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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 1h

In the worse possible ways

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2h

The latest #slowhorses was quite farcical.

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 6h

"Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions | Clear Air

Queensland is Australia’s top polluter – even worse than Western Australia, which has no climate target and adores its fossil fuel industry

www.theguardian.com

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 16h

Instead of thanking the US president, perhaps people should be asking: why are the hostages only coming home now?

Should Donald Trump be thanked for the Gaza ceasefire and hostage releases?

Instead of thanking the US president, perhaps people should be asking: why are the hostages only coming home now?

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 1d

This says a lot about who they think their base is.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Victorian Coalition vows to scrap Australia’s first statewide treaty with First Nations peoples if it wins government

Opposition’s plan announced as state parliament’s lower house begins debate on landmark treaty bill * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Victorian Coalition has announced if elected in 2026, it will scrap Australia’s first formal statewide treaty agreement with First Nations peoples within 100 days of government. As Victorian parliament’s lower house begins debate on the statewide treaty bill on Tuesday, the opposition leader, Brad Battin, and the Coalition spokesperson for Aboriginal affairs, Melina Bath, announced their plan to repeal the agreement. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 1d

There they go again - responding to a problem that doesn't exist.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

This whole episode has seen a shift away from Israel as the US' key ally in the Middle East, to the benefit of Qatar. Netanyahu has cost his nation a lot of diplomatic capital, chiefly to save his own skin.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 2d

The great thing about having a well-established news outlet is that you can just keep recycling the same bullshit for decades.

“Where does western Sydney really start?” www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... ($)

Fuck ’em. Read it at archive.md/8QRSb.

Where does western Sydney really start?

Lakemba? Burwood? Sydney Olympic Park? Or further west, at Parramatta? Vote on where you would draw the line.

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

#teamganggang

Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

In addition, this serves to elevate Qatar's importance as a power in the Middle East, at the expense of Israel.

Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

This is not good for Netanyahu. Not only does he get no credit for bringing the hostages home, there will now be able to be an inquest into how the Oct 7 attack was able to occur in the first place, and surely the buck will stop with him

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has no understanding of history, either in the US or the Middle East.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 2d

On the upside, the AFP may learn what a metaphor is and how to spell it

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

AFP investigates Lidia Thorpe’s claim she would ‘burn down’ Parliament House

Senator says her words at Melbourne pro-Gaza rally were ‘a metaphor’ and the reaction to them ‘mock outrage’ that distracts from Palestinian suffering * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian federal police has said it is investigating whether independent senator Lidia Thorpe’s claim to a pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne that she would “burn down” Parliament House has breached legislation. Thorpe told the rally on Sunday: “We stand with you every day, and we will fight every day, and we will turn up every day, and if I have to burn down Parliament House to make a point … I am not there to make friends.” Continue reading...

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

ffs Trump is blaming Obama for the current crisis.

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

#teamganggang

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently Israeli soldiers set fire to homes, food and a sewage treatment plant after the ceasefire. Anyone calling that army “moral” is corrupt. From @dropsitenews.com, where the best of The Intercept can be found. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-idf...

In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's announcement on Thursday that both Hamas and Israel had signed off on an agreement to stop the fighting, the Israeli military launched an arson spree, setting fire to civilian infrastructure, including the destruction of an essential sanitation plant in
Gaza City. The destruction of Palestinian structures following the departure of soldiers who had used them as temporary bases has been a hallmark of Israel's approach to Gaza for two years. In July, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham
collected testimonies from soldiers describing a myriad of arson methods. "Every Arab house we entered had olive oil [...] We poured the oil on the sofas, on anything flammable in the apartment, and then we ignited [it] or threw in a smoke grenade. This was a common practice," one of them described.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't even have the bottle to stick with changes to super that affected only the wealthiest 0.5%.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 2d

"The federal government should listen to the concerns of child sexual abuse survivors and allow Australian honours to be rescinded after perpetrators and enablers have died, campaigners say."

From the desk of @gingerandhoney.bsky.social

Time to change rules and strip honours from child abusers who’ve died, victims and advocates say

Survivor John Jolley says issue has been in ‘too-hard basket’ for too long and Australian government should posthumously rescind awards

www.theguardian.com

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

Where is your neighbourhood?

Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 2d

'Don't eat the couch!'

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Jenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · 2d

Please read the entire thread. Thank you.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social · 3d

They're so good live. Great people watching, too.

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