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Peggy Sanders
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Climate change believer with deep concerns for our children’s future.

Progressive political leanings believing in equality for all people.
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koparafallskid.bsky.social
No, I assure you that's NOT how it came across at all! You're fine, Dave. 🤗 I just read it as just: you not being a driver yourself, you didn't think of it! Made perfect sense to me, I was just clarifying!
February 10, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
I agree. Resignations are required. Hope someone meets or beats my request to place Minns’s words about NSW police being pals with the Muslim community over the appalling footage of praying people being literally thrown about.
February 10, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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By ABC NEWS Verify
ABC NEWS Verify has gathered footage and spoken to witnesses at the protests in an early attempt to examine what happened in detail.
Violent protesters or police brutality? Key moments from Sydney protest
Competing narratives have emerged from NSW Police and protesters who were at Monday night's demonstration near Sydney's Town Hall. ABC NEWS Verify has gathered footage and spoken to witnesses in an ea...
www.abc.net.au
February 10, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
I am kinda desperate to find the apparently iconic footage of some government worker’s hand slapping the conquistador statue’s face after it was felled. My search skills aren’t up to that job.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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An otherwise exemplary life etc.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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ournewhomecoach.bsky.social
Shit! It’s almost Valentines Day. Almost forgot.
February 10, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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BREAKING | Israel’s security cabinet approved today a sweeping set of decisions designed to entrench Israeli control & accelerate de facto annexation across the occupied West Bank, according to a report from public broadcaster Kan.

Defense Minister Israel Katz & Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich...
Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the moves as “normalizing” life for settlers, removing legal barriers, and strengthening Israel’s permanent hold over “Judea and Samaria” - what the extremist right wing in Israel calls the occupied West Bank. 📌 The changes include: ▪️ Repeal of Jordanian-era laws barring the sale of land to Jews, allowing purchases under the same rules used inside Israel ▪️ Declassification and publication of West Bank land registries, facilitating Jewish purchases of Palestinian land ▪️ Elimination of transaction permits and licensing requirements previously imposed by the Civil Administration ▪️ Revival of a long-dormant state land acquisition committee to enable proactive government purchases for settlement expansion ▪️ Expansion of Israeli enforcement and oversight into Areas A and B for water, environmental, and archaeological violations ▪️ Transfer of planning and construction authority in the illegal Jewish settlement in Hebron, including holy sites, directly to the Civil Administration ▪️ Approval of a dedicated municipal authority to manage Rachel’s Tomb, located within Bethlehem’s municipal boundaries
February 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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lucyham.bsky.social
NSW police are thugs licensed by a bigotry-driven government.
davidshoebridge.bsky.social Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 1d
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
The La Brega series from NPR gives such a rich portrait of Puerto Rican strength and the long exploitation of colonialism continuing today. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
La Brega: Who Are Our Puerto Rican Champions? - Latino USA | iHeart
<p>It was January 24, 2022. The King of Spain was coming to Puerto Rico. But everyone woke up to unexpected news: the statue of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Le&oacute;n in Old San Juan had b...
www.iheart.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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lucyham.bsky.social
It’s worth looking for parallels today in the halftime show at one of the US’s whitest sports and the Herzog protests.
Armando Pantoja • @_TallGuyTycoon It opens in sugarcane fields. After the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico in 1898, American sugar corporations seized land, displaced farmers, depleted the soil, and extracted wealth. Sugarcane became a tool of colonial exploitation. The Chaser | John Delmenico NSW police make Israeli president feel at home by mercilessly attacking anyone with a Palestine flag MAGA 10 years after unsuccessfully canceling the NFL over kneely man Neil create our own halftime show MAKE AN GREAT AS 6-47 With Pedo Rock and white people Vice President JD Vance's massive motorcade at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics almost ruined an American athlete's gold-medal dreams. Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu nearly missed her Friday skate in the Milano skating area because the vice president's massive motorcade was blocking the arena's parking lot. The VP's enormous motorcade features dozens of Chevy Suburbans that barely fit on the tiny streets of Milan. Video of the motorcade, taken on Friday by the Italian news outlet Local News, shows one of Vance's cars nearly colliding with a vehicle bearing an Italian license plate. The White House and representatives for Vance did not immediately respond to a request for comment
February 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Just saw a report on ABC News 24 - they show none of the footage of police punching people, or Police pulling people away as they’re in prayer. They just show police and protestors scuffling - saying Police used pepper spray. That’s how you get away with it. NewsCorp etc will be worse #auspol
annerafferty.bsky.social Anne Rafferty @annerafferty.bsky.social · 1d
How on earth is the media gonna spin this.
They will have to get extremely creative to pull this one off.
Will we wake up tomorrow to hear that we are all Hamas and deserve being ruffed up by NSW police?
It will be interesting to see what they come up with by 5.30 tomorrow morning.
#auspol
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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“burying the idea of ​​a Palestinian state”
rimaanabtawi.bsky.social Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d
Annexation.

