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Snap new Queensland ban on puberty blockers for transgender adolescents The Queensland health minister has issued a new directive to ban public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to youths six hours after a Supreme Court overturned the January freeze.

Awful.

The Queensland Government is actively harming trans kids. #qldpol #aushealth #trans
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No Joy, only Division: It's just the stupidest stupid we've yet seen A self-processed former "punk" using her position to criticise the PM for wearing a Joy Division T-shirt is stupid-stupid, even for Auspol.

No Joy, only Division: Just the stupidest stupid of all

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A FLAGRANT breach of the rights to social security & due process. Sneaking through draconian powers in an unrelated bill is performative crap Labor can only get away with for welfare recipients bc it's easy to punch down on us

Read @australiainstitute.org.au update here👇 Ty @amyremeikis.bsky.social

The Domestic Agenda for Australia’s Anti-China Rhetoric

as if "we don’t necessarily think about this as a fight" doesn't invoke imagery of a fight...🙄 maybe just take a look at this paper, guys:
"demonising china as a malign communist power it distracts us from looking at what ails western liberal democracies, presenting us with a stultifying either/or."

pitting the US against china in this false "models built on democratic:autocratic values" binary is so problematic. and where's the fact checking of the "but the US has demonstrated over time that it gets this stuff right.” claim? @australia.theguardian.com

"this is the nature of how technology works. innovations come along, and then societies adapt to those innovations" is such a textbook tina (there is no alternative) logical fallacy - silencing dissent with this fait accompli attitude. why no questioning that rhetoric, @australia.theguardian.com?

"we are a non profit", my ass - no one pushes this hard for anything without having a hellavalot to gain. a good journalist/editor would follow the money @australia.theguardian.com

this is not "breaking ranks" ffs @australia.theguardian.com, this is laying their trojan horse plans right out on the table for us all to see. "oh sure, we'll still do business there if you don't loosen copyright" babelfishes 🐟= directly to "who's gonna stop us? you little plebs down under? lol"

the fuck?? this article is bonkers - so many problematic statements that are just run without challenge. why do you insist on manufacturing consent for shit shows, @australia.theguardian.com? what ever happened to your journalistic principal of holding the powerful to account?

Dear Australian news media
When reporting Israeli claims that are demonstrably false, known lies, REPORT THIS! Some suggested phrases:
"Israel falsely claims ..."
"Israel repeated the proven lie that ..."
Words matter. Facts matter. Otherwise it's not #journalism, it's propaganda. #Israel #Palestine

After her tremendously powerful performance on Fallon this week, Hayley Williams has published this essay, breaking down the lyrics of True Believer line by line. (Oh, how I wish every song of consequence got one of these!). Ever wondered as a white woman how to show up in solidarity? This is how.

AI-generated misinformation about 4yo Gus prompts tech and legal concerns The thought of a missing boy lost in the outback is indescribably harrowing — but what's almost as disturbing is the realisation that some on social media have seized on the disappearance of four-year...

apparently billionaire-built digital slop machine output is being posted to billionaire-built digital platforms in an effort to create and spread misinformation as widely and harmfully as possible ikr.

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UNTIL. It's Free Palestine until all Palestinians are free. Until the occupation is dismantled. Until genocide perpetrators are held to account. Until the land is returned. Fuck the IOF, fuck Netanyahu. They cannot be trusted to stick to a ceasefire. It's smoke and mirrors. ALL EYES ON GAZA. 🕊️🇵🇸🍉

This powerful ChumbaWamba cover is now out on the streaming platforms. An anthem for the ages, retold by this brilliant savage woman.

You can't "deport" people who were not in your country by choice. Our flotilla humanitarians were kidnapped in international waters. They committed NO crime (they were doing our government's job for them - acting to prevent a genocide). They were never going to Israel. Try 'released' not 'deported'.

The puppet master's hand is on full display here. It's obvious Bibi's hand is further up Albo's arse than Jaime Dunn's was in Agro's. #heyheyitszionistday

Did you forget about Zomi Frankom who was tragically murdered by Israeli Occupation Forces?? The puppet master's hand is on full display here Albo. It's obvious Bibi's hand is further up your arse than Jaime Dunn's was in Agro's. #heyheyitszionistday

The fact that pointing out that a rich white woman hasn’t spoken up during a genocide led to defensiveness & near instant anti-Blackness tells me that white women are very okay with racism they can benefit from.

They give TS cover from criticism because they want cover from the same criticism too.

Honestly, y'all have been way too easy on us for way too long. We've been recipients of our own privilege for so long + so many don't want to acknowledge it. Funny how we can see that 'fear-of-losing-power' discomfort so clearly when we critique patriarchy, but struggle to turn that lense inward.

This is how insane people sound when you tell them why A.I. is bad

It's honestly devastating to me how one of the only mainstream news outlets I trusted has become a propaganda mouthpiece for the IOF (illegal occupation forces). Are there no critical thinkers left there at all? The devil has enough advocates, he doesn't need you, too, @australia.theguardian.com.

When will you grow a conscience and stop manufacturing consent for a fucking genocide? This is such a pathetic excuse for journalism. I'm horrified by what @australia.theguardian.com has become in the last 732 days.

If you're going to publish mud slung by the IOF why not sling it in both directions? At least then you could hide behind the guise of 'balance'. You've published the accusations of terrorism, where's the word GENOCIDE in this article, hey? You call them 'activists', what about 'ILLEGAL OCCUPATION'?

Great to see @australia.theguardian.com is at it again with this bullshit reporting. Stop parroting Israeli propaganda. They don't "call themselves" humanitarians, they ARE humanitarians. Literally delivering aid. They're not the ones bombing hospitals & schools and shooting babies in the head FFS.

Last night I had a dream that we all woke this morning to find Trump had abdicated the presidency. Never have I wanted the words of a delusional 90s pop song to be true more than I did this morning.

(I don't know if you can abdicate a presidency or only throne, but it's the word my dream used).

When the scales are balanced, as they were at Nuremberg, you may very well be found complicit in blindly platforming Israeli propaganda, pushing narratives that fuels support for (instead of condemnation of) genocide and legitimise an illegal occupation force. "We didn't know" won't cut it.

I don't want to discourage you from finally stepping over to the right side of history, @theguardian.com. But I would like you to think long and hard about what took you so long.

Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’ Mo Amer, Cherien Dabis, Basel Adra and others’ picks show Palestine’s rich, yet overlooked tradition of cinema

Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’

What Fascists Taught Me About Empathy (Part 1) Grief-policing, pearl-clutching, performative outrage and another win on the board for the fascist expansion.

"The alternative vision recognises that survival depends on class solidarity—on systems that prioritise human need over corporate greed, and on treating the planet not as a resource to be exploited, but as a refuge to be shared." A nice note of hope in this article from @jacktoohey.bsky.social