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Clare Strahan
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Novelist A&U Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge & Cracked. RMIT PWE teacher. Editor-IPED member. MSS assessor @ KYD. La Trobe PhD candidate. Wants green peaceful life for all. Saddened. I donate to UNHCR & ASRC & not individuals sorry.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Hope Donald wins the Ponds Institute Peace Prize. Would be a first to win the double
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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We’ve seen that American capitalism is one of the harshest forms of capitalism on the planet. How did it get so bad?
December 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
grasping zombie hands rising from a sea of snakes (or is it rotting decay? conflagration?) and dragging the world down trophy, eh - congratulations
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
@democracynow.org has been keeping up the coverage of this travesty. WTF, world.
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
o god why are fools in charge everywhere at every turn fking up everything
On the driest inhabited continent on the planet…

#auspol
Sydney Water has estimated up to 250 megalitres a day will be needed to service datacentres planned by 2035, more than Canberra's entire drinking water.

Second feature with @petrastock.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
our gov't is a disgrace for this - why don't people care more? what's wrong with us?
Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20.

This while the Albanese Government is spending $2.5 billion to detain people on Nauru. The corruption is out of control as is the lack of transparency.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20
Forbidden from working, people sent to the island by Australia say they are struggling to survive because food is so expensive
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I had the absolute pleasure of joining @hcrichardson.bsky.social for a conversation yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15L...
American Conversations: Zohran Mamdani
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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“I was analysing systems of state power at the exact moment one of those systems was destroying my family.”

Two years after his mother was killed by an airstrike in Khan Younis, Hazem Almassry writes about how universities exploit Palestinian expertise.
The profit of distance: how universities exploit Palestinian expertise - Overland literary journal
My mother was killed on 5 December 2023 in Khan Younis. An airstrike hit our home around 3 pm. The building collapsed. I learned she was dead while I was in Taiwan, working on research about how polit...
overland.org.au
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
To read (and weep)
An incredible piece.
“I was analysing systems of state power at the exact moment one of those systems was destroying my family.”

Two years after his mother was killed by an airstrike in Khan Younis, Hazem Almassry writes about how universities exploit Palestinian expertise.
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
What the hell is happening, America?
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
ffs
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Dear Lord. Centrelink says 144 different parts of its system have been operating unlawfully or erroneously.

This scandal of 44k overpaid debts is just ONE of the 144 issues they say they've identified.

The welfare system is in complete crisis & disarray
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
power corrupts, eh
So... Senator Mark Kelly was just quoting Pete Hegseth?
Here’s Pete Hegseth in 2016 arguing there have to be consequences for war crimes and how the military won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief.
December 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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it's breathtaking -- is she some kind of Stepford person?
Karoline Leavitt criticising journalists, "The fake news pumped out of this building daily, it Is overwhelming to keep up with it all"
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I love Jane Fonda #justsayin
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I played Guildenstern, once. I directed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead twice. I love Tom Stoppard. Vale, genius playwright, vale. Thank you.
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
they're so disappointing I could scream wouldn't care so much if they weren't killing us
Minister Murray Watt asks Australians to believe we can better protect nature by facilitating faster exploitation with less regulation and less scrutiny.

Read Virginia Young’s full op-ed on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Exclusive: A damning 103-page report written by a coalition of 30 senior ANU professors and staff found “repeated failures” in systems and processes at the university that they say undermine both teaching and research.
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Exclusive: ANU management ‘reactive, short-term, and politically driven’
A damning report has revealed widespread governance failures at ANU, as fresh documents detail former vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell’s $3.3 million exit package.
satpa.pe
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”.

www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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David Glosser, Stephen Miller’s uncle, told CNN his nephew is an “immigration hypocrite”:

“Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would never exist” (2018)
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
what a picture
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Solidarity to UTS members for their huge strike yesterday. Members were out in force to show management that staff deserve better and will keep fighting for much-needed improvements to job security, workloads and fair pay.
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM