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Lucy Hamilton
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Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her

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Cory Bernardi, new One Nation pick, went to America to train in climate denial with #AtlasNetwork’s Heartland Institute. This One Nation, like Farage’s Reform, is a tool of reactionary billionaires determined that no fact will stand between them & profit. #Auspol

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How Cory Bernardi was inspired to push climate denial from US conservative groups
Climate science denial group the Heartland Institute helped inspire Cory Bernardi and Malcolm Roberts to push back against policies to cut emissions
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM
lucyham.bsky.social
Racing as fast as I could through a stash of The Australian today. 🤢 Absolutely choked when I saw this. How? You. You did this.
#auspol
Section of The Australian How did seeing a specialist become a luxury? Government has put doctors on notice as soaring out-of-pocket costs force many people to avoid treatment worthiness of the patient by the
February 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“In Australia, it’s perfectly legal to lie in a political ad. And thanks to taxpayer funding of election campaigns, you could be the one paying for the ad that lies to you," writes Bill Browne from The Australia Institute.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kn5u5S
February 2, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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kateross.bsky.social
This tool is for the resistance!

Radical Leftist Scum, Deluded Wine Moms, “agitators and looters” and assorted affinity groups

It’s for neighbors helping neighbors.

Legal Observers and ICE Watch too!

We see you organizing horizontally 💕

Another tool to keep you and your community safe 👇
oldsquida.bsky.social Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 22h
An exhaustive anarchist overview and guide to various apps and tech that utilize peer-to-peer and encryption.

“Anarchists were going for walks to chat long before encrypted texting existed, and they should still do so now, whenever possible."

BUT…

itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/u...
cover of 46page pdf THE P.E.T. GUIDE NEW COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ANARCHISTS
February 3, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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meckeringboy.bsky.social
Make this post one you watch and share today. And every day.

Understand Israel and Netanyahu are devious, aggressive, apartheid, colonialist, anti peace, anti Palestinian, anti humanity, but pro-war, pro-genocide.

He’s always been a liar and hateful cheat. Psychopath.
pauleric70.bsky.social Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · Oct 29
This genocidal psychopath had planned this for decades 🤬

He just needed an excuse..thats why he allowed Oct 7th to happen
October 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
Know that the posse around Trump, Musk, Thiel etc are all eugenicists. Your deaths improve the gene pool. In the 80s, Murdoch platformed think tanks-fostered “race” “science” “experts” to prove welfare was a harm because it encouraged the unfit to breed. This is in the same lineage about rural US.
February 3, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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womenwarriors.com
Lucy Hamilton is a driving force behind exposing Atlas.
Follow her here: @lucyham.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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digitalwarrior.bsky.social
3/ Huge credit to two of the leading researchers exposing this in Australia:
Jeremy Walker - bsky.app/profile/jere... & Lucy Hamilton - bsky.app/profile/lucy...
Foundational work. I’ll dig deeper soon. For now, understand this: Atlas is the most impactful right-wing think tank network in the world.
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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digitalwarrior.bsky.social
2/ This isn’t abstract ideology. The Atlas Network has driven climate denialism, deregulation, and the hollowing out of Dem. institutions worldwide. Australia isn’t the story. It’s a case study.The same playbook shows up across U.S., Europe, Canada, Latin America. Different countries. Same long game
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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#Auspol
digitalwarrior.bsky.social Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 1d
1/ I just read one of the most comprehensive reports I’ve ever seen on the Atlas Network
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
What shocked me most isn’t just the scale. It’s the timeline.This project traces back before World War II. This was patient, intentional planning. #Voices4Victory #DV1 #ProudBlue
A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
www.abc.net.au
February 2, 2026 at 11:09 PM
lucyham.bsky.social
🧵I’ve been fearing trawling through a pal’s stack of some of January’s The Australian.

Bondi, Adelaide Festival (and Iran) were going to make it a festival of loathing. Dread was justified.

