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Mark

@iopollo.bsky.social
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Unashamedly woke. I often wonder these days if we are (or ever were) the good guys. You know, trying to make the world a better place.

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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Howard, Abbott, and Morrison were awful, but we all knew they were before they were elected. Turnbull and Albanese promised vision and delivered politics as usual. The two most disappointing Prime Ministers in my lifetime.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Spineless.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cathy Wilcox’s cartoons often referenced a genocide in the Middle East involving a brutal oppressor. Alarmingly, naming this oppressor may soon invite legal sanctions. It is no surprise it may have ended her career.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh for a day (just one) where this odious woman is not headlined by ALL the mainstream media. And we’re all supposed to marvel at her political acumen when she gets platformed (for free) every single fricken day.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Explain to me why none of what she did was deemed illegal/corrupt. It wasn’t incompetence, it was deliberate and calculated.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
He may be a liar, a hypocrite, weak, craven, and a shameless corporatist, but, at least he’s consistent. 
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“The Liberal Party learn nothing…” is probably the best description of the party’s leadership since midway through Howard’s last term.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Murdoch Press? 2GB?
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And we have now reached Labor’s low water mark. The only reason they are currently in power is because the opposition (ON, Coalition) is even worse. 
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Isn’t this the same organisation that said it was powerless to stop prominent people (or media outlets) from spreading blatant lies during the Voice referendum. If its role is maintaining the integrity of the system yet it can’t stop the undermining of public debate then what is the point of it?
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Twelve! New ones! All of which will be delivered on time and not be dependent on Canada becoming a servile vassal state of Germany.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Damn. No more cowboy hats for me.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sadly, Albanese’s legacy will be a litany of missed opportunities, timidity, supine appeasement of powerful business lobbies, tacit support for Israel’s genocide, and the most craven defence procurement decision in Australian history.
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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The President of the United States is a liar.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Peak Peter Principle.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The far right in Australia is now heavily funded both locally and overseas and Albanese is already compromised by lobby groups. Sadly, this insidious undermining of democracy will go unremarked and unchecked.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Awful woman.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Karl has discovered that racism, bigotry, misogyny, and disinformation are the key features of a successful podcasting career. Sad, but true.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If not stupid, then evil. If not evil, then stupid. If not greedy, probably stupid and evil. And we can’t rule out the possibility that you can be all three at once.
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We need an independent inquiry into foreign interference in Australian politics.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sadly, you can include Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese to that list. So-called left-leaning parties seem to think screwing everyone except influential, well-heeled, white folk is the key to re-election. So wrong headed. The New York mayor is proof.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Upcoming articles in our ABC: - Would Gina grow into the role of Governor General? - How might we humanely house indigenous Australians in special-purpose reservations? - What are the logistical barriers to mass deportations of non-white Australians? - The economics of winding back renewables?
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A craven bunch of weak-kneed sycophants drawing large salaries for shallow, he-said, she-said journalism. Disheartening.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In 2023 Mark Dreyfus was pressured into apologising to a Sky News journalist when he called her inflammatory question absurd. Fast forward to 2026 and a racist senator verbally abuses a journalist (on national TV) and says she can never attend another of her press conferences and…crickets.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
AFP and IDF are ideological soul mates. I’m not optimistic this will be an objective investigation.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
After a peaceful night with no violence at the Bisalloy picket, it looks like Chris Minns and Labor have sent the so-called Public Order squad in. They are violently flinging protestors aside to ram their SUV’s through this morning. The picket holds.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In a welcome break from the relentless reporting of the unstoppable rise of our beloved Pauline comes exciting breaking news of Angus Taylor’s thoughts on world events. If only our ABC had enough journalists to report anything about what the people who actually run the country have to say.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is so on the money. State-owned media is anathema to a democracy. But billionaire-owned, agenda-driven media is apparently a bedrock of democracy. You know, free speech. It must be defined for what it is - the basic infrastructure of a neo-fascist bloodless coup. We’re watching in real time.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hope you’re right.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Sadly, to be guaranteed a future in politics these days, you need to wrap racism, bigotry, and misogyny into a malevolent, constantly aggrieved persona that weaves the word ‘woke’ into every sentence. You’ll get free, saturation coverage in press, radio and TV plus a nightly slot on Sky News.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Whatever makes you think he didn’t do it last time?
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It seems to be a mystery to the MSM why the execrable Hanson and her policy-free party are surging in the polls after platforming her every day! Is it naivety, bias, or is the media so shallow that clicks are now all that matters? Analysis (journalism?) be damned.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Grace Tame is a national treasure. Charlie Pickering…is not.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Seriously, is it the job of our national broadcaster to campaign against tax policies? Analysis yes, but a transparently one sided campaign is not part of their charter. What a hollowed out shell it has become.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Low bar.
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tommyboy0690.bsky.social @tommyboy0690.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
OK forget about what I said yesterday - THIS is the absolute worst picture of Trump ever taken. So for fuck’s sake, out of basic human decency, do not retweet it and accidentally expose more people to it. Fuckface would be devastated.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If I ask someone “what is the phrase I cannot say?” and they respond with “from the river to the sea”, have they broken the law? These ridiculous attacks on what is typically a response to Israel’s brutality will serve only to subvert the meaning of the word antisemitism.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Not sure I understand why a party whose bedrock principal is undisguised racism is suspending people for being racist.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Albo from marketing.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Communist manifesto! Oh dear. That’s a bit embarrassing.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It won’t of course, but Pauline will save them from the impending burden of sharia law.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Highly unlikely they will still be the main opposition party after the next federal election I’m thinking. The media will be wall-to-wall One Nation for the foreseeable future and the Libs will become more and more irrelevant as they get drawn into a racism pissing contest they cannot win.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
So. If the Nazis were the only option, and the sole goal is to put the Liberal party in a position to govern, then we can assume that Tim would be OK with that too. Yes?
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Peta Credlin?
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hanson: “(Voters) realised that we are the last hope of changing things in this country, to get it back to the country that we used to be.” Erm. It used to be just indigenous folk Pauline. Not quite sure how far back she wants to go.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You must be seeing things that I’m missing.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
He will not be remembered at all. Australia’s most forgettable Prime Minister.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Every time he said something that was either patent nonsense, or that contradicted something he’d said earlier, he said “Let’s be clear.”. I’m sure even the dyed in the wool racists would have been struggling with this lack of clarity.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Can someone explain to me how this behaviour somehow sits outside our race-hate laws. And on Pauline Hanson - she should be escorted from the Senate and banned for a week every time she does it.
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Mark @iopollo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It reminds me of potty training for our infant many years ago. Is it just me?
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