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Apatheist

@apatheist.bsky.social
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Traveller, linguaphile, pseudo-intellectual. I care about grammar, social justice, foreign cinema, the Euro and the Tour de France. Je parle français, hablo un poco español. Live on Ngunnawal Land. That's me on the left. No DMs.

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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is the best summary of what Nolan's Odyssey is really about I have seen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow
The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Well if course he would. He's afraid he'll lose. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system
US president using office and intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in elections before midterms
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
With deepest sympathy on your 250th birthday.
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This will be very interesting to watch. And with the heat wave in Europe right now, there can be something similar there. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Trapped by floods and fearing death in the heat: the Australians taking legal action over the climate crisis
Ten people affected in different ways by extreme weather are taking a case against the federal government to the UN
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The @nytimes.com headline writer continues to airbrush the abject failures of this wretched President. FFS.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Status Coup reporters JT Cestkowski and Jon Farina are LIVE outside Delaney Hall ICE prison as the detention center continues its violence and retaliation both in the prison and on ICE protesters outside. We'll cover anything the police and ICE do, talk to protesters, and more tonight. This is now..
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🚨BREAKING: ICE ATTACKS Protesters at Delaney Hall ICE Prison
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
One Nation "policy development officer" defended Hitler Youth. per The Guardian: t.co/p0aayY5LlK If The L-NP ever has to join with PHON to form government, James Patterson won't have too many qualms ... 👇 #auspol
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We Need To "Claw" Back All Of Our Money, From Fraud Felonious !
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Miz Anthrope @mizanthrope01.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
And that's the good news. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
abc.net.au
'We'll never do this again': Why the UFC won't return to the White House
Despite touting the massive success of the White House event, UFC boss Dana White says the company will never stage another event like it.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... And that's the good news.
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Workers begin to remove Trump’s name from Kennedy Center after court rulings
In the dead of night, behind a screen, the president’s name started to be purged from the facade of the Washington building
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
A clear demonstration of Trump's reverse Midas touch - now everything he touches turns to sh*t. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
'Cancel it', Trump says after artists drop out of US Freedom 250 festival
Trump suggests holding a "Make America Great Again" rally instead after most headliners drop out of White-House-linked event.
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Some good news. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
washingtonpost.com
Judge orders Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name from building
Judge Christopher Cooper also ordered Kennedy Center officials to halt plans to close for two years starting in July.
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Nice to see the system returning to how it worked under the CES. Outsourcing and 'mutual obligations' have been a nightmare for job seekers, but also potential employers, who have to deal with applications from unqualified people trying to meet 'obligations'. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Employment services overhaul aims to make system fairer after litany of complaints
The system has faced complaints welfare payments are being cancelled unfairly, and that it punishes people with complex needs.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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South Carolina Blue @wtkrad.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Too stupid to leave well enough alone. Too stupid to admit it wasn't broken and didn't need to be fixed. Too stupid to know all the people that came before you must realize something you can't. Just a whole bunch of stupid.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 17/04/2026
Because Australia gives so much of our gas away for free, Japan gets it so cheap that it makes a profit selling it on to other countries! Add your name to the call to impose royalties on all gas exported from Australia ✍️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collec…
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
We're laughing at you even more, now, Trump. Except when we're crying.
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🇺🇸Dougdrink🍸🇺🇸 @thenewyorkdemocrat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We never had a need for ICE or Border Gestapo. Never. Immigration was used as a maga rallying cry. One big disgusting lie. Open borders? Lie. Never. The Agents are committing crimes. NOT Immigrants. Human rights and Miranda rights? Deportation of U.S. citizens. Murder of U.S citizens. NAZI Rep. scum
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Is the world really going to have to suffer WW3 because the USA can’t impeach a president?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
When a prosecutor finds that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute one of Trump’s enemies after a thorough assessment of the facts and law, he just fires the prosecutor and gets a new one to hack it up. Authoritarianism 101 from Trump’s Gangster Lawless DOJ.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.
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Aunt Patty @auntpatty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Will voters EVER understand the big lie about "scary democratic (small D) socialist policies?!" Bernie has told us for decades, and Mamdani is showing us now. We can instantly fund a WAR but have TO DEBATE for decades about healthcare for all - GEEZUS! They've LIED TO US FOR PROFIT for decades.
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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#TrumpTrainWreck
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Ononebete @ononebete.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!
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Nate @nateduty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
They didn't RAKE in the money. THEY ARE "RAKING IN THE MONEY, RIGHT NOW." PURE GREED AND SCREW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The gas and oil industry could help the people and economy right now and still make insane profits, but they chose their personal greed over compassion, humanity over the economy.
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JudgeYouHarshlyAMV64 @tampapro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
#Hogsbreath is too stupid to be the Secretary of Defense!
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Canadian Hammer 🇨🇦 🔨 @canadianhammer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If you weren't thinking this all along, I question your judgement.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/04/2026
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A convicted felon as President of the United States talking about removing criminals is the very definition of hypocrisy.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 17/04/2026
Dear Media: Blindly quoting the President without fact-checking or context is just misinformation with a press pass. We don’t need stenographers; we need journalists. Do your job.
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Iran's viral Lego videos against Trump. aje.news/1ldx0q
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‘Vengeance for all’: How Iran’s Lego videos won narrative war against Trump
The viral videos by Iranian creators, say analysts, are high-quality though cheap, and hit fissures in US politics.
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Sadly the 25th Amendment isn't going to save us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Can the 25th amendment save us all from global disaster? | First Dog on the Moon
We all know Trump has been doing loads of terrible things but apparently threatening to destroy Iranian civilisation is finally a bridge too far
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Jonjust @jonjust.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Fellow humans, we are way past climate change, the satellite watching nerds snapped this yesterday and the consensus is. Holy shit lookout. The entire Earth is heating up faster than thought, and past any human intervention.
The earth is heating far faster than was known and is beyond any type of intervention. Good luck
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Fourteen people have died in ICE custody so far this year. By mid-February, the agency was detaining more than 68,000 immigrants one of the highest totals on record, according to federal data.
nbcnews.com
14 ICE detainees have died so far in 2026
As of mid-February, there were more than 68,000 immigrants in federal custody, according to ICE data. A Mexican national died in a facility outside Los Angeles last week.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
People thought it would be cool and against the grain to vote for Trump. They are getting what they voted for.
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Desertphile @desertphile.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Some clowns cannot, literally, remember what happened three days ago.
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Chris Persky @thegreatpersky.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Other presidents have been partisan; other presidents have exhibited vile behavior. But Trump alone has publicly exulted in the death of an American." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
Donald Trump Is Nothing Like Robert Mueller
The absurdity of a man who avoided Vietnam due to “bone spurs” dancing on the grave of a decorated combat veteran
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton. His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs. They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.
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Sheryl with an S @beachblond52.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks Greed and gluttony are hallmarks of evil.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Let's focus on something we ALL agree on: #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The sad thing is plenty of people saw how deluded and dangerous Trump was during the presidential campaigns of 2016 and 2024 - just not enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall
War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it
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Apatheist @apatheist.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I just signed the petition to scrap the CGT discount. Join me. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/scrap_cgt_di...
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
Can you chip in $10 to make Australia's tax system fairer?
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Larissa Waters asks Penny Wong if Australia is “at war” Wong “we are engaged in collective self defence…” Waters “Point of order on relevance, are we at war?” Wong “I responded by being clear that we are engaged in collective self defence…” Is that a yes? 🤔 #auspol
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🥴 ... oopsy, what say ye now, Albo?
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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#AusVotes2028
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