@holmesp.bsky.social
Left leaning atheist, however have no problem with people of faith. Love nature animals and people.
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www.yahoo.com/news/article... Oh but it's not about oil .
Trump confirms US seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast after a monthslong buildup of military forces in the region.
www.yahoo.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
www.yahoo.com/news/article... Oh but it's not about oil .
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The richest 10% of the world’s population owns '75% of all wealth and the bottom half just 2%.'
'Reducing inequality was “not only about fairness, but essential for the resilience of economies, the stability of democracies, and the viability of our planet”
'Reducing inequality was “not only about fairness, but essential for the resilience of economies, the stability of democracies, and the viability of our planet”
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The richest 10% of the world’s population owns '75% of all wealth and the bottom half just 2%.'
'Reducing inequality was “not only about fairness, but essential for the resilience of economies, the stability of democracies, and the viability of our planet”
'Reducing inequality was “not only about fairness, but essential for the resilience of economies, the stability of democracies, and the viability of our planet”
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Are you starting to see the resemblance NOW?
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Are you starting to see the resemblance NOW?
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The Epstein Files STILL have not been released.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 AM
The Epstein Files STILL have not been released.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
If he wasn’t in them.
He’d have released them.
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x.com/BelindaJones...
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💧Bee 🐝🌿❤ on X: "@SkyNewsAust FYI, Senator James Paterson spent $38,184.80 on Family Travel in the last 3yrs (2022-2025) Anika Wells spent $36,142.90 in the same time period Let's have an investigation into Senator Paterson's taxpayer-funded spending spree Stones & glass houses Paterson 🐝 #auspol https://t.co/xSloc32UX5" / X
@SkyNewsAust FYI, Senator James Paterson spent $38,184.80 on Family Travel in the last 3yrs (2022-2025) Anika Wells spent $36,142.90 in the same time period Let's have an investigation into Senator Paterson's taxpayer-funded spending spree Stones & glass houses Paterson 🐝 #auspol https://t.co/xSloc32UX5
x.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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x.com/BelindaJones...
x.com/BelindaJones...
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Ordinary MP Senator Paterson has HIGHER expenses than the Minister with multiple portfolios .... but still attacks on expenses ..... with NO MEDIA fact checking his own record & hypocrisy.
December 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Ordinary MP Senator Paterson has HIGHER expenses than the Minister with multiple portfolios .... but still attacks on expenses ..... with NO MEDIA fact checking his own record & hypocrisy.
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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Nothing in this report will fix the rotten soul of this system, which grants dodgy private job agencies extraordinary power over people’s lives with no oversight or accountability. The mutual obligations system needs to be abolished.
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Nothing in this report will fix the rotten soul of this system, which grants dodgy private job agencies extraordinary power over people’s lives with no oversight or accountability. The mutual obligations system needs to be abolished.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Oh this is just beautiful!
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Oh this is just beautiful!
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Christmas decorations......in Australia......
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Christmas decorations......in Australia......
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Shout out to this guy (@albomp.bsky.social) for proving that age-old maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." 🙌🏻 #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Shout out to this guy (@albomp.bsky.social) for proving that age-old maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." 🙌🏻 #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
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Remember when the Labor Party's guiding ethos wasn't to punch down? No, us neither.
With a sneaky tweak, the government has made welfare recipients guilty until proven innocent
The government’s laws cancelling social security payments for some accused of crimes turn a safety net into a weapon for punishing people.
theconversation.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Remember when the Labor Party's guiding ethos wasn't to punch down? No, us neither.
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V2H/V2G turns the car in your driveway into a flexible battery, providing back-up power during outages, creating bill savings by powering the home at peak times, and creating the potential to earn bill credits or cash, by supporting the grid and discharging when prices are high.
December 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
V2H/V2G turns the car in your driveway into a flexible battery, providing back-up power during outages, creating bill savings by powering the home at peak times, and creating the potential to earn bill credits or cash, by supporting the grid and discharging when prices are high.
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When will our political duopoly do anything substantial to put the welfare of the people before themselves & donors. YES I am cynical after COVID, NACC, AUKUS, transparency & accountability, whistleblowers, Gaza, gambling, climate, media, consultancies, environment, housing, CSIRO & now Jobs 4 Mates
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When will our political duopoly do anything substantial to put the welfare of the people before themselves & donors. YES I am cynical after COVID, NACC, AUKUS, transparency & accountability, whistleblowers, Gaza, gambling, climate, media, consultancies, environment, housing, CSIRO & now Jobs 4 Mates
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Duterte is at The Hague for his extrajudicial murders. Let’s hope Trump, Hegseth, and any military commanders willing to follow their illegal orders end up there as well.