It’s pure national 😳 conservatism on blast. Same play, think tank-linked, as the AEI & media & Iraq #auspol
lucyham.bsky.social Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d
The book was 2004. It’s full of how the media arm of the operation took the think tanks’ neocon project to invade Iraq and made it happen. AEI is peak Atlas Network partner. Brock has PNAC as an Atlas tank linked operation.
Qaei neocons bush white house Al Overview +8 : Neoconservatives, heavily associated with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), held significant influence in the George W. Bush White House, pushing for a robust foreign policy of "benevolent global hegemony". Key figures like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith advocated for the Iraq War and democracy promotion, shaping the Bush Doctrine after 9/11. a AEl and Neoconservative Influence • Ideological Hub: AEl served as a,, intellectual hub for neoconservative thought, bringing in figures such as Jeane Kirkpatrick and Irving Kristo! to develop policies focused on strong defense and moral foreign policy. • PNAC Connection: The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), co-founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, functioned as a key advocacy group pushing for neoconservative goals, with many signatories taking high-level positions in the Bush administration. Influence on the Bush White House • Key Personnel: Prominent neoconservatives served in critical positions, including Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Secretary of Defense), Douglas Feith (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy), and Elliott Abrams (National Security Council). • Iraa War Advocates: Nenconservatives were
February 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
lucyham.bsky.social
This book, chapter linked, shows you the big donors & Atlas Network of think tanks making broken US. Shows how they destroyed journalism’s reputation & started rhetoric that got Don Lemon arrested. Wondering about Epstein files overlap too 🤔 “The Republican Noise Machine.”
Murdoch a villain #auspol
lucyham.bsky.social Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d
David Brock later started 😇 Media Matters for America after career at the Heritage Foundation & in the Atlas Network-interlinked rightwing media dogfight. Sickened, he wrote The Republican Noise Machine. Chapter linked here is top 👌 insight to US #AtlasNetwork ops.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqr03...
THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... Powell then laid out the strategy that the Right would follow in the coming decades, whereby conservative business interests would create and underwrite a "movement" to front its agenda in the media. Under Powell's plan, heavily subsidized "scholars, writers, and thinkers" speaking "for the movement" would press for "balance" and "equal time" to penetrate the media, thereby shaping news coverage, reframing issues, influencing the views of political elites, and changing mass public opinion. These would be the manufactured "intellectuals" referenced by Efron, marketed in the media to "expand the spectrum." They would be housed in new "national organizations" in an effort "undertaken long term" with "generous financial support." Appended to Powell's original copy of the memo was a column by conservative writer John Chamberlain from the Richmond Times-Dispatch summarizing the findings of Edith Efron from The News Twisters. While it was well circulated in the business community, the Powell document remained a secret until columnist Jack Anderson wrote about its recommendations for "confrontational politics" in the context of Powell's fitness for the Supreme Court, to which he was nominated shortly after writing the memo and where justices were supposed to be strictly impartial. 2 In the White House, Powell's patron Richard Nixon already had broached the subject of building a privately funded parallel political establishment that could further the conservative ideological cause, and attack his political enemies, while remaining nominally independent of the GOP. According to the diaries of his White House aide H. R. Haldeman, on September 12, 1970, Nixon was "pushing again on [his] project of building OUR establishment in [the] press, business, education, etc." Buchanan had sent Nixon a memo urging him to establish "a conservative counterpoint to Brookings." A second major document establishing plans for the Right's media… The ideology of Barry Goldwater and Phyllis Schlafly and William Buckley would now be dry-cleaned for mass media consumption, and along with it came a neolexicon—a language invented by conservative practitioners trained in the use of manipulative, often Orwellian, rhetoric. Agenda items like gutting Social Security, rolling back civil rights protections, and slashing taxes inequitably would be smoothed out with deceptive Madison Avenue-type branding slogans of the kind used to sell commercial products: "privatization," "the new federalism," the "flat tax," and so on. Americans would be told that poverty is a "behavioral" condition, that any advance gained by a member of a minority group amounted to "reverse discrimination," and that providing government subsidies for private and parochial schools while draining resources from public education was to be thought of as "school choice." Just as objective journalism was an obstacle for the Right, so was objective scholarship. Simon laid out a "blue-print for a counter-intelligentsia"—hired guns who could legitimize and popularize right-wing opinion through the media and do battle in the media on behalf of conservative business interests, the wealthy, and the cultural Right with spokespeople for the consumer, environmental, civil rights, and feminist movements. Under Simon's plan, academic studies that were damaging to right-wing ideological goals and to the imperatives of business were to be countered at every turn by scholarship for sale. Simon advocated "nothing less than a massive and unprecedented mobilization of moral, intellectual and financial resources" with funds "rushing by multimillions" from corporate-backed foundations to a network of pro-business scholars, writers, pundits, and publicists, as well as to conservative book projects, publications, and policy research. The funds would go exclusively to right-wing ideologues, with no capitulation to "soft-minded pleas for the support of 'dissent, " Simon advised, thus ensuring that conservatism would have the unwavering message discipline, ideological uniformity, and seeming unity that seemed to go missing in liberalism. The work would carry an air of academic authority and independence, but it would be subject to no peer review or conflict-of-interest safeguards, and it would be carried out covertly in support of "the only party with a philosophical heritage which might permit it to be the Liberty Party in the United States, the Republican Party." tank. - Through the Adolph Coors Foundation, the Coors family underwrote a variety of right-wing causes and organizations. Over the years, statements emanated from the family suggesting a dark agenda may have motivated its activism. For instance, William Coors, one of the foundation's principals, told a group of African American businesspeople in a 1984 speech, "One of the best things they [slave traders, did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains." 5 If the genteel Powell represented traditional U.S. Chamber of Commerce-centered business-oriented conservatism, his memo, with its call for radical action, proved an inspiration to, and a unifying force for, the more populist, culturally reactionary southern and western outposts of conservatism. After reading the memo, Coors dispatched an aide to Washington, where he met Paul Weyrich, press secretary to recently defeated GOP Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado. ° Weyrich's coworker in Allott's office was a young staffer named George F. Will. Weyrich and Will, along with Trent Lott, the future Republican Senate leader then serving as a legislative aide in another congressional office, had formed a "Conservative Lunch Club." Weyrich had been raised in Wisconsin, the son of German immigrants who admired Robert Taft for his opposition to the U.S. involvement in World War II. He had only a high school education and considered himself a "political mechanic," interested in organizing to attain power rather than in policy or ideas. - Weyrich was an organizational genius and also a forbidding demagogue of the pseudoconservative variety, a skill honed in a brief but not inconsequential stint as a broadcast journalist. He had ties to the most extremist groups of the American right wing, dating back to his involvement with George Wallace's American Independent Party. Weyrich and his organizations have had associations with the John Birch Society and the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby and to Christian reconstructionist Rou…
February 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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👎 I find this unfortunate...
February 2, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Disturbing

