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Rod Moffatt

@politikarma.bsky.social

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Pragmatic progressive. Tired of career party hacks who consider political office an entitlement. Believe neoliberalism has concentrated wealth & accelerated inequality. Accept anthropogenic climate change threat is existential. Enjoy landscape photography

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 2h

Albanese believes his own B.S. and is becoming increasingly hostile to being held to account.
Hubris has replaced humility
#auspol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 3h

Given pivotal role of Murdoch’s Fox TV in destabilising American democracy by acting as a complicit conduit & megaphone for #Trump propaganda & disinformation - there’s sufficient cause for a Royal Commission into News Corp’s threat to democracy.
But does @albomp.bsky.social have the spine?
#auspol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 4h

What a spectacle the world’s witnessing.
#Trump has lost his marbles…and holds press conference in which he (again) announces he’s reducing drug prices by up to 1000%.
Surrounded by a conga line of creeps & crackpots - not 1 has intestinal fortitude to even whisper “the emperor is naked”
#USpolitics

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 7h

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee rationale for their decision nailed it…and #Trump

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, so embarrassing.

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

Murray Watt is a grub, a wheeler-dealer, and a dutiful ‘fixer’ for @albomp.bsky.social whose actions demonstrate contempt for our environment and cultural heritage.
@australianlabor.bsky.social is committed only to incumbency
#auspol

Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

Nobel Peace Prize Committee rationale for their choice of recipient is a wooden stake to the heart of #MAGA

Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

That’s what the French would do.
And in the not too distant past, they’d have added a number of heads

Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

And Environmental Vandalism

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

Especially for anyone with a good ol’ Aussie tan

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

Norwegians nailed Trump in their justification for their choice:

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

How chronically out of touch.
Abbott is like a punch-drunk failed boxer who still kids himself he’s up to the fight…a fight to drag the nation back a century.
He represents all that contemporary Australia reviles.
Never again!
#auspol

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 8h

Just another dinosaur

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 9h

When you hear right wing mouthpieces call for resurrection of the Dodo, you realise just how desperate the LNP Remnants are to find relevance in contemporary Australia
#auspol

Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, please. Nail, say hello to coffin. 😂 #auspol

Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 9h

Lol lmao

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Rod Moffatt @politikarma.bsky.social · 9h

or #WattsThePrice

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize