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HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · Feb 22

On the flesh-trade side are: #TateBrothersPimpingGang & #TrumpsterFiredPresidency.
On the 48
complainant, victim, survivor side
are people who think young women and girls-

EACH person
somebody's daughter...

-are
NOT
simply #PrettyYoungLivestock pimping asset$.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 1d

As his reigns crumbles, doesn't he remind us, in Queensland, us with long memories, of Bjelke-Peterson?
That smirk, the decrepit, arrogant face has the traits of the little tyrants in 1989.
#DonQuixotic 2025, Rust in pieces of ShowReel that can't be unseen, where sleep can't bring relief.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 2d

Team #AnyoneButBarnaby has this to say to the guilty who kept Joyce on as a Nat and even made him leader, not once per article but twice!

You were warned and warned and warned and warned and warned. You did not listen.

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Barnaby Joyce to succeed Pauline Hanson as One Nation leader

The former Nationals leader will leave the party at the end of this term to explore “all options” as his relationship with its leaders had “irreparably broken down”.

www.afr.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

On Monday's episode, @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I talk about MAGA's search for "Antifa terrorists." It doesn't seem to be going well.

Then, we look at "The Turner Diaries" -- the Bible for white supremacist terrorists -- and hear from the author's son.

www.patreon.com/posts/046-lo...

046: Looking for Terrorists Under My Bed feat. Kelvin Pierce | Posting Through It

www.patreon.com

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HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings NYC

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#NYC #NoKings 👑

HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 1d

"Love & acceptance are now punk ideologies."

Also:
"A slave obeys
A man chooses."
#NoKings #SolidarityUSAprotesters

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

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HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 2d

Cambodia-based scam-centre compounds (on casino sites),
2 floors of Dubai high rise,
Brooklyn network..
Thailand complicitors too?
#FollowTheMoney #FullyOffshore #investigativeJournalism #SecrecyHavens #ShellCompanies #StrawDirectors #CompanyFormationAgent$
ProjectWhale
www.occrp.org/en/scoop/all...

HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 3d

Also rightly banned from Amsterdam after a riotous bout of football hooliganism (being polite, limiting term to that).

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3d

As everybody in the footballing worlde knows, fans of Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv have a deserved reputation for being remarkably chill.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

UK police criticised over decision to ban Israeli fans from Europa League clash

Fans of Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv are banned from attending next month's Europa League match against Aston Villa in Birmingham over "public safety concerns".

www.abc.net.au

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 5d

Why study history? Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who was born on this day in 1917, had what I think is a great answer. Not only is it a "fascinating intellectual enterprise" and "a necessary background for wise public decisions," it also is essential for "a civilized personal life."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 5d

Federal Court agreed, then the High Court concurred.
Thrice denied, on grounds of Character.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 6d

Survey renters asking their for-real proportion, off all income, that has to go to shelter (rent, utilities).
If they're paying 60% or less, wow, what's their secret?

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 7d

While the media and political class fixate on tinkering with superannuation, a new report finds that 1 in 7 Australians are living in #poverty.

And it's 1 in 6 children.

In such a wealthy nation, this is an obscene policy choice. #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

One in seven Australians living in poverty: report

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

www.abc.net.au

HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 6d

Who'd know, minutes ahead of announcement, that a SELL spree was likely?
What, in the week/fortnight before this spike in sell-offs, influenced the small spike, the one larger than 2021 decision by BukeleRegime to make #KleptoCurrency the national Currency?

#FollowTheMoney #FullyOffshore

Insider$

HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 6d

#SolidarityProDemocracyUSA

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 7d

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 6d

#ForTheManyNotJUSTtheFew

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
www.foxnews.com/politics/squ...

Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future

Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

www.foxnews.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7d

It's a little understated that Bari Weiss is really a flat-out 'just-asking-questions' style climate change denier.

