I just can't. F*cking hell.

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

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Gotta share the good news stories as well as the more troubling ones. Very nice work from Karrina, Kat & their brilliant team.

nit.com.au/07-10-2025/2...

Lorraine Finlay defends decision to attend the Antisemitism Summit despite controversial guest speakers inc a fmr head of the US Neo Nazi movement
Finlay “if we are actually serious about combating extremism & hatred…”
Shoebridge “You don’t put them on a stage”🔥 #Estimates

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~Samantha Sullivan, "Germany's Children"

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Ireland literally getting so much right

My first CRAN package! 🤓

Two of my favourite UpSet plot packages have been caught out by recent ggplot2 updates. That has cascaded into some Bioconductor packages failing (mine + others), so I figured I'd add another UpSet plot option to the mix. Hopefully this can help stabilise things a bit.

Decades-old 'conversion therapy' resurfaces in today's trans youth healthcare debate.

Jayne McFadyen ) and researcher Anja Ravine have co-authored a paper that sets the record straight on trans "conversion" treatment.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Wait for 0:42--that's when the good stuff starts... 🥲

Once upon a time Americans thought "It could never happen here"

Probably worth Australians being acutely and actively aware of this. We'd be extremely foolish if we thought the wealthy elite weren't coming to divide & conquer us as well.

Read in full here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm

It’s truly not that complicated

t.co/3ZM7dfSoVr

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

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This should be a resigning matter, no minister of health or leadership at Sandyford should be able to govern over a health service that has a waiting list of over 224 years.

The gender service at Sandyford must be abolished and replaced with primary healthcare

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

The US is deporting a journalist today

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities

They grabbed him

Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally

They’re attacking the free press

Just another day in a colony where state capture and corruption are normalised.

“One of the leaders of a $30 million study into the impact of industrial emissions on rock art in WA's north has accused the government of misrepresenting his findings.”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...