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Margo Kingston

@margokingston.bsky.social
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Ex-MSM journo who thrived till she didn’t. Citizen journo reported the #IndependentsDay movement, reporting #SaveBulgaForest. CM, SMH, Age, CT, A Current Affair, LNL & #Webdiary alumni. Website nofibs.com.au

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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Trump Family Turns Presidency Into Most Lucrative Venture Yet
Since he launched his campaign, the family has put dealmaking in overdrive — with memecoins, guns and new hotels abroad.
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Price has today written to tens of thousands of people spruiking MAGA-style disinformation group "Advance". Price backs the "far-right" group & calls for money from public. Massive questions for Liberals, just one day after split... theklaxon.com.au/2dxw
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The Price is Right? Liberals in early MAGA test - The Klaxon
Liberal Senator Jacinta Price has spruiked far-right disinformation group “Advance”, in a major test for the party just one day after its split with the Nationals.
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Amanda Meade @meadea.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Here you go Margo x www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
How Tim beat Zoe in #GoldsteinVotes. eveningreport.nz/2025/05/12/l...
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Liberal Party reclaims Goldstein – how Tim Wilson turned back the Teal tidal wave | Evening Report
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Watched Sky Outsiders after #Insiders. Propaganda interview with Jacinta, who I think plays Pauline. She got elected 2022 after becoming prominent in Advance. It’s website was filled with Jacinta propaganda. Deep dive into the power players in this long play might be interesting.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
When I heard Jacinta had defected I thought “the Libs said yes???”. Days later she’s Angus’ running mate! So ‘conservative’ ‘liberals’ to pick a hard right Trumpist yet to attend her first partyroom meeting to be its Deputy leader??? Crazy - 2022 red light flash to the Libs, 2025 the full stop?
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 07/05/2025
Laura Tingle moves from political editor of 7.30 to global affairs role at ABC
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Laura Tingle moves from political editor of 7.30 to global affairs role at ABC
She will cover world affairs across all platforms including the Asia Pacific newsroom and Foreign Correspondent * Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here * Australia news live: latest politics and federal election updates * Get our breaking news email,free app ordaily news podcast The political editor for 7.30, Laura Tingle, is taking on a new role at the ABC as global affairs editor, providing analysis on world events across TV, radio and online. Tingle joined the broadcaster in 2018 after 35 years as a political journalist for newspapers including the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@meadea.bsky.social amanda please post your Laura piece here!
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Fossil fuels disinformation group "Advance" says Adam Bandt “could not survive” the “massive”, “year-long campaign” it had “unleashed” on the Greens leader. The Liberal Party-funded group says Bandt and other Greens are casualties of its “multi-million dollar attack”… theklaxon.com.au/rkl5
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"Bandt could not survive our attacks" – Advance - The Klaxon
Fossil fuels disinformation group “Advance” has said Greens Leader Adam Bandt “could not survive” the “massive", "year-long campaign” it “unleashed”.
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MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#Trump “said … he would name Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host & former state-level prosecutor, to be the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia after a key Republican senator said he would not support the loyalist initially selected for the job.” #fascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump names Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top DC federal prosecutor
Move comes after US president withdraws nomination of Ed Martin, GOP loyalist who supported January 6 pardons
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
1. President Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. The position of Librarian of Congress is so apolitical that only 14 people have held the role since 1802. Hayden, who was the first woman and Black American to serve as Librarian of Congress, has held the position since 2016
Alt-text: Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, smiling while wearing a textured magenta jacket and pearl earrings, standing in front of a softly blurred interior background of the Library of Congress.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Wow. The Chicago Sun-Times published a photo of Pope Leo XIV at the 2005 World Series. Amazing. (Link in post below.)
Pope Leo XIV is seen in the upper left corner, smiling while talking on a cellphone at the 2005 World Series. He is wearing a black jacket over a white shirt. In the foreground, a man and a young boy dressed in Chicago White Sox gear cheer excitedly. The stadium is packed, with the brightly lit scoreboard and baseball field visible in the background.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Angus Taylor’s opening pitch. www.angustaylor.com.au/media/media-...
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Statement on the Liberal Party leadership
Today, I am announcing my candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party.This is not a decision I’ve taken lightly but it is one I’ve taken with conviction following discussions with many of my col...
