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@demwar.bsky.social
Once described in HuffPost as “one of the brightest minds on the planet”… (true) but I’m pretty sure that journo was high. (also true).
Founder MiVote | Global Democracy Activist | Author | Dilettante polymath
📍Bunurong, Turrbal and Yuggera Country.
Founder MiVote | Global Democracy Activist | Author | Dilettante polymath
📍Bunurong, Turrbal and Yuggera Country.
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@demwar.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Vote like your best mate is indigenous, your daughter is gay, your uncle is on NDIS, your brother is on the poverty line, your neighbour is an immigrant and your kids have to live on this planet for decades after you leave.
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I would imagine Gen X votes would correlate with how well people feel they are doing financially, compared to the promise of the world we were born into.
February 1, 2026 at 9:09 AM
I would imagine Gen X votes would correlate with how well people feel they are doing financially, compared to the promise of the world we were born into.
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My concern is with big G's money, anything is doable. Trump demonstrates every single day that it doesn't have to be legal or 'constitutional' & there's no reason that what's happening to US society now "couldn't" happen here. Big G throws her weight around to get what she wants all the time.
February 1, 2026 at 9:05 AM
My concern is with big G's money, anything is doable. Trump demonstrates every single day that it doesn't have to be legal or 'constitutional' & there's no reason that what's happening to US society now "couldn't" happen here. Big G throws her weight around to get what she wants all the time.
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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Calling it now. One Nation will win 0 (zero) lower house seats next election.
February 1, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Calling it now. One Nation will win 0 (zero) lower house seats next election.
Musetti’s groin leading 4-1 opening set
February 1, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Musetti’s groin leading 4-1 opening set
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If the UK is anything to go by, they’ll lurch even further to the right and adopt ON policies and end up destroying their own voter base.
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
If the UK is anything to go by, they’ll lurch even further to the right and adopt ON policies and end up destroying their own voter base.
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What's actually really worrying about this is that Hanson's teamed up with Baaarnaby, they've both got big Gina's backing, they all partied at the Mar a Lago paedo club, with the Lunatic-in-Chief et al ... ffs, anything is possible, since - & hold my vommy bucket - they're all 'in bed together'.
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
What's actually really worrying about this is that Hanson's teamed up with Baaarnaby, they've both got big Gina's backing, they all partied at the Mar a Lago paedo club, with the Lunatic-in-Chief et al ... ffs, anything is possible, since - & hold my vommy bucket - they're all 'in bed together'.
I wonder if @australianlabor.bsky.social is thinking about its performance in the context of its thumping election victory and the reprehensible One Nation gaining ground so quickly.
They will think it justifies a further lurch away from compassion and decency. They will be very wrong. Again.
They will think it justifies a further lurch away from compassion and decency. They will be very wrong. Again.
February 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
I wonder if @australianlabor.bsky.social is thinking about its performance in the context of its thumping election victory and the reprehensible One Nation gaining ground so quickly.
They will think it justifies a further lurch away from compassion and decency. They will be very wrong. Again.
They will think it justifies a further lurch away from compassion and decency. They will be very wrong. Again.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
But he barely knew him. They weren’t friends. He never went to the parties or the island. He didn’t like him. He thought he was a creep.
February 1, 2026 at 8:33 AM
But he barely knew him. They weren’t friends. He never went to the parties or the island. He didn’t like him. He thought he was a creep.
EXCUSE ME!!!
Steve Bannon interfered in the 2019 Australian federal election, as part of a global effort to stifle climate action.
He should face investigation under Australia’s foreign interference laws.
#auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
He should face investigation under Australia’s foreign interference laws.
#auspol
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files
Trump ally Steve Bannon told paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 he had influenced an omnipresent election advertising campaign by the mining billionaire.
www.smh.com.au
February 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
EXCUSE ME!!!
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C.S. Lewis fans, get your popcorn ready.
January 31, 2026 at 5:42 PM
C.S. Lewis fans, get your popcorn ready.
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“I was raped three times a day and I wasn’t the only girl. It was a conveyor belt of abuse.”
#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
February 1, 2026 at 1:42 AM
“I was raped three times a day and I wasn’t the only girl. It was a conveyor belt of abuse.”
#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
NINE PERCENT.
Ley is less popular here than Trump is in the US and he is the least popular President ever.
He’s murdering and kidnapping people and she is less popular THAN THAT!
Ley is less popular here than Trump is in the US and he is the least popular President ever.
He’s murdering and kidnapping people and she is less popular THAN THAT!
🚨 NEW: Sussan Ley's support as preferred prime minister has dropped to 9% in the first RedBridge/Accent poll of 2026
February 1, 2026 at 8:21 AM
NINE PERCENT.
Ley is less popular here than Trump is in the US and he is the least popular President ever.
He’s murdering and kidnapping people and she is less popular THAN THAT!
Ley is less popular here than Trump is in the US and he is the least popular President ever.
He’s murdering and kidnapping people and she is less popular THAN THAT!
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Summer in Melbourne: 1 week ago it was 47° in my yard. Today I’m wearing a beanie and it’s freezing.
a man with ice on his face says i 'm fine , everything is fine
ALT: a man with ice on his face says i 'm fine , everything is fine
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Summer in Melbourne: 1 week ago it was 47° in my yard. Today I’m wearing a beanie and it’s freezing.
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Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."
One the MiVote positions (written into our constitution) was that 16 years old could vote.
Needed more than ever.
Needed more than ever.
give kids the vote
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM
One the MiVote positions (written into our constitution) was that 16 years old could vote.
Needed more than ever.
Needed more than ever.
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Yeah hey JD remember that? What ever happened with that?
February 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Yeah hey JD remember that? What ever happened with that?
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“Dad, someone in The Trading Post is advertising tickets to see the Melania movie”
“What do they want?”
“They’ll pay you 50 bucks if you sit through the whole thing and not fall asleep “
“Tell ‘em they’re dreaming’ “
“What do they want?”
“They’ll pay you 50 bucks if you sit through the whole thing and not fall asleep “
“Tell ‘em they’re dreaming’ “
February 1, 2026 at 7:37 AM
“Dad, someone in The Trading Post is advertising tickets to see the Melania movie”
“What do they want?”
“They’ll pay you 50 bucks if you sit through the whole thing and not fall asleep “
“Tell ‘em they’re dreaming’ “
“What do they want?”
“They’ll pay you 50 bucks if you sit through the whole thing and not fall asleep “
“Tell ‘em they’re dreaming’ “
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WTF Gen X. We were supposed to be the good guys, not making the mistakes our parents made. Property prices have cooked us.
February 1, 2026 at 7:39 AM
WTF Gen X. We were supposed to be the good guys, not making the mistakes our parents made. Property prices have cooked us.
Boomers preference: 56% psycho
February 1, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Boomers preference: 56% psycho
“I heard it absolves me”
Read as: we won’t release 3 million files and the files we did release had hundreds of FBI agents removing incriminating evidence of decades of my child raping.
Only a guillotine will do.
Read as: we won’t release 3 million files and the files we did release had hundreds of FBI agents removing incriminating evidence of decades of my child raping.
Only a guillotine will do.
Trump on Epstein Files: I was told by some very important people that not only does it absolve me, it's the opposite of what people were hoping, you know, the radical left.
February 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
“I heard it absolves me”
Read as: we won’t release 3 million files and the files we did release had hundreds of FBI agents removing incriminating evidence of decades of my child raping.
Only a guillotine will do.
Read as: we won’t release 3 million files and the files we did release had hundreds of FBI agents removing incriminating evidence of decades of my child raping.
Only a guillotine will do.