Listening to The Cure and thinking about The Bomb

I very genuinely do not think that Australia's media industry can be classified as any other than fully supportive of police violence, because you have to actively, consciously and knowingly work to frame what happened as general "violence mars protests" rather than "police violently attack protest"

Well, yes.

Good luck to all journalists covering this event! Remember, only sports, no questions!

Dream.
Believe.
Achieve.

Just got a sneak peek inside the media room at the Saudi-owned LIV golf tournament

Why the fuck would we “socially cohere” for monsters?  - The Shot Yesterday, the gulf between the will of the Australian people and the actions of the Australian government revealed itself to...

“For even entertaining this idea, Prime Minister Albanese has shown his judgment is as useless as his spine.”

Please don't mention the genocide, or the planetary destruction, or the racism, or the grinding poverty. It might make some Boomers uncomfortable and we can't have that

To me, the eyerolly horseshit by Minns today making excuses for NSW police and acting like a fool, genuinely looks like he had no idea that anything like this would occur. It's what happens when you surround yourself with absolute fucking dills I suppose, and have a record of wallowing in ignorance.

NSW Police used pepper spray, helicopters, horses and blockades as part of a new program designed to bring the community together.
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Every now and then I am reminded that someone at the Daily Mail thought putting Peter van Onselen behind a paywall would attract subscribers.

In a side note, you'll be shocked *shocked, I tells ya* to discover the he remains utterly obsessed with criticising Grace Tame

Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon

A digital illustration done in a black and white woodcut style similar to Totentanz images by Holbein and others. A skeleton wearing a jester-type cowl with two floppy horns with bells on the ends, and another garment around his shoulders and boots all decorated with bells. He his high stepping and playing some kind of flute. Black lines radiate out from behind him and a banner wraps around at his hips with the words ‘maybe it will happen today’ on it.

There are many challenges to building a base on the moon, not least of which is ensuring sufficient food and water. With Musk involved you also need to factor in supplies of children and ketamine.

These cops just flat-out assaulted an elderly man.

Plain as day that the cops are the only ones interested in violence.

Some of our staff were at the Sydney rally last night and report that the degree of police brutality was terrifying and unhinged.

Minns yesterday.
Albo today.

Travel to moon will so insanely cool one of things.

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Ffs. Are any mainstream media making any attempt to show incidents like this? Or ask the Commissioner about them?

The footage of Australian police acting like ICE agents is pretty shocking, but the media broadly stepping up to downplay, deny and mis-describe their violence in ambiguous terms is completely unsurprising.

It's an industry fundamentally incapable of ever assigning any blame to the police: ever

Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb. Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

The brutality of these pigs in sydney as they bashed, pepper sprayed and assaulted people simply voicing their opposition to genocide is truly disgusting.

Replies turned off because they know that “clashes” should read “nsw cops”. It’s clear who is being violent, report it honestly.

Tfw you really want to punch an old man

Might have maintained more dignity by licking his boots.

One of the most pathetic pictures of anyone I've ever seen

As always - remember this is what they do when they know they are being filmed.

Kudelka’s teatowel inflicted a psychic wound on the Labor party from which it has never recovered.

The president really complains a lot for a guy that’s a huge pedophile. He should be happy he’s not in jail for all the pedophilia. Fuck you mr. president, you perverted bitch.