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@mandymoo61.bsky.social
An Australian who is here for the crazy fucked up mess that is US politics 🤦‍♀️
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NEWS: Labor Party has won Australia's national elections today, defeating their conservative opponents.

So Labor will continue leading the country for a second term. The right was leading in the polls in 2024 and early 2025, when the lead reversed — in part due to Trump, just like in Canada.
Australia re-elects Anthony Albanese as Labor rides anti-Trump wave to seal crushing win
Opposition leader Peter Dutton fails to dissociate himself from Trump-like rhetoric and policies – and loses his seat
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39
May 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"They want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay the longer hours the reduced benefits the end of overtime and the vanishing pension" ~George Carlin
April 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
April 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.
April 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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This funny 'American Pie' parody bites hard — from a comedy show that went out a few days ago in the UK
April 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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JP Morgan raised its probability of a U.S. and global recession to 60% — up from 40% last month, citing rapidly growing tariff-related stress on markets and diminishing investor confidence.
The trouble with tarrifs
April 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is so powerful! Can’t believe you’ve got to this point America 🇺🇸 😬
You have to see this.

PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Jesus hasn’t resurrected anyone in a loooong time… Maybe start with Carlin?
March 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is mind blowing 🤯
NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL

Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hilarious 🤣 🤣
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Love Sara’s work! 👏🏻👏🏻
March 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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I hate to say ‘I told you so’ but… I told you so.

Seven years ago:
March 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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A Russian woman spoke out:

"I don't understand why I should expand my borders if my country is dying out, degrading. I have no doubt that my country's soldiers should not be on the territory of Syria, Georgia, Ukraine or other countries"
March 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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March 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I’ve been feeling a particular affinity for the French these days … not just because I’ve watched Casablanca so many times lately that I know the words to the first verse of La Marseillaise forward and backward
March 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."

Hannah Arendt
March 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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One more time for the people in the back.
March 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Sign of the day…
March 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM