Bron Larner
@numabiena.bsky.social
Retired curator. Pragmatic idealist. Art, architecture, politics, environment, urban planning.
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The Billion-Dollar Balcony: ASIO's Sovereignty Failure urbanwronski.com/2025/12/16/t...
The Billion-Dollar Balcony: ASIO’s Sovereignty Failure
When another nation’s intelligence operatives are called in to assist with a domestic security catastrophe, the admission is plain: our billion-dollar spymasters cannot clean up their own mes…
urbanwronski.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The Billion-Dollar Balcony: ASIO's Sovereignty Failure urbanwronski.com/2025/12/16/t...
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📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
But ProPublica did.
@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
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#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, some women across the UK vote legally in parliamentary elections for the first time. It's the culmination of decades of campaigning.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
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December 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, some women across the UK vote legally in parliamentary elections for the first time. It's the culmination of decades of campaigning.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
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We all deserve the same healthcare we provide to Congress…
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We all deserve the same healthcare we provide to Congress…
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After the psychotic shitstain designated antifa a terrorist group, antifa decided to turn itself in to the FBI. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
After the psychotic shitstain designated antifa a terrorist group, antifa decided to turn itself in to the FBI. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
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This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
December 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.
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Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
December 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
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No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits.
This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
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“This Christmas, every worker gets a $2,000 check from my tariffs, a life-size doll of my mother, Mary, and two pencils.” — Senile Satan
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“This Christmas, every worker gets a $2,000 check from my tariffs, a life-size doll of my mother, Mary, and two pencils.” — Senile Satan
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages.
If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Le mot juste: Gustave Flaubert, influential French novelist, stylist, literary realist, author of Madame Bovary, born in Rouen #OTD 1821; inspired Zola, Maupassant, Huysmans, Kafka, Sartre, Nabokov.
Photograph c. 1860 by Nadar, BnF
Photograph c. 1860 by Nadar, BnF
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Le mot juste: Gustave Flaubert, influential French novelist, stylist, literary realist, author of Madame Bovary, born in Rouen #OTD 1821; inspired Zola, Maupassant, Huysmans, Kafka, Sartre, Nabokov.
Photograph c. 1860 by Nadar, BnF
Photograph c. 1860 by Nadar, BnF
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Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.
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That day I shook too many hands.
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
That day I shook too many hands.
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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
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Absolutely brutal.
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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October 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Absolutely brutal.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM