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Mona Lisa Melbourne

@monalisamelbourne.bsky.social
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Against injustice and persecution. I stand with 🇵🇸 and against genocide.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And when police murder someone by accident or misidentification what then?
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Greens. Only party I’ve seen today calling out what is incredibly disturbing. #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if AI can't improve productivity of coding, then all other claims about productivity improvements are essentially horseshit. Coding was the one thing everyone was like "well yeah of course it will be able to do that faster"
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🦘Roseanne @roseanneb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NSW police Commissioner saying police with assault rifles patrol the streets of England. That is absolute bullshit. Street cops don't even carry guns. Lying fascist flogs. #MinnsOUT #LanyonOUT #NoPolicePatrolsWithAssaultRifles
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A deeply reported longread about how and why Israel decimated Gaza. I spoke to Palestinians whose cities were systematically destroyed. One said of Rafah: “You can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Australian government talks a lot about the need for the international rules based order. Then goes silent when it’s Israel Or the USA… Even when they’re murdering and torturing our own citizens. Or little children. I’m looking at YOU, Albanese & Wong & Marles et al #auspol #Genocide
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have there been ANY consequences for Israel murdering Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom? Have there been ANY consequences for Israel physically and sexually abusing Australian humanitarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla? Now imagine our Govt's response if Iran had committed these crimes. #auspol
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Lizzy Schofield @musictplove.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As a Victorian I watch QLD as I always saw it as a preview of LNP leading ( just as Vic will be watched if ON/LNP win( scary thought) . Nothing would surprise me what Crisafulli does 👇 note the moving away from courts which is incredibly worrying. bsky.app/profile/qlda...
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peter_donnelly @peter-donnelly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The other 63% believe they needed to kill every living Palestinian.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why Jared?
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 08/10/2026
We don’t think the case for this has been made. One constant in the global history of policing is that every weapon given to cops, they will eventually use. Therefore, every force escalation requires compelling justification.
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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After the bits I've seen from NAZA (I will await the whole documentary) and the words from soldiers themselves. ANYONE who is Australian or enters Australia after fighting with the IDF, needs investigating
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Mona Lisa Melbourne @monalisamelbourne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This should stop now!!!
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 07/10/2026
Portrait of a man wondering what it was all for
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
can’t wait for all the earnest opeds opining that police with assault rifles do not pass the non-existent pub test and lack an imaginary social licence given everybody hates the fact that Minns is spending over $90 million of our money on assault rifle armed cops roaming Sydney streets.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NSW police claim they will not send these even more heavily armed police to protests AND the assault rifle squad will “patrol” mass gatherings. In other words, the assault rifles will turn up at protests not as a protest per se but to KeEp AuStRaLiAnS sAfE at “mass gatherings”.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Andrew Evans apparently, commander of the assault rifle “armed response command” (they are all armed response commands, all cops are armed, with multiple weapons, including guns).
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
asked again about the evidence of deterrence in North America, the cop who cited “the Americas” as evidence for unnamed deterrent effects says it is “unfair” to compare us to America.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
everyone is texting ABC Sydney to say that seeing police with these assault rifles will not make ~ me ~ feel safe. Me neither, Sydney, me neither.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this one looks like Israel to me. It is driven by zionist lobbying and over there it is completely normalised to see cops and soldiers wandering the streets with high powered rifles slung over their shoulders like handbags.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the assault rifle armed police will patrol, says the super, in “places of mass gathering”. Not at protests, mind. The example he gives is at Circular Quay. Some people may see a beautiful part of Sydney at the Quay, he says, while he sees a potential mass casualty event. Again with the no evidence.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
will they get training in response to people experiencing a mental health episode? The superintendent says all police are so trained. In empathy, he says. So the same empathetic response as features in half of all critical incidents - injury or death during policing - now with bigger guns.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
every police response in NSW is an armed response.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
asked if there is evidence of assault rifle deterrent effects, a superintendent pleece tells ABC radio there is evidence from “Europe and the Americas” that shows “there is no doubt” high powered rifles deter “reconnaissance” whatever that means.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
there is no evidence that giving police assault rifles can deter an active shooter. There is vast evidence that police with assault rifles will kill more people than police with guns and tasers and barons and pepper spray already kill and injure people.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
the ways that NSW police attack the public is the relevant context to assess giving the NSW police assault rifles. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW police commissioner made last-minute bid to hold closed-door hearings into Sydney anti-Herzog protest
Police watchdog says Mal Lanyon’s timing in raising the issue was ‘regrettable’ and led to delays
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
tbc the assault rifle-armed NSW police squad is 1/ not a response to the 14 Dec 2025 mass shooting, it is literally weaponisation of a mass shooting; and 2/ not mimicking the USA, it is shaped by <Israeli> policing logics and pro-Israel lobbying for a separate “jewish security” gun licensing regime.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
we will deter the “hatred” with assault weapons is so weirdly coded even I am having trouble parsing it. How exactly does this deterrent work, Mal? Members of the NSW public who hate the genocidal Israeli president and say so in the streets get shot faster? Is that it?
