Amy Derk (she/her) 🇦🇺🇺🇸
@amyderp.bsky.social
Chicagoan turned Melbournian.
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“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”
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That’s right. The billionaire bailout bill forces your tax dollars to pay for concentration camps and masked thugs to disappear your neighbors without due process. 16M people will be thrown off healthcare to pay for that, along with tax breaks for the rich.
Take a minute to look at these increases to the ICE budget in the GOP mega bill. Take another minute to let it sink in. They're preparing a police state that will far exceed rounding up Spanish-speaking brown people.
June 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
That’s right. The billionaire bailout bill forces your tax dollars to pay for concentration camps and masked thugs to disappear your neighbors without due process. 16M people will be thrown off healthcare to pay for that, along with tax breaks for the rich.
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🗣️President Trump’s proposed FY26 budget would roll back WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits to pre-2021 levels, before USDA’s science-based increase.
Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13
Young kids: $27 → $10
These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:
Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13
Young kids: $27 → $10
These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:
National WIC Association Condemns Trump’s Proposed Cuts to WIC’s Fruit and Vegetable Benefits
By cutting WIC’s Cash Value Benefits (CVB) for fruits and vegetables by two-thirds and reducing overall program funding, the proposal directly removes healthy food from the hands of low-income moms an...
www.nwica.org
May 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
🗣️President Trump’s proposed FY26 budget would roll back WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits to pre-2021 levels, before USDA’s science-based increase.
Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13
Young kids: $27 → $10
These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:
Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13
Young kids: $27 → $10
These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:
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44% of all American children benefit from Medicaid or SNAP.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
May 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
44% of all American children benefit from Medicaid or SNAP.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
Republicans' budget guts both programs.
Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.
Enough trying to bully a concession. #TheAge declares their favourite misongynist a winner again, even through full distribution of preferences is not complete. www.theage.com.au/national/lib...
Liberal Tim Wilson reclaims seat of Goldstein
Liberal Tim Wilson has reclaimed the seat of Goldstein from Zoe Daniel by just 128 votes.
www.theage.com.au
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Enough trying to bully a concession. #TheAge declares their favourite misongynist a winner again, even through full distribution of preferences is not complete. www.theage.com.au/national/lib...
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Massive congratulations to @parentsforclimate.bsky.social for launching the legal action against EnergyAustralia and securing a landmark result: an apology for greenwashing and a commitment to direct emission reduction.
Well done to Equity Generation Lawyers as well.
Have a read:
Well done to Equity Generation Lawyers as well.
Have a read:
May 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Massive congratulations to @parentsforclimate.bsky.social for launching the legal action against EnergyAustralia and securing a landmark result: an apology for greenwashing and a commitment to direct emission reduction.
Well done to Equity Generation Lawyers as well.
Have a read:
Well done to Equity Generation Lawyers as well.
Have a read:
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Tim Wilson, not my fault women have babies it's genetics 🤦
May 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Tim Wilson, not my fault women have babies it's genetics 🤦
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The law is still the law.
On the Hook
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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May 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The law is still the law.
Good one, @equifaxinc.bsky.social Super duper use of my time. Mostly, I was curious how small you could make a balance on a prepaid card.
May 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Good one, @equifaxinc.bsky.social Super duper use of my time. Mostly, I was curious how small you could make a balance on a prepaid card.
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This is magnificent from Annabel Crabb:
25 areas where people were most likely to work from home ... 7 of them were Liberal seats, 7 were "teal", all 25 of them were lost by the Coalition last night, including Dutton's own seat of Dickson.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... #Auspol
25 areas where people were most likely to work from home ... 7 of them were Liberal seats, 7 were "teal", all 25 of them were lost by the Coalition last night, including Dutton's own seat of Dickson.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... #Auspol
There's no mistaking Dutton's campaign gave women the 'ick'
The Liberals' 2022 election review couldn't be clearer. What is less comprehensible is the party's decision to initiate a policy reform in the 2025 campaign that could not — even with a lab full of hi...
www.abc.net.au
May 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
This is magnificent from Annabel Crabb:
25 areas where people were most likely to work from home ... 7 of them were Liberal seats, 7 were "teal", all 25 of them were lost by the Coalition last night, including Dutton's own seat of Dickson.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... #Auspol
25 areas where people were most likely to work from home ... 7 of them were Liberal seats, 7 were "teal", all 25 of them were lost by the Coalition last night, including Dutton's own seat of Dickson.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... #Auspol
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Dutton’s comments show we are back to punching down on Indigenous Australians for attention – and votes | Lorena Allam
Dutton’s comments show we are back to punching down on Indigenous Australians for attention – and votes | Lorena Allam
It is disingenuous for politicians to be shocked when people decide to turn words into action, even in the predawn hush of Anzac Day
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Most days during the election campaign, millions of my fellow Sydneysiders and I commute past a big cartoon-yellow billboard for Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots, whose platform declares that “we don’t need to be welcomed to our own country”.
I cycle through a range of emotions while stuck in traffic: despair, anger and finally fatigue. As a Yuwaalaraay woman, I don’t need to be welcomed to my own country; my elders welcome visitors in an act of generosity and respect that is centuries old. This is all so familiar: another election campaign where punching down on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for attention and votes is the default setting.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Dutton’s comments show we are back to punching down on Indigenous Australians for attention – and votes | Lorena Allam
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Liberal party truck getting stuck under a bridge is the perfect "getting back on track" metaphor 😂 #auspol #ausvotes25
April 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Liberal party truck getting stuck under a bridge is the perfect "getting back on track" metaphor 😂 #auspol #ausvotes25
What kind of a person plays a game in which they get to decide if a homeless mother gives her children up to foster care or spends her pittance on food or heat while her children freeze or starve? And why do I keep seeing ads for it? #gardenscapes
April 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
What kind of a person plays a game in which they get to decide if a homeless mother gives her children up to foster care or spends her pittance on food or heat while her children freeze or starve? And why do I keep seeing ads for it? #gardenscapes
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"Temu Trump" moniker gas taken hold " . amy #temutrump #auspol
April 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"Temu Trump" moniker gas taken hold " . amy #temutrump #auspol
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Australian gas production has tripled over the last ten years, and so have gas prices, our research shows.
…but some people think even more gas production will reduce gas prices!?!
“The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.” #auspol
…but some people think even more gas production will reduce gas prices!?!
“The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.” #auspol
March 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Australian gas production has tripled over the last ten years, and so have gas prices, our research shows.
…but some people think even more gas production will reduce gas prices!?!
“The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.” #auspol
…but some people think even more gas production will reduce gas prices!?!
“The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.” #auspol
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Chief economist Greg Jericho explains why the RBA needs to cut interest rates next week. The best time to do it was six months ago. The next best time is next week.
December 4, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Chief economist Greg Jericho explains why the RBA needs to cut interest rates next week. The best time to do it was six months ago. The next best time is next week.
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Heartwarming Gravy Donation Drive
Heartwarming Gravy Donation Drive
YouTube video by The Onion
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November 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Heartwarming Gravy Donation Drive
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I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
November 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber
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“If Adam Picked the Apple” by Danielle Coffyn
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem
November 18, 2024 at 3:05 AM
“If Adam Picked the Apple” by Danielle Coffyn
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem
Love this. Reminds me of “If Men Could Menstruate” by Gloria Steinem