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Moira Rayner

@raynerme.bsky.social
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Churchill Fellow, Lawyer, investigator; ethicist, academic, author. Former Commissioner for Equal Opportunity & Human Rights,Victoria; Hearings Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission; Director, Office of Children’s Rights Commissioner for London.

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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 6h
open.substack.com/pub/savagemi... Well the ALP leadership could seize the day and grow up over this BS
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Angus Taylor
Australia’s Migration Reckoning
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FGS
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, stop the Destroyer !
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
open.substack.com/pub/lettersf... I like this pope, and his straight speaking.
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Palantir Executive Mocks Pope Leo XIV as Silicon Valley Splits Over Him
The stunt came eight days after Palantir’s co-founder called the pope a “useful idiot” for China. Not everyone in tech laughed, and some of the pope’s sharpest defenders came from inside the industry.
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a really interesting story about a great writer and his complex sense of justice, mercy and equity - I must commend the NYT for the essay and what it has revealed about my passionate concern for children’s human rights and their fullest recognition and inclusion.
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Jeff Daniels' powerful rant against Trump. This video was deleted from facebook yesterday. You know what to do ‼️
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Rollie 🤬 @architecturenerd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump-backed Missouri congressional map returns to the Supreme Court for the third time apnews.com/article/supr...
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Trump-backed Missouri congressional map returns to the Supreme Court for the third time
The fight over Missouri's congressional map has returned to the U.S. Supreme Court for the third time.
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Corruption writ large
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes and it’s fascist politics to let this slip by without a police force investigating what crimes are being committed
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I agree You want propaganda? So did Hitler’s willing helpers, and just look what happened
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 22/09/2026
Tribal consultation isn’t optional, but the corporations building data centers in New Mexico are acting like it is.
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Big Tech Is Trampling Native Treaty Rights to Build Data Centers
Tribal consultation isn’t optional, but the corporations building data centers in New Mexico are acting like it is.
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Of course and only cowards avert their eyes from this travesty of a “nation”
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On Friday’s episode of The Five 8, I outlined how the US is already a fascist state.The midterm elections comprise a referendum on how entrenched the condition is; the results of those elections will determine the course of the resistance going forward—and the future of American democracy.
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Far Right of Boom
The “boom” happened a while ago: American fascism is already here. But what if we don’t win the House and the Senate? The future of our democracy hinges on what happens in November. Are we ready?
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quite right too
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ignore it
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Crappy crappity crap
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cowards die miserably and deservedly so
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fascism writ large: obfuscating administrative obligations contrary to the rule of Law and the Constitution
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Far Right of Boom
The “boom” happened a while ago: American fascism is already here. But what if we don’t win the House and the Senate? The future of our democracy hinges on what happens in November. Are we ready?
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Read this if you want to think hard about racism and human rights law, in today’s bellicose and cruel and catastrophic environment…
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70andexhausted.bsky.social @70andexhausted.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Are You Sitting Down?
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Naqaa Hamed Detained
Journalist Arrested by Israeli Forces in West Bank
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan
This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Looks like a certain petulant brat got his saggy ass handed to him by a strong woman. You know how much he must have delighted in that. Thank you, President Connolly!
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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The carrion-eaters
What we did to Jason Arday
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luke-white.bsky.social @luke-white.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
At least the piece of shit suffered.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Whale Oil Beef Hooked” !!
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Senior dog becomes a puppy after meeting a new puppy. [📹 taiIs_allyandbeau] Original post
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Ziggy @bigad.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Truth...
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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The System That Killed a President
A forgotten bargain from the Gilded Age has returned to Washington.
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sacked?
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh? I’ll bet she’s being outsourced. By Tremp.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anne Frank wasn’t beat or shot to death. She died of typhus due to unhygienic conditions in her concentration camp. ICE isn’t just killing the people it shoots. A detention center is just a death camp by a different name. And they’re quietly murdering everyday. Post Here: interactink.vercel.app
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My housemate had bilateral Giant Cell Arteritis that disabled her for FOUR YEARS but her neurologist told her it was just a migraine. Her GP found it the next day and diagnosed it immediately Four YEARS and she could have have gone totally and permanently unable to see
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Facts beat paranoia HANDS DOWN
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Disgusting abuse of power. Storm troopers acting with over- confident impunity
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sigh. Blah blah blah
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sacking aviation-experienced workers and especially if the country is running a war is exceptionally stupid
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yes he’s a principled man and weaponising his constitutional rights to satisfy a bigoted bully is no way for the legislature to “investigate” him through such vicious interrogation is simply a new MCCarthyism,
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Oh and Asimov Asimov Asimov and … a fecund mind
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
But but but Trump said
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I should have replied earlier. I would read it all again immediately - I’ve just found the Hail Mary Project and I’ve read the novel it’s based on. I’ve collected SF novels because as child of the 1940s there was a deep understanding of myth, of the lies of the just war and of benevolent AI
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Moira Rayner @raynerme.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Well one like is better than none I Must take my tablet
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