Jack M Davenport
@jackmdavenport.bsky.social
Social worker, Survivor, neurodivergent, and advocate for children’s rights reform in lutruwita/Tasmania. Father, husband and wine lover 🍷
Haemorrhaging votes to the UK Green Party like blood from a lacerated arm, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social decides the best approach is to gut themselves with a meat cleaver, because that will get the undecideds on board.
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Haemorrhaging votes to the UK Green Party like blood from a lacerated arm, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social decides the best approach is to gut themselves with a meat cleaver, because that will get the undecideds on board.
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
(I mean seriously, which cohort of voters is this aimed at FFS?)
#ukpolitics
Women & children face significant dangers from the promotion of gun use, even if not immediately obvious. Many violent offenders access firearms because they have friends or family that hunt. Every time I hear ‘but she let him in’ my first question is ‘does he have access to a gun?’ #auspol
“There is no public interest in this Bill. It is not about conservation or environmental protection - it is simply a blatant push by vested interests that will unwind the bipartisan legacy of the National Firearms Agreement and make all Australians less safe,” Walter Mikac AM said
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Women & children face significant dangers from the promotion of gun use, even if not immediately obvious. Many violent offenders access firearms because they have friends or family that hunt. Every time I hear ‘but she let him in’ my first question is ‘does he have access to a gun?’ #auspol
If you feel you can’t protect enough people without state-enforced heavy-handedness and rolling back basic rights, then you can’t protect anyone. #Springst
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‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
If you feel you can’t protect enough people without state-enforced heavy-handedness and rolling back basic rights, then you can’t protect anyone. #Springst
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Cheers @wikipedia.org but the distance is not unknown. Lancashire is always in my heart ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Cheers @wikipedia.org but the distance is not unknown. Lancashire is always in my heart ❤️
Lots of questions here:
- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
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- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/fast-fo...
Fast food supervisor fined for sending nude photo to teenage colleague
The 15-year-old colleague was sent the picture on Snapchat…
pulsetasmania.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Lots of questions here:
- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/fast-fo...
- which fast food company?
- why did it take two years from initial disclosure to charges being pressed, then three more years to get to court?
- the use of the words “no serious impact” in context of the effect on the victim
#politas
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/fast-fo...
It’s beyond bonkers that the central premise for the stadium is based on the idea there’s no way to grow the economy without one. #politas
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Trump-style tactics used in Hobart stadium push, protest rally claims
The Tasmanian government has taken a "leaf out of the Trump White House" by "smearing opponents" to the proposed Hobart AFL stadium, according to a rally against the project.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It’s beyond bonkers that the central premise for the stadium is based on the idea there’s no way to grow the economy without one. #politas
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
YouTube adverts include:
- lengthy gambling adverts you can’t skip
- AI gen. tai chi for men, promoting pseudo physical fitness benefits
- poss. AI gen. woman claiming she stopped dementia with homemade formula
No incentive for Google to curtail these, social media ban or no. #auspol
- lengthy gambling adverts you can’t skip
- AI gen. tai chi for men, promoting pseudo physical fitness benefits
- poss. AI gen. woman claiming she stopped dementia with homemade formula
No incentive for Google to curtail these, social media ban or no. #auspol
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
YouTube adverts include:
- lengthy gambling adverts you can’t skip
- AI gen. tai chi for men, promoting pseudo physical fitness benefits
- poss. AI gen. woman claiming she stopped dementia with homemade formula
No incentive for Google to curtail these, social media ban or no. #auspol
- lengthy gambling adverts you can’t skip
- AI gen. tai chi for men, promoting pseudo physical fitness benefits
- poss. AI gen. woman claiming she stopped dementia with homemade formula
No incentive for Google to curtail these, social media ban or no. #auspol
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Playbook | While Marjorie Taylor Greene was celebrated in Washington for forswearing toxic politics, her internal polling showed she'd have to go back to harassing school shooting survivors if she wanted to win another Republican primary.
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Playbook | While Marjorie Taylor Greene was celebrated in Washington for forswearing toxic politics, her internal polling showed she'd have to go back to harassing school shooting survivors if she wanted to win another Republican primary.
Reporting on this type of misinformation is totally fine & appropriate, but positing the question in terms of legitimising a false claim is downright dangerous. There are other ways to tackle questions about post-Apartheid South Africa’s social, economic & racial issues.
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BBC Audio | The Global Story | Is there a genocide of white South Africans as Trump claims?
The US is skipping the G20 summit in South Africa over claims of ‘white genocide’
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reporting on this type of misinformation is totally fine & appropriate, but positing the question in terms of legitimising a false claim is downright dangerous. There are other ways to tackle questions about post-Apartheid South Africa’s social, economic & racial issues.
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
One day, someone will tally the cost of lives, especially children, from this type of despotic and intellectually abusive action, and it will be high. Anti-vaxxers are an abhorrence to humanity.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Robert F Kennedy Jr instructed CDC to change stance on vaccine and autism
US health secretary said he told agency to update website to claim the fact vaccines do not cause autism is not evidence based
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One day, someone will tally the cost of lives, especially children, from this type of despotic and intellectually abusive action, and it will be high. Anti-vaxxers are an abhorrence to humanity.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The very fact they are willing to remove the national interest exemption shows it should never have been added to begin with. These laws are weak, and Labor knows it. #auspol
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Labor to rule out controversial ‘national interest’ exemption for coal and gas if Greens back nature laws
Exclusive: Concession follows fierce criticism of the workaround but may not be enough to convince minor party
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The very fact they are willing to remove the national interest exemption shows it should never have been added to begin with. These laws are weak, and Labor knows it. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just saw Die Hard pop up on streaming. I said “Yay, just in time for Christmas.”
