Osman Faruqi
@osmanfaruqi.bsky.social
Australian icon.
Co-host of the Lamestream pod
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Co-host of the Lamestream pod
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Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.
The ABC has hired Latika Bourke, after discussions with Waleed Aly fell through, to co-host its global affairs show - which will move from being made weekly to daily: www.lamestream.com.au/latika-bourk...
Latika Bourke In, Waleed Aly Out As ABC Expands Global News Show
The ABC has hired Latika Bourke to co-host its foreign affairs radio show and podcast, Global Roaming, after Waleed Aly was earmarked for the job.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The ABC has hired Latika Bourke, after discussions with Waleed Aly fell through, to co-host its global affairs show - which will move from being made weekly to daily: www.lamestream.com.au/latika-bourk...
Incredible how worked up people got about this take, which was sensible and obvious at the time, and has only become more necessary in the years since.
Years ago @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social did a hot take that Twitter [as it was then] should be nationalised because it was too valuable a piece of social infrastructure to remain in private hands, and time has proven him right beyond all expectations
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Incredible how worked up people got about this take, which was sensible and obvious at the time, and has only become more necessary in the years since.
This is pretty funny. Why is The Guardian’s political editor endorsing “legitimate concerns” around migration and complaining Hanson is being distracted from trying to address them?
And further to this: what are the "legitimate concerns about the rate of overseas migration"???
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is pretty funny. Why is The Guardian’s political editor endorsing “legitimate concerns” around migration and complaining Hanson is being distracted from trying to address them?
Thank you Greens for helping speed up approvals for the business community 🙏🏽
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thank you Greens for helping speed up approvals for the business community 🙏🏽
Even enviro groups, who are notoriously cowardly and weak, think this bill sucks. All the Greens are doing if they vote for it is telegraphing to Labor they are terrified of standing up to them, and taking one of their key issues off the table for this term of parliament. Pathway to 5% of the vote.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Even enviro groups, who are notoriously cowardly and weak, think this bill sucks. All the Greens are doing if they vote for it is telegraphing to Labor they are terrified of standing up to them, and taking one of their key issues off the table for this term of parliament. Pathway to 5% of the vote.
The Greens trying to cut a deal with the government on this terrible enviro bill is incredibly dumb, and the best way to lose a bunch more seats at the next election imo.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Greens trying to cut a deal with the government on this terrible enviro bill is incredibly dumb, and the best way to lose a bunch more seats at the next election imo.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
The bill itself is terrible, and voting for it just takes a key issue of theirs off the agenda for this term of parliament.
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Captain Carlton, the AFL mascot accused of causing an "anti-semitic furore" when he "stormed out" of a bat mitzvah after learning he would be performing for Zionists, lays out what actually happened for @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social in Lamestream:
Exclusive: Carlton Mascot Breaks Silence After Being Fired For Leaving IDF Fundraiser
After a media storm, the man behind Captain Carlton lost his job. In his first interview, the young man at the centre of it all, speaks to Lamestream.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Captain Carlton, the AFL mascot accused of causing an "anti-semitic furore" when he "stormed out" of a bat mitzvah after learning he would be performing for Zionists, lays out what actually happened for @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social in Lamestream:
There is some smart analysis in the UK and US Guardians on Mamdani but here we get takes from guys who spend their careers trying to elect our version of Cuomo.
Mamdani’s win in New York offers Australian progressives both inspiration and caution | Stephen Donnelly
Mamdani’s win in New York offers Australian progressives both inspiration and caution | Stephen Donnelly
His campaign’s optimism and movement-building could resonate here – not to tear down the system but to rekindle belief
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I’ve been visiting New York for the better part of 20 years as a political consultant, on my way to and from election campaigns elsewhere in the United States. Being there for the historic NY mayoral elections this week, I was struck by how abuzz the city was with political energy – not seen since Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.
Mayoral races usually pass unnoticed – yet this one gripped the nation: a contest between the old and new Democratic party, embodied by former New York governor Andrew Cuomo and first-term Queens councillor Zohran Mamdani. Continue reading...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
There is some smart analysis in the UK and US Guardians on Mamdani but here we get takes from guys who spend their careers trying to elect our version of Cuomo.
Exclusive from me: The mascot Carlton fired for alleged anti-Semitic comments and “storming” out of a bar mitzvah breaks his silence to share his version of events. Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, the Herald Sun didn’t speak to him before writing their story.
www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-ca...
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Exclusive: Carlton Mascot Breaks Silence After Being Fired For Leaving IDF Fundraiser
After a media storm, the man behind Captain Carlton lost his job. In his first interview, the young man at the centre of it all, speaks to Lamestream.
www.lamestream.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Exclusive from me: The mascot Carlton fired for alleged anti-Semitic comments and “storming” out of a bar mitzvah breaks his silence to share his version of events. Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, the Herald Sun didn’t speak to him before writing their story.
www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-ca...
www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-ca...
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The latest edition of @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social's Lamestream is a cracker. As progressive parties around the world are handed more and more platforms, Australia's Greens could learn a great deal by listening in:
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November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The latest edition of @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social's Lamestream is a cracker. As progressive parties around the world are handed more and more platforms, Australia's Greens could learn a great deal by listening in:
Not for the first time, Australia's biggest, self-declared progressive news organisation re-writes independent media coverage of a story and pretends like they are the first too it. The Guardian is actually third to the story on Hedges and the NPC (after Lamestream and NPC) but doesn't mention that!
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Not for the first time, Australia's biggest, self-declared progressive news organisation re-writes independent media coverage of a story and pretends like they are the first too it. The Guardian is actually third to the story on Hedges and the NPC (after Lamestream and NPC) but doesn't mention that!
Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine.
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Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine
Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".
