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@heradescends.bsky.social

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Recently divorced from my idealism, ex public servant facing the absurdity but still willing to serve; on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung & Bunurong Boon Wurrung country ‘The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men’ Plato (allegedly)🇦🇺🇬🇷✊🏽⚖️

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · Nov 11

Look I’m not sure if I’m ready to re-engage with the world but I’m certain that I yearn to breathe free under a blue sky… with some nice kind folk

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 9m

My late night post may have been too optimistic, strange times

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 2h

The Antichrist plagued by his own evil feelings and deeds creates a meta lecture series hydrated only by his perpetual cold sweat given his pasty corporeal shell houses fire channelled straight from hell… alternatively this very rich man is insane and should be nowhere near any power or government

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 9h

Wild stuff, Qatar Air Force base in Idaho, definitely woke

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

WWWWWWWTTTTTTTTTFFFFFFFFF!!! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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EFSYN @efsyntakton.bsky.social · 10h

Την παρομοιάζουν με την Μάργκαρετ Θάτσερ και τον Ρόναλντ Ρήγκαν • Μιλά για τη μείωση του κράτους και των επιδομάτων • Ζητά την ιδιωτικοποίηση όλων των εταιρειών που κρατικοποιήθηκαν από τον Τσάβες

www.efsyn.gr/kosmos/latin...

Το -καθόλου φιλειρηνικό- προφίλ της Μαρίας Κορίνας Ματσάδο που πήρε το Νόμπελ

Την παρομοιάζουν με την Μάργκαρετ Θάτσερ και τον Ρόναλντ Ρήγκαν

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 11h

representing all who died in a 2 year plus genocide or the Drs of Gaza, or countless other human rights activists and organisations trying to save international justice which is essential to world peace, but what do I know, I’m just one insignificant citizen of the world posting in the night.

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 11h

I’m a bit cynical & the history of the award has some lessons, so I look to 2026 dare I say for a less transactional process & recipient that more fully embodies the hope & peace this award serves perhaps Francesca Albanese or the Palestinian Civil Defence or a surviving Palestinian journalist (5/6)

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 11h

and some ends perhaps not so noble or clear given some of her political views. Trump’s ego has been bruised, its a whole separate entity the world has to contend with in this moment but this is a politically complex recipient, so while she’s certainly fearlessly fighting for her country (4/6)

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t think the Trump admin will have any trouble embracing this recipient to further their illegal foreign policy ends in the Caribbean and beyond, while the recipient also furthers her ends some noble (Maduro is a tyrant and Venezuela deserves to be free of him, the how still matters); (3/6)

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 11h

that’s both unfair to Machado & also overlooks or avoids that this award has an inconsistent history of true ‘peace’ recipients and if we apply a broader humanitarian world lens to an award that could have more symbolic power, in the current climate while I see the surface value of the choice, (2/6)

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 11h

Not sure I should post on this, or perhaps why I feel the need to share a view (a rare thread), but there’s a lot of this weird binary, world relief stick it to Trump framing of this years award in part because Trump has carried on about it, but mostly because of his unchecked authoritarianism (1/6)

Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 12h

This is such a weird framing — nobody “loses” the Nobel Peace Prize!

It’s not like he was in the postseason for Nobels or something; he “lost” only as much as, like, your mom did.

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 13h

What is this the Band of German Maidens, for a split scroll I thought it was the one prosecuting Comey but this is another one with flowing aryan tresses

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

BARTIROMO: Trump says Pritzker and Brandon Johnson should be in jail. Your reaction?

TRICIA McLAUGHLIN: They are aiding and abetting criminals ... Pritzker is lying about racial profiling going on

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 13h

Very brave

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 17h

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

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 13h

Great thread on Japanese politics, the global trend of neoliberal governments finding it difficult to govern continues, ironically some might say due to the many headed hydra of globalism

Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social · 15h

Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 14h

Even if you don’t agree with every part of this or the dramatic title, the overarching argument is sound and unsettling like a lot of reality now not the unreality we’re all being subjected to almost 24/7, nothing good comes of a fallen France

Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 16h

My take on the unfolding French disaster, featuring the wise words of @julienhoez.eu:

France's political chaos could bring down Europe

This continent has a leadership vacuum at its most dangerous moment since World War II, facing an unprecedented threat from both Russia and America.

davekeating.substack.com

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 16h

😂

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 18h

Nice info graph of #hybrid attacks on Europe by The Economist.

www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 18h

Portland reclaiming the frog

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

Nearly 150 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2024, mainly in Latin America.

Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up

Nearly 150 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2024, mainly in Latin America.

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 19h

On grounds of ‘moral incapacity’ you say… a rather distinguished international list could be drafted in a jiffy on that basis…

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h

Unlike eight previous attempts to remove the president, almost all legislative factions expressed support for the move.

Peru’s Congress votes to remove President Boluarte as crime grips nation

Unlike eight previous attempts to remove the president, almost all legislative factions expressed support for the move.

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 20h

Made the mistake of checking into the mainstream The Age about this phase 1 ceasefire and I’m going to have to up my meditation and invest in a scented candle company or learn how to make them myself, read this instead… and with that I bid a healing adieu and a focus on the breath and the moment

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 20h

These types of ceasefires are highly coercive agreements that enable the more powerful party to force the weaker party to agree to whatever they want.

The Gaza ceasefire deal could be a ‘strangle contract’, with Israel holding all the cards

theconversation.com

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 20h

I despair, the easiest political and substantive policy win for this self sabotaging mandated govt is to appoint a new qualified leader to our first NACC so it moves forward & then perhaps undertake a longish ‘review’ of public hearing powers given their cowardice (whether deliberate or intestinal)

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

Even after being found guilty of 'officer misconduct' for mishandling the Robodebt referral, Commissioner of the NACC continues consultancy role despite concerns of perceived conflicts of interest.

At $820k/year surely he can focus on doing one job well?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Corruption watchdog head 'consulted' for ADF inspector general 11 times

Paul Brereton and Labor politicians had previously stated he had stepped away from the body and resigned as assistant inspector-general of the ADF prior to taking on the top integrity job.

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 20h

Interesting comments on this thread… it’s Friday and I’m going to be lazy, history repeats itself and it’s will be both tragedy and farce on this occasion to meet the absurdity of our particular artificial reality

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 22h

I know we’re all worried about climate apocalypse or old white strongman nuclear Armageddon but I feel it might be the cumulative impact of the absurd unreality, lying & hypocrisy that might do me in via spontaneous aneurysm while reading the news, it will be that one small lie too many and kaput

Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 1d

This is utterly … what’s the word? Oh yes … fucked.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 1d

In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org offers three thoughts on former FBI Director James Comey's arraignment—the likes of which he has never seen before.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

Though Israel and its allies have derided Palestinian resistance groups for holding hostages in Gaza, Israel itself is holding thousands of Palestinian hostages, both dead and alive, in its own prisons.

At least 250 Palestinian bodies have not been returned to their families.