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Cayteya

@cayteya.bsky.social
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Research analyst. Dog lover. Tennis fan... Some of my interests include integrity, anti-corruption, IHL, & accountability matters, and geopolitics.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Before midnight, DOJ told Judge Kelly the press ban of CNN, MSNow, Politico is based on their National Security reporting. But examples are core First Amendment protected reporting. First howler: WH says it is b/c POLITICO reported GOP Convention was a political disaster.
"In September 2026, Politico Playbook relied on unnamed sources to paint the Republican midterm convention in Dallas as a disaster."
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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Read this thread by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social on the Special Rapporteur's conclusion: "reasonable grounds to believe" that the boat strikes "that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder" And then read our collection to understand why & what Congress can do about it 👇:
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Collection: U.S. Lethal Strikes on Suspected Drug Traffickers, Operation Southern Spear, Operation Absolute Resolve
Collection of expert analysis on the legality of the U.S. strike on Venezuelan vessels in the Caribbean, the consequences of the strike, and related issues.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Vale Sam Neill Remembering the quiet genius of Sam Neill by Daryl Sparkes theconversation.com/remembering-...
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Remembering the quiet genius of Sam Neill
Sam Neill has died at 78. He was an actor who chose restraint and reason, embellishing his characters with a feeling of genuine realism.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
“The meeting highlighted not just how other members of NATO have strategically and mentally regrouped since the shock of Trump's bellowing last year, but also what a stunning reorganisation of the geopolitical landscape is under way.” from Laura Tingle ⤵️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Trump wanted NATO to be about him. Instead, it was about everyone else
Trump demanded to be the centre of attention. But the more significant news out of NATO was really about everyone else.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Point of this thread is not to minimize the colonial nature of the arrangement Rubio presides over or terrible consequences for Venezuela. But those are best analyzed by regional and IPE experts, and those who study colonialism. On top of all that, there are consequences for USFP and the world.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
▪️New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Australian Jonathan Swan on abc730 talking about their new book on the U.S president, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. youtu.be/2tqpOJMozKU?...
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Inside the second term of Donald Trump's presidency | 7.30
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Watergate pales in comparison to what we’re doing” is quite the thing to imply
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True North Eager Beaver Media (he/him/Hey, Mr. Beaver, eh?) @trueeager.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
That is incentive to vote Democrat. Just saying. Accountability is not persecution, Speaker Johnson
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".
A painting which depicts Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Alreem Kamal, an international lawyer who works on corporate accountability in the Middle East, said: “The documented use of similar equipment in contexts such as Gaza means that companies cannot plausibly claim that they were unaware of the risks.” 👇🏽
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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I don't know if any sitting president has ever said such a ghoulish thing about being responsible for a strike that killed over 100 kids.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 12/06/2026
An investigation by Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged bulk carrier, exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Libya. This adds Libya to the list of countries willing to accept what the Ukrainian government describes as “stolen” grain. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...
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Heading Off: New Technique Helps Track Grain Smuggling Expansion to Libya - bellingcat
Heading data contained in AIS information helped confirm the presence of ship in the Occupied Ukrainian Port of Feodosia before it travelled to Benghazi.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📚 The US-Iran 14 point MOU New York Times reporters annotated the agreement, which a senior official disclosed on Wednesday. #IranWar www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...
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A Look at the Text of the Agreement Between the United States and Iran
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Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This Socceroo would not be possible under Hanson. Because she’d defund the SBS who inspired him, stop immigration from countries they don’t consider compatible where he fled, end multiculturalism and instead force a monoculture which doesn’t include him. We must expose her White Nationalism.
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I love this multicultural country.  Pauline Hanson wants us angry, divided and scared of our neighbours. It’s an ugly, and racist, distraction.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This #NPC event was as much a test of our mainstream political journalists as of Pauline Hanson. With a couple of honourable exceptions, they’ve failed miserably. #auspol
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Hanson says we can't have social cohesion if people speak another language. Millions of Australians are proudly bilingual, raising kids knowing many languages while contributing to the country. Speaking Mandarin or Arabic at the dinner table never hurt anyone. Her speech did.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If Pauline Hanson wants a 'monocultural' society she's come to the wrong place. This land has held the world's oldest living cultures for 65,000 years. We've built one of the most successful multicultural nations on earth. Her "one cultural umbrella" is division, not unity.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Posted at 1:56pm, got an email at 3:03pm from Jane Norman cancelling my membership of the press gallery
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The problem for Pauline Hanson is not being interrupted by a descending banner, it’s that the message on the banner is factually correct. #auspol #npc
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
i guess we now know that a rigorous interrogation by the fourth estate is probably not going to save us.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This should a tractor lot of attention *boom tish*
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📚 #NPC #auspol Hanson’s appearance today summary from Royce Kurmelovs ⤵️
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Will be interested to see the tenor of the Op-Eds tomorrow. Whether they treat her as a serious alternative prime minister, a "good retail politician" or whether they actually quietly call her on some of her bullshit.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
▪️“The sweeping new regulations proposed by OMB would subject every federal research funding decision to political review. Peer review has never been formally binding, but this proposal would dramatically expand the power of political appointees to override expert assessments of scientific merit.” ⤵️
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi: “This memorandum of understanding does not mean trusting the enemy. It has been drafted despite a lack of trust. “We will monitor the United States' implementation of its commitments.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Iran has rejected Trump's offer of financial incentives not to respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Channel 12 reports. Trump can’t understand that there are people who don’t do anything for money.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Israeli strikes in Beirut are jeopardising the emerging deal with Iran, a diplomat told Fox. They said the attacks were "a clear attempt" to undermine Trump's efforts Israel said the strikes were a response to “several days of Hezbollah attacks on Israeli civilians”.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
📚🎁 “Such a country is dangerous. Most of the world still embraces it, or unfortunately allows it to do what no other country is allowed to: occupation, war crimes, genocide, apartheid and, according to foreign publications, even developing nuclear weapons.” From Gideon Levy 1/3
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Another way to look at it: If you gave someone $1 million every day since the birth of JC, they’d have about $741 billion, not including any interest. Elon Musk is much wealthier than that. (Sen. Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, recently used this stat to complain about the national debt.)” 👇🏽
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"The Zionist lobby and other voices who defend Israel could be taken more seriously if they would themselves critique the abuses of the Israeli government from the perspective of what politicians here rather loosely describe as 'Australian values'." #auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/06...
