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Olivia Ralph

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Reporter at The Daily Beast.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Olivia Ralph @oliviaralph.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 08/06/2026
We live in the stupidest timeline.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/05/2026
"In September 2025, nine mosques and cultural centers in and around Paris were targeted...Bloody severed pig heads, each marked with the word “Macron” in blue ink, were left outside their front doors." This was a Russian stunt. From @occrp.org Read more: www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
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Leaked Documents Reveal Russian ‘Cognitive Strikes’ Against the West — Including Islamophobic ‘Pig Head’ Attacks in Paris
Leaked chats and documents showcase the Russian presidential administration’s role in false-flag vandalism attacks and election interference campaigns in Europe and beyond.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Jeffrey Epstein’s brother is calling BS on a newly surfaced “suicide note” allegedly written by the disgraced financier before his death in jail.
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Epstein’s Brother Raises New Questions About Suicide Note
A note allegedly left by Jeffrey Epstein has reignited conspiracy theories.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“I don’t know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips.”
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Tucker Carlson Cornered After Denying Trump ‘Antichrist’ Comment
The former Fox News host denied ever raising the idea—even when his own words were read back to him.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Trump fumed as Fox News praised Maher’s interview with Gavin Newsom.
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Trump, 79, Reignites War With ‘Moron’ Bill Maher
Trump fumed as Fox News praised Maher’s interview with Gavin Newsom.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I've covered NDIS since it began, more than any other subject in my career. There are indeed original flaws in the way it was introduced but to punish disabled people for failures of successive governments is not good policy. Policy weaklings, indeed. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/28/j...
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Gillard’s NDIS vision was a promise she couldn’t keep
Disabled people will be the ones who are punished when poor planning meets political mongrel.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
President Donald Trump was asked point-blank why people keep trying to kill him after a gunman opened fire near the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday.
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Trump Asked to Face Why People Keep Trying to Kill Him
Trump leans into assassination history after latest shooting scare.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“This is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House."
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Trump Uses Shooting to Make Jaw-Dropping Push for Tacky Ballroom
A security scare became fresh ammunition for Trump’s long-troubled ballroom push.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Attendees inside the ballroom were told to get down as top officials were rushed out.
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Trump White House Correspondents’ Dinner Erupts in Gunfire
Chaos erupted at the nerd prom.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
CBS journalists joined a dinner to “honor” the president as Paramount seeks approval for a $111 billion deal.
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MAGA-Coded CBS Boss’ Cozy Trump Dinner Has Staff Seeing Red
CBS journalists joined a dinner to “honor” the president as Paramount seeks approval for a $111 billion deal.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Kimmel gave a 9-minute roast of the whole Trump administration.
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Jimmy Kimmel Gives Trump the WHCD Roast He’s Been Hiding From
Kimmel gave a 9-minute roast of the whole Trump administration.
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Olivia Ralph @oliviaralph.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My very talented better half wrote a tribute to James Valentine. He set the bar for what public broadcasting could be. A place for fun, for silliness, for joy, for ‘nothing’ as one of his many beloved segments proved. @jessmcguire.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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James Valentine showed us what public broadcasting could be at its very best. It’s a legacy I hope to live up to | Jess McGuire
The public grief is enormous but it keeps giving way to joy, to moments of hilarity that have stayed with listeners for years
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Working on a piece about the NDIS announcement. Taking my time to get my thoughts in order but the one thing I know for sure is that all the realpolitik of 'financial management' now means sweet FA to people who watched existing services disappear in favour of a promise made to them. Now what?
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So deeply sad about this. James Valentine was just such a top class broadcaster, but more importantly, a wonderful human. ❤️
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/04/2026
What the American "drug war" looks like on the ground: Ecuadorian fishermen were attacked in a double drone strike, arrested at gupoint, taken to El Salvador and then finally released. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
most helpful summary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Helene Cooper, Pentagon reporter

Trump has concluded speaking after 19 minutes. Nothing new was said tonight. This was a rehash of his Truth Social posts over the past month.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 23/03/2026
ABC staff to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected
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ABC staff to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected
Union says below‑inflation pay hikes and ongoing insecure work threatens the future of Australia’s public‑interest journalism More than 75% of ABC staff will walk off the job on Wednesday for the first time in 20 years, triggering a severe disruption to the public broadcaster’s news services for 24 hours. Without producers, camera operators and directors it is almost impossible to put shows including the prime-time current affairs flagship 7.30 to air. Continue reading...