www.instagram.com/p/DUNyv7mjQA...
The Nerve on Instagram: "What’s happening in America is technofascism. And it could happen here. Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carol...
4,007 likes, 135 comments - the_nerve_news on February 1, 2026: "What’s happening in America is technofascism. And it could happen here. Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering ...
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February 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
So the Guardian article today stripped out the only point of quoting me. The far Right are using the identity and performance of “Christianity” to unite bigots & cookers & scared conservatives against modern pluralism & coexistence. This London march was meant to trigger Muslims. #Auspol
“Christ is King London March” Some news performance or other
February 2, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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mark-melbin.bsky.social
The #Atlas Network. An enemy of democracy.

#IPA #Advance #GinaRinehart #auspol
lucyham.bsky.social Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve attached a chapter here from a 2004 book that describes the revving up of the US Atlas Network & linked operations that set out to change America for the dark money donors, controversial industries & everyone who hated modernity. Think of #Auspol #NZpol for the parallels.
lucyham.bsky.social Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d
David Brock later started 😇 Media Matters for America after career at the Heritage Foundation & in the Atlas Network-interlinked rightwing media dogfight. Sickened, he wrote The Republican Noise Machine. Chapter linked here is top 👌 insight to US #AtlasNetwork ops.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqr03...
February 2, 2026 at 9:21 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
I’ve attached a chapter here from a 2004 book that describes the revving up of the US Atlas Network & linked operations that set out to change America for the dark money donors, controversial industries & everyone who hated modernity. Think of #Auspol #NZpol for the parallels.
lucyham.bsky.social Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d
David Brock later started 😇 Media Matters for America after career at the Heritage Foundation & in the Atlas Network-interlinked rightwing media dogfight. Sickened, he wrote The Republican Noise Machine. Chapter linked here is top 👌 insight to US #AtlasNetwork ops.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqr03...
THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... Powell then laid out the strategy that the Right would follow in the coming decades, whereby conservative business interests would create and underwrite a "movement" to front its agenda in the media. Under Powell's plan, heavily subsidized "scholars, writers, and thinkers" speaking "for the movement" would press for "balance" and "equal time" to penetrate the media, thereby shaping news coverage, reframing issues, influencing the views of political elites, and changing mass public opinion. These would be the manufactured "intellectuals" referenced by Efron, marketed in the media to "expand the spectrum." They would be housed in new "national organizations" in an effort "undertaken long term" with "generous financial support." Appended to Powell's original copy of the memo was a column by conservative writer John Chamberlain from the Richmond Times-Dispatch summarizing the findings of Edith Efron from The News Twisters. While it was well circulated in the business community, the Powell document remained a secret until columnist Jack Anderson wrote about its recommendations for "confrontational politics" in the context of Powell's fitness for the Supreme Court, to which he was nominated shortly after writing the memo and where justices were supposed to be strictly impartial. 2 In the White House, Powell's patron Richard Nixon already had broached the subject of building a privately funded parallel political establishment that could further the conservative ideological cause, and attack his political enemies, while remaining nominally independent of the GOP. According to the diaries of his White House aide H. R. Haldeman, on September 12, 1970, Nixon was "pushing again on [his] project of building OUR establishment in [the] press, business, education, etc." Buchanan had sent Nixon a memo urging him to establish "a conservative counterpoint to Brookings." A second major document establishing plans for the Right's media… The ideology of Barry Goldwater and Phyllis Schlafly and William Buckley would now be dry-cleaned for mass media consumption, and along with it came a neolexicon—a language invented by conservative practitioners trained in the use of manipulative, often Orwellian, rhetoric. Agenda items like gutting Social Security, rolling back civil rights protections, and slashing taxes inequitably would be smoothed out with deceptive Madison Avenue-type branding slogans of the kind used to sell commercial products: "privatization," "the new federalism," the "flat tax," and so on. Americans would be told that poverty is a "behavioral" condition, that any advance gained by a member of a minority group amounted to "reverse discrimination," and that providing government subsidies for private and parochial schools while draining resources from public education was to be thought of as "school choice." Just as objective journalism was an obstacle for the Right, so was objective scholarship. Simon laid out a "blue-print for a counter-intelligentsia"—hired guns who could legitimize and popularize right-wing opinion through the media and do battle in the media on behalf of conservative business interests, the wealthy, and the cultural Right with spokespeople for the consumer, environmental, civil rights, and feminist movements. Under Simon's plan, academic studies that were damaging to right-wing ideological goals and to the imperatives of business were to be countered at every turn by scholarship for sale. Simon advocated "nothing less than a massive and unprecedented mobilization of moral, intellectual and financial resources" with funds "rushing by multimillions" from corporate-backed foundations to a network of pro-business scholars, writers, pundits, and publicists, as well as to conservative book projects, publications, and policy research. The funds would go exclusively to right-wing ideologues, with no capitulation to "soft-minded pleas for the support of 'dissent, " Simon advised, thus ensuring that conservatism would have the unwavering message discipline, ideological uniformity, and seeming unity that seemed to go missing in liberalism. The work would carry an air of academic authority and independence, but it would be subject to no peer review or conflict-of-interest safeguards, and it would be carried out covertly in support of "the only party with a philosophical heritage which might permit it to be the Liberty Party in the United States, the Republican Party." tank. - Through the Adolph Coors Foundation, the Coors family underwrote a variety of right-wing causes and organizations. Over the years, statements emanated from the family suggesting a dark agenda may have motivated its activism. For instance, William Coors, one of the foundation's principals, told a group of African American businesspeople in a 1984 speech, "One of the best things they [slave traders, did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains." 5 If the genteel Powell represented traditional U.S. Chamber of Commerce-centered business-oriented conservatism, his memo, with its call for radical action, proved an inspiration to, and a unifying force for, the more populist, culturally reactionary southern and western outposts of conservatism. After reading the memo, Coors dispatched an aide to Washington, where he met Paul Weyrich, press secretary to recently defeated GOP Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado. ° Weyrich's coworker in Allott's office was a young staffer named George F. Will. Weyrich and Will, along with Trent Lott, the future Republican Senate leader then serving as a legislative aide in another congressional office, had formed a "Conservative Lunch Club." Weyrich had been raised in Wisconsin, the son of German immigrants who admired Robert Taft for his opposition to the U.S. involvement in World War II. He had only a high school education and considered himself a "political mechanic," interested in organizing to attain power rather than in policy or ideas. - Weyrich was an organizational genius and also a forbidding demagogue of the pseudoconservative variety, a skill honed in a brief but not inconsequential stint as a broadcast journalist. He had ties to the most extremist groups of the American right wing, dating back to his involvement with George Wallace's American Independent Party. Weyrich and his organizations have had associations with the John Birch Society and the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby and to Christian reconstructionist Rou…
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
David Brock later started 😇 Media Matters for America after career at the Heritage Foundation & in the Atlas Network-interlinked rightwing media dogfight. Sickened, he wrote The Republican Noise Machine. Chapter linked here is top 👌 insight to US #AtlasNetwork ops.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqr03...
THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... Powell then laid out the strategy that the Right would follow in the coming decades, whereby conservative business interests would create and underwrite a "movement" to front its agenda in the media. Under Powell's plan, heavily subsidized "scholars, writers, and thinkers" speaking "for the movement" would press for "balance" and "equal time" to penetrate the media, thereby shaping news coverage, reframing issues, influencing the views of political elites, and changing mass public opinion. These would be the manufactured "intellectuals" referenced by Efron, marketed in the media to "expand the spectrum." They would be housed in new "national organizations" in an effort "undertaken long term" with "generous financial support." Appended to Powell's original copy of the memo was a column by conservative writer John Chamberlain from the Richmond Times-Dispatch summarizing the findings of Edith Efron from The News Twisters. While it was well circulated in the business community, the Powell document remained a secret until columnist Jack Anderson wrote about its recommendations for "confrontational politics" in the context of Powell's fitness for the Supreme Court, to which he was nominated shortly after writing the memo and where justices were supposed to be strictly impartial. 