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"Howard tied us to America so tightly, it would take a world-altering event to unshackle us. The tragic truth is though, even then, we would probably be on America’s side, even if it meant our own destruction," writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social.

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/40My2MZ

06.03.2026 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chris Minns' stormtroopers. Guns for graffiti, silence for the dead - Michael West Chris Minns' NSW government is creating a policing unit of around 250 officers, prioritising hate crimes above other violence.

Chris Minns’ stormtroopers. Guns for graffiti, silence for the dead.
michaelwest.com.au/chris-minns-...

06.03.2026 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Australians cannot begin to understand the Right’s collective shrug at the horrific toll of Israel’s violence without understanding that there is a transnational Islamophobia Industry.
...There is no genocide if Muslims are not understood as fully human."

06.03.2026 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

if this is not a crime it should be

" Pauline Hanson stung taxpayers almost $9000 for a chartered flight to the opening of a building at a private agricultural college funded by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart."

06.03.2026 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Someone tell Albo that you can’t say Australian personnel acted in compliance with international law and in the same breath say you haven’t done an assessment on the international law bit because that’s for the US and Israel to decide.

06.03.2026 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

The crazier thing about this is that before Israel attacked Iran, there was finally the *slightest* shift in the way Canada and other states started to check Israel.

Apparently all they had to do to stop that was literally start bombing more brown people in a different place.

18.06.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Strait of Hormuz "alternative transit routes"

Conclusion: Saudis have a pipeline but there is no good alternative

Fujairah, on the Oman coast, is the terminal of pipeline from the UAE to Oman. It bypasses Hormuz Straits and was built specifically a closed Hormuz scenario. Now, its under attack.

06.03.2026 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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"WH apparently did not realize that starting a war with Iran *with strikes aiming to remove the regime from power* would trigger Iranian action against Hormuz and regional energy infrastructure.
They directly threatened this regime's survival.
What did they think would happen?" -- Gregory Brew

06.03.2026 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.

They literally work you to death fortune.com/2026/03/04/p...

05.03.2026 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 285    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 9

the fuck?

06.03.2026 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Muslims 'should not be forced to beg’ for protection, Labor MP says Labor backbencher Ed Husic says Islamophobia should be examined as part of Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

Labor backbencher Ed Husic has accused his own government of failing to deliver protection for Australian Muslims. The MP says the royal commission examining the Bondi terror attack and social cohesion should also focus on Islamophobia. #auspol Hear! Hear!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

05.03.2026 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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β€˜We’ll run out of food this week’: how attacks on Iran leave Gaza under siege Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis * US-Israel war on Iran – live updates Israel closed all crossings into Gaza indefinitely when it attacked Iran, imposing a siege that has already pushed up food prices and threatens to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis. After more than two years of war, and with Israeli forces in control of about 60% of the territory, almost all Gaza’s food must be brought in. Continue reading...

β€˜We’ll run out of food this week’: how attacks on Iran leave Gaza under siege

02.03.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 20
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06.03.2026 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How is this real life?

06.03.2026 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 371    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 19
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4566    πŸ” 2510    πŸ’¬ 300    πŸ“Œ 337
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

04.03.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3428    πŸ” 1260    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 40

Waaaaay more than that

06.03.2026 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But is she a Shah shagger?

06.03.2026 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

people.com/trump-says-i...

06.03.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1422    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 121

Yeah WaPo has a habit of making shitty endorsements bsky.app/profile/numb...

06.03.2026 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.

06.03.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7311    πŸ” 1630    πŸ’¬ 433    πŸ“Œ 117

Haha Prince Andrew got them Kash Patel eyes the caught smelling up the bathroom look

06.03.2026 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Listen to this interview in utter disbelief. #AUSPOL #DARVO #AUKUS

06.03.2026 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if you were to write a prophecy of the future back in 2000 that "in 2026, President Donald John Trump has launched a war on Iran with Israel after previously attempting a coup to stay in power in 2020", people would think you've gone insane

05.03.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 756    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 12
Buildings in central Israel damaged in strike barrage: Report
Citing emergency services, Haaretz is reporting damage to multiple buildings across central Israel amid a fresh wave of Iranian strikes.

Journalists at AFP, meanwhile, reported the sound of two waves of simultaneous explosions in Tel Aviv shortly after 21:00 GMT.

Sirens continued to ring in Tel Aviv, central Israel and the occupied West Bank, Haaretz said.

Buildings in central Israel damaged in strike barrage: Report Citing emergency services, Haaretz is reporting damage to multiple buildings across central Israel amid a fresh wave of Iranian strikes. Journalists at AFP, meanwhile, reported the sound of two waves of simultaneous explosions in Tel Aviv shortly after 21:00 GMT. Sirens continued to ring in Tel Aviv, central Israel and the occupied West Bank, Haaretz said.

The thing about interceptor missiles is that they run out.

The thing about drones is they are cheap.

05.03.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Before the UK and the US did a coup in Iran in 1953 and installed the Shah, it was a democracy.

05.03.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Azerbaijan and US bases in Turkey are legitimate targets, to be fair

05.03.2026 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Now do a Gazan baby

05.03.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Israeli regime is the threat

You fuckers started this thing

05.03.2026 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who thinks it is Israel or USA dropping drones in Turkey and other surrounding countries to make NATO get involved by saying it is Iran? πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹

05.03.2026 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1