there is a very real public threat to the lives of Iran’s women’s national team players after state media accused them of being “wartime traitors” for refusing to sing the anthem. surely @ausgov.bsky.social cannot allow these players to return to Iran?!
www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer...
So you should be- it's a great piece and worth sending far and wide
My boss wrote a piece in support of migration – and migrants.
It’s good. Makes me proud.
#auspol
grattan.edu.au/news/migrant...
3. London calling
2. Remain in light
1. Born Sandy devotional
I'm not a historian. But I can think of no precedent in modern Britain for what is being done to trans people. The media, public institutions, Government and (too often) the judiciary are combining to attack or exclude a marginalized group and its allies - with really no significant demurral.
Pauline Hanson has spent decades demonising Muslims in the Senate with zero consequences, but put an anti-fascist poster on your bar wall and the AFP comes knocking. Labor's first scalp under their hate speech laws isn't a hate group and that says everything.
Thomas Friedman in NYT asserting that Israel is a messianic apartheid state engaged in ethnic cleansing.
Cops raid Holt Street when
"A new McCarthyism is afoot. Now it is not communists under the bed – it is people who oppose genocide."
"The Herzog visit exposed again the duplicity of Israel and the failure of our government to stand against genocide." #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
'Social cohesion'? No, it's just a net to trap us all
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
John ****ing Howard............again
'How Australian high schools became the most expensive in the developed world' - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/how-aus...
DOJ Protects Trump From Epstein Accountability as MAGA Attacks "Sanctuary Cities"
youtu.be/cwXIq81eE24
Hanson was a Liberal in the Howard mould. He said nothing about Hanson and only started putting her last as a tactical measure (not a pushback on policies) after the 1998 Qld election scare. He embraced her polices - which were variations of his One Australia platform
He's projecting again....
What is being ‘normalised’ through politics and media is abhorrent and dangerous.
www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
It's kinda weird how Australian media sees white nationalist rallies and calls them "anti-immigration", but it's also a reflection of the degraded nature of media and public discourse & no small reason for its parlous state.
3. Have one on me
2. Harlem River blues
1. Car tape 2 Lisa Miller (write in)
Just so we're clear: @economist.com has maintained a special account (which they pay thousands of dollars to Musk for a gold tick) on the sexual abuse software they're describing in their article
They have 25.7 million followers: nearly every post from the last 24hrs has 0-5 RTs.
3. Blue. Every note and every word of every song on this record is powerful.
2. London Calling. Sorry Stevie and Stones, this is the best double lp of the 70s, all killer no filler
1. Horses. It's not perfect but the highs are stratospheric
On the basis that these are most played from this list in the last 12 months
3: For the roses
2. Ede Bamyasi
1. Transformer
Very hard misses for Aretha, Stones, Bowie and Al Green
1977 me: Pistols, Clash and Ramones (and Iggy and Saints and Birdman)
2026 me gives out the points:
3. Aja
2. Low
1. Trans Europe Express
(2) Cuba Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Dominican Republic Operation Power Pack (1965)
Grenada Operation Urgent Fury (1983)
Haiti Operation Uphold Democracy (1994)
Plus covert operations like in Chile in 1972
(1) Let’s not forget that the USA has ha history to invading Latin American countries for a long time
Puerto Rico 1898
Panama 1903–1935
Nicaragua 1912–1933
Haiti 1915–1934
Dominican Republic 1916–1924
Honduras 1903–1925
Guatemala CIA-backed coup (Operation PBSUCCESS, 1954)
Cont...
On the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations.
Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.
This is really hard!
Points go to the records I listen to now (but 12yr old me did not)
3. The hissing of summer lawns
2. Another green world
And a point for one I first listened to in 1977 and still now
1. Horses
Hating not giving points to Springsteen, Parliament, Bowie, Kraftwerk, Neil
The actions & words of the Opposition & former members of Parliament who are using the #Bondi shootings to try to sew more division and hate shows what motivates them. They are not interested in unity & attempting to bring people together. They are shameful.
3. Aladdin Sane
2. Inner Visions
1. Catch a Fire
Close but 100% correct!!!
3. London calling!!!
2. Broken English
1. The specials
Albanese's response has been very good. The only people shouting for urgent knee-jerk responses are those pushing for criticism of Israel's genocide to be labelled antisemitic, and those using the massacre for grubby politics.
Be measured, be calm, be a leader.
