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A white face heron decided to pay a visit to our garden yesterday. #birds 🐦

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

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This is appalling 🤬

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify family.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

@albomp.bsky.social says #FOI costs the Govt too much. When I FOI’ed Treasury in 2023 for briefs it had provided Jim Chalmers on stage 3 tax cuts, the Govt spent $53K resisting public disclosure. They lost! The taxpayers lost! FOI is not costing too much - Govt secrecy is. #auspol

Yet another problem with the idea of a 1-3 hour 'assessment' in an NDIS participant's home is that it doesn't acknowledge the existence of dynamic disabilities i.e. disabilities where one can have (relatively) "good days" (or hours) and "bad days" and "nonfunctional days".
#auspol #ndis #disability

They will change their tune if they get to own TikTok

Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster exposed as overly determined Not to Answer & take things ‘on notice’

Shoebridge “You’re taking on notice your failure to answer on notice, Q’s I asked u on notice, about Q’s that u responded on notice, to answers u haven’t given on notice”🤯ffs #Estimates

Stephen Miller has said Donald Trump has plenary authority but what does that actually mean?

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Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach
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Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

"If a house is uninsurable, it is unmortgageable"

#climatecrisis

In an extraordinary pitch for a public servant scrutiny void, senior public servants have blamed Robodebt on transparency. Former Senator Rex Patrick reports on a leadership failure michaelwest.com.au/too-much-tra...

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

And equally, is the Epstein game a distraction from turning the USA into a police state?

There can’t be this much damage to Trump from releasing them, given his people don’t care.

Maybe it’s the inverse.

This Has To Change - trickle down pigshit

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"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"

This is so typical of Donald. Take the loss by claiming it’s a win!

The Australian National Press Club's decision to cancel Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges' address is shameful. He was to speak on Israel's murder of journalists in Gaza and the media's silence on this. #IsraeliWarCrimes #JournalismMatters
Art: @artworkbymandyking on Insta.

The ATO has gone after another batch of Robotax victims www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"

After witnessing Russia's attacks and deliberate endangerment at Chernobyl why would you ever think about building a new nuclear reactor?

Have kept digging into the Optus triple zero outage (not the one last night) but they're now doing that crisis management thing of saying they won't answer any questions about it because of the independent review that is due to report back by the end of the year.

Anti-corruption chief Paul Brereton continued defence consulting after declaring he had resigned from role

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#auspol

Of course they did!

Singtel awards employee big bonus a week after Optus debacle as fresh outage reported

#auspol #ausnews

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