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October 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine.
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This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
www.smh.com.au/national/why...
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
www.smh.com.au/national/why...
Why Jimmy Kimmel would have never been cancelled in Australia
We need to be careful about how we separate true hate speech from satirical speech. In America, it seems, differentiation is out of favour.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
www.smh.com.au/national/why...
In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster
www.smh.com.au/national/why...
A less than ideal family tree
September 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A less than ideal family tree
The people running the once quite good and important newspapers in this country are absolutely taking the piss. The worst columnist in the country doing a completely incoherent interview with a seemingly self-published author who isn’t sure what she believes in www.smh.com.au/national/peo...
‘People don’t want to have this conversation’: Virginia Tapscott’s uncomfortable crusade
With childcare in crisis, the freelance writer feels vindicated in challenging the status quo.
www.smh.com.au
September 23, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The people running the once quite good and important newspapers in this country are absolutely taking the piss. The worst columnist in the country doing a completely incoherent interview with a seemingly self-published author who isn’t sure what she believes in www.smh.com.au/national/peo...
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i don't think Australian journalists are aware of how deep we are into The New Stupid. They certainly aren't equipped to deal with it. They are being asked to parse hieroglyphics at breakneck speed when they're modes of thinking are stuck somewhere around 2012.
September 16, 2025 at 7:03 AM
i don't think Australian journalists are aware of how deep we are into The New Stupid. They certainly aren't equipped to deal with it. They are being asked to parse hieroglyphics at breakneck speed when they're modes of thinking are stuck somewhere around 2012.
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"Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP. Its report, delivered a month before the publisher’s controversial axing of the 85-year-old journal ... did not include closing Meanjin."
—@nickfeik.bsky.social
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...
—@nickfeik.bsky.social
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...
Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
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September 16, 2025 at 5:48 AM
"Meanjin’s performance and sustainability were the focus of a review commissioned by MUP. Its report, delivered a month before the publisher’s controversial axing of the 85-year-old journal ... did not include closing Meanjin."
—@nickfeik.bsky.social
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...
—@nickfeik.bsky.social
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/16/m...
It’s ridiculous framing for a question the paper then uses as a proxy for support for AUKUS generally.
If the question was posed as shown it’s misleading. Getting nuclear subs is one thing, paying $X00 billion to maybe get them in 30 years and forever tie out defence to whatever warmonger is in the White House at the time is quite different. I imagine many more would oppose if they knew the context.
September 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
It’s ridiculous framing for a question the paper then uses as a proxy for support for AUKUS generally.
Incredible stuff here from the Nine papers to combine “I don’t have strong feelings but I accept the fact we have purchased these submarines” with “support”.
September 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Incredible stuff here from the Nine papers to combine “I don’t have strong feelings but I accept the fact we have purchased these submarines” with “support”.
I agree, the far-right doxing tens of thousands of people who didn't respond to Kirk's death the way they wanted is exactly the same as... the ACLU maintaining a glossary on extremists. Maybe the worst, bad-faith take on the Kirk stuff published in Aus yet www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Australia must reject the US model of political violence, but there’s a bitter pill
Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air their frustrations.
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September 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I agree, the far-right doxing tens of thousands of people who didn't respond to Kirk's death the way they wanted is exactly the same as... the ACLU maintaining a glossary on extremists. Maybe the worst, bad-faith take on the Kirk stuff published in Aus yet www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Really odd to me that over the past 5 days the far-right, aided by the Murdoch media, have launched harassment campaigns against prominent Australians for their comments on Kirk and the “progressive” media… just isn’t reporting it?
We discuss in our latest pod podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
We discuss in our latest pod podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
How Charlie Kirk's Assassination Is Reshaping Our Politics
Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 14/09/2025 · 44m
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September 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Really odd to me that over the past 5 days the far-right, aided by the Murdoch media, have launched harassment campaigns against prominent Australians for their comments on Kirk and the “progressive” media… just isn’t reporting it?
We discuss in our latest pod podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
We discuss in our latest pod podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
I found the original Cheek Media most to be incoherent and very weird, but a federal politician being bullied by the far-right into unliking an Instagram post, and putting a media release out about it, is a grim reflection on who controls discourse and culture right now.
September 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I found the original Cheek Media most to be incoherent and very weird, but a federal politician being bullied by the far-right into unliking an Instagram post, and putting a media release out about it, is a grim reflection on who controls discourse and culture right now.
Ezra Klein using Kirk’s death to celebrate some imaginary version of liberalism that only exists in his head… as the US right is using it to further entrench fascism and obliterate anyone who doesn’t echo Trump’s views on Kirk and what lead to his death…
Insane.
Insane.
September 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Ezra Klein using Kirk’s death to celebrate some imaginary version of liberalism that only exists in his head… as the US right is using it to further entrench fascism and obliterate anyone who doesn’t echo Trump’s views on Kirk and what lead to his death…
Insane.
Insane.
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"mainstream media called them 'anti-immigration' rallies...even though the speakers' lists were littered with people using white supremacist talking points".
Journalists may be worse on racism today than when Pauline Hanson emerged, says @scottmitchell.bsky.social.
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Journalists may be worse on racism today than when Pauline Hanson emerged, says @scottmitchell.bsky.social.
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The Murdoch Succession Saga, Why Race Reporting is Broken, and the TikToker vs. 'News Influencer' Controversy | Lamestream
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September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"mainstream media called them 'anti-immigration' rallies...even though the speakers' lists were littered with people using white supremacist talking points".
Journalists may be worse on racism today than when Pauline Hanson emerged, says @scottmitchell.bsky.social.
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Journalists may be worse on racism today than when Pauline Hanson emerged, says @scottmitchell.bsky.social.
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