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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 2d

Or Gaza or Ukraine or anywhere.....

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cdlane.bsky.social @cdlane.bsky.social · 16h

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3d

Gaza Port, Before and After

(Abdallah El Hajj)

Two pictures of Gaza port before and after

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Churlayla 86.47 @churlayla.bsky.social · 23h

Only 79 yr old in history to have ear cartilage grow back.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.

We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
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Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 17h

The first Australian war crimes case in 30 years is going to trial. It raises big questions
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The first Australian war crimes case in 30 years is going to trial. It raises big questions

Former SAS soldier Oliver Schulz has pleaded not guilty to the war crime of murder. The case may raise previously untested laws both in Australia and globally.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 17h

The government’s super retreat fixes some design flaws, but creates a new distortion
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The government’s super retreat fixes some design flaws, but creates a new distortion

The revised plan still leaves gaps – especially for people earning $45,000 or less a year – that will quietly chip away at its fairness over time.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 18h

Trump’s youngest son eyed for TikTok role

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Barron Trump eyed for TikTok role

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 18h

Ceasefire shaky as Palestinians killed, aid halted

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Cracks in shaky ceasefire as Palestinians killed, aid halted

Israeli forces are restricting aid into the Gaza Strip after hostage families expressed dismay that only four of 28 bodies were returned.

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 19h

11 tanks were constructed unlawfully i.e. without a building permit and were not built to withstand a category three cyclone.

The $270 million Project Caymus fuel storage facility was meant to be operational by September 2023.

#EnvironmentalVandalism #auspol

Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT governm...

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 19h

Trump’s war for peace: How the Nobel became his battlefield johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Trump’s war for peace: How the Nobel became his battlefield

Donald Trump’s pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize has been one of the most grotesque spectacles of the modern era – a man trying to win a peace prize by promoting war.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 19h

From play to performance: Sport as the new Roman circus johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

From play to performance: Sport as the new Roman circus

Reading the recent article Is this the moment that will define cricket's future? by my former university lecturer and continued mentor, Chas Keys, reminded me how sport, once a shared expression of co...

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 19h

From Gaza, Palestinians have reasserted their agency on the world stage johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

From Gaza, Palestinians have reasserted their agency on the world stage

If we are to speak of a Palestinian victory in Gaza, it is a resounding triumph for the Palestinian people, their indomitable spirit and their deeply rooted resistance that transcends faction, ideolog...

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 19h

Nobel Peace laureate calls for US bombing of her country johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Nobel Peace laureate calls for US bombing of her country

Within hours of being named the Nobel Peace laureate for 2025, María Corina Machado called on President Trump to step up his military and economic campaign against her own country, Venezuela.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 19h

Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Who are 'Advance' and what are they doing to our politics?

Launched in 2018 as a conservative answer to GetUp!, the group Advance likes to style itself as the voice of the average person against “the elite.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 19h

Ceasefire sparks fresh calls for global media access to Gaza johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Ceasefire sparks fresh calls for global media access to Gaza

Press groups are also demanding justice for the more than 200 journalists slaughtered in Palestinian territory over the past two years.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 19h

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war mondoweiss.net/2025/10/trum...

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war

In a speech to the Knesset, Donald Trump declared the war in Gaza over and tempted Israel with economic riches through regional normalization, while almost completely ignoring the Palestinians.

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 1d

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Rosie de Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 1d

71 in my case!

Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 1d

74 in my case!

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Left Of Center Orange Hater @henshinhal.bsky.social · 1d

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Pam Bondi Builds the Gun Registry MAGA Swore Democrats Would Create

A conspiracy theory pushed by 2nd Amendment nuts for years has now become reality under Trump.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli
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Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World's Richest Israeli

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 1d

The West’s crucial strategic failures johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

The West’s crucial strategic failures

The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that once believed they were eternal. Camille Paglia.

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 1d

Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Time for a 'just peace' for all peoples in Palestine

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong took a long time just to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. And their belated declaration of Palestinian statehood is an empty gesture when w...

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John Lewis @johnnol1.bsky.social · 1d

The half-life of humiliation and the hunger for revenge johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

The half-life of humiliation and the hunger for revenge

The trauma, humiliation and rage of those that survive are concomitants of the indiscriminate killing with impunity and the deracination of innocent men, women and children by the invaders and occupie...

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raven-mumur @raven-murmur.bsky.social · 1d

Commendably tidy summation of where we are right now.

Jen G Lambie @jenglambie.bsky.social · 1d

What a massive bloody flop Albanese turned out to be. Cautious to the point of paranoia. A myopic lens with which to view an obviously collapsing USA. Environmental betrayer of the climate & natural world. And a genocide enabler selling weapon parts empowering the ongoing #GazaHolocaust

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