It is also unclear what evidence this administration provided to Congressional overseers establishing that it knew the identities of all 11 people on the boat.
And it *also* has not explained how a Kill List can exist when we are not at war and when the crimes in question are all nonviolent crimes.
And it *also* has not explained how a Kill List can exist when we are not at war and when the crimes in question are all nonviolent crimes.
December 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Duterte is at The Hague for his extrajudicial murders. Let’s hope Trump, Hegseth, and any military commanders willing to follow their illegal orders end up there as well.
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Another great shot of #SundayShot this morning - as always, insightful, respectful, and informative.
As Molly would say, “Do yourself a favour!”
@instanterudite.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
@davemilbo.bsky.social
youtu.be/wJq7Nnx-FZ4?...
As Molly would say, “Do yourself a favour!”
@instanterudite.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
@davemilbo.bsky.social
youtu.be/wJq7Nnx-FZ4?...
The Sunday Shot - December 7 2025
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Another great shot of #SundayShot this morning - as always, insightful, respectful, and informative.
As Molly would say, “Do yourself a favour!”
@instanterudite.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
@davemilbo.bsky.social
youtu.be/wJq7Nnx-FZ4?...
As Molly would say, “Do yourself a favour!”
@instanterudite.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
@davemilbo.bsky.social
youtu.be/wJq7Nnx-FZ4?...
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Greed is America's downfall. Money uber alles.
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Greed is America's downfall. Money uber alles.
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"Shoebridge was once a member of the Labor party’s Stanmore branch
...he watched the branch pass resolutions for progressive change, which were ignored...members told him they were always ignored, but persisted anyway."
That was 30 years ago.
Labor members are now just window dressing. #auspol
...he watched the branch pass resolutions for progressive change, which were ignored...members told him they were always ignored, but persisted anyway."
That was 30 years ago.
Labor members are now just window dressing. #auspol
Tax-minimising lawyer to ferocious Greens warrior: how an elevator ride changed David Shoebridge’s life
Tax-minimising lawyer to ferocious Greens warrior: how an elevator ride changed David Shoebridge’s life
One Liberal calls him ‘easily the most effective Green’ while an ex-minister says they shaped policy together. How did the former Labor member end up a heavy-hitting crossbencher?
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In the late 1990s, a corporate lawyer helping wealthy clients hide their assets was beginning to feel uncomfortable. There was a feeling that had been gnawing away at him for several weeks, becoming harder and harder to ignore. Eventually, while riding the elevator to work one morning, his subconscious took over.
“I don’t tend to make snap decisions, but I remember going up in the lift one morning and realising I just couldn’t do it any more,” he tells Guardian Australia. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Shoebridge was once a member of the Labor party’s Stanmore branch
...he watched the branch pass resolutions for progressive change, which were ignored...members told him they were always ignored, but persisted anyway."
That was 30 years ago.
Labor members are now just window dressing. #auspol
...he watched the branch pass resolutions for progressive change, which were ignored...members told him they were always ignored, but persisted anyway."
That was 30 years ago.
Labor members are now just window dressing. #auspol
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Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution.
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution.
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Albanese govt has done nothing to fix processes and culture behind #robodebt.
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
"Albanese government staffers – as well as senior Commonwealth public servants – privately fume at what they claim are abuses of laws and practices surrounding transparency by people whose sole aim is to embarrass the government."
Exclusive: PM’s office directs lobbyists to use encrypted, disappearing messages
Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government has pushed lobbyists and industry groups to use encrypted messages and verbal briefings when proposing policy ideas, to avoid FOI and disclosure requir...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Albanese govt has done nothing to fix processes and culture behind #robodebt.
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
They've prosecuted #whistleblowers, abused #FOI, expanded secrecy, and knackered the #NACC, with no consequences for the guilty.
Robodebt could happen again.
Avoiding government embarrassment is not a priority. #auspol
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Both judges and juries bring biases to the courtroom. The critical difference is that juries are more diverse than a single judge. Today, 89% of judges are white, 61% are men, and around a third attended private school. Fewer than 10% come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. UK justice
December 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Both judges and juries bring biases to the courtroom. The critical difference is that juries are more diverse than a single judge. Today, 89% of judges are white, 61% are men, and around a third attended private school. Fewer than 10% come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. UK justice
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At least 12 homes were destroyed as 75 bushfires burn across NSW. Fires are burning in several states. But let's ignore the impacts of #ClimateChange and focus on protecting the #FossilFuelsIndustry and their profits. #auspol
December 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
At least 12 homes were destroyed as 75 bushfires burn across NSW. Fires are burning in several states. But let's ignore the impacts of #ClimateChange and focus on protecting the #FossilFuelsIndustry and their profits. #auspol