Eg, here she is saying the science is up for public debate rather than settled, publishing the work of a big-name denier influencer (Koonin), and boosting a fake controversy

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
"Is Donald Trump a “dictator”? Did the events of January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., constitute an “insurgency”?

Is Joe Biden “sharp as a tack”?

Is the science of climate change “settled”?

Are Javier Milei of Argentina, Marine Le Pen of France, and the AfD party in Germany “far right”?

Is the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis a “conspiracy theory”? Was the persistence of the virus a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? Does Anthony Fauci “represent science”?

Does Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, “promote hatred”? Do “fact-checkers” check facts?

Let’s ask a question about these questions: Why on Earth were we placed in a position of having to answer them?

In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition. Each may contain some particle of truth—or at least some useful information.

So even the flat-earthers are allowed their say. Even the Bigfoot-seekers appear on the Discovery Channel. Somewhere among the nonsense, there may be something worth hearing.

Because we don’t precisely know where or when, the conversation is never over.

A vast diversity of perspectives should be promoted within an open society. It’s the intellectual equivalent of hybrid vigor.

If we all think alike, a single fatal error, being shared by all, could destroy the world.

These precepts are not original. They have long been part of the American DNA. The default, for us, has always been debate.

When certain subjects, like slavery, were made taboo and removed from the possibility of discussion, towering figures arose and terrible conflicts were fought to restore the balance.

However, the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose, by threat or mandate, a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

Supported by its allies in the media, the academy, and the bureaucracy, the administrati…

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
Climate change did not cause the LA fires says Steve Koonin in an essential conversation with our
@EmilyYoffe
:

https://thefp.com/p/climate-change-did-not-cause-the-la-fires-steve-koonin

Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 6, 2023
Gratified at the outpouring of responses to this important and courageous piece by
@PatrickTBrown31
.

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
From thefp.com
Bari Weiss
@bariweiss
·
Sep 5, 2023
"Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them.

Here’s how it works."

@PatrickTBrown31
with a must-read piece:

https://thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 9d

I live in Minnesota.

This is OBSCENE. Just despicable, the lowest and most vile lie.

Abusing the assassination of our Speaker Emerita, her husband and her dog. Utterly beneath contempt.

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HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 9d

PropertDeveloper$ in & adjacent to Government.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 9d

#BigHustleAllHassleHastie
#AusPol

Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 9d

The ageing fellas at the news desk have such a boner for a strong, young white man in politics they are going to will Hastie to the top of the pile whether we like it or not.

Opinion piece in the 9Papers:

Hastie's got the right stuff but one obsession may fast-track or derail his ambitions
By Peter Hartcher
October 11, 2025 - 5.00am
"The train coming down the tracks isn't the one that you expected. It's not the one advertised on the board," says actor Benedict Cumberbatch playing the role of a pro-Brexit strategist.
"Well, tough," he says. "It isn't even the one that I imagined. But I accept it. And you can't stop it," he says in the 2019 movie Brexit: The Uncivil War in the persona of the notorious Dominic Cummings, adviser to Boris Johnson.
"There is a new politics in town. One that you cannot control."

Article extract:

As he read his charter letter from his leader, Sussan Ley, setting out his duties as opposition home affairs spokesman, he realised he would have no part in immigration policy - opposition immigration spokesman Paul Scarr, not Hastie, would "lead" and "develop" the policy. Hastie practised his personal policy of a
48-hour cooling off before making any major decision.
At this point, a more typical politician would accept the ruling, but then begin a quiet campaign of leaking and undermining against the leader. Hastie did not.
He was careful to take counsel with a handful of trusted allies, including only two Liberal MPs, so that he couldn't be accused of "doing the
numbers" as a prelude to a leadership challenge.
He told the most trusted of his trusted circle, his wife, Ruth, that he'd have to take a 25 per cent pay cut if he went ahead with the resignation. She rejoined that the family budget would simply have to adjust.

HowlingPlanetXtra @howlingplanet.bsky.social · 10d

#TrumpEpsteinContinuum

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion