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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 1m

Doesn't have to be that way

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 11h

Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.

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Jason Jasonson @jaseygalore.bsky.social · 2h

Destructive storms are forecast for early tomorrow morning. This is my version of hell. Lying in bed all night while the roof tries to break free for a better life without me, ruining everything for both of us and whoever the corrugated iron lands on.

Care factor: 10/10
Anxiety level: 164.87/10

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Barbara Flowers @babsflowers.bsky.social · 2h

One of my fabourite moments in the Robodebt RC... when the Commissioner suggested a million dollar Report was either never actually written or was disappeared by a 'nod and a wink'.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Jen @juniperlilacs.bsky.social · 2h

Oh that’s fine it’s not like it’s been one of THE conduits for online misogynistic radicalisation of young men for DECADES. But please, take all my data!

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 7h

4chan unlikely to be included in Australia’s under-16s social media ban, eSafety commissioner says

Julie Inman Grant says message board will need to comply with other codes which will also include age assurance for sites hosting violent and adult content * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner is not expected to block children from accessing 4chan as part of the under-16s social media ban, despite it being labelled one of the “darker” places on the internet. The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was asked by independent senator Fatima Payman in Senate estimates on Wednesday night whether 4chan, the message board often referred to as the engine room of the internet, would be considered one of the sites required to prevent under-16s when the social media ban comes into effect from 10 December. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know what you do for a living, but you should probably raise your hourly rate

ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

www.propublica.org

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 6h

I tried all day to join antifa.
I was thwarted!
•No website.
•No email.
•No Substack.
•No Instagram.
•No LinkedIn
•No TikTok
•Not even a lousy Facebook page.

I wonder if Pam Bondi can help me find them.

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Eleanor Padman @ellie1p.bsky.social · 2h

Horrible reporting from the ABC describing China as “once a climate villain”. Actually no, on a per capita basis and since industrialisation they are middle of the pack. Whereas Australia 👇

#auspol

Graph showing global emissions on a per capita basis since 1750.

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 27m

Words

Kiera @kieragorden.bsky.social · 2h

October 9, 2012. Thirteen years ago today - one of the greatest speeches in Australian parliamentary history: #JuliaGillard’s #TonyAbbott #misogyny speech. #AusPol

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 3h

A Queensland man has been charged over an alleged death threat against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and refused bail
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #auslaw #auspol
note the history of criminal violence and once calling himself a sovereign citizen

Man accused of threatening to kill PM allegedly wrote he was ready to 'sacrifice' himself

A Queensland man accused of threatening to kill the prime minister has been refused bail, with a magistrate describing his alleged threats as "deeply disturbing."

www.abc.net.au

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 23h

I'm attending a NATO conference today and someone has done the funniest thing possible with the name of their wi-fi network

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Lawyer Adam Houda @lawyeradamhouda.bsky.social · 3h

POST OF THE YEAR

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 41m

It has always been expensive being a colony, but then, we have the knowledge that our pain is their gain

Does that make it feel better?

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 6h

Steel and aluminium manufacturers are feeling the effects of high gas prices driven up by exports.

Australia Institute research shows gas exports have TRIPLED Aus gas prices and DOUBLED electricity prices.

📺 Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on ABC News Breakfast
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 6h

Steel and aluminium manufacturers are feeling the effects of high gas prices driven up by exports.

Australia Institute research shows gas exports have TRIPLED Aus gas prices and DOUBLED electricity prices.

📺 Deputy Director Ebony Bennett on ABC News Breakfast
@ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 44m

Apparently not just greed, but now cruelty & imbecility are good

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 47m

As I see it there are several issues that are currently influencing the world.

Greed & cruelty being the uppermost evil influences.

For the sake of the world, cruel greedy people need to be removed from any influencial position, any position

"Wake Up Poppy!!!"

"I just had a good dream"

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 5h

We get ONE life, I'll be damned if I let these fascist fucks steal the joy and awe and beauty from it.

They want us miserable, suffering, scared. So I choose joy, pleasure, courage at every opportunity.

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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 57m

Every day I look at the stock markets & think "you utter fuckwits"

Logical investing

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 2h

The length at which «AI» vested interests go to protect its assets from stranding reminds me of the on-going wild fight of fossil vested interests to protect its fossil assets from stranding.

It does not bode well.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 2h

"Jewish Oxford University historian Prof. Avi Shlaim has openly condemned Israel’s policies and praised Palestinian resistance. In an interview with Haaretz, Shlaim repeatedly stressed that Palestinians, including Hamas, have the right to resist occupation."
qudsnen.co/oxford-histo...

Oxford Historian Avi Shlaim: Israel Committed Genocide, Palestinians Have Right to Resist - Quds News Network

Avi Shlaim slams Israel’s Gaza genocide, defends Palestinian resistance, and calls out occupation and Zionist policies as the root of ongoing violence.

qudsnen.co

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

it’s all just a grift

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2h

On This Day, Oct. 9: Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize

www.upi.com

On This Day, Oct. 9: Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize - UPI.com

twp.ai

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: SBS management has instructed staff to avoid using the word "Ukraine" in case it offends their Russian audience.

[No, it's not true, but makes as much sense as this craven stupidity.] #auspol
www.smh.com.au/business/com...

SBS staff sworn off naming Palestine despite federal recognition

SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high.

www.smh.com.au

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