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I see that Tim Wilson and Jacinta Price have begun their run to be Lib Leader next time in spectacular fashion. Gunna be wild, Coalition watchers… Kate Chaney the small l liberal indie MP in Perth, Tim Wilson the libertarian LibParty MP in Melbourne!
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Gina’s takeover play for the Liberal Party.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My favourite seat result is #CalareVotes. Andrew Gee resigned from the Nats to support The Voice. Calare voted no 72-28, and elected Gee anyway. Here’s what else Gee is famous for amp.abc.net.au/article/1009... #IndependentsDay
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A hard-right, Trump-supporting US news network that perpetuated conspiracy theories about the 2020 election will provide news coverage for Voice of America (VoA), the Trump administration said. Trump has accused VoA of radical left-wing propaganda... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network
One America News will now provide news and video to government-funded organization
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
So proud of Suzie Holt in #GroomVotes. She stood twice, turning Coalition’s 2nd safest seat marginal - 20.48% margin now 5.14% per cent. I learned to volunteer - manned the rural Biddeston booth all day then scrutineered. The best community indie performance in Qld! #Queenslander!
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Carney the first! Opp leader and leader of Canada’s left party the new democrats lost their seats In a landslide given libs 20% behind. Uncanny.
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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Forget Albo being the first PM re-elected since Howard. He may be the first PM to beat TWO opposition leaders (Dutton, Bandt) nationally and in their own seats, taking out the next generation of leaders while he's at it.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Ann Telnaes won the award, considered the highest honor in journalism, four months after she revealed that a cartoon showing Bezos and other tech billionaires genuflecting to Donald Trump was killed by the newspaper’s then-opinions editor David Shipley. www.thedailybeast.com/pulitzer-boa...
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Pulitzers Troll Bezos by Awarding Cartoonist Who Mocked Him
Ann Telnaes quit the paper in January after The Washington Post killed a cartoon critical of owner Jeff Bezos.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Kate Chaney’s recipe for Liberal Party renewal - work out what you stand for and let us know please. ‘Cause liberalism ain’t in the mix any more. #CurtinVotes www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Chaney thinks Julie Bishop may have changed Libs - ABC listen
Independent Kate Chaney has retained her Perth seat of Curtin despite the Liberal Party doing its best to reclaim it.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Acknowledgement of Indigenous people proceeded as normal in the Queensland parliament today. Welcome to Country will be performed at the women's state of origin on Thursday & at Friday's NRL magic round. It has the backing of the Qld clubs. #qldpol
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Liberal Party gave more money to anti-Welcome to Country disinformation group “Advance” last financial year than Federal Government spent on the ceremonies over its entire term. Advance has been aggressively attacking the $450k Government spend… theklaxon.com.au/sa2o
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Liberals give “Advance” more than Gov’t spends on Welcome to Country - The Klaxon
The Liberal Party gave more money to “Advance” last financial year than the Federal Government has spent on Welcome to Country ceremonies over its entire three-year term.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Bloody hell! “defence figures with knowledge of the situation claim the process is facing further uncertainty because formal permission that must be given by the US before the M1A1 vehicles can be handed over to another nation has not yet been granted.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
abc.net.au
Aging army tanks donated to Ukraine are yet to leave Australia
A fleet of retired tanks the Albanese government pledged to Ukraine last year remain stuck in Australia, with defence figures in part blaming resistance from the United States for their delayed transf...
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dutton refusing the traditional pre-election National Press Club address is gutless. Final proof he knows he’ll get many important questions he doesn’t want to answer. Costings, anyone?
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Kate Chaney’s #CurtinVotes April newsletter. My favourite new community independent. Good luck! My 2022 announcement interview profile nofibs.com.au/the-courage-... Kate’s pre-2022 election take nofibs.com.au/podcast-kate... Two years in pod nofibs.com.au/podcast-the-...
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mark Carney’s brilliant Victory Speech. Humility, Ambition and Unity. youtu.be/956Z6mnuOTQ
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney delivers victory speech
YouTube video by National Post
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Maybe I’m naive, but as someone who knew the referendum would fail once the Coalition said no, I think it was a very bad call for Dutton to use an unforgivable anti-Australian interjection to say Welcome to Country should be abolished at Anzac Day ceremonies. Confirms who the real Dutton is.