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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The US media keeps trying to catch the Trump administration contradicting itself on Iran. But that assumes it’s a normal administration. It isn’t. Rubio and Hegseth’s explanations for the war are irrelevant. The only one that matters is Donald Trump’s.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I've been shown NDIS agency documents that warn the introduction of a support needs assessment and 'robo-planning' is a mess with every element of the tech listed as off track and now at 'critical risk'. Agency booked savings, but they're figuring it out as they go. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/05/r...
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Exclusive: NDIS algorithm designed to put scheme back on track at 'critical risk'
Documents seen by Crikey show that senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency have warned that the policy design of the so-called New Framework Planning is in disarray.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The 79-year-old president seemed positively giddy.
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'Peace President' Trump Boasts He Will Bomb For Days to Come
The 79-year-old president seemed positively giddy.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Self-proclaimed ‘Peace President’ Donald Trump has launched a bomb attack on Iran.
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‘Peace President’ Trump Bombs Iran to Start Another New War
The United States launched a pre-emptive attack on the Iranian capital of Tehran on Saturday.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Angus Taylor resigns from nothing to be nothing
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As the world burns, let's get one thing straight. A video podcast is just a TV show.
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/07/2025
INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring: "Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."
Reform Jewish Movement Statement on Starvation in Gaza
July 27, 2025 - The ongoing crisis in Gaza is a devastating reminder of the immense human cost of war.
Nearly two years into Israel's war against Hamas, Israelis are still waiting for the return of their loved ones held hostage, and innocent Palestinians are caught in a mounting humanitarian catastrophe. Hamas has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to sacrifice the Palestinian people in its pursuit of Israel's destruction, but Israel must not sacrifice its own moral standing in return. Neither escalating military pressure nor restricting humanitarian aid has brought Israel closer to securing a hostage deal or ending the war.
While long-delayed and not-yet-certain to be more effective than previous efforts, we are encouraged by Saturday night's announcement that the Israeli military would revive the practice of dropping aid from airplanes and make it easier for aid convoys, including those from the UN's World Food Program, to move through Gaza along "designated humanitarian corridors," and to temporarily cease fighting in Gaza for a humanitarian pause.
No one should be unaffected by the pervasive hunger experienced by thousands of Gazans. No one should spend the bulk of their time arguing technical definitions between starvation and pervasive hunger. The situation is dire, and it is deadly. Nor should we accept arguments that because Hamas is the primary reason many Gazans are either starving or on the verge of starving, that the Jewish State is not also culpable in this human disaster. The primary moral response must begin with anguished hearts in the face of such a large-scale human tragedy.
Our tradition teaches that all people are created b tzelem Elohim — in the image of God. One consequence of this is the moral priority, which is affirmed throughout the Bible and rabbinic tradition, of feeding the hungry
- both for the individual and for the self-governing Jewish community.
More than a few members of t…Despite PM Netanyahu's calls to ignore these full members of his cabinet, their presence in this government has consistently morally compromised Israel's actions.
Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the "total victory" over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law. It's hard to imagine that this tragic approach will bring home the 50 remaining hostages, including the 20 who we pray are still alive.
It's imperative that the Government of Israel ensures that the recently announced plans to deliver humanitarian aid succeed as Israel works with international partners to ensure its safe and sustained delivery and do whatever possible to reduce or eliminate the shootings and other injuries sustained at food distribution centers. We applaud Israel's green light for foreign nations to resume providing humanitarian aid to the Gaza population desperate for food and are confident that they will do all they can to ensure that such aid does not fall into the hands of Hamas.
As Israel has effective control of 70% of Gaza, with the intent to remain in significant swaths of it, even if only temporarily, it should be directly involved, facilitate and cooperate with the international community, international humanitarian NGOs, and regional friends, to take urgently needed actions, such as these suggested by Israeli Reform rabbi and Member of Knesset Gilad Kariv:
• To prevent the alarming number of civilian deaths in and around the food and humanitarian aid distribution sites.
• Opening a significant number of food distribution centers at various locations across the Gaza Strip.
