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💧Sandy

@smspencerauthor.bsky.social

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California born, Aus since mid 80s. Privileged to be standing on sacred ground & smart enough to know I’m living on borrowed time. #climate #auspol, #keto, #books, #IARTG & #GeelongCats All 🚫 MAGA 🚫 DMs🚫 porn🚫crypto 🚫GoFundMe or $requests = instant block

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💧Sandy @smspencerauthor.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sunrise #Australia — have I mentioned how much I ❤️ living in semi-rural Australia

Can hear the magpies (and noise from the road unfortunately)

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14h

Canada vs. America

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Buddy Stone @buddystone.bsky.social · 12h

The last 13 minutes of Kimmel's monologue are a blistering takedown of Trump/Epstein 🔥
youtu.be/iy5o38VRjtE?...

Trump Has NOTHING to Do with Epstein Bday Letter, Pam Bondi Grilled & Federal Workers Go Without Pay

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Jozef Imrich @jozefimrich.bsky.social · 7h

Von Trump is shameless

Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 11h

To everyone and especially MAGAs feeling betrayed by Trump's shameless lie that as president he would release the Epstein files:

Please share this video from 2017 you will NEVER see on Fox revealing how "LOCK HER UP!" in 2016 was Trump's biggest lie since "Make America Great Again".

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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 11h

@democracynow.org had @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and me on together to explain that she is not being sworn in because she is the 218th signatory for the release of the Epstein files. Swear her in today.

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💧Sandy @smspencerauthor.bsky.social · 6h

Is there ANYTHING about the current administration that is not corrupt? Anything? Just one …

💧Sandy @smspencerauthor.bsky.social · 6h

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 7h

Just like an annoying little brother
(it's not AI it it's been around forever) 🐶🐾🐈‍⬛🐈😂😂💙

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Andreas 🇨🇦 fella (fuck you, make me) 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 10h

MSNBC: #RachelMaddow #fdt #epstein #maxwell #pedofuhrer
#he'sonthelist

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Keep an eye out for...

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💧Sandy @smspencerauthor.bsky.social · 6h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it!!!

💧Sandy @smspencerauthor.bsky.social · 7h

Excellent - thank you

I hope @albomp.bsky.social & all our federal politicians will take the time to read this.

The history is very complicated and I’ve gotten lost down rabbit holes trying to understand it, but assuming this brief paper is accurate, it is quite clear who our enemy is, and isn’t.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 7h

Unless politicians, the media, the corporate world and managers of universities take the trouble to revise their understanding of history, this massive deception about October 7 will continue. #auspol #israel #palestine

A century of deceit: Towards a new understanding of the colonisation of Palestine

Political and media commentary on the Hamas killings of October 2023 have been preoccupied with claims that these were not only the worst terrorists but that their actions were without precedent.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 5d

Dog, I adore Francesca Albanese.

Dog, I despise @abcnews @ABCaustralia—the presenters and their bosses.

#auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust #SumudFlotilla

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 3d

“It’s not just Netanyahu, but the State of Israel that is committing crimes. States must act by severing strategic, military, and economic relations, otherwise they become complicit. The responsibility also falls on us citizens.”
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3d

Francesca Albanese, from the other place:

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Bruce Williams @brucewilliams4.bsky.social · 1d

Junior staff have mixed feelings about the promotion. “It’s depressing but also kind of inspiring,” said one analyst. “I’ve been here three years and still haven’t been noticed, but the AI falsified one report and got a corner office”.

The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 1d

The AI has already started making its presence felt on the executive team, sending out a 500-word email about “leveraging holistic verticals for client-centric uplift” that no one has fully read but everyone agreed “sounded important.”

theshovel.com.au/2025/10/07/a...

AI That Generated Fabricated Deloitte Report Promoted to Partner — The Shovel

Deloitte has promoted the artificial intelligence system responsible for fabricating a government report, citing “unparalleled efficiency, strategic vision, and the ability to work weekends without co...

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Agree. Agree.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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💧Sandy @smspencerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling great yet?

#FcukTrump

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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@plvs2 @pvansickle.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Senator Schiff for doing your job, what you were elected to do. What your Republican colleagues should also be doing, but are not.

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💧Sandy @smspencerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Yep

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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning and happy Tuesday to everyone. No jokes. No shade. No schadenfreude. The reason you never see ICE arresting Proud Boys and Oath Keepers is the same reason you never see Keanu Reeves hanging out with John Wick and Neo.

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truetanker.bsky.social @truetanker.bsky.social · 1d

"Christianity is under attack!"

They say as they literally shoot a man of the cloth for doing what his religion tells him to do.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Katrinasdad @katrinasdad.bsky.social · 1d

Shooting a priest... how Christian.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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