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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Fascinating how the Trump Administration always gets its inspiration from the Nazis...

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

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Michael Klapdor @mklapdor.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The proposed measure is simlar to an unlegislated Turnbull Gov measure from 2018-19 Budget to ‘suspend or cancel the welfare payments of individuals who have outstanding State and Territory arrest warrants for indictable criminal offences’. It was dropped by the Labor Gov in the Oct 2022-23 Budget.

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Michael Klapdor @mklapdor.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Government amendments providing new powers to stop welfare payments to fugitives subject to a warrant for a serious violent or sexual offence have been added to the Social Security and Other Leg. Amendment (Technical Changes No. 2) Bill 2025 prior to passing Reps. parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/sea...

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BACKGROUND TO NEW SCHEDULE 5
The objective of this measure is to ensure people who are subject to an outstanding arrest warrant for a serious offence, can no longer be supported through the social security and family payments systems.

Social security payments are not payable to a person who is in gaol or incarcerated on remand. It is not appropriate that a person wanted for a serious offence, including a person who is evading arrest by the police, should be able to benefit from Government payments or concession cards through the Social Security Act , the Family Assistance Act and the Paid Parental Leave Act. However, there is currently no lawful authority to cancel a person’s payment or concession card on this basis.

Under these amendments a person’s payments and concession cards can be stopped, provided such a request must be made by an appropriately senior member of the relevant police force, and the extent to which the person is likely to be a threat or danger to the community, and the likely effect on the person’s dependants, must be considered.

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Chris Karakaltsas @hristaki.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Getting excited. Trains. Trains. And more trains. The little kid in me is practically peeing his pants. Melbourne Metro Tunnel is getting close to opening. Photos of Arden Station from their social media account.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese. She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her. Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide. Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work: zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

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Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

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G. Scott @gscott.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I am preparing my offering to the democracy deities... #auspol

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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Melanie @mellymack.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture on the verge of descending into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau 📷: Eastern Bluebird

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The ABC can f*ck off and keep f*cking off

Sam Kerr's trial started uncomfortable conversations about anti-white racism

Sam Kerr was found not guilty, now the court of public opinion will have its say
By Isabella Higgins

Topic:Race Relations

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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Had enough of Dutton? Here! Have some Unit🥰🥰😆😆Ian

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Melanie @mellymack.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Excuses so far is that it was a Roman salute, and that it was ‘a moment of enthusiasm.’

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Melanie @mellymack.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Happy 50th birthday to TripleJ 🥳 And a hip hip hooray for Gough Whitlam, for making it happen 🎶 ♥️

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/01/2025

Men who who tried to revive their “masculine energy” by bending the knee…

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Melanie @mellymack.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hi all "NO DMs AND I MEAN NO" people! Did you know there's no need to yell that in your bio? All you need to do is click the chat icon, click on the little icon next to New Chat button and select "No one" do this! Now you can use the extra room in your bio for more info on you. Couldn't be easier!

Screenshot of the chat settings showing the three options for DMs which are "everyone""Users I follow" and No one"

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Melanie @mellymack.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Elon said it was “entertaining” 🙄

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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Australia Day - don’t fall for it

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/01/2025

I feel like they had a meeting and decided “we have to be dumber.”

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products.

Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🎶🎼 This is how you do it… This. Is. How. You. Do. It. 🎼🎶

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Blue Jays having a mid-flight discussion

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Flashes App 🌩️ @flashes.blue · 15/01/2025

Thanks so much for your interest! FYI the app is NOT available yet. I hope to start an open Testflight beta next week and will post the invite here.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer.

The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/01/2025

We have teamed up with Mendez & Sanchez to provide free In-N-Out Burgers, free drinks, and other free meals to first responders and those affected by the fires. Please share.

A flyer for the Eaton Fire Community Event hosted by Mendez & Sanchez and MeidasTouch Network. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, January 14, at 12:30 PM, located at the Mendez & Sanchez Office, 1146 E Green St, Pasadena, CA 91106. The flyer highlights 'Free In-N-Out Burgers!' and mentions the event is open to first responders, police, firefighters, and those impacted by the Eaton Fire. The design includes images of emergency responders assisting individuals and a firefighter in gear.

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Rudy Terwilliger 🐺 🥷 🍉 @wolftickler2000.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Leaders beholden billionaires act less like public servants & more like guard dogs protecting the wealth & power of their benefactors. They bark loudly at perceived enemies - immigrants, the marginalised, or dissenters — while wagging their tails for their masters in boardrooms & gated communities.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Mexico and Canada helping in California says two things: America has neighbors it doesn't deserve; and America is better at handing out blame *after* a disaster than making preparations *before* a disaster.

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Sarah B @sarahbaillie6.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Doom scrolling BlueSky hits different.

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Melanie @mellymack.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The media calls a white guy with the largest collection of homemade bombs ever discovered by the FBI, an ‘alleged anti-government extremist.’

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Bridie (EBK) @emergencybk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Not only do we now have trending words and hashtags on Bluesky 🥳, but Australia’s currently in the top 10 with #AusVsInd Sports isn’t my thing but… I know this will encourage more to come over, stay & play for #Auspol too … Yeeyyyy🥂

Trending Bluesky hadhtags Beta
Linda Lavin
Marvel Rivals
Sam Darnold
#GoPackGo
BETA
Jimmy Carter
#AUSVIND
Saquon Barkley
Kings
Celtics

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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Great to see another community independent launch today! Jeremy Miller is the community endorsed candidate for the NSW seat of Lyne - which is currently held by Nats on a 13.8% margin. See the now 22 community independent candidates here #auspol > linktr.ee/CommunityInd...

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@CommunityIndependentsAU | Linktree

List of community independent candidates to support in the 2025 federal election

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Melanie @mellymack.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

‘Come my friends tis not too late to seek a newer world.’ From Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson 🕊️

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 03/12/2024

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

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