Rob Smith
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Rob Smith
@onyadon.bsky.social
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I've covered Olympics, World Cups, Cricket, Kangaroo tours, F1, Brit Opens, MotoGPs, Wimbledons, interest in politics/environment/music & I follow AFC Wimbledon
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With dissent criminalized, troops on the streets, enormous repression, the #Democrats don't need reruns of the disaster movie but a sharp urgent understanding of why they failed & how they can fight back. A book that's essentially an autopsy report feels at best pointless, at worst tasteless.
“Being the party that feels the world’s pain is not a good answer to a president who invites his supporters to share the unalloyed joy of being able to inflict it.” — @fotoole.bsky.social on Kamala Harris’s new memoir
The Lingering Delusion | Fintan O’Toole
Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.
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One-quarter of sponsors either part of the global arms industry or actively working on its behalf. #NPCC
The National Press Club of Australia, which recently cancelled Chris Hedges' address, lists 81 corporate sponsors on its website.

21 of them are either part of the global arms industry or actively working on its behalf.

My latest. Click link to read: undueinfluence.substack.com/p/arms-indus...
Meet Mr Mountbatten-Windsor.. finally. #Andrew
And blatantly racist ..
For the inquisitive.. which country are we talking about?
“This is a criminal organization masquerading as a government,” says Ambassador James Story, the last American diplomat at the now-closed U.S. Embassy in Venezuela. cbsn.ws/47a1sbX
So how's it all going... 📉for the 77 million who voted for it..
Federal Environment minister Murray Watt says new #BOM website has not met users’ expectations, encourages Australians to share their feedback with the agency. How Tuesday’s wet weather in Brisbane appears on the old BOM radar (left) compared to the updated website (right)
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The Albanese Government has come in for criticism today as a Centre for Public Integrity report card marks them as failing on six of seven transparency measures.

@thepointau.bsky.social #auspol
Australia has long argued it shares values with the #US; that this is in part the basis for our alliance. #Trump’s blatant approach is forcing us to ask whether that's still the case. But we could ask whether it has ever really been the case.
@mrseankelly.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Mind the gap: Our relationship with the US is in two parts
We discuss the AUKUS deal with the US in the same breath as its democratic failures.
www.smh.com.au
#Albanese may come to regret his meeting with #Trump, the deal and the endorsement by Trump... Thirty years ago, when Albo was a man of principle, but now he was a man of compromise, the politician who has exchanged principles for politics. #Auspol
We have become so inured to the lies of the conman, we have to fact-check everything #Trump says. Truth and falsity are transactional for Trump. He has always used the mantra. “If you say something often enough, it becomes true.”
The meeting of #Trump and #Albanese was the Master and the Apprentice. The Master got what we wanted. He got the deference he craved. He got the deal he wanted. The Apprentice got the endorsement of power of the Confidence Man. The art of the deal. #Auspol
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
We should never have agreed to AUKUS
Australia is paying for America's submarines, striking a deal with a President we still have to fact-check.
independentaustralia.net
Wonderful city, friendly people...
Farewell to the people, places, food, culture and cats of Istanbul! Have only just scratched the surface of what this great city and Turkey has to offer, but it’s been a terrific experience and I hope to return one day. #İstanbul #europe2025
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US President Donald Trump has explained a decision to postpone plans for a meeting in Hungary with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine war, telling reporters he doesn’t want a ‘wasted meeting’.
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‘Symbolically, the meeting was a success. In substance, it revealed that the fundamentals of the relationship have not changed.’

Dr Emma Shortis unpacks Albanese’s meeting with Trump in The Conversation.

@emmashortis.bsky.social #auspol
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"I don't think these people feel any shame at all" - Chris Hedges, on being cancelled by the National Press Club of Australia and Western journalistic complicity
Shook my head a few times at the jarring tone of questioning, not an interview David Marr will particularly look back on with merit. Chris Hedges sounded exasperated answering the bleedin' obvious about the #GazaGenocide.
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Trump demolishes part of White House for new $250-million ballroom.

Trump has often been dubbed a political wrecking ball for his unorthodox style -- and now the US president has literally started demolition work on the White House

u.afp.com/SsWK