What the fuck, European Parliament

DFAT has now confirmed Australians and others have been abused by Israeli authorities after their abduction from the flotilla.

Assaulted and injured. Deprived of sleep and medication. Still illegally detained.

The PM and Foreign Minister must urgently demand their safe release.

You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester.

Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

If Penny Wong is serious about the Australian govt wanting to *do something* to stop the #GazaGenocide,
Francesca Albanese provided a handy list a couple of months ago. #auspol

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

Definitely one of the cuter and more chonky flying foxes, if not the cutest and chonkiest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!"

(via @Variety)

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

So what you do is, you just scroll. With your thumb. Yeah, like that. And then your brain lives 8 very stressful lifetimes in the span of 30 minutes. I do it like 10 times a day. I’ve lost the ability to make eye contact with my loved ones.

There’s so much evil in the world right now. So much in your face obvious evil that this unforgivable omnicidal act by Murray Watt and the ALP probably slides below the surface. But the impact of this on countless people and species, and First Nations culture, outweighs much of the rest. Despicable.

I am not usually excited about podcasts but I love the concept of this one (helps that I am currently obsessed with revolutions, particularly the French one). Ep 1 was great!

Once there was a new lady at the dog park and when I started talking to her she was like “I’m actually just dog-sitting for this German Shepherd because the owner is at Burning Man. The dog’s name is Hegemony.” This is the story I tell when people ask me what San Francisco is like.

RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC

Horses changing courses- my unusually optimistic cartoon for @guardianaus www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Louise Bourgeois by Herb Ritts, New York, 1991

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

tyrants, butchers, murderers!

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

I’m still waiting for an explanation of the three times that Mr Bean is seen walking across frame in the Epstein jail video. What was he doing there?