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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 7h

“The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.”

- H.P. Lovecraft

A hand holding a dripping wet, bulging-eyed, flat-faced cat looking sadly at the camera.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 4m

Imho, Equal parts Fear, Apathy, Ignorance, Racism.

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 12h

Yeh, why? The whole world wants to know…..

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 9h

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Rationalist Society of Australia @ausrationalist.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Milton Dick, has deflected questions about the human rights implications of the institution’s practice of imposing daily acts of Christian worship. Read more: rationalist.com.au/speaker-dick...
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Speaker Dick deflects questions over human rights concerns | Rationalist Society of Australia

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Milton Dick, has deflected questions about the human rights implications of the institution’s practice of imposing daily acts of Christian worship. In a le...

rationalist.com.au

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine that

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 3h

Americans complaining about Qatar building a base on American soil have got to be tone deaf.
Do they really think that the citizens of all the countries where there are American bases wanted them in their country?
I doubt it. I don’t want American bases in Australia.

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Lisa the Antifascist “Leftist”🇦🇺 @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 1h

JFC

watching @theshot.net.au

@ronnisalt.bsky.social revealed NACC has received 6000 referrals for investigation of serious corruption allegations

To date it has found a total of:

1. Middle level manager GUILTY

#auspol

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do."

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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 2h

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Blair is a sleaze bag

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal

National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and ‘young and vibrant’ financier

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Fawcett @paulyfawcett.bsky.social · 2h

The direct lobbying power of a fading group, that pays no tax but has direct access to leaders, goes completely under the radar in the Australian populace.

The church is a major handbrake on any overdue social campaign the public have been demanding for decades.

It has to stop.

National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 2h

"[NSW premier Chris] Minns appears to traverse the political divide in terms of his belief that religion should play a role in what many constituents consider is the rightfully secular sphere of politics." #auspol
http://bit.ly/3J7WL9g