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Candy van Rood

@cvanrood.bsky.social
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Visual artist, astrologer, environmental activist, progressive, left-leaning, grandmother. I want: Social & Environmental Justice and World Peace no dm’s www.candyspender.com.au earthheart.love www.savewesternport.org

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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
from The Borowitz Report newsletter
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/06/2025
Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it. We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS. ✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please donate or/and share, even the smallest amount wholehumancollective.app/a/lll/goyito
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After losing his father, Goyito works through pain to care for his mother
He sells what he can and collects recyclables to help pay for food and his mother’s medicine. An $8,000 fundraiser aims to support their daily needs and help him move more safely.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America’s Parks www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
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How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They really aren’t serious about fixing this problem are they?
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It might strike people as odd that this means in order to achieve “full employment” the Reserve Bank believe more people need to become unemployed. Such is the nature of neoliberal economic thought. Read the full piece by @grogsgamut.bsky.social on The Point: thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Pissed-Off Scientist @rockney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VOTE !!!!!!!
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Urgent: Free the Iranian twin sisters
This could be our last chance to save Taraneh and Romina from death. Sign now.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cartoonist: Daniel Medina
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#ancientrockart #murujuga #woodside #albo #australianfirstnations #indigenousart
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump’s Stock Trading is Endangering Us All. This week’s video. Robert Reich. Sep 17, 2026 substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Trump’s Stock Trading is Endangering Us All
This week’s video
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Gas is not clean or safe – it can harm our health at every stage of its life cycle,” #Auspol
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
UPDATE FROM RAELENE V THE GOVERNMENT: PROTECT ANCIENT ROCK ART BREAKING 6 days until Human Rights Council Meeting please support this by making a donation, the smallest donation is so welcome, or and sharing amongst your family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, chuffed.org/project/jmxb...
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BREAKING 6 days until Human Rights Council Meeting
On the 23rd of September, I have the rare opportunity to address the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. As you know, I have exhausted the avenues available to me in Au...
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Several of One Nation's leaders have expressly said they will ban all abortion for all girls & women, then 'clarified' they meant just the ones they decide should be forced to give birth. Believe them first. Believe them when they're not spinning. A One Nation vote is a vote for forced birth.
One Nation's NSW boofhead leader in orange short and hat caught saying it will wipe out abortion rights for girls & women, then saying whoops I meant just the ones we decide must give birth.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even though I was shocked when I first heard about his this morning, on the news, another part of me wasn't surprised at all 🥺 More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More reasons to hate them
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
secure.avaaz.org/en/campaigns...
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For a Human AI
Tech billionaires are treating us all as guinea pigs in their AI experiment. A global coalition of experts, artists, and workers is fighting back.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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YOU HAD ONE JOB THE GREENS POLITICAL PARTY! Climate change is destroying life and you exist to save it! | First Dog on the Moon
It’s complicated and everyone is having a lot of feelings
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Raelene vs Australian Government - Legal Fund chuffed.org/project/1888...
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Raelene vs Australian Government - Legal Fund
Murujuga is now recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The world has acknowledged what my people have always known: this is one of the most culturally significant places on Earth.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#Painting #TraditionalPainting #FineArt #ClassicArt #Gouache #FigurativePainting #endangeredwildlife #piedoystercatcher #actforwesternport #savewesternport #shorebirds #ramsarwetlands #sacredactivism
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
c.org/hsjDGwSvdT 🙏 please sign this petition now 🙏
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Sign the Petition
Australia MUST End ALL Live Animal Export
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kudos to Carrick Ryan, zip for the warmongers. ~165 little girls + those who ran to their support, dead in Minab - they got 'double tapped' by the US Military, countless Palestinians slaughtered, Pauline Hanson, besties with GH. ON on the 'rise' - supposedly - in Australia. See where we're going?
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punterspolitics.bsky.social @punterspolitics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Credit to @carrick_ryan for following the paper trail on this one. Gina please send all legal letters to Carrick@hotmail. New punters politics ep up right now.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis - The Shot
Australians are walking a tightrope. Imagine a long line of us traversing a chasm. Some of us – not many...
