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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10h

I like this ICE reporting acronym much better than prior ones: “CLEAR.”
C - count
L - location
E - equipment, incl clothing
A - activity
R - report time

Graphic from Oregon Worker Relief and Oregon For All:

Reporting ICE activity?
Be CLEAR!

Count: "3 officers, 1 van"
Location: "SE 2nd & Morrison, Portland"
Equipment: "Blue uniforms that say ICE, white van unmarked*
Activity: "Officers are checking IDs"
Report time: "245pm, Feb 2"

Share facts, not fear.

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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 18h

I call him the #Albo-tross. This galah is destroying what little trust the Labor Party had left after backflips on environment, gambling, #NACC ... oh and lying about supplying weapons parts to genocidal Israel.

A tone deaf autocrat.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 19h

Gaza Port, Before and After

(Abdallah El Hajj)

Two pictures of Gaza port before and after

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I feel like they run out of ways to admit they are absolute monsters, they find a new one.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 2d

Damn transes

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 2d

New: Judge Perry's ruling against Texas troops in Chicago is a banger.

1. Invokes Hamilton
2. Rips into ICE for lying
3. Says "law enforcement officers who go into an event expecting 'a shitshow' are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the event prepared to de-escalate it.

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 2d

ALBANESE needs to solve this issue fast

Israel detaining - indefinitely - an Australian in an Israeli jail for being part of the flotilla

The total lack of action by Albanese in the face of Israeli aggression and GENOCIDE is appalling - Labor values at work

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla told she 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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Kate Smith (she/her) @katesmith28220.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂😂

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 2d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 2d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Kate Smith (she/her) @katesmith28220.bsky.social · 2d

This is one legitimate use for AI.

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The Age (unofficial) @theage.nzcow.com · 2d

📢 Amid the discussion about whether we need more MPs, we should also explore how to get better ones.

In the debate about more federal MPs, let’s ask how we get better ones too

www.theage.com.au

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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 2d

Albo's come a long way since the Camperdown commission flats days. Not sure it's an improvement, frankly:

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 2d

New Australia Institute analysis reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.

Audited accounts show the ANU made a $90 million surplus in 2024 and increased the value of its net assets.

#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 3d

Please don't do stuff like this. The #Maskholes #Gestapo have daily kidnap quotas to fill. They can't meet the quotas when they can't drive.

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Margaret Rose @margaretrose.bsky.social · 2d

They have totally messed up Universities. It’s criminal. I was waiting for the ALP to act on the mess but all I’m seeing is the ALP following Liberal party policies. Gough would be disgusted with the current crop of Parliamentarians.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

"A group of 10 MPs...said the government’s bill should be abandoned.

'When we examine the history of government failures, such as #robodebt, it is clear government and bureaucratic decisions need greater transparency, not less,' the statement said." #FOI #auspol

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 2d

Barely anyone except Labor supports the government’s FOI reforms www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/09/f...

Barely anyone except Labor supports the government's FOI reforms

Those opposed to the tightening of Australia's freedom of information regime are gathering force, meaning Labor will struggle to drag its bill through the Senate.

www.crikey.com.au

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 10d

$1.5 million of 🇦🇺 taxpayer💰per head but asylum seekers still going without food.

Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person

The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals

www.theguardian.com

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Moi 💜 🕊️ @moikat.bsky.social · 2d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Daryl Maguire’s tractor @daryltractor.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 3d

What???
They threw a former Wallabies Captain out of their Parliamentary sporting club because he spoke up about gambling!!!! What???
#auspol #4Corners > www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3d

In his own words: the President is responsible for the shutdown.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 3d

If you can’t get gas exporters to pay any tax @albomp.bsky.social how about getting them to contribute a couple of billion towards our rising insurance costs for the problem they’re contributing to?

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 5d

The ABC reports that extreme weather costs Australians more each decade and, as a country, we have some of the highest per capita economic and insurance losses in the world.

This is why we need a climate compensation levy on fossil fuel exports > theaus.in/fossilfuelco...

Betting on the weather emerges as a solution as insurance costs skyrocket

Amid more extreme weather events, parametric insurance — described as a bet on the weather —is on the rise. It is now being touted as a possible solution for Australians, who have some of the highest ...

www.abc.net.au

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 3d

Australian newspapers are reporting only the ceasefire, not Israel’s violation of it. The bombing hasn’t stopped but that’s an inconvenient truth.

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