← Feed

Posts

• View post

  #TrumpDictatorship cancels plan to #livestream #execution after global condemnation. #Trump has shelved a widely condemned plan to livestream the execution of #NidalMalikHasan who was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by law enforcement officers during the shooting at Fort Hood and now uses a wheelchair. #YassaminAnsari, the first #Iranian #American #Democrat elected to the US Congress, wrote in a post on social media: “In Trump’s America, we’re doing public executions now. W...

• View post

  RE: https://fairdinkum.one/@John/117471870330339617 A reported rift between #BrendanNugent and his family is one line of inquiry for #VictoriaPolice as they investigate the attack on federal MP #HelenHaines. Asked by ABC Mildura this morning if one line of inquiry was that Mr Nugent's alleged attack against Ms Haines was a "proxy" for attacking his family, Victoria Police Commissioner Mike Bush said "yes it is". Police Commissioner Bush said Mr Nuge...

• View post

  #Trump : “Every day I come to the #WhiteHouse people are thanking me. ‘Thank you, sir.’ ‘Thank you.’ ‘Thank you sir’”, Trump began, before fixating on the #youth and #beauty of the #female #staffers he said were praising him. “These young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful #girls in the White House, you know, they come in. Now, I’m not supposed to say ‘beautiful’, but what the hell!” the president continued. “These young, these #gorgeous, beautiful girls,...

• View post

  #Trump says he ordered the #Pentagon to scale back “inappropriate and hostile” military #drills with #SouthKorea, hours before the exercises began on Monday. The drills under #UlchiFreedomShield, one of two major annual exercises held by South Korea and the #US, start on Monday and run until 27 August. They were expected to involve about 18,000 South Korean troops, alongside US forces and personnel from 11 of the 18 member states of the United Nations Command (UNC), the multinational body that...

• View post

  #Trump has threatened to #bomb #Oman - a #US #ally - if it "gets in the way" of his administration's own talks with Iran, Fox News reports. A reporter for the network said the US president made the comment during a phone call on Monday, during which he also said the US had a direct backchannel with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The IRGC later denied it was involved in talks with the US. But #Iranian officials said on Monday they were close to finalis...

• View post

  ‘Time for action’: #Greens demand #sanctions on #Israel The Greens leader, #LarissaWaters, has demanded sanctions be slapped on Israel, telling reporters this morning that statements against #Israeli #military actions have “done absolutely nothing”. “I think it is absolutely outrageous that it’s taken two years, and now the Israeli government have exonerated themselves from the murder of Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues,” Waters said. “Strong words are not enough … the #Australian government...

• View post

  #Albo is only consistent on one thing - his poor judgement. #auspol #AnthonyAlbanese has said he should not have appeared on a podcast where he engaged in a joke about the #Japanese prime minister’s gift to him of #melons. During an appearance on the comedy podcast #BushDeep last month, the prime minister explained that Japan’s leader, #SanaeTakaichi, offered him royal Japanese melons and appeared to make hand gestures in front of his chest, saying “she brought two, as you do”. Host #NikkiOsb...

• View post

  Earlier today a 27-year-old man was charged with foreign interference after being arrested by the #Australian #FederalPolice. The man, a dual Australian and #Russian citizen, is a resident of #Victoria and was arrested in #Brisbane yesterday with multiple devices seized. He is charged with attempting to engage in intentional #foreigninterference, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. “We will allege the 27-year-old man sought to provide information about #Ukrainian #military...

• View post

  “One night, a Library guard told me he wasn’t patrolling the Ian Potter Queen’s Hall as he had felt a presence there of late. He refused. So I thought (and probably not rightly so) that I would do the patrol for him if he sat in the control room. So it’s about 2am. I do the regular route through the Library and get to Ian Potter Queen’s Hall. Not afraid as I thought the whole thing was ridiculous, I’m walking around and then I see ‘Her’. A transparent figure standing in the piano room on the me...

