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TomTerrific @bestofthebest1.bsky.social · 22h

The wonderful wizard of Oz…

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Clubfoot Dance Club @clubfootdanceclub.bsky.social · 8h

A wannabe king known as Trumpster
Made big stacks as a crypto coin pumpster
Gulped ADHD meds
Long his personal PEDs
And piled the East Wing in a Dumpster

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 11h

Watching the US gift $40 billion to Argentina for basically no good reason is kinda wild ... until you remember we're gifting the US $368 fucking billion for no good reason either

Cheer up, Yanks. We're covering your tab

Fuck 😔

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Idea Monkey 🧨 💥 🐵 @ideamonkey.bsky.social · 7h

Before the last election, many people (including me) were very much arguing the two party system had utterly failed us.

The best we could hope for then was a forced minority Govt

I wonder now how the Labor faithful would vote if the election were tomorrow

I'm still not reassured

We're fucked

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 8h

Mu’ath Abu Rokbah, the only veterinarian in northern Gaza, was killed in an Israeli airstrike nearly a week after he went missing, while inspecting his home, despite a ceasefire being in effect.

After a Week Missing, Israel Kills North Gaza’s Only Vet in Strike Despite Ceasefire - Quds News Network

Mu’ath Abu Rokbah, the only veterinarian in northern Gaza, was killed in an Israeli airstrike nearly a week after he went missing, while inspecting his home, despite a ceasefire being in effect.

qudsnen.co

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 1d

What do Gambling, Environment, Minerals
and Super have in common?

They are all promises to reform that Albanese has walked away from.

Weak as a tissue in a waterfall.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 21h

Some ppl see him bulldozing the White House and think “…yeah he’s definitely planning on leaving in 3 years”

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Media fixation on Rudd v Trump is indeed vomitous.

And yet another excuse for mainstream media to dumb down foreign policy to personality politics, while ignoring real issues:
- why has there been no independent Australian review of #AUKUS?
- is the US alliance still useful, or is it now dangerous?

Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 1d

• Sky News Australia grub goads Trump to hate on our Ambassador.
• Easily manipulated narcissist Trump takes the bait.
• Back home, the entire irrelevant right wing mob (Coalition MPs, NewsCorp, Nine and ABC hacks) all call for Rudd's resignation. Vomitous. 😠 #auspol #journalism

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"[R]ecords and interviews with 20 people familiar with the route or the strikes, including current and former U.S. and international officials, contradict the administration’s claims.

The passage, they said, is not ordinarily used to traffic synthetic opioids."

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Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats

Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 1d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon Web Services has crashed for the 2nd day in a row.

Amazon runs nearly 50% of the Web Services in the Western World.

Should we be letting Private Business run something so important?

The answer is no.

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selfunded.bsky.social @selfunded.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry David, I think the UK's "reputation" went down the drain when you went to war with China to force them to accept Opium, or when you shot Indians out of cannons, or, well the list is endless really.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 7h

Let's not humour those advocating deportation of UK residents with reasons why their plans would not work.

Keep it simple, this is not the action of a civilised country.

If needed, this will mean complete chaos and destruction of international reputation.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 19h

You know the type of people throughout European history who would often use lots of public money to enlarge their residences to make themselves feel more important?
Kings

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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 12h

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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 17h

Just got an advanced copy of The White House renovation plans…this is the facade ..
share.google/OlM0jYMPWbui...

Victor Emmanuel II Monument - Wikipedia

share.google

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 19h

Snap benefits, healthcare, utilities. Gonna hurt millions. Red and blue.

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selfunded.bsky.social @selfunded.bsky.social · 7h

Think the translation is: Brexit removed the checks and balances of the European Union, which was of course Farage's whole strategy.

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 7h

We are living through one of the costs of Brexit; lack of institutional restraint leaves your laws prey to lunatic far right populism, in the form of both Reform and Tory policies on mass deportation of legal residents.

selfunded.bsky.social @selfunded.bsky.social · 7h

You made me laugh out loud, that's an achievement

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 20h

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 20h

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 18h

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 15h

"They make a desert and call it peace"
- Tacitus, AD 85

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h

Israeli terrorism and ethnic cleansing in the #WestBank continues.
The western political and media establishment looks the other way.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16h

Israeli settler mobs attacked Palestinian farmers in Al-Nazla Al-Sharqiya, north of Tulkarm, stealing their harvested olives and detaining them for hours by force, another act of settler violence against Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. 🤬🤬🤬

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 9h

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