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Leni

@heradescends.bsky.social

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Recently divorced from my idealism, ex public servant facing the absurdity but still willing to serve; on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung & Bunurong Boon Wurrung country ‘The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men’ Plato (allegedly)🇦🇺🇬🇷✊🏽⚖️

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · Nov 11

Look I’m not sure if I’m ready to re-engage with the world but I’m certain that I yearn to breathe free under a blue sky… with some nice kind folk

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 6h

Tomorrow will bring obscene displays of Trump self congratulation propaganda via corrupted mass media, so take care, avoid or be prepared for the mental assault, its great there’s a pause & exchange of hostages but Palestinian death & suffering continues in Gaza & the conveniently ignored West Bank

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 10h

The airstrikes may have stopped, but the real war in Gaza has just begun, a silent war of grief and shattered hearts.
Every night without those we lost, Gaza turns into one endless house of mourning.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Λεωνίδας Βατικιώτης @leonidasv.bsky.social · 12h

Απόφαση ντροπής το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης στο φερέφωνο του Τραμπ στη Βενεζουέλα, του Λεωνίδα Βατικιώτη leonidasvatikiotis.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/%...

Απόφαση ντροπής το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης στο φερέφωνο του Τραμπ στη Βενεζουέλα, του Λεωνίδα Βατικιώτη

Απέναντι στη Νορβηγική Επιτροπή που απονέμει κάθε χρόνο τα βραβεία Ειρήνης οφείλουμε ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ. Είμαστε ευγνώμονες! Για το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης 2025 είχαν προταθεί οι 270 περίπου (Παλαισ…

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 6h

🎯

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

The Taliban are under heavy attack from Pakistan with fighter jets striking multiple targets in Kandahar.

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 8h

These fn people… the world sees you even if you’re winning in this moment, the vast majority of us see you clearly and eventually we’ll probably end up using your own creations to undo you… that or in the case of Ellison senior death via geriatric Botox addiction

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 23h

Drop Site’s @ryangrim.bsky.social spoke to Al Jazeera's The Listening Post (@AJListeningPost, X) about how billionaire Larry Ellison (Oracle founder & a top donor to Israel’s military) is buying up US media outlets to reshape coverage of Gaza and shore up Israel’s collapsing image among Americans.

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 10h

Please sign and share if you can.
President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...

President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20!

Right now, the world stands at a crossroads: billionaires are hoarding obscene wealth while millions struggle just to survive.But for the first time ever, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 1d

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’
After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics #bds
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 11h

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 19h

Published by Palestinian photojournalist Jehad Abu Shamala yesterday, on Saturday:

"Of course, the children of Gaza deserve to live."

www.instagram.com/p/DPrRPVtCOZ7/

#FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #MiddleEast #Palestine

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 12h

Melbourne's CBD
#FreePalestine #Gaza

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 19h

A message from Nasser Mashni and Francesca Albanese.

"Get out, get loud and get proud for Palestine!"

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 16h

May the elephantine patience be with you

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 16h

It’s Sunday so lapsed, vexed whatever I am this still has impact, we have lost our way, should be much more international condemnation of racist US regime instead of quiet approval from so called labo(u)r and democratic leaders some probably thinking good idea just maybe less mean & not so many guns

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 21h

Obscene

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21h

Israel’s Prime Minister and former Defense Minister are wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity — including using starvation as a weapon of war and deliberately directing attacks on civilians.

Israel has been found to have committed genocide in Gaza...

Aaron Rupar via X (@atrupar): "Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: 'Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel.'"

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been 0 days since I’ve been profane… these MFs… constantly finding ways to tarnish the beautiful game

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 1d

What’s with the vaudevillian drama ‘they’re ungovernable Manu I cannot go on’ Manu praying to De Gaulle whispers ‘hold on one last time maybe we scared them’ Lecornu ‘I am scared!’

The centre won’t hold, move towards the people, mon dieu get it together mon amis (je suis désolé for the French)

EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 1d

French President Macron re-appoints Lecornu as PM four days after his resignation

French President re-appoints Sébastien Lecornu as PM in shock move

Lecornu’s comeback was as a major surprise following comments by him on Wednesday that he was not “chasing the job” and that his “mission is over.”

www.euronews.com

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Τουρίστας🍉 @zarko8.bsky.social · 1d

Η εθνική νέων στο ποδόσφαιρο νίκησε μέσα στη Γερμανία την πανίσχυρη εθνική τους, με 3-2.

Λήγει ο αγώνας και τα παλιόπαιδα ανεμίζουν μια ελληνική σημαία που εγραψαν:
«ο πατέρας που νίκησε το σκοτάδι: ΠΑΝΟΣ ΡΟΥΤΣΙ»

Κάτι κινείται, και όποιος δεν καταλαβαινει...

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says while people are happy for a pause in the slaughter, she finds it “repulsive” that Palestinians had to bargain with their own oppressors.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Half of the population projected to experience critical food shortages by mid-2026 as armed groups block aid.

Six million people in Haiti face acute hunger as gang violence spreads

Half of the population projected to experience critical food shortages by mid-2026 as armed groups block aid.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

CNN reports Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas. The eminent pediatrician was detained in Dec. during Israel’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, after he refused to abandon patients under siege.

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 1d

Decepticons… burn out

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🎯 (applies to whole thread - it’s been a long week even emojing is taxing)

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1d

Editorial: A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a man who led the country to go and shill for a foreign military. Decency and clearance would have restrained it. AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme. satpa.pe/TmFvL5U

The one-man super scheme

Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.

satpa.pe

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 1d

"the 3 underlying trends — the consolidation of media into a handful of outlets, the increasing control of the media by the ultra-rich, & the growing primacy of shareholder interests — have made it far easier for Trump & his lackeys to do their dirty work"
robertreich.substack.com/p/why-has-th...

Why has the media become so vulnerable to Trump, and what can we do about it?

Even after Disney's reversal on Jimmy Kimmel, the vulnerability remains — unless we change the rules.

robertreich.substack.com

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