"Unless something was to blow up and clubs didn't want to go near him, I think that Nick Blakey's future at Sydney is just about done." Sam McClure's update on the suspended Swans star wanting out of the club. #9FootyClassified | Watch on 9 & 9Now 🖥️

More than 100 French and British former diplomats have said Palestine is being erased in front of the world’s eyes and called for urgent action including trade and arms sales bans to press Israel to accept a Palestinian state. trib.al/amWD2xy

TOM Morris of Channel 7 should be sacked after his commentary on the Sydney Swans sex scandal. No care for the victim, just concern about perpetrators. This is not progress in journalism.

This fucking-well HAS TO STOP, witches. The way men discuss and report on sexual assault and rape, that is. Today, the issue is a big breaking story about a sexual assault which allegedly took place in a Melbourne Hotel over the weekend, involving several Sydney Swans players: theguardian.com/sport/2026/a… Yet Tom Morris of the Channel 7 AFL commentary team decides to frame his tweet by jumping straight to the “damage” which will be incurred by the accused should they be named. Fuck sake. This is fucking abhorrent. Because when men like Tom Morris commentate on potential crimes like this, the words they use fucking matter. The words they use which go out to tens of thousands (or more) young and older men (and boys), all of whom look to their media role models to decide what to think about women and about rape. Even more importantly, those same words go out to all the women and girls who read that tweet, and show them very, very clearly that if they’re ever the victim of such a crime, they better not think the men involved will have their suffering uppermost. So because no matter how much men like Tom would say his words in the tweet in the pic below don’t mean what they seem to mean, we all know it would be easy for Tom to have THOUGHT FOR JUST A BIT and thus framed the tweet in a way which didn’t further harm and demean women. But he didn’t. Why? Tom? Why didn’t your heart jump first to thoughts of the victim or victims of this alleged crime, instead of their alleged attackers? Why is your first thought - strong enough that it’s the one you freely decided to print - about the MEN? Because if you can explain it, you’re doing a shitload better than us. As we said just last week, witches, we’re thinking of starting a campaign targeting the AFL. It might even include AFL stations, broadcasters, newspapers and commentators. Because unless and until the women of Australia (and those good men who support us) stop this disgraceful shit, they deserve to have their sponsors and advertisers contacted to ask them if they want to be associated with language like this. AND BECAUSE WE ARE FUCKING SICK TO DEATH OF THIS DELIBERATE BRO CODE BULLSHIT. ______ We won’t stop till advertisers stop funding filth. Go to mfw.org.au/our-campaigns/ to learn how to contact advertisers. Or go directly to FOE lists for ongoing campaigns here: campaigndata.mfw.org.au/busi… . Send all responses you get to [email protected]. Please also support our work to get rid of Vile Kyle: it’s a subscription to the future for the price of a coffee (or two) each month: mfw.org.au/support #ToYourBrooms

Welp, I think we're done here. Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz. It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest. If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be. And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA. Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing. Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much. "Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House. So what does it all mean? It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals. It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones. You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya. It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us. And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels. Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out. Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second. It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.