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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 22m

it was 2017 when I made the video from this cartoon about Australia's desire to put people in immigration detention camps. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Guardian readers (the most sensible people on earth) decide who should be sent to the camps! | First Dog on the Moon

Take our exciting and extremely scientific poll and we’ll use our sinister mainstream media powers to sway public opinion to your awful ideas

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 22m

@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social has been using "get in the van" for many years. Sadly it's a reality now

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago TV journalist violently forced to the ground by ICE agents, handcuffed and put in a van. Witnesses call arrest of the US citizen by masked federal agents "absolutely horrifying"

Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid, later released

Witnesses call arrest of video editor Debbie Brockman, a US citizen, by masked federal agents, ‘absolutely horrifying’

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

Seems to me the least American people in these interactions are the ICE agents and Trump administration ignoring basic American rights.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Well played, @theguardian.com
You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Err, not that they'll listen to anything approaching evidence but wouldn't that mean rates of autism would be higher in the US compared to Europe, the UK, and Australia? amp.9news.com.au/article/a6af...

Robert F Kennedy claims circumcision linked to autism

amp.9news.com.au

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

I was really hoping the explanation here was other politicians got sick of being absolutely hammered by Pocock at every touch footy get together. It's not that.

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

I'm off work this week, so don't know who wrote this headline, but it deserves an award. Perhaps a Walkley, a Pulitzer… a Nobel Peace Prize!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller said Trump has ‘plenary authority’. What does that mean?

White House deputy chief of staff had an odd pause during a CNN interview when asked about the president’s power to deploy national guard troops

www.theguardian.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Is antifa in the room with us now?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

World is fukt

Headline from front page of the Australian financial review newspaper in 2014. Search “world is fukt” for the full story.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

PressGazette says Guardian recorded a search visibility score in UK of 224, which is almost 3x higher than the No2 publisher

Barry Adams @polemicdigital.com says it's because Guardian’s "volume, quality, and topical coverage is almost unmatched by any other publication" 😍

Most leading UK news websites fell down Google rankings in 2025

Around six in ten of the UK’s biggest news websites have seen a drop in their visibility in Google search results in 2025 so far.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

"So white evangelicals, I have to admit you were right. All these violent things you imagined and warned the government would one day do are coming true."

Dear white evangelicals, I was wrong

I need to offer a full apology to white evangelicals. I was wrong. You were right. I make no excuses and offer no explanations or caveats. I wish I would have listened to you and taken your warnings seriously. The other day, I saw an image of a Christian pastor falling backward as masked, armed...

baptistnews.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 2d

Trump calls for jailing of Democratic mayor and governor in Illinois as troops from Texas arrive in Chicago for deployment

Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 3d

Bodies have been collected and identified before burial, and the list of named victims is recognised as authoritative by the international community, the UN and Israel’s military, who are aware they are killing large numbers of children

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 3d

18,457 deaths is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day over almost two years.

In reality siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters can arrive at hospital in groups, doctors say.

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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 3d

More than 973 babies under a year old have been killed. 1,007 5-year-olds have been killed and 934 10-year-olds.

Of the 60,199 Palestinian deaths as a direct result of Israeli aggression, 31% were children. More than 40,000 children have been injured in the war.

Of the 60,199 deaths recorded by July 2025, 18,457 or 31% were children

Deaths as a direct result of Israeli aggression, as of 30 July 2025

More than 973 infants under a year old have been killed
1,255 16-year-olds

Each circle represents five children

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