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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 7h

I get the impression her primary motivation is to look after and protect her position,and her standing in the community.

Does she realise as a Trump appointee she is already behind the eight-ball?

gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 20h

Disgracefully partisan report on hostage release/ceasefire on NBN (9 network) tonight. Heavy on emotion re joy in Israel, then clinical report on damage in Gaza and Palestinians returning to the rubble.

I rarely watch 9 network, and won’t be returning there in a hurry.

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 1d

It’s absolutely devastating. People are simply disappearing all over the place.

We have fallen to authoritarianism.

open.substack.com/pub/mdavis19...

Reddit Thread Details Horrific ICE Encounters

These stories are happening all over the country. We CAN'T look away and we must share them.

open.substack.com

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 1d

And thrown out by his electorate.

Not that that’s stopped him from working in the background to get things done his way.

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Silly Sally 💙💙💙 @caturday62.bsky.social · 2d

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 1d

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in a couple of sports-based social clubs. Nobody sponsors us - we pay our own way.

Are our pollies too miserly to do the same?

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

The western media always refers to “the hostages” as those held by Hamas.

Apparently they are too lazy to access the readily available evidence,
or so imbued with an attitude of dehumanising and ignoring Palestinians (aka racism),
that they rarely mention the hundreds of hostages held by Israel.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d

AUS Foreign Minister Penny Wong's fawning praise of Trump is vomitous. No mention by Wong of the billions of dollars of arms provided to Israel by the USA for its genocide in Gaza? Srsly?! This is abhorrent commentary from Wong. 😔 #auspol #USPolitics #NobelPeacePrize #GazaGenocide

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 2d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 3d

The gambling industry is predatory and insidious.

I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a few weeks ago, when I discovered it had registered as a lobbyist group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body.

The industry will do anything to wield influence on pollies, and hates being called out.

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile the favourite son’s Christmas bash in Oz is one of the hottest invites in town. Conga line ready to overlook the wickedness bcoz, you know, celebrity couple.

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 3d

Training academy for staff jobs at the White House.

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me how that helps to address the country’s many challenges. Do your real job, Labor, and stop the performative nonsense.

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 4d

Are we supposed to be grateful to these Republicans for breaking ranks now? After all this time standing solidly behind Trump?

Instead of hope, a better reaction is disgust and disdain. What’s taken them/taking them so long? They are his enablers - they are responsible for his harm.

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Zandra.Bluesky 420buddy @zandra-b.bsky.social · 5d

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 5d

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 4d

Is she auditioning for a role in Trump’s administration?

Completely unacceptable, playing games, seriously dangerous and needs to be reined in quick smart.

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 5d

Where crimes against humanity occur, every individual has made a choice, regardless of ideology or culture. Harming another is something each person of a religious bent will answer for one day.

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 6d

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 5d

This! 👆

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gaileastcoaster.bsky.social @gaileastcoaster.bsky.social · 8d

Nailed it!

Is there anything worse than a know-all “intellectual“ without insight?

I have a former friend who would regularly drop me a poster for an opera or the local classic music station, always with the comment “Here, get yourself some culture…”.

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 8d

Larissa Waters says the govt must call on the Israel ambassador to “let those 6 Australians” who’ve been illegally detained by Israel from a flotilla “be free and come home” & that if the ambassador is not prepared to do that, he should be expelled.💥 #Abcinsiders

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10d

Don’t stop rubbing their noses in the teachings of Christ.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 9d

AUS PM Albanese has tweeted re the #ManchesterSynagogueAttack, yet nothing re Israel's illegal interception and detention of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla members (incl. Australian citizens!) in int'l waters. Appalling. 😔 #auspol

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