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Joyful Aroha

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Views are my own and do not reflect those of my employer. My name is Joy O'Donnell. Abolish Poverty. Expat Kiwi, living on Gadigal land.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elon Musk's America PAC is quietly donating to the most consequential races of November's midterms, and @wired.com is tracking all of it - in real time. amazing work from @dell.bsky.social, who built this, and big lifts from @hugolowell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social:
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Indeed: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
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I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud
How AI is destroying the life of the mind.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
12:00 min: "Trump is enamored with AI bots because AI bots are enamored with him. They are programmed to be sycophantic. It would be easy to get Trump to do something horrific by making it look like the AI bot is reinforcing Trump's own plans instead of goading him." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koos...
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Expert Explains to Sam Altman Why He Sucks (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/10/2026
walks around with a big coat and no underwear
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The obvious counter messaging here is that this culture war shit is the way people are being distracted from their material concerns. ppl in rural Alabama are hurting with the cost of fuel and food right now, and their legislators are wasting their time and the state's money with this nonsense.
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Dave Krantz @weskrantz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He’s decided the pink rat should be on my bed
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
some days you just gotta sit in the forget-me-nots and have a bit of a sing
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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
steppin out
Fishtopher and Mr Lover walking towards the camera. Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, is partially illuminated by a sunbeam. It creates a stark lighting effect on his face, and his pupils are small from the light. Behind him steps Mr Lover, an orange and white tabby cat with amber eyes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the funniest shit of all time… wait for it…😂
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As federal officials continue to consider changes to wolf protections, here’s a reminder of what the numbers actually show:
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Calliss Clan @callissclan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#BerenBanana derp 😋
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you close the loophole that lets people like me avoid tax, I will make good on my threat to avoid tax by moving to Monaco, which I actually did 40 years ago, to avoid tax. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"There are parts of Luton – and the police will tell you this – that are no-go areas where white people won't go" Police say that's false But this Tory shadow-minister still uses false claims to justify "a consensus on the right" that immigration is a disaster www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bellingcat has become aware of an individual contacting people via Telegram and WhatsApp from a UK number, naming themselves "Antony Kevin", claiming to work for Bellingcat, and asking for assistance recruiting journalists and analysts working on Syria, in particular Damascus and Idlib.
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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
sitting so politely
Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat, sitting on a white bed and looking at the camera with green eyes. He covers his front paws with his tail.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Jailed for violating banking laws", much like Hitler met his end after losing a battle with suicidal ideation.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I can't believe people are actually celebrating the death of Dennis Hastert just because *reads literally anything about Dennis Hastert* Oh. Carry on then.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Losing a parent to Alzheimer's is a double loss and it's bleak as hell. Good people don't joke about things like that. But Archibald Graham long ago gave up on being a decent human being. metro.co.uk/2026/10/04/m...
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Mike Graham filmed making 'hideous' jokes about Andy Burnham's dad's death
His comments were 'the lowest of the low'.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 04/10/2026
The Coalition's climate policy is a construct of dog whistles, ideology and a fundamental misunderstanding (or perhaps a wilful blindness) of Australia’s role on the global stage, writes Anjali Sharma. trib.al/hflSlK4
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The Coalition’s ‘chainsaw’ climate policy
I am no stranger to the spiral of doom that inevitably follows a skim of the morning headlines. Perhaps that is a burden this privilege of youth must carry – the emotion in the immediacy of the world’s crises. Even so, the headlines of Wednesday, September 23 packed a visceral punch.
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
MeanCat has a lurking game par excellence
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.
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Calliss Clan @callissclan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wally couldn’t quite reach the bottom of the yogurt tub but #BerenBanana could 🍌💛
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
when I first brought Adonis home, he hid under the bed for a few days and I sat there with him singing so he would get used to my voice. now, just shy of 2 years later, any time I start singing I get these wonderfully sweet "before and after you hear Mama singing to you" moments
orange cat looking sleepy in his cubby orange cat now reaching his paw out to me and giving me lovey blinks
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A more genteel age, when traitors and spies were perfectly willing to go on the evening news to answer questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJbI...
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Soviet Spy Anthony Blunt Interviewed on News at Ten (1979)
YouTube video by Frontline by ITN
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.
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Calliss Clan @callissclan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#BerenBanana knew perfectly well how to get his foot out - but will always play the fool if he thinks it’ll get him some attention 😋🍌💛
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝟗 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 🚨 What the fk are we doing? How can we sit by and let this happen? It's up to US to push back on this, because silence is complicity! We have a month before the election, so volunteer & recruit friends! #ICELawlessness
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧵 My nieces remind me why curiosity matters. They ask questions adults have stopped asking. They look closer. They notice things that others do not see.. That sense of wonder finds its way into my art. I want my drawings to make people look twice, and wonder what else might be there. [1]
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Futurism @futurism.com · 03/10/2026
"Given how the situation was with weapons and 4 o'clock in the morning, I mean, it's shocking."
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Innocent Couple Confused When Armed Cops Surround Their Home Following a Wild Tip From a Flock Camera
A family in Lexington, Kentucky is demanding answers after police descended on their homes with guns drawn following a lead from an ALPR.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What do you do to stop people coming into the USA who’d rather go anywhere else but the USA if you’re Trump Tighten up border controls obvs 🤷‍♂️
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m not violent but seeing this makes me feel I’d happily pin him to the wall and smack him one if he didn’t apologize.. My dearly departed dad had dementia.. other elderly family members also, it’s not something anyone should ever mock It causes so much pain to everyone involved there’s no excuse
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Joe Rogers lost his wife and everything he owned when Hurricane Helene swept away his mobile home. Now others are living on the same land. “Ain’t that the definition of insanity: keep doing the same thing, hoping for a different result?" he said. with @theassemblync.bsky.social
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Two Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm’s Way
The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
In 2024, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws—a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book.
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Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is promoting himself as a "peacemaker."
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026
I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👇🏽😕
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I actually DO know the person who built this incredible statue of her, so that's suspicious hyperallergic.com/the-story-of...
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The Story of the Scorched Melania Trump Sculpture in Slovenia
This peculiar monument to the worst FLOTUS in recent memory is rather fitting.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026
People can like or dislike Rashida all they like for whatever reasons but it really does need to be highlighted that Western liberal-humanitarian discourse is so poor that she is basically the only one in Congress that talks about this stuff with regularity
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026
Less than two days later it is reported that the USG will be waiving human rights conditions requirements on $320,000,000 in military assistance for Egypt "in light of Cairo's "helpful role" since the launch of the US ‌war with Iran".
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EXCLUSIVE: US waives rights conditions for $320 million in military aid to Egypt, letter shows
The US State Department has waived human rights conditions for ​more than $300 million of military aid to Egypt in light of Cairo's "helpful role" since the launch of the US ‌war with Iran, according ...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
True story. I am doing an audiobook of this, honestly. But I'm recording it at home, and every time I read Baxter's name, he thinks it's playtime and leaps on me. Cut. Take 37.
Baxter, being a tool again
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Joyful Aroha @joyfularoha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Israel is revoking the diplomatic status of Dutch diplomats in Ramallah after the Netherlands imposed a ban on imports and trade involving products from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
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