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Doing my best to escape the bird place. Also trying to think of something devastatingly witty to add to my profile. This could take a while.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
Tina Davis, who modeled for Ford in the mid-1990s, said in an interview that her Ford booker instructed her to get dressed up and attend a Mar-a-Lago party in late 1994. Just 14 and new to Miami, she was told to “dress sexy,” according to her mother, Sandra Coleman, who had accompanied her to Florida. Eight or nine other models came along on the bus. “All the girls were really young,” Ms. Coleman recalled in an interview. “Some of them could have been in training bras.”

When they arrived at Mar-a-Lago, Ms. Coleman said, her daughter was promptly handed a glass of champagne. She took it away, but waiters kept offering more. Each time one of the middle-aged men at the party approached her daughter, Ms. Coleman would walk over and introduce herself as Ms. Davis’s mother.

During a trip to the bathroom, they ran into Mr. Trump’s new wife, whom they had met earlier. Ms. Maples clasped her hands, Ms. Coleman recalled, and looked her in the eye. “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men, and especially my husband,” she told Ms. Coleman. “Protect her.”
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
BOYCOTT ALERT! Disney/ABC just caved & pulled Jimmy Kimmel for political reasons. Nexstar — which owns The CW + 200+ local ABC, NBC, CBS & FOX stations — is part of the same machine. 💥 Boycott Disney. Boycott Nexstar. Boycott their advertisers. Hit them where it hurts: the $$$.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2025
Together with Jimmy Kimmel, it looks like America has scrapped the First Amendment to preserve the Second. Expect all the rest to go in due course, especially the 17th (Women’s Right to Vote). Repealing the 3rd may be especially useful when taking over opponent cities (look it up).
NEWS
 DOJ Deletes
 Study Showing
 Domestic
 Terrorists Are
 Most Often
 Right Wing
 EMANUEL MAIBERG •
 SEP 16, 2025 AT 12:25 PM
 Following Charlie Kirk's assassination
 and the Trump administration's promise
 to go after the "radical left" a study
 showing most domestic terrosim is far-
 right was disappeared.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Kimmel getting tanked the same evening as that monstrous state banquet over here, honestly feels like one of those history book moments students in 30+ years will look at and go "grandma why didn't anyone do anything"
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I have cancelled my Disney+ subscription. I will also be boycotting all ABC shows and refusing to pay for movies from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars until Jimmy Kimmel is put back on the air. If you side with fascists, then you aren't getting my money.
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bookjewel.bsky.social @bookjewel.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Rethinking the Monday Mindset: The Spark Effect
Gentle Wisdom, Delivered with Spark. 💎 ✨ 🦋
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bookjewel.bsky.social @bookjewel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Monday Sparks: The Power of Curiosity open.substack.com/pub/sparksch...
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Monday Sparks: The Power of Curiosity
Gentle Wisdom, Delivered with Spark. 💎 ✨ 🦋
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bookjewel.bsky.social @bookjewel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Thursday Sparks: New Light, New Energy
Gentle Wisdom, Delivered with Spark. 💎✨🦋
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bookjewel.bsky.social @bookjewel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The Spark Effect sparkschange.substack.com?utm_campaign...
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The Spark Effect | Substack
Simple, life-tested and science-backed shifts to create meaningful change and enhance your life—one small spark at a time. Click to read The Spark Effect, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Question: What kind of media hysteria would we see right now if Moody’s downgraded America’s credit rating on Biden or Obama’s watch. We can’t have nice things because our media is owned by the right.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"Rethinking AUKUS is progressive patriotism. Taxing foreign-owned fossil fuel companies is progressive patriotism. Having a govt which puts Australians first with their health care, education, and welfare is progressive patriotism." @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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The PM's 'progressive patriotism' is a worthy ideal, if he backs it up
Albanese considers himself a reformist not a revolutionary, but it is not revolutionary to actually start standing for Australian values.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 16/05/2025
🧵1 Louisiana Republicans—with the Trump admin—are trying to erase the last federal school desegregation orders, calling them “relics.” What they really want is to resegregate our schools, silence the truth about systemic racism, & roll back decades of civil rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
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Some Republicans Push to Put School Desegregation Officially in the Past
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
WTAF? What is going on in the UK?
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Andrew Leigh & I had a long but very civil argument about public funding of private schools many years ago. He didn’t get it then. I hope he does now, because nothing cements generational inequality like unfair education. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Andrew Leigh says Australia one generation from ‘US-style inequality’ as Productivity Commission targets corporate tax
Of all Andrew Leigh’s many portfolios, he considers productivity the most important. But can the government’s reforms bear fruit by the next election?
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This kid is so wise and kind. Congratulations to her, her parents and her teachers.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 16/05/2025
Listen to Bernie—he’s right. Trump’s relentless attacks on the media—calling journalists “enemies of the people,” pushing legal threats, & stoking public distrust—have dangerously eroded press freedom. His tactics intimidate reporters, spread lies, & set a chilling, authoritarian precedent.
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“The Coalition has culture-warred itself into electoral irrelevancy …At least this election showed that Andrew Bolt, Peta Credlin and their Sky News After Dark whacko-chamber are as impotent as their views are rancid.” My column www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8962365/
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Why Dutton's 'one tune' division and animosity didn't work for Australians
The only thing stopping Labor now ... is Labor.
