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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ
about 23 hours ago
What is it, this crazy Zionist takeover of Australia? Did their god promise them Australia as a Promised Land? What the fuck is going on in Australia? Is everyone insane, or what?
#auspol
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about 1 hour ago
hot air..
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Lucy Hamilton
about 5 hours ago
Tony Abbott’s just been at (another) conference in Budapest networking with the people planning to implement these goals. He’s a mentor to both Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Price:
bsky.app/profile/lucy...
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Laki
about 3 hours ago
This makes me furious. Francesca "the better Albanese" targeted like this tells you so, so much about who is opposing her. How dare she uphold international law, huh?
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Lilly
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NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong was removed from the lower house during QT on 25 March, as she tried to provide Chris Minns with 117 community member accounts of the NSW police brutality of 9/2/26 protest against the official visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall.
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NSW Premier Ignores Civilian Evidence Regarding Police Brutality at Herzog Protest
NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong was thrown out of the lower house chamber for insisting that the NSW premier read civilian accounts of police brutality at the 9 February 2026 Herzog rally.
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-premier-ignores-civilian-evidence-regarding-police-brutality-at-herzog-protest/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=week-15
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Toilet Hinckley Jr
about 6 hours ago
Also pls resist the urge to attribute the Schemes and Plots to Trump alone, when clearly he’s just riffing on the scripts handed to him Stephen Miller, Thiel, Lutnick etc
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Chris Wallace
about 5 hours ago
Interesting argument
@financialtimes.com
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The Conversation AUNZ
about 10 hours ago
Nature and agriculture are often at odds. But an Australian study suggests farmers who plant more trees are better off – financially and environmentally.
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Farmers are boosting their profits and production – with nature’s help
https://theconversation.com/farmers-are-boosting-their-profits-and-production-with-natures-help-271750?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1775425513-1
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Lee Tulloch
1 day ago
Brilliant, heart-rending analysis from
@kossamaras.bsky.social
but made me wonder why the Greens don't seem to be seizing the moment. (Or am I wrong?)
#AusPol
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Anne Applebaum
about 19 hours ago
Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived
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BladeoftheSun
about 10 hours ago
The USA replaced Ayatollah Khamanei with Ayatollah Khamanei and the Taliban with the Taliban and lost in Vietnam. But at least those massive War and Oil profits never stopped flowing.
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Elizabeth Warren
about 11 hours ago
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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StephenC
about 10 hours ago
The world is at risk of nuclear weapons being used. It is not Iran that will use them.
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Asher Wolf
about 10 hours ago
SMH economics editor Ross Gittins got a tooth infection that caused heart failure and nearly killed him. 44 days in the ICU. Weeks on the ward and in rehab Not a single word in Gittins’ article about the experience mentions that dental isn’t rebatable under Medicare
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Aalia Mauro
about 12 hours ago
To those still complaining about Artemis 2: We spend 100× more on killing people for oil profits, but yeah, NASA’s the problem. 🤦🏽♀️ NASA: $25B Defense: $901B That’s 36 NASAs. Space programs have driven major advancements in science, medicine, and technology, real benefits for humanity.
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Big T
1 day ago
This is what Trangie Cowal looks like now that a greedy cotton barron has blocked the natural watercourse. The worst part is that the NSW government has legalized it retrospectively by allowing Flood Plain Harvesting. 😠
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John Pollock
1 day ago
Thank you Rex Patrick for shining a light on this disreputable episode and individual. Of course he should also be up on charges and barred from appearing in the media as some sort of expert as he does currently.
#auspol
#corruptbastard
#abc
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Confidential report found former home affairs boss Michael Pezzullo was ‘reckless’ in engagement with Liberal powerbroker
Previously unreleased report obtained via freedom of information battle says Pezzullo exceeded ‘boundaries of normal public service practice’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/04/confidential-report-found-former-home-affairs-boss-michael-pezzullo-was-reckless-in-engagement-with-liberal-powerbroker?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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David Marler
1 day ago
The famous David Crisafulli promise to resign was made on Ch9's election debate. On polling day eve he added a caveat. He says he was referring to per capita rates & not the overall number of victims. As premier he began releasing his own stats.
