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Oh, FABULOUS, @albomp.bsky.social!

We're going to teach everyone how EVIL GENOCIDE and settler-colonialism is, yes? How no matter what your skin colour or your religion, you deserve the right to live and not suffer from illegal occupation, apartheid or state terrorism? #auspol #GazaGenocide #pfft
December 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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It's been getting crowded on the Craven Opportunism league table this week, current rankings:

1. Frydenberg
2. Howard
3. Ley
December 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Members of Jews Against the Occupation '48 have received death threats and been doxed in the wake of the Bondi attacks. A personal account worth reading #auspol

michaelwest.com.au/gun-vs-keffi...
Gun vs Keffiyeh. One kills, the other gets you death threats - Michael West
Jewish woman wearing Keffiyeh as well as the Star of Israel escorted off Bondi Beach by police, getting death threats to her and her friend.
michaelwest.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger"
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Don’t look back in anger - The Shot
I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals...
theshot.net.au
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Watch the east wing morph into a high-rise Trump Hotel
Wait.... Is that ballroom model getting bigger every new meeting?

This one is as big as the White House and the Wing.
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Oh yes, kindergartens, those incubators of hate.

Imagine if the same approach was considered to address all forms of bigotry, or violence against women, or any of the issues that are genuinely rampant among the population.
December 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Belgian crypto billionaire Olivier Janssens is planning to establish a "libertarian community" with its own legal system in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Belgian crypto-billionaire wants to build the ‘Dubai of the Caribbean’
Belgian crypto-billionaire wants to build the 'Dubai of the Caribbean'
www.brusselstimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I've never been more convinced Australia has the worst mainstream journalists in the world. Simple, thick, racist, ahistorical, bootlicking dipshits that lie and screech more than they think and feel. This weaponisation of a tragedy against anti-genocide voices is grotesque.
December 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Good analysis from Sarah Martin, but misses a key point:

if the Bondi massacre is being hijacked by culture warriors like Howard and the anti-immigration right, it's because that's how mainstream media chooses to frame it.

They are lazy or complicit. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
John Howard’s dog-whistle intervention in gun debate all but dashes any hope of meaningful reform
In the absence of strong, swift action from Anthony Albanese, the former PM is shifting political debate from gun control to a divisive culture war
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I have long thought that if John Howard had been the opposition leader after the Port Arthur massacre, he would have fought tooth and nail against any changes to gun laws, and used the event & proposed law changes to attack the govt & cause division.

This week shows that to be true.
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Words fail. Parliamentarians hosting Parliamentary Friends of AUKUS, with an event featuring the Defence Minister, paid for by lobbyists who sell armaments.

This is cash for access, pure and simple. Supported and promoted by ALP and Liberal MPs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Parliamentary Friends of Aukus group sponsored by lobbying firm with high-profile defence clients
Exclusive: Greens condemn sponsorship of group’s launch by Precision Public Affairs, which represents clients with lucrative contracts with the Australian government
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Pepsi allegedly gave Walmart discounts on its products, while charging other retailers higher prices.

Biden's FTC filed a complaint. Trump's FTC later dropped it.

This is a prime example of how monopoly-like power takes away our freedom of choice. Lina Khan explains.
The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Donald Trump maliciously mocks the brutal murder of Michele & Rob Reiner, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you quote Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Bloke did one decent thing in 40 years in public life and comes off the recliner to say it doesn't matter. (He got complete support from all bits of the ALP on guns BTW.) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Howard slams Albanese’s leadership, calls changes to gun laws a ‘diversion’
Former prime minister John Howard has declared the government’s push to reform gun laws following the Bondi terror attack a distraction from fighting antisemitism.
www.smh.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Great news from @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social . This was a terrible ‘reform’ brought in by the major parties. There are many Australians (including myself) who would choose to vote for an independent over most Liberal or Labor candidates . I hope the High Court challenge succeeds #auspol
December 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Who the fuck would listen to Howard push back against gun reform in the wake of the biggest tragedy in decades (and no one is saying it’s just gun reform which is needed, ofc hate in all forms, including anti-Semitism is horrendous) and come to the conclusion that THIS is the take?!
December 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Not sure there has been a more laughable wannabe national commentator than Massola.

Out of his depth on every issue.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Note to Sussan Ley: if the comments you’re choosing to make right now are identical to what Pauline Hanson is saying, you’re what she is.
December 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"A.i." is a tool of racists and fascists and liars. Do not use it and do not spread it. Abolish "A.i." from every space and org you have authority over - at the very least from your own computers and social media feeds.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM