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Auspol tragic, dog lover and panic merchant for the next generation.

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Robyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
3M knew for more than 50 years that its products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents #Environment 🤬🤬
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3M knew for more than 50 years that its products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents
Exclusive: federal government court filings claim internal company documents included warnings about products being toxic
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
👇A US self-assessment of its shipbuilding industrial base👇! So exactly what due diligence did our Defence Department do prior to recommending we tie our national security to this industrial base? #AUKUS #reckless #auspol
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@THE-Russell - You don't like opinions? Here's mine! @the-russell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
None. #AUKUS was always driven from the top down and Labor finds itself at the pointy end of a nuclear loaded wedge, skillfully applied by Johnston to his hapless patsy Morrison. All sides of politics know it's the worst 'deal' ever and that it puts our sovereignty at risk. But, what to do? #auspol
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-…
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
He tore down a wing of the White House and got stopped by a preservation society. Not the Army. Not Congress. A preservation society. Awesome. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Blow after blow to the gambling industry’s already tattered social licence at this week’s Senate inquiry has not moved @albomp.bsky.social. He’s totally captured by this misery sector of the economy. #FailedLeadership #auspol www.afr.com/companies/ga...
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‘Policy capture’: The week that exposed Labor’s gambling ties
An explosive week of public hearings exposed the harms of the gambling industry. So why isn’t the government following its own advice on advertising bans?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Mega corporations like Anthropic are "buying physical books, slicing off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages, then pulping the remains". There are so many things that should be a stark warning about how #AI threatens humanity. "Destructive scanning" is the latest.
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We mustn’t gift public money to a new refinery. If it needs a ‘resilience’ leg-up, it should be done by equity stake - with a senior official on the board to guard against price gouging, tax evasion and to ensure national interest is ever present. #auspol
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Australia's oil refinery plan presents perils to public purse - Michael West
Government explores feasibility of new Australian fuel refinery in league with Indian oil company Perdman. What is the risk to taxpayers?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The two ex-PMs who have made ill-advised comments supporting alleged war criminal BRS are the same two who gave George Pell character references: Howard and Abbott.
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cheuph.bsky.social @cheuph.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The truest thing I’ve read today….🤣
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/04/2026
Demand growth from electrification -> we pay for a cleaner, safer grid Demand growth from data centres -> we pay for a dirtier, more harmful grid so that every single digital service and interaction becomes 5,000x worse immediately So incredibly lazy to pretend like these two are the same
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Decarbonization was always going to require an unprecedented explosion in electricity infrastructure. I'm not thrilled that capitalists choose only data centers to invest in, but in a clean tech reindustrializing dream scenario we'd see the same supply-side problems.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/04/2026
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Tonight's #abc730 featured this story on "a modern and broken kingdom where poverty is rife and rising further." One in 5 Britons are living in #poverty. Before feeling too smug, note that in Australia it's 1 in 7 households [1 in 6 children]. #RaiseTheRate #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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The first world country in the grip of a poverty crisis
London. It's the epicentre of Britain but without it the UK's GDP is equivalent to the poorest state in the US. And one fifth of the total population is living in poverty.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/03/2026
Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini
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Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini
I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East, says Unrwa commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini
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Beck is Difficult @beckjoinyourunion.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Yeah it’s frustrating. Between media bias and astroturfing ON is riding high. The Greens aren’t so unscrupulous and don’t get the media boosts. They will need to consider their tactics but a lot of it’s not their fault.
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Dib71 @dibs71.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Boycott their products
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"When so much of politics today is devoid of courage, compassion, and principle, Abughazaleh's campaign came to symbolize all three."
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Ben Davison @bendavison.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There is no “rise of One Nation” there is just a “Splintering of the Menzies Liberals” A party that remains unlikely to win ANY seats in a 47 seat parliament is not a political force, no matter how hard billionaires & media chicken littles might be trying to convince us otherwise Our system works
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Steve Moskal @samoskal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This is automation of disability support decisions that’s making wrong cruel stupid decisions with human involvement in the process cut out. Its a gross misuse of automation just like in #robodebt. @albomp.bsky.social why is Govt accepting such cruel inefficient govt business process advice? #auspol
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She helped design Australia’s aged care assessment tool – but now Lynda Henderson is too scared to use it
Exclusive: Member of working group behind questionnaire had no idea it would eventually be underpinned by ‘ridiculously simplistic’ algorithm
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 17/03/2026
Australians deserve open scrutiny of the AUKUS agreement and its implications for sovereignty, security, jobs and nuclear waste. A new public inquiry aims to examine questions the government and parliament have avoided, Doug Cameron writes. #auspol #AUKUS #Defence
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AUKUS: So many questions, so few answers
The Australian public deserve to understand the implications of the Morrison/Albanese secretive, AUKUS agreement.
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
ICYMI… theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...
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Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal-funded disinformation network “Advance” is now attacking one of the nation’s best and most respected journalists, over doing his job and pointing out the bleeding obvious regarding Israel and the US. This is where we are, Australia’s MAGA.
