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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 28/07/2025
“By using the National Guard and the Marines against Americans, are you not in blatant violation of the Tenth Amendment and the Posse Comitatus Act?” Philip Low's 25 questions for Donald Trump: satpa.pe/ZYnGcaa
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Donald J. Trump: Are you an enemy of the constitution?
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 28/07/2025
The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza and their connection to Israel and Zionism. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...
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The New York Times commitment to Zionism begins with its own staff
The New York Times has helped to enable and sustain Israel’s ongoing genocide. A new dossier reveals the close ties of 20 top editors, executives, and journalists at the Times who have covered Gaza…
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realGuyFawkes. @realguyfawkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Yes! We need to take down Theil!! Maybe this will be the way.
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“As health care professionals we see the long-term effects of food insecurity. Nutrition affects every aspect of children’s growth & development & long-term well-being. Calories, protein, vitamins & minerals affect bone and muscle growth.” By @nurseteria.bsky.social & @donnagaffney.bsky.social
citizen-times.com
Opinion: 13 million American kids are hungry. GOP just made it worse by cutting SNAP.
RFK Jr. acknowledges poor diet is a contributing factor to childhood disease, but said nothing when Congress cut funding for the SNAP food program.
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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Tehan, like so many others in Aust parliaments, has been on multiple sponsored junkets to Israel courtesy of AIJAC.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I am more likely to represent Australian in synchronised swimming at the Brisbane Olympics than we are to get any submarines from the US under AUKUS www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Australia won’t receive Aukus nuclear submarines unless US doubles shipbuilding, admiral warns
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says there is a ‘very, very high’ chance Virginia-class subs will never arrive under Australian control
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/07/2025
⚡️China threatens retaliation over Ukrainian sanctions imposed for backing Russia's invasion. The statement follows President Volodymyr Zelensky's July 27 decree imposing sanctions on individuals and entities from Russia and its allies.
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China threatens retaliation over Ukrainian sanctions imposed for backing Russia's invasion
The statement follows President Volodymyr Zelensky's July 27 decree imposing sanctions on individuals and entities from Russia and its allies.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Glad at least one Labor MP has the courage of his convictions. Shame on the rest of them for staying silent and leaving their Muslim backbencher colleague to do it alone.
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The time for Australia to recognise the state of Palestine is right now | Ed Husic
So many countries have lost patience and are unable to stay silent – most recently France. This is the moment for us to take a similar stand
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“Everything is bigger in Texas. $1.26 billion taxpayers money funneled to private pockets. 5,000 prisoners. No due process. Tent concentration camp in a desert.” -- @beingliberal.bsky.social beingliberal.substack.com/p/while-we-w...
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While We Watch Colbert and South Park, They Build A $1.2 B Desert Concentration Camp In Texas
While America’s distracted by the Steven Colbert Show drama and South Park revenge, Trump's government just dropped over a billion dollars to build the largest detention center in U.S. history
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
America’s raging inequality is on display. The corrupting power of wealth and giant corporations has never been more clear. Billionaires are running Washington and unleashing a tsunami of big money and legalized bribery. We are living in a second Gilded Age.
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peterkc1.bsky.social @peterkc1.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
If you want to understand what's really happening with global heating and climate change — including extreme weather events — you can ignore most of what you see or read in the mainstream media. Instead, read The Language of Climate Change Politics, by @doctorvive.bsky.social. [1 of 2]
Cover, The Language of Climate Change Politics, by Dr. Genevieve Guenther.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/07/2025
If the Trump administration wants more than another temporary cease-fire, “it needs to stop feeding the Israeli right’s dream of conquest,” @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social argues. “It must make clear that neither nation is going anywhere”: theatln.tc/uofSo8hG
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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economist.com
Russian sabotage attacks surged across Europe in 2024
This year’s apparent lull may be the calm before another storm
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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content. On his work computer. During a Board of Education meeting. Read that again. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
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Ryan Walters' TV displayed "nude women" during a meeting. Now he's blaming the media.
The Oklahoma schools chief who crusades against smut now faces an investigation into his own explicit screen time
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Trump will spend his weekend promoting a new golf course at his resort in Scotland – costing taxpayers an estimated $10 million. After this jaunt, he will have spent at least $52 million of taxpayer money on golf trips. If that’s not fraud, waste, and abuse, I don’t know what is.
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Donald Trump's Golf Spending Spree
Yesterday, Donald Trump said that the U.S. has "too many non-working holidays." Our "pro-worker president" thinks that w
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 26/07/2025
"Trump is finally looking rattled, weakened by persistent questions from even friendly media outlets that he simply won’t answer," writes John Hewson. satpa.pe/1aLQeUU
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Is this peak Trump?
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Russia launched yet another massive attack on #Ukraine last night: ▪️ Kharkiv was struck by four guided aerial bombs, two ballistic missiles, and about 15 drones. A civilian business, transportation infrastructure, and a city boiler facility were damaged⤵️ 📹 Kamianske (Dnipropetrovsk region)
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"it beggars belief that in 2025, the Environment Minister can sign off on massive fossil fuel expansion such as the Woodside NW Shelf gas project without having to consider the massive climate impacts of the pollution it produces." SHY in @croakeynews.bsky.social www.croakey.org/health-exper...
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Experts sound health alarm on algal bloom crisis, calling for climate action and comprehensive responses
The algal bloom crisis across South Australia should be treated as a disaster for health and a clear warning about
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
There's much talk of a wealth tax at present, but there's strong evidence to suggest that the wealthy are already not paying all the tax that they owe. It's time to get that right before ever thinking about taxing wealth. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...
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Making the wealthy pay is essential to tax justice
It appears that the tax gap will leave the news this week. The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report in the issue in which they say: HMRC has no overview of an individual’s total wealt...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"If Marles cannot renegotiate terms that prioritise our sovereignty, he should step aside ...Australia deserves a minister who can assert our position as a confident middle power, not one tethered to US policy." Marles is a US sycophant. Which makes him a security threat. #DitchAUKUS #auspol
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/07/2025
Russians linked to Wagner trained people in paramilitary camps in Bosnia and Serbia to disrupt the Moldovan elections, learning "how to organise mass riots and how to provoke the police into a violent reaction” balkaninsight.com/2025/07/15/d...
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Disruptors: Inside Russia’s Balkan Training Camps for Moldovan ‘Destabilisation’
A joint investigation by BIRN and Moldovan CU SENS sheds new light on the training camps run by Russian operatives in Bosnia and Serbia that Chisinau says were used to train Moldovans in destabilisati...
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I’ve been investigating this story about a #surgeon operating for years at the apex of the hospital system, the hidden story of culture that enabled him & people left behind. We’re grateful to medical professionals & patients who spoke up. Don’t miss God Complex #4corners Monday ABC TV. #medicine
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is very bad news - the ABS won't be releasing its Survey of Income and Housing. This is the survey that gives us the best detail on inequality of both wealth and income and it means we won't get one till 2027. The last one was in 2019-20 so it's already 5 years out of date
Survey of Income and Housing results will not be released
Media Statement
Released
17/07/2025
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will not release statistics from the 2023-24 Survey of Income and Housing (SIH) due to data collection issues. Despite work to address these issues, the data did not meet the ABS’ high standards for official statistics and will not be released.

This decision means that the following products will not be released in 2025:

Income and wealth, Australia
Housing Occupancy and costs, Australia
Deputy Australian Statistician, Dr Phillip Gould, said: ‘As the ABS modernises, we’re developing new ways to collect information to improve response rates and make it easier for people to complete our surveys.

‘This is partly because collecting data from households has become more difficult and costly in recent years. This is being experienced by statistical offices around the world.

‘While we were compiling the statistics for SIH 2023-24, we found serious shortcomings in the questionnaire design and data collection processes that we could not overcome, despite our best efforts.
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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I think we need to stop obsessing over the mushroom murders and turn our attention to the NT coroner’s inquest report into the police shooting and death of Kumanjayi Walker by policeman Zach Rolfe
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 08/07/2025
🚨 Pressure is building on Keir Starmer to tax extreme wealth. Even Labour heavyweight, Lord Kinnock and unions are calling for a bold wealth tax to fund our public services. If you agree, add your name now. 38d.gs/sdyc
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TAX EXTREME WEALTH - DON’T PUNISH THOSE WHO NEED SUPPORT
BREAKING: Starmer’s backed down on cutting disability benefits. Pressure is working. Now let’s make it clear - tax the ultra rich, not the sick and disabled. Sign now while the government is watching!
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thank god for real journalists. Altho AL and JF are going to have to come up with a new term for what they're doing now. BS whisperers? Whatever you call it, its not to be missed. #auspol #media
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Julian Leeser asked if he agrees with the findings of the Victorian Yoorrook Justice Commission in describing what happened to First Nations people in Victoria as a “genocide” Leeser “I think we throw that word around too much.” What a coward. #Abc
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/07/2025
Four reasons why $200 billion for ICE is a bad, bad idea by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea
I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"those who have helped drown #Gaza in blood have turned the world upside down – treating the opponents of this mass extermination as dangerous, hateful extremists" @owenjones.bsky.social #PalestineAction #FreePalestine www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones
In Britain’s increasingly authoritarian society, any sort of protest can find itself at odds with the law. You might even go to jail, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
He can't be serious.
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Mike Johnson Blasted After Claiming All Congress Can Do After Texas Floods Is 'Pray'
Of course 🙄
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Europe's reliance on fossil fuel imports funds autocratic regimes, creating a dangerous vulnerability. The transition to clean, homegrown energy isn't just an environmental goal—it's a national security imperative.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/07/2025
This is a breaking news story.
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Top European rights court says Russia broke international law in Ukraine
This is a breaking news story.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/06/2025
When Teslas matter more than lives.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Jim Chalmers excellent. This is a true Queenslander response to a problem. We put everything on the table, we debate it intelligently & then we go help those most in need. Qld Premier TJ Ryan approves. Let's get on with reform & have good debate. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Jim Chalmers says media’s ‘rule-in rule-out game’ on tax reform has ‘cancerous effect’ on policy debates
Treasurer says Labor has a responsibility to move beyond its election mandate and consider tax reform
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Katie Whittemore✊🏻💙 @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
11 MILLION PEOPLE!! 💥💥💥 Are we nearing the magic 3.5%?? Never forget….WE hold the power. #nokings
June 14
No kings 
Over 11 million people protested!
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/06/2025
Israel hit the world’s largest natural gasfield and other key Iranian energy facilities on Saturday night.
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Which Iranian oil and gas facilities has Israel hit? Why do they matter?
Israel hit the world’s largest natural gasfield and other key Iranian energy facilities on Saturday night.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
For context on Israel/Iran/US etc - this is very good #auspol > podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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Israel vs. Iran: What Happens Next
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 13/06/2025 · 51m
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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MFWitches @mfwitches.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Are men okay?
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
President Zelenskyy in an interview with Newsmax: "Trump can stop him [Putin].For that to happen,Putin must lose money.Only by losing money will he be unable to grow his army or increase military spending.That will lead to internal problems.That is a fact.To achieve this,sanctions must be imposed."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 14/06/2025
After plunging Gaza into a total blackout and facing global outrage over war crimes, Netanyahu launches a war with Iran — and calls on the U.S. to clean it up. Israel’s illegal strikes, settler colonialism, and genocidal campaigns run on American cover and cash. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Russian Telegram channels report drone attacks on Azot chemical plant in Stavropol region of Russia and Novokuibyshev Catalyst plant in Samara region of Russia. Azot plant is one of the largest producers of nitrogen fertilizers and ammonia in Russia.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
❗️Five more countries have joined the international coalition of electronic warfare for the needs of the 🇺🇦Ukrainian Defense Forces - Minister of Defense of Ukraine These are Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Turkey and Estonia
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/06/2025
The gas industry has had higher profit margins than ANY other sector in Australia over the last few years. That's unsurprising when you know how little tax they pay. A THREAD (1/5)
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