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Sarah Joseph

@profsarahj.bsky.social
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Human rights, pop culture, sport

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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
@beneltham.bsky.social can you follow me so I can send a message?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
There is nothing in the NATO Charter that requires a member-state to join wars of aggression started by another member.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
oh man he's really mad today, guess the polling and news has penetrated the White House
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/03/2026
NATO is a defensive alliance whose main goal is deterrence, not a mercenary force
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Shannon Ellery Hubbell @brundlefly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an enormous step forward for women of people.
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I think it’s a Minns problem. He’s been wanting to stop the protests since October 2023. So his govt imposed laws which set up inevitable police/protester confrontation. He’s a disgrace.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The "White House staffer" who posted the disgustingly racist Obama meme:
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
even if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"the reaction from most of Australia, especially in the media, has proven once again the exceptional racism, hatred and derision that is reserved for Aboriginal people" Structural racism exhibit #7,984. #auspol
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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It simply can’t be d-
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/01/2026
White racist literally threw a bomb at black people to kill them, apparently not a sufficient cause to have a moral panic, special envoy, national introspection, royal commission, terrorism declaration, new laws, 1,000 op-eds in The Australian. We're struggling to identify why that might be.
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Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police
A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just as American Society of International Law conference surely becomes shaky, there might by have to be discussions to move the #Jessup in the future.
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is relevant to the Royal Commission
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It cannot not examine this
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
. @mollyjongfast.bsky.social RTYI - over 100 writers have now cancelled their appearance at the Adelaide Writers Week www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
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Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as almost 100 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah
Helen Garner, Melissa Lucashenko and Zadie Smith are among the more than 40 writers to have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week in the last 24 hours.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2025
it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Vale American Society of International Law. Surely most international lawyers have said something negative about Trump on social media. And who wants to risk not being let into the country? Sad
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
the administration told consular officials to deny visas to anyone who might have worked in factchecking or content moderation.. accusing them...of being “responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the US”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan
Proposed plan would apply to tourists of countries not currently required to get a visa to visit the US, including Britain and France
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
when Soviets accidentally agreed, during drafting of the Additional Protocols, to grant ICRC full access & facilities in armed conflict, Indians warned them of this ‘serious error,’ given their shared objective to break ICRC ‘monopoly’ as a third-party supervisor (1975).
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
never has there been a solution looking more desperately for a problem than ChatGPT
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
So it seems Hamas can’t find the bodies of remaining dead hostages because #Israel has destroyed so much of #Gaza, & in response Israel is going to starve Gazans again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Israel limits aid into Gaza in dispute over hostage remains as ceasefire faces test
Hamas accused of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of hostages but Palestinian militants say they face obstacles in retrieving them
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The president went on TV to attack political opponents and blame them for the killing of Charlie Kirk, even though we don’t know who shot him. If there is anything this man can do to worsen the situation, he will do it. Despicable.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The modern ALP are very very bad at institutional partisan politics. It is in their BEST interests to massively EXPAND open government through FOI and concrete it in, because they govern in a way that more harm will come to the Libs then themselves. Plus it's good www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Labor facing backlash over plans to curb access to government information
Changes announced by Michelle Rowland include new charges for FoI requests as well as tougher rules related to cabinet confidentiality
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Hey @australia.theguardian.com - the synagogue arson attack is a newsworthy antisemitic hate crime. But why lead with a lecture from the butcher of Gaza? And neglect to mention that he has an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity? 1/2... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns ‘reprehensible’ antisemitic Melbourne synagogue attack
New South Wales man, 34, charged over attack on East Melbourne Hebrew congregation on Friday night
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Television chef, author and artist Peter Russell-Clarke, known for his catchphrase "g'day", has died, aged 89.
abc.net.au
Australian celebrity chef Peter Russell-Clarke dies aged 89
Television chef, author and artist Peter Russell-Clarke, known for his catchphrase "g'day", has died, aged 89.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2025
This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/06/2025
As millions of Americans protested at “No Kings” rallies across the country, onlookers gathered in Washington, D.C., on the president’s birthday for a muted celebration. Matt Eich documented the parade in photos:
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Photos: A Military Parade in D.C.
As millions of Americans protested at “No Kings” rallies across the country, onlookers gathered in Washington on the president’s birthday for a muted celebration.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15/06/2025
The most consequential Speaker in state history.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Ooft ... www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
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John Pesutto facing bankruptcy after order to pay $2.3 million in Moira Deeming’s legal fees
The former Victorian opposition leader says he is determined to stay in parliament and hopes to fundraise enough money to avoid bankruptcy, which would force him to leave parliament.
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“He was supposed to ruin your life, not mine!”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/04/2025
This is a great interview but man is it another remind of which journalists in the ABC gets the space and freedom to engage with this issue, and which get attacked, bullied, harassed and fired for even mentioning it on their social media. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Khaled Sabsabi speaks - ABC listen
The Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi joins The Art Show exclusively to talk about the profound impact of the decision to unceremoniously dump him as Australia's representative artist to ...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“We didn’t backflip Brian. We just gently and calmly walked back the policy to a point time where it didn’t exist”
Comedian John Clarke
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Think about it: regardless of how he eventually publicly justifies lifting his stupid tariffs, until he does, the future of the world’s economy hinges on a narcissist admitting to himself that he’s been wrong for 40 years. Maybe stock up in canned beans or something
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Apparently it is the ALP’s fault for forcing the LNP to drop the policy that they are also now apologising for having had in the first place. #abc730
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/03/2025
News Analysis: President Trump's decision to send a high-powered U.S. delegation to Greenland, apparently uninvited, is already backfiring. Greenland has blasted him as “aggressive” and asked Europe for backup, and the visit is strengthening bonds between Greenland and Denmark.
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Trump’s Moves on Greenland Appear to Be Backfiring
The Greenlandic government is calling an upcoming visit by Trump officials “aggressive,” pushing the island further from the United States.
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Present posi
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I’m quite anxious about this cyclone. It’s probably the biggest weather event I’ll experience in my life so far (tho I had typhoons as a kid in Asia, can’t remember) Am hoping Alfred just continues to drift east and the west turn doesn’t happen
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Ah. ALP has announced a policy of not doing things to address the housing shortage. Good-o. There could be some clue there as to why they’re tanking in the polls
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1/ The #CreativeAustralia decision to dump #Sabsabi is outrageous but also deeply weird. Why did they report it as unanimous when Larissa Behrendt wasn’t there? Why did Lindy Lee vote against her core values? Why was there nowhere for CA “to breathe”? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Artist Lindy Lee quits Creative Australia board after ‘heartbreaking’ decision to dump Biennale pick
Lee calls unanimous decision a ‘violation’ of principle of valuing an artist’s voice
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Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The first resignations are in. Lindy Lee has left the Board; and Creative Australia's Head of Visual Arts, Mikala Tai, is also out. www.smh.com.au/culture/art-...
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Resignations follow dumping of Australian artist from Venice Biennale
All other biennale finalists have called for Creative Australia to reinstate multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation’s chosen entrant.
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Sarah Joseph @profsarahj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Sabsadi will be reinstated. Creative Australia Board will resign. Tony Burke will not, but will seem like and is a dickhead Anything else is surely intolerable to Australia’s art scene. It’ll destroy the Venice Pavilion Check mate. And never listen to the feral opposition or News Ltd again.
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