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Simon Rosenberg

@simonrosenberg.bsky.social
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Lake kayaker. Small-medium mountains OK too. On Ngunnawal/Ngambri country - #Canberra, Australia. Household cats are sucked in by progressive media. Views are theirs; sometimes mine.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 10h
Australia wants a seat on UNGA. Yet our silence over attacks on the ICC, the US attack on Venezuela & Iran rings loudly. Pass the Red Lines Package, says Professor Emily Crawford @SydneyLawSchool #auspol michaelwest.com.au/internationa...
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International law isn't dead. It's being tested. Australia can prove it matters - Michael West
The silence in Canberra over attacks on the ICC, the US attack on Venezuela and the war on Iran rings loudly. Legislate the Red Lines Package.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17h
Jack Smith at last night’s Power to the People concert, wearing a Springsteen/No Kings shirt.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 6h
Juxtapose this...
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 7h
I’m very excited because the regent parrot breeding season has started and in a couple of weeks you’ll get to see these little goofballs again
A small green parrot sitting on my hand
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4h
Of course. It must be *so* tiring running a genocide and ethnic cleansing on top of the hard work of maintaining an apartheid regime.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 5h
LEGO Trump has America stepping on something painful.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4h
This summary from @sulliview.bsky.social of Perry Bacon's critique of the NY Times sounds all too familiar to Australians, who have been so frustrated by legacy media's tepid response to the fascist threat represented by One Nation. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 5h
"The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has declared it is 'important that Pacific voices are heard'” ...after pursuing a smoke and mirrors climate policy that ignores them. #hypocrisy #ClimateCrisis #Cop31 #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6h
“There is the uncomfortable reality that neither has any experience running data centres or a background in technology.” Don’t you just love capitalism. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Data centre operator Firmus about to float as its owner tries to shed jailbird image
He went to prison for insider trading but Oliver Curtis is about to be the source of one of Australia's largest share market floats.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 5h
Background: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 5h
Family & friends of the thousands who died in northern hemisphere heatwaves may not appreciate the NSW "Independent' Planning Commission's approval of that States's largest ever coal mine. Impacts like heat-related deaths, they said, are "outweighed" by economic benefit to the Hunter Valley. 🙄😬🤯
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 9h
"cost of living crisis" is worse. It's a pretence that we going through some sort of short term inflationary problem ...when the real issue is long term and growing structural inequality, as a result of four decades of neoliberal policies.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 9h
Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing PM ever? #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 10h
Tasmania is awful! Never come here! Photos by Ryan Shan
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10h
I'm sure it's true that this arrangement will be "at commercial rates". One Notion will have no trouble paying the rent when the billionaire landlord is such a generous party donor. #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 13h
ICYMI: Tom Ballard and @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social with an in-depth discussion on The Greens, and where they could - and should - be heading. #auspol podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/h...
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How Should The Greens Tackle Labor? Plus, Why Australia's Mamdani Doesn't Exist feat. Tom Ballard
Podcast Episode · Lamestream · 4 October · 1hr 4min
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God @thegodshow.com · 15h
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 14h
If America Invaded Canada ….. an excellent summary of the current political scene in Australia‼️
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If America Invaded Canada…
If America Invaded Canada, Whose Side Would Australia Take? Social media has been in a frenzy over suggestions that Donald Trump might one day decide that Canada needs liberating from the Canadians. T...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 14h
There's one useful thing about the "sensible centre" label: It's a quick way of identifying which journos have no intention of "speaking truth to power", but much prefer to operate as power's megaphones and stenographers. In legacy media, that's most of them. #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16h
Amy notes that China has joined Japan is now onselling Australian gas. FMD we *really* need to tax the gas. Barely a more obvious policy has presented itself. One political party will do it and they will get all the advantage. #TaxTheGas www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Two things easily missed while we were distracted by trivia
In Australia, we’re too busy looking at the next carriage on the political sushi train to realise the track itself is broken.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h
There is "a troubling pattern playing out across the country as bars that cater to the LGBTQ+ community say they're being locked out of their Facebook and Instagram accounts with little to no transparency as to why." Gigantic hypocrisy from a corporation pushing dangerously antisocial algorithms.
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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 17h
‘We are living through a kind of postpandemic gamified speculative-trading apocalypse of which traditional gambling is only one horseman.’ ‘Gambling, in other words, is not simply paying for the culture. It is the culture.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/m...
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How Everything Became Gambling (Gift Article)
It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h
🧵. "Palestinians are a people with equal rights. Bosnian Muslims are a people with equal rights. You cannot oppress and slaughter these people as compensation for crimes you've suffered."