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Hassaan Ahmed حسان احمد @ancienthydra.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When the dust settles on this catastrophe and journalists who didn't have the moral fiber to write in the face of overwhelming power and censorship pretend they were always against it, I will print out a giant cardboard cut-out of David to whack them with (see, because he's a giant among his "peers)
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I'm taking a few weeks away. Might be a bit more offline. Ngl, covering this for a prolonged period takes a toll on the soul and I need to recover. I'm gonna go watch some loud bands in Europe and try not to think too deeply. Thank you for supporting this work, it's so very much appreciated. 🙏🤘❤️
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erinmargrethe @erinmargrethe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Met my first Australian today who got yoinked by US immigration for no good reason. Chucked in a plexiglass cell for the crime of transiting via LAX from Canada. No reason given and allowed to carry on back to Melbourne. She said “never again”, rightly so.
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Peters J Vecrumba @petersjvecrumba.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
SAFE will be next, erasing women's votes.
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Briar @briar.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I have family who teach in public schools in Vic. I am trained to teach in Vic. I live in NSW where it’s not a whole lot better, especially in the regions. We are not valuing our children enough. It’s criminal.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Those who oppose abortion have every right never to access abortions for themselves. They have precisely no right to tell other women what they may or may not do with their own bodies. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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‘Brazen bullying’: Speakman stands up to anti-abortion campaigner
The NSW Liberal leader has warned against the “Americanisation of NSW politics”.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Bernie Sanders: "Saving money by dismantling the Department of Education, which, by the way, is illegal and unconstitutional, so that the billionaire class can receive huge tax breaks, is terrible public policy and morally reprehensible." #DontDefundPublicSchools
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JacFlem @jacflem.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I would recommend reading this book. Amongst many tragic stories are the poor women whose lives were lost due to botched abortions. It made me feel sad and angry to think that it would be over a 100 years later before women can access them safely. Also makes you realise how important coroners are.
Book Murder misadventure and Miserable Ends
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Hayden Black @haydenb.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
All hail the Boss!
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Bruce Springsteen Calls Trump Administration ‘Corrupt, Incompetent, and Treasonous’
Bruce Springsteen sounded off about the Trump Administration Wednesday night, calling it ‘corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous.'
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.” *Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 15/05/2025
After another day of GOP-fueled chaos, cleanse your palate with a laugh. Stephen Colbert just *obliterated* Donny 2 Dolls—and it’s comedy perfection. Because if we don’t laugh at this mess, we might cry (or throw things). 🍿😂 @colbertlateshow.bsky.social
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Esso @essob.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
@atlassian.bsky.social This looks like exactly the type of thing the fantastic folks at Atlassian may be able to help with. 🤞
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Exactly.
Religion doesn't teach morals. It teaches obedience.
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AnnieR @anet2111.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Even violent criminals in prisons hate pedos.
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Nickie @nomadityinfuse.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I am constantly revolted by the men and their sexualisation of woman and girls. This is promoting sexual abuse. He is now defending this vitriol suggesting that under age marriage is prochoice. The US is not lands of freedoms but misogynistic oppression. @janecaro.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Trump and Musk want to shut down the Department of Education. That could mean layoffs for teachers, larger class sizes, less support for kids with special needs, and less help paying for college. I’m fighting to save our schools so every child can build a future.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
From the talented mind of the one and only @fionakatauskas.bsky.social #flyawayPeter #ausvotes25
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/05/2025
Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.
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Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says
As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Really fucking disgusting reporting on the Gaza genocide by the ABC this morning. Endless shit about Hamas and hostages. Barely congruent with the reality of this slaughter and the fact Israel was always going to (again, again, again) conquer more territory and ethnically wipe Palestine.
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Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The LNP has ceased to be the party of Menzies. It is the party of Murdoch … And it has been thoroughly rejected by the Australian people. #auspol #BinNight
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy H/T @violadavis.bsky.social
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Josh Dobbin @joshdobbin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is how we get young men falling into the Andrew-Tate/Charlie-Kirk-iverse, in a few years time. It isn't that "woke" drives them into the reactionary right, it is that their DADS SUCK, & they're looking for SOME kind of male validation, even if by proxy, from online assholes.
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decolonise our minds @proudlywoke1000.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Sharri Markson backs Dutton? Andrew Bolt reckons the voters got it wrong? Peta Credlin thinks there should be more, not less, culture war? These are non-stories. The effusions of vanity projects. Let’s not mention them again." The other rejection was that of Olichachy. Gina's vanity project.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is wise and thoughtful from @margaretsimons.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As Australia’s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons
The declining power of the Murdoch press is part of the wider story of the waning influence of mainstream media
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
@margaretsimons.bsky.social looking under the bonnet of a modern truth finally sinking in - the impotence of News Ltd - and beginning the discussion of what might matter & change things elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As Australia’s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons
The declining power of the Murdoch press is part of the wider story of the waning influence of mainstream media
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Margaret Simons @margaretsimons.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Me on this .What will Australian media look like in 2025? Messy and imperfect but with glimmers of hope | Meg Simons
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Wrote this in March last year, but could have written it anytime in the years leading up to it, and indeed, the years coming: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Liberal party does not have a ‘women problem’. Men are the problem | Amy Remeikis
The party’s women continue to wring their hands in their support group chats, apoplectic with rage off the record, while soothing on it
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Cheeto Voodoo @cheetovoodo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Truth.
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