Israeli security cabinet expands powers in occupied West Bank in move that finance minister says will “fundamentally change the legal and civil reality” there. He said the govt was “burying the idea of ​​a Palestinian state”

www.ft.com/content/ee9c...
Israeli security cabinet expands powers in occupied West Bank
Ultranationalist finance minister says measures intended to bury ‘idea of a Palestinian state’
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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emergencybk.bsky.social
Can hear many voices screaming at the Australian police "stop", "they're praying, they're fucking praying, leave them alone" as they're dragged from their kneeling positions.

What fucking threat are they?
None!
#Auspol #HerzogNotWelcome #Protests
February 9, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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"To this day, I don’t know what we did wrong to be detained.” He ended with a plea, “I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.”
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:20 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
This was the OG piece of extended journalism naming Atlas Network in 2017 and examining how it has been influencing Latin America.

theintercept.com/2017/08/09/a...
Sphere of Influence: How American Libertarians Are Remaking Latin American Politics
The Atlas Network has spent decades building up libertarian institutions across Latin America. Now the work is paying off.
theintercept.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
#Auspol #NZpol
A useful way to see what the #AtlasNetwork does is to see what it has done elsewhere.
Venezuela, for example.

progressive.international/wire/2025-12...
Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism
The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners.
progressive.international
February 10, 2026 at 5:33 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
A piece from Progressive International focused on the embeddedness of Maria Machado, Nobel Prize winner 🙄, in the #AtlasNetwork.
See what Atlas partners have been doing to Venezuela after Chavez challenged Exxon & its profits, and the neoliberal consensus.

progressive.international/wire/2025-12...
PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners. Chávez's government sought not only to reduce the profits of an Atlas patron but to challenge the neoliberal consensus itself. For the destabilization operation, the network relied on Cedice, a Venezuelan think tank listed in the ranks of the Atlas Network. Well watered with U.S. funding through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Cedice led initiatives of all kinds in opposition to Chávez, and even Rocío Guijarro, its president, signed the decree with which the coup d'état of April 2002 was intended to be consolidated. The name of María Corina Machado appears among those attending the swearing-in of the governing board on April 12, 2002, as a result of the coup. She attended as a member of Cedice, but she would soon begin to stand out on her own. In July of that same year, she founded the civil organization Súmate, whose anti-Chávez activities received US backing from its beginning, again via NED. A document from the agency itself shows that Súmate received at least $53,400 directly from the NED in 2003. From that moment on, Machado has been an important figure within the enormous network of Atlas Network. Her name appears in virtually every disinformation campaign aimed at destabilizing Venezuela's political situation, and Atlas, in turn, has fervently promoted her in its events and publications. The connection is explicit and undeniable: in 2014, Machado publicly thanked Atlas Network for its "support and inspiration." More recently, on October 10, 2025, Atlas Network's official account on X celebrated her Nobel Peace Prize win, highlighting its "long professional relationship with Machado, who delivered a speech at the organization's annual Freedom Dinner in 2009."
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
Excellent coverage from a journalist inside the protest. NSW police who want to bash civilians can move to ICE & get a sign-on bonus. We don’t want you here.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Punched, pepper sprayed, charged: police accused of brutality at Sydney protests – podcast
Guardian reporter Jordyn Beazley tells Nour Haydar what she saw when Sydney’s protest against the Israeli president turned violent and whether it all could have been avoided
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
Anyone out there got the skills & the energy to run the audio of Minns (or commissioner?) saying what a great relationship NSW police has with the Muslim community and how they’d never physically throw around praying people over the footage of them doing exactly that? It’s in here if nowhere else
News Opinion Sport | Culture | Lifestyle = Australia World AU politics Environment Climate crisis Indige Full Story Punched, pepper sprayed, charged: police accused of brutality at Sydney protests- Full Story podcast 00:00:00 00:00:00 15 15 Last night tens of thousands of people gathered in cities across the country to protest against a visit by Israel's president, Isaac Herzog. Outside the Sydney Town Hall it wasn't long before the protest turned violent, with video footage showing police pepper-spraying, charging and dragging protesters - including Muslim worshippers who were kneeling in prayer. Nine people have been charged after the clashes with police, with police saying more charges are expected to be laid. Guardian reporter Jordyn Beazley was there, and tells Nour Haydar when the protest turned violent and whether it all could have been avoided.
February 10, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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Albanese versus Albanese.

“One bows to no president or prime minister and wears the onslaught of their wrath as a badge of honour.”

theaimn.net/albanese-v-a...
Albanese v Albanese
ALBANESE v ALBANESE HERZOG, GENOCIDAL TERRORIST? The Australian Government has rolled out the red carpet for Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, a carpet sodden in the blood of more than 71,000 people mu...
theaimn.net
February 10, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
If you are a spud like me, find an app as basic as Phonto to disfigure stupid, rotten posts before hate-sharing.
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
Israel is a terror state.
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Careerists
February 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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Surely the question on every Labor voter's lips - why is the supposed progressive party so silent?
The similarity to the members of the GOP in their acceptance of DJT and the Labor caucus's silence re tax, fossil fuels, NACC etc is stunning
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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Yes it is.

So is "silencing dissent" in fact by not allowing consensus between the inner circle (the caucus) and the outer ministry, will create erosion of ideas and a resentment that disables commitments ministers made to wider electorates outside of the core centres like Sydney.
February 10, 2026 at 5:07 AM