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Israel’s defenders should confront what is being done to Palestinians
Australia’s sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers have drawn accusations of antisemitism, but criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians must not be confused with hatred of Jewish people.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
📚“That is what it looks like when a democracy spends years refusing to name what is happening to it. The infiltration. A foreigner of unimaginable wealth inciting against the danger of… foreigners.” - Alex Fein ⤵️
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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Is Donald Trump the most corrupt president in history? This week, Rory and Alastair discuss how Trump is "looting" the government, and why nobody seems to be stopping it. + A&R talk to Vicky Spratt about how mainstream politics can win back the Gen Z vote. Link in the replies 👇
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“The first official election campaign video from Netanyahu's Likud party treads familiar territory: incitement and division.” From Haaretz - Esther Solomon 1/2
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📚 “The acts displayed by Minister Ben Gvir towards flotilla participants are utterly unacceptable and inconsistent with democratic norms and fundamental values of human dignity.” Haaretz reports 🎁 1/3
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...
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Trump’s $10 Billion Shakedown of IRS Takes Unnervingly Corrupt Turn
The president’s “settlement” with the IRS appears set to give him a slush fund of $1.7 billion to dole out to allies. How unconstitutional is it? Jamie Raskin counts the ways.
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CNA - Channel News Asia (Unofficial) @cna-poster.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Decoding what was said and achieved - or not - over key issues at Trump-Xi summit - www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/c…
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Decoding what was said and achieved - or not - over key issues at Trump-Xi summit
Choreographed diplomacy, cordial optics and symbolic gestures defined the high-stakes Sino-US summit in Beijing, but whether these translate to concrete and lasting outcomes remains uncertain, say analysts.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🎧 well worth a listen to #DemocracySausage podcast #auspol This week’s Episode: By-election tea leaves Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you get your podcasts. ⤵️ ausi.anu.edu.au/news/democra...
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Democracy Sausage Episode: By-election tea leaves | Australian Studies Institute
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Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) @glanlaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🚨Two years after they disappeared - where are Huda and Aisha Al Aqqad? A new investigation by GLAN+ @skynewsrss.bsky.social has revealed that Palestinian mother & daughter, Aisha Bakr Ahmed Al-Aqqad and Huda Mohammed Assouli Al-Aqqad were abducted by Israeli soldiers from Khan Younis in late 2023 🧵
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
An issue I've wondering about for a while is the extent to which the Trump administration is trying to restrict access to commercial satellite imagery in order to obscure such damage from the US public as opposed to restricting access to Iran (which is reportedly receiving imagery from Russia).
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Interesting read. “How the [royal] commission balances calls for tougher safeguards with concerns about democratic freedoms and political expression will be a defining test of its approach to both antisemitism and social cohesion.” From Talia Slonim www.haaretz.com/haaretz-expl...
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Why Australia's national inquiry into antisemitism should get global attention
Australia's Royal Commission – the First National Inquiry in the Diaspora Addressing Rising Antisemitism Following October 7 – Is Scheduled to Deliver Its Interim Findings on April 30. Haaretz Explain...
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
📚 “As with the U.S. Constitution, the UN Charter sharply limits recourse to force for very good reasons. We are currently witnessing the consequences of the failure of the President’s advisors and senior most lawyers to adequately convey these rationales ” ⤵️
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Orwell, Politics and the English Language: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This administration is just hell-bent against generating knowledge about the world. www.notus.org/health-scien...
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USDA Moves to Shutter Maryland Research Facility
Rep. Glenn Ivey, who represents the area, said decommissioning the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center could “dramatically” disrupt scientific research.
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Cayteya @cayteya.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
“It had become clear to Mr. Phelan that the Navy & the U.S. shipbuilding industry did not have the ability to deliver on Mr. Trump’s vision. Mr. Phelan recently suggested to Mr.Trump that the Navy might have to rely on European shipyards to deliver the battleships on the ambitious timeline” #AUKUS ?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Have her introduce Trump Saturday night. www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
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The Pentagon is trying to silence me
Outgoing Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith has spent months speaking about her growing concern over attempted control of the newspaper.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/04/2026
Steve Witkoff's son Zach is the CEO of World Liberty Financial. World Liberty Financial has a business partnership with the Pakistani government. \_(ツ)_/¯ www.radio.gov.pk/14-01-2026/p...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23/04/2026
Great to have @karlbode.com back on the show to dig into the recent Sam Altman story and the problem with how media too often reports on tech CEOs. They lie, then those lies get laundered through trusted sources. That needs to stop!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Published this piece on Wednesday about Trump's media attacks leading up to the WHCD but had to update after a) NY Times reported that the FBI had investigated its reporter over her coverage of Kash Patel and b) Stars and Stripes' ombuds said she was being fired as part of Pete Hegseth's DOD reign.
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