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Tim Goodacre - Writer

@timgoodacre.bsky.social
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I am an Australian leftist political "big picture" thinker / writer. My recent focus has been on how the neoliberal era has shaped today's extreme politics worldwide. See pinned post for recent articles. More at timgoodacre.wordpress.com

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 10h
"...black SUVs roaming parking lots and gas stations, neighbors and colleagues disappearing, and sometimes ICE agents grabbing, tackling, or even shooting people, forcing a thousand quiet reckonings with what the country has become. This time the violence was being investigated as a suicide"
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 8h
When checks and balances are replaced by bank checks and bank balances...
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Phil Gorman @philgorman.bsky.social · 1h
How did we get here? The post war Neoliberal Project.
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Thanks @thereisawayjose.bsky.social for including me! 💚 bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 3h
#AusPol #AustroligarchWatch Australia's richest person buys nice HQ office for far-right One Nation party www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Joyce confirms Rinehart has purchased $8m office for new One Nation HQ.

Barnaby Joyce has confirmed billionaire Gina Rinehart purchased One Nation an $8 million office in Brisbane for the party's headquarters.

The Australian reports Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting purchased a three-storey building in Brisbane's inner-north.

The One Nation MP, who says he hasn't spoken to Rinehart in six months, says the building was to be leased out to the right-wing party.

"It's her building, it's her lease, we're leasing it off her at commercial rates," Joyce has told News24.

