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Winkypop @winkypop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The government is refusing to answer questions about why the Secretary was sacked "I don't think anyone...would appreciate the circumstances of their employment termination being discussed" She was paid $1m/year to unlawfully cut ppl's payments. You can't bullshit your way past this one, sorry
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
oh and while we are lectured on being respectful of foreign power politicians, his military is kidnapping neighbouring political leaders during the Herzog visit. middle-east-online.com/en/israeli-f...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/01/2026
Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara: "Our demand today is for those federal agencies that are operating in our city to do so with the same discipline, humanity, and integrity that effective law enforcement in this country demands…We urge everyone to remain peaceful."
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/01/2026
Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.
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Meera | મીરાં @meerashar.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Schools “overspend” but defence budget “drying up”?! Right, because I’m sure the jokers who cosplay war are scrounging, scraping & working overtime while school teachers are making confetti with their generous stationery budget. #CanberraTimes #dystopia #fundEducation #auspol
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Marie-Anne @marie-anne1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Data centres use heaps of energy and heaps of water. The AI which they generate cost heaps of human jobs. Basically we are squandering our valuable resources in order to further enrich the tech billionaires, at the expense of our environment and our communities. #Auspol #Enshittification
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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Trump's National Security Strategy: A Deep Dive Join Rory and Alastair as they unpack Trump’s National Security Strategy: why it poses challenges for Europe, hands advantages to Russia, & marks the latest step in the “Make America Great Again” agenda. Link in the replies 👇
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Rob @robbomck.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Any excuse… #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australian employers cut back on diversity and inclusion programs amid US ‘anti-woke’ backlash
Executives tell Pride in Diversity report Donald Trump’s election ‘opened the floodgates’ to challenge DEI initiatives, including in Australia
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
#auspol #AUKUS #sovereignty
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"Public debt for private profit” #Tasmania #thestadium #sportbet #auspol
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Why does it take a FOI request to get this notification from NACC ⁉️ NACC designed by Labor to fail. #auspol
thepoint.com.au
FOI documents reveal extent of unreported corruption in Commonwealth agencies
The nation's corruption watchdog has warned federal agencies and departments that gross misconduct may be more prevalent than previously thought.
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"We built a system that determines older Australians’ care needs using an automated tool so complex that even the Department avoids explaining how it works, then removed the ability for qualified clinicians to correct it when it’s wrong” #Auspol #AgedCare #SupportAtHome #AutomatedAssessment
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Jim Pembroke @jimpembroke.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Now this piece here. Should pass the pub test. Beer, blokes, bar 'n all. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
There's a feeding frenzy over Anika Wells' expenses. But if we want women in parliament it needs to be more family-friendly | Sarah Martin
The official justification of the allowance is to facilitate ‘the family life of the parliamentarian’. Yes, they are supported by the taxpayer to have one
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Kim Wingerei @kimwingerei.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Latest from our AAP #news feed #auspol Rich lister’s private chopper plan has wings clipped. Gina Rinehart's plans to wing her way to the office have been scuttled after her company's plan to build a helipad at its new headquarters was block... michaelwest.com.au/rich-listers...
michaelwest.com.au
Rich lister's private chopper plan has wings clipped - Michael West
Gina Rinehart's plans to wing her way to the office have been scuttled after her company's plan to build a helipad at its new headquarters was blocked.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese getting off a plane while wearing slim black pants, black boots, and a black Joy Division t-shirt.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025
Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."
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mandygunn61.bsky.social @mandygunn61.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Good morning live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/aust...
live.australiainstitute.org.au
Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates
Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Let's talk a bit about the broader context of the DOJ's newly announced investigation of the Portland Police's arrest of "conservative" influencer Nick Sortor. For context, Sortor is one of over a dozen far right "citizen journalists" who has come to Portland. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...
cnn.com
Arrest of conservative influencer Nick Sortor outside Portland ICE building now under federal investigation | CNN
A conservative influencer who this week posted videos of clashes outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, has been released without bond after he was arrested late...
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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The testimony submitted to the Oregon v Trump case includes a September 21 email by Portland Police Bureau Sergeant Andrew Braun describing the behavior of three right-wing "counterprotestors": Rhein Amacher, Chelly Bouferrache, and Katie Daviscourt.
These 3 counter-protesters continue to be a chronic source of police and medical calls at ICE. Despite repeated advice from officers to stay away from the ICE crowd, they constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed. They refuse or are reluctant to walk away from these confrontations, even when police are in the area trying to meet with them. They even engage in the same trespassing behavior on federal and trolley property as the main protesters. Aside from the confrontation between opposing protesters, there was no reported activity around ICE that would have otherwise generated a police response.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
'God, having kept a few of his belongings in the storage shed of my soul, turned the locker over to the sharks at Storage War$ and fled'. Writing about possibly the happiest/most stressful moment I've had since living in Paris. Newsletters can be fun! rick-morton.ghost.io/a-gladiator-...
