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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 10h

"At least 1015 children under one year old have been killed by "Israel, along with 1670 medical staff, 254 journalists, and 140 civil defense rescue workers...

More than 2700 families, comprising more than 8500 people, have been wiped off the civil registry."

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#Gaza #News

After 2 years of genocide, over 2,700 families have been totally wiped out

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including 2 aid seekers. In total, Israel has kill ...

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 11h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 11h

There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening.

It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland.

They have no actual violent footage to put forward.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 10h

Graphic:
Press briefing with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and PM Anthony Albanese.

Text 1, top caption line -
Penny Wong, Foreign Minister - Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister

Text 2 (beneath Wong and Albanese) -
"Yes, we're selling fighter jet parts to our friend Israel
but, these are *non-lethal* parts

... y'know, like triggers are non-lethal parts on guns."

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 10h

Steve's Xmas mug: inotternews.etsy.com/listing/1618...

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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.bsky.social · 10h

Oh don’t mind me. Useless Etymology is just the top new release in three Amazon categories right now. 💙🩵💙

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown"

Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ one Pentagon official tells Zeteo.

Absolute must-read from @swin24.bsky.social:

Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown

The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official.

zeteo.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

MAGA: We are a CHRISTIAN nation & based on the BIBLE—which is GREATER than the Constitution.

Me: "Do not mistreat foreigners living in your country. Treat them just as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners as you love your-selves. I am your Lord God."

MAGA: No No Not that part of the Bible.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say his name... David Rose, HERO!
RIP 🩵💔
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

Canaries.
My @smh cartoon.

Two scenes. 1: advisor to Albo at his desk: “Sir, I must inform you that our canaries-in-the-coal-mines of climate change, transparency, accountability and social equity are all looking sickly…” PM: “Hmm…”
Scene 2: Albo at a lectern with press around: “…and that’s why my government is proud to announce the development of a new SUPER BREED of canaries…”

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Vera/Josh Mitchell @verasev.bsky.social · 1d

The King is second to God and what the King demands is God's will. It doesn't have to make sense on any level. It can be completely insane by any standard. Doesn't matter. God wills it, or so the Christian nationalist's say.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ll schedule it as soon as she wants”?

She’s been demanding it for weeks but Republicans keep blocking her.

They really really really don’t want the files to come out

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1d

Instead of using reports from treating therapists to determine support payments for disabled people, the NDIA will soon rely on a new “streamlined” tool. Critics say this shift serves the agency’s needs, not those of participants. Rick Morton reports. satpa.pe/dE7yESh

Algorithm to be used for NDIS plans

The government is using an ‘instrument’ designed by the University of Melbourne to reassess support payments for disabled people.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Keating: Rising inequality, declining living standards have posed a threat to democracy in several democracies, but so far not in Australia. However, increasing inequality of wealth, driven by housing becoming unaffordable without rich parents, is a threat.

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Inequality and the future of democracy

Rising inequality and declining living standards have posed a threat to democracy in several democracies, but so far not in Australia. However, the increasing inequality of wealth, driven by housing b...

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 2d

Picture of a war zone before order restored by the Nazis

Scene from The Sound Of Music with Maria singing and playing guitar to children on a hilltop

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

Every time we see that room, I swear more gold has been added. It's like Power Girl's breasts, but terrible.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

President Trump addressed backpay for furloughed workers, saying that some "don't deserve to be taken care of" and that he'll take care of them in a different way.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps mainstream media is working behind the scenes to gather evidence on how this attack was really a false flag operation by transgender antifa baristas from Portland.

Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

Why haven't we heard more about
South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's house being set on fire, after ruling against Trump.
Arson is suspected. Her husband and family is hospitalized.
MEDIA: Do your f**king job.
@BraddrofliT

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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 1d

Let's keep things in perspective.
In 1998 One Nation received 23% of the Fed vote.
It has now "surged" from 6% to 12%.
Some crazies from the LNP have switched to crazies in One Nation.
No, the ground is not shifting.
L-NP and One Nation, stuck in the mud together.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

Anti-Prime day over at @bookshop.org ! bsky.app/profile/susa...

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

I made a proper graphic for anti-Prime day! Free shipping on @bookshop.org — these are just some of my books! #solarpunk #hopepunk anti-AI short stories and more #SFF #sci-fi #steampunk

Descriptions in the alt-text or hop over to bookshop: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

#booksky #books

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 1d

Step-by-step, the mealy-mouthed whining (that may hide threats) to the cringing kowtowing still to Zionist appeasement, the British gov's shameful capitulation to foreign interference is THE SAME as in Australia.

Equal in their obsequious depravity, these are gov.s of *Labour* - such debased farce.

Graphic:
The design of the iZraeli flag is used to highlight text.
The central Star of David has been replaced by the top half of a Nazi Swastika, text replaces the bottom half.

Text, white within the top blue horizontal line:
The iZrael State corrals Palestinians through carpet bombing,
starving as many as they explode, then, through the promise of food aid, expose the survivors to endless firing squads.

Text, blue and covering the bottom half of the Swastika:
The Nazis captured Jews, shipped them in rail cattle cars, promised them the humanity of cleansing showers, and gased them with Zyklon B, derived from hydrogen cyanide.

Text, white within the bottom blue horizontal line:
The ghost of Adolf Eichmann must be confused.
Was he executed for committing genocide or
committing genocide without orgasmic joy?

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