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AusSeaSteph

@ausseasteph.bsky.social
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Same name on the Bird site. Seeking better than that place. Nature and animal lover. Gardener. Political junkie because fascism needs to be held at the outer marker and would like to be able to hand our kids a liveable planet. Australian.

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AusSeaSteph @ausseasteph.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It’s taken a couple of days to absorb it all… but have to say that seeing Duddo get tossed by a disabled woman, who is a former journo (shout out to the ‘hate media’), & who just kept tenaciously going until she got him is probably the sweetest moment of any election, ever. Bravo Dickson! #AusVotes
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AusSeaSteph @ausseasteph.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
My fellow Australians, and in particular my fellow Canberrans, what he said👇. 😁 Vote 1, @davidpocock.bsky.social … the man who actually walks his talk through the house on the hill. #AusVotes
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
They were discussing Mary Poppins on @alltherightmovies.com and they mentioned that ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ was inspired by one of the composer’s sons getting the polio vaccine in a sugar cube. A bright, cheery, classic song that sprang from the eradication of a horrific disease.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 16/02/2025
Superb thread well worth reading ‘US is now a threat to the global economy, to global health and to global stability. The sooner this is acknowledged the better’
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
BREAKING: We are suing Musk & DOGE for violating the constitution They have no right to your personal data & no authority to dismantle entire agencies We’re calling their bluff & taking them to court statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Apparently, spending $400 million on battery operated trash cans was not seen as government waste or fraud. www.yahoo.com/news/musk-sl...
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Musk slammed as State Department reveals plan to buy $400m in ‘armored’ Teslas in biggest contract of 2025
As Musk continues to gut government agencies, his company prepares to rake in big federal bucks
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12/02/2025
Here is a quick guide by our outstanding graphics team. Malika Khurana; Andrew Wilson and Lily Boyce.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12/02/2025
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is securing real beneifits as he helps Trump disrupt the federal government. Just how? The NYT takes a deep look today at these benefits: federal investigations targeting Musk companies that have been disrupted or now may die. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up (Gift Article)
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The fix is in We've known from the start this would be a major party stitch up to lock out new community-backed independents. Giving more taxpayer $$ to pollies with no truth in political advertising protections is particularly shameful👎 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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Labor and Coalition strike electoral reform deal
The major parties have agreed to more than double the donation threshold, ending a months-long stalemate to strike a deal that will infuriate the crossbench.
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AusSeaSteph @ausseasteph.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
What the Actual Truck?!? It’s a zoo over there… 😳🤦‍♀️😳🤦‍♀️😳
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Terese Lindgren @awildirish1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Yes! I did it! Please take couple of seconds to set the record straight 💙🦋
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Apparently Australia is flooding the US with aluminium. FMD this is such a stupid fight
Imports of raw aluminium to the USA in 2022:

