Barbara Flowers
@babsflowers.bsky.social
Erstwhile, but eternal, law librarian. Love all Bachs, the greater and the lesser. #auspol
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Fancy having such a violent hateful ideology that you throw an explosive device into a peaceful gathering of the demographic you hate so much, yet you can't stand behind your beliefs so you instruct your solicitor to keep your identity blocked #auspol big debate in parliament tomorrow I bet 🙁
February 17, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Fancy having such a violent hateful ideology that you throw an explosive device into a peaceful gathering of the demographic you hate so much, yet you can't stand behind your beliefs so you instruct your solicitor to keep your identity blocked #auspol big debate in parliament tomorrow I bet 🙁
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To be resilient, Europe must see all US involvement in European infrastructure as suspect and act urgently to replace it.
The distrust among Europeans is already there, and growing. It needs to be harnessed to create a resilient future.
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The distrust among Europeans is already there, and growing. It needs to be harnessed to create a resilient future.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
To be resilient, Europe must see all US involvement in European infrastructure as suspect and act urgently to replace it.
The distrust among Europeans is already there, and growing. It needs to be harnessed to create a resilient future.
5/5
The distrust among Europeans is already there, and growing. It needs to be harnessed to create a resilient future.
5/5
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"Rather than dilute its data laws, Europe should start to enforce them rigorously, to finally break the chokehold that Google, Microsoft and Amazon have over the European market."
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February 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
"Rather than dilute its data laws, Europe should start to enforce them rigorously, to finally break the chokehold that Google, Microsoft and Amazon have over the European market."
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"For now, though, Europe still outsources the machinery and plumbing of its democracy, commerce and military to US tech firms. This has, in effect, handed Trump a kill switch that Europeans should fear."
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February 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
"For now, though, Europe still outsources the machinery and plumbing of its democracy, commerce and military to US tech firms. This has, in effect, handed Trump a kill switch that Europeans should fear."
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It is ironic, but the horrors of the Trump era could ultimately strengthen Europe and its allies. We can and must wean ourselves off US tech.
While the Trumpian rhetoric claims that he's making America "great" again, the reality is he is destroying it.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the Trumpian rhetoric claims that he's making America "great" again, the reality is he is destroying it.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan
By trusting the US, we handed Trump a kill switch. Yet Europe’s digital sovereignty is an achievable goal, says civil liberties campaigner, Johnny Ryan
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:20 AM
It is ironic, but the horrors of the Trump era could ultimately strengthen Europe and its allies. We can and must wean ourselves off US tech.
While the Trumpian rhetoric claims that he's making America "great" again, the reality is he is destroying it.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the Trumpian rhetoric claims that he's making America "great" again, the reality is he is destroying it.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I live in Goldstein
Tim Wilson ran a toxic campaign, used third party entities to intimidate voters and Zoe Daniel & volunteers
He will do anything to win
Just a grub
Vote independent in 2028
#auspol
Tim Wilson ran a toxic campaign, used third party entities to intimidate voters and Zoe Daniel & volunteers
He will do anything to win
Just a grub
Vote independent in 2028
#auspol
February 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I live in Goldstein
Tim Wilson ran a toxic campaign, used third party entities to intimidate voters and Zoe Daniel & volunteers
He will do anything to win
Just a grub
Vote independent in 2028
#auspol
Tim Wilson ran a toxic campaign, used third party entities to intimidate voters and Zoe Daniel & volunteers
He will do anything to win
Just a grub
Vote independent in 2028
#auspol
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The cashola that will flow from a few anointed developers to the LNP will be off the charts.
No wonder they wanted to reintroduce developer donations. LNP will make a mint while Brisvegans stay homeless.
#qldpol #auspol #2032Games #OlypmicGames #BrisbaneOlympics
www.theage.com.au/national/que...
No wonder they wanted to reintroduce developer donations. LNP will make a mint while Brisvegans stay homeless.
#qldpol #auspol #2032Games #OlypmicGames #BrisbaneOlympics
www.theage.com.au/national/que...
Thousands of new homes planned for former athletes’ village site
Six hectares of riverfront land at Northshore Hamilton will be opened for development, with five parcels going up for sale this week.
www.theage.com.au
February 17, 2026 at 10:38 AM
The cashola that will flow from a few anointed developers to the LNP will be off the charts.
No wonder they wanted to reintroduce developer donations. LNP will make a mint while Brisvegans stay homeless.
#qldpol #auspol #2032Games #OlypmicGames #BrisbaneOlympics
www.theage.com.au/national/que...
No wonder they wanted to reintroduce developer donations. LNP will make a mint while Brisvegans stay homeless.
