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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3h

it’s all just a grift

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 4h

The picture desk won’t exist in a few years at Holt St 😞

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 5h

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 4h

News Corp's chair yesterday gave me a bit of a puzzled look when I mentioned in a question that News corp routinely uses AI generated images in its papers. Today:

Andrew Bolt's column with an AI generated image of Chris Bowen

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 15h

By resigning as soon as possible…

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 19h

Paul Brereton’s ongoing conflict of interest woes threaten public trust in the National Anti-Corruption Commission. He urgently needs to change tack.

Australia’s anti-corruption commissioner has a trust problem. He needs to change course to fix it

theconversation.com

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 15h

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This one took ages, annoyed with myself. 😖

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 17h

Stay weird, Portland!

(would seriously love to see an episode of Portlandia where Fred and Carrie organise a rave protest)

WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 17h

These costumes really ruin the optics of the propaganda videos the far right wants to make, which is what they're there for.

ICE will eventually target them and brutalize them to try to run them off, so they can get useful propaganda video. I hope they're prepared for that.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 20h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker: “Whenever the president talks about somebody critically, it’s often projection about what he himself is insecure about. Each of the things he said about me, they’re all true about him. I can take it. I am not afraid of this president.”

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21h

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

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Cate Faehrmann MP @greencate.bsky.social · 22h

Traditional Owners don't want the Narrabri Gas project. NSW Farmers don't want it. Unions don't want it. Environmentalists don't want it. Locals don't want it.

Only Chris Minns and his gas cartel mates want the Narrabri Gas project. So whose side is Labor on?

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 22h

To be fair I blame the owners more.

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

American media is failing so badly as their democracy is thrown in a bonfire.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

The praise (yes, *praise*) by CNN for Pam Bondi is stunning, given that this was the most startlingly unprofessional public performance by an Attorney General in at least a century: "Bondi fended off questions....using quick-one liners to deflect and personal attacks to push back against Democrats."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics

Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient

And that's a profile in cowardice

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Henderson moaning about ABC bias on #insiders cos a journalist allegedly implied that the racist Senator Jacinta Price racially smeared the entire Australian Indian migrant community as ALP voters. 🙄 #RNBreakfast

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory

IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble The devastating war in Gaza has entered its third year, standing as Israel’s longest war since the 1948 conflict that led to the country’s creation. The majority of those killed by Israel’s offensive in the strip have been civilians, and the overall total now exceeds 67,000. Entire families have been wiped out in a single airstrike. Sometimes, only a single individual, frequently a child, is left alive. There are also nearly 170,000 injured. In all, casualties amount to roughly 10% of Gaza’s pre-war population of 2.3 million. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

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The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe a convict hulk in the Thames Tony. Then on to a distant continent on the other side of the world. 🙄

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You could certainly pick up people in the English Channel, hold them on some kind of a mothership & send them back to the land from which they’ve come on some quiet and moonless night”

Ex-Australian PM Tony Abbott tells #Newsnight how the UK could deter small boat crossings

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I think you’ll find they did at the time…

youtu.be/90zZr6-IJ9E?...

Iraq war archive: Half-a-million Australians protest US-led Iraq invasion | SBS News Archive

YouTube video by SBS News

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

What are the ‘gunzels’ saying? (I had to google that)..

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 1d

David Rowe pull up!.. Financial Review

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure I agree with you here. The metro is a master stroke for commuter usability in this city. It works and it’s beautiful. The north west needed it, inner west, and soon it goes south west to Bankstown. I won’t hear a bad word of it.

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s not intended to be disrespectful to those tragically killed. Just a genuine question.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

1/2 "everyone from News Corp to the Atlas Network, to Advance, to CPAC, to Gina Rinehart are busting a foofer valve—and spending a great deal of money—making the case for the takeover"

It’s the process, says @timdunlop.bsky.social, not Andrew Hastie per se.
tdunlop.substack.com/p/i-suppose-...

I suppose we have to think about Andrew Hastie now, sigh

Okay, but let's be clear on what the real problem is

tdunlop.substack.com

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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like to know if the Israeli survivors or relatives of victims interviewed today on Oct 7 think it’s justified to kill 100k Palestinians (mostly non Hamas) as revenge in addition to razing their land to rubble with all hope removed. No one is asking as far as I can see. #ABC730

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