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A Gladiator Finds His Arena
The ball soared over the towering fence and landed right in front of me as I walked down a pedestrian only cobblestone street in Abbesses. It was the size of a football (soccer, if you're basic) but ...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/09/2025
Good morning!! Here's my latest for @crikey.com.au -> one of the reasons the CCA weakened its climate target suggestions is the possibility of uncontrolled data centre growth. I found the lobbyists already working to sell them as 'climate solutions' in Aus ---->>>>>
crikey.com.au
How data centre lobbying is shaping Canberra's climate policy, right down to our timid emissions target
Hidden in the fine print on the Climate Change Authority's decision to pull back its emissions target? The role of artificial intelligence and data centres.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
the only clash this guy has seen is in the pattern between his shirts and ties
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet
The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Re-sharing this just for the pullquote, waking up in Paris early mornings and doing five interviews in a row before coffee leads to even less of a filter than usual
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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Canberra, big jump in Covid. Be aware. 😷 #ausoik #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid
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Nina Cherie 🍉 Stop The Femicides @ninacherie.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Oh my word Zali Steggall the only adult in the room #auspol Grow up Bridget
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mandygunn61.bsky.social @mandygunn61.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Excellent piece from Ronni Salt. You’re being played – your part in the culture wars theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
theshot.net.au
You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot
When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.
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Jenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Why do these losers think they won’t get found out? www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
smh.com.au
Australian War Memorial changes book prize rules to reject Ben Roberts-Smith exposé
When the judges announced acclaimed journalist Chris Masters as the winner, it proved a step too far for the institution.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Peacemaker
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Sole Far-Right Talking Point on Tyler Robinson Being a Leftist Obliterated; All Remaining Evidence Confirms Him As a Conservative and Possibly a Groyper (Do not expect MAGAs to acknowledge this development.)
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Violence is at the heart of MAGA to a degree the average person cannot possibly comprehend.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Many thanks to those who wrote in here and elsewhere to note that Elon Musk is also calling for a civil war in the United Kingdom, now. I just do not know where all this leads—but I have the same fear you all do.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
America has officially entered its Dark Ages. God help us all—because there's no longer any reason to believe Congress or the courts or media will. We have lost our way to a degree I never thought possible, and I am not going to pretend to have any answers about how we find our way back. We may not.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
CPI at 2.1%. The sound you heard is the RBA being very wrong and very stupid.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Context. www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/29/d...
emptywheel.net
Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago? - emptywheel
Trump's latest explanation for why he cut off Jeffrey Epstein some time after 2004 -- that Epstein stole an employee, Trump told him to stop, and then Epstein did it again -- would be a damning confes...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
BREAKING!! Front page NYT!!!!
The front page of the NYT. In a tiny space well below the 25 best restaurants in DC, a story on Trump's admission that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre. 

I've marked all that with a pink rectangle and arrows.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2025
Lordy, there are tapes… We know he’s guilty. Trump knows he’s guilty. And he’s pretty disgusting talking about women and girls as if they are property. If he weren’t in the Epstein files and if they actually exposed Democrats or his enemies, he would have demanded the release a long time ago.
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mandygunn61.bsky.social @mandygunn61.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Good morning live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/07/aust...
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Australia Institute Live: YouTube officially part of under 16s social media ban, climate still tricky. As it happens
The government has announced Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X and YouTube will all be part of the under 16s social media ban, following advice from the eSafety Commissioner. But there is still...
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier. The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events. Let's take a closer look.
whitehouse.gov
Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal
MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic
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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Australia is a solar nation – with the highest rate of rooftop solar anywhere in the world.
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Hagatha @Hagatha42.bsky.social @hagatha42.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
#auspol
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Jinjirrie @jinjirrie.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
More govt white supremacist double standards exposed in Victoria www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/no-mora... #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacism #auspol #Islamophobia
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au
No Moral Panic Sparked Over Attack on Islamic Place of Worship
The lack of outrage over the attack at an Islamic youth centre highlights the stark difference in media and political treatment of Islamophobia and supposed antisemitism.
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Justin Osborn @justinosborn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My favourite culture war from the right is their refusal to remember that batteries exist whenever solar or wind is brought up #auspol
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
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Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉 @shartymcscrote.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We have a cabal of LNP wannabees. These pricks got to their present lofty, perked positions because of the free tertiary education given by previous Labor leaders,& now they have pulled the drawbridge up behind them,in true LNP style #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
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DuchessFrida aka Deb @duchessfrida.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Labor has now had 3 years in government. “There are three years of Parliament to go in a world where we are at several tipping points. The very least Labor can do is not just recognise it but act.” Truly, it’s the least they can do, we need them to do more… #auspol @amyremeikis.bsky.social
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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
'The independent member for Kooyong, Dr Monique Ryan, will this week table an amendment to the student debt bill to reverse the JRG package and change the timing of Hecs/Help indexation until after prepayments are made.' #highered #auspol #academicsky
theguardian.com
Young Australians have much higher student debt than generations before them, data shows
The average Hecs/Help debt held by younger Australians increased by a third between 2009 and 2024
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