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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 14h

Jacinta Price has lashed & accused the ABC of not providing enough coverage on the assassination of Far Right advocate Charlie Kirk. Takes issue with ABC referring to him as a “Far Right advocate”

Pfft. ABC wouldn’t shut up about Kirk. And yes Jacinta, he’s far right, like you. #Estimates

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 1d

The person who killed members of the Mormon church was not a Mormon.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 1d

Before the election when Democrats tried to warn voters Trump would implement Project 2025, mainstream journalists helped Trump pour water on these warnings, even criticising Dems for highlighting it. Now, Trump admits Project 2025 is his agenda. My analysis:
independentaustralia.net/business/bus...

Journalists taking Trump at face value are too gullible for words

Gullible journalism helped Trump turn Project 2025 into a living nightmare for America.

independentaustralia.net

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 1d

I am telling that to the people who raised the money. Revolting that the perpetrator's family raised so much more than the victims. As I posted - what is wrong with America?

Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 2d

This lead sentence implies the house sent members of the judge’s family to hospital. Passive voice strikes again.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

Every cent should go to the victims. People who have money to give should give whatever they can to the victims. Zero sympathy for the hateful family the perpetrator was raised and fermented in.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

The article says the gunman’s family raised $300,000 and the other victims a far smaller sum. Do you honestly not find it surprising that the gunman’s family received ten times as much money (sympathy) than the victims? One of the victims is six years old.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

One of the victims was 6. Fundraising for the victims’ families was far less successful than the fundraising for the perp. How is this OK? The community has shown up for the perp ten times more than the victims. Unbelievable.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

It’s incredible to me how a white, Trump supporting gunman gets more sympathy than his victims. He’s a psychopathic, evil murderer who came from a family whose overriding ideology was one of hatred and abuse. My only sympathy is for those he murdered.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

Why did the victims get $10,000s and the perpetrator’s family get $300,000?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

Doesn’t explain the lesser empathy for the actual victims.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 3d

Something is very wrong with America. A crowdsourcing campaign has raised more money for the family of the murderer who killed churchgoers, than the families of those murdered. Honestly, how can you even start to explain this?
abcnews.go.com/US/day-saint...

Latter-day Saints church member raises more than $300,000 for family of gunman in deadly Michigan chapel attack

David Butler, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is raising money for the family of a man who allegedly attacked a Michigan chapel.

abcnews.go.com

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 8d

Chris Uhlmann continues his pathetic descent into unhinged right wing climate denying nut job.

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 8d

Far right journo Chris Uhlmann on #SkyAfterDark tells Peta Credlin that just bcoz he believes climate change is “the largest scare campaign in human history”, it doesn’t give people a right to label him a climate denier or to say that he’s “denying the science.”

Yes it does.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 9d

After a 4 year FOI battle, @jommytee.bsky.social finally has the facts on Scott Morrison's sacking from Tourism Australia & the brawl behind the scenes is fascinating
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/brawl-over-s...

Revealed: Scott Morrison's big secret 'handshake' on sacking by Tourism Australia - Michael West

Scott Morrison, former PM and architect of Robodebt got a large 'secret handshake' payout when sacked by Tourism Australia. FOI.

michaelwest.com.au

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 8d

It’s really quite clear who the goodies and the baddies are in America right now.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

Sound Up 🔊

( ht: @stanrezaee.bsky.social )

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 9d

Mental illness doesn’t explain hate. Hate explains hate.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 9d

No idea why he would target a church, or why a specific niche religion. It’s all just unexplainable hatefulness, legitimised and normalised by the hateful MAGA movement.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 9d

If he was MAGA as it appears he is by his yard sign and social media posts, hateful ideology is who is he is. The normalisation of hatefulness amongst MAGA has radicalised millions.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 9d

This might be true but the general trend of calling mass murderers nice & quiet tends to only occur when the suspect is white. It’s a way of disbelieving hateful ideology is an ever present danger - lives next door. He’s just proved he’s not a nice man but they say he is because he’s just like them.

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 9d

“He was such a nice man. A quiet, family man” they say moments after he has driven his flag adorned ute into a church and indiscriminately shot an assault rifle at hundreds of people including children, then set fire to the building. Yeah, seemed like a great guy! 😳

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 14d

As usual, the most insightful insights about Trump’s unhinged UN speech can be found on Substack, not in the mainstream media. Mainstream media are contributing to the fall of American democracy by standing by and treating authoritarianism like it is unremarkable.
open.substack.com/pub/simonpea...

The World Goes to Hell

On Trump at the UN and the death of liberal internationalism

open.substack.com

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 14d

There’s not a hope in hell those responsible for Robodebt will want you watching this. A must watch, available now on SBSonDemand #PeopleVSRobodebt

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 15d

When are we going to have a proper conversation about the scale and magnitude of Trump’s compulsive lying? Fact checking is fine, but when is media collectively going to say “it’s a major problem for democracy that Trump constantly lies”? A well overdue discussion!

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

Fact-Checking Trump’s U.N. Speech

www.nytimes.com

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 15d

With all freedom comes responsibility. If the consequences of the freedom of speech are not studied, how can we make sure that freedom is being used responsibly?

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