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AngeMelb @angemelb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Must be doing something right if Netanyahu is saying you're weak. Go @albomp.bsky.social 👏💙👏 'A weak politician': Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese has 'betrayed' Israel www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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'A weak politician': Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese has 'betrayed' Israel
Israel's prime minister has labelled Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese a "weak politician'" as a diplomatic stoush escalates between the two nations.
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AngeMelb @angemelb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Hey everyone. Thanks so much for your great support of The Sunday Shot. Really appreciated. 🙏🙏 #SundayShot #auspol Follow on YT here > www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot Subscribe to the podcast replay here > podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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The Sunday Shot
The Sunday Shot streams at 9am AEST each Sunday. The Shot's Jo Dyer and Dave Milner are joined each week by a roster of Australia's best independent journalists and thinkers to discuss what's been ha...
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 30/06/2025
In 2003, Anthony Albanese was among Labor MPs who wrote to then US president Bush: “What is to prevent other countries from following the example of our attack on Iraq, and arguing the right to preventative self-defence?” The letter has not aged well. satpa.pe/CsHYMSR
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/06/2025
Firefighters ambushed by gunman in Idaho while responding to brush fire
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Firefighters ambushed by gunman in Idaho while responding to brush fire
Shelter-in-place alert sent to Coeur d’Alene residents as police say firefighters were shot at while controlling fire Firefighters in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, were ambushed by a gunman on Sunday while responding to a brush fire, ABC News reports. Lt Jeff Howard of the Kootenai county sheriff’s office told the broadcaster firefighters were responding to a small but growing blaze on Canfield Mountain when they started getting shot at by an unknown person in the woods. Continue reading...
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It’s EOFY! Starting NOW your Donation to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre will be MATCHED up to $104,160 by the Stewart Foundation (an affiliate of Swan Plumbing Supplies) + 16 other generous families & supporters till midnight! It’s up to us 🫶🏼 Donate: donate.asrc.org.au/donatetoday
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If you’re in Melbourne, get along to this - it’ll be fantastic
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/06/2025
So what seems clear from the intel, is that we probably should have reloaded the B2s, and gone for a second round. Instead the impulsive toddler was desperate to have a strong ending to the movie and declare a cease fire. This is a show to him, entertainment, and he’s the “star”
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Now she has a chance to possibly stop a regime change war and is doing… nothing.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
an easy disguise: all you’d need are some black masks
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...” www.bet.com/article/6rdn...
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He Was Born in Philly and They Tried to Deport Him to Jamaica
A Florida sheriff ignored proof of Peter Sean Brown’s U.S. citizenship and held him for ICE anyway. A federal court just ruled it was a blatant violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
People may not [yet] see #AUKUS as the costly and dangerous farce that it is. But it's notable that the government's main spruiker of this dodgy deal - Richard Marles - is backed by both Scott Morrison and Joe Hockey. That should be a bigly red flag. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Turnbull urges Australia to invest in alternatives to AUKUS
Malclom Turnbull has chipped Scott Morrison over the AUKUS deal, saying the former PM's "great achievement" may be leaving Australia with no new submarines.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Not gonna lie, I'm framing a screenshot of this post & hanging it on my wall. #TheLifeOfChuck
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/06/2025
A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
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Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations
Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The ALP needs to focus on the "powerless" aspect of the LNP. The LNP literally do not matter. Change the fricken country and leave them withering. Stop feeling like you need to ask the LNP's (or media's) permission to change things.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/06/2025
Troops gun down starving crowds, capping deadly first week of operations for controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Israel kills 32 Palestinians waiting for food at US-backed Gaza aid sites
Troops gun down starving crowds, capping deadly first week of operations for controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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PlsUseYourBrain @useyourbrain.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"This is what the Albanese government is doing with its near historic mandate: extending a gas project that will pillage Indigenous lands and add substantially to the irreversible heating of the planet. It is almost cartoonish in its depravity." @thesaturdaypaper.com.au #AusPol #ClimateCrisis
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An oink of pure greed
Murray Watt didn’t need to consider climate change. The law didn’t ask him to, because for three years Labor has been stalling on laws that would. In a triumph of his own party’s inaction, his first d...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"California Republican Reps. David Valadao and Young Kim's districts are among the highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the state. In an April 14 letter, both said they were against the bill if it included Medicaid cuts — but then they voted for the bill anyway..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
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9 Calif. Republicans in hot seat after consequential health care vote
California's nine House Republicans voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes cuts to key programs such as Medicaid.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"We’ll determine our defence policy" Good to hear, @albomp.bsky.social . So when can we expect the thorough, independent and public review of #AUKUS that we never got? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘We’ll determine our defence policy’: Albanese responds to US push for huge rise in spending as Hegseth stokes China fears
Prime minister also reaffirms policy on Taiwan while hitting back at Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminium imports
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 31/05/2025
Australia’s trade minister says Trump plan to double steel and aluminium tariffs to 50% ‘not the act of a friend’
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Australia’s trade minister says Trump plan to double steel and aluminium tariffs to 50% ‘not the act of a friend’
Don Farrell says US president’s latest tariffs announcement ‘an act of economic self harm’ and he will continue to advocate for their removal * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s trade minister, Don Farrell, has described Donald Trump’s trade tariffs as “unjustified and not the act of a friend”, after the US president announced he would double import duties on steel and aluminium to 50%. Trump told a steelworkers rally in Pittsburgh that raising the tariff would “even further secure the steel industry in the United States. Nobody is going to get around that.” Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/05/2025
Rescuers have already pulled a dozen injured people from the debris during a gruelling search effort at the site.
