Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . . 60499112772
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...nytimes.comFort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon SaysIf carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history. 37027691096
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026US measles cases hit their highest level since 1991 • 2025: 2,289 cases • 2026: 3,887 cases (Oct 1) • Under 5s: 26% • Ages 5–19: 44% • Ages 20+: 29% • 95% unvaccinated or vaccination status unknown Major outbreaks reported in Texas, Utah, South Carolina and Pennsylvania. 58345
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Brisbane friends please make your displeasure known. 93418
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4093499010543
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Victorian branch of the English-Speaking Union presents itself as a quaint charity dedicated to the English language and to promoting cooperation between English-speaking peoples. But an ABC NEWS Verify investigation has uncovered links between the organisation and white nationalist groups.abc.net.auVictorian language charity with $16m kitty has links to white nationalistsThe Victorian branch of the English-Speaking Union presents itself as a quaint charity dedicated to the English language and to promoting cooperation between English-speaking peoples. But an ABC NEWS Verify investigation has uncovered links between the organisation and white nationalist groups. 066
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Horrified obviously, but it has occurred to me that eSafety would require platforms hosting the footage to block it in Australia, I would think. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comPentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamedNidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December 1114833
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Lucie🐈⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026💯 Bob Fife is all of us in this clip. 🇨🇦 0154
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026And so, in the context of financial capitalism and its profit pressures, it can seem to men like this that their time is better spent building a device to replace the care work that women are asking of them, than committing long term to doing more of that work themselves. 2786872
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This night: "An injured elderly Palestinian man crawls along the ground after an #Israeli airstrike targeted a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood of #Gaza City. A journalist... discovered him struggling to move amid the destruction." www.threads.com/@eye.on.pale... #GazaNews #Israel #Zioniasm 004
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Refugee Council of Australia @refugeecouncilau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We are extremely disappointed the Coalition intends to halve the refugee intake from 20,000 places to 10,000 if elected in 2028. Australia doesn't have to choose between an effective migration system and a humane one. Read our statement: www.refugeecouncil.org.au/coalitions-p... 055
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 572215304196
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Reminder - Japan imports more gas from Australia than it needs, and so it onsells it to other countries for a profit. www.afr.com/world/asia/a...afr.comAustralia moves to calm Japan’s jitters over gas reservation policyTreasurer Jim Chalmers used a large business gathering near Tokyo to promise executives that Australia would remain a dependable energy supplier. 10323125
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat... 9042381698
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Al-Jazeera: "Israel’s tourism ministry is running an ad campaign with a map that completely erases the occupied Palestinian territories – and the millions of Palestinians who live there." #BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #FreePalestine #Israel #MiddleEast #News #Palestine #WestBank #WorldNews #Zionism 1109
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Russia is now providing an excellent reason for Ukraine to take out the Kerch Bridge. Kyiv’s South Bridge is one of the most important transport links between the right and left banks of the Ukrainian capital. I’m expecting this to now get increasingly ugly. 1622059
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: 1511467610141
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors. 443242912
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.ettemedia.com/war-of-words... READ: An exclusive data analysis of 42 interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 on conflict zones — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias. (No paywall) 1720794
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026The fossil industry has simple motives: maximising fossil fuel combustion (more that = more $) Climate is simple too: the more combustion, the worse it gets (more so for each new tonne burned) so...the fossil industry supports the things that make climate change (and our lives) worse, consistently 411036
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026 224150523401
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 261185294899
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Seriously 💥 244141273959
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns. following the questions being raised about the conditions under which they can be used www.reuters.com/sustainabili...reuters.comDutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concernsOne of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first ... 461006347
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"This is how Israel is destroying childhood in Gaza." www.threads.com/@ajplus/post... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #MiddleEastNews #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #SaveGaza #SavePalestine #WorldNews #Zionism 52527
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm half-British and half-Thai. A random right-winger verbally racially abused me in the street for no reason at all. That same man was in my A&E ward a couple of days later due to a cardiac arrest. I was the doctor who saved him. There's a moral in that story somewhere. 3882865
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 01/10/2026 27373192274
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved. 618116472032
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A Russian drone struck a school in Kyiv on the morning of October 1. More than 100 students and around 60 school staff members were sheltering in the building. According to preliminary reports, no one was injured. The Kyiv Police reported. 📷: National Police of Ukraine 21712
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Societies that still have the death penalty have something broken within them. 1328833
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Congratulations, News Corp, on celebrating 11 years of not paying a single cent in tax. But per new ATO data released today, the Murdoch company isn’t even the worst offender. A slew of corporate entities made a motza off Australia and paid zilch in tax. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/n...crikey.com.auNews Corp celebrates more than a decade of paying zero tax in AustraliaNews Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger. 512461
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Michelle Suiter 🇵🇸🍉🕊️💚 @michellesuiter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“The ATO’s transparency database for 2024-25 shows more than one-quarter of big companies, often based overseas, regularly pay no or little corporate tax in Australia” Your friendly reminder that those earning just $20k p/yr pay more tax than these companies making billions #auspol 065
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.” 691722609
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank." 4168031944
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 30/09/2026arstechnica.comFifth unvaccinated person dies of measles; CDC still not counting all deathsState health officials race to vaccinate residents by giving over 8,500 doses. 35762389
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Super important- 'Central chest pressure or tightness is the most common heart attack symptom in both women and men. Women are more likely... to have other symptoms, such as breathlessness, nausea or vomiting, unusual fatigue, or pain in the jaw, neck, arms or upper back'. 13013
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here’s me talking about my heart attack www.nine.com.au/lifestyle/he...nine.com.au‘I would’ve died’: A Google search told Fiona she wasn’t having a heart attack - adding one word changed everythingFiona Katauskas’ heart attack was nothing like the dramatic heart-clutching moments you see in the movies, so when she felt breathless, dizzy and sweaty while exercising at home on a Sunday morning la... 43313112
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026 20193622601
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees. 297138164634
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age. 15284781520
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 694279539556
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 29/09/2026From Al-Jazeera: "Google Maps just updated its satellite imagery of Gaza ... exposing the utter devastation left behind by Israel’s genocide." #BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Gaza #GazaNews #GazaGenocide #GazaStrip #Israel #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #Palestine #PalestineNews #Zionism 15449
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026With Pennsylvania hardest hit, worst US measles outbreak since 1991 accelerates www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/27…wsws.orgWith Pennsylvania hardest hit, worst US measles outbreak since 1991 acceleratesThe United States is in its worst measles year since 1991, and Pennsylvania is the epicenter, adding 129 infections in a single week to a toll that already includes four deaths. 035
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know what? I have absolutely no problem posting this. I hope it follows them for years. 17320771170
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every anti-trans attack is a repeat of the homophobic attacks of the 1960s,70,80s. Every transphobe is a bigot. I have also yet to see a transphobe who is not also racist. The media's coverage of trans hate has been used to make all kinds of bigotry acceptable 517135
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Anti-vaxxers deserve your total contempt. 1934091
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We’re buying subs from the US because insane nutters on Govt think we need to defend ourselves against China, which the US is proposing to sell weapons to… 2119775
Reposted by Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Education Department today removed the Biden-era Title IX rule that addressed discrimination against students based on sexual orientation or gender identity.ed.govU.S. Department of Education Formally Rescinds the Biden Administration’s Illegal Title IX Rewrite, Reinstating the 2020 RegulationToday, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) formally rescinded the Biden Administration’s illegal regulation implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). 100888482