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
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I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
05.03.2026 23:26
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But they should have gone with ‘Dog days for Noem as Trump puts her down’.
05.03.2026 21:22
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The subbies had fun with this headline
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
05.03.2026 21:22
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Sick
04.03.2026 23:24
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Single frame. Karoline Leavitt on the press briefing lectern with a US flag and a large “chocolate wheel” with coloured panels showing: “REGIME CHANGE -YAY!; THEY’RE TERRORISTS!; THEY HAVE NUKES!; THEY DOT HAVE NUKES YET; WE WANT TO REPLACE THE LEADER; WE KILLED THE REPLACEMENTS; ARMAGEDDON!!!; PRE-EMPTIVE SELF-DEFENCE; BIBI IS OUR FRIEND; (SOME SCHOOLGIRLS MAY HAVE DIED); WHAT OIL?!; MID-TERMS - YIKES!”
Leavitt says, “Next question?”
Spin.
My @smh cartoon.
04.03.2026 21:15
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US torpedoes ship in Indian Ocean as Iranian leader labels Trump ‘Israel First’
“This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it isn’t,” US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters at a briefing. “We are punching them while they are down.”
‘Hegseth said US forces were operating under their own rules of engagement, or what he called “maximum authorities” that had been personally granted by Trump and himself. He was not asked to explain what that meant.’
Sounds like a licence to commit war crimes to me.
www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
04.03.2026 19:33
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Moderators at PETER VAN ONSELEN's 'Daily Mail' happily printing comments calling for the death of Laura Tingle, currently stranded in Dubai. This one of the tamer ones. Their 'House Rules' are just for show.
04.03.2026 05:47
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CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran
03.03.2026 03:25
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1️⃣ Over the last 30 years, #Antarctica has lost 12,820 square kilometres of grounded ice – larger than the area of Greater Sydney – a new study led by @ucirvine.bsky.social reports.
[animation of satellite images from @esa.int shows the evolution of cracks in the Pine Island Glacier during 2019]
03.03.2026 00:27
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“Young people can be alarmed by false claims, as many have
been on climate change, but the over-riding concerns of most are closer to home: owning a house and having a real job.”
03.03.2026 06:06
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It’s in a quote from David Kemp, who was Environment Minister in the Howard Government. Rather than acknowledging climate change as a threat to the nation and a valid electoral concern, Kemp dismisses it entirely, as being based on ‘false claims’
03.03.2026 06:06
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The leaked review into the Liberal Party’s disastrous result in the 2025 election includes just one, entirely dismissive, mention of climate change.
www.smh.com.au/interactive/...
#auspol #climatecrisis
03.03.2026 06:06
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Dire straits: The oil industry is facing its worst nightmare
The US-Israeli assault on Iran has the oil industry pondering their worst-case scenarios, all centred on a narrow strip of water in the Middle East.
“The Russians, whose ability to fund the war in Ukraine has been squeezed by the combination of relatively low oil prices and the impact of sanctions…are already chortling at the prospect of a big jump in oil prices.”
www.smh.com.au/business/mar...
02.03.2026 02:47
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
01.03.2026 19:01
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Extreme rhetoric in right-wing political circles deserves more attention
The rhetoric in Australia's right-wing political circles is getting more extreme and the media should be paying more attention.
An important piece in a string of important pieces by @garethhutchens.bsky.social, who’s doing the lord’s work stitching together threads by @jeremywalker.bsky.social @lucyham.bsky.social @anthonyklan.bsky.social for a bigger readership www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
01.03.2026 22:52
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‘Voters did not like its plan for government-owned nuclear power plants.’
Hasn’t Taylor already said he supports nuclear? ☢️ #auspol
01.03.2026 10:13
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@markhertling.bsky.social: "There is no rational legal basis for this strike.”
28.02.2026 16:09
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A mad king's illegal war on Iran is a cry for regime change...in Washington | Will Bunch
Democracy really did die in darkness as Donald Trump's unconstitutional war on Iran stamps America as a dictatorship.
No wonder Trump went to war with Iran in the dead of night, with the Capitol empty, most Americans soundly asleep
This war is illegal. Full stop. The worst abuse of presidential power in American history aims to cement a dictatorship on U.S. soil
My instant column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
28.02.2026 18:32
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Academic selfies on tour! With @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social @proftimstephens.bsky.social and Jacqui Mowbray!
27.02.2026 09:49
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Cory Bernardi (who else) giving the usual disinfo line in support of optional preferential voting. Compulsory preferencing does not force anyone to "vote for" a party they do not like. It only requires that a voter rank all candidates.
#saparli
26.02.2026 01:48
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