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The Australian Israel Lobby Is Flat-Out Saying They Want A Ban On Criticism Of Israel Dec 19, 2025

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Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Trump Moves Closer To War With Venezuela, And Other Notes Dec 18, 2025

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It's so American how the Sackler family caused a national opioid crisis which ultimately led to the fentanyl crisis, and instead of imprisoning them the US eventually went "Hang on, we can use this as an excuse to start a war with a country that doesn't even produce fentanyl." Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting Dec 17, 2025

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Of course, these outlets and individuals do not actually care about the phrase “globalize the intifada”. If pro-Palestine activists had never chanted that slogan, pro-Israel spinmeisters would be focusing on a different line today. They are not trying to stop chants which they perceive as dangerous, they are trying to stomp out criticism of Israel’s genocidal atrocities. Reading by Tim Foley.

Australians Being Massacred Shouldn't Bother Us More Than Palestinians Being Massacred Dec 15, 2025

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Palestinians don't love their families any less than Australians do. Australian lives aren't any more significant or valuable than Palestinian lives. There is no valid reason for the world to have focused any less on the 15 people who were killed in Gaza on March 16 than on the 15 people who were murdered on Bondi Beach. But it did. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Apologists Hasten To Use Bondi Shooting To Attack Anti-Genocide Activists Dec 15, 2025

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It's so gross watching the tail-wagging excitement of Israel supporters in response to this shooting. They're so happy they have another rhetorical weapon with which to bludgeon pro-Palestine voices into silence. They can barely contain their glee. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Is Scrambling To Fully Dominate Latin America, And Other Notes Dec 11, 2025

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The US pirating a Cuba-bound oil tanker from Venezuela illustrates how the empire is hurrying to shore up control over Latin America in the same way the US and Israel are quickly shoring up control over the middle east. Reading by Tim Foley.

New York Times Wants The US Military Built Up For War With China Dec 10, 2025

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Just as the United States hits its first official trillion-dollar annual military budget, the New York Times editorial board has published an article which argues that the US is going to need to increase military funding to prepare for a major war with China. Reading by Tim Foley.

How To Heal When The World Is On Fire Dec 09, 2025

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We definitely don't need to wait until the bastards have been defeated and we're feeling safe and secure in order to begin our healing journey. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Blue Whales Have Stopped Singing Dec 08, 2025

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The blue whales have stopped singing because the krill are vanishing because the oceans are warming because we are ruled by long-toothed liars whose insides are full of dead leaves. The great whales have gone silent and my bird has gone blind and there are chatbots in the basement and corpses in the corn. Under the overpass it is dry and still. You would never know that everything is dying. You should come and visit me. Meet me over there under the sepia streetlights with the strangleporn perverts and fentanyl fallen, all the stillborn scar tissue extractions from the wreckage of a banished womb, the NAFTA-noosed factory towns full of deserted buildings and the window-snarling meth towns full of deserted people, where the cries of orphaned Palestinians mingle with the cries of the last baby orangutan ever born in the wild. Meet me under the flickering lights. Bring me some smokes and a sad luck story and let's stay up late by the freeway watching the traffic get sparse. Show me the spots on your skin where life has kicked you and I will kiss them and give you a flower. The leviathans have gone quiet and the turbines are getting loud, and everything has become so strange. So sit with me on this curb under my burlap wing and let's laugh and heal and mark beauty until sunrise. Reading by Tim Foley.

Trump's Henchmen Keep Calling Their War Slut President A Peacemaker Dec 08, 2025

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Trump campaigned on being a president of peace and continues to stake his personal reputation on big talk about peacemaking, but in terms of concrete action he's just as much of a warmonger as the psychopaths who came before him. Reading by Tim Foley.

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