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🚨Liberal Party-funded disinformation group “Advance” sent an email to tens of thousands of Australians sowing division over ANZAC Day just hours before Friday’s dawn service. Advance and Coalition running campaign together against Indigenous ceremony... theklaxon.com.au/x37s
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Liberal's "Advance" spread Anzac-eve division - The Klaxon
Liberal Party-funded disinformation group “Advance” sent a mass email sowing division over ANZAC Day just hours before Friday’s dawn service.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A minority Carney Govt avoids hubris & demands detailed good faith discussion across the Parliament at a time when national unity is required. To Show trump Strength. Hope we’d do the same if Trump’s America punched us in the face and called our PM Governor. Mark Carney’s speech a must watch!
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’m watching the CBC YouTube livestream on Canada’s election night. Love the format, straight, no gimmicks. Live blog www.cbc.ca/news
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CBC News - Latest Canada, World, Entertainment and Business News
The latest news from across Canada and around the world.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pritzker: As a Ukrainian American Jew who built a holocaust museum… let me say this to Donald Trump: Stop tearing down the constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about combatting anti-semitism.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Notable absence of a question on gambling ads reform in any debate. ABC shoulda done it - big public support - and the other networks make money from them so no journo woulda been game…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
SCOTT PELLEY says ‘60 Minutes’ executive producer Bill Owens resigned after Paramount started meddling in their content, because they wanted to get their merger approved by Trump — specifically mentioning their coverage of Israel and Trump.
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Canada’s the first referendum on Trump amongst democratic allies.” great read by JMart www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
Canada vs. Trump: How Monday’s Election Will Play Out
The U.S. president’s tariffs and insults have altered alliances everywhere, with reverberations from Quebec to Alberta to Washington.
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RK (Kath) Crosby @ktxby.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This election has been incredibly boring, uninspiring, and deflating on so many fronts, but I have found a ray of light: Labor candidate for Parkes, Nathan Fell, is awesome. Such a lovely guy, crazy smart, would be wonderful to see him in parliament. #nosafeseat www.netimes.com.au/2025/04/26/m...
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Mark Riley, former smh Canberra Bureau chief, reinvented the exciting debate genre tonight! Seven updated the Nine Playbook in worm days under Laurie Oakes. Now a studio audience Pulse, and debate watch parties. WONDERFUL POLICY DEBATE TOO.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Hi All, just sent out weekend update #130 (yikes), free as all. It starts with a discussion of “concessions”. The Russian narrative is so strong in the west that Ukraine is being offered nothing by Trump and people are saying they are getting concessions. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #130: "Concessions" That Are Not Concessions
Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin (again); Russia Does Not Want A Ceasefire?
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Margo Kingston @margokingston.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Recommended. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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Sarah Longwell on What Voters Really Think
Podcast Episode · The Good Fight · 26/04/2025 · 1h 9m
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"Albertsons tells suppliers to eat the cost of tariffs: ‘We are not accepting cost increases’" fortune.com/2025/04/25/a...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Virginia Giuffre, the prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide
Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.
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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Suspicious? No - literally something hundreds of people do daily in the courthouse. This attempt to make it into something is just dumb (especially since they claim to be familiar with the elevators - clearly not). 10/
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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So - yes - you sometimes walk past one set of elevators so you can get where you want to go. If you are not going to the parking structure (which most people are), you take the other set of elevators because they are less crowded. 9/
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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Here's why this is absurd - there are 2 banks of elevators in the courthouse: 1 goes to the ground floor, and 1 goes to the 9th street exit which is where the parking structure is. In fact, there are even SIGNS telling you which bank of elevator goes where. 8/
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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
So 2 law enforcement officers, there to arrest an unarmed man, just watch him. Meanwhile, the man & his lawyer go to the elevators. Note this weird comment to try to make walking to the elevators sound nefarious: 7/
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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Then what happens? The two DEA agents SEE him and do [checks notes] nothing. They don't arrest him, they don't do anything. They watch him? 6/
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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Let's jump to the heart of the matter - the lede is buried at ¶33. Per the complaint, the judge apparently sent the man TO THE PUBLIC HALLWAY WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS WAITING. You'll note they sort of gloss over this part. It's as if he miraculously appeared there. 5/
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Ann Jacobs @annjacobsmke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
¶32 a discussion about Judge Dugan "forcefully" and "stern[ly] instructing the man in question to go out the jury door. BUT! It is not only a door to the jury room. It is *also* an exit to the *public* hallway. You know, the hallway where law enforcement is waiting. 4/
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