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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 11h

"I wish I had told you, before our dinners grew cold, that one day I would speak loudly. Not to wound, but because not speaking would betray everything I was taught to honour.
Because for me, love is not blind loyalty – to an ideology, a state or even a community"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 14h

Where Donald Trump learned his idea of war

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 15h

Trump draws his political program from the movies of Chuck Norris and Sly Stallone, @theshufflediary.bsky.social reports.

Trump's vengeful, homoerotic dream of war is pure 80s Hollywood

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 2d

The Hack was a brisk and pacy bit of journalist flattery -- but when it lost me, it *really* lost me.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

Opinion | While the eyes of the world have understandably been focused on Gaza, Israel has continued to carry out deadly strikes in southern Lebanon, in direct violation of the November 2024 ceasefire.

In forgotten Lebanon, children are still being killed by Israel

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

At about the halfway point, The Hack prioritises smug proximity to power over interrogation of journalism. It never recovers, @theshufflediary.bsky.social writes.

Fictional journalists and the missed opportunities of The Hack

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 5d

The comedians helping whitewash the Saudi regime could be forgiven for the thinking they might get away with it:
it’s been a long time since anyone cared about being labelled a sellout.

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/03/s...

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 5d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FFx... This is fascinating and horrifying from @crystaljane.bsky.social and @antonnilssonn.bsky.social

Blair, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Trump… and Albo? Big tech owns politics

YouTube video by Crikey News

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 8d

Really nice of @emmashortis.bsky.social to have me on to talk about Trump and history and the effects on Australia politics.

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 8d

As Trump takes a sledgehammer to US democracy, Australia’s leader snagged a selfie & a 1-on-1 meeting.

@theshufflediary.bsky.social joins @emmashortis.bsky.social to discuss the PM's selfie diplomacy & how Australia’s political landscape is being influenced by MAGA. #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/4mGdePE

Selfie with Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump
NEW EPISODE | Our mate Donald
Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 8d

As Trump takes a sledgehammer to US democracy, Australia’s leader snagged a selfie & a 1-on-1 meeting.

@theshufflediary.bsky.social joins @emmashortis.bsky.social to discuss the PM's selfie diplomacy & how Australia’s political landscape is being influenced by MAGA. #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/4mGdePE

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 8d

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/30/c...

'New in the experience of the Earth': 12 voices on climate change explain how we got here

A major climate change report has laid out a dire future. Meanwhile Environment Minister Murray Watt has handed another win to Woodside.

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 9d

Haha, you're not the first person to point out that omission! We tried to keep it to indignities while in office, but you're right, that deserved at least an honourable mention ...

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 12d

The spectre of Abbott’s pathetic threat to “shirt-front” Putin has reminded me of this not entirely successful hybrid of journalism & politics fanfic I wrote for Crikey at the time, whose tonal strangeness makes me think “2014 was a different time”
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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 12d

Turns out we missed a few: www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/26/a...

'Prime Minister Trumble': Another cavalcade of Australian prime ministerial indignities!

God there really are a lot of these.

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Crystal Jane @crystaljane.bsky.social · 12d

Targeting of pro-Palestine, climate activists & other left-wing voices in Aus for the past few years has felt like McCarthysim to me. Even moreso after the Kirk murder last week.

@theshufflediary.bsky.social & I hashed it out on the pod today – watch on YouTube.
Listen on Spotify, Apple or web.

The 1950s “Red Scare” is back, baby!

YouTube video by Crikey News

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 12d

Turns out we missed a few: www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/26/a...

'Prime Minister Trumble': Another cavalcade of Australian prime ministerial indignities!

God there really are a lot of these.

www.crikey.com.au

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 12d

"There is a direct comparison between that 1950s 'red scare' and what we're seeing in Australia right now."

The 1950s 'Red Scare' is back, baby!

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 12d

I think one parallel I didn't make as clearly as I might have is that McCarthy was an opportunist jumping into fertile territory prepared by others. So the curtailing of protest in Australia has been going on for years before the targetting of Gaza protestors: www.crikey.com.au/2025/06/30/h...

Australia's protester crackdown didn't start with Hannah Thomas — and it won't end with her

The injuries sustained by the former Greens candidate are just the latest event in Australia's crackdown on the right to protest.

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 12d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnRA... Join @crystaljane.bsky.social and I, discussing the terrifying parrallels (and even more terrifying differences) between McCarthyism and the current climate here in the US.

The 1950s “Red Scare” is back, baby!

YouTube video by Crikey News

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 13d

Tonight on Spin Cycle, @roycerk2.bsky.social on the woeful climate discourse we must endure while the world burns. Plus news of the week. With @rachelwithers.bsky.social and @theshufflediary.bsky.social. Tune into @3rrrfm.bsky.social from 7pm. Then we are off to stare at walls for three weeks.

Photo of Royce Kurmelovs with copy: Spin Cycle, 7p Sep 25, 3RRR 102.7FM

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 13d

Jesus Christ

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 13d

Albo's selfie is the leasts of it-- Billy Hughes was called a “pestiferous varmint”, Malcolm Fraser was "John Fraser", John Howard "an unnamed official":
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/25/a...

Embarrassment on the world stage? 'Tis the Australian way!

Anthony Albanese's selfie with Donald Trump reflects the unbearable lightness of being an Australian politician. It's a phenomenon we know intimately.

www.crikey.com.au

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Charlie Lewis @theshufflediary.bsky.social · 13d

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/25/c... Today in "Onion headlines that have broken containment and leaked into the real world":

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 13d

Everyone's being a bit harsh about the prime minister's selfie with Trump. Albo is simply the latest to participate in Australia's longest held tradition: cringe.

Embarrassment on the world stage? 'Tis the Australian way!

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Sophie Black @sophieblackwords.bsky.social · 14d

Feeling disloyal? Take Crikey's six step guide to offing your leader! all thanks to @theshufflediary.bsky.social
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/24/a...

Is Hastie coming for Ley? Crikey's six-step guide to offing your leader

Is the Liberal Party getting Hastie? You be the judge.

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Sophie Black @sophieblackwords.bsky.social · 14d

No one better than the very sane, very understated, very funny @richjamesuk.bsky.social to walk you through the latest Trump news. Crikey Worm subject line says it all, really.

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