Michael Smith
@michaelps.bsky.social
Neutral good; Cammeraygal Country
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Fifteen Jewish people getting killed on Bondi Beach doesn’t magically make genocide and apartheid okay, and it doesn’t magically make it okay to support those things. Supporting Israel was evil the day before the shooting, and it remained evil the day after. None of that changed.
December 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Fifteen Jewish people getting killed on Bondi Beach doesn’t magically make genocide and apartheid okay, and it doesn’t magically make it okay to support those things. Supporting Israel was evil the day before the shooting, and it remained evil the day after. None of that changed.
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Palestinian, Jewish and Indigenous groups say they will launch constitutional challenge to laws described as 'rushed' https://aje.io/965lyf
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Palestinian, Jewish and Indigenous groups say they will launch constitutional challenge to laws described as 'rushed' https://aje.io/965lyf
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www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
Protesting genocide shouldn’t be a death sentence.
If anyone wants to write to the hunger strikers, it's an important act of encouragement, and it's something Amnesty International should be promoting!
Protesting genocide shouldn’t be a death sentence.
If anyone wants to write to the hunger strikers, it's an important act of encouragement, and it's something Amnesty International should be promoting!
Amnesty ‘seriously concerned’ about the misuse of terrorism powers against Filton 24 members on hunger strike
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
Protesting genocide shouldn’t be a death sentence.
If anyone wants to write to the hunger strikers, it's an important act of encouragement, and it's something Amnesty International should be promoting!
Protesting genocide shouldn’t be a death sentence.
If anyone wants to write to the hunger strikers, it's an important act of encouragement, and it's something Amnesty International should be promoting!
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This is obscene so I'm going to do a bit of swearing and glaze a buggering bloody arsing ham.
And the biggest compo payout for Robodebt victims is ... drumroll ... Scott Morrison!
Vics get $1k, we pick up Scomo's $461k legal bill although *he knew*
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs are back.
#MerryChristmas #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/biggest-comp...
Vics get $1k, we pick up Scomo's $461k legal bill although *he knew*
@mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs are back.
#MerryChristmas #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/biggest-comp...
And the biggest compo payout for Robodebt victims is ... Scott Morrison! - Michael West
Compare Robodebt victims' compo to the quantum of Scott Morrison's publicly funded legal fees. It's shameful, reports Rex Patrick.
michaelwest.com.au
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This is obscene so I'm going to do a bit of swearing and glaze a buggering bloody arsing ham.
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Putting to one side the divisive horror of bringing Herzog to our shores, why the third person, @albomp.bsky.social?
Are you copying Trump, or did your staff fuck up posting the draft tweet written for you by the Israeli Ambassador or the Zionist Federation and submitted for your approval? #auspol
Are you copying Trump, or did your staff fuck up posting the draft tweet written for you by the Israeli Ambassador or the Zionist Federation and submitted for your approval? #auspol
December 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Putting to one side the divisive horror of bringing Herzog to our shores, why the third person, @albomp.bsky.social?
Are you copying Trump, or did your staff fuck up posting the draft tweet written for you by the Israeli Ambassador or the Zionist Federation and submitted for your approval? #auspol
Are you copying Trump, or did your staff fuck up posting the draft tweet written for you by the Israeli Ambassador or the Zionist Federation and submitted for your approval? #auspol
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Yup. Right as protests become illegal. This country is in deep with the atrocity.
Have you seen that Albanese has invited Hertzog to visit?
December 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Yup. Right as protests become illegal. This country is in deep with the atrocity.
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To justify banning protests against genocide and for #FreePalestine, NSW Premier Chris Minns says he wants a "summer of calm".
Meanwhile, Palestinians are facing a winter of death.
Israel continues the #GazaGenocide with less of the noise of bombs and rockets, but just as deadly effect. #nswpol
Meanwhile, Palestinians are facing a winter of death.
Israel continues the #GazaGenocide with less of the noise of bombs and rockets, but just as deadly effect. #nswpol
“The world must stop treating the word 'ceasefire' as a guarantee of safety when Gaza’s residents remain under fire, under siege...”
