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Make me wanna holler sometimes and throw up both my hands. Melbourne/Naarm.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fascism is also about the pleasure of seeing unwanted bodies mutilated, tortured, killed. This has nothing to do with Hasan's crimes. It has to do with bringing back public lynchings. They're signaling to their base that they can now rejoice in the the death of undesirables.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Has any team ever come back from 17+ points down with less than 5 minutes to go? #aflgf
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Bigger and hungrier: What we know about 25 proposed new data centres
Dozens of approved but yet-to-be-built AI data centre projects will escape the federal government's proposed restrictions around energy and water use because the new rules are not expected to be retro...
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely
What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey Albo, let us know when we need to start panicking. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #auspol
abc.net.au
How a 'swarm' of AI agents hacked another company, in the AI's own words
Tens of thousands of messages from hundreds of rogue OpenAI agents reveal how the self-described "collective" coordinated the attack on AI infrastructure company Hugging Face.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... #auspol
abc.net.au
Are we heading for billionaire bunkers and an AI apocalypse?
Wealth inequality is becoming extreme. Political corruption is rampant in the United States. So will the response to AI and automation be redistribution or repression?
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age sell a genocide. #auspol
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Might be a pattern here. #auspol
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Another case in point: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Israeli military clears soldiers over Gaza strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom
Penny Wong said she is "outraged" and plans to haul in the Israeli ambassador after the Israel Defense Forces cleared its personnel of any criminal wrongdoing in the April 2024 strike on a World Centr...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week. This is the bill that allows warrantless questioning by ASIO, without a lawyer, and you can't tell a soul without being sent to prison. Share this widely and make some noise.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #auspol
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
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Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 21/07/2026
The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earth barrier separating the more than 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the Palestinian enclave. jrnl.ie/7108745
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Israel consolidating land grab by building 22km earth barrier cutting through Gaza
Israel has mostly destroyed and depopulated the half of Gaza it controls
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Enemies of civilization’: top Trump officials launch sweeping attack on left
Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller took aim at only leftwing activism at meeting of 66 nations against political violence
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
BREAKING: A record 104 Members of Congress - 103 Democrats and one Republican - just voted to cut $3.3 billion in weapons funding to Israel.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
HISTORIC 53C DAY- 38C at NIGHT 52.7C Omidieh IRAN All time record and 2026 World Record MINIMUMS ! 38.3 Delhoran IRAN 33.1 Uchkuduk UZBEKISTAN Next days WORSE 53/54c Middle East 49/50C former USSR 50/52C CHINA NIGHTS up to 40C MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN WORLD HISTORY
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/07/2026
Trump: "One of the things I talked to [Putin] about was 'Where would you want to meet?' And he said 'Ideally in Moscow.' I said 'You're not going to meet in Moscow.'…Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
When Crikey asked Dept of Home Affairs if calling Israel's actions apartheid would be antisemitic, it referred Crikey to a Jillian Segal handbook. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/01/i...
crikey.com.au
'Legitimate criticism' of Israel is fine, internal governments docs say. It's unclear what this means
Documents obtained by Crikey paint an ambiguous picture of what counts as antisemitic in the government's eyes, as it continues to apply a controversial definition.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/01/i...
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'Legitimate criticism' of Israel is fine, internal governments docs say. It's unclear what this means
Documents obtained by Crikey paint an ambiguous picture of what counts as antisemitic in the government's eyes, as it continues to apply a controversial definition.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A Brief History of Kids Today Are Selfish 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism
First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/29/i...
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The scale of Israel's deliberate targeting of Palestinian children betrays understanding
The reality captured by a UN body's comprehensive report on Israel's intentional killing of Palestinian children will go unread by most. For those who do, we despair.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
One of Elon Musk's most cryptic posts says this: "Whatever happens, we have got the spaceships, and they do not." We decode this here. It's a serious statement about the future he actually envisions: newrepublic.com/article/2119...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trump’s DOJ has charged 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota. The charges are based on his national security memo that categorized “anti-capitalism,” “anti-Americanism,” and “extremism on migration” as domestic terrorism. This is what tyranny looks like.
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'Major Escalation': Trump Prosecutor Invokes NSPM-7 While Unveiling Charges Against 15 ICE Protesters | Common Dreams
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are targeting anti-ICE protesters with charges linked to Trump's crackdown on left-wing
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"The battle between democracy and oligarchy will be the defining battle of the 21st century" - French economist Gabriel Zucman www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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What a trillion dollars costs democracy
Democracy cannot survive trillionaires. We need to start taxing billionaires properly.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The US-Israeli strategy failed to defeat Iran quickly – now they are moving to plan B | Paul Rogers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I can't work out whether this is satire or not.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Just recalling Christian-Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee saying the quiet part out loud a week ago when discussing Israel's role in the Middle East with Tucker Carlson: “It would be fine if they took it all”.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I don't think they care what we think anymore.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Australia officially declares it no longer believes in international law: "We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran from continuing to threaten international peace and security," the statement says. #auspol
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Australian media: "The US says ..."; "Israel says ..."
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
'Both sides' now means One Nation.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I seem to recall the NSW anti-protest laws being justified on the basis of protecting Australia's reputation.. #auspol
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
ICE vs. NSW Police. Spot the difference.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2026
I very genuinely do not think that Australia's media industry can be classified as any other than fully supportive of police violence, because you have to actively, consciously and knowingly work to frame what happened as general "violence mars protests" rather than "police violently attack protest"
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
ICYMI, searing piece from Omar. If you are in two minds about attending a protest rally later today, this will convince you to go.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This is a brilliant piece. Thanks.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This is brilliant. #auspol sakr.substack.com/p/labor-is-c...
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Labor Is Complicit in Genocide
Isaac Herzog's welcome completes the picture
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The Verge @theverge.com · 06/02/2026
"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j
Verge headline: How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
by Elizabeth Lopatto

Photo illustration depicts a shadowy Epstein flanked by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, distorted by pink noise
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Then front page interview with Herzog in Saturday Age.
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Is The Age just trolling these days? Today's front page headline: 'Herzog says his visit is for love and friendship'. #auspol
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Pelyoneast @pelyoneast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Unless there is political mileage to be made out of it - "It is not appropriate to use an incident that remains under active investigation to... ascribe broader political meaning before the facts are established," the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians said." #auspol
abc.net.au
'Deserves to be acknowledged': Parliament condemns Perth bomb attack
Federal parliament officially condemns the attempted bomb attack at Perth's Invasion Day rally on its first sitting day, acknowledging the harm caused to the First Nations community.
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