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Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

Some charges fell over, but many stuck - including the insane "terrorism" ones.

Designating #Antifa a terror organization is akin to designating Marxism or feminism as a terror group.

While I don't like their politics, the Prairieland defendants need support.
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US airports ask for donations for unpaid TSA staff amid partial government shutdown TSA employees have been working in US airports without pay since the partial shutdown began in February

Asking for donations for airport security? In Australia, they'd get virtually nothing. And deservedly so.
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Trump calls Iran leaders ‘deranged scumbags’ as Middle East violence spirals Tehran residents report relentless bombing with US and Israeli planes launching wave of attacks

"Deranged scumbags". As the saying goes, every accusation is a confession. #Iran #Imperialism
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‘You are all worse than each other’: anti-regime Iranians turn on Trump Mood among some in Iran shifts from hope of being rescued to dismay at destruction of infrastructure, culture and lives

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at the naivety shown by these Iranian dissidents. Hopefully, the hard lessons being learnt will stay with them for the rest of their lives. #Iran #Imperialism
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#OtD 12 Mar 1933 the British Union of Fascists met to hear its leader Oswald Mosley speak in Manchester. However, the meeting had to be stopped and Mosley rescued by police when it was attacked by anti-fascists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8416...

This poster is out of date. The US is no longer in the business of exporting democracy. It's now engaged in open pillage, nothing else. #Imperialism

The women flanking him look like they'd rather be somewhere else.

The Speaker of the House says that false vicious eliminationist racist comments are fine with him, because some people are vicious racist eliminationists who believe nonsense.

All wage labour under capitalism involves exploitation. Live Nation's ticket pricing practices turn it into super-exploitation.

Pine Gap has expanded rapidly in the last 5 years. It's a key part of the US war machine. #ClosePineGap

How many trucks would they need?

#OtD 12 Mar 1912 Polish Jewish resistance activist Ala Gertner was born. While a slave labourer at a munitions factory she smuggled gunpowder to prisoners at Auschwitz to build grenades, who destroyed Crematorium IV & killed several SS officers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8415...

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social "Americans stopped believing they had a functional government long before they started believing they had a fascist one" Oof that hits hard 05 Oct • 13:11 (GMT+00:00)

One of the biggest problems we face is that as liberals finally wake up and take a more militant footing, they instinctively believe that radicalism is counterproductive and messaging matters most, and so even as they're fighting fascists they'll fight us to demonstrate they're reasonable.

"Wage-work is serf-work; it cannot, it must not, produce all that it could produce. And it is high time to disbelieve the legend which represents wagedom as the best incentive to productive work. If industry nowadays brings in a hundred times more than it did in the days of our grandfathers, it is due to the sudden awakening of physical and chemical sciences towards the end of last century; not to the capitalist organization of wagedom, but in spite of that organization" – Peter Kropotkin

the conquest of bread

We can defend Iran's right to defend itself without supporting this.

Telling people not to live in cities.

Workers need to defend #Iran with working class methods: strikes, demonstrations & labour boycotts. Cut off the supply chains of the US & Israeli war machines. #ClassStruggle

21/ Its day eleven. Hormuz is Closed. Fuel is trapped in Persian Gulf. Asian Countries now rationing fuel.

– Vietnam told people to WORK FROM HOME because they're running out of fuel
– Bangladesh started fuel RATIONING -limits on how much you can pump per vehicle
–Asia-wide petrol prices surging

When Democrats phrase their objections to the murderous aggression against Iran (in furtherance of genocide in Palestine) in terms of how expensive and poorly planned it is, they're telling you that they do not intend to stop it, and will indeed continue it if they get a majority

Guess this means an end to media debates about whether the Strait of Hormuz really is closed. #Iran

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

‘Intended to divide’: Porsche-driving middleman behind string of antisemitic attacks in Sydney sentenced to five years’ jail The attacks, which included the firebombing of a childcare centre and torching of cars, were motivated by financial reward, magistrate finds

He was in the pay of unnamed overseas backers. I'd like to know who they were. #Antisemitism
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Two protesters charged on first day of Queensland’s ‘from the river to the sea’ ban Alleged offences occurred after pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside state parliament within hours of new laws taking effect

The rally speaker was arrested, but he had discouraged other protestors from chanting the slogan.

This was a sound tactical choice. Mass defiance, not a tiny rally, will render the law a dead letter.

Now they need to spend a few weeks organising a big rally.
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RFK Jr’s pick to review Covid vaccines authored misleading research, experts say HHS calls MIT professor ‘more than qualified’ for advisory panel and calls ‘attacks’ on him ‘politically motivated’

RFK appoints cranks, grifters & ideologues to advisory committees on many health issues. Here's one example. He will end with the blood of millions on his hands. #Science
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Sorta makes you feel that getting off oil would be a good idea.

I can see sales of EVs really accelerating here.

The Labor Govt's position that it's up to the US to explain the legal basis of the Iran war *itself* betrays that they know it's illegal.

How now will they complain about, say, Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

Labor moves to block some temporary visa holders travelling to Australia amid Middle East war Proposed new powers for home affairs minister are ‘truly appalling’, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre says

I don't like quoting serving MPs, but Shoebridge scores a bullseye:

"[Labor, Coalition & One Nation] send Australian troops into it, and then when #refugees come, as a result of it, they shut the door and act with deep cruelty". #Iran
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‘Vicious cycle’: panic buying is biggest risk to Australia’s petrol supplies, experts say Government and motoring groups say there is no shortage of fuel supplies but stockpiling has left country service stations running dry, as Iran war sparks oil price fears

Demand has gone through the roof in some regional areas.

Why? Because farmers are some of the few people with the facilities to store large amounts of petrol/diesel.
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Chris Minns’ own security expert warned that tougher police powers after Bondi could ‘increase radicalisation’ Alexandra Caples suggested expanded NSW laws could ‘damage trust between police and communities, undermining broader efforts to counter extremism’

So. Minns went into this situation eyes open. He was engaged in performative repression to satisfy Right wing shock jocks, rather than making a considered response to the Bondi shootings. #NSWpol
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‘I’m buggered’: David Littleproud resigns as leader of National party as MPs jockey for top job Matt Canavan and Kevin Hogan put hands up with party expected to hold leadership election before the end of the week

Good riddance. He has Little to be Proud of. #auspol
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Electrification of transport is desirable in itself. It is also a blow against Vladimir Putin & all the Gulf monarchies, which are absolutist tyrannies and bastions of political reaction.