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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
‘Always coming home’: Why I moved from the US to Australia www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/12... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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‘Always coming home’: Why I moved from the US to Australia
Last year, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer left the United States to settle in Australia. This is the story of why.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Incredible footage out of Australia, confirmed by NEWS AU, of a brave bystander neutralizing one of the terrorists in the Bondi Beach attack which took place during a Hanukkah gathering. Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed. At least two suspects are in custody.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
when right wing political parties ignite racial hatred this will always be the result...and they hide behind parliamentary privilege...fucking cowards... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Live: Police working to disarm explosive device at Bondi Beach after shooting kills 10
Police say there are multiple fatalities following a shooting near a Jewish gathering at Sydney's Bondi Beach. Follow live.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Arrived in Brunswick Heads revisited - here’s an Australian water dragon…
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ShethaDamnTruth 🌊🌊🌊 @shethadamntruth.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🎤This belongs at the feet of GOP Senators, Republican Supreme Court justices & his freak show cabinet members. There has not been one good thing to come out of his presidency for the American people. NOT ONE!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/12/2025
They hate on our Black queens because they can’t handle their greatness.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!
Different pictures of Van Dyke throughout the years
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
SO TRUE 👇👇
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w... Well done @australianlabor.bsky.social
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A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Can The U.S. Catch Up To Montenegro?
If we look at the real value of minimum wages in each country, we would be looking a t a map that Trump does not want you to see.
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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A rare win
On investigative journalism and its consolations
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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A Needle in a Substack
Criticism in your inbox
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-back…
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UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Water demand to service datacentres in Sydney alone is forecast to be larger than the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply
The demand for use in cooling in Sydney alone is expected to exceed the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 05/12/2025
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Just drove from Sydney to Bathurst for the weekend - what a pretty drive through the Blue Mountains it was … we stayed at the Hydro-Majestic when V was pregnant with Laurence - 1989 - yeah so it’s been a while 😻
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests." Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race." Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Architecture prize for Herald writer who turns ‘somewhat inaccessible’ into stories that resonate
The Herald’s reporter Julie Power has been recognised for her contribution to architecture. She says it has the power to change lives, if done well.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The Pentagon reporters who have been kicked out of the building continue to break huge stories every day while the right-wing New Media continue to post selfies of themselves hanging out in the Pentagon.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
this is extremely lovely and cute...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This tired, deeply-damaged man is so needy. He has to have references to him being president on his hat, on his shirt, and on a golf-framed placard next to his overcooked cheeseburger he's almost too-out-of-it to eat.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/11/2025
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored? Started. Going.
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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No Quarter: The Collapse of Competence in Trump’s America
Inside the war crimes, the amateur diplomacy, the economic tremors, and the civic responsibility to refuse silence.
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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The Great National Koala Park is not a firebomb. It’s the opposite
Logged forests are much more prone to bushfires. This park is actually lowering the risk of a blaze.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
whatever you do in life, never stop learning, never stop being challenged in your ideas, question everything, it will probably make you very annoying as I've learned in my nearly 65 years, but seriously the alternatives are so bleak they don't bear thinking about Donald.
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Civil engineer identified among those who attended Neo-Nazi protest
Around 60 men attended a protest at NSW parliament organised by the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network on Saturday. Without masks, it gave the ABC the opportunity to identify some of them.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/11/2025
A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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ASIO boss sounds alarm on ‘devastating, disruptive’ Chinese hacking threat
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has warned that Australia has “now reached the threshold for high-impact sabotage”.
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... @theatlantic.com is the most extraordinary magazine
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The Missing Kayaker
What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Do we know what's going on? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
<em>The Last Invention</em> confronts the perils of AI www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/podc... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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The Last Invention confronts the perils of AI
The Last Invention is a sober investigation of the possibility that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 31/10/2025
“Stay spooky, Contrarians. And never underestimate the cruelty that can be waged by neglected, vengeful monsters.” Meredith Blake shares Frankenstein recs for the season.
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Culture recs: Frankenstein (and Mary Shelley) Through the Ages
Guillermo del Toro's is the latest filmmaker to put his spin on the Gothic classic
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 31/10/2025
It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.
The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Adelita Grijalva now holds the record for longest delay between winng a special Congressional election and being sworn into office. Why the delay from Mike Johnson? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
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Stella de Vulder @stelladevulder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A poodle is a dog www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/10/2025
Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
#Trump may have immunity from the Supreme Court, but nobody else does — something #ICE agents would do well to remember.
For anyone saying that the ICE agents are just doing their jobs, so were the German soldiers loading Jewish people onto trains.
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