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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 1h

Good Lord, one of their Ortsgruppenleiters has been corrupted by ANTIFA, do they realise Amazon is just openly selling ANTIFA merch encouraging terrorism… we’re through the looking glass here

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 1h

I mean just look at Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan all of them Rivieras of freedom, safety and opportunity… so many other examples and look at the up and coming special economic zones California, Chicago, Portland… even Washington DC is buzzing again

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 2h

For many of us Baltimore is this far away complex beautiful tragic place from a beloved show we have never visited so these stories carry this strange distant yet close hope

Logan Hullinger @loganhullinger.com · 14h

Over a century after Baltimore fought Prohibition, the city is experiencing a sober renaissance. These spaces differ in their approaches, but they all aim to foster a sense of community.

Read my latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social 🔽

baltimorebeat.com/sober-spaces...

Sober spaces in Baltimore are thriving

Over a century after Baltimore fought Prohibition, the city is experiencing a sober renaissance. More local businesses and organizations are providing substance-free spaces while working to ensure eve...

baltimorebeat.com

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 2h

Hopeful always of peace but nearly all involved in this ‘deal’ on all sides are incompetent, deeply compromised awful human beings determining the fate of so many desperate people only as an ancillary benefit to their criminal objectives as war criminals and organised crime bosses

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3h

🚨Fugitive of international justice Benjamin Netanyahu says he will convene his government tomorrow to approve Trump’s Gaza deal. He praised the army, thanked Trump, and said Israel would “achieve all our goals” with divine help.

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[email protected] @blueangie.bsky.social · 15h

www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

U.N. refugee commission head suggests U.S. deportation practices violate international law

Filippo Grandi, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees, also criticized a wider "backlash" in some countries against migrants and refugees.

www.nbcnews.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

www.pbump.net

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 3h

We’re like dehydrated souls forced to roam a desolate desert of corporate & political apparatchiks, thirsting for a truth oasis & some bloody facts… here is Liberty Victoria with some facts about the favoured law and order football, namely our bail laws, less drama more evidence on everything

Liberty Victoria @libertyvictoria.bsky.social · 3h

The latest political attack on Victoria’s bail system is misguided and dangerous.

The reality is that, since the recent changes to the bail system were introduced, there has been an explosion of prisoners who have been remanded in custody.
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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t say it, don’t say it… I’m practising mindfulness friends and so I suspend my judgment just as I did with Carney and other leaders of various political persuasions…

Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 7h

A hard-right politician, at her first press conference as new LDP leader that we discovered Takaichi was no shrinking violet, particularly in the skill and confidence with which she could handle a range of economic questions. #auspol #japan

Japan's likely new leader is a surprise, and not just because she is a woman

In the recent election held by Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party to find a new leader following the assassination of former prime minister, Shinzo Abe, an unlikely name to emerge was that of Sanae Takaichi.

johnmenadue.com

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 5h

“Recent AIHW data shows less than half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children entering care were placed with relatives in 2023-24, despite states and territories committing to make it a priority”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'Listen and learn': Calls for First Nations commissioner to be given 'teeth'

Governments have been unable to reduce the rates of First Nations children in out-of-care and youth detention. Advocates say the new children's commissioner needs the power to hold them to account.

www.abc.net.au

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

"If Australia raised as much tax as Canada...we would have an extra $133bn a year to spend on government services.

That might help lift some people out of poverty."

Of course, we could lift people out of poverty now.
The failure to do so is not just a failure to tax companies,
but a policy choice.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 8h

My column on tax, fairness and companies paying nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If we want a better, more equal society, we need more tax. But more tax only works if big business pays their fair share | Grogonomics

Trust in both the tax and political system will falter if people feel they are being punished for not paying tax while large companies legally get away with paying nothing

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 7h

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t threaten us with some fairness, unfortunately these ridiculous threats seem to be working on governments who are behaving like AI is a Labubu they must have or they’ll die of productivity FOMO

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 15h

Of course the first official AI ‘actor’ is a young ingenue that will do whatever her creators want… of course there are no risks for real girls or women here… may the bubble burst soon

MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 1d

“Norwood has been trained on the performances of hundreds of actors, without any payment or consent, & draws on the information from all those performances in every expression & line delivery.” What lies ahead? An audio visual cultural dystopia? Originality? Forget it. #AI #cinema shorturl.at/67lqp

Would you watch a film with an AI actor? What Tilly Norwood tells us about art – and labour rights

Hollywood’s first AI ‘actor’ has officially launched her career. Is this the future of film, or is it a gimmick?

theconversation.com

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 16h

😂 ah yes that great market place of ideas

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 16h

So many captions, so little time before I log off and constructively address insomnia with scented oils and whale sounds

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16h

A forum of regional countries, including India, voiced opposition to any foreign military infrastructure in Afghanistan.

Regional powers signal objection to US reclaiming Afghanistan’s Bagram base

A forum of regional countries, including India, voiced opposition to any foreign military infrastructure in Afghanistan.

bit.ly

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 16h

Choose your resistance fighter it’ll be an ANTIFA app before you know it… Rexist, Resistacorn, is that a Racoon and a bear persisting peacefully in dance? Never change Portland, never change

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 16h

Prepared and alert, as many wise people have said paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness, frankly we should make some covert we told you so buttons to wear in the network state electronically gated sausageless ‘communities’ in the event we don’t make it underground to lead the rebellion

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17h

As Canada blows way past its international GHG commitments, Carney offers up a massive new pipeline for the tar sands to Trump.
This is the - Let's not fight, we can burn the planet together approach to international relations.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 19h

Washington has asked Brussels to scrap requirements for non-EU companies to provide “climate transition plans” and to change supply chain legislation to exclude US companies “with high-quality corporate due diligence”, according to a document seen by @financialtimes.com

on.ft.com/46Ijpye

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

[FREE TO READ] Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

on.ft.com

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 17h

Chef’s kiss

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17h

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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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 17h

😂💀

Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 19h

This is an in depth informative analysis of the state of affairs in Iraq

Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 19h

@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @sajadjiyad.bsky.social on competing visions for politics and armed action among Iraq's Shi'ite political and military factions: tcf.org/content/repo...

Integrate, Normalize, or Fight: Choices Facing the Shia Armed Factions in Iraq

Iraq’s two-decade-long state-building project is facing a precarious moment. On the one hand, the country is closer than ever to having a functioning

tcf.org

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Nino Bucci @ninobucci.bsky.social · 22h

The coroner told the NT government in 2007 to keep a database about maintenance in public housing. It didn’t listen.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Death of three-year-old boy in social housing fire could have been caused by faulty electrical wiring, inquest hears

Inquest is hearing evidence about the 2023 death of Mitchell Thomas at Larapinta in Alice Springs

www.theguardian.com

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 19h

🎯

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 19h

Let me guess… (s)he works hard for the money…

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