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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Miller seethes when people make fun of him online, so I do think ridiculing him is impactful.

Better, though, would be to start calling him President Miller and telling folks he’s really in charge - that’ll drive Trump nuts.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been hearing the same thing from Republicans behind the scenes, but they’ve also been telling reporters that they’re going to put their foot down when Trump does ____ and then they promptly fold.

I’ll have to see it to believe it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 7h

Utter madness from the far right.

There is no such fucking thing as "antifa" except inside their tiny little fascist minds.

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Nick @knockaboutwok.bsky.social · 7h

John Oliver has some really simple advice for dealing with these people.

youtube.com/shorts/ru3y1...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 6h

Can’t wait for the Albanese government to come out and say loudly how interfering with other nations’ ships on international waters is illegal and to be condemned*

*except when Israel does it to prevent aid ships reaching Gaza with Australians aboard. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Philippines says Chinese ship ‘deliberately rammed’ government boat in South China Sea

Beijing blames Manila for the collision, saying the ship ‘ignored repeated stern warnings from the Chinese side’

www.theguardian.com

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 7h

Huge rally for Free Palestine today - I think the biggest ever. South Australian’s want a just, lasting peace, Palestinian statehood and self-determination, hostages free, pursuit of war criminals and an end to any Australian public investment in armaments.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 14h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 5h

Dear Australian news media
When reporting Israeli claims that are demonstrably false, known lies, REPORT THIS! Some suggested phrases:
"Israel falsely claims ..."
"Israel repeated the proven lie that ..."
Words matter. Facts matter. Otherwise it's not #journalism, it's propaganda. #Israel #Palestine

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 5h

Fri 10 Oct: week 20 protesting the @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of Woodside's carbon💣 North West Shelf Extension

Meanwhile Enviro Min Murray Watt opts to do a deal with the Coalition on EPBC laws that yet again, rules out a climate trigger

Not promising 👉 theconversation.com/labor-is-clo...

Protestors outside the allegedly pro-environment Josh Burns' St Kilda office. The dark orange banner says STOP NEW GAS IN WA and NT

Foreground on photo shows the XRmobile whose bonnet is decorated with a owl with outstretched wings beseeching us to Save Our Forests
A placard on the windscreen says LABOR = CLIMATE WRECKERS
In the background, protestors across the road hold up a banner and placards.
The dark orange banner says STOP NORTH WEST SHELF GAS

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 7h

Anything less than leave it in the ground, stop burning fossil fuels will never be enough and that is the crux of the matter.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13h

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 15h

I believe in Trump bringing a peace deal to Gaza just as much as I believed him bringing a peace deal and nuclear disarmament to the Korean Peninsula in 2018

Jesus. Journalists do your fucking job

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 4h

Polluters realized that democracy was incompatible with letting them destroy the planet and passing the costs to everyone else. So they're destroying democracy.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 4h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

Portland 🔥

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 5h

The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.

#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 13h

Guess which idiot is now seeking this induction pack under FOI?

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 16h

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 10h

Disgraceful abuse of the legal system to silence and defame critics of Israel. In honour of the Streisand effect, I encourage everyone to listen to this

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11h

'University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against them under Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.'

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Anti-Zionism on trial - ABC listen

University of Sydney academics Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane will be facing the Federal Court on Monday 13th October after university colleagues made a complaint of anti-Semitism against the...

www.abc.net.au

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 8h

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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bradbreadbrott.bsky.social @bradbreadbrott.bsky.social · 8h

Great article, cheers. So true about Zuck trying to force his dumb ideas on everyone. AI is like that U2 album that appeared on everyone’s phone. Soulless drivel that I don’t want or need and it needs to fuck off immediately.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Nice recap

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