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
act.350.org.au/petitions/co... Please sign
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Demand a National Moratorium on Data Centres
Together we can get a national moratorium on data centres and protect water, energy and communities from big tech billionaires and their greed.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Everyone but Marles and a few fools thinks Marles is doing a good job here
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#sarahwilson #dollyparton #wendellberry #gloriasteinham No other words necessary
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hey @larissawaters.bsky.social @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social @nickmckim.bsky.social we need you more than ever! pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/09...
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The major parties collapsed. Why didn’t the Greens rise?
As Labor and Coalition support has collapsed, the Greens have remained stuck around 12 per cent – constrained by geography, culture and a changing generational base.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why Greens aren't getting voters lost to Labor www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026... I hope @larissawaters.bsky.social has taken this article on board?
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Why the Greens aren't picking up the voters Labor is losing
While One Nation made history in WA, Labor lost nearly half of its voters. Despite the huge swing the Greens primary vote actually also fell.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Who’s really calling the shots in Canberra? Best government ever for planet killing corporations, complicity in genocide, ecocide. #Auspol
Who’s really calling the shots in Canberra?
Illustration by Fiona Katauskas
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it seems @albomp.bsky.social is oblivious to reality and does not seem to connecting the dots www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Australia’s new environmental protection agency approves coal project, angering climate groups
Queensland open-cut Saraji mine will be able to keep digging until 2055 as Anthony Albanese denies tensions with Pacific leaders over fossil fuels
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 03/09/2026
The Australien Government made an ad about carbon offsets and koalas, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🌏🌳🐨 💛 produced by our Patrons 🙏 support us on Patreon: patreon.com/thejuicemedia ☕ buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/thejuicemedia
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LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Aus government lets our top 200 biggest polluters use dodgy offsets to keep polluting, then cook the books and planet to claim they are reducing emisisons. it is BS. #ClimateChrises of NSW and federal Labor party are trying to turn public forests into carbon offsets for big polluters too. #auspol
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Marles puts Australia on frontline of U.S. AI development for China war
Marles’ USA trip is all about making it clear to Australians that we will be on the front line of any future war with China.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey! I just signed a petition calling on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Companies like Shell make billions turning oil and gas into plastic - so they’re trying to sabotage the talks to protect their profits. Let’s stop them! act.gp/3YxOUXa
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Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks
Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning from Lake Ontario. ☀️
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.optimistdaily.com/2026/09/clim...
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Climate attribution science just changed the rules for fossil fuel lawsuits | The Optimist Daily
A new study links individual oil companies to specific extreme weather events, giving climate lawsuits the scientific evidence they've long needed.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hey! I just signed a petition calling on the UN to ban fossil fuel lobbyists from the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Companies like Shell make billions turning oil and gas into plastic - so they’re trying to sabotage the talks to protect their profits. Let’s stop them! act.gp/3YxOUXa
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Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks
Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
From @newyorker.com
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
act.getup.org.au/s/QpJTPcg8
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Meta: Stop paying to poison our democracy
Thank you for adding your name. Meta only moves when the pressure gets loud enough – when the Guardian exposed its payments to Hanson-linked accounts, seven…
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Seems @albomp.bsky.social / @australianlabor.bsky.social party's hatred of the Greens is so visceral, it would rather shift even further right & form a defacto coalition with the LNP than countenance doing any deal with the left. The winner? One Nation. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol
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One Nation is targeting a WA seat in Labor heartland. It could be a defining moment for Australian politics | Narelle Miragliotta for the Conversation
The Secret Harbour byelection has the potential for an electoral upset, given the many characteristics conducive to a One Nation win
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The milestone shows how quickly solar has moved from a small part of the grid to one of Europe’s most important energy sources. A powerful reminder: the future of energy is not far away. It is already rising with the sun.
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
substack.com/@abbasabdulm...
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Abbas Abdulmalik (@abbasabdulmalik)
Professor Jeffrey Sachs says ten US billionaires own the US government, the news media, and social media. They have already destroyed democracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REMEMBER: They all knew.
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Jess Hewitt @jesshewitt.net · 13/06/2026
#AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt
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Candy van Rood @cvanrood.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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All this fuss about melons tells us much about our political discourse. None of it good
This week, with the return of parliament, the debate has largely been drowned out by melons. Two Crown melons, in particular, also known in Japan as the king of fruit and the most perfect rockmelons y...
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