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Mariana_Mi

@marianami.bsky.social
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VaccinePlus; Clean Air, Voice.Treaty.Truth. Integrity in Govt. Work together for common good. Fighting for a world free of Trumpism & Murdoch

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Criminal bots. When AI goes rogue, who goes to jail? Rex Patrick reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/criminal-bots-wh…
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AUKUS America is grooming Australians to fight America's Fox News-fuelled obsession with China Keating draws the connection bsky.app/profile/gekk... Labor continues to betray us and seriously weaken our sovereignty IDEOLOGY HARMS THIS COUNTRY AND DEMOCRACY johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09...
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AUKUS makes a US-China war more likely
By giving the United States greater military access to Australia, AUKUS has changed the strategic geography of any future conflict with China – and may have increased both the likelihood of war and Au...
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
True.
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Mariana_Mi @marianami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My parents are discovering this now. Aged care was decimated under LNP with their rampant privatisation; and Labor ain’t fixing it.
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Mariana_Mi @marianami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A human rights act is needed now more than ever.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
‘Altman said…that certain aspects of AI, including what he called the “silent surrender” of human decision-making, terrified him.’ ‘A sharp rise was reported…in incidents of AIs escaping users’ control to lie, ignore instructions & pursue goals in harmful ways.’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030
One researcher who resigned said many in industry believe that without regulation AI could kill off humanity
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Mariana_Mi @marianami.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Everyone but Australia reconsiders relationship with America
No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
💯🎯. #Albo treats us with contempt #auspol
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Josh Bornstein @joshbornstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The antisemitism royal commission has failed. My column explains what happened:
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The antisemitism royal commission made two big mistakes — will these compromise their findings? - ABC Religion & Ethics
Australian society has been riven by a combustible debate about antisemitism, criticism of Israel and the boundaries of free speech. The royal commission could have provided the intellectual and moral...
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“If Trump were a Russian agent, what exactly would he do differently?” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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Betrayal by Luke Harding review – could Donald Trump be a Russian asset?
A Guardian correspondent’s sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine – and the possible reasons behind it
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A quality leader. Carney’s stand is brave and singular. If this US trajectory continues, the choice for every national leader will be to do a Carney, or to allow their country to become a vassal state. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/w...
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Carney Stands Up to Trump in U.S.-Canada Trade War (Gift Article)
Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Australia’s hierarchy of grief: $131M for one inquiry, empty chairs for First Nations Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/first-nations-ra…
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Replace the wreckage with one national rights framework protecting every Australian from every form of racial and religious hatred, equally. No envoys. No favourites. No exceptions." Segal part 2 by Andrew Brown #auspol michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...
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The Segal State, Part 2: the mask, the children, the money and the answer - Michael West
Anthony Albanese built an unelected censorship apparatus for antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal without a vote, a bill or a debate
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bullock: I wouldn't like people to think because we're seeing a slowing and a rise in the unemployment rate, that means that we have to reverse course. Actually, we need that. Yep. The RBA saying we need a rise in the unemployment rate. (Yet oddly the RBA gets shitty when I say that in my column)
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We estimate the cut to the NDIS in 2029-30 of $16.4bn is equivalent to around 52,000 jobs in the care sector - around 94m hours of paid care. Those care needs will not disappear they will just fall on families (especially women) live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“I don’t have many maxims in life, but one of them is that the moment you privatise a public service is also the day you should set the date for the Royal Commission into the failures and abuses of the system.”
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Palestine activist charged with a criminal offence, faces 5 years in jail and has driving restrictions on his Uber for pestering his local MP over Gaza with email. #whatsthescam #auspol #nswpol michaelwest.com.au/police-prose...
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Police social cohesion squad prosecutes man over Gaza emails to his MP - Michael West
A Palestine activist has been charged with a criminal offence for pestering his local MP with emails, and faces 5 years in jail
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.
theguardian.com
US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease
S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago
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Joe1973 @nefeerr2.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Thousands of Americans have died as a result of Trump’s malicious decisions, with thousands more killed by his military abroad. His most deadly decision, however, is slashing US overseas aid which could result in more than 14 million deaths. This could all end in November, if Americans so choose.
independentaustralia.net
Killings continue to surge under Trump’s destructive rule
While Donald Trump is making headlines losing his war against Iran and his personal grift of billions, the U.S. President is still causing countless deaths.
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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
An official report refuted newsroom lies and said Australia is ‘in a solid position with its fiscal position triple-A-rated... jobless is low and the budget charts a credible path back to surplus’. Australians need a credible path back to media which report the economy without a surplus of lies.
independentaustralia.net
Investors applaud resilient economy while newsrooms refuse to report it
Encouraging information on jobs and wealth has been greeted with a range of interpretations.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. "The Israel lobby gets the royal treatment"
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The Israel lobby gets the royal treatment - The Shot
We cross this week to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion and other assorted grievances, but before we...
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Susan would be a good candidate for the Clacton by-election, don’t you think @ledbydonkeys.org? youtube.com/shorts/H-QkT...
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Many MPs describe being overrun with work. Nigel Farage has found time for another 12 jobs.
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Richard Jackson @jakko47.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The submarines will never be delivered, even now when they have changed the deal to be delivery of pensioned-off clunkers no longer required by the Yanks. Back out now, before the grifter-in-chief steals any more of Australia's money.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Reform norming - yes, please! ☀️ theconversation.com/yes-the-tax-...