#qldpol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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David Crisafulli backtracks on promise to resign if crime victim numbers do not fall under an LNP government
Opposition leader adds caveat to campaign vow on eve of Queensland election day as polls tighten
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/25/queensland-election-david-crisafulli-lnp-crime-numbers-policy
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Yung En Chee
about 24 hours ago
@lisacox.bsky.social
with some cheering bilby news Bilby boom: breeding trial to reintroduce species to Mallee Cliffs national park shows signs of success
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Bilby boom: breeding trial to reintroduce species to Mallee Cliffs national park shows signs of success
Fifty ‘founder’ bilbies were released in fenced breeding area in 2019 with the aim of establishing first wild population there in a century
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/05/bilby-breeding-trial-nsw-australia-easter-?CMP=share_btn_url
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Dr Alan Nixon
2 days ago
"What was once treated as aberrant is now managed as part of the landscape. That accommodation is the failure."
#Fascism
rising in
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#auspol
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Ben Eltham
about 23 hours ago
When I was a kid at high school I remember reading about European fascism in the 1930s — how it began with populist promise, but rapidly pivoted to internal repression, military expansion and guns rather than butter
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Big T
1 day ago
With the inevitable food price increases by supermarkets, and the resultant number of people who will struggle to feed their families, is it now time to prioritize food production over irrigated cotton???
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Climatologist49
1 day ago
Antarctica's 12-month running average temperature is the highest on record. That seems bad. 😟
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G Albrecht
1 day ago
My favorite from "No Kings" in Denver.
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Prof Ray Wills
1 day ago
An electric farm, an electric harvest .... electric everything Farms need to be electric – because, once this kit is scaled appropriately, on-farm costs will be so much lower.
reneweconomy.com.au/an-electric-...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell
1 day ago
This is a major challenge. The structures outlined in this recent senate report focused on climate change and renewables - but can also be applied to every issue. Great to see the report highlight the need to support independent media as a way to counter disinformation
#auspol
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Dean Obeidallah
3 days ago
UNREAL: A drone maker backed by Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military led by their father. In other words Trump to profit from the war.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Company backed by Trump sons looks to sell drone interceptors to Gulf states being attacked by Iran
A drone maker backed by President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to win contracts with Gulf countries under threat by Iran and protected by the U.S. military led by their father.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-sons-powerus-drone-interceptors-iran-missiles-1d8d858fdad5104a56e4438994093594
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Scott Santens
3 days ago
You aren't being serious about a policy response to AI if you're not including universal basic income as one of the dials to turn in your policy response package.
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Jay Kuo
3 days ago
Trump officials are dropping like flies recently: Noem, Lewandowski, Kent, and now Bondi. Who is next? I preview some possibilities, and conduct my first newsletter reader poll! Check it out in the replies.
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Anne Applebaum
3 days ago
Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation: "When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗
3 days ago
The Iran thing led to the devastating war and economic upheaval that the previous deal was expressly intended to avoid. This stupid act of vandalism will lead to exactly the massive, endless snarl of litigation that the Biden people were trying to head off. (5/5)
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Trump Administration To Reverse Chaco Canyon Protections
The Trump administration just launched a 7-day fire sale on one of the most sacred landscapes in the country. And they're counting on you not to notice.
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/trump-administration-to-reverse-chaco
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Reuters
3 days ago
Pope Leo's Good Friday service offers prayer for deported children
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Pope Leo's Good Friday service offers prayer for deported children
Pope Leo led a candle-lit service with thousands of Catholics inside Rome's famed Colosseum on Friday evening that featured prayers for war orphans and deported immigrant children, and a warning to world leaders that their decisions will be judged by God one day.
https://reut.rs/47Hznc1
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James Ball
3 days ago
Don't subsidise energy prices during a supply crisis: give cash transfers to low-income and vulnerable households instead.
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‘Antony Loewenstein’s “Palestine Laboratory” podcast series made with Drop Site in 2024 is now available on his own podcast and is compulsory listening.’
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Lucy Hamilton
2 days ago
He’s not so much my problem. He’s a transnational link. Hastie & Price are both in his operation & see themselves as future PMs.