"If we've got an individual who's got money they should be able to spend it as they see fit. If they want to support One Nation, knock yourself out."
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Dee 🦋🦋 @do60een.bsky.social · 17h
Tips:- * Mail-in your ballot as early as your state allows. * Complete the ballot EXACTLY as instructed, careful with your signature. * Don't wait until election day to mail it. * Keep your receipt/tracking information. * Check your state's ballot-status system.✨ * Act immediately to any problem.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13h
trump's pentagon: www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 11h
"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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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 10h
"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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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 9h
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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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
It’s a federal crime to send armed federal agents to the polls. So why does the Trump administration keep suggesting it? “The answer is … Donald Trump wants to, to use his words, cheat like hell,” Marc Elias says. This isn't over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 6h
I've said many times in recent years "just because you dodged a bullet doesn't mean they aren't still shooting at you". The far-right never quits. They face setbacks and they regroup. As they are doing right now in Brasil. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Breaking: Bolsonaro defies expectations in Brazil presidential vote to face Lula in run-off
Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro, has finished ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the country's election, which will go to a run-off i...
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 17h
🙄 Such is the global shitshow we live in now, this latest threat from Putin barely caused a ripple. We face being killed very quickly by nuclear war, or slightly more slowly by AI, or in regular instalments by climate collapse. What a time to be alive (well, for now)... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Putin warns West that Russia is ready to use every weapon to protect Kaliningrad
The Russian leader insists Moscow is "not threatening anyone" and is merely responding to statements by Western leaders.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 17h
"He's an investor, not an inventor." Filmmaker @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social how Musk, like Trump, built his name on work he didn't do. Watch the full discussion: zeteo.com/p/this-filmm...
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Thanks Marcie @mlipsitt.bsky.social for including me! 💚 bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 11h
I wonder how Americans feel if they know this is where their money is going instead of their healthcare. Killed the funding that kept children around the battered world from starving to death but found money for global neo Nazis. 🤬🤡😬
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 10h
Victims of Communism is a total BS Red Scare body. They have this ridiculous fantasy count of the many people “killed by communism” that lumps everybody ever killed anywhere into the idea that welfare & regulations are dangerous whereas the US isn’t. (v capitalism’s wars, famines, climate, poisons)
The largest award, of $40m, was directed to a consortium led by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), an anti-communist non-profit that has received far smaller grants in the past. A state department vetting document seen by the Guardian records $96,997 in previous contracts in the last five years between the foundation and the department, all in the 2022 fiscal year, and notes that it had been vetted in 2019 in connection with tickets to the foundation's gala. The vetting document also identifies Andrew Bremberg, a former Trump White House domestic policy adviser and US ambassador to the UN European office, as a
"senior leader" of the foundation.
In July, ProPublica reported that Samuel Samson, a
27-year-old deputy assistant secretary overseeing the new grants, was linked to senior members of VOC through his studies at the Christian conservative Hillsdale College graduate program. (A state department official then told the outlet that the relationship had nothing to do with the grant).
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 8h
Morning viewing: @gilduran.com talks with @cjcmichel.bsky.social about his new book "United States of Oligarchy" (which I have, but have not got around to reading yet - looking forward to it)
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When checks and balances are replaced by bank checks and bank balances...
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Thanks Tricia @thewelshtaffy24.bsky.social for including me! 💚 bsky.app/starter-pack...
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Capitalism has now reached the stage at which companies openly admit that their products represent 'an existential risk to humanity'. And then invite investors to pump money into them anyway.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 22h
🤮 Badenoch and the Tories are dross. They are a Reform tribute act that is both nasty and useless. The idea they are having a renaissance under her chaotic leadership is laughable and is only promoted by the right-wing media that have lost faith in Farridge🐸... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Return of the nasty party? Badenoch walks tightrope with ‘punch down’ policies
Shadow minister says Tories have ‘outsourced our toxicity to Reform’, but others doubt leader can spark lasting revival
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Welcome to the Resistance, Ka... No. No, I can't. There have to be some standards, somewhere, and basic humanity is one of them.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#AusPol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Donald Trump’s second run at the White House promised a mass deportation scheme that would rid the United States of its undocumented migrants. In office, it is a policy that is being implemented to brutal effect – and one that Palantir is at the centre of."
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks Marcie @mlipsitt.bsky.social 💚 bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump Campaign Paid More Than $4.3 Million to Jan. 6 Event Organizers www.newsweek.com/trump-campai... #J6 #treason #insurrection #democracy #elections #Blues
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Trump Campaign Paid More Than $4.3 Million to Jan. 6 Event Organizers
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol requested info from 15 social media companies, the FBI and more.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The subjugation of women is part of a neo-fascist, warrior culture going all the way back to the 1930s. It was on full display during Pete Hegseth’s military speech this week.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2026
UBI is a floor. It's a dividend. It's not about replacing jobs. It's about making sure everyone has a non-zero floor to stand on and never fall beneath, and it makes sure that everyone benefits from productivity growth. And it is about enabling everyone to *choose* what they work on, paid or not.
scottsantens.com
AI's economic impact is complex, disrupting jobs but not erasing all. Universal basic income can help us adapt.
AI impacts jobs but won't erase all; universal basic income can help navigate disruptions in the economy.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Morning viewing: @rbreich.bsky.social with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social talking End Times Fascism www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf1T...
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Astra and I talk to a warrior against oligarchy, Robert Reich
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Dom Ramos @corchon1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tucker is like a toppling pirouette of spinning idiocy parading itself as ballet.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks for the Starter Pack inclusions! 💚 Randy @southerngayteacher.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack... Jurgen @dailykotzn.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack... Doc Murphy @docmurphydog.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess Tucker's pretense of being somewhat normal has fallen apart again
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bombs, rockets, drones and snipers is one way to do genocide. But when a nominal ceasefire limits your use of traditional means, Israel uses bureaucracy. #GazaGenocide
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Follow the money
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📢 THIS 🔽🔽🔽 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shown, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meet PHON’s candidate for Melbourne. Absolute filth. This party may well end up in coalition with the cookers who’ve got way too much power in the #VicLibs. #SpringSt #Auspol
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Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1
Even the Pope, who supports a two-state solution, is trolled! How very Christian of him!
Pope Leo XIV
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I renew my appeal for an end to the ongoing violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and I urgently call on the international community to work toward advancing the two-state solution, for a just and lasting peace.
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Christendom is under assault and his holiness is cringepoasting islamist propaganda slop...
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For those who don't understand this word vomit, look up the word "foid". That will give you a good idea of what he likely thinks about women...
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Restore Canada
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1/9 The World Decolonization
Forum is a three-part international series (2026, 20...
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Islamofascist foid is retardmaxxing. How about they decolonise constantiople and armenia and syria and kurdistan.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 Rates of imprisonment in the US are literally "off the chart" when compared to other countries 🔽. This graph had to use a log-scale on the Y-axis just to get the US dot on the graph. For more evidence on social dysfunction in the US, please see this report ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
Graph showing strong relationship between inequality and rates of imprisonment with the US the worst performer by far with high income inequality and very high rates of imprisonment.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 02/10/2026
This is a big one that I think many people don't fully appreciate. Given a room of 1,000 people, it can be hard for one person to find and help those who need the most help. Give everyone UBI and watch as more than half the room leaves, because they only needed a bit of money. Those left need more.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks Marcie @mlipsitt.bsky.social for including me! Hope you have a great weekend 💚 bsky.app/starter-pack...
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US Inequality Watch @usinequalitywatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A viral financial blog recently pointed out the area between the existing poverty line and the “break-even” line which he called the “Valley of Death,” claiming that today the poverty line should be closer to $100K. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wF...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026
At a campaign rally in Florida, JD Vance said democratic socialist Angie Nixon was un-American, “When Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is, ‘Get the hell out of here,'” Vance said during the rally. “You don’t belong in America, if those are your views.”
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Vance Tells Florida Senate Candidate to “Get the Hell Out” of US Over Political Views
“This is my home,” Angie Nixon, the democratic socialist candidate targeted by Vance, said in response.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
who’s to blame?
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#AusPol
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump seeking to lay the foundation for one of likely many legal challenges to come after Democrats win the midterms. I fear it’s only the beginning.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning viewing: @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social and @graceblakeley.substack.com talking about the economic precarity that underpins the far-right.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🧵Australia’s power elites will have speeches from this rabidly pro-Israel event recycled as The Oz op/ed columns. Aussies will see the videos in their YT feed. Anderson is connecting #Auspol more closely to some of the world’s worst far right “intellectuals.” lucyham29.substack.com/p/why-does-i...
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Why does it matter than John Anderson AO is spending 7/10 on a stage in Jerusalem?
Former Deputy PM John Anderson is a “featured speaker” alongside the accused war criminal Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich and many other illiberal extremists at NatCon Jerusalem.
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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
30K followers! Thanks everyone 💚 You can find my articles in this post and its comment thread 👇
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