Shona (@pommedeguerre.bsky.social)
@pomelodeguerre
People before leaky radioactive subs.
If you're a politician who responds to letters with "I notice you didn't condemn this, unsavoury constituent!", bear in mind that many people possess moral clarity, but not all people loan it out for the purposes of 'mowing the grass'.
My take: world leaders expressing concern or qualified criticism of Israel at various points isn’t significant and it doesn’t mark a tipping point. It’s about managing outrage domestically, as part of a longer-term strategy of providing conditions for the genocide to continue.
BREAKING: I’m outside @dfat again. Calling on Australia to do more to stop the genocide in Gaza. Last week they told me to get lost and called the cops. The cops are on their way again. But I’m not trespassing and I know my legal rights.
Modern Labor is a party full of wet dreamers like Leigh, and corporate sociopaths like Marles. The combo is the antithesis to progressivism.
The story of Australia is the story of Labor – and if you want progressive change, you need to join a party of government, not a party of protest. My federal political report to the ACT Labor conference: andrewleigh.com/speech_act_lab… #auspol @AustralianLabor
Oh hey @SatPaper, I'm very happy for the ALP to be criticised for its failures but I do have some questions about the timing of this editorial.
Today’s @SatPaper editorial concludes with, “Labor promised to be different and then they were worse. this is the truth of a politics built to hide truth.” Labor is untrustworthy. Anthony Albanese is a liar. #auspol @AlboMP
The Handala freedom flotilla is now less than 100 nautical miles from reaching the shores of Gaza. Now past the point of interception by the Israeli military of the Madleen boat sent last month. May we see safe passage and arrival for the Handala. ❤️✊
Did Uni being free also help? And the fact your mother had secure housing? Just paint us a picture of opportunities for young people now versus then...
No. Fucking. Shit. The feigned gormlessness is doing my head in @abcnews. The hiding behind 'veteran journalist claims' is a really gross attempt to transition from two years of denial to partial acknowledgement of the bleeding obvious reality. Enablers.
You may have deleted this tweet but here's a screenshot to document your depravity @DanFriedman81
The fact Vinnies blocked me for speaking out as someone in poverty about the ceo sleepout last year. Maybe if they care so much about poverty they should listen to people in it. Also stop using wftd
i’ve had a couple of psych nurses say that a major problem in healthcare is that any psych issue in your chart suddenly becomes the cause of all your potential medical problems
Reddit is so horrifying bc you can go to a sub for people with health problems and see tons of people desperate for help, strategizing on how to be taken seriously, and then you go to a doctor sub and it's full of professionals talking about hysterical women and blue hair.
I see media is writing nonsense about me again. Don't believe the ridiculous, privileged cancel-culture badfaith-lobbyists who get in the medias' ears. I have never "glorified terrorism" or been any type of threat to society. I'm just a wee broke novelist with no influence.
The fascists are at it again
I have been in touch with my friends and comrades onboard the Handala freedom flotilla. Here is an update from Tan Safi from onboard the Handala. They only have another day or two now before arriving at the shores of Gaza. @GazaFFlotilla
I've joined the new party. Between the existing electoral system and the fact that they stand precisely zero chance of not getting defamed several thousand times a day by our subhuman political and media elite, I'm not holding my breath for it to come to anything, but optimism of
Guess which bootlicking colony stepped up to supply the coal used to power this genocide?
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro: "I’ve ordered: Not a single ton of Colombian coal will go to Israel. I take full responsibility. Colombia will not be complicit in genocide." But, Erdogan and Aliyev continue fueling Netanyahu’s war machine - 22 months into the #GazaGenocide.
Zionist-in-Chief Julian Lesser wants to kick Faruqi out for an 'anti-Israel act'. That's were we are at. Kicked out for opposing the current Holocaust. This is the IHRA in action. Jillian Segal's dream is to shut us all up.
I just got so angry reading Albanese's "strongest statement yet" on Gaza. Words while children starve. Where are the sanctions? Where's the two-way arms embargo? Empty condemnation without action is political theater.