Mr Denmore

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who turned the country into a powerful anti-U.S. force and extended its military influence across the Middle East while crushing repeated domestic unrest, was killed in Israeli and U.S. strikes, a senior Israeli official told Reuters on Saturday.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says reut.rs/4rLPrBs

Trump Attacks Iran: What Happens Now? As Tehran launches retaliatory strikes against Israel and US military bases, how dangerous is this moment for the Middle East and the wider world? Are the attacks an attempt by Trump to shift…

Alistair Campbell: “Have you seen any world leader actually come out and support the US-Israel attack on Iran?” Rory Stewart: “Yes, Albanese.”
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Labour leader finding that kowtowing to social conservatives, Zionists, Trump apologists, Murdoch and the fossil fuel industry is a recipe for electoral oblivion. Gee, that sounds familiar. When will these centrist numpties learn??

Live Updates: Israel Says It has Launched an Attack on Iran Explosions were reported in Tehran, according to multiple residents.

Breaking News: Israel said it launched a strike against Iran, and residents reported explosions in Tehran.

In decades to come, people will still be quoting from Albo Jesus' sermon on Mount Marrickville.

Trump and Republicans are:

-Trying to ram through a bill that would disenfranchise millions of voters
-Considering an EO that would allow Trump to take over elections
-Proposing to station ICE agents at polling places

They’re trying to rig their way to victory. We won’t let them.

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Why is everything turning to sh&t? In ‘Enshittification’, journalist Cory Doctorow writes how online platforms first attract users, then abuse them to benefit business customers, and finally harvest all value for themselves. This brilliant video shows how the model works. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

Can an Australian Approach Save the U.S. Retirement System?

The US is looking at Australia's retirement system and thinking perhaps we do it better than them. Tell you what chaps, drop the silly subs debacle and we'll show you how it works, OK? crr.bc.edu/can-an-austr...

All signed, sealed and delivered, Mr Trump, sir.

Difficult Woman YouTube video by Renée Geyer - Topic

Renee Geyer's 'Difficult Woman' seems appropriate. youtu.be/BVfNM8Ejomc?...

It’s terrifying. Just
imagine if we had a political system where the people were sovereign and it was one vote-one value?

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters that s...

In ‘The Terminator’, an AI entity becomes self-aware, decides humanity is a threat, and launches a nuclear war. In ‘Robocop’ a rogue US state run by tech overlords submits humanity to a machine. Can there be any doubt we now exist in an ‘80s movie sci-fi dystopia? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
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And to those who say this is pedantry, that is what sub-editors are paid to do - exercise precision with the language. If you don’t have that in your KPIs as a journalist, you have no right to call yourself one.

They’re at again on ABC News: ‘Police allegedly seized a prohibited weapon.’ NO! ‘Police seized what they allege was a prohibited weapon.’ The allegation is not what they did. The allegation is that the device is unlawful. The problem is they are using an adverb when they should be using a verb.

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon.
The offence is the point.

Precisely. Somewhere back in hacks’ memory of what constitutes ‘journalism school’ these days is a dimly remembered lesson that if you stick the word ‘alleged’ somewhere in the sentence you are safe from contempt of court. Just clueless.

ABC news referring to ‘alleged’ stabbing in Sydney in which one person died and several were injured. Journos, PLEASE, that people were stabbed is not an allegation. It is a fact (unless you believe the victims impaled themselves on the assailant’s knife. The allegation is about who did it.

Nowhere Man

I believe the gap that is opening up is on the urban liberal left. That’s the constituency that’s underrepresented in power. But it will take a coalition of the Teals, Greens, disaffected ALP left and what remains of the Liberal moderate wing to fight the dark forces taking over this country

ICYMI it’s too good not to repost today🤣 👇👇👇

#libspill

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What defines a ‘progressive’ inside the Liberal Party? Someone who favours the cat’o’7 tails over nine? Pulls only one wing off butterflies? Wants us to go back to 1958 instead of 1948? It’s a fight for the Angry Old White Man vote.

Australia is a tax free gas and coal colony for foreign owned Exxon, Conoco, Shell etc. (Angus is perfect he used to work for McKinsey, which services them) the same reason Pauline Hanson is still a thing. The ALP will give big fossil everything they want BUT are building RE. This must be stopped.

I think the media environment has something to do with it. The media is almost entirely right wing, with a business model based on fomenting and exploiting resentment. The answer is not more blancmange centrism but a serious populist leftist alternative

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As Guy Rundle frequently observes, the majority of Australians are now knowledge class small ‘l’ liberals concerned at widening inequality, climate change, housing affordability and our grovelling to a failed US state. So why are the ALP, Libs, Nats and One Nation all competing for the cooker vote?

To be clear, not one single person sincerely believes that "from the river to the sea" is a genocidal or antisemitic slogan. They're just pretending to believe that in order to get new laws passed which crush free speech that is critical of a genocidal apartheid state.

Gets to the nub of the issue - the assumption among the Australian political and media class that the interests of Jews everywhere and those of Israel are synonymous. These were primarily Jewish AUSTRALIANS. There are Syrian Jews and Lebanese Jews and Iraqi Jews etc; None are Israelis.

Chaos at Herzog Protest as Police use excessive force | The West Report YouTube video by The West Report

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The billionaires bankrolling rightwing astroturfer Advance Australia - Michael West Gina Rinehart, James Packer, Mark Leibler and other business figures the major backers of right-wing lobby group Advance Australia. #AEC

Advance Australia purports to be 'grassroots' but the pro-fossil pro-Israel lobby group is actually funded by millionaires & billionaires such as Packer, Rinehart, Liebler. @sstephanietrann.bsky.social investigates.

#auspol #AEC

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How Cory Bernardi was inspired to push climate denial from US conservative groups Climate science denial group the Heartland Institute helped inspire Cory Bernardi and Malcolm Roberts to push back against policies to cut emissions

Cory Bernardi, new One Nation pick, went to America to train in climate denial with #AtlasNetwork’s Heartland Institute. This One Nation, like Farage’s Reform, is a tool of reactionary billionaires determined that no fact will stand between them & profit. #Auspol

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