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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 7h

lol. Wtf is the “eureka spirit” if not rebellion and fucking shit up?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 13h

A flat 25% tax to replace the PRRT would raise enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing.

For more info ⤵️
australiainstitute.org.au/post/progres...

Progressive patriotism: ACTU’s 25% gas export tax should replace broken PRRT

Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion...

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 13h

Want that Tshirt! 😍

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 19h

Remembering Jerry Orbach on his birthday 🎂
📷 Jack Robinson, 1968

"He makes gangle into a verb, because that is just what he does. He gangles. He also sings most effectively, dances most occasionally, & acts with an engaging & perfectly controlled sense of desperation."
- Clive Barnes

A smiling Orbach in an overcoat, his hands in the air.

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 15h

This guy? And this was five years ago.

Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV: The Movie

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 15h

America’s unions were out in force this weekend at No Kings rallies across the country, fighting to protect our health care, federal workers, our essential services and our democracy.

The workers, united, will never be defeated!

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 15h

I’d give this a listen.

Katy Perry Releases New Single About Superiority Of Canadian Manufacturing

MONTECITO, CA—Signaling a new chapter in her career, pop star Katy Perry released a new single Monday about the superiority of Canadian manufacturing. “When I learned about the strength of Canadian au...

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 1d

For some reason this comes to mind.

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 2d

Hopefully they took the Mona Lisa. It’s not that good

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

The world's most-visited museum, the Louvre in Paris, is shut on Sunday following a robbery https://cnn.it/3Jl8OjJ

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Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 2d

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 2d

Mark Taylor’s wife was a member of the video store I worked at. Their password: cricket 🙄

Phteven @2fbs.bsky.social · 2d

Summer officially starts in Australia when Tubby reappears on our tv screens advertising Fujitsu airconditioning

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 3d

The Herald Sun isn’t Sydney media. It’s a local fascist rag.

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 3d

Hey. Fuck off. 👋

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 6d

Turns out that you can overdose on childhood nostalgia.

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 6d

Accurate

Childhood Best Friend Would Never Make The Cut Now

WATERBURY, VT—Admitting that the bar used to be much, much lower, local 38-year-old Jeremy Griffiths confirmed Tuesday that his childhood best friend Ben Martin would never make the cut now. “If we di...

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Jason Andrade @jasonandrade.bsky.social · 7d

I assume eleventy jillion journalists have asked you this already @jay.bsky.team but does BlueSky have a statement on the Australian age enforcement of social media (legislation) and how are you going to go about doing it for an entire country?

Or do you drop Australian access?

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 8d

No one will remember anything Linda Reynolds did in politics, but we will remember this forever. What a piece of sh#t.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 8d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 8d

Meh. Google can afford to implement various safety measures but chooses not to. They don’t really have much of a right to complain.

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NPR @npr.org · 8d

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au · 11d

“…the club must take an agnostic approach to corporate sponsorship.” says Labor MP. I presume they’ll have no problems taking money from the pornography industry then.

Pocock booted from pollie sports club after criticising gambling lobby sponsor

The former star Wallabies player turned independent senator was kicked out of the social sports club after raising concerns about its links to the gambling industry.

www.abc.net.au

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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