Country	Trade Value
Canada	$8,899,011,590
United Arab Emirates	$1,812,002,350
Bahrain	$927,784,567
Russia	$589,021,106
Argentina	$588,997,282
Australia	$541,520,053
India	$428,001,472
Qatar	$394,267,277
South Africa	$259,890,526
Brazil	$114,898,429
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"The Trump tariffs on our aluminium are a major test for the Albanese govt, could determine the election." FMD. Aluminium articles account for a bit over 1% of all our exports and just 13% of that goes to the USA. We really need to stop acting like pleasing Trump is vital to our economy
Charts showing Australia's exports of which aluminium accounts for 1.17% and destinations of those aluminium exports of which 12.7% went to the US, less than Japan and Sth Korea
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Sally McManus @sallymcmanus.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I can assure Peter Dutton that his claims that working families will be concerned if the RBA cuts interest rates next week are entirely wrong.
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#Mump.
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AusSeaSteph @ausseasteph.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Lipstick, pig, etc… Or as a BlueSky wordsmith titled him, the #DickTater wanna be… #AustraliaDontBecomeAmerica
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Nobody voted for Elon Musk
A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
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Wendy&Co @wendy59.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Paul Bongiorno, in The Saturday Paper, sums up game playing #MillionairePeterDutton quite well. 👇 #Auspol
Excerpt from The Saturday Paper article by Paul Bongiorno, a 35 year veteran of the Canberra Press Gallery, which says that Liberal party leader Peter Dutton isn't helping to reduce cost of living pressures or bring social cohesion by his actions.
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Treacy @treacy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Looking forward to this. #auspol
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/02/2025
Holy shit! Democrats, if you’re looking for a fighter, you found one— @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social for DNC Vice Chair.
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/02/2025
Starting today, Donold’s idiotic 25% tariff hike on imports from Canada and Mexico (and 10% on China) is set to make life more expensive for every American. Even his own voters are furious over what they voted for. Let’s break down this economic self-own.
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Morons Who Voted For Tariffs Now Angry About Tariffs
Dear Humans,
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
💥 New Zealand knows what’s up!!
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This is hysterical. The President of Mexico was spotted wearing a “Make America Mexicana Again.” 🤣
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Jana DeGrand @janad.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This 👇👇👇
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
NEW: Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol Yes, thank you!! @mcuban.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/m...
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Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol | TechCrunch
Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on
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Dr. A.R. Siders @sidersadapts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“No, I don’t. I think we’re fucked." - Altadena resident, asked if people might start connecting climate change & disasters. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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‘Half the Country’s Thinking Magically’: California Fire Victims Grapple with the Political Paralysis Over Climate Change
They’re still in shock. But for now, even in a blue city in a blue state, disaster does not bring climate change to residents’ front of mind.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Decide now which side of that line you’re on. And the next time you feel the urge to rant, swallow it. Breathe. There’s no time for noise, only action.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
So the choice is simple: we either hold each other up when the ground splits beneath us, or we rip ourselves apart piece by piece, squabbling over mis & disinfo.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Climate change doesn’t care if you’re a homeowner on the Westside with a Tesla in the driveway or a renter on the Eastside taking the bus to the Westfield for work and just trying to keep the lights on. It’s coming for all of us.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
And if you can’t be useful or a helper in a crisis, at least STFU. Stop taking up space from the helpers, the ones who don’t waste time griping about their taxes & what it should cover. No amount of money, no ledger of who paid what, is going to save us from the climate crisis.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Because if you can’t, you will come undone. The world is unraveling, and this—this is only the beginning. A natural disaster is not the time for you to lose your mind and politicize the thing that shouldn’t be politicized.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
or spinning stories about grounded helicopters and shadowy foreign plots—stop. Just stop. Sit with it for a moment. Understand what a natural disaster is. Understand what happens when even a slight shift in the climate tips a region into a year-long drought.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
So if you’re out there, ranting about fire hydrants running dry or spinning tales of firefighter aid diverted to Ukraine, as though that could have changed the path of this blaze; if you’re blaming the Delta smelt for the fires tearing through Los Angeles
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
And yet, here we are, lost in the haze of distractions our overlords feed us: the culture wars, the misinformation, the endless noise designed to fracture any hope of collective action. If we cannot hold our focus—if we surrender to conspiracy theories and scapegoats—then we have no future.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
What you’re witnessing now is merely the tip of the iceberg, the first tremor of the chaos that climate change will inevitably unleash. We are so far from the full horror of it—far from the water wars, the vast crises, the unraveling of systems we once believed unshakable.
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Azadeh Ghafari @aziwankenobi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Donald Trump Jr.’s visit was ‘staged,’ says Greenland lawmaker. “We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska. Make that great before trying to invade us,” Pipaluk Lynge tells POLITICO. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s visit was ‘staged,’ says Greenland lawmaker
“We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska. Make that great before trying to invade us,” Pipaluk Lynge tells POLITICO.
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AusSeaSteph @ausseasteph.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
This is what’s wrong with the world, right here…
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
RFK, Jr. believes the CIA had a role in assassinating his uncle, President John F. Kennedy. Jack Schlossberg, JFK’s only grandson, reacted on social media to the news by accusing Kennedy of being “a Russian spy.” “RFK, Jr. you are so obviously a Russian spy,” Schlossberg wrote to his followers.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The Danish journalists in this thread understand what is happening in America but apparently American journalists do not. They are not so savvy after all.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Hargraves: Nobody with the last name Trump has ever served in uniform in 150 years. Families like the Trumps don’t sacrifice their own lives or the lives of their children. They convince poor people to sacrifice their lives on their behalf.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New evidence has emerged from The Insider that Russia did indeed offer bounties to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan. A reminder that Trump downplayed and protected Russia in 2020 when the NYT broke the story
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New Evidence Confirms Russia's Bounty on American Troops
The Insider has uncovered new evidence confirming that Russia placed bounties on American troops in Afghanistan.
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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The LA fires are a profound example of what climate scientists have been struggling to prevent for decades. I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January. But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?
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LA's wildfires sparked by rare collision of climate factors
Extremely dry conditions and an hurricane force winds are overlapping unusually late in the year.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America: “We are going to call the United States Mexican America; it sounds nice.”
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
When I was a kid so many Quebecois would come vacation in lake towns in upstate NY and guys they hate us so much.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/01/2025
Why are Trump & Musk so fixated on Greenland? It’s not just about its strategic location—it’s the minerals. As Greenland’s ice melts (climate change) it’s exposing cobalt, lithium & copper (key for EV batteries).Their interest looks less like America first & more like exploiting crisis for profit.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Elon Musk is almost done building a lithium refinery that will need up to 8 million gallons of water per day. And it's twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, which is so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Musk’s Massive Tesla Lithium Plant Hunts for Water in Drought-Hit Texas
A lithium factory in a dry Gulf Coast county epitomizes the EV maker’s build now, ask later ethos.
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