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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 1h

There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍

Overlizard @aitch-el.bsky.social · 3m

Why THE ACTUAL FUCK does the ALP have to surrender to the Coalition - who only want to exploit the environment to its annihilation.

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 54m

You scoff, but this is how we got Medicare.
Sorry, I meant AUKUS

Screenshot: Headline reads: Murray Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Summary reads: Murray Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

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Dr Hilary Joyce ⚕️ @drhilary.bsky.social · 2h

Stunning Waratah flowers direct from a friend’s garden yesterday

A display of a white Waratah and four red blooms surrounding in a glass vase with white kitchen background. Flowers are almost spherical and the size of a cupped hand

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Overlizard @aitch-el.bsky.social · 2h

Pragmatism - of which the ALP is so proud - is the slippery slope to fascism.

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 3h

"If they don't deliver, they don't get paid,"

The first flagrant lie from the employment department in today's senate estimates hearing about the welfare cops who profit from poverty. No doubt there will be much more bullshit to come!

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 3h

If you want to watch the employment department defend their unlawful operation of compulsory activities (so-called mutual obligations), you can tune in to the senate estimates hearing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WId...

Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee [Part 1] | 09/10/2025

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Overlizard @aitch-el.bsky.social · 10h

The Australian Labor Party is a close friend to fascism.
The ALP is emphatically NOT the party of Whitlam.
Nothing the Albanese Labor government does counters the rising tide of fascism here or in the world. Quite the reverse.
Same for state Labor governments.
@australianlabor.bsky.social

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Overlizard @aitch-el.bsky.social · 10h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 19h

As long as we get sausages in bread every three or four years, Australians are gonna sleepwalk their way through this fascistic global push. More of you need to be more serious, sooner rather than later.

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 20h

In the Trump era, this is terrifying. Apparently criticising capitalism 🥴🤣 is terrorism now in the US.
#Auspol

Australian Federal Police ®
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The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia's social cohesion.
The NSI teams will work closely with state and territory police, law enforcement and national security partners to provide a coordinated, consistent and intelligence-led response to security threats, and also work on a global level through operations, capabilities and relationships with the international law enforcement intelligence community.
There are current and emerging groups dispersed across Australia and in some cases, overseas, who are eroding our country's social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation. While many of these crimes may not meet the threshold of terrorism, the AFP has identified concerning behaviours which could escalate to politically-motivated violence or hate crimes, which seriously put the Australian community at risk.
There is no place for hate or violence in our communities and the AFP will defend and protect Australia and Australia's future from these threats.
Anyone with information about possible threats to the community or suspicious activity should make a report to the National Security Hotline on 1800 123 400. In an emergency or life-threatening situation, contact Triple

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 19h

This is why I love Barbs,

“I didn’t come to the Senate to chase down scoundrels in the consulting industry but tragically that’s what I found myself doing.”🔥 #Estimates

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19h

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 18h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14h

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22h

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 22h

to be fair to him, he was far from alone in this

Mike Sampson @mfsampson.sda.io · 23h

“Unfortunately, it occurs to me that Alan Tudge was not even close to being a genius.” Mean Streak - @squigglyrick.bsky.social

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Juzabel @juzabel.bsky.social · 22h

These two legends having a yarn about some fucked up shit is worth a watch.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

I interviewed Grace Tame about autism, fascism, Israel, Australia and empire. "We're not really a democracy"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtE...

“We’re not really a democracy” - Grace Tame on autism, fascism, Israel, Trump and empire

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 21h

To all those who comment about subsidies for renewable energy, what are your thoughts on the $500,000,000 we taxpayers will fork over to bail out Glencore, who paid $0 tax in Oz, but posted a record profit? At least with renewable we are buying cheap endless energy security.

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