rod | 童家賢 @_rod___

Today Israel has murdered children and journalists. They do it every single day. Armed to the teeth by the US/EU/UK. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave. My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave. They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff. "The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil." He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us. And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue. It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair. Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble. It's a real mess, man. That guy sucks.

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak. This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.” We are all watching it happen in real time. At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits. -1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences. • “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies. • “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise. • “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks. • “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses. • Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern) • “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%. • “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion. • “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate. • $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling. • “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers • Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year • Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts. Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like. /2 sources

Israel has installed cranes with machine guns and camera all over Gaza to shoot everything that moves. But they continue to deny they are committing a genocide.

A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it. Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods. Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety. In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home. These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.

Imagine tu fais voyager les teams à l'autre bout du monde pour la seule fois de l'année et au bout c'est même pas Phillip island qui les attend 😬

WorldSBK @WorldSBK

5 days ago

A new chapter in Australia begins 🇦🇺 The Bend joins the Championship calendar from 2028📍🗓️ #AustralianWorldSBK 🇦🇺 #WorldSBK

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A new chapter in Australia begins 🇦🇺 The Bend joins the Championship calendar from 2028📍🗓️ #AustralianWorldSBK 🇦🇺 #WorldSBK

Pauline Hanson has always been completely racist and hateful. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that she is also anti women. Can we not do this Australia? please.

"Australia’s Jewish community received 49 times more funding per capita for security than Muslim Australians but where does the money go?" (Be seated on the floor before you read this expose by independent journalist Stephanie Tran - it'll knock you over) michaelwest.com.au/wheres-the-mon…

China's reputation amongst the rest of the Asian countries is somewhat similar to USA's reputation amongst the rest of the Americas

Iras @IrasReal

a week ago

Countries that aren't friends 😳

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OLIVIA MILES TONIGHT 🔥 • 29 POINTS • 4 REBOUNDS • 3/6 3PM • 11/20 FG

I am once again crying

@polballus For every joy football provides, the shame of FIFA & America takes it away

It's strange that the Social Media bans in Australia and now the UK have come after Israel and their supporters have become horribly unpopular. You might suspect an ulterior motive.

Yep

One of the craziest sports statistics I've ever seen: The Spurs led for 72% of the NBA Finals. They lost in five games.

@NBA_NewYork They're denim knickerbockers!

knicks lost one game in 2 months and it was the game that orange guy came to mamdanistan is the promised land

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

a week ago

HISTORY.

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That’s NBA Champion Mikal Bridges to you