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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 1h

🧵 1 of 3: Say what you will about Australia's judicial system, our High Court is independent enough to make coal miners consider (among other things) the burning of their product overseas when seeking planning approval*. #auspol .../2 < tinyurl.com/4mvxbh5m >

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Landmark High Court ruling on Australian coal mining - ABC listen

The High Court has found planning authorities must factor in the emissions from fossil fuels burned overseas when approving projects, such as mines.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 1h

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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 1h

Donald Trump is a creepy sex pervert

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FDR v. Stephen Miller

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Rocket Fella🇳🇱 @kooiker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Dave Warren @dw98439.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Some of his supporters really are this stupid

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Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dogs waiting to enter children's hospital rooms for animal therapy...Please don’t scroll without giving them some love! ❤ Original post

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Gerald Townsend @gtownjr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Would you be surprised if this is Ivanna?

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Remembering the late SAM NEILL — who would’ve turned 79 today. Fine Actor, lovely person.

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Ting Barrow @tingb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#TaxTheRich

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ICYMI: Our entire Four Corners story, Christian Brothers Inc, is here. I am posting the YouTube so our international viewers, including those in Ireland, can watch. Thank you to everyone who sat down with us for this important story. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-x...

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The scandal rocking the Christian Brothers | Four Corners Documentary

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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SalliSue20202 @sallisue20202.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Saving on medical lab tests...

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Steve 52 NO KINGS, NO FASCISTS @radicalsenior52.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Unqualified, inept, corrupt, bungling idiot Pete!

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BlueDream @58bugeye.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What kind of person would vote for Ken Paxton?

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From Sly Comics: Presidential Portrait #4 The kiss of death Everything he touches becomes wounded, destroyed, corrupted or dead. He has corruption in his marrow. He is a carcass of rot. Congress supports him, covers up for him, and abets him. They bear the kiss.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 31/07/2026

The nuclear danger does not begin and end with Trump. It lies in a failing system of nation states, militarised power and corporate oligarchy that leaves humanity trapped between mad warlords and greedy scoundrels, Julian Cribb writes. #NuclearWeapons #Trump #Geopolitics

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Humanity is trapped between mad warlords and greedy scoundrels

The danger of nuclear war does not begin and end with Donald Trump, but with a failing system of nation states, militarised power and corporate oligarchy.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 28/07/2026

In the World Cup tableau of Trump and Infantino, John Frew sees more than vanity. FIFA has turned football’s collective wealth into patronage and power, leaving supporters as customers and participation reduced to spectacle. #FIFA #WorldCup #Democracy

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Trump, Infantino and the politics of patronage

The World Cup presentation with Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino revealed how FIFA converts football’s collective wealth into patronage, reducing supporters to customers and participation to spectacle.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 25/07/2026

From Pius XII to Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church has steadily moved beyond the language of “just war”. It still recognises self-defence, but no longer gives war the comfort of a moral adjective, Antonio Spadaro writes. #CatholicChurch #War #Peace

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The Catholic Church removes 'just' from the theory of war

The Catholic Church has not abandoned the right to self-defence, but it has increasingly rejected the idea that modern war can be morally justified.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 27/06/2026

The World Cup offers a simple answer to a complicated political debate: a nation is strongest when people with different pasts choose the same future, says Sirwan Barzanji. #auspol #multiculturalism

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Where 'we' begins: the World Cup and multicultural Australia

The World Cup offers a simple answer to a complicated political debate: a nation is strongest when people with different pasts choose the same future.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 26/06/2026

Several New York Democratic primary victories by candidates critical of Israel point to a growing challenge to AIPAC-aligned politics, as Gaza, Palestinian rights and outside money become defining fault lines inside the party. #USPolitics #Gaza #AIPAC

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Mamdani-backed candidates reshape New York primaries, with Israel as the fault line

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 25/06/2026

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club speech exposed the weakness in the old right-wing politics of subtraction. In an age of scarcity, promising to take things away no longer lands on someone else, but on the voters she needs, Kos Samaras writes. #auspol #OneNation

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Hanson's politics of subtraction offers her own voters less

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club speech exposed the weakness in the old right-wing politics of subtraction: in an age of scarcity, promising to take things away no longer lands on someone else, but on the voters she needs.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 26/06/2026

Australia’s strength has never depended on everyone being the same. It has depended on learning how to live well together, despite our differences, writes Mainul Haque.

