Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by John Donegan

Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 2h

Some much-needed good news

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term

A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.

www.bbc.com

2 10 58

Reposted by John Donegan

AFL Fans Association @aflfans.bsky.social · 1h

1 City, 2 Codes, 3 Premierships.

Can the AFLW Lionesses make back to back Grand Finals to have a chance of getting the quadrella?

📸 Brisbane Lions

1 1

Reposted by John Donegan

Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 3h

Striding towards the ferry to head north over the harbour – Sydney in February 1968 (photo by R. Donaldson, State Library of New South Wales)

b&w photo of an everyday scene near a ferry wharf taking passengers to Neutral Bay and Cremorne and Mosman – at the centre of the shot is a woman wearing a dress that's billowing to the right. Other people are all and a newspaper headline 'Don Lane in Court' is displayed.

2 3

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 51m

I hope Marwan Barghouti wins the Nobel Prize.

1 2

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 52m

“The system has checks and balances to curb presidential excesses”

The system:

a dumpster is on fire in a flooded area with the words everything 's fine below it .

Alt: a dumpster is on fire in a flooded area with the words everything 's fine below it .

media.tenor.com

1 1

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 55m

You just know they kicked David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social out of the sport club because he won everything.

2

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 1h

My brain has been known to shart too…

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 2h

All very excellent points.
You’re right. No one should be excluded from the democratic exercise at all.

🏳️‍⚧️ and non-binary people have enough real-world experience of exclusion that i can’t imagine they’d want others excluded based on gender.

My brain farts shouldn’t always be poasted.

1 1

Reposted by John Donegan

disturbedByVoices @godhatesgoth.bsky.social · 6h

1 36

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 6h

When did genocide become “good”?

4

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

You can believe in the primacy of the social contract, or you can believe that society exists to support the economy.

What do you believe?

3

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

Capitalism isn’t democracy.

2 3 9

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

That doesn’t mean he’s still alive.

If Mohamed Bone Saws wasn’t amused, he could be cactus.

Reposted by John Donegan

KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 18h

Deregulated free zones are the most sinister and pernicious form of corporate overreach designed to exit democracy, and bypass public participation in the decision-making process.

7 10

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

I thought Jimeoin died thirty years ago.
Like, not cancelled, actually dead.
Please. Don’t tell me he still kicking.
Please. Don’t.

1

Reposted by John Donegan

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 21h

We had a period in Australia when only men could vote.
That didn’t work.
So we’ve tried everyone having the vote for the last 58 years.
That hasn’t worked.

Maybe it’s time to try only women get to vote.

4 12 53

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

The conservatives in Australia worked this out. All MPs and senators had a gummint-funded printing budget. Paid millions over the odds to a printing company that returned the money as a donation to the party. Perfectly, immorally legal.

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem legal not to offer that option. Unless it’s that awful app that has its own laws.

1

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

❤️

1

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 18h

There’s no best-before date on those beauties.

1 1

Reposted by John Donegan

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

210 2.5K 14K

Reposted by John Donegan

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 22d

King Charles and President Trump sharing an after-dinner cognac at Windsor Castle and comparing notes and laughing at how they and their families got away with raping children, while their crumb-maidens march the streets of England blaming migrants for all the shit the ruling class perpetrates.

1 8 70

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 19h

So. It’s worked for you.
It’s worked for me too.
That’s not how I judge a system.
Since Keating’s Redfern speech, the gap has only widened.
The gummint (both parties) demand 4.5% unemployed to keep the economy running at its optimum but leave those 4.5% living below the poverty line 🤷

1 1

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 19h

“And on that point, we will rotate the call…”
Is there any more delicious statement in #auspol?

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 19h

Well, it’s worked for the few with property and power.
The foundation of all our laws were written when only men who owned property could vote.
Rape was treated as a property crime until the mid-1970s in Australia.
The police and courts still treat it as such.

1