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Jenothee @jenothee.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering the Anne Aly meet & greet I went to pre-election. Asked her why ALP wont work with the Greens. She said its the Greens who wont work with the ALP. She also tried to say the Greens have corporate donors but looked sheepish when I asked if they were from fossil fuel corps.
#auspol

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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Osborne Cox @osbornecox.bsky.social · 1d

A friend tells me 2 major fault lines on the West Coast are in ‘sync’ and scientists warn it signals a possible massive quake on horizon.

Great. I’m sure Trump will have our back. 🙄 He would yell at California for not raking its faults.

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Lee Murray (she/her) @cousincat.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller

www.theguardian.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 1d

Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm.

The Albanese government does this again and again.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry

Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry

www.theguardian.com

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stuart8.bsky.social @stuart8.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who has ever fought in the forces of another country should be scrutinized. Their loyalty to Australia must be suspect.

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Drop Bear @drop-bear.bsky.social · 1d

For some time, I've worried about the dangers posed by Australian Zionists, particularly those who have fought in the armed forces of Israel.

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Small World-Big adventure @louise007.bsky.social · 1d

@albomp.bsky.social Australia must do the same. If they have dual citizenship - Israeli and Australian, revoke their Australian citizenship. If they are that Zionistic, they can go back home to Israel. We should not be giving war criminals citizenship.

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Sista Cate Ruth ♿ @sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social · 1d

I should bloody-well think so. Time for Australia to follow suit and outlaw IDF service for Israeli-Australians. Pick a passport and stick to it. Either you're Australian, or you're an IDF psychopath. You can't be both.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK

www.thecanary.co

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Humans today are unable to imagine themselves or civilisation for that matter, without the expansionist structures of a society that has been built to exhaust, not sustain”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

Delusion Is The Ultimate Renewable Energy Source

When a species eliminates all its predators, it automatically becomes a planetary-level threat.

open.substack.com

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NSJ Updates 🩵🌈☀️🌺☮️ @nikisavvasjumper.bsky.social · 1d

Labor is shitting all over the memory of Peta Murphy. Implement the Murphy recommendations now!!

#GamblingReform

Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 2d

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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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 1d

Please explain to me, @senatorwong.bsky.social, exactly how a GENOCIDE committed with impunity by Israel with mostly weapons and bombs and other artillery provided by the USA "has been the greatest contribution to peace in the Middle East."

I'll fucking wait. #auspol #GazaHolocaust

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Lady Litigator JD (& slave to cats) @mrskingjr.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Not today, Satan‼️

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Robert Ellingsworth @by1959.bsky.social · 2d

ARE WE GREAT YET AMERICA?

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent that NSW Police have investigated alleged antisemitic attacks over last 2 years…& found they were overstated.
But why were they so wrongly recorded in 1st place?
& why did NSW Premier Chris ‘knee jerk’ Minns then bring in draconian laws, on wrong numbers?
www.theage.com.au/politics/nsw...

Revealed: NSW Police ‘significantly’ overstated antisemitic attacks

An internal review of Operation Shelter found a “significant number” of cases had been mischaracterised as motivated by anti-Jewish sentiment.

www.theage.com.au

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

President Non Compos Mentis has no idea what the writ of habeas corpus is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 3d

The Gaza Port — once bustling with life, now reduced to ruins by Israel’s genocidal war.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 5d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 5d

1.37 million people protesting in Belgrade for Gaza

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Professor Brandon Hamber @brandonhamber.bsky.social · Jun 27

Haaretz reporting IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid

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www.haaretz.com

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · Aug 16

Francesca Albenese

"Israel exists ... but they do not have the right to erase a people from existence."

#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · Feb 3

LMU, the Munich university famous for honouring the memory of its anti-Nazi student Sophie Scholl (informed on to the Gestapo by a staff member in 1943 and swiftly beheaded) has reportedly withdrawn permission for a talk on human rights and international law by UN SpR Francesca Albenese.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Feb 3

Francesca Albanese: "In the West Bank & East Jerusalem we have continued to see people killed & homes destroyed, &t he largest land annexation in decades... since the ceasefire this violence which had already killed 800 Palestinians in the West Bank (including 200 children) has escalated"

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