Reposted by Angela787excog @excog.bsky.social · 23/08/2025◻️ "....almost half of Keir Starmer’s cabinet, 13 out of 31 members, have received funding from pro-Israel groups. Foreign policy is being influenced and undermined – not by overt corruption, but by the subtle sway of financial ties and the sense of obligation they create." 77949
Reposted by Angela787David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 22/08/2025This is how broken our lobbying laws are. Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰 It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...abc.net.au'Revolving door' between politics and lobbying rings transparency alarm bellLobbying has become big business, with around 727 lobbyists registered in the national capital, more than three times the number of elected officials sitting in parliament. 18483203
Reposted by Angela787Verity Imelda Player @verityplayer.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Got a letter from my MP! (Rachel Maskell, York Central). Hadn't heard of UNITE's idea before now. 022
Reposted by Angela787Monika FBPE @monika-uk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Australia taxes foreign property buyers more than it taxes Australians. Funny how ithis policy didn't stop the economy growing. 041
Reposted by Angela787Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I'm back. Here's how we fix the UK's dire economic and political situation www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMor...youtube.comI'm back – and I think we can winYouTube video by Garys Economics 27368107
Reposted by Angela787Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 04/07/20252035 is a future year, specifically 10yrs from now In need of a GP appt, I open the NHS App, speak to My Companion GP but sadly the next available appointment with AI GP is 3weeks from now. Good news GPs are available at £200 an appt today - thanks Labour & the 10yr plan 2025 - all sorted! 2188
Reposted by Angela787ZiggyStardust @grancracker.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Saw this on FB from David Attenborough. “Wolves were woven into the fabric of tribal life…where people and animals lived in close relationship…reminding us that respect & kinship once defined the way we walked among other living beings.” Puppies are being slaughtered!! 😢 24017
Reposted by Angela787Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...nytimes.comAs Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas 886242408406
Reposted by Angela787Jeannie✨吳德瑀 @jeannielouie.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The “warning coordination meteorologist” at the local NWS FO left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package the Trump administration used to reduce the number of federal employees. Nuff said.nytimes.comAs Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas 11613
Reposted by Angela787Alisru @alisru.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Greens have long pushed for Medicare‑funded dental as an equity measure since 2010; in 2025 Labor instead expanded the Child Dental Benefits Schedule, boosting support for kids 2–17 and concession‑card holders, rather than a broader phased rollout #auspol 132
Reposted by Angela787Alisru @alisru.bsky.social · 18/06/2025From 2021 Greens senators called for an independent AUKUS review over cost, sovereignty and transparency, framing it as strategic overreach, language Turnbull echoed when he labelled the pact a “dud deal” #auspol 121
Reposted by Angela787The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/06/2025"The government sacrificed sovereignty to get security & it looks like we're going to lose both." @turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social & @emmashortis.bsky.social lay out the problems with the AUKUS deal. "The only people we can truly count on are each other: Australians." #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/4e6moCB 9291106
Angela787 @angela787.bsky.social · 20/06/2025This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re...megaphone.org.auReturn Northern Beaches Hospital to Public HandsWhile operated by the for-profit company Healthscope, Northern Beaches Hospital has been plagued by persistent complaints. Staff, patients, and families report chronic understaffing, poor patient outc... 010
Reposted by Angela787Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Remember these people - already starved and weak- are forced to walk up to 10km to pick up this food and carry it back to wherever they have managed to make a temporary home 17351201
Reposted by Angela787The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 19/06/2025How much does every one of those fighter jet flights supporting Israeli genocide cost? Scrap them. How much has Starmer earmarked for new killing machines? Scrap that. Do what the people want, not what your corporate masters demand. 0102
Reposted by Angela787Glenn Plummer I👀U @glenntheplummer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I was told by a chap today, who is in a position to know with some certainty (I know that’s vague but it was not Richard Marles…OK) that if America chooses to bomb Iran with its own aircraft that US bombers could be deployed from their bases in Australia. 022
Reposted by Angela787Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025It was certainly much easier for politicians to trick their citizens about wars - when we didn't have independent and social media - and they could control the channels where we receive our information. Now we're in control - and can see exactly what's going on #auspol 128522
Reposted by Angela787Honor Laois 🦘#DoNoHarm🦘 @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Malcolm Turnbull sinking subs youtube.com/shorts/59qlV...youtube.comTurnbull: Australia could end up with no submarines from AmericaYouTube video by The Australia Institute 386
