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In my initial reaction, while ridiculing Wong's absurd statements, I also noted that it was highly unlikely that she was telling the truth about having no intelligence about the strikes, or being uninvolved in them, as a member of the Five Eyes alliance, and knowing as we all do about Pine Gap. In the past two days, we have heard the following: • Australia did in fact have a role in providing intelligence to America and Israel. • Two American P-8 Poseidon planes arrived at Perth's RAAF Base Pearce on Monday afternoon and one military source claimed the arrival of the aircraft was "unexpected". Australian and US officials refused to comment on the presence of the P-8s which are primarily used for reconnaissance but can also fire torpedoes or harpoon anti-ship missiles. • PM Albanese says we have deployed "military assets" to the region • Three Australian sailors were aboard a nuclear-powered US submarine when it torpedoed - and sank - an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka yesterday, killing over 80 people on board.

I’m aware that it’s a lot, but the speed of news at the moment is such that it’s important to slow down and lay out the various pieces so the full picture can emerge. And when you do, you realise the degree of bullshit we’re being fed by a craven and frankly evil elites in politics and the media.

Three Australians were onboard US submarine that sank Iranian warship, PM says Anthony Albanese confirms ADF members were on vessel but says ‘no Australian personnel’ took part in attacks on Iran

He actually said Australians being on the sub is "one of the big pluses behind the Aukus arrangements". What the fuck are we doing

News live: Albanese confirms three Australians onboard US submarine that sank Iranian warship Follow the latest updates live

Albanese has confirmed three were aboard www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australian sailors on board US submarine when it torpedoed Iranian warship 9News understands the Australians are on board the American submarine as part of the AUKUS training rotatio...

AUKUS is active. Australians are on training rotation with US Navy crews. Two Australians were on board the submarine that torpedoed the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena in international waters killing 80 sailors. #auspol www.9news.com.au/world/us-isr...

Two US military reconnaissance jets don’t swing by Western Australia for a joy ride. These jets are critical for the attack on Iran and this was an "unexpected" visit in the middle of that major US air war. The lies are stacking up.

#OtD 1 Mar 1944 a series of general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy involving 1-6 million workers. Superficially about economic issues, they were organised by the anti-fascist resistance to undermine the regime. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

Man arrested in chaotic protest against NT Administrator A protester has been arrested amid chaotic scenes outside of NT Parliament, where David Connolly has been sworn in as the new administrator.

Larrakia elder and rightful owner Mr Eric Fejo was manhandled and arrested by NT Police for stepping foot on parliamentary lawns that occupy unceded Larrakia lands. NT Police “had decided” the laws were “an exclusion area”.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I’m late to this, but so glad he’s okay! Must have given you such a fright. 🩵

(first day as an AI salesman) Can I interest you in an exciting slopportunity

AHHHHHHHHHHHH 🌿🪶
(This is telephoto lens + harsh crop to maintain a respectful distance!)

Buying into a stupid moral panic, ABC's report includes:

"Warning: Images in this story may cause offence."

No, I'm not offended by satirical images of public figures depicted as Nazis.

I AM offended by media like ABC broadcasting Pauline Hanson's actual hate speech without labelling it as such.

Antifascism has always been the first thing prosecuted by hate speech laws, and this is why antifascists have studiously opposed such legislation for decades.

There is an unbridgeable chasm between liberalism and antifascism.

Oh I’ve never been to a huge one! I can imagine it would get pretty chaotic. Our local one is very small and super sweet.

Chomsky is not, and has never been, an anarchist.

the horse competitions, dog shows, CWA food and cake comp, Rural Fire Service bbq, side-shows, random plant stands, wool show, dinky show rides, wood chopping comp, muster dogs

I love a Country Show 🩵

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.

The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.

They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

An email from Epstein naming Herzog as coming to the island "this weekend" from 2014

Isaac Herzog, special guest of the Australian government this week, is in the Epstein files.

It appears he went to the pedo rape torture island, alongside Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, in 2014, long after Epstein’s conviction and outing as a predator.

So apparently soon I could face up to TWO YEARS in jail for political art that says “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” if someone "takes offence". This is what Crisafulli is proposing in QLD. Acceptable speech is narrowing in real time. And it's fckn terrifying.

New Queensland hate speech laws to ban slogans and symbols The laws to be introduced in parliament this week will ban the phrases "globalise the intifada" and "from the river to the sea", as well as offensive symbols.

'Under the new legislation, public use of the controversial phrases "globalise the intifada" and "from the river to the sea" to cause menace, harassment or offence will be banned, with a maximum penalty of two years in prison.'

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Welcome home, Liam! I hope folks in similar situations to him are reunited with their loved ones soon

Please check out comics4liam.com and thank you to the folks who set this up! #comics4liam

They are clearly also trying to drown out the sound so Trump cannot be heard or recorded.

If any Australian journalists are interested in looking into this, Fraser Ellis MP and his family are in the Epstein files. I’m not alleging wrongdoing, but may be of interest to some, e.g. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

It’s truly crazy making. Apparently this is unremarkable or normal now (?!)

There are at least ten instances in the files, where separate girls/young women email Epstein to mention they are pregnant. Bekah Day (TikTok an other platforms) pulls up each email and talks you through it. It’s real. What happened to those children? Babies of children in some cases.