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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration is devoid of many things - empathy, compassion, honour, meliorism and intelligence, let alone "super intelligence". Like everything Trump does, it's just wrong and embarrassing for the USA.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump lies and lies, all the time. It does real harm to people in the USA and across the world. USA please vote anything but Republican in the midterms to stop this obscene behaviour that is hurting everybody. This poor guy has been watching Trump's lying for years. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[Australia politics] The truth is beginning to emerge about One Nation. They won't do anything for you or Australia. Their message is built on hate. Much like Trump and Farage their primary objective would appear to be to enrich themselves feeding off your worries. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Insidious money grab': Aspiring candidates slam One Nation processes
Former One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am so pleased for E Jean Carroll. She has stuck with it through a horrendous amount of abuse from a bunch of horrible, detestable men. USA - you have a sex offender for a President and a vast number of you seem to think that is OK. It's not OK. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Trump accuser E Jean Carroll finally gets her damages
Lawyers have shut down Donald Trump's attempt to raise a court case to take back the money awarded to E Jean Carroll, the only person to successfully sue Mr Trump for sexual assault.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know the idea of enshittification is supposed to relate to the digital world, but I feel like it's happening even in the local pub. Australia, Friday public holiday before the AFL Grand Final - happy hour 3 to 5 pm. Lovely. We get there no happy hour, beer at over $18 a pint - crap really.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's started already? Spare us! It's only a matter of time before a bunch of robots build their own supreme being - a real T-1 😱
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
[Australia politics] At a time when climate change is becoming ever more damaging and dangerous we get this crass stupidity from the Coalition. It's hard to believe, but they really are as stupid as they look. They are trashing the future. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Coalition vows to 'take a chainsaw' to climate laws, offshore wind
The Coalition has promised a major slowdown of renewables if it wins power, including scrapping most offshore renewables sites, formalising its commitment to unpick Australia's key climate policies.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Everything that sociopath Trump does is a hostile act, and everything we can do to isolate the Trump Administration is for the common good. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/15/a...
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Canada is pursuing a ‘unique alliance’ with the EU as US ties remain fraught. Here’s what we know | CNN
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Wednesday that Canada become the bloc’s first “associate member,” a move aimed at shoring up their economies in the face of increasing trade...
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More appalling behaviour by an Australian corporate - Suncorp and AAMI. Maybe not so lucky you're with AAMI. AAMI's tried a similar thing with me. I hate this kind of behaviour and am very pleased the ACCC is taking action. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Suncorp's debt collector engaging in 'worst kind' of bullying, former ACCC chair says
Insurance giant Suncorp's debt collector spent months using AI to harass an 81-year-old woman into paying a claim she was not responsible for.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We need a HIGH IQ PRESIDENT to control AI! Well I guess that rules out the USA being of any use. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Trump says AI needs no new rules, just a 'high-IQ president'
As pressure builds in Washington for action on AI following a flurry of doomsday warnings, Donald Trump says there is a "sick conspiracy" against the technology.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yes President Putin - The message will be simple: 'Get out of Ukraine, give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine, end this war which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month.' Such wasted talent, even by Russian standards. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney prepared to tell Putin to 'get out of Ukraine' if Russia welcomed to G20 summit | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will keep any conversation with Vladimir Putin short if he comes face-to-face with the Russian president at the G20 summit later this year.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Well it is looking like the USA is a failed state. It's Supreme Court is no longer independent, it's national debt is beyond management, it's bonds are becoming increasingly worthless and its administration isn't administrating anything well at all and has no friends. Mid terms are your last hope.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
[Australia Politics] Barnaby Joyce - UGLIEST man on TV but somebody who still can't keep his dick in his pants on those occasions he is married - now can't explain his own party's policies. That is because it's NOT a policy, just a thought bubble. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Under pressure to explain super policy, Joyce says he is 'not Jesus Christ'
The One Nation Treasury spokesperson sidesteps questions about modelling the inflationary impact of the proposal, saying Australians are "not stupid" and can manage their own money.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Angus Taylor, Matt Canavan proving they really are as stupid as they look. I think teachers have so much to do already the last thing they will actively engage in is political agendas in the classroom. Get real you idiots. Teaching is hard - most men aren't up to it. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Live: Opposition leader says teachers running 'political agendas' in schools
Angus Taylor would not say whether he agreed with comments from Nationals leader Matt Canavan that there needed to be more male teachers in classrooms. Follow live.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is this shaping up to be another Arthur Anderson? More disgraceful Australian corporate behaviour. Hubris on public display. "These are serious people that you can no longer take seriously." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Scandal-plagued KPMG starts to pay the bill for its mistakes
In the wake of scandals about the misuse of confidential information, embattled consulting firm KPMG is losing million-dollar contracts and cutting its workforce. And that's all before the corporate r...
