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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 14h

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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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 20h

Australia’s deepening digital ties with the U.S. may offer protection — but at the cost of control.

Security without sovereignty: Australia’s quiet slide into digital dependency
~ Paul Budde

Security without sovereignty: Australia’s quiet slide into digital dependency

Australia’s deepening digital ties with the U.S. may offer protection — but at the cost of control.

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 22h

Jewish journalist
details torture in
Israeli detention
Noa Avishag Schnall was abducted at sea from
The Conscience, an aid boat seeking to reach
Gaza as part Of the Freedom Flotilla movement.

Any flotilla member who upset
the Israeli guards was subjected
to twisted and tightened
handcuffs, and some received
beatings. I was hung from the
metal shackles on my wrists and
ankles and beaten in the stomach,
back, face, ear and skull by a
group of men and women guards,
one of whom sat on my neck and
face, blocking my airways.
OA AVISHAG SCHNAL

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h

From the other place. No peace without justice.

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Annick Ecuyer @annickecuyer.bsky.social · 20h

With the israeli *colonial* settlements, there is no security for palestinians.

Israeli settlers are using violence and terror against them.

And settlements come with their own security and exclusion zones. Their main purpose is to take land away from the local population.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 20h

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “There will be Jewish settlement in Gaza, because without settlement, there is no security.”

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 20h

'In this interview, UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder and Mehdi Hasan discuss the blocking of aid, the siege over Gaza, and the surge of child illness and trauma in the region, describing what #Israel has done in #Gaza as ‘the worst of humanity.’

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

#News #Palestine

Children Shot By Quadcopters’: UNICEF Spokesperson in Gaza

YouTube video by Zeteo

www.youtube.com

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 20h

'Women in Syria are calling for a democratic, decentralized Syria — led by women and not shaped by external plans. Join the call!

“With the unity of women, we build a free, democratic, and decentralized #Syria.”'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o4...

#Rojava

Video launching the global women campaign for democratic Syria (with subtitles)

YouTube video by Kongra Star

www.youtube.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.

No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.

But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.

Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train.

But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK.

Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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As Some Dems Run From Trans People, Zohran Mamdani's Latest Ad Shows Real Support

The 2 minute ad features Sylvia Rivera's story, Mamdani's commitment to transgender people, and even music from the legendary late trans artist SOPHIE.

www.erininthemorning.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

400 Americans have more wealth than all 70m in the UK.

The richest 0.1% of the UK have more money than poorest 50% of UK.

Do you see how it works, do you understand how ridiculously rich the richest have become.

The richest 0.1% are 42x richer than in 1970, you got 12%.

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UNabla @unabla.bsky.social · 1d

#ABCAustralia you have @lisamillar.bsky.social @carringtonclarke.bsky.social @thelyonsden.bsky.social Barbara Miller and Kamin Gock in North America and I bet one of them has filed a story on this Alaskan disaster.

Why aren't your editors publishing? There's nothing yet on your website.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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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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UNabla @unabla.bsky.social · 2d

Spot on!

Rules based international order*

* for all countries who aren't in our club

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t wait for the Albanese government to come out and say loudly how interfering with other nations’ ships on international waters is illegal and to be condemned*

*except when Israel does it to prevent aid ships reaching Gaza with Australians aboard. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Philippines says Chinese ship ‘deliberately rammed’ government boat in South China Sea

Beijing blames Manila for the collision, saying the ship ‘ignored repeated stern warnings from the Chinese side’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3d

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
#climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7d

Trump is going to track Americans’ every move.

This is in addition to Palantir tracking us using our private financial, health and travel data, social media, donations — and more.

If you think they’re only tracking “illegals” or “Antifa,” then you haven’t been paying attention.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 5d

A slap on the wrist behind closed doors undermines the case put forward by Finance that the culture of PwC is all cleaned up, which was their justification for allowing PwC back into the fold of government contracts. #auspol

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 3d

A Senate report has found that “a lack of trust” and “an abuse of processes” lie at the heart of the governance failures in Australia’s universities, writes Tim Moore. What’s needed, it says, is “less stacking of corporate appointees” on university councils. satpa.pe/Hjjd7B5

Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector

satpa.pe

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 5d

labour don't have a comms problem. we're all hearing them loud and clear.

example: im not confused by @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social. she's a catholic extremist abusing her position in society to persecute queer ppl and abuse queer kids.

her problem isn't comms. her problem is that she's a bigot.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 5d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 5d

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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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 5d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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