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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 13m

That would be a level of shame from which no-one could ever recover!

JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 31m

The trouble with all of the checks and balances built into the US system is that the designers couldn't anticipate a President as ruthless, amoral, unprincipled and lawless as Trump. His type was simply unimaginable to them.

#TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 20h

Great, isn't it?

One side will enthusiastically give away our democracy. The other side will let it fritter away thru weakness and compromise.

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 21h

I think they've resulted from weakness and attempts to appease...
Brereton...to involve and appease LNP in NACC creation
Williams...to get Murdoch onside with new ABC Chair
Segal...to keep Israeli lobby on side

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 21h

Albo, in his attempt to be all things to all people, and to upset absolutely no-one, has made some god-awful appointments!
NACC - Brereton
ABC - Williams
Anti-semitism - Segal

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 21h

As it stands #NACC is just a farce in which no trust can be placed at all.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 23h

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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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 22h

Any push to round up 'terrorists' who are 'eroding our countries social fabric by promoting hatred, fear and humiliation' that doesn't start with clapping the handcuffs on Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch is just faux rubbish.

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 22h

Trump is putting the troops on the streets in major cities in order to provoke confrontation then, on that basis, invoke the Insurrection Bill to provoke further confrontation.

He's going to kill American citizens, isn't he?

#PedoPres #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 1d

News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’ | News Corporation | The Guardian share.google/9Q9RMbcNrekM.... Newscorpse is far worse! #Auspol #News

News Corp Australia chair says social media platforms are ‘true monsters’ and ‘torment our children’

Michael Miller also says media must unite against second ‘big steal’ by tech companies seeking changes to copyright law to access content for free

share.google

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 1d

So Godzilla says that Shrek is a monster?

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 1d

And what an irony!

An actual insurrectionist falsely invokes Insurrection Act.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 1d

...and one day hopefully 'co-defendants'

JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 1d

The irony is that whatever 'sin' Trump picks to mock and denigrate someone else with...lying, boasting, adultery, theft, fraud, rape, felony, pedophilia, perversion...he is actually a worse offender himself. There is no sin at which Trump isn't worse. It's total projection.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Congratulations to this year’s Nobel Physics laureates — all 3 @uofcalifornia.bsky.social professors.

Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation & possibility, California is proud to dream big & deliver even bigger.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

www.nobelprize.org

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is already half way to giving Maxwell what she wants with her transfer to a cushier low security setting. If he pardons her I imagine it will be at the end of his term. And that's her *only* hope of not serving 20 years. She will remain quiet.

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 5d

Free to read.
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21743/...

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 5d

‪ha ha...every gimme line that he gave them...where you would normally expect clapping/cheers from a sympathetic audience...was met with stony silence.

Maybe some didn't appreciate travelling half way around the world to hear his throwaway culture wars shit?

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 5d

You are right.

We are not represented by our bent billionaire-owned #MSM. We are not represented by our bent billionaire-owned social media. The unpolluted avenues thru which we can connect and communicate are shrinking. And, if they are succeeding...see Twitter...the fascists simply buy them.

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 6d

I certainly hope we see those Epstein Files as soon as the FBI Photoshop Department has finished with them!

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you very much for that.

A couple are already familiar to me and I follow them but I will investigate the rest.

👍

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 7d

I don't really 'hang out' with anyone in particular. But suggestions certainly welcome.

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 8d

In one way or another he probably will be. Can't understand why he isn't impressed with flying all the way across the world to listen to a stream-of-consciousness presentation from #PeteFromFoxNews and #TheGreatDraftDodger.

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 8d

👍 At this stage I'm doubting that the GOP will baulk at anything he does. Most of the Dems seem to have disappeared tho the likes of AOC, Newsom, Pritzker and Bernie are still pitching. The Courts are, at best, temporary irritations that he often ignores or kicks upstairs to his Supreme Court.

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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 8d

The fundamental plank of the LNP's economics is the well-being of big business in general, and their sponsors in particular, and then themselves. All other economic considerations and data are shaped around this.

#VoodooEconomics