Dr. Thaer Ahmad explains how Israel’s brutal policies are causing Palestinian babies to freeze to death in Gaza.
Read the full article: zeteo.com/p/babies-are...
Dr. Thaer Ahmad explains how Israel’s brutal policies are causing Palestinian babies to freeze to death in Gaza.
Read the full article: zeteo.com/p/babies-are...
December 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
To justify banning protests against genocide and for #FreePalestine, NSW Premier Chris Minns says he wants a "summer of calm".
Meanwhile, Palestinians are facing a winter of death.
Israel continues the #GazaGenocide with less of the noise of bombs and rockets, but just as deadly effect. #nswpol
Meanwhile, Palestinians are facing a winter of death.
Israel continues the #GazaGenocide with less of the noise of bombs and rockets, but just as deadly effect. #nswpol
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the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
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The West Bank-ification of much of southwest Syria is already under way with checkpoints, Israeli only roads (thus far for the occupation army), the demand that local villages ask the Israeli occupation for permission to travel, and so on. Settlement is the natural extension of this process.
December 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The West Bank-ification of much of southwest Syria is already under way with checkpoints, Israeli only roads (thus far for the occupation army), the demand that local villages ask the Israeli occupation for permission to travel, and so on. Settlement is the natural extension of this process.
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I am still really stuck on the Coalition's statement that the "multicultural nirvana has failed", given the fact that Jewish people are among multiple culture of Australia and are very much included in this aggressive and disgusting escalation
might be nice for a journalist to ask them about that
might be nice for a journalist to ask them about that
Not sure what happened but the Guardian is now at least *mentioning* that there is zero evidence to suggest the Bondi terror attack was the direct result of organised opposition to mass murder
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I am still really stuck on the Coalition's statement that the "multicultural nirvana has failed", given the fact that Jewish people are among multiple culture of Australia and are very much included in this aggressive and disgusting escalation
might be nice for a journalist to ask them about that
might be nice for a journalist to ask them about that
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As we watch the capitulation of the Australian media, it’s worth remembering that Israel has murdered almost 300 journalists
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
As we watch the capitulation of the Australian media, it’s worth remembering that Israel has murdered almost 300 journalists
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IMF launches the global playbook on Stablecoin risks and monetary sovereignty
https://www.europesays.com/2649877/
The IMF warns that stablecoins, with $300B in circulation and 97% dollar-pegged, are now macro-critical financial instruments. They…
https://www.europesays.com/2649877/
The IMF warns that stablecoins, with $300B in circulation and 97% dollar-pegged, are now macro-critical financial instruments. They…
IMF launches the global playbook on Stablecoin risks and monetary sovereignty - EUROPE SAYS
The IMF warns that stablecoins, with $300B in circulation and 97% dollar-pegged, are now macro-critical financial instruments. They can weaken currencies,
www.europesays.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
IMF launches the global playbook on Stablecoin risks and monetary sovereignty
https://www.europesays.com/2649877/
The IMF warns that stablecoins, with $300B in circulation and 97% dollar-pegged, are now macro-critical financial instruments. They…
https://www.europesays.com/2649877/
The IMF warns that stablecoins, with $300B in circulation and 97% dollar-pegged, are now macro-critical financial instruments. They…
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It brings to mind two principles that those in power manipulate: acceptable losses and the greater good. They sell the lie that profits for the few are for the greater good to justify what they consider the acceptable number of people dying.
They get people to sacrifice themselves for the belief.
They get people to sacrifice themselves for the belief.
December 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It brings to mind two principles that those in power manipulate: acceptable losses and the greater good. They sell the lie that profits for the few are for the greater good to justify what they consider the acceptable number of people dying.
They get people to sacrifice themselves for the belief.
They get people to sacrifice themselves for the belief.
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"It’s crazy how the Bondi shooters got radicalized by the anti-genocide protests from 2023 to 2025 and then invented a time machine and went back to 2019 to join ISIS."
