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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 1h

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 7h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 1h

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Duncan Deeznuts @parasocialista.bsky.social · 2h

Drake meme

Drake rejecting: Confirmation bias

Drake affirming: Bias confirmation

nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 12h

* www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10...

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

7/ W the führer currently in Barwon prison (one of ~10 nazis to have been charged over the attack on Camp Sovereignty), the NSN has stated it won't be (visibly) attending (in uniform) on OCT 19, but as w AUG 31, it's likely some will join in flagcape mode.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell refused bail as magistrate says he is a danger to community

Sewell, who allegedly led an attack on the sacred Indigenous burial site in Melbourne known as Camp Sovereignty, was returned to custody following his court appearance

www.theguardian.com

nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 12h

* arts.unimelb.edu.au/australiance...

www.blackpeoplesunion.org/articles/the...

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elfdock.bsky.social @elfdock.bsky.social · 4d

“There is no place for hate or violence in our communities and the AFP will defend and protect Australia and Australia’s future from these threats.”
After all the First Nations Peoples deaths in custody I doubt it very much. As Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves asked, 'When we going to get justice?'.

No truth from the 'colonial system': Family distressed by delay in Kumanjayi White case as investigation handed to DPP

The family of an Indigenous man who died in police custody say they remain deeply distressed by delays and poor communication from investigators.On Monday, the Northern Territory Director of Public Pr...

nit.com.au

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Hellcat's ghost @hellcatxyz.bsky.social · 4d

Here we go, AFP chasing down people they deem a threat to 'social cohesion'
www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/...

AFP launches National Security Investigations teams to target groups causing harm to social cohesion | Australian Federal Police

The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion, including the targeting of federal parl...

www.afp.gov.au

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · May 28

who is he? How is he loved? Dr Amy McQuire on what is never asked and the lies we are told.

amymcquire.substack.com/p/an-aborigi...

An Aboriginal man has been killed by police in Alice Springs

Happy Reconciliation Week.

amymcquire.substack.com

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · May 28

Shameful Australia

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · May 27

on the anniversary of the 67 referendum, Bringing Them Home, Corroboree 2000 and the Uluru Statement from the Heart, they did this. Heartbreaking💔

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Indigenous man, 24, dies after being restrained by police at Coles supermarket in Alice Springs

Man restrained by police after placing items in clothing and stopped breathing while still in supermarket

www.theguardian.com

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Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · May 25

Americans posting “lol Australia is an ex penal colony” just stop. A nation of cops would probably be a more accurate description.

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Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 22h

“Only a people trained to accept being ruled by a violent power structure can really question someone’s right and need to forcefully defend herself against oppression.”
― @petergelderloos.bsky.social How Nonviolence Protects the State

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · Jul 25

“…police are less a thin blue line between civility and chaos and more the form of the world itself…Policing is the normalization, internalization, and legalization of anti-Black and colonial violence that pervades the entire social fabric.”

- Tia Trafford

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Mohamed @mohamed1123.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, life is harsh, but it doesn’t end.
Let us stand firm and keep moving forward,
for after the long night, the morning always rises.

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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 16h

OTOH
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GASt e.V. – Gesellschaft für Australienstudien @gast-gafas.bsky.social · Sep 2

»Dhaka-born, Australia-bred feminist and cultural historian, Dr Samia Khatun focuses on the experiences of colonised peoples across the British Empire.«

Dr Samia Khatun: Australia's Blak and brown history

Discovering a mislabeled book in a Broken Hill mosque set our guest on a path to unearth cultural encounters between South Asian and Aboriginal communities in the 19th-century Australia, culminating…

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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 17h

"Give what you can. Pass this on to friends. And when the articles, interviews, podcasts, and videos from this project start to come out over the following months, please help us spread them and translate them!"

PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 17h

It's live! Spread this, support this, and wish us luck! The project starts in two weeks
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...

Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution

From Brazil to the world, spreading the projects and struggles that will help us survive the ecological crisis

www.firefund.net

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 18h

via AMW

'If the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia was pictured at an event with a person who shared tweets calling Jews “Satan worshipping cockroaches” that “need to be eradicated” you can bet they would be removed from the job and it would be front page news.'

Jillian Segal, Nova Peris, Sharri Markson.

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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 17h

* theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...

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Ange1:qu3 (rose/any other name) @human007.bsky.social · Jan 16

Have a close look.
‘Advance’ is in cahoots with the IPA (who have been quite quiet lately)

theklaxon.com.au/anti-voice-g...

Screenshot of image from a Klaxon article by Andrew Klan

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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 17h

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

It's Biblical in Rose City.

Three Portland frogs and:

EXODUS 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition @ponekeantifa.bsky.social · 18h

Join us for the launch of Protect Protest, a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation.

15 October 4:30pm - 7pm in Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW

campaign launch + film screening "Operation 8"

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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 17h

"From what we see unfolding in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, it’s clear that Los Angeles was a test site for a larger project of racial terror and ultimately ethnic cleansing. This will continue until we all rise, in all the ways we can, to stop it."

Truthout @truthout.org · 3d

Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.

ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City

Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 19h

'In the encounter, which Murton filmed, an officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”'

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 18h

This is a small print run so pre-order to make sure you don’t miss out on Ezzideen Shehab’s breathtaking book, Diary of a Young Doctor.

Ezzideen’s words are essential reading. As reviewed by @amyremeikis.bsky.social

More: linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide

Red book jacket with a photo of Ezideen Shehab and the copy:

Tam no longer a doctor.
I am a witness. To the slow murder of dignity.
To a land where medicine is a cruel joke and survival is a sin.'

DIARY OF A YOUNG DOCTOR
Notes from the genocide in Gaza
Ezzideen Shehab

Book blurb:

‘With every entry, Ezzideen stitches together what is left of our humanity and reminds us of the terrible privilege of bearing witness. His empathy, honour and heart represent the best of us and is a rallying call to use our own power to stop this genocide and to fight for those rendered trapped by injustice, dehumanisation and cowardice.’
Amy Remeikis

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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 @why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social · 21h

"How Gaza heals"

What the actual fuck.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 17h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

I love old movies. If you're looking for actually good movies from 1935 to watch, might I recommend:

Ruggles of Red Gap
Traveling Saleslady
Bride of Frankenstein
If You Could Only Cook
The Whole Town's Talking

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

I'm watching Triumph of the Will (1935) because I haven't seen it in a long time and people are insisting to me that you have to admit it's a good movie.

It's not a good movie. The idea that it has any value, even technically, is literally Nazi propaganda that's just endured.

Here's a real clip:

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