Tim Dunlop

What 200,000 or more people called with a single voice was #SanctionIsrael - why can’t we talk about that? - not views of NSW police on their dodgy views of potential risks that never looked like eventuating #MarchforHumanity

Worth checking. This one came up
On my FB: very trusted person

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Dr Tanya Haj Hassan criticises BBC in live interview

Watch this @albomp.bsky.social and @senatorwong.bsky.social
Still want to wait before you do something concrete?
After yesterday's march, what are you afraid of?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5yF...

Elise Jane It’s hard to describe the march for Palestine over the Sydney habour bridge today. Arriving at Wynyard station there were many people already. The announcer at the station was perfection, over the...

Further verification www.facebook.com/elise.klein....

This is actually an origin story. There will be a franchise.

WH Auden would've been happy with a verse like this

They are the room

This is the reality of @albomp.bsky.social going slow on recognition of a Palestinian state or any other meaningful action.

‘Immense’ pro-Palestine march to cross Sydney Harbour Bridge as police prepare for five-hour shutdown Supreme court judge says protest motivated by belief that ‘the horror and urgency of the situation in Gaza demands an urgent and extraordinary response’

"Minns had earlier opposed the protest and said 'we cannot allow Sydney to descend into chaos'".
Gaza, on the other hand.....

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

Thoughts and prayers

I was mocking him, but his comments are so shocking.

Ah, I wish it was viable, but have long thought population size made such a thing all-but impossible.

And the idea was funding on a subscription model?
(I remember @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social telling me he could do most of what he wanted to do on a million a year, but that might've changed.)

Did you come up with a figure for how much such a project costs? Set up costs, then annual budget? (Just in case I win Powerball, I want to know how much I'll be up for.)

There, there. They are only sending the non-lethal parts for the bombers.

He thinks the brain is a two-party system

"The enterprise is so mad" Late-night thoughts on the haunted house of politics

“I genuinely think if you took a normal person and put them in Parliament, they would be horrified by the kind of micro bullying, bad behaviour and lack of knowledge. It's tribal. It's a game. It's, can I stick it to the opposition? The enterprise is so mad.”

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Wow, it is a real mystery as to why the L&NP Coalition has collapsed. Not.
You couldn't get a clearer example of the disconnect than this rant. Please clap (spoiler alert, they actually do clap!)

Australian doctor fresh from Gaza says hospital staff also starving A Perth anaesthetist who spent four weeks volunteering in Gaza says her patients were often wounded while seeking food aid amid the ongoing hunger crisis.

Shame on you, @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Albo's paradox A simple question for the Australian Government

Re-upping this because I want to know the PM’s answer: what line must Israel cross before he does something more than talk?What’s the line?

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Australia Criticises Israeli War Crimes, But Won’t Do Anything About It Our PM acknowledges that Israel is “quite clearly” committing war crimes in Gaza including murder and mass starvation, but will not be imposing sanctions over the atrocities

Just remembering Penny Wong saying "as part of the global F-35 supply chain, we contribute components and parts that are nonlethal in nature."
Sleep tight, Minister.
www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/austral...

A visual account of Children killed by age, arranged in categories from less than one year old through to 17 years of age. Category tolls range from the mid-800s to 1,218 per year represented.

Graph showing that 31% of all deaths--or 18,592 people--have been children. Shows total number of deaths as 60,034 as of July 29.

A couple of graphs from the article

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Kudos to the Wapo for producing this horrifying account: every death in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023.

wapo.st/3IRLZn6

I haven't looked closely enough to know the answer to that, but yeah...

Who, apart from everyone, would’ve guessed?
Our turn next.

They are all moderates, yes.

What the Liberals call a moderate

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

Reminded of this from Martin Luther King

As an example, we'd still be waiting for marriage equality if activists had pitched to the centre rather than shifted it.
That's what "change" is.

Some good responses to this. I'd add "the centre" is a misleading construct. It is not some pre-existing set of circumstances but something created by, amongst other things, activism. That is, activism helps create "the centre". It can't, therefore "pitch" to it.