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dogdad57.bsky.social @dogdad57.bsky.social · 19h

Same hate, new uniform 🤬

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 21h

Coal and gas corporations are boosting their profits - making investors millions, while killing the climate and costing you a fortune.

In 2024, Adani paid $0 corporate tax. You paid more tax on your last grocery shop than a coal corporation paid on $1.27 billion.

It’s a rort!

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 18h

Something we prepared earlier

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 6d

Australia's much loved wildlife and places sorely need greater care and legal protection.

Our latest for @aunz.theconversation.com.

theconversation.com/labor-is-clo... With good friends and colleagues, @drphilmccormack.bsky.social & @yungenchee.bsky.social.

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 18h

Yet another story about #EPBC law reforms focusing on productivity, approval times, & economic benefits with ZERO MENTION of improvements for environmental protection & conservation

❌climate trigger
❌EPA as fully independent decision maker

Touts $7B (upper est) in savings fr streamlining
Biz 🫶 it

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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 19h

Just feels like the Duopoly has absolutely betrayed every Australian and this country

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 18h

Big protests coming up
Suggest everyone who can attend

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'No Kings' demonstrations are planned across the U.S. this Saturday to protest the Trump administration

Nationwide "No Kings" protests are planned for Saturday, Oct. 18.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 20h

Spot on. The Republicans have radicalised a generation of young men to turn their resentment and insecurity into hate and often violence, in the interest of billionaires. So grateful to hear AOC say it!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 23h

Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?

Good article by @nickfeik.bsky.social

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/16/n...

Does the NACC have any hope of regaining public trust?

The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals.

www.crikey.com.au

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

I’ve been evicted from the Pentagon, a building I’ve covered for 18 years, Nancy A. Youssef writes. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.

The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps

I’ve been evicted from a building I’ve covered for 18 years. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 18h

From protest laws to deaths in custody, Minns’ rush to claim the conservative high ground is clumsy and costly

At almost every opportunity, the NSW premier chooses a conservative path: get the cops on side and let nobody fault Labor’s toughness on crime. It’s not working * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There is a lesson for Chris Minns in the NSW supreme court’s declaration that police powers to deal with protesters near places of worship are invalid: laws curtailing civil liberties should never be rushed. They should certainly not be pushed through in an atmosphere of panic and incomplete facts such as existed in the fevered days after the now notorious Dural caravan incident. Anne Davies is Guardian Australia’s NSW state correspondent Continue reading...

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 1d

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 18h

This for every city!

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 18h

Glad to see the govt has extended these vital schemes as farmers were facing a cliff edge at the end of the year.

But what we really need is a long-term farming support scheme that protects nature & supports food production - this should be an urgent priority for govt.

A screenshot of the government's press release. Text reads "Countryside Stewardship extended to support farming and nature
Thousands of farmers will receive extensions to continue restoring nature and farming sustainably, supporting long-term food security."

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 17h

Gluetraps - an #AnimalWelfare issue still not solved.

Surely a ban on use should be ban on sale

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Robin's glue-trap death highlights need for ban, says RSPCA

The animal charity says the bird's death shows why the traps should be banned from sale.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

The clock is ticking on Pete Hegseth’s tenuous tenure as Pentagon chief, the Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief predicted Wednesday.

Pentagon Pete Will Be First Big Scalp of Trump 2.0

The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief issued a fearless forecast for the ever-embattled defense secretary.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 1d

If the Republicans want to stop being called Nazis, maybe they should stop hiring people who put Nazi paraphernalia in the background of their conference calls. Just a thought.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

Woman still in jail after violent arrest at ICE protest—for playing "Ghostbusters" on her clarinet.

She was mysteriously transported to jail across state lines—husband not told until 9 hours later.

"We can't even see her... Our 3-year-old has no idea when we'll see mommy again"

Portland, Oregon

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 1d

It’s been 3 weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona. She needs to be sworn in now.

youtube.com/shorts/SB0dR...

Rep. Mike Levin: Swear in Adelita Grijalva Now.

YouTube video by Mike Levin

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Rep. AOC: Republicans want to sign on 1 extra year of these ACA subsidies. Why? Midterm elections. They want to extend the subsidies just 1 year so people don't realize the dupe they're pulling on everyone, so that they can all reelect themselves and allow them to expire when they win reelection

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Sanders: Where are your Republican colleagues tonight?

Rep. AOC: That's an excellent question. House and Senate Democrats are in Washington DC. The only people who aren't in DC are the 200 elected Republicans in the House because Mike Johnson refuses to call the House into session

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice secured indictments of Donald Trump, said it was “ludicrous” to suggest he was motivated by partisan politics — and offered a scathing denunciation of the Trump Justice Department — in his first extended remarks since resigning in January.

Jack Smith Calls Idea That Politics Infected Trump Prosecutions ‘Ludicrous’

The former special counsel’s first extended remarks since resigning in January were released the same day House Republicans summoned him to testify.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The CFPB is one of the most staunch financial watchdogs for the American people.

The agency has returned at least $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.

It's no longer protecting consumers now...BECAUSE THIS REGIME DOESN'T WANT IT TO!

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner

Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo * More Australian bird of the year content * Download your free official 2025 bird of the year poster * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The tawny frogmouth has been named Australia’s 2025 bird of the year, after taking second place in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll three times running. More than 310,000 votes were cast after polling opened on 6 October and the tawny led the charge from the start, despite being hotly and persistently pursued by two cockatoos: the Baudin’s black cockatoo and the ever-popular gang-gang. Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...

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