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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 15d

When someone says they’re “not political”…

Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · 15d

The corruption going on in plain sight is nothing short of astounding. This looks like a pay off for not using all the power of the US presidency to not destroy a business.

YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24.5m to settle lawsuit over account suspension

Platform suspended the US president’s YouTube channel in 2021 after the January 6 Capitol riot

www.theguardian.com

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 19d

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I've obtained exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the United Nations security room

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · 21d

Hope you’re feeling better. You’re precious to us.

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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · Aug 25

I’m not NDIS but can assure you the whole Disability sector needs a shake up. The NDIS has created a nightmare + costs have increased exponentially since its inception. Companies don’t want to take non NDIS clients because….not enough profit so you go without support. This includes cost of aids etc.

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Aug 25

I do hope that the middle class employment & enrichment program known as the NDIS is somehow also able to support & house people with disabilities. Jeez this shit makes me cross. #4corners

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Kelseyvh @kelseyvh.bsky.social · Aug 25

I’m so distressed by what #4Corners is showing us tonight. What a waste of so much. 😥

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Ally Brown @behinddreaming.bsky.social · Aug 24

I agree it's brilliant. It just shows what can be achieved if people are given a chance.

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is brilliant. Philanthropists really helping people end their homelessness.

These women built their first homes for under $120k. Here’s how they did it

A Facebook post offering women $55,000 to build their first home looked like a scam. But 15 women took the chance to go from homeless to home owner.

www.abc.net.au

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · Aug 16

I know so many women of all ages who need iron transfusions and some who can’t get them because they cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars; such long waitlists; no Medicare rebates. This is a medical scandal. The misdiagnosis story is shocking. www.smh.com.au/national/gas...

Gaslit, dismissed and treated as hypochondriacs: The gender divide in iron deficiency

Ignored by doctors for years, Abigail almost died, with one doctor in the end saying she had the blood count of a shark attack or car crash victim.

www.smh.com.au

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 3

I've had enough.

In this thread, I will tell you, definitively, whether Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.

This way, you will be more informed when shopping for your wardrobe . 🧵

Sydney Sweeney in an American Eagle ad wearing a denim jacket and jeans.

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 27

He was so clever. Used to love listening to all his stuff

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · Jul 27

There isn't a single song by Tom Lehrer that isn't still as biting and funny today as when he wrote it. Most people are setting on "Werner von Braun" as a memorial, but perhaps "National Brotherhood Week" is also weirdly relevant as well

Vale, sir

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAS...

Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week - with intro

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

www.youtube.com

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · Jul 26

"at risk of"?

we're well past that stage :(

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · Jul 25

The reality in Gaza shows Israel is at risk of becoming a global pariah: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-26/israel-starvation-aid-global-pressure-gaza/105555092

The reality in Gaza shows Israel is at risk of becoming a global pariah

The reality of the situation on the ground in Gaza, and the spectre of children dying of malnutrition or starvation, sits at such extraordinary odds with the language of spokespeople for both the Netanyahu government and the IDF.

www.abc.net.au

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 26

Trump announces ‘Gulag First’ response to homelessness in the US.

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

www.whitehouse.gov

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · Jul 25

In 1938, Hitler launched “Work-Shy Reich” a program to remove the homeless, beggars & mentally ill from the streets & forcibly institutionalize them.

Today, Donald Trump launched “ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS”—which is the same thing. 🚨
www.mind-war.com/p/taking-akt...

Taking Aktion: Trump’s Plan to Disappear the “Work-Shy”

We are staring into the abyss of systematic mass cleansing that mankind might not recover from without intervention

www.mind-war.com

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 25

It so is. It’s hard to believe we’re watching it live and not just reading about it in history books

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yep, that’s how it starts. Begin by rounding up the folk that the majority already doesn’t like. It helps build the systems you will need when you start rounding up your political enemies

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 25

New executive order by Trump that redefines #homelessness as a mental illness and requiring authorities to round everyone up for *treatment* and to keep other citizens safe. I always suspected the pathologising of people in poverty would end up here.

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

www.whitehouse.gov

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charmainebudden.bsky.social @charmainebudden.bsky.social · Jul 24

-1 in Canberra already! 🥶🥶🥶

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jul 23

Censuring a Senator because of this.

The Greens’ Senator Mehreen Faruqi held up a protest placard as Anthony Albanese walked by in the Senate chamber on Tuesday, asking the prime minister, ‘Will you sanction Israel’? Photograph: Lukas Coch/AP

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Jul 23

Mass starvation expert Alex de Waal warns the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the “most intense, most severe,” and “minutely engineered” act of deliberate starvation since World War II.

#GazaHolocaust #GazaGenocide

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Mary Spy @mez13.bsky.social · Jul 23

Watching Prof Henry Brodaty talking about dementia on @NPC right now. It is 💯 true that after a diagnosis both the patient & carers are dropped like hot potatoes with no plan no support & no medicine that actually works. Happy that there is break through for people in the very early stages.

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Grandma Angie @sunvsice.bsky.social · Jul 22

Same issues here in Canada and same myopic vision for the past 30 years. Allowing housing to be an investment tool was a monumental mistake that currently disproportionately affects the marginalised and is now affecting younger generations. We’ve stolen enough from future generations. Time to pay!!!

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Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 22

Have you ever wondered why charities grow bigger every year? At the very same time that State housing departments get smaller? And do you wonder why those without housing are now ‘charitable cases’ to be managed instead of citizens to be housed? I do

Flick Reynolds @flickreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 21

No amount of funding church & community organisations to feed, shelter, shower or ‘case manage’ people in poverty will end #homelessness. The only thing that does and ever has is housing. Permanent housing. Every state in Australia must reinvest in public #housing. This is a disgrace.

Women 'stuck' in refuges as housing crisis fuels worst homelessness 'in living memory'

Homelessness has risen to the "worst levels in living memory" in the first term of the Albanese government, advocacy groups warn, as the government grapples with advice that housing targets will not b...

www.abc.net.au

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