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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1h

New Zealand is also under siege by the Atlas Network:
#AtlasNetwork’s Advance intervened in the Voice referendum in #Australia & similar organisations spawned from the #US model are distorting #NZ’s #politics from within as well as from without.
theaimn.com/new-zealand-...

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 6h

Bluster doesn’t keep a country safe. Sensible national security planning and implementation does.

The true cost of #AUKUS is starting to show through the rhetoric. As @albomp.bsky.social puts all his Defence eggs in the one basket, other real capabilities are suffering. #auspol

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1h

Read the full article in Bloomberg ⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Eyes Fresh Tariff Probe Focused on Foreign Drug Prices

President Donald Trump is planning to launch a new investigation into drug prices aimed at ensuring foreign countries pay as much as Americans do for their medicines, according to people familiar with...

www.bloomberg.com

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 1h

You weren’t born for comfort or hardship — you were born for virtue. Every challenge is a chance to practise strength of character. #Stoicism

The Wake-Up Initiative @thewakeup.bsky.social · 17h

"You weren't born for comfort - you were born for capability. Every challenge builds your strength. Stop seeking ease, start seeking growth.
Free guide on how to recover when everything falls apart
https://wakeinitiative.gumroad.com/l/THE72HOURSURVIVALGUIDE" #stoicism #resilience #capability #growth

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 3h

Superb use of ALT

Musicophilia @musicophilia.bsky.social · 6h

It's worth checking out the amazing 49-year-old 24-year-olds that make up the staff at the architecture firm that designed the Big Box King's Throne Room where the East Wing was. The firm changed their website to be landing-page-only, but the Archive still has it:

web.archive.org/web/20250419...

A twenty-something year old white man with 1930s-style pomaded hair and an argyle bowtie, named Smithers

A twenty-something year old white man whose smile looks like he just smelled a fart

A twenty-something year old white man wearing a loud paisley tie and a large silber cross with Jesus on it

Text from the architect's website stating "What are we striving to do?

We are striving to exercise our talents to achieve works of excellence that fully participate in the ongoing development of Tradition. This embrace of history inspires our work, and we labor in the vineyard with Iktinos, Kallikrates, Vitruvius, Suger, Brunelleschi, Alberti, Michelangelo, Bramante, Borromini, Bernini, Palladio, Jefferson, Latrobe, Bacon, Richardson, Sullivan, Lutyens, McKim, Cram, and Greenberg."

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2h

The ALP didn't bother negotiating with the Libs when it changed IR laws, but now apparently it needs LNP support for environmental protection changes.

When govts want to do something, they do it.
When they don't, they use bipartisanship as the excuse.

No one here should fall for it

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 4h

Did I hear you say the #EpsteinBallroom ?

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 6h

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 4h

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Robyn 🇺🇲🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @ogdenrobyn.bsky.social · 15h

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 4h

Live: Nurses, teachers, doctors and others take part in nationwide mega strike

Yaaay NZ. Yes we want equal & fair pay, proper staffing, full funding for public education & public health, paid ambulances, fire service, etc.

Go well NZ workers! #nzpol
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3h

Read here:

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

'Sensible' centre? Tell that to the giants of The Rocks and Eureka

We've had decades of sanitising radical progressive action in Australia, to make successes seem as if they were just the sensible position.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 5h

This happens a lot in SIL and respite: NDIS plan funding doesn’t meet the complex care needs, but to fail to care for the client based on their needs is a failure of duty of care aboutregional.com.au/cobargo-char...

Cobargo charity chasing NDIS for $300k for care it provided | About Regional

Nardy House has spent months seeking reimbursement from NDIS for care it provided to a participant. Nardy House is a…

aboutregional.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 5h

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found the average age of death for people who've experienced homelessness is 55 - almost three decades younger than the general population www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... cc. @purplepingers.bsky.social

New data on links between early death and homelessness - ABC listen

The Institute of Health and Welfare has examined the link between death and homelessness.

www.abc.net.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 5h

Bunnings is taking on the Australian Privacy Commissioner in a legal showdown over claims it unlawfully used facial recognition technology across dozens of its hardware stores www.channelnews.com.au/bunnings-fac...

channelnews : Bunnings Faces Privacy Showdown Over Use Of Facial Recognition

Bunnings is taking on the Australian Privacy Commissioner in a legal showdown over claims it unlawfully used facial recognition technology across dozens of its hardware stores. The Wesfarmers-owned re...

www.channelnews.com.au

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 5h

A four-year-old girl died after she was denied extra NDIS support, with an inquiry hearing how planning failures are putting Aussie families at risk www.heraldsun.com.au/health/guide...

www.heraldsun.com.au

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 9h

It’s clear that an expanding US military presence in Australia has increased the likelihood of nuclear weapons being directed at us by China.

I fear the USA 🇺🇸 more so than China

#auspol

Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 9h

ICYMI

Could Australia defend itself? - Michael West

Should the Australian Defence Force (ADF) stick with the US and the AUKUS alliance or can Australia defend itself? Rex Patrick reports

michaelwest.com.au

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7h

ICE once again attacking the most vulnerable.

They sent an entire squad of agents to arrest a disabled blind man named Quinn Haberl.

They took his cane and dragged him off by his feet.

His head was perilously close to the pavement.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 6h

"We can demand that the Australian government does stand up for Australian values.

"Poll after poll indicates that Australians are deeply concerned about Donald Trump & what he is doing in the US."

@emmashortis.bsky.social on AUKUS & the Australia-America relationship. #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/4hkIe6K

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 20h

This is an excellent interview. I keep pointing people to Nafeez Ahmed and his work on the transnational eugenicist Right. This interview doesn’t mention the origin of the eugenics in neoliberalism, hothoused in Atlas Network partner thinktanks.

Emphasis on tech 👌

substack.com/home/post/p-...

How the Nerd Alt Reich Is Ushering Authoritarianism in the US and Europe

A recording from Nafeez Ahmed and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video

substack.com

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 19h

City of Melbourne is planning to expand its use of CCTV: have your say on the draft policy by Wednesday 29th October 2025 participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/safe-city-ca...

Safe City Camera Program

We’re updating our Safe City Camera Policy to address local laws breaches and improve transparency. Have your say by Wednesday 29 October.

participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 19h

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I stand with Teachers, Nurses, Doctors, Dentists & More!
#NZ #MegaStrike #nzpol

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 1d

Stunning writing

Stunning observations

Watch how our society in all its facets - built by men, designed by men, produced by men, predominantly controlled by men - works to protect the man every time

(From the BBC drama: The Following Events Are Based On A Pack Of Lies, on ABC iview I believe)

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Covid is a mass disabling event that is still ongoing.

Over 20 million people have been affected.

The US is gutting healthcare and social supports.

They’re pushing a eugenicist agenda.

ICE is also disabling people, but we almost never hear about it.

Mass disability & fascism are a deadly combo

ICE Enforcement May Be A Mass Disabling Event

ICE have proven again and again that they will target the most vulnerable. Their aggressive actions may even become a mass disabling event. Why aren't more people talking about it?

www.disabledginger.com

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Read more from Jack about the issues plaguing the Australian National University ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/bells-d...

Bell's departure is overdue, but this crisis is not all her fault. Here's why

Genevieve Bell, vice-chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU), has announced her resignation. Many will welcome this news.

australiainstitute.org.au

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

"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

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 1d

The podbean interface is horrendous but it is around the 30’s that I did a lot of the work.

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