Reposted by Angela787Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13/06/2025The Ninth Circuit won't even hold a hearing on this until Tuesday. So apparently you get (at least) five free days of "illegally deploying troops domestically" as a little treat. 18884190
Reposted by Angela787Wolfie Rankin @wolfierankin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I am happy to do this, furthermore, cold pizza is fine and reheated in the air fryer is good too. 151
Reposted by Angela787Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty. 21465539417602
Reposted by Angela787Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord." 1033323737858
Reposted by Angela787Nail @nail82826717.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Ask the Americans and the Israelis, Australians have no idea. 081
Reposted by Angela787ᑭᒪᗩIᑎ ᒍᗩᑎE @janeleecomiskey.bsky.social · 13/06/2025What’s to stop any random creep from buying these costumes online and claiming they’re in a house as ICE and then raping or pillaging and then disappearing..??!! This cannot be legal without official documentation and identification!! As women, we’re ALWAYS warned to ask for an official ID first! 612014
Reposted by Angela787JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Let’s stop pretending we’re living through anything resembling normal. Let’s bury the lie that the Rep. Party is a political movement. It’s not. It’s a radicalized cult of personality wrapped in the American flag & soaked in gasoline, waiting for the next match. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...open.substack.comAuthoritarianism Isn’t Coming. It’s Here.Senator Padilla got cuffed for asking questions. The regime wants you to know you’re next. 802808638
Reposted by Angela787Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 13/06/2025The treatment of Senator Alex Padilla is disgraceful — no matter how you look at it. If this is how the Trump Administration treats a sitting U.S. Senator, we should all be alarmed. 1302317553
Reposted by Angela787Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/06/2025Fourth wave of Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets is now underway. 1020471
Reposted by Angela787Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/06/2025When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid. 275166895104
Reposted by Angela787CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I'd like to help Pete out as well, by pointing out that the only active threat to Greenland today is in fact the United States, or should I say, Trump, who controls the U.S. military. So please secure Greenland from that, Mr. Secretary. 083
Reposted by Angela787Twice-On-Belmont @belmontx2.bsky.social · 12/06/2025In a normal world, this would be the top story this week. In the world we're in, it won't crack the top 20. 0394
Reposted by Angela787bennythesnitch.bsky.social @bennythesnitch.bsky.social · 12/06/2025DEAR LORD WHO DOES THIS CHIT The Army is reviewing how pro-President Donald Trump merchandise wound up being sold on one of its bases this week at a service-sponsored event orchestrated by the White House and the president's supporters. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... 66426
Reposted by Angela787Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/06/2025holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that 60277472666
Reposted by Angela787It Ain't Me. @notimeforbs.bsky.social · 12/06/2025ProPublica out here doing America's work while an outlet with 40x their budget scans social media for new pics of a 3 day old car fire. 12914
Reposted by Angela787Birdergal 💙💛🌊 @kestrel61.bsky.social · 12/06/2025So the hard working, tax paying, undocumented immigrants get ripped off the streets and secretly sent to private prisons, ten deported, while the billionaires can just buy a passport for $5M? Trump values in a nutshell. 411317
Reposted by Angela787Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent. 690459456427
Reposted by Angela787Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Let’s talk facts. American beef isn’t just inferior, it’s dodgy. You’ve got cattle over there jacked up on growth hormones and antibiotics like they’re prepping for the Tour de France, and somehow we’re meant to believe that’s fine? #auspol #FuckTrump #FuckUSBeef 45621
Reposted by Angela787Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Australia’s got the world’s strictest biosecurity, traceability from paddock to plate, and zero tolerance for disease risks. Meanwhile, the US beef industry keeps lobbying to lower safety standards like it’s a sport. 1247
Reposted by Angela787KassandraSpeaks @pourmoi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025#auspol So, our ex-PM Scott Morrison is to get an AC for 'responses during COVID'? Where his greatest response was to STFU, sit down & let the experts lead our response. The problems started only when he stopped doing that ... 1143
Reposted by Angela787Bec McLellan @rebeccamclellan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Why is ScoMo back commenting on Parliamentary issues #auspol? Seriously, cancel culture is a myth. The man holidayed whilst Aus burned (literally) then said that he didn't hold a hose, made himself co-Minister for everything and lied/misled about multiple issues www.crikey.com.au/2021/05/25/a...crikey.com.auA dossier of lies and falsehoodsAll politicians stretch the truth. But Scott Morrison is different. In this dossier, Crikey proves the prime minister is a systemic, consistent and unremitting public liar. 43811
Reposted by Angela787Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025So on the one hand we have Hugh White, Paul Keating, Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Carr, Sam Roggeveen, and naval experts all saying AUKUS is a dud and undermines our security. On the other we have Scott Morrison, Joe Hockey, Richard Marles and Angus Taylor saying all good mate. What are we even doing? 1926594
Reposted by Angela787Wolfie Rankin @wolfierankin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Pardon me, but this looks like slavery. 5124