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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3m

When Labor and Liberals sit down to settle environment laws, there is an invisible but powerful presence in the room with them: the fossil fuel lobby.

Exhibit Z on how the 'two-party system' is irredeemably toxic for the national interest. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 19m

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 6m

The source close to the negotiators said “Trusting [Trump’s] word is the gamble they are taking. If it works, they will be considered geniuses. If it fails, they will be considered fools. It’s as simple as that.”

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 18m

🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News’ @jeremyscahill.com

www.dropsitenews.com/p/breaking-h...

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 32m

Two years on, these horrific numbers show the scale of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The figures speak for themselves: zeteo.com/p/these-horr...

Subscribe to Zeteo to support unfiltered journalism.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 31m

"The Texas A&M case is far from unprecedented. The Cold War offers an example of another politically contentious time when people questioned if and how politics should influence what gets taught in the classroom – and tried to restrict what teachers say."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Shadow of McCarthyism looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

Texas A&M University announced the resignation of its president, Mark A. Welsh III, on 18 September 2025, following a controversial decision earlier in the month to fire a professor over a classroom e...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 39m

Meanwhile, housing supply and affordability worsens, #homelessness increases, and obscene tax concessions remain for multiple property investors. #HousingCrisis #auspol

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 42m

Rumours of a deeply dysfunctional board have been rife for months.

Housing is too important to all Australians for the govt’s let delivery body to be hamstrung like this.

Time for better governance at Housing Australia.

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Labor’s housing agenda in crisis amid complaints, resignations

A senior whistleblower says a slew of top executives at the agency in charge of Labor’s housing agenda quit amid claims of bad behaviour.

www.smh.com.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 43m

"Israel will be able to confront its crimes only if it is forced to pay a high price for them
...Only at that point will the walls of denial begin to crack. For that to happen, the US and Europe will have to snap out of their own apparent denial of what they surely know is happening on the ground."

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 49m

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
By Omer Bartov
October 8, 2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

A state of denial

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 50m

As Francesca Albanese reminded us; everyone talks about the 50 Israeli hostages held by Palestinian factions, but thousands of Palestinian hostages are held indefinitely in Israeli jails.

Some are children, and most have never been charged with anything.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5h

🇵🇸 Breaking: 22-year-old Palestinian, held without charge or trial since May 2024, dies in Israeli custody — the 78th Palestinian “prisoner” to die since Oct 7.

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Ahmad Khdeirat, from Adh-Dhahiriya near Hebron, entered prison with diabetes, contracted scabies...

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 56m

When Labor and Liberals sit down to settle environment laws, there is an invisible but powerful presence in the room with them: the fossil fuel lobby.

Exhibit Z on how the 'two-party system' is so toxic for the national interest. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1h

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 5h

“If you do not agree at this point, two years in, that the state that needs to be demilitarized–and deradicalized frankly–is the state that is committing genocide, then you’re part of the problem.”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

And then there's the cost to political accountability and democratic values from a government who is outdoing Secretive Scotty Morrison. #auspol

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1h

@albomp.bsky.social says #FOI costs the Govt too much. When I FOI’ed Treasury in 2023 for briefs it had provided Jim Chalmers on stage 3 tax cuts, the Govt spent $53K resisting public disclosure. They lost! The taxpayers lost! FOI is not costing too much - Govt secrecy is. #auspol

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

"Van Jones is an utter disgrace - but he’s one manifestation of how Palestinians have been completely dehumanised during Israel’s genocide. The real disinformation comes from Israel’s cheerleaders - and more and more people see through it every single day." #GazaGenocide

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

Mocking Gaza's murdered babies on national television.

We are living through a depraved period of history.

But this is what genocides do.

They're only possible because of the dehumanisation of their victims.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/mocking-ga...

Mocking Gaza's murdered babies on national TV

A nauseating case study into the dehumanisation of Palestinians

www.owenjones.news

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

Kristi Noem should be surprised that there are even any restaurants left in Chicago to refuse to serve ICE agents.

