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Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This research and article is very sobering and disturbing. I feel like we have been lied to our whole lives and the impact on First Nations people is far, far worse than we thought. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Impact of colonisation on First Nations people far greater than previous estimates, research finds
Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is American news claiming that a Russian attack on Ukraine was a Ukrainian attack on Russia. The only way Russia wins this war is when we spread its propaganda, as we are doing here.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A world-famous doctor could die in prison and there are no consequences to the genocidal regime doing this
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#pedopresident #Pedogarchy #Pedophocracy #25thAmendment #TraitorTrump #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #auspol #MeidasMighty #america #history #RemoveTrump #DonaldTrump #Trump #TRUMP #FuckTrump #antifa #AntiTrump #fascistfelon #FightOligarchy #DefundBillionaires #TrumPedo
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
History shows us there are 2 options when faced with a rising far right. 1. Deal with it quickly and decisively. 2. Let it win. The great majority reject it. But it doesn't need majority support: just enough thugs to intimidate everyone else. Weakness and indecision by government let it rise.
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
RESEARCH ESTABLISHES THAT WEALTHIER PEOPLE ARE LESS ETHICAL #auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #SocialJustice #ethics #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Even as I try to share what’s happening in Kharkiv, I have to fight the algorithms. I have to get creative with my phrasing because the app flags "explosions in Kharkiv" as spam because of how often i post this same thing.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🇺🇦 Tetiana Yablonska created it in 1988. She sought freedom in painting after decades of Soviet ideological pressure. “November”, one of her late works and one of my favourites.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Yernot MaDad @acabninthewoods.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
In retaliation against the US for killing Khamenei, Iran will let Donald Trump continue to live.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
If you denounce the Iranian massacre of protesters, but not the Gaza genocide, you're wrong If you denounce the Gaza genocide, but not the Iranian massacre of protesters, you're wrong The very same applies to the US invasion of Iraq, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine It's called *consistency*.
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Consumptive Capitalism open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Consumptive Capitalism
On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein
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Jonathan Floyd @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Australians all own ostriches Four minus one is three. With olden royals, we're fair and loyal, Our home is dirt by sea. I learned to bounce on nature strips In booties stitched with care. In mystery's haze, let's harvest maize And plant azaleas there.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Kharkiv today. Russia continues to destroy our critical infrastructure.
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
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SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Pregnant women who develop COVID-19 after vaccination are much less likely to be hospitalised, need intensive care, or deliver early. A Canadian study of nearly 20,000 pregnant women found vaccination cut hospitalisation risk by 62% and critical care risk by 90% compared with unvaccinated women.
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Pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19 less likely to be hospitalized or deliver prematurely, new data show
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Why is there SO MUCH APATHY about the planetary climate emergency? #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #BCClimateAction #FalseConsciousness
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #topoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #environment #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism #FalseConsciousness
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I hope so much that someone in Australia is looking to what America is doing to Ukraine and paying attention. Clearly if we need the alliance they will do the full Munich agreement with us, get us to sign over as many minerals as possible and then be very upset if we are insufficiently grateful.
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Bananas came by just now and did a little pruning for me at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people." snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
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Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
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Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Buried deep down the #BBC news website under ‘Also in the news’… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
It is the country's first formal
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Capitalism is like a dead fish in the moonlight. It glitters - but it stinks.
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This brings us to one of the most famous slogans from the HK pro-democracy protests: 是你教我們和平遊行是沒用 - 'It was you who taught us that peaceful protests are useless.' bsky.app/profile/niao... Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
"Freedom for the People. Death to Imperialism" Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
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Dejan Pantic @serbianism.com · 19/06/2025
1/A Serbian rights activist, Natasa Kandic, called for paying respects to civilian victims found in mass graves in Serbia, a remnant of the Kosovo War. Then the apolitical, pro-democracy students called for Natasa Kandic to be prosecuted for "subverting the Constitution". Fuck you, Tymothy Snyder.
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The Student and Civic Protest in Serbia
A New Hope for Democratization
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
North Korea has nuclear weapons and is safe. Iraq did not - and was illegally invaded. Ukraine had them and gave them up on the promise we would protect its borders. It was invaded. Iran does not have them and is now subject to massive attack. Why do I think that nuclear non-proliferation is dead
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AntifaLeader @antifaleader1.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Graffiti and posters from various locations, promoting the 'International Day of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners' on June 11th. june11.noblogs.org
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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
China considers Tibet a full integral part of itself! It can't be more Chinese on its own terms! If Tibetan culture is not "Chinese" enough, then nothing that isn't Han can be
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Elaine Pearson @elainepearson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Hong Kong's annual vigils for the Tiananmen victims used to attract 100,000+. Now the government has banned all remembrance activities & arrested anyone trying to commemorate June 4. Even a lamppost labelled 8964 had to be relabelled. Utterly Orwellian. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
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China: Address Tiananmen Massacre 36 Years On
36 years after the killing of countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 04/06/2025
36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre. World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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An oink of pure greed
Murray Watt didn’t need to consider climate change. The law didn’t ask him to, because for three years Labor has been stalling on laws that would. In a triumph of his own party’s inaction, his first d...
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Russian Iskander missile strikes Chernihiv last night. A peaceful city full of sleeping civilians.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
"We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic... Dying senselessly is no act of freedom. And too many people in the USA do die senselessly because we have the wrong idea of freedom." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
Health and freedom
We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic.
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
An interesting article:- novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...
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Generational oppression. A Crimean Tatar activist continues to defend minority rights on the peninsula despite being branded a ‘foreign agent’ — Novaya Gazeta Europe
On 16 May, Russia’s Justice Ministry announced additions to the list of “foreign agents”, which now stretches to over 900 names. One of those added to the list is Lutfiye Zudieva, a Crimean Tatar acti...
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Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Politicians know about the effects of Climate Change & like us are living through continual record floods, droughts, fires, storms, heat. How can they accept any new fossil fuel projects let alone a 50 year lease extension on gas? Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
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SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The fascist spectacle is the point.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Russia struck Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region, killing two people, destroying their home, and injuring four others. Russia kills people in the Kharkiv region every single day.
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 12/05/2025
You won't find an emptier suit outside of a department store. Hard to think of a major world leader this devoid of conviction and courage. Never really seen anything like it. It's like they discovered a new political quality called antileadership or something.
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michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social @michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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