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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Great writing, trying to make sense of the venal madness we are living in. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The Broligarchy's First World War?
AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I have been warning for months that he is going to try to steal the election. That is why my law firm is litigating 80 voting cases with more on the way. It is also why I tell people to sign up for Democracy Docket to stay imformed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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laine132.bsky.social @laine132.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge
With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ord...
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"The global attack on nature is threatening the UK’s national security, government intelligence chiefs have warned, as the increasingly likely collapse of vitally important natural systems would bring mass migration, food shortages and price rises, and global disorder."
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Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 02/01/2026
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
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Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
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Carmen Johnson @csj43.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@houserepublicans.bsky.social @senatorjohnthune.bsky.social This is your “leader” that you would do anything for including had over America so he can BANKRUPT just like he has other businesses. This is the GOP party perfect picture of you ALL.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/11/2025
You've probably seen Marjorie Taylor Greene on the airwaves denouncing the "toxic politics" in the United States. So, let's revisit the evidence of who helped make these politics so toxic. WATCH:
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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚡️ErickA Electric⚡️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @erickaelectric.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Eunice Newton Foote discovered the Greenhouse Effect.Her first paper was in the "Annual Scientific Discovery", with the paper, "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's rays".She was the first person to show that carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas in 1856. rinconeducativo.org/en/recursos-...
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Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research - Rincón educativo
Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research.
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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It's time to discuss bleak climate change realities www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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It's time to address how we actually survive climate change
Slashing emissions is still essential, but so too is readiness to live safely and fairly in a world already transformed by climate change.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Larissa Waters has slammed Labor’s new environmental laws saying they’re great for big business, but “bad news for nature” “When you’re the environment minister…not a crazy idea to actually want to protect the environment”💥 #Abc
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Proudly one of the more than 100 scientists and environmental and climate experts calling on @albomp.bsky.social's government to use new nature laws to end deforestation in the Great Barrier Reef catchments www.marineconservation.org.au/open-letter-...
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Open Letter from Scientists: Deforestation Harms the GBR - Australian Marine Conservation Society
100 scientists have signed an open letter calling on the Government to reform nature laws to end tree clearing in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 28/10/2025
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
One of the many things @ninalakhani.bsky.social does so well is show the very real, very now cost of climate change at the most human level. This story is devastatingly good: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story
Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Another day, another fossil fuel leak in the Northern Territory. This is the third in a month. While we wait to see the govt’s delayed and diluted revisions to the EPBC Act, we’re allowing overseas-based multinationals to poison our environment while paying minimal tax.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The post-humous memoir of Virginia Giuffre is released today If you can, please buy/borrow a copy (paperback/e-book/audio) Of course, if you can not, and so many of us will not be able to read it for so many reasons, please share and let people know about the story of this extraordinary woman 💔🙏🏽❤️
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 20/10/2025
“Many think one woman is paying the price for men’s crimes… but it’s Maxwell 𝘢𝘯𝘥 Epstein who are abusing her.” Virginia Giuffre’s exposé lays bare just how deeply involved Ghislaine Maxwell was in grooming women for Epstein. @maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 13/10/2025
“We'll play some more soon”... it sends shivers down my spine. It might be well-meaning, but I would not want to be saying that to a convicted pedophile.” A newly published email from Prince Andrew to Epstein raises questions about their contact timeline.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 16/10/2025
'"MAGA wants those who protest be associated with a radicalised terrorist network they have created in their own imagination." Anti-Trump protests are planned across the US this weekend – but MAGA insists these are pro-Hamas, anti-American, Antifa events www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/maga...
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MAGA’s war on Antifa: ‘A terror network they have created in their own imagination’ | The News Agents
House Speaker Mike Johnson has warned of Antifa-backed ‘hate America’ marches taking place this weekend, but is it just protests arranged by pensioners furious at Donald Trump’s administration?
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Read this and then I think you’ll agree that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell should not have one day of peace the rest of her wretched life www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“The environment minister wants to pass a major re-write of federal nature laws this year, encouraging miners to lobby the Coalition to work with Labor to help rush it through parliament in the final three sitting weeks” Just contemplate that sentence. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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With climate trigger axed Labor wants to rush new environmental laws through after ‘positive’ talks with Coalition
Proposed timeframe leaves 12 days to scrutinise most significant changes to national environmental protection regime since 1999
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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
1/ For too long, federal governments of both political colours have avoided pricing carbon because they fear higher electricity prices. But we’ve crunched the numbers… 🧵
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Donald Trump once labelled Bitcoin a "scam" but later created $TRUMP. He's stepped back since becoming president but the family is making a fortune. It brings UAE deals into question. Four Corners - Chasing Trump's Billions, Monday night Australian time. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount
Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
RBA Governor Michele Bullock confirms Labor has turned the economy around with wages now rising, inflation down, interest rates down, taxes down. “Real per capita wages are now above what they were pre COVID” Lisa Darmanin “so overall that’s a pretty good story?” Bullock “Yes”✅ #Estimates
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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Hard to see a way back for the USA from here #TrumpFascism
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 04/10/2025
Diddy getting four years when we have tons of evidence, including video, of his crimes is so insulting. Diddy was so confident he would be released he had speaking engagements booked for next week, so I guess we should be grateful he got any time at all. What an unjust world we live in.
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Australia has an amazing opportunity to use its Medical Research Future Fund to immediately supercharge healthcare innovation - to develop new medicines, new therapies, new cures. The economic and social potential for our country is huge. The government could release billions of dollars today.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Recently @amyremeikis.bsky.social reminded my of Umberto Eco's 14 points of "eternal fascism" in which "it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it". And well , there is a sh*it load of coagulation happening.
1.  The cult of tradition. 

