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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 1d

"The claim by the PM, premiers and their education ministers that public schools will be fully funded by 2034 is a blatant falsehood"

We've reached the point where I dare anyone - quote a government minister who describes policy truthfully

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Cath A O 🦘🦘 @cathamoc.bsky.social · 1h

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Estranged Realities: Israel and the Global Sumud Flotilla

Showing that cloddishness that we have come to expect from them, Israel’s detention of the activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) was a coarse and violent affair. Having been intercepted in inte...

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they_paved_paradise @treemuseums.bsky.social · 1h

Labor selling out our kids future

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 2h

I now allocate a tutorial to critical ai literacy, in the weeks before a major essay is due. Most students know the slop is slop, and quickly learn it is planet-boiling slop. If unis can not educate students about ai what the fuck is the point is my view.

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University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2h

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 2d

“Given these actions against Kneecap and ongoing efforts to censor the group, it’s essential to ask: Why are governments so scared of the spread of decolonial speech?”

@nicolefroio.bsky.social answers this question effectively in this must-read on censorship and the revolutionary potential of music

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

British prosecutors will appeal against dismissal of terrorism charge against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh. Read here why the British state is so desperate to silence @kneecapceol.bsky.social:

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2h

Israel has intercepted and detained another 145 activists in the second flotilla effort in a row headed to Gaza to break Israel’s near-total humanitarian aid blockade, after detaining and imprisoning over 450 activists in the first wave of ships last week.

Israel Seizes Second Round of Flotilla Boats, Detaining 145 More Activists

Other recently released activists said they faced torture, beatings, and humiliation in Israeli detention.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 8h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 9h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine the sadism necessary to be an armed federal agent, under no threat whatsoever, willing to shoot a priest in the head.

ICE is “a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6h

i wonder if a sufficient number of viable democrats have it in them to effectively counter a narrative of "i am tanking the economy, firing everyone i can, and sending soldiers to push you around if i dont like the way you think, and also lee greenwood is the only music allowed"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 11h

18,457 dead children.

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

I wonder what was going on then that the antifascist movement was responding to. So weird I can't figure it out

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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Christine Galea @chrisgalea.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that Elon musk, Peter Thiel, and Steve Bannon all being in the Epstein files dropped out of the news way too fast www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files

The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.

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they_paved_paradise @treemuseums.bsky.social · 2h

What side are you on @australianlabor.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social ???

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3h

Some frank words about the hollow rhetoric that now stands as Labor’s climate policy, and how its PR-first strategy has been rewarded by the media. Thanks to 7am

How Albanese killed the climate wars

Podcast Episode · 7am · 08/10/2025 · 15m

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

"Let’s not be lulled into mothballing our Palestinian flags and keffiyehs. Let’s not be lulled into abandoning our calls—to hold Israel accountable. Let’s not be dazzled by hollow words and the familiar smoke and mirrors. Let us redouble our efforts for Palestine."
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A time to redouble our efforts for Palestine

Daniel Levy, who knows a thing or two about peace negotiations, warns us that, The plan is being used to push back against the momentum behind holding Israel accountable, the thing that could actually...

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

"Undue support for the notion of antisemitism in Australia and its conflation with criticism of Zionism is at the heart of the problem here. Hence we have a press club in Australia that doesn’t want us to know about the slaughter of journalists in Gaza." #NPC
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Cancelling Chris Hedges: What price balance?

On its homepage you will read that “The National Press Club (NPC) is a vigorous champion of media freedom and a home away from home for journalists”.

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

“Instead of ill-informed governments’ & MSM’s lazy repetition of “Hamas, Hamas” to justify a genocide, an inquiry into the colonisation of Palestine reveals a different history & a very revised way of judging the policies of Israel & the decimation of Palestine.”
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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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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3h

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

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