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A least 10 dead, several missing after stone quarry collapses in Indonesia
Rescuers have already pulled a dozen injured people from the debris during a gruelling search effort at the site.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 31/05/2025
A Texas 12-year-old started a nonprofit to play calming music for shelter animals and performed this week for dogs at the Denver Animal Shelter. “It’s very satisfying when the dogs calm down, and it is also really heartwarming,” Yuvi Agarwal said, grinning.
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New Denver Animal Shelter program, Wild Tunes, will bring musicians in to play for dogs, cats
When Yuvi Agarwal began playing the keyboard for a room full of dogs at the Denver Animal Shelter on Thursday, the music was hard to distinguish between the barks and yelps of his audience.
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NPR @npr.org · 31/05/2025
Following his HBO series Succession, Jesse Armstrong's latest project, Mountainhead, is a film about four tech billionaires whose mountain retreat is disrupted by a global catastrophe.
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'Succession' creator's new moguls are tech gods gazing down from 'Mountainhead'
Following his HBO series Succession, Jesse Armstrong's latest project, Mountainhead, is a film about four tech billionaires whose mountain retreat is disrupted by a global catastrophe.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/05/2025
In the 19th century, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black Americans to a doctor in Germany, where they were used as part of now discredited racial science. The remains were recently returned to the city, where they will be laid to rest on Saturday.
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Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany
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Linda 🎼💙💚🌏💚🦋🖤💛🧡🐨🦇🦜🦎🐸🦘🦅🦉🐋 NO DM's @earth1stlinda.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Here's PM @albomp.bsky.social & Min for Environment Murray Watt's new addition to parliament house, bought to you by #Woodside At a time when urgent #ClimateAction was needed, #history will record these #ClimateCriminals, for political expedience & power, released a mega #ClimateBomb #auspol
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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
David Pope in Canberra Times
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I voted Teal in Bradfield (I know, my fingernails are bitten to the quick) but I get exactly what Pocock means. This is a deeply disappointing decision. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Pocock says voters have ‘buyer’s remorse’ after Labor approves massive gas development’s 40-year extension
Fortescue CEO also says suggestion Australia can lock in fossil fuel projects and claim progress on net zero is ‘concerning’
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Antony Green @antonygreenelec.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Four graphs that help explain Labor's landslide victory as well as the continuing decline in major party support. antonygreen.com.au/fed2025-four...
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FED2025 – Four Graphs on Labor’s Landslide Victory
The ‘L’ word hasn’t featured much in post-election coverage, but it’s time to be clear about the result. The re-election of the Albanese government has been a landslide vict…
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Was at the annual Gas Industry conference this week, and let me tell you they are struggling. Arse out of the backside of their pants. Just can't get any business done. Red tape is killing them. Australia is a terrible place to do business....
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New — Video shared with me that was taken yesterday at Manhattan Immigration Court (290 Broadway) shows ICE officers in the midst of an arrest putting on face masks once they realize they’re being filmed my witnesses.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Phang: I fell out of my chair laughing my ass off—this idea that Donald Trump has suffered some kind of emotional distress because of the editing from 60 Minutes, which wasn’t even deceptive. We know you live in a state of emotional torture, Donald Trump—because: you’re the taco toddler.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. econofact.org/steel-tariff...
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
How much coal would the French have to find under the Louvre to destroy it? How much gas would the UK need to find under Stonehenge to knock it down? Australia must be the richest country in the world willing to destroy its ancient heritage for one more gas project #climate
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care. They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
"Let me just deal with this 'credentials' game I know John & his friend Douglas Murray love to play these days... let's not play this credentials game because John will lose, just like Douglas did on the Rogan show." Me versus Netanyahu ally John Spencer. Full debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjT...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What do you call it? My @smh @theage cartoon.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/05/2025
Trump and Musk are begging the Supreme Court to block access to DOGE's records. What are they hiding?! Katie Phang breaks it down.
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Trump BEGS SCOTUS to COVER UP DOGE DOCS
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The brutal truth behind the destruction of not just ancient Indigenous rock art, but the world’s oldest art gallery containing the worlds oldest image of a human face is that for many in the fossil fuel industry destroying indigenous heritage isn’t a cost, its a bonus benefit.
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