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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺

@margaretmorgan.bsky.social

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Dutch resident, Australian writer (fiction, TV, film, librettos) with earlier careers in law & biology. Plantenliefhebber, GL-PvdA [🚫DM unless we know each other] https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan https://www.margaretmorgan.info/

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 6d

One reason I donate to #Wikipedia.

More, though, is that without doubt, it's going to hit by a tsunami of suppression very soon, as it's anathema to all that the Trumpist regime and its techbro billionaire fanboys stand for.

Without global support, it will be destroyed.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 6d

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3h

"The models — or rather, trims, since they aren’t new vehicles — unveiled Tuesday are about taking away, not adding. They reek of a company holding the line, not moving it forward"

Liam Denning @liamdenning.bsky.social · 4h

Elon Musk said Tesla didn’t need EV subsidies. The new ‘cheaper’ model 3/Y show how wrong he was
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Musk’s Cheap Teslas Are the Wrong Kind of Cheap

This has not been a vintage year for Tesla Inc. product launches. This summer, it launched a long-delayed robotaxi service that came with a free human. Now, it has unveiled two long-awaited cheaper el...

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3h

"Knowledge of history and awareness of history can allow us to see patterns, make connections, and identify incipient problems. It can give us a language and a set of references which allows us to step back, broaden our view, and see things and sometimes warn ourselves and others when necessary."

- Timothy Snyder

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3h

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social speaks compellingly on the similarities between the background, rise and methodology of Stephen Miller and Josef Stalin, and why it matters.

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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3h

I genuinely believe that the people who see this as socially good have long harboured a deep loathing for the creatively talented. They know there is something missing within them, and this is their revenge.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3h

It's being reported in lots of places, like The Independent.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 3h

Weird how they put all their efforts into using technology to replace human creativity and art and then say creative arts degrees are useless.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3h

18,457 dead children.

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4h

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 4h

Kinokuniya in Sydney has a large selection. Great bookshop.

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 4h

This is about far more than Trump potentially being incriminated as a paedophile.

It is about burying long-standing links between Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein, the Kremlin & Mossad.

Kompromat & blackmail was the Epstein business model, and it reaches deep into global politics.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

It doesn't matter who is implicated, or where they fit in the political spectrum. The truth must be revealed.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Not sure the "labor" bit applies any longer, tbh.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Germany has joined the Netherlands in rejecting the EU proposal to allow authorities to search messages & photos before encryption on apps like Signal & Whatsapp.

"Private Kommunikation dürfe nie unter Generalverdacht stehen." [="Private communication should never be subject to general suspicion."]

WirtschaftsWoche @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social · 5h

Deutschland wird bei der EU-Chatkontrolle nicht mitziehen. Was bedeutet das für WhatsApp & Co. – und wie geht es jetzt in Brüssel weiter?

Umstrittenes Vorhaben : Bundesjustizministerium lehnt EU-Pläne zur Chatkontrolle ab

Deutschland wird bei der EU-Chatkontrolle nicht mitziehen. Was bedeutet das für WhatsApp & Co. – und wie geht es jetzt in Brüssel weiter?

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, that is indeed why the dream has vanished.

I'm old enough to remember a time when the ALP was indeed a party of the left.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

'...And when asked directly whether they agreed with the position that the IDF, "when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, namely, to kill all its inhabitants?" nearly half, 47%, agreed.'

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

'A majority of 56 percent of Jews supported the "transfer (forced expulsion) of Arab citizens of Israel to other countries..."

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Poll Shows Majority of Israelis Support Expelling Gazans

A Grim Poll Showed Most Israelis Support Expelling Gazans.Haaretz.comDahlia ScheindlinJun 3, 2025In 2014, when Jewish Israelis kidnapped and immolated Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager from ...

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

They do. It doesn't fit with the narrative of the Greens as "wreckers".

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

(Make sure you watch till the end. I guffawed. Bravo, Luke Barnett.)

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

"The growing obsession over the film festival standing ovation and the reaction to it from the stars has — for some — become a source of ridicule. Was it 12 or 13 minutes long? Did anyone famous cry? Does any of it matter?"

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Joaquin Phoenix’s Reaction During ‘Eddington’ Cannes Ovation Inspires Comic Short From Filmmaker Behind Viral Hit ‘Crossing Over Express’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Film festival standing ovations get a skewering in a comic short inspired by Joaquin Phoenix from Luke Barnett, behind viral hit Crossing Over Express

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Brutal short film by @lukebarnett.bsky.social

"It was inspired by watching Joaquin Phoenix during ‘Eddington’s’ ovation at Cannes. You can tell it affected him and meant a lot… for about 45 seconds. After that, I’m guessing his soul slowly and uncomfortably died."

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OVATION (Official Short Film) | One-Take | Inspired by Cannes Standing Ovations | 4K

YouTube video by Noam Kroll

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 13h

🇬🇧 The brexity Telegraph are raging because EU countries are going to enforce their laws in relation to british “overstayers”

Or “ILLEGALS” as Reform, Blue Tories & Red Tories generally like to call them

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 7h

Love this lapel pin from @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social celebrating the amalgamation of the Netherland's green & labour parties.

If only it could happen in Australia, with the Greens & the ALP forming a truly powerful green-progressive party. It seems that dream is dwindling by the day.

#Auspol

Lapel pin depicting a red hand and green hand clasping.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 7h

There's fascinating research on the relationship between intelligence & income.

Up to ~130, there's a correlation, but higher that it breaks down.

Smarter people seek out lives that fulfil them intellectually & emotionally, rather than boost them financially.

Beyond Badenoch's comprehension.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 11h

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 9h

How fabulous!