Colin McDougall
@colinmcdougall.bsky.social
Opinionated, works with Tech, reads a lot, tends to misuse ‘too’.
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Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
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As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount
Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.
www.abc.net.au
October 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
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Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
#TwentyfiveFortyseven
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On K’gari it is not only very grown up to carry a cool stick, it is a basic safety procedure.
October 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
On K’gari it is not only very grown up to carry a cool stick, it is a basic safety procedure.
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ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.
That’s not making America great again.
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The Onion is so damn good.
September 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Onion is so damn good.
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Australian film producers and experts call Trump tariff proposal ‘bizarre’ and impossible to enforce
Australian film producers and experts call Trump tariff proposal ‘bizarre’ and impossible to enforce
US president threatens levy on all foreign-made films, but experts point out that the industry is global and Australia is intertwined with Hollywood
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The federal government has vowed to fight a proposed 100% tariff on Australian-made films, after the US president, Donald Trump, posted on his social media platform that he planned to go ahead with the huge levy “on any and all movies made outside the United States”.
Industry experts have described the proposal as bizarre and virtually impossible to enforce, given the global nature of film, with production, financing, and post-production often spread across several countries. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Australian film producers and experts call Trump tariff proposal ‘bizarre’ and impossible to enforce
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This is Rosie and Pancho. Rosie has spent days digging a suspiciously Pancho-sized hole. Did not help the premeditated charges by putting him in it to check her measurements. 13/10 for both (TT: sophie.molkenthin)
September 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is Rosie and Pancho. Rosie has spent days digging a suspiciously Pancho-sized hole. Did not help the premeditated charges by putting him in it to check her measurements. 13/10 for both (TT: sophie.molkenthin)
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One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
September 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
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The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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RIP Robert Redford—a true movie legend 😔
We'll be remembering him in this week's Take ❤️
Post your top 3 Redford performances below and we'll read a selection in the show ⬇️
We'll be remembering him in this week's Take ❤️
Post your top 3 Redford performances below and we'll read a selection in the show ⬇️
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ALT: a man with long blonde hair and a beard is holding a fishing rod
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September 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
RIP Robert Redford—a true movie legend 😔
We'll be remembering him in this week's Take ❤️
Post your top 3 Redford performances below and we'll read a selection in the show ⬇️
We'll be remembering him in this week's Take ❤️
Post your top 3 Redford performances below and we'll read a selection in the show ⬇️
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"A staffer in the Justice Department said in a secretly recorded video that the department would redact any Republican names from its investigative files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein."
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In Undercover Video, Staffer Claims DOJ Will Hide Republican Names In Epstein Files
The Justice Department confirmed the video but said the staffer wasn't speaking based on knowledge from his job.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"A staffer in the Justice Department said in a secretly recorded video that the department would redact any Republican names from its investigative files on the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein."
www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/james-...
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The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.
August 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.
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On December 14, 2012, a mass shooter murdered 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.
Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage.
He died today at 89.
Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage.
He died today at 89.
August 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On December 14, 2012, a mass shooter murdered 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.
Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage.
He died today at 89.
Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage.
He died today at 89.
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"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests
The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
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ACTU claims of agreement with tech firms over training AI dismissed by creative peak bodies
ACTU claims of agreement with tech firms over training AI dismissed by creative peak bodies
CEO of Australian Recording Industry Association says tech companies should simply comply with existing copyright law
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The Australian Council of Trade Unions claims that it has reached a “breakthrough” agreement with the tech sector on a model for payment for using creative content in training AI has triggered alarm among bodies representing creative professionals.
Speaking on the sidelines of the economic reform roundtable, the secretary of the ACTU, Sally McManus, said “there was discussion with the Tech Council and ACTU about wanting to address the issue of paying creatives, journalists and academics for their data (and) their creative work that they do”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
ACTU claims of agreement with tech firms over training AI dismissed by creative peak bodies
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Aaron's been doing some amazing work on this issue
The rewriting of propaganda from the Sydney Morning Herald
Massola still didn't explain how or why or what prompted Matthew Knott to seek out a comment from Yousef in the first place.
Who prompted Matthew to do that? Who gave him the contacts?
The rewriting of propaganda from the Sydney Morning Herald
Massola still didn't explain how or why or what prompted Matthew Knott to seek out a comment from Yousef in the first place.
Who prompted Matthew to do that? Who gave him the contacts?
Claim a quote from a Hamas co-founder who’s in prison unable to comment.
Quietly rewrite when busted.
Pull Knott from the Insiders sofa and send Massola instead to waffle about "offices".
Keep running the smear anyway.
That’s SMH. That’s #Insiders. That’s garbage.
Quietly rewrite when busted.
Pull Knott from the Insiders sofa and send Massola instead to waffle about "offices".
Keep running the smear anyway.
That’s SMH. That’s #Insiders. That’s garbage.
August 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Aaron's been doing some amazing work on this issue
The rewriting of propaganda from the Sydney Morning Herald
Massola still didn't explain how or why or what prompted Matthew Knott to seek out a comment from Yousef in the first place.
Who prompted Matthew to do that? Who gave him the contacts?
The rewriting of propaganda from the Sydney Morning Herald
Massola still didn't explain how or why or what prompted Matthew Knott to seek out a comment from Yousef in the first place.
Who prompted Matthew to do that? Who gave him the contacts?
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David Stratton, esteemed Australian film critic, dies aged 85
David Stratton, esteemed Australian film critic, dies aged 85
The international cinema expert was beloved for his film reviews, particularly on television with Margaret Pomeranz
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David Stratton’s closing credits: ‘I’ve done the best I could’
David Stratton, the revered Australian film critic and beloved co-host of television programs The Movie Show and At The Movies with fellow critic Margaret Pomeranz, has died aged 85.
Born in the English town of Trowbridge in 1939, Stratton was sent to live with his grandmother in Hampshire during the second world war. An avid filmgoer, she took Stratton to the cinema almost every day, which changed his life. In the 2017 documentary David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, Stratton said he watched “at least one” film he hadn’t seen every day, and had seen more than 25,000 films in his life. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:23 AM
David Stratton, esteemed Australian film critic, dies aged 85
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"RFK Jr. is systematically turning the USA from the leader in science to an ideologically anti-scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience," said a prominent infectious diseases doctor.
"RFK Jr. is systematically turning the USA from the leader in science to an ideologically anti-scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience," said a prominent infectious diseases doctor.
'Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Fanatic' RFK Jr. Shredded by Medical Experts After Pulling Support for mRNA Research | Common Dreams
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces backlash for cutting funding for mRNA vaccine research.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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"RFK Jr. is systematically turning the USA from the leader in science to an ideologically anti-scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience," said a prominent infectious diseases doctor.
"RFK Jr. is systematically turning the USA from the leader in science to an ideologically anti-scientific backwater of quackery and pseudoscience," said a prominent infectious diseases doctor.