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Rachel Maddow
3 days ago
"Under Bondi, in the first six months of Trump’s administration, DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, fraud, and drugs..."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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AliceK - globalise the innitafucker
2 days ago
Impossible to say now, she would be screamed at as an antisemite, wouldn’t be able to freely challenge Zionism by the producer, or the piece would have been edited.
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Paul Macdonald
2 days ago
bsky.app/profile/zack...
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Tina Zacher
2 days ago
Surprise surprise surprise, not the social democratic countries with fairer wealth distribution scoring the highest in happiness, again?! What?!
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Dr Jeremy Walker
3 days ago
Both presidents were actors whose entire program of tax cuts for the rich, warmongering, and elimination of social/environmental protection was pre-written for them by giant US oil and other corporations via the Heritage Foundation. One started and the other completed the work of the
#AtlasNetwork
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends
3 days ago
Local council rules that at 500 years old “Old Spotty” gum tree can look after itself while its surrounding forest is logged.
#Shoalhaven
Time to get out your gum boots Nannas!
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Bid to set extra protection for iconic 'Big Spotty' fails to win support | About Regional
South Coast councillors have voted down a plan to push for expanded protections around 'Big Spotty', one of Australia's tallest…
https://aboutregional.com.au/bid-to-set-extra-protection-for-iconic-big-spotty-fails-to-win-support/502101/
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Rolf Meier 🌐
3 days ago
🟥 Chinese Foreign Ministry says the root cause of disruptions to the passage through the Strait of Hormuz is the illegal US-Israeli military operations against Iran.
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Reuters
3 days ago
Washing priests' feet, Pope Leo urges Catholics to aid the oppressed
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Washing priests' feet, Pope Leo urges Catholics to aid the oppressed
Pope Leo washed the feet of 12 priests on Thursday as part of a special ritual before Easter and said the action, emulating a gesture of humility by Jesus on the night before he died, should inspire Catholics to care for those in need.
https://reut.rs/4cj4Qnn
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Dr Alan Nixon
3 days ago
#Consequences
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‘As the Buddhists say, the near enemy of love is not hate but control. Many read See What You Made Me Do and woke up to the fact that they were sleeping with the enemy every night of their anxious lives.’
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See What You Made Me Do: Foreword
This is the new foreword, written by Clare Wright, for the new updated edition of 'See What You Made Do' by Jess Hill
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260402-see-what-you-made-me-do
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Renew Economy
4 days ago
It is clear that
#electric
trucks are increasingly competitive. Australia has an opportunity to seize the moment, but is the transport
#minister
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Electric trucks are increasingly competitive, and could be a thing - if only the transport minister would listen
Updated: It is clear that electric trucks are increasingly competitive. Australia has an opportunity to seize the moment, but is the transport minister listening carefully enough?
https://reneweconomy.com.au/electric-trucks-are-increasingly-competitive-and-could-be-a-thing-if-only-the-transport-minister-would-listen/
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Citizen of the world 🌎
4 days ago
As an Aussie overseas, it’s wild watching the home discourse. There seems to be this unique phenomenon where Australians blame their own PM for Trump/Netanyahu actions and the wars in Gaza, Palestine, and now Iran. Are the keys to the Middle East are kept in Canberra?
#auspol
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Rudy Terwilliger 🐺 🥷 🍉
4 days ago
“The Gulf Stream appears to have shifted north by roughly 50 kms over the past 30 years. Because the shift matches what the physics-based model predicts during Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakening, it strengthens the case that the broader system is already slowing.”
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Scientists warn that the Gulf Stream is shifting, which means an ocean current collapse is imminent
Scientists have detected a northward Gulf Stream shift that may signal a looming Atlantic climate tipping point.
https://www.earth.com/news/gulf-stream-is-shifting-north-raising-concerns-about-amoc-ocean-current-collapse/
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Difficult
4 days ago
Some journalists are still doing excellent, necessary, well-checked and prolonged work.
#AusPol
#corruption
#LNP
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Emma Shortis
4 days ago
“I have to respond to the real world as it is.” Yes, Prime Minister. Why don’t you do that.
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