#qldpol #auspol #2032Games #OlypmicGames #BrisbaneOlympics
www.theage.com.au/national/que...
We have a very big story in Qld...the LNP Victoria Park property dodge ... but I guess as it's not in Sydney or Melbourne it's not a real story
February 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM
We have a very big story in Qld...the LNP Victoria Park property dodge ... but I guess as it's not in Sydney or Melbourne it's not a real story
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Share and spread and share and spread. . .
"Hard-right Zionist lobby group, the Australian Jewish Association (AJA), is promoting an Israeli real estate scheme with its ‘partners’, Noam Homes and Selling Israel, selling land in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the West Bank." michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...
Israel lobby sells stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors - Michael West
The Australian Jewish Association is promoting an Israeli real estate scheme selling stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors.
michaelwest.com.au
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Share and spread and share and spread. . .
"Hard-right Zionist lobby group, the Australian Jewish Association (AJA), is promoting an Israeli real estate scheme with its ‘partners’, Noam Homes and Selling Israel, selling land in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the West Bank." michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...
Israel lobby sells stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors - Michael West
The Australian Jewish Association is promoting an Israeli real estate scheme selling stolen Palestinian land to Australian investors.
michaelwest.com.au
February 17, 2026 at 7:45 AM
"Hard-right Zionist lobby group, the Australian Jewish Association (AJA), is promoting an Israeli real estate scheme with its ‘partners’, Noam Homes and Selling Israel, selling land in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including the West Bank." michaelwest.com.au/israel-lobby...
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Despite white Zionist propaganda says … Palestine is also one of humanity’s oldest toponyms … Herodotus, the world’s first true historian, describes the area we know as Palestine, as “Syria Palestina” (Παλαιστίνη) around 480BCE.
blakandblack.com/2026/02/17/p...
blakandblack.com/2026/02/17/p...
Palestine, Herodotus and the Integrity of the Historical Record
Herodotus’s Palaistin? is the echo of older Semitic names, transmitted into Greek, and adopted by successive generations.
blakandblack.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Despite white Zionist propaganda says … Palestine is also one of humanity’s oldest toponyms … Herodotus, the world’s first true historian, describes the area we know as Palestine, as “Syria Palestina” (Παλαιστίνη) around 480BCE.
blakandblack.com/2026/02/17/p...
blakandblack.com/2026/02/17/p...
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it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
My god do we need UBI
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
“Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“
Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet
Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.
www.nbcnews.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:56 AM
it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters
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I look at the USA and say “it couldn’t happen here”
But yes, this is exactly how it happened there
20 years of gutting education and science
And now the CDC is led by a brain worm piloting a racist moron meatpuppet
But yes, this is exactly how it happened there
20 years of gutting education and science
And now the CDC is led by a brain worm piloting a racist moron meatpuppet
February 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM
I look at the USA and say “it couldn’t happen here”
But yes, this is exactly how it happened there
20 years of gutting education and science
And now the CDC is led by a brain worm piloting a racist moron meatpuppet
But yes, this is exactly how it happened there
20 years of gutting education and science
And now the CDC is led by a brain worm piloting a racist moron meatpuppet
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WILDLIFE FAILED... AGAIN
Georgie Purcell MP: "Wildlife were left for dead and the network designed to help them was not adequately employed — we need answers and we need them now."
#Wildlife #Bushfires #SpringSt #VicPol #AusPol #AusPol2026 #Animals #AnimalWelfare #Victoria #Vote1AJP
Georgie Purcell MP: "Wildlife were left for dead and the network designed to help them was not adequately employed — we need answers and we need them now."
#Wildlife #Bushfires #SpringSt #VicPol #AusPol #AusPol2026 #Animals #AnimalWelfare #Victoria #Vote1AJP
February 16, 2026 at 9:39 PM
WILDLIFE FAILED... AGAIN
Georgie Purcell MP: "Wildlife were left for dead and the network designed to help them was not adequately employed — we need answers and we need them now."
#Wildlife #Bushfires #SpringSt #VicPol #AusPol #AusPol2026 #Animals #AnimalWelfare #Victoria #Vote1AJP
Georgie Purcell MP: "Wildlife were left for dead and the network designed to help them was not adequately employed — we need answers and we need them now."