• View post

  #TrumpDicratorship #WhiteHouse fires #warnings shots over #digital #DutyOfCare bill. The White House has issued a #warning to #Australia as the government forces #SocialMedia and US based #tech giants to clean up their platforms and #remove #HarmfulContent. Yesterday the #Australian government released its draft bill that will require platforms to protect kids from harmful content around EatingDisorders, #misogyny, #pornography, glorifying #crime, #abuse and #cyberbullying. Adults and children...

• View post

  RE: https://mastodon.green/@X31Andy/117410248316872507 A year ago, #Trump seemed convinced that the #NobelPeacePrize should be his. His administration was pushing hard for a peace agreement in #Gaza. Trump presented himself as a "peace-maker-in-chief", claiming credit for ending multiple wars around the world. Reports even suggested that he had raised the Nobel Peace Prize in conversations with Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The message was clear: Trump believed he d...

• View post

  RE: https://cycle.town/@ElectricTrike/117410569932816577 #TrumpDictatorship announces new sanctions on #InternationalCriminalCourt after #Trump fails to win #NobelPeacePrize losing to #ICC judge. The Trump dictatorship today announced a set of new sanctions on the international criminal court, a global court which investigates and prosecutes individuals accused of #atrocities and other #crimesagainsthumanity. “#America never joined the court. We don’t need that court, and we don’t want it,”...

• View post

  RE: https://cycle.town/@ElectricTrike/117412500900395834 #Trump complained Friday about not winning the #NobelPeacePrize for 2026, a year in which he started a #war with #Iran. At what was supposed to be a rally for other Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York, the US president devoted a long portion of his speech airing his grievances with the Nobel committee. “The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel peace prize, but didn’t. And...

• View post

  #Albo ending the #fuel cuts & saying despite the war, he won’t reinstall them, shows just how deaf he is to the public. No wonder his approval rating is so low. #auspol

• View post

  RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117005331831651060 Archeology time then! Time to send drones up looking for features exposed by the parched earth! #TimeTeam #DiggingForBritain #Roman

• View post

  Hundreds of #activists join #Arrernte #TraditionalOwners ahead of #PineGap #protest to voice their #concerns over the #expansion of the nation's most #secretive defence #facility and the nature of its operations in #warfare. It has been almost 60 years since Pine Gap was built in the heart of the nation, 18 kilometres south-west of #AliceSprings. It was originally sold to the public as a #SpaceBase, but the joint #Australian #US facility has since expanded to become a major #intelligence a...

• View post

  Feckless and clueless, #Trump is lost in #Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous #war he started. Once again, the #US #military is pummelling the country and, increasingly, its #civilian #infrastructure. As before, this #unlawful bludgeoning strengthens the resistance of a hardline regime that cares little for its people’s suffering. How often have Trump and #Hegseth, the #Pentagon’s wildling lord of bones, hailed a #bogus #victory? The #president claimed this week to be “winn...

• View post

  #GinaRinehartsOneNation owner #GinaRinehart has big plans for the north of Australia. #GinaRinehart spoke at the #NationalBushSummit in #Townsville last month - a #NewsCorp event sponsored by her company, #HancockProspecting - she said the #Queensland government could give some #FreeLand to "the #Israelis" to turn Townsville into a base for #Israeli companies to develop their #MilitaryWeapons systems. "[We could] encourage the Israelis to develop and build their advanced war #dr...

• View post

  Disgraced former #LiberalPartypolitician #DarylMaguire’s insistence he knew nothing of a #conspiracy to create false visa applications for #Chinese nationals has been rejected by a jury, AAP reports. Maguire, the 67-year-old former member for #WaggaWagga, was found guilty in the Downing Centre district court on Friday of conspiring to create the bogus applications for 10 Chinese nationals purporting to employ them at businesses in the #NSW #Riverina region. As a result of the verdict, it can b...

• View post

  RE: https://fairdinkum.one/@John/116932915575091339 Top Democrat on House intelligence committee says #Trump was setting the stage to #SeizeControl of #midterm #elections. “I’m not an alarmist”, congressman Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, just told MSNOW after #DonaldTrump’s speech, “but understand what happened tonight: the president was setting the context, he was setting the basis for him to turn around, at midnight on Election Day and say, ‘I warned you, I...