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
🛑😟Jewish National Fund Australia (JNF Australia) has remitted more than $125.4m to Israel since 2009, according to financial records, while receiving $213m in tax-deductible donations since 2013. wtf? michaelwest.com.au/millions-in-...
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Millions in tax-deductible donations to IDF, illegal settlements - Michael West
JNF an Australian charity with $200 million in donations is ignoring international law, siphoning money to the IDF and illegal settlements
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
1/2 In the 1920s and 1930s Britain tried to control opposition to its mandated rule in the Middle East and NW India through air power. The RAF justified its role after WWI by exaggerating the effectiveness of imperial ‘aerial policing’. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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The escalation trap: how the Iran war could become more costly and complex
Iran’s is trying to create wedges between Gulf states and the US, but Trump is very comfortable on the ‘escalatory ladder’
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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"This is Colossus: a data center that Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, xAI, is using as a training ground for Grok... if run at full strength for a year, Colossus would use as much electricity as 200,000 American homes" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/03/2026
It's a simple way of putting it, but I hope the fact that one group of data centres powering one shitty, evil chatbot for one crappy little social media site undoing most or all of Tesla's entire global climate benefits puts in perspective how WILDLY bloated genAI is as software
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Musk’s fossil data centres are undoing Tesla’s climate benefit
I know you already know the data centres built to power the generative AI software running on X are intensely harmful and wildly polluting, often in breach of rules and regulations. You may not kno…
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Rep Jason Crow (D-CO): “I went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurism”
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Albanese’s backing of Israeli and US attacks on Iran shows that we are completely devoid of acting independently from Trump and Netanyahu. There was a time when Labor pursued peace not war. That time is long gone. Leadership needed not sycophantic capitulation to militarism.
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shaneb25.bsky.social @shaneb25.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Well, Israel's good at bombing schools and hospitals. They've had plenty of practice in Palestine. Any comments @albomp.bsky.social, @senatorwong.bsky.social ? A concerned frown, perhaps?
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Nobody on earth wants to be “liberated” by the US right now, especially by this administration which will happily build resorts on the graves of the liberated and mine their bones for oil and minerals. We leave everything worse off than we found it. 1/2
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Geriatric Petunia @klodovik.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
From Jerusalem Post: "world leaders appeared to remain silent, with the only exception thus far being Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. " How stupid can he be?
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 28/02/2026
➡️ stand.earth/resources/ai...
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The AI Climate Hoax: Behind the Curtain of How Big Tech Greenwashes Impacts - Stand.earth
The expansion of data centres – which is driven in large part by AI growth – is creating a shocking new demand for fossil fuels. The tech companies driving AI expansion try to downplay AI’s proven cli...
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
@getup.org.au
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The President for Peace
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Sue Barrett - Onward We Press @suebarrett.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Six articles. Six letters. Ten days. One question. Is Tim Wilson a protected species at Nine Media? The media response? Silence. Sympathy. Another platform. This is what that costs democracy. Full story here👇 #auspol #TimWilson open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...
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The Playbook, The Platform, and The Press: Ten Days in the Life of Australia's Shadow Treasurer
Six articles in ten days. One politician running a misinformation playbook. And a mainstream media that keeps amplifying it instead of scrutinising it. This is what uncritical access journalism costs
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My favorite part about Trump’s Super Bowl halftime rant is that it means even he didn’t watch the Kid Rock debacle
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 09/02/2026
Polluting companies use advertising and sponsorships to buff their brands, and make themselves more acceptable – often even pretending to hold the solutions to the problems they caused Like the tobacco industry, big polluters denied the problem, then denied their responsibility, and now turn to PR
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The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public
Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad. Goddamn I will miss him
Photo of the windows next to my desk of the a framed Kudelka rusted on bingo tea towel and print of his Tassie devil.
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Vale, Jon Kudelka. And as always, Fuck Cancer.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
can’t see federal Labor politicians dressed in the colours of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to express their solidarity and collective outrage at this terrifying attack at a First Nations event. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police
A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
www.ecoticias.com/en/australia... Leave it where it is!
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Australia has just confirmed the existence of a “monster” beneath Pilbara: 55 billion tons of high-quality iron... valued at over $6.52 trillion
Deep under the red rock of Western Australia, scientists have confirmed that the Hamersley Province holds what appears to be the largest known iron ore
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
"America is an oil company with an army." —George Carlin
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
Screenshot of a post by Acyn on X summarizing comments by Representative Dan Goldman. The post states that Goldman criticized the justification for pursuing Nicolás Maduro on drug trafficking charges, calling it bogus and noting that the Honduran president was recently pardoned for similar offenses. Below the text is a television news still from MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki. Dan Goldman appears on screen in a studio or remote setup, wearing a dark jacket and light shirt, speaking directly to the camera. A nighttime city skyline with illuminated buildings is visible behind him. On-screen graphics include a red “Breaking News” banner reading “Maduro arrives in NY to face drugs and weapons charges,” along with Goldman’s name, title, and MSNBC branding.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen: “I would therefore strongly urge the United States to stop the threats against a historically close ally & against another country & another people who have very clearly said that they are not for sale" Denmark handles foreign policy for Greenland
Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen speaking to reporters
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files. #ImpeachAndConvict47NOW
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
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