Tom Quinn

I saw many atrocities as a senior aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us Devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs in the street. After speaking out, I discovered my visa will not be renewed, says Jonathan Whittall of UN OCHA

Horrifying account of a litany of atrocities - ‘Israeli authorities accuse us of being the problem. They say we’re failing to collect goods from the crossings. We aren’t failing, we’re being obstructed’

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Even if this turns out to be a little optimistic, this means electrifying the Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Traralgon and I think even Seymour lines is not only financially viable, it's financially reckless NOT to electrify.
It certainly blows any silly notions of hydrogen trains out of the water!

This was always only ever about surveillance

The playbook is simple & well-established if the gov actually wanted to do anything:
1) ban weapons sales & stop involvement in manufacturing while arms are shipped to Israel
2) sanction sitting members of gov
3) expel the ambassador
4) condemn
5) vote accordingly at the UN.

That would be acting.

Tweet from Amichai Stein: "The Prime Minister's Office briefed this evening that a decision has been made by the PM for a full occupation of the Gaza Strip, including operations in areas where hostages are held, and conveyed a message to the Chief of Staff: if this does not suit him, you should resign."

Israel is going to fully occupy Gaza, presumably as a prelude to full ethnic cleansing and annexation.

Elon Musk’s brother and one other Tesla board director sell stock worth nearly $200 million Tesla insiders' frequent stock sales have been a source of frustration for shareholders in recent months.

what's already happening is the board is dumping every share they get the moment it vests. the music will stop sooner or later fortune.com/2025/05/28/t...

Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to Elon Musk Billionaire chief executive threatened to leave electric-vehicle maker if he was not given more stock

with sales falling and competition skyrocketing, Elon's toadies on the Tesla board just gave him 30 billion dollars www.ft.com/content/ae08...

It’s the sheer number that angers me. 🤬

Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, says there’s “195 journalists who have been killed in Gaza” & that for journalists this war is “even more deadly than WW2”
“The restriction of content coming out of Gaza is a big issue.”💥💯 #Abc

Sorry, choosing to remove material contained in a document that you are re-publishing, that was encoded and which describes the murder of Indigenous people, is censorship. A historian quoted in the story said they should publish.

I would say the same of any government or publisher. And have.

Our Loved Ones Were Kidnapped and Murdered by Hamas We heard promises from the the most powerful people in the world. What the 101 hostages still in Gaza need is action.

As the Families of Murdered Hostages, Our Message to People in Power Is Simple: Act

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It's not happening every week though?

This is like the first big march to cross the bridge in years. Political leaders need to calm the fuck down.

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Amazing work.

Australia should recognise Palestine. Important piece by Prof Ben Saul, Challis Chair of Int'l Law, Sydney Uni, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism. #auspol #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

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

Crikey article headline Never mind company tax — reform proposal reveals Australia’s real inflation cause A big rise in large corporations raking in profits by abusing their market power is impacting inflation, as shown by modelling buried in the Productivity Commission’s tax reform proposal.

Back in 2023, quite a few self-aggrandising economist types, desperate to get attention from the AFR, plus the RBA & Treasury tried to tell @australiainstitute.org.au that our work showing rising excess profits were causing inflation was wrong.

Last week, the Productivity Commission ...

theracket.news appen, then they will simpry move into another area Israeli is bombing the living shit out of. If they keep going, they hit the border crossing at Rafah (which the Israelis are also bombing). They cannot go any farther, because the Egyptian government-which is, one must remember, at once an Arab state, a brutal dictatorship, and an ally of both Israel and the United States-won't let them. That makes this the start of a probable genocide, at least of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. At the hands of a country that claims not only act in my name, and whose flag bears the symbol of my people, but who claims for itself the mantle of the avengers of the Holocaust. Here's a voice:

Believe this was the first time I used the term genocide in relation to Israel’s current actions in Gaza in my newsletter. It was Oct. 13, 2023. You can’t pretend this wasn’t knowable.

In the US AI buildout is so gigantic; contrib. more to US growth than consumer spending in 2025!

China's green boom is so gigantic that Clean-energy contributed more than 10% of China's WHOLE ECONOMIC GDP in 2024 for the first time ever
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"It is hard to get your head around how stupendously large an electricity user a 2-5 gigawatt data center represents.
A 5 gigawatt data center consumes on the order of 40 million megawatt-hours of electricity per year, as much electricity as the ENTIRE STATE of Nevada or Kansas!" - Jesse Jenkins

"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert depicting an obliterated Gazan landscape in the background and a sundial in the foreground. The arm of the dial is depicted as the outline of Gaza. The time markers read "DO SOMETHING", "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH", "INTERVENE NOW", "TIME IS RUNNING OUT" and "TOO LATE". The shadow cast by the sundial arm has past "running out of time" and fast approaching "too late".

Killing time.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

A dense crowd of protestors walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, waving Palestinian flags.

There were babies in prams, elderly people in wheelchairs, families, friends, organisations, unions, and a sea of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs. It was the largest and most moving protest I have ever seen. #MarchForHumanity

Apparently a completely peaceful march across Sydney Harbour Bridge today was extremely perilous.

Yet somehow fewer people (i.e. nobody) died today than when NSW Police were asked to assist with a 95-year-old nursing home resident behaving erratically.

This is 6 weeks 'work' == planned, wanton Israeli destruction of Palestinian people's homes, for no military reason whatsoever, let alone a valid one.

If haven't looked, maybe you should.

The dark cruelty of a contrarian small press that has pledged to print history "as is" defending its decision to remove the secret code this guy used to document his murders from his diaries as "unprintable", and so censoring the destruction of a people by editing history, is just next level.

Protesters block Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway in call to release hostages, end war Demonstration includes relatives of freed hostages and comes on Tisha B'Av fast day, shortly after videos of two emaciated hostages cause shock in Israel, but muted reaction overseas

Protesters block Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Highway in call to release hostages, end war https://www.timesofisrael.com/protesters-block-tel-avivs-ayalon-highway-in-call-to-release-hostages-end-war/

Global electricity investment has shifted significantly over the last decade:

✅ Spending on low-emissions power generation & batteries has more than doubled since 2015

✅ Investment in solar PV is set to be over 3 times higher in 2025 than a decade ago

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The huge Harbour Bridge march shows people have had a gutful of seeing starving children in Gaza. Politicians need to catch up | Anne Davies Along with the horror of Gaza, there was palpable anger towards Chris Minns and, to a lesser extent, Anthony Albanese The NSW premier, Chris Minns, risks going down in history as the most conservative premier of the modern era. Renowned for his political nous, his slick media management, urbane delivery and ability to tamp down controversy, Minns is perennially attuned to the loud voices of the shock jocks on Sydney radio and in the Murdoch media. Continue reading...

The huge Harbour Bridge march shows people have had a gutful of seeing starving children in Gaza. Politicians need to catch up | Anne Davies