2.  The rejection of modernism. – Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

3. The cult of action for action’s sake. – Thinking is a form of emasculation.”

4. Disagreement is treason. 

5. Fear of difference. – The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders.

6. Appeal to social frustration. 

7. The obsession with a plot –  At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”

8. The enemy is both strong and weak –  By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy.

10.  Contempt for the weak. 

11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. – heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”

12. Machismo and weaponry. – both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality

13. Selective populism. – the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. – all the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I am really made proud as an Australian to see my country represent moral, pragmatic leadership on the world stage. This is a fantastic speech from @albomp.bsky.social, and I urge you to read it. apple.news/AkfnzbuMRR86...
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Albanese distances himself from Trump in major UN speech debut — The Sydney Morning Herald
The prime minister will warn that if the world allows any nation to operate outside the rules, “then the sovereignty of every nation is eroded.”
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 25/09/2025
Polling has consistently shown that a majority of Australians support climate change action, do not doubt the science and want the government to do more. With the new 2035 emissions reduction target of 62-70 per cent, Chris Bowen says he is meeting this demand. satpa.pe/fNkpaXx
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Albanese braces for meeting with tattletale Trump
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 24/09/2025
Sadly this adorable cuddly bat is critically endangered. Who do we think we are!? | First Dog on the Moon
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Sadly this adorable cuddly bat is critically endangered. Who do we think we are!? | First Dog on the Moon
Here is my recovery plan to SAVE THIS IMPORTANT BAT * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This is the Ad that #Newscorpse initially pulled despite that it was already paid for by the Jewish Council of Australia. #Newscorpse deny they pulled it, saying it was delayed due to internal processes. Sounds like BS, I’m pretty sure they don’t want ppl to see it. Plz share.
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Expatriot @expatriot.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
For the record, comissioned sales is the devil's work and a shit job. Your next meal depends on bullshitting people into buying something. Now mix in a situation where integrity is the only dividing line between doing extremely dishonest shit to get that sale. There are *libraries* on the subject.
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Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Probably the best analysis of the Kirk shooting I’ve heard so far. From Mark Kenny on ABC Insiders this morning.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Had a read of the climate risk report... oddly didn't see anywhere it saying "and therefore approving a 50 year extension to the North West Shelf is all good" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Millions of Australians at risk from rising sea levels and heat deaths to soar, national climate risk assessment report warns
Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/
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laine132.bsky.social @laine132.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
How are the Disunited States of America doing today?!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Brilliant by @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/u...
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I am sorry Charlie Kirk is dead, but I cannot mourn him. This is why
Charlie Kirk was killed in the America he wanted. I still feel compassion in response to his death – but will I mourn him? No.
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Getting real tired of the “words aren’t violence” line. It’s lazy handwringing and entirely untrue. Violent uprisings, hate crimes, lynchings don’t spontaneously materialise out of thin air. They’re incubated by rhetoric that dehumanises + antagonises until someone acts.
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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This explanation of the incoherent internet meme trolling culture that Kirk’s killer was part of helps to explain how hard right internet cultures are radicalising people to the point where they think nothing matters, hate is a joke, and violence is justified. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
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Groypers, Helldivers 2, Furries: What Do the Messages Left by Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Killer Actually Mean?
Suspect Tyler Robinson allegedly inscribed messages on bullet casings that reference video games and internet culture—but they hardly point toward a coherent ideology.
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Manik @manik.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
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