My wife, with complete sincerity, asks ‘Is it a Christmas movie?’
🤪🍿🎄
My wife, with complete sincerity, asks ‘Is it a Christmas movie?’
🤪🍿🎄
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just saw Die Hard pop up on streaming. I said “Yay, just in time for Christmas.”
My wife, with complete sincerity, asks ‘Is it a Christmas movie?’
🤪🍿🎄
My wife, with complete sincerity, asks ‘Is it a Christmas movie?’
🤪🍿🎄
Reposted by Jack M Davenport
The scriptwriters need a little more nuance. This seems kind of heavyhanded
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
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Fire Breaks Out at COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The scriptwriters need a little more nuance. This seems kind of heavyhanded
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...
Immediate follow up question should be ‘in what ways is the President frank, open and honest to your face?’, because I feel like we got a whole new sense of the Administration’s inner world.
Reporter: What did the president mean when he called the reporter piggy?
Leavitt: I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration
Leavitt: I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Immediate follow up question should be ‘in what ways is the President frank, open and honest to your face?’, because I feel like we got a whole new sense of the Administration’s inner world.
If anyone has trouble comprehending this, compare the headline to the words,
‘Coalition to help Labor rush through new health laws if medical protections dropped’
and you get some sense of how completely FUBAR this whole thing is.
#auspol
‘Coalition to help Labor rush through new health laws if medical protections dropped’
and you get some sense of how completely FUBAR this whole thing is.
#auspol
Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped
Coalition to help Labor rush through new nature laws if environmental protections dropped
Sussan Ley’s offer allows a clear path to pass laws to rewrite Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in final sitting week
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The Coalition has offered to help Labor rush through new nature laws if it agrees to gut environment protection, challenging Labor to side with business interests over green groups to implement the long-awaited changes.
Environmental lawyers are urging the government against further weakening already flawed laws at the “behest of industry”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If anyone has trouble comprehending this, compare the headline to the words,
‘Coalition to help Labor rush through new health laws if medical protections dropped’
and you get some sense of how completely FUBAR this whole thing is.
#auspol
‘Coalition to help Labor rush through new health laws if medical protections dropped’
and you get some sense of how completely FUBAR this whole thing is.
#auspol
NSW Government continues its sociopathic attitude towards children’s right, & their aggressively ignorant approach to childhood development & impact of trauma.
#nswpol
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#nswpol
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Shock’ loophole in NSW law meant to protect children against incarceration could mean more will be locked up
Minns government bill says presumption known as doli incapax can be overturned if child knew conduct was ‘seriously wrong’
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
NSW Government continues its sociopathic attitude towards children’s right, & their aggressively ignorant approach to childhood development & impact of trauma.
#nswpol
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#nswpol
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pretty clear we need an inquiry from this. Not just about passive approach to child health (at best), but questions of waste cycle, and indifference to product safety in government standards in favour of commercial interests. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sand play products now ‘high risk’ and need to be tested before coming into Australia, border force says
Suppliers would not have previously been obliged to test the products at any point in the supply chain, ABF confirmed
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pretty clear we need an inquiry from this. Not just about passive approach to child health (at best), but questions of waste cycle, and indifference to product safety in government standards in favour of commercial interests. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!
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The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Child sexual abusers are well known for grooming people beyond the victim’s family, but too many with relative influence are willing to knowingly engage. The casual indifference to child safety empowers abusers. It’s not a lapse of judgement; it’s collusion.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Deeply ashamed’ Larry Summers steps back from public life over Epstein links
Former treasury secretary steps away to ‘rebuild trust’ after severe backlash but will continue teaching Harvard classes
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Child sexual abusers are well known for grooming people beyond the victim’s family, but too many with relative influence are willing to knowingly engage. The casual indifference to child safety empowers abusers. It’s not a lapse of judgement; it’s collusion.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How much does it cost the EPA to investigate a licence condition breach, and issue a warning notice? More than $4040 is my thinking.
#politas
#politas
#Tasmania's EPA fined Tassal $4040 for licence condition breaches at its Triabunna #salmon processing plant
+ EPA issued 6 warning notices to Tassal over other breaches at the plant & the Okehampton & Soldiers Point leases #politas #auspol
Full details 👇
tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/mining-...
+ EPA issued 6 warning notices to Tassal over other breaches at the plant & the Okehampton & Soldiers Point leases #politas #auspol
Full details 👇
tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/mining-...
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
How much does it cost the EPA to investigate a licence condition breach, and issue a warning notice? More than $4040 is my thinking.
#politas
#politas
Robbing refugees of their jewellery and other belongings is obviously the way to go. #ukpolitics
In Britain, child poverty is at its highest level since comparable records began in 2002 — and among the highest in Europe — even though most poor households have at least one working parent.
Child poverty soars in Britain as working families struggle to keep up
Across Britain, families who once felt solidly middle class are losing their footing as rents, child care costs and food prices outpace wages.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Robbing refugees of their jewellery and other belongings is obviously the way to go. #ukpolitics