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Tookie Gill
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Dr Supatra Gill. Writer, poet, bogwitch, biodiversity and land manager on the unceded mountain lands of the Wolgalu people, Snowy Valleys NSW. she/her. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 DoB 315 CO2
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And this is one of the best. scribepublications.com.au/books/democr...
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean | Book
An explosive exposé of the man and the ideas behind the well-heeled right's relentless campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, privatise public...
scribepublications.com.au
February 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
I’ve attached a chapter here from a 2004 book that describes the revving up of the US Atlas Network & linked operations that set out to change America for the dark money donors, controversial industries & everyone who hated modernity. Think of #Auspol #NZpol for the parallels.
lucyham.bsky.social Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 23h
David Brock later started 😇 Media Matters for America after career at the Heritage Foundation & in the Atlas Network-interlinked rightwing media dogfight. Sickened, he wrote The Republican Noise Machine. Chapter linked here is top 👌 insight to US #AtlasNetwork ops.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nqr03...
THE REPUBLICAN NOISE MACHINE: RIGHT-WING MEDIA A... Powell then laid out the strategy that the Right would follow in the coming decades, whereby conservative business interests would create and underwrite a "movement" to front its agenda in the media. Under Powell's plan, heavily subsidized "scholars, writers, and thinkers" speaking "for the movement" would press for "balance" and "equal time" to penetrate the media, thereby shaping news coverage, reframing issues, influencing the views of political elites, and changing mass public opinion. These would be the manufactured "intellectuals" referenced by Efron, marketed in the media to "expand the spectrum." They would be housed in new "national organizations" in an effort "undertaken long term" with "generous financial support." Appended to Powell's original copy of the memo was a column by conservative writer John Chamberlain from the Richmond Times-Dispatch summarizing the findings of Edith Efron from The News Twisters. While it was well circulated in the business community, the Powell document remained a secret until columnist Jack Anderson wrote about its recommendations for "confrontational politics" in the context of Powell's fitness for the Supreme Court, to which he was nominated shortly after writing the memo and where justices were supposed to be strictly impartial. 2 In the White House, Powell's patron Richard Nixon already had broached the subject of building a privately funded parallel political establishment that could further the conservative ideological cause, and attack his political enemies, while remaining nominally independent of the GOP. According to the diaries of his White House aide H. R. Haldeman, on September 12, 1970, Nixon was "pushing again on [his] project of building OUR establishment in [the] press, business, education, etc." Buchanan had sent Nixon a memo urging him to establish "a conservative counterpoint to Brookings." A second major document establishing plans for the Right's media… The ideology of Barry Goldwater and Phyllis Schlafly and William Buckley would now be dry-cleaned for mass media consumption, and along with it came a neolexicon—a language invented by conservative practitioners trained in the use of manipulative, often Orwellian, rhetoric. Agenda items like gutting Social Security, rolling back civil rights protections, and slashing taxes inequitably would be smoothed out with deceptive Madison Avenue-type branding slogans of the kind used to sell commercial products: "privatization," "the new federalism," the "flat tax," and so on. Americans would be told that poverty is a "behavioral" condition, that any advance gained by a member of a minority group amounted to "reverse discrimination," and that providing government subsidies for private and parochial schools while draining resources from public education was to be thought of as "school choice." Just as objective journalism was an obstacle for the Right, so was objective scholarship. Simon laid out a "blue-print for a counter-intelligentsia"—hired guns who could legitimize and popularize right-wing opinion through the media and do battle in the media on behalf of conservative business interests, the wealthy, and the cultural Right with spokespeople for the consumer, environmental, civil rights, and feminist movements. Under Simon's plan, academic studies that were damaging to right-wing ideological goals and to the imperatives of business were to be countered at every turn by scholarship for sale. Simon advocated "nothing less than a massive and unprecedented mobilization of moral, intellectual and financial resources" with funds "rushing by multimillions" from corporate-backed foundations to a network of pro-business scholars, writers, pundits, and publicists, as well as to conservative book projects, publications, and policy research. The funds would go exclusively to right-wing ideologues, with no capitulation to "soft-minded pleas for the support of 'dissent, " Simon advised, thus ensuring that conservatism would have the unwavering message discipline, ideological uniformity, and seeming unity that seemed to go missing in liberalism. The work would carry an air of academic authority and independence, but it would be subject to no peer review or conflict-of-interest safeguards, and it would be carried out covertly in support of "the only party with a philosophical heritage which might permit it to be the Liberty Party in the United States, the Republican Party." tank. - Through the Adolph Coors Foundation, the Coors family underwrote a variety of right-wing causes and organizations. Over the years, statements emanated from the family suggesting a dark agenda may have motivated its activism. For instance, William Coors, one of the foundation's principals, told a group of African American businesspeople in a 1984 speech, "One of the best things they [slave traders, did for you is to drag your ancestors over here in chains." 5 If the genteel Powell represented traditional U.S. Chamber of Commerce-centered business-oriented conservatism, his memo, with its call for radical action, proved an inspiration to, and a unifying force for, the more populist, culturally reactionary southern and western outposts of conservatism. After reading the memo, Coors dispatched an aide to Washington, where he met Paul Weyrich, press secretary to recently defeated GOP Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado. ° Weyrich's coworker in Allott's office was a young staffer named George F. Will. Weyrich and Will, along with Trent Lott, the future Republican Senate leader then serving as a legislative aide in another congressional office, had formed a "Conservative Lunch Club." Weyrich had been raised in Wisconsin, the son of German immigrants who admired Robert Taft for his opposition to the U.S. involvement in World War II. He had only a high school education and considered himself a "political mechanic," interested in organizing to attain power rather than in policy or ideas. - Weyrich was an organizational genius and also a forbidding demagogue of the pseudoconservative variety, a skill honed in a brief but not inconsequential stint as a broadcast journalist. He had ties to the most extremist groups of the American right wing, dating back to his involvement with George Wallace's American Independent Party. Weyrich and his organizations have had associations with the John Birch Society and the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby and to Christian reconstructionist Rou…
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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theatlantic.com
Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos. His success could have dire consequences for American democracy, @dgraham.bsky.social argues. (From November)
The Coming Election Mayhem
Donald Trump’s plans to throw the 2026 midterms into chaos are already under way.
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February 2, 2026 at 10:45 PM
tookiegill.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gina Rinehart’s company donated almost $900k to rightwing group Advance, political donations data shows
Clive Palmer’s Minerology was the single biggest political donor in 2024-25, giving $53.1m to Trumpet of Patriots, which failed to win a seat
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 9:29 AM
tookiegill.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But of course...
Jeffrey Epstein files: don’t be fooled. Millions of files are still unreleased | Moira Donegan
Federal prosecutors had identified 6 million files that were ‘potentially responsive’ to the law, but only released 3.5. Why?
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