• View post

  A new study has found #PetCats were #responsible for fewer than 1% of #NativeAnimals taken to #NSW #wildlife carers over an 11-year period. The study, done by #UniversityOfQueensland (UQ) researchers in collaboration with the #AustralianPetWelfareFoundation, has sparked renewed debate about the risk the popular pets pose to threatened wildlife. It analysed NSW wildlife rescue and rehabilitation data on 158 threatened and endangered native species between 2013 and 2024. There were 52,475 threa...

• View post

  More than 40 civil society groups across #Australia are calling on #universities to protect the #right to #peaceful #protest and #academic #freedom on #campuses as vice-chancellors appear at the royal commission into #antisemitism. The statement, signed by organisations including the #HumanRightsLawCentre (HRLC), #AmnestyInternational Australia and the #AustralianDemocracyNetwork, expressed “grave #concern at the increasing adoption by universities across Australia of measures that #restrict pr...

• View post

  #Kentucky governor #AndyBeshear has sent a letter to the office of #Republican senator #MitchMcConnell – requesting an update on his condition, as concerns grow about the lawmaker’s health since he was admitted to hospital on 14 June. “As Governor – and a fellow public official who understands the commitment we’ve made to the people we serve – I am requesting the Senator provide an update on his current health status,” Beshear said in a statement. “Allowing speculation to continue in the medi...

• View post

  Unlike #federal #elections, #Victorian elections have #GroupVotingTickets in the upper house – a system that enables the business of #PreferenceWhispering’ – back-room deals where preferences are swapped to elect MPs with a tiny share of the votes. This was being used to game the system. Right wing agitator, #AviYemeni, has been working to #register #fake micro-parties called the ‘Free Palestine Party’ and ‘Muslim Votes Matter’ with the explicit purpose of ChannelingVotes to #OneNation. Another...

• View post

  #SchrödingersSenator #uspol #coverup #auspol Concerns are growing about the health of US Senator #MitchMcConnell, a top #Republican lawmaker who has been in hospital for over three weeks. McConnell, 84, was admitted for treatment on 14 June, according to his staff. His aides have not given any details about the reason for his hospital stay, or what kind of treatment he is receiving. His team said on 2 July he was "receiving excellent care" and "continues to improve". On...

• View post

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeoWire/116688892033253233 #NeverTrustTrump #uspol #TrumpRegime

• View post

  #BarnabyJoyce and a #OneNation colleague have struggled to detail the party’s housing policy, with Joyce requesting a second TV appearance to do so and Senator #SeanBell being cut off during what a radio host described as a “trainwreck” interview. Joyce told #SkyNews on Thursday that his party wanted to force permanent residents to sell their homes – before clarifying with colleagues and quickly returning to say that wasn’t One Nation policy. The program’s host, #AndrewBolt, who interviewed Jo...

• View post

  #JenniferEgan is a #Pulitzer prize-winning #author: “#HappyBirthday, President #Trump! By any measure, you have racked up a staggering number of accomplishments in your 80 years. You’ve managed to nullify the bulwark against #fascism that our three branches of government were meant to provide. You’ve transformed the presidency into an orgy of #corruption and self-dealing that would make last century’s robber barons blush. You’ve #erased whatever #goodwill and #respect America commanded...

• View post

  12% hydrogen peroxide causes severe skin burns and irreversible eye damage on contact. Swallowing it can cause severe internal burns, gastric irritation, and gas embolisms. #Trump kills #ReflectingPool #ducks

• View post

  #Trump insists 'there's pictures' no one else has seen of a vandal cutting the lining of the #LincolnMemorial #ReflectingPool Donald Trump once again devoted a large portion of an Oval Office event to insisting, without evidence, that his troubled renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, plagued by #algae blooms and a #peeling polyurethane liner, was actually caused by vandals. Asked by a reporter if the repairs to the pool would be completed by the Fourth of...