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 17h
BREAKING: Zack Polanski given huge boost in polls after being banned from entering Israel
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h
Whether it is the #ClimateCrisis, the #GazaGenocide, rhetorical support for international law, or blindly following US 'defence' strategy... if there is one consistent them in the Australian government's international relations, it is hypocrisy. #auspol
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 17h
The cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy are staggering. This feels like cigarette producers touring oncology wards www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Live: Albanese heads to pre-COP in Fiji, Tuvalu
Anthony Albanese will attend a pre-COP meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu today with Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen. Follow live.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17h
If Conroy can "rehabilitate" pure evil, he will earn his no doubt enormous fee. #Palantir #auspol
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Eldritch kcarruthers @kcar.me · 18h
European police forces drop Russian software firm following POLITICO probe Authorities in at least 3 countries are suspending their use of Oxygen Forensics after allegations emerged about the company’s secret Russian owners.
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European police forces drop Russian software firm following POLITICO probe
Authorities in at least three countries are suspending their use of Oxygen Forensics after allegations emerged about the company’s secret Russian owners.
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 18h
So little scrutiny of the banks in all the talk about costs of housing. They rest their huge profits on the shoulders of mortgage holders. Yet our supine economists punch down on planning as cause of ‘supply’ issues, never up at the banks
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18h
"The extremist rhetoric, including the incendiary video, barely made the mainstream media coverage of the event." Excellent reporting from Abbir Dib. #auspol
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 18h
Israeli AI cameras livestreamed a Ballarat Basketball game. Then a female player was allegedly contacted by a man who had a family violence intervention order against him. “No one should have to choose between their safety and participating in sport.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/israeli-ai...
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Israeli AI streamed a Ballarat basketball game. Then an alleged family violence breach.
Basketball Australia’s Pixellot rollout is putting women and children at risk – and players are paying for it
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18h
Like so many in Australia's media class, Karvelas extols "the sensible centre". A mindless cliche that only protects powerful interests and the neoliberal nightmare, fails to fix rising #inequality, #poverty and the #ClimateCrisis, and fuels One Nation and #FarRight. aka toxic centrism. #auspol
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 19h
I don't generally repost my own stuff. But, the combo that today is World Animal Day and that many of you ask if the animals are ever close to the house... and voila - trail camera montage from a few months ago that maybe you haven't seen. #nature #PNW #Seattle #love #nokings
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 18h
The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18h
Good article, but stupid headline. The most corrupt president in US history has ditched ethics completely.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 19h
"If UNRWA represents the international institution linked to the Palestinian refugee issue, the ICC represents the legal institution seeking to pursue accountability for international crimes." The 'Board of Peace' is a US & Israeli tool to undermine both. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
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Sidelining UNRWA, weakening the ICC: the architecture of a ‘new Gaza’ – Part One
Pressure on UNRWA and the International Criminal Court points to a much larger transformation in Gaza – one in which existing international institutions are being weakened as new political and adminis...
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Some experts"? No, every expert who's not being paid one way or another to support the folly. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hegseth calls US-built nuclear submarines the ‘apex predator’ of the seas. But are they right for Australia?
Some experts argue Virginia-class submarines government is buying second hand are good for fighting American wars, but not for defending Australia
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NYT: Neighbors have taken to the water to protest him. Calling themselves “kayak-tivists,” they form flotillas facing his island home, holding waterproof signs conveying their disappointment. A local columnist recommended that people in town give him the finger. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts and His Island
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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polqat @polq.at · 04/10/2026
“Labor has one core purpose. It gathers together progressive hopes & dreams & it kills them” “People thought Labor were the lesser of two evils. They're just the more competent of two evils” “Labor created One Nation by failing to deal with people's material concerns” #auspol youtu.be/aPvHh1qlmVc
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245: Green shoots in the arm ft. David Shoebridge & Steph Hodgins-May
YouTube video by Serious Danger
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tangonovember.bsky.social @tangonovember.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If Murdoch media and Santos paid taxes, Aust government could stop stripping disabled children of care #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Political & media class standard lines: - flag budget savings [aka cuts to public services], but don't mention the need to raise revenue by taxing big corporates and wealthy households properly - mention "cost of living", but not #inequality & #poverty - *never* admit that neoliberalism has failed.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A striated pardalote sneaking in for a drink at Picnic Dam, Gluepot Reserve. #birdsseenin2026
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More ass than class.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So many billionaires are indulging their worst behaviour. And most governments are too cowardly or complicit to stop them.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"OUR LIFE, OUR SOCIETY WAS SHATTERED IN ORDER THAT ISRAEL BE ESTABLISHED" Edward Said, in an archival interview. He died in 2003. "1948, we lost everything. Every single member of my family was made a refugee in 1948. Not a single member of my family remained in Palestine. My birthplace
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A news item we'll never see: Defence is reviewing its $370b commitment for US nuclear submarines it may never receive because 'changes to #AUKUS had excessively increased costs and the administrative burden'. "National security starts with securing people's health and care", said the PM. #auspol
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