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Yes, the tax debate has been unedifying at times. But it shows reform working as it should in a democracy
Something went very right in Australian politics this week – and it’s worth pausing and reflecting on how and why that is.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My column on the RBA’s view of the economy www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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The bleak view that unemployment needs to rise shows the RBA acts firstly in the interests of companies, not workers | Greg Jericho
The Reserve Bank governor has made clear the cash rate has been increased not to reduce inflation but to make it harder to bargain for higher wages
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Landmark new research shows the risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 is now ‘close to zero' after the HPV vaccine.
bbc.co.uk
HPV vaccine: Key questions answered as cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in women under 24 - follow live
BBC health journalists answer key questions as research suggests the HPV vaccine has prevented 200 deaths from cervical cancer in England.
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Alan Austin @alanaustin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Many folks have higher costs after placing their kids in private schools, or upgrading their home, or car or boat or plane, or gold private health insurance, or a holiday abroad. These are real pressures. But they don't indicate a weak economy or falling living standards. They prove the opposite.
independentaustralia.net
Newsrooms destroy life satisfaction while trying to report it
Constant lies about Australia’s economy weaken consumer confidence and social cohesion.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
reneweconomy.com.au/passive-home... Enormous unanticipated benefits to #Auspol and households from @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social‘s highly successful home battery program + policy of free electricity during solar peak (11am-2pm). My own post-battery ⚡️ bill has gone to zero, incl charging a new EV!👍💚⚡️😎
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Passive home batteries deliver "enormous benefits" to the grid, says AEMO - even if not orchestrated in VPPs
Australia's huge and growing fleet of home batteries are delivering "enormous benefits" to grid, even without being connected to VPPs, AEMO chief says.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
‘‘Without conscious rebalancing of power, we are left with technology that dehumanises us all by putting the relentless pursuit of the material at the centre of everything. ‘The alternative? (To) get our hands dirty and build together…’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How do you want to live? Both James Valentine and the pope have offered a challenge to humanity at a crossroads | Peter Lewis
Both public figures have urged us to be active makers of the world we want our children to inherit
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Don't believe the gas lobby lies. Solar generation grew 17x faster than gas in 2025 - globally. #whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/gas-lobby-de...
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Gas lobby desperation as global demand plummets - Michael West
While gas lobby continues to cry crocodile tears about taxation hindering new investment, the global market for gas tells a different story.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
'Labor won a second election and built up a big buffer of seats in its landslide win. The government could lose a lot of them and still win the 2028 election. It has two years to get the electorate to digest the idea of the budget’s tax changes and move on.' bit.ly/4fwOxFC
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Reform is hard. Albanese and Chalmers need to stay the course
The Albanese government was criticised on its first term for not doing enough. Now that it is prescribing reform, it’s copping flak for that, too.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Nice work @cathellis13.bsky.social. www.smh.com.au/national/don...
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🔥🔥🔥One Nation is just part of the ‘Three Australia’s’ thesis @kossamaras.bsky.social advances here. www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...
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Three Australias: New polling shows our deepening divide
Australia is not undergoing a political swing, it's experiencing a fundamental re-organisation that means One Nation isn't going anywhere.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Page 1 splash? No. Page 11. 🤔😒
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Geoffrey Hinton, who is widely known as the godfather of AI, used his 2024 Nobel Prize acceptance speech not to celebrate his creation, but to warn humanity of its risks.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Good takedown by Frum. “As Trump’s present secretary of state observed back in 2016, Trump is most fundamentally a con artist. But Trump is often a self-defeating con artist who falls victim to his own con.” *gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Why Trump Lost
The president failed to deliver on his Iran bluster, and in the end fooled only himself.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Note that property investors get grandfathered changes, but NDIS participants do not. So our Government is effectively saying property investors deserve the dignity of maintaining their current comfort levels, but people with disabilities do not.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.
SHE WAS DEMOTED, UNDERPAID, AND IGNORED FOR 40 YEARS. HER
UNIVERSITY TOLD HER MRNA RESEARCH WAS WORTHLESS. HER COLLEAGUES STOPPED TAKING HER SERIOUSLY. SHE EARNED $50,000 A YEAR FOR FOUR DECADES. THEN COVID ARRIVED - AND, SHE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Guys, what are you doing! Taxing gas is a temporary windall - any proceeds need to be spent on one off, step-up investment, not operational expenditure like services. This is how Howard fucked the budget - using booms and one offs as operational expenditure. Tax gas, fund the energy transition.
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Mariana_Mi @marianami.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Culling our native animals to service multinational corporations. Why am I disgusted but not surprised.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
thepoint.com.au
Factcheck: The ABC’s claim that "8 million rely on income support" conflated paid sick leave with income support
The problem is, that the ABC article was not based on data from the Department of Social Services. Rather, it was based on research compiled for a life insurers lobby group, whose board are all CEOs o...
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Mariana_Mi @marianami.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Cooperative rentals are obviously known to the government today as well – so why aren’t we seeing more of this in a housing affordability crisis?
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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
“Droplet transmission” is a figment of the imagination of people from 100 years ago who did not understand aerosol chemistry and physics. All respiratory infections are transmitted by aerosols. Yes, it is really that simple. See my pinned post for a tutorial.
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Mariana_Mi @marianami.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/le... @getup.org.au
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Let me stay in the country I love
The government has the power to change this. They can give young people like me the chance to stay – to study, to work, to build a future in the place we already call home.  Right now, the peopl...
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I AM Jane Doe❗️Pro Democratic Politics in 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 @dove333.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#Auspol 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#4corners is such a hard watch. Utter dystopian life under that barbarian Putin. 8 years in a penal colony for pacifists criticizing the army and war. Murdering and torturing their own soldiers for refusing to fight. Thoroughly evil. Hell won’t be bad enough for that man and his cronies.
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