2 In the White House, Powell's patron Richard Nixon already had broached the subject of building a privately funded parallel political establishment that could further the conservative ideological cause, and attack his political enemies, while remaining nominally independent of the GOP. According to the diaries of his White House aide H. R. Haldeman, on September 12, 1970, Nixon was "pushing again on [his] project of building OUR establishment in [the] press, business, education, etc." Buchanan had sent Nixon a memo urging him to establish "a conservative counterpoint to Brookings." A second major document establishing plans for the Right's media… The ideology of Barry Goldwater and Phyllis Schlafly and William Buckley would now be dry-cleaned for mass media consumption, and along with it came a neolexicon—a language invented by conservative practitioners trained in the use of manipulative, often Orwellian, rhetoric. Agenda items like gutting Social Security, rolling back civil rights protections, and slashing taxes inequitably would be smoothed out with deceptive Madison Avenue-type branding slogans of the kind used to sell commercial products: "privatization," "the new federalism," the "flat tax," and so on. Americans would be told that poverty is a "behavioral" condition, that any advance gained by a member of a minority group amounted to "reverse discrimination," and that providing government subsidies for private and parochial schools while draining resources from public education was to be thought of as "school choice." Just as objective journalism was an obstacle for the Right, so was objective scholarship. Simon laid out a "blue-print for a counter-intelligentsia"—hired guns who could legitimize and popularize right-wing opinion through the media and do battle in the media on behalf of conservative business interests, the wealthy, and the cultural Right with spokespeople for the consumer, environmental, civil rights, and feminist movements. Under Simon's plan, academic studies that were damaging to right-wing ideological goals and to the imperatives of business were to be countered at every turn by scholarship for sale. Simon advocated "nothing less than a massive and unprecedented mobilization of moral, intellectual and financial resources" with funds "rushing by multimillions" from corporate-backed foundations to a network of pro-business scholars, writers, pundits, and publicists, as well as to conservative book projects, publications, and policy research. The funds would go exclusively to right-wing ideologues, with no capitulation to "soft-minded pleas for the support of 'dissent, " Simon advised, thus ensuring that conservatism would have the unwavering message discipline, ideological uniformity, and seeming unity that seemed to go missing in liberalism. The work would carry an air of academic authority and independence, but it would be subject to no peer review or conflict-of-interest safeguards, and it would be carried out covertly in support of "the only party with a philosophical heritage which might permit it to be the Liberty Party in the United States, the Republican Party." tank. - Through the Adolph Coors Foundation, the Coors family underwrote a variety of right-wing causes and organizations. Over the years, statements emanated from the family suggesting a dark agenda may have motivated its activism. For instance, William Coors, one of the foundation's principals, told a group of African American businesspeople in a 1984 speech, "One of the best things they [slave traders, did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains." 5 If the genteel Powell represented traditional U.S. Chamber of Commerce-centered business-oriented conservatism, his memo, with its call for radical action, proved an inspiration to, and a unifying force for, the more populist, culturally reactionary southern and western outposts of conservatism. After reading the memo, Coors dispatched an aide to Washington, where he met Paul Weyrich, press secretary to recently defeated GOP Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado. ° Weyrich's coworker in Allott's office was a young staffer named George F. Will. Weyrich and Will, along with Trent Lott, the future Republican Senate leader then serving as a legislative aide in another congressional office, had formed a "Conservative Lunch Club." Weyrich had been raised in Wisconsin, the son of German immigrants who admired Robert Taft for his opposition to the U.S. involvement in World War II. He had only a high school education and considered himself a "political mechanic," interested in organizing to attain power rather than in policy or ideas. - Weyrich was an organizational genius and also a forbidding demagogue of the pseudoconservative variety, a skill honed in a brief but not inconsequential stint as a broadcast journalist. He had ties to the most extremist groups of the American right wing, dating back to his involvement with George Wallace's American Independent Party. Weyrich and his organizations have had associations with the John Birch Society and the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby and to Christian reconstructionist Rou…
