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Luke Pearson

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@lukelpearson.bsky.social on wheels & racist mythologies.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Oh wow, I bet the millionaires who designed this system are super embarrassed about their mistake… can you even imagine?
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Maybe the ABC/SBS can just play all the footage in reverse so they can show Israel building schools and hospitals… and bringing the dead back to life.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That time of year again… youtube.com/watch?v=z9M2...
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Debunking Australia's "Harmony Day" | Luke Pearson
YouTube video by IndigenousX
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Or maybe, making sure people can afford housing, health care and basic necessities, are able to form community by not having to constantly move and are ensured financial security in one of the richest countries on earth might do it? How’s leaning right going for UK Labour? 🫠🫠🫠
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The govt isn’t ’failing to close the gap’ they are succeeding in creating the impression that they are trying to close the gap while ignoring all the evidence of what should be done to actually close it.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
So, Albanese said that they will double the number of jobs from the Remote Jobs and Economic Development program to over 1500 by 2027 and then ‘double it again’ by 2030,
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism" Huey Newton
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“the function of racism is none other than to provide a rationalisation of the existing state of affairs so as to make it appear to be a lawfully instituted order” (Bourdieu, 1961, p. 133)
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Newcastle Writers Festival @newwritersfest.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
NEW EVENT ADDED | Discipline: Randa Abdel-Fattah in Conversation Randa Abdel‑Fattah's recent novel Discipline follows the intersecting lives of Hannah, a young Muslim newspaper journalist, and Ashraf, an academic. It is a timely exploration of truth and power. Book tickets at bit.ly/462nCvT
A photo of Randa wearing a silk, Olive dress, with her long brown hair out and foliage out of focus in the background. Black text on a light yellow rectangle was added that states, '2nd event added. Sun, 29 March, 6.30pm - 7.30pm Concert Hall, City Hall'.
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No more protesting thanks, that's it wrap it up it's not cohesive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon
Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 11/02/2026
Sophie Scamps MP: "At the very time the Government is welcoming President Herzog into Parliament House, with the entrance being officially lined with Israeli flags, Israel is moving to extend the illegal occupation of the West Bank thus undermining the hope for a two-state solution."
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Whenever we have a Labor govt I invariably end up feeling like Labor is England and Liberal is all the other countries that could have hypothetically invaded and… you get it.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 10/02/2026
NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10/02/2026
This is maddening nonsense from Albanese. Herzog is the President of *Israel*. He’s not the “head of state” for Jews. This transformation of Jews into some convenient monolith is perverse.
PM defends decision to invite Herzog to Australia
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed his decision to invite Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia, saying it was appropriate to allow the Jewish community to mourn with the leader.
"He was [invited] because he's the head of state. He's the equivalent of the governor-general, and when the Jewish community asked for their head of state to visit. I think it is appropriate that people be allowed to mourn and to do so respectfully," Albanese told Triple M radio in Hobart.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
‘Man calls neo-nazi a racist’ is quite possibly the loosest excuse to platform a nazi and pass it off as news that I have ever seen.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“There were roughly 500 police deployed at Town Hall and an estimated 3,000 across the CBD. This scale was not accidental. It was a show of force. Police created the disorder they later claimed to suppress. This tactic is known. It is taught. It is deliberate.” michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...
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This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West
NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
“If you pine for where you came from, and say I really want Australia to be just like the shithole I came from. You go back there.” Yeah, not like the ‘real Australians’. The ones who came here from England and complained relentlessly about how much it was not like England.
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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Just so we’re clear: Protesting a genocide and the invite of a man credibly accused of war crimes = unacceptable violence Police beating and detaining said protestors = justified violence
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
When we speak up against injustice we are being ‘divisive’. When they want ‘social cohesion’ they employ state violence.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/02/2026
Additional footage shows Australian police using force against other protesters: Video: David Shoebridge via X (@DavidShoebridge)
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/02/2026
Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I see no substantive difference between ‘From the river to the sea’ and ‘Always was, always be’… and I suspect that many of the people who want one banned would happily ban the other.
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 07/02/2026
Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
We must stop peace protesters from terrorising our war criminal guests
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I’ve been thinking about how often we say that’ institutional racism isn’t reliant on intent’, which is true. At the same time, it seems relevant to note that there are numerous institutions who intentionally perpetuate and incite racism as part of their core business… and that business is booming.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Why aren't media as outraged about the Perth bomb attack as there were over the Bondi shootings?" Dude, they aren't even as outraged as they were when Adam Goodes threw an imaginary boomerang.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“Ok everyone, Invasion Day is officially over for another year so you all know what that means!” *spins wheel of oppressed minority groups*
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
One of the things that really sticks me is that now, a few days after Jan 26, many mob are still reeling, still hurting, still recovering… but in murdoch media rooms around the country they are counting up all the extra clicks and congratulating each other on another successful year.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
If we’re going to talk about how select groups in media and politics are selective in their outrage when there is an attack, then we probably need to continue that conversation to look at who those same people spend all their time attacking.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Who could have guessed that increasingly virulent attacks from sections of the media and politicians that deem Aboriginal people unAustralian, divisive, fraudsters, whingers, criminals, bludgers, a drain on public resources and a threat to western civilisation would lead to its inevitable outcome?
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote an article today for the first time in what feels like a very long time… it wasn’t on the most important topic, just debunking that it’s the 26th Jan because of the citizenship act in 1949 and not because of 1788 but still, it felt nice to write again. indigenousx.com.au/debunking-au...
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Debunking: Australia Day is about 1949, not 1788! – IndigenousX
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A couple of Palestinian journos who had been reporting for Australian media for the past few years have managed to get out of Gaza with their families but now need support getting set up in a new country (not Australia) where they have no resources and don’t speak the language. gofund.me/d02926541
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Donate to Palestinian Journalists Informed Australia — Now Need Help, organized by Rakan Salah
Palestinian journalist Rakan Abdelrahman and cameraman Salah Wa… Rakan Salah needs your support for Palestinian Journalists Informed Australia — Now Need Help
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I dunno about peeps saying they attended the white supremacist organised reclaim australia rallies (or whatever it was called) because they have totally not racist concerns about immigration…