Her increasingly addled boss keeps telling us that - like Portland - Chicago is a 'bombed out war zone'. 🙄🤪😆

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2h

Kristi Noem is complaining that ICE and Border Patrol agents have it really tough in Chicago because the restaurants won't let them use their bathrooms or serve them food.

But I thought Republicans loved free market capitalism? 😅

Don't mess with Chicago! ❤️✊🏽

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1h

Some frank words about the hollow rhetoric that now stands as Labor’s climate policy, and how its PR-first strategy has been rewarded by the media. Thanks to 7am

How Albanese killed the climate wars

Podcast Episode · 7am · 08/10/2025 · 15m

podcasts.apple.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

"If Australia raised as much tax as Canada...we would have an extra $133bn a year to spend on government services.

That might help lift some people out of poverty."

Of course, we could lift people out of poverty now.
The failure to do so is not just a failure to tax companies,
but a policy choice.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2h

My column on tax, fairness and companies paying nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we want a better, more equal society, we need more tax. But more tax only works if big business pays their fair share | Grogonomics

Trust in both the tax and political system will falter if people feel they are being punished for not paying tax while large companies legally get away with paying nothing

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

Hard to tell whether Trump really believes his own make-believe world,
or this is his increasingly inept attempt at a propaganda pretext for militarizing US cities.

When he speaks of "bombed out", he may be reflecting on his own brain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

The Jetsons has a lot to answer for.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 2h

I used to think the future was gonna look like stepping out of your flying car and being greeted by your robot butler but it turns out it's just gonna look like an AI cancelling your digital money because you tried to join a union.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

“this plan is as sinister as it is delusional...It is dripping with racism towards Palestinians...The choice offered to Palestinians between genocide or apartheid is barely concealed.”

Daniel Levy on the Trump-Netanyahu-Blair scam. #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

A time to redouble our efforts for Palestine

Daniel Levy, who knows a thing or two about peace negotiations, warns us that, The plan is being used to push back against the momentum behind holding Israel accountable, the thing that could actually...

johnmenadue.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

When Labor and Liberals sit down to settle environment laws, there is an invisible but powerful presence in the room with them: the fossil fuel lobby.

Precisely why the 'two-party system' is so toxic for the national interest. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2h

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broken" and outdated environment laws.

www.abc.net.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2h

The new editor-in-chief for CBS news is "a staunch Zionist and a fierce opponent of supposed wokeness and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives" says @sulliview.bsky.social.

Weiss looks set to deliver for Trump, who seeks adulation over journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11h

The “at least they are better than the LNP” line from Labor rustedons is wearing increasingly thin. #auspol

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 13h

Words I did not ever expect to hear about any *Labor* government:

“…analysis by Centre for Public Integrity showed secrecy has increased under Labor compared with Morrison gov.”

It’s time for:
Open and honest, transparent government.
FOI
@albomp.bsky.social

@australianlabor.bsky.social
#auspol

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 15h

“For a gov promising more transparency, the withholding of the doc written shortly after May election by the Dept of Climate Change, Energy, Environment & Water is puzzling. But then again, analysis by Centre for Public Integrity showed secrecy has increased under Labor compared with Morrison gov.”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11h

Officer, I'd like to report the Albanese Cabinet for eroding the nation's social fabric through:
- pursuing close defence ties with an authoritarian power
- domestic policies that increase #inequality and undermine accountability, and
- failing to uphold international law on refugees and genocide.

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 12h

In the Trump era, this is terrifying. Apparently criticising capitalism 🥴🤣 is terrorism now in the US.
#Auspol

Australian Federal Police ®
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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.
The NSI teams will work closely with state and territory police, law enforcement and national security partners to provide a coordinated, consistent and intelligence-led response to security threats, and also work on a global level through operations, capabilities and relationships with the international law enforcement intelligence community.
There are current and emerging groups dispersed across Australia and in some cases, overseas, who are eroding our country's social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation. While many of these crimes may not meet the threshold of terrorism, the AFP has identified concerning behaviours which could escalate to politically-motivated violence or hate crimes, which seriously put the Australian community at risk.
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.
Anyone with information about possible threats to the community or suspicious activity should make a report to the National Security Hotline on 1800 123 400. In an emergency or life-threatening situation, contact Triple

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