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don't be poor. "Australia's businesses ... have used the collapse of union power to suppress wages, while using their own oligopoly power to increase prices and spend the proceeds on fully franked dividends and buybacks to support share prices and executive salaries." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
Business used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and po...
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Trump Administration has and continues to act in really dumb ways - but now they are reducing the average IQ of the whole of the USA. On the flipside, good for you Canada. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/28/a...
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Canada poaches dozens of US academics as Trump administration tightens university funding | CNN
Forty-eight academics come from institutions in the US, including Harvard, Cornell, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from a range if disciplines.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think this poster demonstrates just how broken the USA actually is. It is not OK to pay somebody $2.13 an hour. It is not OK to insist that customers make up a worker's salary. This place is run by an idiot. I suggest you find an alternative restaurant.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'm with Canada. Everything the Trump Administration does just sucks. The USA is no friend of Australia at the moment either. #canada #BoycottUSA www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
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Premiers back Carney as trade war with U.S. escalates | CBC
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Superstar Demi does it again - she is a superb athlete - what a fighter! Demi Vollering has won the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, the second time she has won the famous tour. The women's race is so exciting - it always comes down to seconds on the final stage. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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'Go chase the dreams': Vollering wins second Tour de France Femmes
Dutch rider Demi Vollering has won the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, the second time she has won the famous tour.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The USA is too big to be allowed to fail, but it's heading that way. It really is time to start appropriately taxing the USA's (and the World's) billionaires. They just don't need that much money - the rest of the world does. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/19/e...
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National debt reaches grim $40 trillion milestone. Here’s why that matters | CNN Business
The United States is digging itself into an ever-deeper debt hole.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It is tragic but it would appear now that the USA is good for nothing - rule of law, democracy, peace, humanitarian aid, harmony between nations - other than to engorge the coffers of the Trump family. US citizens, please get out and vote at the midterms for something anything other than Republican.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I am dismayed but not in the least surprised that the Israeli Defence Force has cleared its own forces of criminal wrongdoing in the Gaza strike that killed Zomi Frankcom. This is a great example of why we need the International Criminal Court. 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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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Trump administration is continuously adding to its catalogue of global warming and climate change denial. But while they do that the climate is changing and the world is heating up. Denying it won't stop it. #climatechange #globalwarming edition.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...
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Trump administration ends support for flagship Arctic climate reports | CNN
The Trump administration is ending federal support for Arctic Report Card.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A thousand Australian jobs to be off-shored to India. Paying a lot extra just to put a bag in an overhead locker. Once again Qantas (and Jetstar) demonstrates its utter contempt for the Australian public. #qantas www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Is Jetstar's new bag policy really just following the rest of the world?
Jetstar says charging passengers to use overhead lockers brings it into line with many overseas low-cost airlines. But is "unbundling" fees and charges actually making it more expensive to fly budget?
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Trump is the President of the United States of America - a country he has ensured now has no friends. This is a man whose level of competence is so lacking that he can't even successfully oversee the restoration of a shallow pond. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
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Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was ‘hasty and botched,’ drops case against former Olympian | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was “hasty and botched,” and it is dropping the criminal case against f...
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I am so pleased that Infantino basically got handed his arse over his corrupt, ridiculous Kushner-Trumpesque plans for a privatised FIFA. All credit to EUFA for going in so hard so fast. And again, everything Trump touches turns bad. Now please vote Infantino out. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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FIFA scraps World Cup sell-off plans after global backlash
FIFA president Gianni Infantino says that world football's governing body has scrapped plans to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors after widespread backlash.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
[Australia politics] I'm very pleased the Labor government has plans to fix this broken system of employment services. It has only ever been a John Howard mechanism to enrich wealthy Liberal party donors. One Nation, Liberals do not care about the Australian people. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Private firms profit as Australia's job system fails workers, report finds
A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets private equity and millionaires.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This confirms what we already know - populist right wing politicians talk about being on the side of the common people when the exact opposite is true. They simply do the bidding of billionaires and seek to grow their personal wealth by whatever means. Vote wisely. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Hanson faces rough political seas beyond the Mediterranean
Many voters are unhappy with the hand they feel successive governments have dealt them and no-one has tapped into that better than Pauline Hanson.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Deeply disappointed that Count Binface is not going to get a clear run at Nigel Farage. There are now 34 candidates including Nick The Incredible Flying Brick, Howling Laud Hope and Baron Von Thunderclap from the Raving Loonies. Surely they could have done a deal? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Clacton by-election attracts 34 candidates
The list of people taking on Nigel Farage contains 20 independents and a number of joke candidates.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The unreasonable hostility shown by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the International Criminal Court and its supporters hints that something in the work of the court has this man worried. Is the USA shielding people who may have violated international law? edition.cnn.com/2026/07/13/p...
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Rubio vows to ‘dismantle’ International Criminal Court | CNN Politics
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday vowed to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court and urged other countries to join the effort as the Trump administration significantly escalates its c...