Like, I really like trivia nights, but if there was a trivia night being organised and run by white supremacists, and they had a white supremacist mc, white supremacy themed trivia questions and they were handing out white supremacist propaganda, I probably wouldn’t go.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Whenever I hear Liberal or Labor criticising the other about their failure to close the gap while in govt I’m reminded of this…
I say your three-cent titanium tax goes too far. 

And I say your three-cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Sovereignty became treaty, treaty became reconciliation and reconciliation turned into nothing” Yunupingu, 2006. Happy Reconciliation Week
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
A few days ago the australian ran a number of hit pieces against the ‘Blak Sovereignty Movement’ who they were claiming, based on very dubious assertions, wanted to use the word ‘genocide’ in a group statement… Super curious to see if they now come out and accuse Patrick Dodson of ‘calculated evil’.
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Media Statement from Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves indigenousx.com.au/media-statem...
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Media Statement from Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves – IndigenousX
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
In the 70s and 80s Aboriginal people asked for Treaty, but we were given reconciliation instead... Cupcakes and platitudes are not reconciliation. Reconciliation action plans are not reconciliation. Reconciliation is not Treaty. Reconciliation is not justice.
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
www.indailysa.com.au/inreview/boo... #Mobsky
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Local First Nations author denied literary prize over Palestine post - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia
An unpublished novel about the Stolen Generations won a fellowship from the State Library of Queensland — until the Queensland Government found a tweet by its author.
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
They can rescind my award, take away my prize money, rip up the contract but I was still one of two winners of the prestigious Blak & Write Fellowship for 2025. A panel of peers read my manuscript, and selected my work as worthy of winning. Haters can not rob me of Blak joy
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
‘White genocide’ is a neo-nazi conspiracy theory used to attack diversity and anti-racism, refute claims of racism and, ultimately, to justify white supremacy. indigenousx.com.au/what-is-whit...
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What is white genocide? – IndigenousX
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Did you ever wonder why so many white South Africans came to Australia after the end of apartheid?
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a cartoon of spider-man fighting another spider-man in front of a nypd truck
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
First, they didn’t come for the white South African farmers, and I didn’t speak up because it wasn’t happening but also because ‘white genocide’ is a made up white supremacist conspiracy theory used to justify white supremacy and to oppose immigration and multiculturalism.
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Kym Chapple @kymtje.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The same Sussan Ley who, in her Australia Day speech this year, compared Captain Cook to Elon Musk and then listed all the ‘amazing’ things about Australia that were either just straight untrue or only eventually came about thru activism and then shat on activism as being unAustralian? Cool.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 12/05/2025
This piece from Boneta-Marie Mabo - granddaughter of Eddie Koiki Mabo - is a really cool little intro to radical Blak activism. It obviously doesn’t cover everything, but I reckon it has some neat little nuggets to chew on. Well worth taking the time to sit with it.
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