#Wildlife #Bushfires #SpringSt #VicPol #AusPol #AusPol2026 #Animals #AnimalWelfare #Victoria #Vote1AJP
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I reckon they can drag this out for a full week at least…
February 16, 2026 at 9:30 AM
I reckon they can drag this out for a full week at least…
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This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
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#7:30report🗓️ with wall-to-wall reporting on #LNPrubbish
Last Monday #LNP & 🚼mineapolis
Tuesday🛩️ #NSWprotests
Wednesday 31mins🔀 #LNP🤠
Thursday 29minutes🔀 #LNP🫗
& of course
a special Friday program on #angus-augus-angus📴
backed up tonight with at least 18min interview with #angus📉
#auspol #springst
Last Monday #LNP & 🚼mineapolis
Tuesday🛩️ #NSWprotests
Wednesday 31mins🔀 #LNP🤠
Thursday 29minutes🔀 #LNP🫗
& of course
a special Friday program on #angus-augus-angus📴
backed up tonight with at least 18min interview with #angus📉
#auspol #springst
If you want pro Liberal party reporting and opinion, you don't need to pay News Corp, get it for free with the same shit with ABC News Australia. #springst #auspol #opinion
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
February 16, 2026 at 9:09 AM
#7:30report🗓️ with wall-to-wall reporting on #LNPrubbish
Last Monday #LNP & 🚼mineapolis
Tuesday🛩️ #NSWprotests
Wednesday 31mins🔀 #LNP🤠
Thursday 29minutes🔀 #LNP🫗
& of course
a special Friday program on #angus-augus-angus📴
backed up tonight with at least 18min interview with #angus📉
#auspol #springst
Last Monday #LNP & 🚼mineapolis
Tuesday🛩️ #NSWprotests
Wednesday 31mins🔀 #LNP🤠
Thursday 29minutes🔀 #LNP🫗
& of course
a special Friday program on #angus-augus-angus📴
backed up tonight with at least 18min interview with #angus📉
#auspol #springst
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The LNP have no policies because they are told what their policy agenda is by back room players such as IPA, (Abbott’s policies 2013), Advance, Atlas Network of networks.
Elected LNP politicians are told what they can say & vote for.
#auspol. thesnipertakesaim.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/i...
Elected LNP politicians are told what they can say & vote for.
#auspol. thesnipertakesaim.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/i...
IPA agenda to re-shape Australia
By Barry Tucker 2 March, 2013 The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) claims to be an independent think tank. It is funded by…
thesnipertakesaim.wordpress.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:29 AM
The LNP have no policies because they are told what their policy agenda is by back room players such as IPA, (Abbott’s policies 2013), Advance, Atlas Network of networks.
Elected LNP politicians are told what they can say & vote for.
#auspol. thesnipertakesaim.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/i...
Elected LNP politicians are told what they can say & vote for.
#auspol. thesnipertakesaim.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/i...
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"While there were Australian Jewish people who sought comfort from “their head of state”, there were also Australian Jewish people who found community in people protesting the invitation while Palestinians are still being killed by Israeli forces."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
This is not ‘social cohesion’ – it’s just a tighter net to trap us all
Australians have been lectured a lot in the past couple of years about social cohesion, but it reached a fever pitch this week in response to protests against the visit by Israel’s head of state.
thepoint.com.au
February 16, 2026 at 8:02 AM
"While there were Australian Jewish people who sought comfort from “their head of state”, there were also Australian Jewish people who found community in people protesting the invitation while Palestinians are still being killed by Israeli forces."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
"Our First Voices are, as Uncle Wesley Enoch says, the Elder culture of the planet. We have a chance to share the knowledge of thousands of generations with other, younger cultures, as the planet boils and the old world order implodes." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Not quite white in the head
An edited extract of the introduction chapter of 'Not Quite White in the Head' by Melissa Lucashenko, out now via all good bookstores and online.
thepoint.com.au
February 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
"Our First Voices are, as Uncle Wesley Enoch says, the Elder culture of the planet. We have a chance to share the knowledge of thousands of generations with other, younger cultures, as the planet boils and the old world order implodes." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Originally posted by @brismarsci.bsky.social over on X, this is a good read. As he says:
"The Zionist lobby, antisemitism and Herzog. Excellent article by John Menadue exposing the depth of control Zionists have over our politicians."
#auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
"The Zionist lobby, antisemitism and Herzog. Excellent article by John Menadue exposing the depth of control Zionists have over our politicians."
#auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
The Zionist lobby, antisemitism and Herzog
Australia’s political and media response to Gaza, including the invitation to Israel’s president, reflects the influence of pro-Israel lobbying and the shrinking space for lawful criticism.
johnmenadue.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Originally posted by @brismarsci.bsky.social over on X, this is a good read. As he says:
"The Zionist lobby, antisemitism and Herzog. Excellent article by John Menadue exposing the depth of control Zionists have over our politicians."
#auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
"The Zionist lobby, antisemitism and Herzog. Excellent article by John Menadue exposing the depth of control Zionists have over our politicians."
#auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...