⬇️⬇️ “Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong… With such a people, you can do whatever you want.” ~ Hannah Arendt

Robodebt was the worst failure of public administration in Australian history. It raised est. $1.73 bn of illegitimate debts from over 430,000 vulnerable Australians and plunged thousands of families into distress and grief. And still no real consequences. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New phone...Who dis? “There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.” — #AlexanderGrahamBellDay The Influence of Alexander Graham Bell 🧪 gallaudet.edu/museum/exhib...

Hello, when you use the idiom “perfect is the enemy of good,” that’s intended for skills and hobbies, not as a justification to vote for politicians that will fund genocides. Thanks

From Sue Barrett Podcast - Pulling the Thread: How Everything That’s Overwhelming Us Right Now is Connected open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

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Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

#Quakers #PeaceAndJustice #PeacefulCivilResistance to #Injustice #Corruption #StateRepression www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Tested the line this morning - on hold for 90 minutes and the auto-script is directing me to hang up and consult the website to resolve my issues I've gone to the website and, welp - it's down

Spanish PM "If we really care about Iranian women we need to stop blowing them up."

“We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end...” QUNO echoes the testimony of #Quaker leader George Fox nearly 400 years ago. We mourn the lives lost and call for an end to military action in #Iran: https://quno.org/newsroom/there-is-no-just-war/

I can always tell when I'm up too late because after 10 PM my feed gets taken over by Australian politics I don't understand

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Damn i wonder who this guy speaking out against the Iraq War is. Wonder what he's up to these days

BREAKING: Trump hails strikes on Iran as “roaring success” as talk of Epstein files drops by over 90%

Vaccination with two doses of recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a 51 percent reduction in the risk of dementia in adults over 65 years, reports a study published in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/4aHg6rM #medsky 🧪

This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵

“Sometimes as Prime Minister you need to make the tough calls." theshovel.com.au/2026/02/25/b...

This bloke says he’s disgusted by the Andrew formerly known as Prince. Here he is grinning like a fucking idiot in a selfie with a rapist and associate of Epstein. Seriously, he can’t be this ignorant, or expect us to be this ignorant. #AusPol

A Neighbourhood House can’t get a stove hot plate fixed (Homes Tasmania are landlords), yet Libs can throw $10 million at a convention centre.

But only two?

please..

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02... That’s the party surging in the polls. Thats who they are.

This is satire!!!! It hassss to be

Republican Don Bacon realizing what happens when someone tells a rapist "no." "After the Supreme Court rules that targeted tariffs are unconstitutional, Trump says he will impose a global 10% tariff anyway."

New release from the Windsor Mint. Get yours now! 😜

🧵Advance has 3 international guests at its conference this weekend. One promotes conspiracies including to Alex Jones. A second conducts messaging for Steve Bannon, ran his “gladiator school” in the Italian monastery. The 3rd reps a vile US hate group. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-advanc...

If a politician had sparked a debate about whether there were “good Jews” they, along with probably 100 journalists and editors reporting on it, would be arrested.

In a case of me having to update my priors, Streem's state of the sector report shows that Australian news outlets still overwhelmingly draw social media stories from Twitter over all over apps. A big of this will be the dominance of Twitter in contemporary US politics.

"Was the Adelaide University merger really worth $185 million in consultants?" @alicektg.bsky.social The merger cost a total of $500m & Deloitte won the contract worth $185m to manage the merger. thepoint.com.au/news/260219-...

The entire winter Olympics squad is like the summer Olympics equestrian squad.

Yet Albo's mother received government assistance for the bed she chose to lie in.

How in one interview our Prime Minister can celebrate protecting Australian children from the interwebs, while saying other Australian children should be ultimately left stateless, because of their mothers, is just beyond me.

This interview is a prime example of how to interview fascists. 👏👏👏

Hearing an ABC TV journalist say Tim Wilson 'knows what it takes to beat the teals' is a disgrace based on the behaviour foisted upon the encumbent MP (& family) & volunteers. Completely unacceptable - & should not be put up as an example for anything #abc730 #auspol

Yairbut, you can't interfere with profit margins. . .

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

Trump, miller and Republicans are working on the last four.

💊 “Rather telling that the use of an antibiotic in a major water catchment only came to light because of a tip-off from a courageous member of the public, rather than from the independent regulator charged with protecting the public interest.” #politas ▶️ tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/comment...

Within the space of 7 days the Albanese Labor Govt has welcomed the head of state of a country committing genocide - and given another $30b of our public money to the Trump fascist administration through AUKUS. Can’t believe it #auspol

Meanwhile, in Caulfield, they are selling settlement real estate still stained with the blood of Palestinians. How is this allowed? Settlements are illegal under International Law. @albomp.bsky.social @mon4kooyong.bsky.social #auspol

Good article, stupid headline: 1. Israel is not "quietly" annexing the #WestBank. It's just that no-one is listening. 2. This is not a "blunder". It's a deliberate strategy by the Israeli regime to further choke off any chance of Palestinian independence. www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...