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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samoskal.bsky.social
This is a converging far-rw pro Trump fascism petro-state #ffagenda social division hate political system based on extremist ‘othering’, lies across multiple fronts and deceit. Behaviour echoes Trump to overthrow Australia’s democracy. Can’t be called hyperbole re these warnings in 2026 - #auspol
lucyham.bsky.social Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to The Guardian. Gina 💰💰💰who is now shaping and gathering “talent” for far right nativist party One Nation, is also funding Atlas Network-linked Advance & longterm IPA. Liberal Cormack Foundation is also Advance funder. Will Advance back both horses? Is Gina/Advance/ON/LNP ouroboros? #Auspol
Giardian GINA RINEHART'S COMPANY HANCOCK PROSPECTING DONATED ALMOST $900K TO RIGHT WING GROUP ADVANCE, POLITICAL DONATIONS DATA SHOWS 2nd Feb, 2026. Authorised by Peter Whish-Wilson, Australian Greens, Canberra, ACT 2600. = Q (* DeSmog DONATE Billionaire Mining Magnate Gina Rinehart Revealed As Key Donor to Australian Climate Science Denial Promoter Institute of Public Affairs By Graham Readfearn on Jul 17, 2018 @ 20:09 PDT 4 min read blic Allairs LE VOICE FOR FREEDOM ARS: 1943-2013 Institute of IF Public Affair 1943-201 Public Affairs stitute of blic Allairs of Ins 70 YEARS A ostitute of ublic Affairs T0 Ye FOR FREEDOM 1943-2013 기 Institute of Public Affairs THE VOILE ACTU ACTU accuses Gina Rinehart of oligarch-style influence over the Coalition Media Release - February 5, 2025 The ACTU has criticised billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart for behaving like an oligarch for trying to buy influence over the Coalition's industrial relations policy. Disclosures from the Australian Electoral Commission have revealed that Gina Rinehart is the Coalition's second-largest donor, channeling $500,000 in political donations to the Coalition using multiple accounts through her company, Hancock Prospecting. Australia World AU politics Environment Climate crisis 7% e one RAC* trali Indiger Australian political donations • This article is more than 11 months old Liberal party investment vehicle donated $500,000 to rightwing group Advance Cormack Foundation is a multimillion-dollar investment group for the Liberal party and one of its biggest single donors
February 2, 2026 at 7:42 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
Thanks to The Guardian. Gina 💰💰💰who is now shaping and gathering “talent” for far right nativist party One Nation, is also funding Atlas Network-linked Advance & longterm IPA. Liberal Cormack Foundation is also Advance funder. Will Advance back both horses? Is Gina/Advance/ON/LNP ouroboros? #Auspol
Giardian GINA RINEHART'S COMPANY HANCOCK PROSPECTING DONATED ALMOST $900K TO RIGHT WING GROUP ADVANCE, POLITICAL DONATIONS DATA SHOWS 2nd Feb, 2026. Authorised by Peter Whish-Wilson, Australian Greens, Canberra, ACT 2600. = Q (* DeSmog DONATE Billionaire Mining Magnate Gina Rinehart Revealed As Key Donor to Australian Climate Science Denial Promoter Institute of Public Affairs By Graham Readfearn on Jul 17, 2018 @ 20:09 PDT 4 min read blic Allairs LE VOICE FOR FREEDOM ARS: 1943-2013 Institute of IF Public Affair 1943-201 Public Affairs stitute of blic Allairs of Ins 70 YEARS A ostitute of ublic Affairs T0 Ye FOR FREEDOM 1943-2013 기 Institute of Public Affairs THE VOILE ACTU ACTU accuses Gina Rinehart of oligarch-style influence over the Coalition Media Release - February 5, 2025 The ACTU has criticised billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart for behaving like an oligarch for trying to buy influence over the Coalition's industrial relations policy. Disclosures from the Australian Electoral Commission have revealed that Gina Rinehart is the Coalition's second-largest donor, channeling $500,000 in political donations to the Coalition using multiple accounts through her company, Hancock Prospecting. Australia World AU politics Environment Climate crisis 7% e one RAC* trali Indiger Australian political donations • This article is more than 11 months old Liberal party investment vehicle donated $500,000 to rightwing group Advance Cormack Foundation is a multimillion-dollar investment group for the Liberal party and one of its biggest single donors
February 2, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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Jeffrey Epstein, taking time out of running the largest global child sex trafficking operation in human history to explain to his friend Prof. Larry Summers of Harvard, the former Treasury Secretary of the United States, that women have agency.
February 1, 2026 at 6:43 PM
lucyham.bsky.social
Important article by @toryshepherd.bsky.social today in The Guardian. She was unable to use my focus that it is the “Christian” identity that is being used to bind a motley crew of reactionaries & rightwing revolutionaries into a bloc.