Caitlin J.
Caitlin J.
He can't say what it is because the violent imagery was the genocide of Palestinians by Israel and the IDF.
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
"It’s crazy how the Bondi shooters got radicalized by the anti-genocide protests from 2023 to 2025 and then invented a time machine and went back to 2019 to join ISIS."
Caitlin J.
Caitlin J.
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“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
Why???
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
That’s why. Not just him but the other mega wealthy who also are in the files.
#Pinks
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFilea
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
That’s why. Not just him but the other mega wealthy who also are in the files.
#Pinks
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFilea
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
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We're becoming an authoritarian right-wing one-party state and we didn't even need a coup this time out. Just a bunch of shitty newspapers and massive sellouts across politics/civil society
December 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
We're becoming an authoritarian right-wing one-party state and we didn't even need a coup this time out. Just a bunch of shitty newspapers and massive sellouts across politics/civil society
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Israel must be brittle and weak. If they're trying to make it so it's illegal to criticise and protest a genocidal apartheid state in distant colonies far away, that must mean Israel is extremely vulnerable to the truth. And the establishment is choosing fascism to deal with it.
December 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Israel must be brittle and weak. If they're trying to make it so it's illegal to criticise and protest a genocidal apartheid state in distant colonies far away, that must mean Israel is extremely vulnerable to the truth. And the establishment is choosing fascism to deal with it.
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It’s not just Gaza.
Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it.
NO MORE MILITARY AID FOR NETANYAHU.
Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it.
NO MORE MILITARY AID FOR NETANYAHU.
Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
Israeli seizure of Palestinian lands in the West Bank, often brutally, has accelerated, raising doubts about the prospects of a peaceful solution to the conflict.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It’s not just Gaza.
Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it.
NO MORE MILITARY AID FOR NETANYAHU.
Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it.
NO MORE MILITARY AID FOR NETANYAHU.
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#Israel #gaza #palestine #zionism #malnutrition
"Over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April next year,"
"Over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April next year,"
WHO projects 100,000 children in Gaza will suffer acute malnutrition through April
www.middleeasteye.net
December 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
#Israel #gaza #palestine #zionism #malnutrition
"Over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April next year,"
"Over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April next year,"
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There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so far
NSW parliament will sit next week to consider legislation to limit protests and ban hate speech in response to the Bondi attack, Chris Minns says
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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I’m all for booing the PM at sporting events, but booing the PM at a memorial for a mass shooting is just gross.
It’s remarkable how rapidly empathy and sympathy can be lost.
It’s remarkable how rapidly empathy and sympathy can be lost.
December 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I’m all for booing the PM at sporting events, but booing the PM at a memorial for a mass shooting is just gross.
It’s remarkable how rapidly empathy and sympathy can be lost.
It’s remarkable how rapidly empathy and sympathy can be lost.
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Maybe Israel will pass that death penalty only for Palestinians law, maybe they won't, but for all I've heard this is a fringe party (which merely holds the balance of power), I also heard strenuous denials that Israel would destroy every hospital in Gaza. Right up until they did.
December 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Maybe Israel will pass that death penalty only for Palestinians law, maybe they won't, but for all I've heard this is a fringe party (which merely holds the balance of power), I also heard strenuous denials that Israel would destroy every hospital in Gaza. Right up until they did.
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
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“We’ve reached the point”
Yeah, uh, some time ago 😅
Yeah, uh, some time ago 😅
December 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“We’ve reached the point”
Yeah, uh, some time ago 😅
Yeah, uh, some time ago 😅
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At least five displaced Palestinians were killed when Israel targeted a wedding held in a school sheltering families in Gaza, turning a moment of celebration into tragedy.
Quds News Network
Quds News Network (QNN) is the largest independent and comprehensive Palestinian youth electronic news network.
qudsnen.co
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
At least five displaced Palestinians were killed when Israel targeted a wedding held in a school sheltering families in Gaza, turning a moment of celebration into tragedy.