Never done a good thing in his life.

Zionism needs to be completely rooted out of Australian society.

It fosters hate and seeks to undermine Australian domestic politics by forcing the will of the Israeli govt on our society.

#IStandWithCathyWilcox

#LNPNeverAgain

#FuckMurdoch
#MurdochGutterMedia

Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.

Statement from the Australia Institute announcing its withdrawal of support and sponsored events from the Adelaide Writers’ Festival

Statement from Amy Remeikis withdrawing from Adelaide Writers’ Festival

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

Zelensky on Venezuela:

“About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you”

Omg I love it.

Right now it feels like this madness is not going to end and in fact it’s going to get a whole lot worse.

We can never give up working for decency, integrity and a safe future for our kids and grandkids.

And we can never forget the enablers. #auspol

I'm calling for a royal commission
into calls for royal commissions.

Terms of reference to include:
- How & why a petition from half a million Australians for a Murdoch royal commission was ignored
- how dodgy sporting identities jumped on the bandwagon for an antisemitism royal commission. #auspol

I used to think the common denominator in most of the world’s problems was religion. But I think I was wrong.

It’s men.

Colombian President Petro commenting on the US;

“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil."

@albomp.bsky.social I know we don’t have an ambassador from the US just now but close the damned embassy. Kick the US military out. It’s now a rogue state committing acts of war without their own Congress having any say. #USAOUT

In a nutshell.

I 🫶 this

‘Morning ☕️👌💖

Narrator: “however, what she refuses to say is, it was always the guns”..

Just letting you all know the “I stand with Albo” is gaining momentum.

And after 30 years of doing absolutely nothing in Federal politics, someone has put up a petition I can get behind.

c.org/pfqGyppbp9

#hateNeverWins

Elon Musk now has so much money he could pay all 73.9m Americans Social Security for 6 months.

This wealth isn't earned, it is taken, it is why everything else is so bad and there is 'no money' to fix it.

‘We’ve got more in common than what divides us’: a Muslim-Jewish kitchen in Nottingham counters hate and hunger As antisemitism and Islamophobia rise, a community centre brings people together over shared meals, offering an antidote to food poverty, social isolation and division * Donate to the Guardian Charity Appeal 2025 here * Communities are our defence against hatred. Now, more than ever, we must invest in hope It’s 2.30pm on a Wednesday afternoon and the Himmah Hub, a community centre in Nottingham, is abuzz with activity. Crates of leftover supermarket food are being carried inside, trestle tables assembled, and volunteers are arriving to prepare meals that will be served in a few hours’ time to anyone who needs one – a queue has already begun to form outside. This is the Salaam Shalom kitchen, known as SaSh, a joint Muslim-Jewish project set up in 2015, and based on one of the core tenets of both faith groups: bringing people together through food. It also draws on a north Indian tradition of community meals, with food prepared collectively and duties shared across the village, Sajid Mohammed, director of the Muslim-led social justice initiative Himmah, explains. Continue reading...

‘We’ve got more in common than what divides us’: a Muslim-Jewish kitchen in Nottingham counters hate and hunger

On the day after the #Bondi shooting by ISIS aligned shooters, who turned up the day after to offer food to mourners?

Salvation Army? Nope.
Hillsong megachurch? Nah..
Destiny megachurch? No..
Christians of any creed? Nope.

You guessed it. It was the Sikhs.

Prominently so.

Absolute legends.

That’s all for now.

Yes, I should be not using Spotify either.

But after moving from records to 8 track to cassettes to CDs to MP3s and now to Spotify, I am just tired of moving my playlists from platform to platform.

Oops. I lost the link to that one.

Would you be so kind to share it again please?

Release the Epstein files.
Release the Jan. 6 documents.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.