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Kat*A

@katjavelika.bsky.social
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Unashamedly left. Unapologetically feminist

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Data centres and AI really needed to learn from the example of GM foods, nuclear power and financial services - that no matter how necessary you think the job you do is, if you get a reputation for lying all the time you are absolutely f**ked in terms of public approval and consent for what you do
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 05/08/2026
Former Irish president and UN human rights chief Mary Robinson says Israel’s annexation of Palestinian land is unfolding in plain sight – and that the aim is to make Palestine disappear physically, economically, culturally and politically. #Palestine #Israel #WestBank
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What I saw in the West Bank
Former Irish president and UN human rights chief Mary Robinson says Israel’s annexation of Palestinian land is unfolding in plain sight, enabled by impunity and a lack of international political will.
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Vamos Argentina!! The only thing going home is the English team
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 03/07/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump made more than 21,000 securities trades in his first year back in office, often in intense bursts tied to market events he created.
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Trump financial disclosure shows 21,000 trades in 2025
The U.S. president averaged 85 trades per market day, an analysis of the report shows.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"By [2030], the authors believe, the cost will be a total £44.7bn.... Using many years of data on the links between NHS spending and patient health, the authors’ model forecasts that this will cause an extra 229,000 deaths by 2036... 2x the avoidable deaths Britain suffered during Covid."
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In a country famous for dumbass framing, this is the dumbest strawman argument I’ve seen in a long time
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David Hardie @davidlhardie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It’s like the press gallery forget how to do journalism No one is talking about how racist it was, that she ran 30 minutes over time to avoid being questioned on the telecast, that there were serious questions that had very weak answers, that there were serious questions that were answered by attack
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️
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David Kindon @dakindon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If the world knows that the President of the United States is about to commit war crimes by bombing the infrastructure of another country, isn’t it imperative that he be prevented from doing so rather than simply watch it happen
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Just a reminder - while NDIS subsidies are allegedly 'unsustainable' fossil fuel subsidies grew by 9.6% in the last year to $16.3bn. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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If the NDIS is ‘runaway spending’, what do we call $16 billion in fossil fuel subsidies?
New research shows fossil fuel subsidies will reach $16.3 billion in 2025–26, rising faster than the NDIS. Handouts to mining giants are growing faster than support for Australians with disability.
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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Does the Australian government have any comment about this new war crime? There is a huge population in Australia with relatives in Lebanon. What does the government say to those people?
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"War is sweet to those who have never experienced it." —Pindar (c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC)
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“On this planet, the fog of war starts in Trump’s mind.” Good piece from @edwardluce.bsky.social
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
so far i think in the last 48 hours trump has called - michael scherer at the atlantic - jonathan karl, abc - jake tapper, cnn - axios - bret baier, fox news - the new york times - the washington post just noting that when he wants to sell a war, suddenly theyre not "fake news" anymore
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R0zE11e BeNthE!m @oliveeaton16.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis @djrothkopf.bsky.social @joannacoles.bsky.social @donlemonofficial.bsky.social @jimacosta.bsky.social @scaramucci.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social 🙏 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘We’ll run out of food this week’: Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege
Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Gonna start a political movement and quiet takeover of a nation by calling my self the exiled crown Princess of a deposed and forgotten monarchy Seems to be plenty of politicians and journalists willing to suspend disbelief and give me free airtime
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 01/03/2026
Iran has agreed on an interim leadership council of three men to lead the country while another Supreme Leader is elected, the semi-official Tasnim news agency has reported. Follow updates on our live blog: www.politico.eu/article/us-i...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Stephen Miller in 2024:
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Does Trump mean amnesty when he says immunity? Who do military, security and police forces surrender to? These forces propped up the regime and perpetrated the oppression - why would there be blanket amnesty? How is it US/Israel’s role to offer these pardons? So many questions
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Strength and courage to the people of Iran and their friends and family in the diaspora watching the unfolding war with fear 🕊️
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Who on earth thinks the US (*regardless of who is in power*) can actually successfully impose its will on another nation? Every. Single. Foreign intervention since and including VietNam has been a failure
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
As a counter to all the puff pieces on Angus Taylor ahead of today’s LNP leadership spill, read this piece by The Shot. It’s a few years old so there’s more ineptitude to list, but still a good list How the hell is Angus Taylor still a thing? - The Shot
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 01/02/2026
Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/02/2026
In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, six actresses told the Los Angeles Times that a prominent Hollywood director was sexually violent toward them. They were talking about Brett Ratner, who just celebrated the premiere of Melania, his eponymous documentary about the First Lady.
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What women said "Melania" director Brett Ratner did to them
The First Lady’s documentary premiere marks the return of a director accused of sexual violence by six actresses in 2017.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Fascism is always a war on the left. It's not all it is, but it's always that.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/01/2026
BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.
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Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US action in Venezuela
An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Don’t take the first step unless you’ve planned the second Today’s shambolic shit show from Trump and his toadies shows that - contrary to all the fawning ghouls in the media and the fossil fuel companies - there is no coherent strategy for what to do now that they have kidnapped Maduro #Venezuela
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/01/2026
it's truly incredible that after a decade of trump being involved in politics (setting aside decades of his history in business) so many people still line up to make deals with him that end up with his knife in their back. anyway, mariá machado, step up and claim your fell for it again award.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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JoeA @josepha.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Before One Nation have a chance to get started, it might be useful to remind people that they sought $20 million from US lobby groups like NRA in order to weaken Australia's stellar gun laws. #bondiattack #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nation's James Ashby filmed seeking $20m from NRA to weaken Australia's gun laws
Al-Jazeera journalist posing as gun campaigner films senior party figures in Washington DC soliciting financial support to help One Nation seize the balance of power
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Intentionally killing innocent people is always wrong. Wherever in the world it happens. You might think everyone agrees with this simple moral principle, and yet far too many people, on far too many different sections of the political spectrum, try and make exceptions to it.
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Excellent article by Annabel Crabb today - she might want to have a word to Patricia Karvelas and other ABC stablemates www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Pub test differs for Barnaby Joyce and Anika Wells
The "pub test" tends to be applied when we've run out of avenues to pursue a public figure, but are still super annoyed.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/11/2025
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/11/2025
New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱
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Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
What's a quote or piece of wisdom that sustains you? Maybe we can make a little collection here that people can read through to find what they need.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Twitter has become a terminal cancer for our country, a neverending crisis pouring the worst kind of bigotry imaginable into the public mind, and no one will even talk about it. Most of our elites in journalism and politics still rely on it!
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Utterly heartbroken at the ineptitude of all international organisations - from the UN down - to stop the Israeli takeover of Gaza. Strength and solidarity to the people of Palestine
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
totally fine that we are refitting our society and economy around this technology i see no problems down the line whatsoever
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
AI is a wonder technology that is going to change every industry, which is why - people have to be forced to use it - people have to be tricked into paying for it - people who do use it on purpose have to hide it from their peers to avoid being mocked
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Kat*A @katjavelika.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
@grattaninstitute.bsky.social Aruna Satanapaly is quoted in this piece, among other economists. It’s telling that budget savings are only considered for health and the care economy - why wasn’t defence spending assessed? Or AUKUS?
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Will Labor's conversation about everything produce anything much?
Inside Labor, two camps have formed around the government's productivity roundtable: those who doubt Anthony Albanese has the inclination to tackle contentious new policy and those who see a genuine o...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.
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Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers
Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 28/07/2025
More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, a medical charity has said.
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Over 600 malnourished children die in six months in Nigeria, says MSF
Northern Nigeria, which already is struggling with insurgency and banditry, is 'currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis.'
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