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
you can not keep community safe with high powered rifles ffs what kind of pew pew rambo bullshit. There is no scenario where cops with assault weapons arrive faster and cause less damage than the local cops. We do not even have information on how many of the 40 injured at Bondi were injured by cops.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
he remember when an unarmed bystander wrestled one gunman to the ground and police killed the other one
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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Mona Lisa Melbourne @monalisamelbourne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
they said the legitimacy of struggle for “liberation from colonial domination, apartheid, and foreign occupation by all available means including armed struggle” and we do not need a group of the safest people on earth - wealthy white Australians - who support genocide to define liberatory struggle.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle for independence, territorial integrity, national unity, and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid, and foreign occupation by all available means including armed struggle: Resolution 45/130, UN General Assembly 14/12/1990 www.un.org/unispal/docu...
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Pre-2017 documents - Question of Palestine
Browse documents: By Date| By Subject| By Entity| By Type
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination: Resolution 3379 passed by the UN General Assembly on 10 November 1975 as part of the UN Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Decade against Racism). www.un.org/unispal/docu...
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Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination: Zionism as racism - GA resolution - Question of Palestine
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/10320)] 3379 (XXX). Elimination of all forms of racial discrimination   The General Assembly, Recalling its resoluti...
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Pepper Qi @pepperqi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach. Why is Israeli AI allowed in our Country? THIS IS NOT OK @australianlabor.bsky.social ALP is making us so unsafe it beggars belief #Auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...
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Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To every Australian banging on this morning on talkback radio about wanting ZERO migration, I concede. You can have it. As long as you are ok with the high chance of ZERO emergency medical care when you’re sick. ZERO aged care when you’re old. ZERO fresh food when you’re hungry.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel is responsible for a 58 year occupation, ethnic cleansing, brutal oppression, imposition of apartheid & now genocide. Its leader is wanted for war crimes Wilfred Frost asks an Israeli spokesperson if the country has begun to heal following the attack in Oct 2023
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The ICJ says Israel is an apartheid state. An independent commission of inquiry of the UN says its committing genocide. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for its PM for war crimes An Israeli spokesperson says the UK & Israel are like minded countries that hold the same values
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did you know? In 1975 the United Nations general assembly passed a resolution declaring "zionism is a form of racism & racial discrimination" (the resolution was revoked in 1991 because Israel made this a condition of its participation in peace talks)
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tony and Wendy from Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group (Dams Heg) respond to todays High Court of Australia decision that “Australia can no longer dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us.”
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 07/10/2026
AI was trained not only on books, music and journalism, but on the vast collective output of the open internet. If that human-made data has commercial value, why should AI companies get it for free? Jess Scully and Raul Castro Fernandez write. #AI #Copyright #Tech
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says
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‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says
High court finding in favour of Hunter Valley community group sets precedent other environmentalists should follow, advocate says A landmark decision in Australia’s first climate change high court case has been described as a clear message to governments and fossil fuel companies that exported greenhouse gas emissions “cannot simply be ignored”. On Wednesday morning, the nation’s highest court ruled that the approval of MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine expansion in NSW’s Hunter Valley was invalid, in a judgment that sets a precedent for fossil fuel projects in the state. Continue reading...
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Greetings from Occupied Athens. As Marco Rubio is visiting, we are in lockdown. The boss of our rulers demanded that Athenians are under lock and key so that he feels safe as he inspects his troops. One day we shall be free again. But not today. www.ekathimerini.com/politics/for...
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Rubio arrives in Athens ahead of meetings, business deals | eKathimerini.com
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Athens late Tuesday for a visit expected to see the signing of a series of deals on new US weapons purchases by Greece.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A new poll has shown the Greens' vote is on the rise! The Greens are the most popular party with young people & ahead of their state election, the Victorian Greens are polling at record highs. People want change.
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Pepper Qi @pepperqi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Non-Jews, non-Zionists & Anti-Zionists didn't come up with the concept of the "gardening society," where a state views non-Jews as "weeds" to be eliminated. it was ZIONIST Zygmunt Bauman MOWING THE GRASS "kisuach desheh" was coined by ZIONISTS Efraim Inbar & Eitan Shamir #Auspol youtu.be/_WWhkBriFOk
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WE ARE BEING LIED TO: Richard Sanders EXPOSES Green Party Zionism is Racism Smears
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One Nation let a neo-Nazi into its campaign launch but chucked out the ABC and SBS and threatened to jail political rivals. None of our news outlets condemned it. NOTE TO MEDIA: VIOLENT AUTHORITARIANISM IS NOT “A POLICY LAUNCH” “Truth Lies & Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol
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ApaulD @apauld.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Changing the system takes relentless pressure…today's news shows us what we can achieve with community resistance & rigorous research. #climatechange #activism #law #australia thepoint.com.au/new/261007-c...
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Climate win: Hunter community group wins four-year legal fight in landmark High Court ruling
The High Court has ruled that NSW planning authorities must consider how burning exported coal overseas contributes to climate damage in Australia. Climate advocates say the ruling would reshape how f...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is huge. Especially just after govt approval of another Hunter Valley coal mine expansion - the biggest ever for NSW. "The case is expected to have national implications for the way fossil fuel project approvals take global emissions into account." Until today, they didn't. #nswpol #auspol
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