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Tony Watts

@wattsburger.bsky.social

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Twitter refugee. Expat wombat and coconut farmer. Recovering media type. Don't blame me for the kakistocracy - I don't get to vote.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · Sep 9

I think we're at the stage where the right wing (nuts) think that facts are 'woke', and that they're willing to sacrifice their children to preventable diseases and climate change to prove it.

All I can say is that they have no business being even close to the levers of power.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 15h

Hate to point this out to the jernalists at The UnAustralian that "Trump's presence" is hardly making Taiwanese sleep well at night. FFS

thehill.com/opinion/nati...

thehill.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h

As it happens, both my grandmas were girlfriends of antifa (my grandfathers fought in WWII)

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 16h

Quelle surprise!

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that.

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 16h

Bankrupt baroque

Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 16h

"...the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer [sic]" may, IDK, have read the play? 🤷‍♂️

Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

"social media [is] rife with “misinformation, disinformation [and] the rabbit holes [that] they drag you down"?

Newscorpse isn't?

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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 1d

News Corp Australia chairman says social media platforms are monsters and torment kids but I guess hacking the phone of a murdered schoolgirl is ok though.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 1d

The big social media companies took the Newscorpse model of ensuring their users are permanently outraged and supercharged it by having more users. World's smallest violin for the company that replaced actual journalists with op-ed writers.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

The least we can do is to ensure that Jane Goodall's dying wish is fulfilled.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

Take a moment to listen to the inimitable Jane Goodall. RIP. ❤️✊🏽

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 2d

Can they take Jacinta with them?

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

The NPC has absolutely shamed itself.

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2d

~ ermahgerd ~

Seems v much like the NPC was not truthful about its cancellation of Hedges' scheduled appearance on OCT 20.

'Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia'

www.afopa.com.au/blog/2025/10...

Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia — Australian Friends of Palestine Association

AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

www.afopa.com.au

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 3d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 2d

Wait so … wait.

So toxic masculinity does exist and Biden did it…?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Monica Crowley: "What a difference a presidency makes. We are now totally over that destructive, stupid era of toxic masculinity, and now we're in an era of real masculinity thanks to the bold muscular leadership of President Trump and our Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. We saw that in bold relief."

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 3d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

- ‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

#climatechange
Story by @kenzabryan.ft.com
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/841f...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

www.ft.com

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 4d

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www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 4d

Must read insiders account of critical NATO meeting with European leaders by Jens Stoltenberg. So many political memoirs pull their punches. This one looks like it does not
“I’m leaving this meeting. There’s no reason for me to be here any more,” Trump said

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink

Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 4d

Oscar Piastri plays the team game. And the team screws him. Gloves are off

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 4d

@brianbeutler.bsky.social wrote a good column on how the right became radicalized post-2008 election: the late Andrew Breitbart’s belief that politics are downstream from culture was taken to heart by most of the American right.

www.offmessage.net/p/they-radic...

They Radicalized Themselves

And we can pinpoint when it happened.

www.offmessage.net

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 4d

JHFC. Where TF does he think all the images of dead babies come from? That $100m Bezos prize seems to have done its job...

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 4d

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5d

perfect

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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting that this seems to be almost entirely an Anglosphere issue. In Europe there doesn't seem to be any culture war rubbish about renewables. 🤷‍♂️