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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp."

Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler:
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lincolnproject.us
"The broader goal is the militarization of major cities before 2026 elections... Next year, I fear that what they're gonna do is deploy these folks to polling places & say they're protecting the vote. Trump knows without these breaches of the Constitution, he's gonna lose Congress." - Gov. Pritzker
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u24.gov.ua
Ukrainians remember Kobleve as one of the country’s most vibrant Black Sea resorts — a place of music and endless nights by the sea. Ukraine’s own Ibiza, if you will.

russia has changed Kobleve beyond recognition. Once full of life, many of its places now stand empty or damaged.
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nordacious.bsky.social
This didn’t start 2 years ago.
The world has watched decades of dispossession, occupation, and genocide - in silence, in complicity.
End the genocide.
Freedom and justice for Palestine.
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A textured protest poster with bold, hand-cut lettering lists: “77 years since the Nakba, 58 years of occupation, 18 years of blockade, 2 years of genocidal escalation.” Behind the text is a brown silhouette of Palestine. Below, a large pink watermelon slice fills the lower half of the poster, its black seeds forming the word “Resist.” A white dove carrying an olive branch flies across the watermelon.
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aljazeera.com
Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.
Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers
Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.
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australia.theguardian.com
Melbourne Metro Tunnel train services will soon begin – but what is the ‘summer start’ and when is the ‘big switch’?
Melbourne Metro Tunnel train services will soon begin – but what is the ‘summer start’ and when is the ‘big switch’?
From December trains will run every 20 minutes, with commuters having to wait until 1 February for ‘turn up and go’ services * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast After months of speculation, the Victorian premier has announced the long-awaited Melbourne Metro Tunnel will begin taking passengers in early December. The Metro Tunnel will connect the Sunbury line in Melbourne’s west to the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines in the south-east via five new underground city stations: Anzac, Arden, Parkville, State Library and Town Hall. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social
Gambling regulation in Aus is a national disgrace. The govt has ignored the Murphy Report & repeatedly blocked my bill to hold gambling giants accountable. If they won’t listen to evidence, experts or the crossbench, they should at least listen to the community. #auspol #politas
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barbarapocock.bsky.social
A big four consultancy firm has used AI in a report that had several errors, and charged the Australian taxpayer with the bill. I am livid.
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accr.bsky.social
Patrick Pouyanné, head of TotalEnergies, told last month’s Gastech conference that the world was “building too much” LNG capacity, and predicted oversupply “for some years if all these projects come on stream”. on.ft.com/4mQ2xdy
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mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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aljazeera.com
Researchers say inhalers in the US alone generate annual emissions equivalent to 530,000 cars.
Study finds US asthma inhalers produce same emissions as 500,000 cars
Researchers say inhalers in the US alone generate annual emissions equivalent to 530,000 cars.
bit.ly
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johnmenadue.com
More than 30 legal experts have called on the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to bar Israel and its clubs from competitions over the atrocities in Gaza.Israel’s top ally, the US, is co-hosting the World Cup next year, FIFA is not ready to penalise the US ally. #auspol #UEFA #FIFA Gaza
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theukrainianreview.bsky.social
🤬 Over 20 explosions in 20 minutes in Kharkiv. Russians boasts that in addition to drones, it is attacking the city with ballistics.
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eugenemcparland.bsky.social
Issues with power supply reported in #Kharkiv.

At least 13 violent explosions were heard, city under drone raid

Source: liveuamap.com/en/2025/6-oc...
Issues with power supply reported in Kharkiv. At least 13 violent explosions were heard, city under drone raid Kharkiv - Ukraine Interactive map - Ukraine Latest news on live map - liveuamap.com
Issues with power supply reported in Kharkiv. At least 13 violent explosions were heard, city under drone raid. Live Universal Awareness Map Liveuamap is a leading independent global news and informat...
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johnmenadue.com
The leaked shipping records seen by Declassified Australia show Australia is sending an extensive inventory of weapons parts for the F-35 directly to Israel, and as recently as just last month. #auspol #Israel
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by Simon D. Donner — Reposted by: Karen O’Leary, A. E. Dessler

simondonner.bsky.social
Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records - valuable analysis from @hausfath.bsky.social to show that climate change is real and global... even it was hotter in one town 80 years ago. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/most-of-th...
Most of the world has recently set all-time heat records
Regional exceptions like the 1930s in the continental US notwithstanding
www.theclimatebrink.com
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Reposted by: Karen O’Leary, Håvard Kauserud

resistrebelrevolt.net
Pt2🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "Global Samud Flotilla are not heroes. Our mistreatment by Israel is not the story. We need more than humanitarian aid to Gaza, we need to stop the decades-long siege. The violence of 'business as usual.' Genocides fueled by our own governments."
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Reposted by: Karen O’Leary, Håvard Kauserud

resistrebelrevolt.net
Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."
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thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled then Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to ensure anti-corruption hearings would be kept secret.

“Dreyfus always... believed it had to change the culture of public administration.” satpa.pe/uAjHHbk
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings
The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.
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patsimons.bsky.social
New poll shows majority of Australians support sanctioning Israel www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Over half of Australians support sanctions on Israel and its leaders for ongoing attacks on Gaza, poll shows
Survey finds 57% of respondents agreed government should impose similar sanctions on Israel as those against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine
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thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: Already under fire for mishandling Robodebt referrals, the NACC is run by Major General Paul Le Gay Brereton. Brereton is a senior advisor to Defence – a department with 120 active corruption referrals. satpa.pe/kuJu5kO
Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings
The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.
satpa.pe
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abcnewsbot.bsky.social
Department of Defence emails show that a website dedicated to Australia's role in the global F-35 supply chain used by Israel to maintain its jet fighters was removed at the start of the war in Gaza.
Emails show government 'quietly' removed F-35 website at start of Gaza war
Department of Defence emails show that a website dedicated to Australia's role in the global F-35 supply chain used by Israel to maintain its jet fighters was removed at the start of the war in Gaza.
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Reposted by: Karen O’Leary, Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch , and 17 more

andrewjweinstein.com
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Reposted by: Karen O’Leary, Parliamentary Library

maximumwelfare.bsky.social
#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement. A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors. (photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document. At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment. The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI. SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report. Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth. The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”
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nordacious.bsky.social
how someone talks about greta thunberg is the quickest personality test there is
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jessielilley.bsky.social
What is the Australian government doing to free the 6 Australians detained by Israel in international waters? Where is the outrage? The urgency?
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Six heroic Aussies are inside a notorious Israeli prison, the same hellhole where Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair and made to kiss the Israeli flag. Reports DFAT is scolding ppl on the phone that have called in. Your government is complicit. Free Palestine, Melbourne/Naarm
Melbourne Free Palestine march
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paultlevin.bsky.social
“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.””
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paultlevin.bsky.social
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
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