It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish between social cohesion and common assault
09.02.2026 10:32
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It can be difficult sometimes to distinguish between social cohesion and common assault
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
The @nswpolice.bsky.social bashings of men praying in Sydney today looked a lot like fascism to me. Extremely concerning.
Read our advisory committee member, Josh Bornstein's important contribution in the ABC today (link in bio) about why Albanese should not have invited Herzog to Australia.
Rescind the invitation, now.
Just signed the petition as a Sikh Australian ally:
So you have to sit and watch your car charge, how’s that going to work
Anyone got a spare free/cheap mid to large venue in Adelaide that's not totally booked out during Festival/Fringe season? Just need it for one day, for an Aboriginal-led writers event. Promise to take good care of it
I believe the rise in scabies cases is systemic and linked to failing care systems. The places we see this issue reoccur is where there’s workforce casualisation: no one takes responsibility to treat it, the client cannot manage it and the issue becomes chronic www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Bring back public housing:
The coolest summer for the rest of your life.
The child welfare system doesn’t help families. We more accurately call it the family policing system. This collage features news articles about the child welfare system tearing families apart and shows a picture of a Black mother holding an infant.
The child welfare system doesn’t help families. We more accurately call it the family policing system.
Read the full zine: upendmovement.org/zine/
If you are travelling in Victoria, watch out.
Great Ocean Road flash flooding leaves beach towns to count the cost
Ted Cruz in 2016, "We're liable to wake up one morning and Donald Trump if he was President would have nuked Denmark"
"That's not the temperament of a leader to keep this country safe"
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Hundreds of satellite images capture Victoria’s destructive bushfires erupting
#ClimateCrisis #environment
Labor is rushing a 144-page omnibus mess through parliament with just 48 hours for public submissions. Communities are fearful this is designed to criminalize people calling out genocide in Gaza. You have my word that we won't let Labor silence dissent.
This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India.
It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Chart showing the the past decade of global temperatures has busted out of the 1965-2010 range
2025 was a hot one. Maybe show some urgency in preventing new coal/gas mines....? #ThePoint
My post on @thepointau.bsky.social
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can't really hide how scary the Greenland thing is. Same roiling mix of anxiety I felt in the first few weeks of COVID19 lockdowns.
The scariest part is just that it isn't meant to make any sense. All of Europe is threatened
It is all going to get so much worse before it gets better again
We'll say it again: "social cohesion", when uttered by the holders of political and social power and privilege, means simply the maintenance of the dominant culture and silencing of any challenge to it.
Every single day in 2025 was hotter than the same day in 1974 - the year I was born.
Acting to prevent dangerous climate change is too costly for the economy, some say…
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Some media have reported that Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah has dropped her defamation claim against SA premier Peter Malinauskas. That is incorrect. She has resolved her separate defamation claim against Adelaide Festival Corporation.
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents.
Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center.
Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
Word and meetings are not sufficient. By request, we are deploying a contingent of Heard Island Defense Forces to Greenland to send a simple message. Flippers up and F*%# right Off! -General Thaddeus Snowclaw
Our first contingent of Defense forces arriving in Greenland. It feels like home!
Looking forward to be joined by Germany, Sweden, France & Norway soon. Flippers up!
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@norwayinusa.norway.no @norwaymfa.government.no
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Can you get us out of AUKUS?
Ooh yeah