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January 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
tookiegill.bsky.social
I think Dr Mann is just being nice here...!
michaelemann.bsky.social Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 13d
#Repulsive #Reprehensible #Hideous #Monstrous
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
Trump: "ICE is gonna be too rough with somebody. They're gonna make a mistake sometimes. I felt horribly when I was told the young woman had the tragedy. But when I learned her father is - I hope he still is, but I don't know - was a tremendous Trump fan. It's terrible. It's so sad. It just happens"
January 20, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Why is it that religious bodies receive exemptions from criminal laws in Australia?

If it's a crime, it's a fucking crime. Fix this up, @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social.

NO MORE EXEMPTIONS. REPEAL EXISTING EXEMPTIONS. #auspol
January 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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muellershewrote.com
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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laurenleharper.bsky.social
Hannah Natanson is an exceptional reporter and should never have been subjected to this type of extraordinary intimidation tactic. We have few details now, but it’s hard to interpret this as anything other than an attempt to squash the freedom of the press.
January 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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michellesuiter.bsky.social
This is a “good thing”

This will help social cohesion will it @senatorwong.bsky.social ?

Perhaps you could ask him to bring some shell casings for you to sign Penny, you know those casings for explosives that blow men, women & children apart leaving them orphaned, deformed or an amputee #auspol
Israeli President Isaac Herzog signs bombs destined for Palestinian civilians, and Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong says his visit to Australia would be a “good thing”
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
"ICE is violence-prone because its main purpose has become theatrical. Under present leadership, ICE is less a law-enforcement agency than it is a content creator.

from David Frum:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter
The vice president knows what ICE means to MAGA.
www.theatlantic.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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janecaro.bsky.social
Greenland and Denmark (Queen Mary is an Aussie FFS!) and NATO.
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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paulmarvin.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
The technical term, in international law for this is "a smash and grab"
shipwreck75.bsky.social Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 27d
Trump on Venezuela oil:
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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grudgie.bsky.social
Mob boss. Not a President.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President”
I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America. This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States! I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan, immediately. It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
January 6, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Nicolas Maduro has been extradited to New York to face the full force of a presidential pardon.

by Karoline Leavitt
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.
January 3, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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bylines.scot
The next press release will be "Trump ends Venezuelan War."

#Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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danilic.bsky.social
After removing Maduro, the USA will finally be able to bring freedom to millions of barrels of oil.
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
A malignant narcissist is incapable of withstanding ridicule, so please share this as widely as possible.

Thanking you all in advance, Mar🐫

🙏

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Somebody Needs to Tell Trump Everybody Is Laughing at Him
His worst fear has already come true.
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December 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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ms.now
BREAKING: House GOP-led Judiciary Committee releases Fmr. Special Counsel Jack Smith deposition transcript. MS NOW’s Kevin Frey has the latest.
December 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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mfwitches.bsky.social
How in the goddamn flying fuck do we live in a country where the murders of 15 people from one racial/religious group ONCE requires both a Royal Commission AND the deployment of the army but the murders of 80 women EVERY YEAR since time immemorial fucking doesn’t??

#NewsCorpse
December 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM