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Nancy Jane armstrong

@nancyjane50.bsky.social
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Feminist, socialist, failed academic and failed revolutionary.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Far too much money, information technology, & weaponry have been allowed to concentrate into the hands of the few, and that unchecked power has deranged our elites, (& the duopoly) goading them to take risks that put our societies & countless species in existential peril.” We need change #Auspol
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In Australia you can't tell where the coal industry ends and the
federal government begins.
- Naomi Klein, writer and activist
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 1h
If we fail to ensure data centres pay for new renewables and storage to cover their demand, power prices will increase for all of us – and by $20 billion a pop to fund new coal reneweconomy.com.au/the-queensland-…
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The Queensland LNP plan for coal-powered data centres could cost taxpayers $20 billion a pop
If we fail to ensure data centres pay for new renewables and storage to cover their demand, power prices will increase for all of us – and by $20 billion a pop to fund new coal.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2h
I’ve probably watched dozens of mass shooting videos as part of my job. It takes a part of you each time. I do not understand why you would do this. Vile. apnews.com/article/fort...
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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the-oc.bsky.social @the-oc.bsky.social · 5h
Absolutely disgusting. Hey @albomp.bsky.social is this another example of all those shared values we have with the United States? Are we good with public executions now????
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forestrising.bsky.social @forestrising.bsky.social · 2h
As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever. Australian Human Rights Act which protects our rights to privacy, equality, cultural rights, freedom of thought and expression. www.humanrightsact.org.au
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Australian Human Rights Act - join the campaign
We need an Human Rights Act to ensure everyone’s rights are properly protected and people have the power to hold governments to account. We are the official campaign advocating for this important chan...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#AUKUS is a massive waste of money, is strategically stupid, and represents Australia giving up what little national sovereignty we have left for the privilege of being an ATM for the US and UK governments. And now we can add; corrupt. #EndAUKUS #aispol www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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US firm gets $2.9bn sub deal after boss joins war study with Musk
Anduril said it would invest $3.7bn to develop shipyard that would build submarine parts.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 20h
Have there been ANY consequences for Israel murdering Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom? Have there been ANY consequences for Israel physically and sexually abusing Australian humanitarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla? Now imagine our Govt's response if Iran had committed these crimes. #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22h
My guess is companies will say "cool, let's reduce the reviews and revisions" (and take the profits)
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 21h
And when police murder someone by accident or misidentification what then?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Notable that this has got next to no coverage in Australian legacy media. As usual, on any matters AUKUS and the US 'alliance', they are strangely incurious. Or complicit.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Australian taxpayer $ may be going to Trump's sons, through this military tech company Anduril. There's a long list of questions on #AUKUS that defence minister Marles refuses to answer. Here's another: How can you guarantee that AUKUS payments are not being used corruptly? #EndAUKUS #aispol
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 23h
Totally disgraceful levels of #climate disinformation from BOTH the #coalition and #ON.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 22h
Raising the rate is vastly more important and practical and should be a fundamental economic policy priority. It is not a messaging box to tick off.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
you can not keep community safe with high powered rifles ffs what kind of pew pew rambo bullshit. There is no scenario where cops with assault weapons arrive faster and cause less damage than the local cops. We do not even have information on how many of the 40 injured at Bondi were injured by cops.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I have a Palestinian friend from Gaza, Eyad. From him, I know the reality on the ground, his girls are injured, his wife is injured, many of his family members are no longer alive He told me how people are killed every day, even children sometimes, "it’s sad but we got used to it" he told me.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To every Australian banging on this morning on talkback radio about wanting ZERO migration, I concede. You can have it. As long as you are ok with the high chance of ZERO emergency medical care when you’re sick. ZERO aged care when you’re old. ZERO fresh food when you’re hungry.
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Nancy Jane armstrong @nancyjane50.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, you big, scarey person! How could you condemn the slaughter of innocent people when our media, government and corporate interests demand we turn a blind eye to genocide?
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Feels coordinated at this point. Six years of punching up and being quite deliberately ignored, frozen out of the conversation (we barged our way in anyway), and now attacks from Crikey, SMH and The Australian in just a few weeks....
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/10/2026
The Reserve Bank hiked interest rates last week - but why? Despite the unusual economic climate, the RBA is just ploughing on as normal, @grogsgamut.bsky.social says. "There seems to be a lack of recognition of just how absurd a lot of what's going on here is." #auspol 🎧 theaus.in/4hWT057
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill recently raising ire in WA parliament over the Cook Labor government not only moving to host the Land Forces 2026 weapons festival, but further, to rollout a security regime to conceal these arms dealers from the public. Another Premier who's a law unto themselves.
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“A US Military Outpost”: WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill on Land Forces and AUKUS
WA Greens MLC Sophie McNeill has been keeping the Cook Labor government honest, when it comes to security around Land Forces 2026 and ongoing AUKUS developments.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yanis Varoufakis: Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis
Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labor MP Josh Burns falsely claiming newly-elected @greens.org.au Leader @davidshoebridge.bsky.social is "prejudiced" against Jewish Australians is an obscene lie. He should withdraw it and apologise. Criticising Israel's genocide is NOT antisemitism. 😠 #auspol #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We're Already Living Through Journalisms Dystopian Future truthout.org/articles/wer...
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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future
AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.
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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#ClimateReality
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump can stick his displeasure where the sun don't shine, but don't worry, I'm sure Albo will soon be brought to heel again. www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/united-...
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United States Is Displeased with Australia’s Proposed Digital Duty of Care
The Trump administration has responded to Albanese’s plan to protect Australians from “seriously harmful material and conduct” by calling it a “blank cheque for political censorship”.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Honestly, Australia ... Marles & his “shared values” with Hegseth &/or Trump or with warmongering, in general ... isn't that enough to just get him 'unelected'? Anyone in Marles' electorate of Corio, Victoria or in the 773km² that it makes up wanna do the country a massive favour in '28?
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Andrew Brown: “Ben Chifley started it, Robert Menzies kept it, in Vienna and Singapore, they never stopped. Public housing for working people is the most tested idea in housing policy, and Australia has done it before.” #auspol
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
End AUKUS. The US military is destabilizing the world and spreading violence, all headed by a bunch of Trump's true weirdos fighting culture wars.
Screenshot of Australian article headline kill purge army of ‘fatties, beardos and weirdos’ says Hegseth with a picture of Pete Hegseth saluting in front of a large American flag projection
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The annoying thing is I'll probably end up going 1 Greens anyway because the current socialist options are profoundly unserious and the other left-leaning micros tend to be even worse—or in the case of Australia's Voice, Fatima Payman seems to have parked her electoral vehicle in the garage
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the way right wing operatives like Karvelas and 2GB and ALP politicians immediately produce uniform responses that are little more than character assassination reeks of delusion and desperation lol these people are PAID MONEY to know that public sentiment is for climate action and against genocide.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the pro-Israel crowd are so obviously lining Shoebridge up for a Corbynin
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What took em so fucking Long???????????????????
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 03/10/2026
The credit ratings agencies have confirmed Australia's triple-A borrowing status and we have the strongest budgetary position in the Group of 20, with lower gross debt than every major advanced economy, writes John Hewson. trib.al/NpG6JRR
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Economic myth management
Does the Coalition really want to cut back on initiatives to ease the cost of living? This is a complex area with complex trade-offs that are hard to ‘explain’ to the public.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senator Lidia Thorpe explicitly named detention centres as “sites of systemic child abuse, operating in direct violation of this country’s domestic and international human rights obligations and all morality." Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/THUZhU4A
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congratulations, News Corp, on celebrating 11 years of not paying a single cent in tax. But per new ATO data released today, the Murdoch company isn’t even the worst offender. A slew of corporate entities made a motza off Australia and paid zilch in tax. www.crikey.com.au/2026/10/01/n...
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News Corp celebrates more than a decade of paying zero tax in Australia
News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
News Corp used 6 of its own cadets in the anti-Labor "Home Front", taxation changes propaganda campaign. It advertises cadetships that pay $65k. News Australia Holdings, pays no corporate income tax. #auspol www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
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News Corp’s housing special proves a bit too close to home as cadets enlisted as case studies | Weekly Beast
Six unhappy young Australians fronting Commonwealth Bank-sponsored series are News Corp’s own employees. Plus: Peter Manning remembered
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The RBA media team is becoming known for contacting journalists and media outlets critical of its decisions and decision making process - but the criticism doesn't actually go far enough. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Households in pain – but our budget crisis has an obvious answer
Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck everyone involved with letting them do this. All the past politicians. The current one. And all the future ones. This is as at least as serious as murder in my opinion.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"More than 60 Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank have been wiped off the map since October 2023 and 18 others have been partly displaced, according to the Israeli rights group B’Tselem." Wiped off the map. Live streamed pogroms. Yet still, Albo does nothing.
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Israeli forces overwhelmed by violent settlers in ‘terrorist attack’ on Palestinian family
Settler violence in West Bank makes everyday life ‘untenable’ for Palestinians, says ICRC after assault on family trying to return home in Jalud
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Privatised aid failed the people of Gaza. The world should learn not to repeat it theconversation.com/privatised-a...
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Privatised aid failed the people of Gaza. The world should learn not to repeat it
New research looking into the US government-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation shows when aid is handed over to corporations, civilians pay the price.
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The inflation problem. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing a single mother, recently made homeless after defaulting on her mortgage repayments (as evidenced by visible paperwork), setting up a new home in a tent with her two young children. Surrounded by their essentials stored in storage and plastic bags, the baby crawls on the grass, his older brother heats some food over a camp stove, and his exhausted-looking mother blows up an air mattress. Watching her, the boy says, "Is this what they means when they say 'inflation is the problem,' Mum?"
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Nancy Jane armstrong @nancyjane50.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Difficult to do because knowing is not proving, but I have just marked a batch of essays and I agree, the voice is bland and the structure is 'listy'. God knows what they actually learned since I do not think they read anything. Some of them are going to be English teachers - hopeless ones.
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Nancy Jane armstrong @nancyjane50.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#raisetherate! The present rate is cruel, mean and unliveable
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"I do want to reassure Australians that as soon as we’re in a proper recession and people are pushed into financial ruin, we’ll lower rates." theshovel.com.au/2026/09/30/r...
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RBA Reassures Australians They’ll Stop Raising Interest Rates as Soon as Economy Collapses — The Shovel
"I do want to reassure Australians that as soon as we’re in a proper recession and people are pushed into financial ruin, we’ll lower rates"
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Gerry @smcclory303.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh NOW it’s exchange rates FFS. Yet again us oiks down the bottom of the food chain are paying for the sins of the most craven people in the world!!!
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Random Sarah @random-sarah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Raise the interest rates means massive rent rises - people have nothing left to fucking save. People can barely cover rent let alone food as well in many cases.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
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SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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