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Now it would appear that President Trump has turned the US military into a mercenary force - or at least some kind of protection racket. I thought the war had ended and there was a signed peace treaty. Oh well, no Nobel this year. edition.cnn.com/2026/07/13/e...
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Trump offers US protection in the Strait of Hormuz for a 20% fee. How would that work? | CNN Business
Since the US-Israeli war with Iran broke out, shipping companies have been calling for greater protection for vessels to safely cross through the Strait of Hormuz, a critical trade route that is contr...
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
[Looney British politics] Cometh the hour, cometh the man. In our time of need a hero appears - Binny McBinface. Once more unto the breach, our Captain leads us to victory - Count Binface. For God, Charles and Clacton! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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'Leave him to me': Man dressed as bin only challenger against Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage is facing intensifying scrutiny over his finances and millions of dollars' worth of donations. Here's how he got here.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Nigel Farage may believe that he is setting up a "people versus the establishment" by-election. But in truth he is probably going up against Count Binface, the Monster Raving Loonies and the Wombles. Remember Boaty McBoatface? The great British public will decide. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nigel Farage's political rivals rule out standing in Clacton by-election
The Reform UK leader says he wants an "establishment versus the people by-election" but Labour calls it a "circus".
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm sure there are some decent people in the USA men's football team - and they must have been dismayed at Trump's intervention. It's a good thing that Belgium did thrash them. Any USA victory would have carried that odour of FIFA-Trumpesque corruption. Excellent work Belgium.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In Australia at least the big accounting firms are exhibiting some pretty atrocious behaviour. It is a good time to remind everybody that there used to be a "big five". How quickly Arthur Anderson crashed and burned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...
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Arthur Andersen - Wikipedia
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
One Nation Pauline, the only monoculture is in your head. Australia is multicultural, will always be, and does very well because of it - and we still have much to learn about this beautiful country from our first peoples, the first Australians.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Well whatever President Trumplington thinks he's doing, one thing is certain - Australia isn't remotely impressed. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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Australians have record-low trust in the United States, new poll finds
The Lowy Institute's latest poll shows Australia's trust in the US has fallen to a record low.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Hehe, we have infected your Presiphile's most prized possession with mon evil spawn. They will grow to possess your mindz! And your most brilliant medical scientists are powerless to stop them. Vot is left of Earth will be ours. Launch the ships!
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Right, that's it! I warned you before - I'm closing the Strait of Hormuz till Israel and the Muslim world are able to live in peace and harmony together and rejoice in our common humanity! (Note - you had better go out and buy an EV - one of those Chinese ones.)
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
At her National Press Club speech, Pauline Hanson looked and sounded like an unpleasant Donald Trump wearing drag. All that was missing was her Orc sidekick Barnaby Joyce fresh from the Hancock owned Mines of Moria. Oh dear.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I'm very pleased there is some kind of agreement between the USA and Iran, but if this 14 point plan represents the art of the deal there is no art - just a complete omnishambles for the USA. It looks like Iran won the deal, and Israel is not going to help the USA.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Demi did it! Superstar Demi Vollering wins the Giro d'Italia - and in real style. #demivollering #cycling #giroditalia www.giroditaliawomen.it/en/news/demi...
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Demi Vollering wins the 2026 Giro d'Italia Women - Giro d'Italia Women 2026
Demi Vollering delivered a masterpiece, overturning the 2026 Giro d'Italia Women at the very last opportunity and finally managing to shake off Anna van der Breggen.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It is quite astonishing the way President Trump is so comfortable lying to the people of the USA - and the rest of the world. It has got to the point where if he says something, you know the opposite is the truth. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/p...
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The many lies Trump told the New York Post | CNN Politics
Another softball interview. Another series of obvious lies from the president.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
[Australia politics] Before you get upset about Jim's tax changes remember that Labor is the only party that works for ALL Australians. OneNation and Liberals only care about the top 1%. There is a 99% chance you're not in that 1% so why protect their wealth? Let them pay tax.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It is tragic and very depressing that all the news coming from the USA is negative and detrimental to free democracies, the rule of law and free speech. How did the USA get it so wrong? Don't USA citizens care any more?
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It's truly dreadful - I no longer know what to believe! 😱
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
[Australia politics] Just remember when you hear Angus Taylor critising the latest tax changes: A - the Coalition have no alternative policy, in fact they don't know what the word means. B - everything Angus touches turns to shit.
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
What has China got against the Emperor penguin? Seriously they are so cute. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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China and Russia block conservation bid for endangered emperor penguin
The annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations has failed to reach consensus to designate the endangered emperor penguin as a "Specially Protected Species".
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rupert-blue.bsky.social @rupert-blue.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When I hear a Russian or Chinese government official I listen just to be reassured that they are lying as usual. I've given up doing that with America because not only are they lying but they sound really dumb with it. What is wrong with telling the truth?
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