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Living well together despite our differences

A diverse nation is held together not by embracing monoculture but by building familiarity and then trust.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 25/06/2026

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Australians are marking survival, settlement and contribution with a world-first museum in Melbourne dedicated to refugee journeys that helped reshape multicultural Australia, Luke Hunt reports. #MulticulturalAustralia #Vietnam

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Once refugees, now part of Australia’s story

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Australians are marking survival, settlement and contribution with a world-first museum in Melbourne dedicated to the refugee journeys that helped reshape multicultural Australia.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 22/06/2026

Israel’s influence over US foreign policy is weakening as the political costs of unconditional support rise. If Washington’s relationship with Israel shifts, Australia’s pro-Israel lobby may face a new political reality too, Bob Bowker writes. #auspol #Israel #USPolitics

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Australia may feel the shift in US-Israel politics

Israel’s influence over US foreign policy is weakening as the political costs of unconditional support rise, and that shift may also reshape the pro-Israel lobby’s power in Australia.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 23/06/2026

Mary Kostakidis has received the 2026 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award, recognising her long record in Australian journalism and her defence of press freedom amid legal action over her criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza. #PressFreedom #Gaza #Journalism

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Mary Kostakidis wins freedom of the press award

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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 23/06/2026

Australia’s support for the US-Israeli war on Iran has again exposed the reflexive subservience of Australian foreign policy. It tied the country to another failed American military adventure that did nothing to serve the national interest, Jack Waterford writes. #auspol #Iran #ForeignPolicy

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Australia was defeated by Iran too

Australia’s support for the US-Israeli war on Iran has again exposed the reflexive subservience of Australian foreign policy, tying the country to another failed American military adventure that did nothing to serve the national interest.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 21/06/2026

Public education needs more than full funding. Australia must also confront the unfair advantages that allow private schools to combine public subsidies, fees and selective enrolment practices, Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor write. #auspol #Education #PublicSchools

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record-guy59.bsky.social @record-guy59.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20/06/2026

Israel’s failure to impose its will on Iran is not a disaster but a reality check. It should expose the limits of military force and force a reckoning with the fantasy that security can be built through permanent war, Gideon Levy writes. #Israel #Iran #Gaza

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Israel’s Iran failure is an opportunity to face reality

Israel’s failure to impose its will on Iran should be treated not as a disaster but as a reality check, exposing the limits of military force and the urgent need to end a politics built on permanent war.

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Michael 🌈🇦🇺🇱🇧🩸 @mickz1970.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Hanson has always been and will be a racist piece of trash. An individual who lacks compassion, grace, and any type of intelligence.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 09/06/2026

International law cannot be treated as optional. A public forum organised by Australians for Humanity examined why governments must uphold human rights commitments consistently – from Gaza to Australia’s own responsibilities, Stuart Rees writes. #auspol #HumanRights #InternationalLaw

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Challenging governments’ indifference to international law

A public forum organised by Australians for Humanity brought together legal, political and human rights experts to examine why international law must be upheld consistently – from Gaza to Australia.

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 09/06/2026

Australia’s foreign policy is being distorted by AUKUS, militarised thinking and misplaced faith in US power. The country needs statecraft, independence and diplomacy – not deeper integration into Washington’s war planning, Kym Davey writes. #auspol #AUKUS #ForeignPolicy

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The Kentucky colonel who drives Australian foreign policy

Australia’s foreign policy is being distorted by AUKUS, militarised thinking and a misplaced faith in US power, when the country should be rebuilding its diplomatic strength as an independent middle power.

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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

😂🍻

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/05/2026

No notes…

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 16/05/2026

Donald Trump is not an anomaly but the culmination of decades of democratic decay, oligarchic power and institutional collapse in the United States, Chris Hedges writes. #Trump #USPolitics #democracy

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America’s suicide pact

Donald Trump is not an aberration but the culmination of decades of political decay, elite corruption, corporate power and democratic collapse within the United States.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Just a Friendly Reminder…

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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Love it 🤣🍻

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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🤣😂🍻

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Firehawk @firehawkjw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm dying 😂🤣🍻

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Well Done Australia! Australia is on track to be one of the first countries to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem by 2035. Beef tallow and seed oil bans didn't do that. A vaccine did.

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