Paul Meek

Anderson Cooper on CNN with headline Troops headed to Chicago, troops to Portland blocked for now

CNN right now. This is a real headline in the United States in 2025 🤮

Melbourne Free Palestine march

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

Hedges Report: NPC Australia caves to Israel Lobby, cancels talk on our betrayal of Palestinian journalists The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.

You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Sydney 2000 retrospective on TV advertising and first actual cut away interview is John fucking Howard

And so, how long are we going to ride the coat tails of best ever games bequeathed by Juan fucking Samaranch, likely fascist, allegedly

The House has chosen not to work and is withholding the swearing-in of newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva. She still hasn’t been seated, and it definitely feels intentional since her signature would provide the last vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

GOP of 2025 doesn't even think of consequences happening tomorrow, let alone the rest of this congressional term 🙄

That's exactly what the rest of the world thinks. Two family catch ups in six weeks? The horror 😆

The annual #Libspill is late this year.
This means drier spring and summer than usual with increased risk of bushfire in your area.

The NPC states, “Freedom of the Press.”
Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
The NPC have betrayed 278 slaughtered Palestinian journalists.
By cowardly caving & cancelling Chris Hedges talk.

I’ve let them know what I think of their complicity. ⬇️

#Auspol #Genocide

npc.org.au/contact

Grand Theft Accounting I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

Brilliant piece by @birmo.bsky.social on corporations not paying tax and how the people in charge want you to blame baristas, foreigners and single mums for the fact your hospitals are busted.

He's talking about Australia, but it's true for everyone, everywhere.

open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

University of British Columbia is hiring for 80+ jobs in Vancouver right now University of British Columbia is hiring for nearly 80 jobs in Vancouver across its departments, with many posted within a week!

*clanging bell loudly*

MY UNIVERSITY IS LOCATED IN CANADA. THEY ARE HIRING.

*clanging bell loudly*

They should definitely continue with the nuclear stuff... they are on to a winner there

I didn't even get around Dan Tehan doing his best Principal Skinner "no it's the voters who are wrong" trying to resurrect nuclear from yesterday before this latest inanity occurred

It's two and a half years til the next election, do they really wanna lead the opposition instead of Sussan

Andrew Hastie quits Coalition frontbench over immigration policy dispute Liberal MP resigns as shadow home affairs minister, increasing pressure on opposition leader Sussan Ley

To mangle my metaphors, rearranging deckchairs in the clown car that is the current Coalition #auspol

Next time I'm in Melbourne, maybe next year, will try and remember to mention 😊

First time at the Perth Royal Show after fourteen years living here - Sept/Oct school holidays*

*not that I have any children to link me into those cycles, but that's what I'm told 😆

Paul with a Bertie Beetle show bag

Less a show bag, more a show envelope nowadays, but still, evidence of attendance lol

Best laugh I've had all week

a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' . ALT: a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .

Regular people buying food and new clothes has an inflationary effect on the economy but year on year corporate profit growth is totally fine.

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

Just one final post (for now) about One Battle After Another

Snap reaction halfway through the movie, "PTA does Scorsese"

After mulling overnight and literally sleeping on it, more accurate would be "PTA does the Coen Brothers" 😊

Eric Adams dropping out of the NY mayoral election.

A reminder that everything Trump touches dissolves into ashes

This Administration still has an awful lot of damage to inflict, but it will flame out sooner rather than later. Hopefully without taking too many of us with it 😕

Dad was extraordinarily selfless, disciplined and stoic. Until it all got too much I’ll always wonder if things might have turned out differently if he’d had just one understanding mate or a crew where he wasn’t in the role of dad or husband.

An important and very well-written piece.

Obvious trigger warning, discussion of suicide