Note Farage links.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Guardian. Tory Shepherd. Australian politics From cute dogs to Turning Point: the journey of an influencer aiming to breathe rightwing Christian values into Australian Lucy Hamilton, a doctoral researcher at the University of Technology Sydney who studies the importation of rightwing tactics from the US, is worried about what she says is a conservative voting bloc that has drawn in more and more groups under its umbrella. And she says while Australia has some protection from the spread of US-style rightwing tactics, there is also reason to be wary. "On one level we've got a good electoral system which protects us from the fringe things that America has to deal with," she says. "On the other hand we have very fragile party branches and structures, which are susceptible to groups with motives they're not confessing to. "[And] our information is pretty broken. We have a failure of civic responsibility where people are overwhelmed and not paying attention so they don't know the conservative they're voting for is a Pentecostal Christian who wants to take away abortion completely." Sengul says the right has not been able to capitalise on the youth vote in Australia as it has overseas, and that Turning Point Australia will struggle to rebrand conservative Christian values for youth as the religious dynamic is not as strong in Australia.
February 1, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Reposted by Lucy Hamilton
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
I guess they are pretty upset.

For some reason.
February 1, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Lucy Hamilton
davidallengreen.bsky.social
Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes.

As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them.

Effectively a mark of rank.
vanoreo.bsky.social vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 3d
"why are these rich freaks so bad at writing emails?"

because they've never had to be good enough at it to keep paying rent
February 1, 2026 at 11:05 AM
lucyham.bsky.social
Right?
christinajuhlinauthor "What radicalised you?" No babe, the real question is: what desensitised *you*?
February 1, 2026 at 11:05 AM