Andrew McGalliard

Duolingo is getting Woke.

We call for the release of activists #Saif Abu Keshek and #Thiago Avila who's arbitrary detention has been extended by an Israeli court after the unlawful interception of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla vessels in international waters last week. The two activists were participating in a peaceful solidarity mission aiming to break Israel's unlawful blockade of the #Gaza Strip and deliver aid to Palestinians struggling to survive under Israel’s genocide and unlawful occupation. They are at great risk of human rights abuses, including torture and other ill-treatment given @amnesty's previous documentation of the abuse inflicted on flotilla activists detained in October 2025 at the hands of the Israeli authorities It is especially concerning that Saif Abu Keshek, a Palestinian-Spanish-Swedish national, is being detained on suspicion of affiliation with a terrorist organization given Israel's discriminatory laws and persistent record of harassment and oppression of Palestinians under Israel’s system of apartheid. Israel must immediately release them and ensure they are protected while in custody. Israel’s defiance of international law must end. The ICJ has been clear: Israel’s #occupation is unlawful and must be brought to an end. States must act now to restore some faith in international law by holding Israel accountable for its violations and crimes.

I was born in Australia & have lived & worked here all my life. I’ve raised Australian children, participate in Australian politics, read Australian journalism & literature, attend Australian theatre, watch Australian movies & I have no fucking idea what ‘Australian values’ are.

@PeterPolites UNESCO coordinated the 'rescue'/relocation of the ancient sites. I'll admit I've just some more reading about the dam project and it's ... a story. Including a whole Cold War saga en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Hig…

@TheotherMCG I mean like is this the story, who were the gifters, who agreed to this? It leads to questions. And my question is the whole framework. Museums are just sites of intellectual colonisation.

Why the hell is an ancient egyptian structure in the Met.

The Coalition’s plan to reintroduce a 2026 version of the white Australia immigration policy shows they have been captured by extremists. Angus Taylor’s attack on Palestinian refugees from Gaza just confirms it.

Yeah, this is the man we have ‘shared values’ with @AlboMP If this isn’t your cue to distance ourselves from the US, I guess there is no cue. I am so ashamed of my government. #auspol

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

It is NOT OKAY that the @PressClubAust showcased this creep today. Those who say it’s reasonable for him to appear on grounds the press is meant to be free to talk to anyone are despicable. It MIGHT be okay for him to be heard if any so-called journos there had pushed back on his lies, but they didn’t. The short video here proves it: no protest from the media AT ALL about the gob-smacking lies just in this one-minute grab of his speech. For these lies to go out unquestioned is a travesty. For this to occur when other voices which aren’t rabidly pro-Israel are ignored and even cancelled from the National Press Club makes it even worse. Yet as always, yelling on the internet or contacting the media outlets involved or the Press Council themselves is USELESS. If you want to do something constructive, the only action which works is to contact the NPC’s advertisers. Tell them how disgraceful these lies are. Tell them this man today denied that a genocide has even taken place, despite the most trustworthy institutions in the world having clearly confirmed the opposite. Tell them to withdraw their funding or you will never pay them a cent ever again. Tell them today. It matters. The NPC should be disbanded, and one of the only ways to do that is to take away the money they use to run it. This is collective consumer power in action and it’s so very, very important right now. Because nothing else will even come close to having the impact of getting to those who fund this hatred and these lies. Write to some of these companies TODAY. Are you in?

Israel’s Ambassador Hillel Newman making shocking hate speech & falsehoods in his NPC address. Accuses journalists of spreading propaganda & denies hundreds journos have been killed in Gaza. Calls Iranians & Palestinians ‘barbarians’, ‘extremists’ Why give him a platform?#auspol

I'm an American trauma surgeon. One year ago today I was volunteering at Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza when Israel fired a missile into the room of my 16-year-old patient, Ibrahim Barhoum. The missile killed him instantly. If it had hit the room 90 seconds later it would have killed me, too. Today the US and Israel are still blocking medical supplies from entering Gaza, and are repeating the assault on hospitals and healthcare workers across Lebanon. This is nothing but barbarism. It must be stopped.

Just so i understand this, blocking the strait of Hormuz is unfair, but blocking oil shipments to Cuba in order to collapse their whole country, is fair, did I get that right🤔

The inability of most nation states to say something as simple as “The US and Israel committed serious crimes of aggression that violated international law, and they continue to do so. Iran has the right to defend itself. We call on all parties to cease hostilities” is nuts.

@7NewsMelbourne @jacstanley7 Sorry, could we hear about the ASSAULT CHARGE?

The city of Yarra’s outspoken mayor has gone off script, appearing to confess to a history of drug use and dirty talk in a bizarre interview. Stephen Jolly made the jaw-dropping revelations after appearing in court on an unrelated assault charge. @jacstanley7

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

From the river to the sea, and anywhere else he goes, David Crisafulli is a fascist dickhead

@JNampijinpa Maybe your boi Donald shouldn't have started a war without considering the consequences.

Anthony Albanese once claimed rising petrol prices were a national outrage. Diesel is now over $3 a litre in parts of the NT, up 50% - or $1 a litre - since Labor has been in power. What changed? What are you paying for fuel where you live? Post your local fuel prices in the comments — share a photo if you can.

I do *not* want an AI "summary" of an email, or a book, or a life. I do not want an AI summary of a winter sky, or my father's hands, or the hope in my child's eyes. I do not want an AI summary of the human heart, or the first little shiver of lust, or the long good work of love.

@linear_magazine Distinctly the work of Kennedy Nolan.

No one does it like the Aussies

3 years ago today the Nine papers ran one of the most disgraceful pieces of alarmist propaganda we have ever seen. Happy anniversary to the war with China that never happened. Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott do for journalism what the MAFS 'experts' do for relationships.🔥

I am SO SICK of the Greens always letting the perfect* be the enemy of the good**!!! *not doing war crimes **doing war crimes