• Large-scale entry of infant formula (especially liquid formula) and ensuring safe delivery to both functioning medical centers and the few remaining international aid facilities.
• Establishing secure methods - potentially through cooperation with regional countries - for delivering food supplies to aid organizations and international agencies.
• Resuming su…Finally, while it is imperative that Israel and the U.S. resume diplomacy to bring home all hostages and end this war, denying basic humanitarian aid crosses a moral line. Blocking food, water, medicine, and power- especially for children- is indefensible. Let us not allow our grief to harden into indifference, nor our love for Israel to blind us to the cries of the vulnerable. Let us rise to the moral challenge of this moment.
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Shelley Niceley Groff (she/her)
North American Board Chair
Rabbi Rick Jacobs (he/him)
President
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Rabbi David A. Lyon (he/him)
President
Rabbi Hara Person (she/her)
Chief Executive Officer
American Conference of Cantors
Cantor Josh Breitzer (he/him)
President
Rachel Roth (she/her)
Chief Operating Officer
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Semafor @semafor.com · 11/06/2025
A number of US administration officials have criticized the landmark defense agreement with the UK and Australia.
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Pentagon set to review AUKUS nuclear submarine deal: Report
A number of US administration officials have criticized the landmark defense agreement with the UK and Australia.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It’s the happiest day of Elon Musk’s life because he finally posted something people actually want to read
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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The ABC has a structural obsession with the Liberals because of the last decade of funding cuts and Senate estimates pressure, but I think this is also a consequence of exclusively hiring senior political reporters from News Corp. Their sources tend to be in one direction.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 18/05/2025
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just six years after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, at MBS’s direction, Jeff Bezos is going into business—and, thus, helping to enrich—the man who orchestrated it. My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...
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Jeff Bezos Abandons Khashoggi to Cut Deal With MBS
Jeff Bezos once mourned Jamal Khashoggi—now he's making billion-dollar deals with his executioner, revealing more about his values than any vigil ever could.
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If Williams is happy to harangue journalists because they aren’t interviewing his mate and promoting his commercial gigs, what else is he interfering with? ABC board way overdue for a wholesale clean out www.smh.com.au/business/com...
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ABC chair scorched for ‘lapse of judgment’ over alleged interference
ABC’s Media Watch has taken the public broadcaster’s chairman Kim Williams to task for allegedly labelling some regional staff “arrogant” and pressuring them to give a comedian airtime.
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Olivia Ralph @oliviaralph.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The man is sundowning.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Great to see the ABC discuss astroturfing and Australians for Natural Gas this morning. Would have been nice for some acknowledgement that I first reported in @reneweconomy.com.au that the group was created by a gas executive and former director of CPAC. You can read the story below:
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Meet the people behind the latest gas lobby group claiming to “educate and inform” consumers
A fracking executive, a former Liberal politician and a lobbyist are behind a new gas advocacy group claiming to represent “households, industries and producers.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/03/2025
COMMENTARY: In recent years, Russia has repeatedly used Svalbard to experiment with different provocations. And now, the Kremlin has accused Norway of militarizing the archipelago, creating a potential pretext for military action.
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We need to pay closer attention to Svalbard
NATO members and other allies would do well to start thinking about how they’d respond if Russia took action against one of its most remote geographies.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/03/2025
Russia is not winning www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Russia Is Not Winning
At the current rate, Russia will control all of Ukraine in about 118 years.
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Not sure ABC Middle East coverage has ever been worse. An entire report on Gazans being forced to go the Jordan for medical aid without once mentioning why, and even manages to paint Israel as a benign force helping facilitate the aid. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Mercy mission for sick Gaza kids - ABC listen
An ambitious mercy mission to evacuate 2,000 sick kids from Gaza for desperate medical treatment in Jordan has begun.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 04/03/2025
Australians lose more money to gambling in a year than government spends on aged care, report finds
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Australians lose more money to gambling in a year than government spends on aged care, report finds
The $31.5bn lost each year likened to a ‘hidden, unspoken black hole’ that cost-of-living policies have not addressed • Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians are losing more money to gambling each year than the federal…
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 18/02/2025
Interesting data in light of current events. More about welfare queen Elon Musk: www.profgalloway.com/elon-musk-we...
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