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Andy Fleming

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10h

This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @taliajane.bsky.social about 'How Good is America?' 🇺🇸🫡

4.30pm, OCT 16, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio+ app, podcats 🐈

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #267 w Talia Jane on God Bless America : October 16, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Talia Jane [Bluesky/Twitter]. Talia is an independent journalist based in New Yawk covering political protests & social movements. Unsurprisin…

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 10h

Actually impressed with how MSNBC handled this one.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC from last night.

Debunking the right's obsession with Antifa

Rutgers University History Professor Mark Bray joins The Weekend: Primetime to share why he and his family fled the U.S. over safety concerns amid the Trump administration's broad attacks on Antifa. H...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 5h

FOI = F*ck Off Idiot

etc., etc., etc..

www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Ep 36 - Behind closed doors - Media Watch

Proposed changes to Freedom of Information will result in less freedom for less information.

www.abc.net.au

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 6h

And incidentally, here is a great study on Ferrer, his pedagogical work, syndicalism and the global wave of protests triggered by his execution.

Cover of Mark Bray and Robert H. Haworth, A Francisco Ferrer Reader. Anarchist Education and the Modern School.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 8h

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 6h

My editorial for Monday's Metro

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KinglakeForest @kinglakeforest.bsky.social · 6h

No transparency. No science. Just targets.

www.geco.org.au/the_burning_...

The Burning Industry is Out of Control

Goongerah Environment Centre (GECO) has been working to protect East Gippsland's forests from logging since 1993. Using citizen science, non-violent direct action, political lobbying and public educat...

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 8h

I used to say what's on my mind
And kindred spirits were easy to find
But now my words are locked with a fist
There must be s/thing that I must have missed
I used to say what I want to say
I used to play how I want to play
But now our nation's liberty is lost
In ...

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Fascist Degradation - Di Nigunim

YouTube video by Terrasemilla

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

[looking fwd to the australian federal police kicking down the doors @ waks haus eh]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCs9...

Oy, Ir Narishe Tsienistn

YouTube video by Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird - Topic

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

... Justice Angus Stewart, Wertheim v Haddad, JUL 2025:

'"That person would understand that not all Jews are Zionists and that disparagement of Zionism constitutes disparagement of a philosophy or ideology and not a race or ethnic group," Justice Stewart said.

"Also, political criticism of Israel, however inflammatory or adversarial, is not by its nature criticism of Jews in general or based on Jewish racial or ethnic identity.

"The conclusion that it is not antisemitic to criticise Israel is the corollary of the conclusion that to blame Jews for the actions of Israel is antisemitic; the one flows from the other."'

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

hmmm ...

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

University of Sydney argues academic’s article not racist against Jewish people as ‘Zionism is a political concept’

Case taken by academics against two colleagues and the university is considered a major test case for hate speech in Australia

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

'The Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.'

gaza.forensic-architecture.org/database

FA Projects

Forensic Architecture

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

'Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told ABC RN Senator Thorpe's comment was unacceptable and that if the temperature could be lowered in Gaza, "it should be able to be lowered in Canberra."'

Burke's use of an idiom inre a decimated Gaza is more unfortunate than Thorpe's phrase in my view.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

'A police spokesperson told the ABC the AFP had called upon its newly established National Security Investigations (NSI) team in Victoria to investigate whether the comments "breach legislation".'

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

AFP probes Lidia Thorpe's 'burn down Parliament House' remark

The Australian Federal Police has issued a rare statement confirming it is investigating whether independent senator Lidia Thorpe broke any laws by saying she was prepared to "burn down Parliament Hou...

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 22h

Why is Pope Leo meeting with an alleged sex offender?

The pontiff met with a disgraced Opus Dei cardinal this past week - but has completely ignored pleas from victims of this abusive group for him to meet with them

What's going on?

🧵 A THREAD

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9h

'To every animal who eats or shoots his own kind ...'

Salute!

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Thank You America

YouTube video by The Celibate Rifles - Topic

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah Nah Pasaran #267 w Talia Jane on God Bless America : October 16, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Talia Jane [Bluesky/Twitter]. Talia is an independent journalist based in New Yawk covering political protests & social movements. Unsurprisin…

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10h

What's the go w the Greens vs. Your Party?

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

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 14h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11h

the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war

A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11h

#OtD 13 Oct 1827 Italian anarchist Giuseppe Fanelli was born. He was best known for touring Spain in 1868, introducing the anarchist ideas of Mikhail Bakunin which would have a huge impact on the country and the revolution in 1936

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