kcarruthers
@kcar.me
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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes. 💛💙🌻♥️💚🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 Aussie 🦘 https://katecarruthers.com/
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enddbelfast.bsky.social
Paramilitary backed far-right, white supremacist violence, intimidation and pogroms in East Belfast have impacted thousands with no political attention or strategy to end it. Only silence and the handing down of impunity.

Who does the state protect?
Headlines in 16 months from East Belfast. Each describing white supremacist far right attacks on people and homes.
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aimenlau.bsky.social
"But while Xi hailed a “glorious chapter of women’s progress”, in recent years, Chinese feminists have found it increasingly difficult to advocate for, or even speak about, women’s rights."
Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women’s conference
Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagonism’
www.theguardian.com
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thetnholler.bsky.social
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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euanritchie.bsky.social
Abbott displaying his deep ignorance & prejudice, again.

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

'Tony Abbott launched a new book tracing the history of Australia and questioned the reliability of oral history.'

*Written historical accounts* are often far from reliable, Tony, but you know that, right?
Oral history's role in chronicling Australia's past - ABC listen
Oral history is considered the world's oldest form of sharing knowledge and culture, and in Australia, Aboriginal people have been sharing stories this way for thousands of years. Earlier this week, ...
www.abc.net.au
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rincewind.run
"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point
kcar.me
Who are 'Advance' & what are they doing to our politics?

Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite" but it is Oz MAGA funded #aupol

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics?
Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.
johnmenadue.com
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youranonriots.bsky.social
Happening NOW

Heavy Israeli naval attacks and tank fire in the northwest of the Gaza City..

MEDIATORS: Israeli daily violation of the ceasefire must stop.
#GazaGenocide
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unraveledpress.com
This is real. Chicago today.
donmoyn.bsky.social
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
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australiainstitute.org.au
Our governments are already caving in to pressure from the gas industry to export our domestic gas reserves.

90% of WA's gas is exported or used for export.

We don't have a gas shortage problem. We have a gas export problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol
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maximumwelfare.bsky.social
Lunch time. I could buy this lunch for 40,000 people for the cost of this report nobody has written nor read, commissioned and then buried in the desperate thrashing of a department bargaining with the reality of what they've done to hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients.
I am holding up a banh mi sandwich in front of the sign outside one of Deloitte's offices in Sydney.
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euanritchie.bsky.social
"A 2014 analysis of about 9,000 discarded nets that washed up on Australia’s northern coast estimated ghost nets had killed between 4,866 and 14,600 sea turtles in the year before they made land...

Ghost Net Initiative, a $15 million fund...is about to expire."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
The ocean's least natural predator has come for Australia
Illegal fishing is ravaging the world's oceans of fish and shellfish but it is what is left behind that is creating a mess for governments worldwide and of Australia's most remote beaches.
www.abc.net.au
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skylargrayson.bsky.social
Someone asked for a dumbed down summary of my PhD thesis so here you go:

Black holes make galaxies fart but don’t ask any follow ups because that’s just about the extent of our current knowledge.
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middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Report: Released Palestinian detainee hospitalised in Gaza
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joho.bsky.social
Thank you @cphickie.bsky.social who has been tracking these guys for as long as I can remember. 10-15 years ago.
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Chris Hickie
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A sad but necessary sequel to "We Want Them
Infected"
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2025
Dr. Howard's previous book "We Want Them Infected" meticulously documented the lies and disinformation of anti-science contrarian physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. WWTI was a wake-up call to the damage these physicians could do if allowed to continue unopposed. Well, continue with minimal opposition these physicians did, and, just as thoroughly, Dr. Howard has documented here in
"Everyone Else is Lying to You" how these disinformers parlayed their prevarications into positions of power within the HHS. Like WWTI, EEILTY was a book I had to take a chapter at a time, due mostly to the overwhelming dismay at how few people did anything to oppose this clearly coordinated overthrow of the US public health system. As someone who professionally worries about anti-vaccinationism, I followed in real time much of what Dr. Howard has written, but the amount of disinformation put forth by and on behalf of these physicians is much better appreciated through the narrative-specific chaptering of EEILTY. In the final chapter of this book, Dr. Howard writes "I can only hope that future medical leaders learn from these mistakes and show some backbone." To that I agree and state that a great place to start learning from these mistakes is this book. --Chris Hickie MD, PhD
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originalsp.in
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
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kcar.me
good luck to you all 🤞
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
NHANES identified pediatric lead exposure in the ‘70s, considered one of the most significant health interventions ever.

NHANES also gave us pediatric growth charts and nutritional fortification to prevent harmful deficiencies like iodine & folate, to name a few.

h/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.

The entire operation has been eliminated.
kcklatt.bsky.social
Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc
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mondoweiss.net
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
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jessicaperthwa.bsky.social
#Auspol Abortion is a health right. Let's never allow the Conservatives in Australia to take away this important right.
propublica.org
People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇

(Published Dec. 2024)
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
www.propublica.org
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
But it’s clear who’s paying. Another (non-refundable) $1,000,000,000 of your money about to be shunted to the US to build THEIR industry capability 🤦‍♂️. 2/2 #AUKUS #USUKA #auspol
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kels316.bsky.social
weird how the IDF have been doing this exact thing for 2yrs and the ABC hasn't mentioned it once.