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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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🤖 SBS News bot (unofficial) @sbs-news-bot.bsky.social · 4h

Military seizes power in Madagascar after president flees amid youth protests

Gen Z-driven demonstrations erupted last month over water and power shortages, quickly escalating into an uprising over broader grievances.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 4h

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company

When he was prime minister, Morrison appointed a Saudi fossil fuel firm's board member to two different taskforce roles in 2019 and 2022.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 9h

Meanwhile those on the aged pension are scared to turn on lights…

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 9h

Wot

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

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D'Angelo, trailblazing neo-soul singer, dies at 51, reports say

Grammy-winning R&B artist D’Angelo, a pioneer of neo-soul music, died at the age of 51 on Tuesday "after a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer," according to media reports citing a family statement.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 10h

Ugh..

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Politico @politico.com · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 21h

LOLOL

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Celebrating Israelis arrested at drug party on Koh Phangan

SURAT THANI - Four Israeli men claiming to be soldiers celebrating peace in the Middle East were arrested while partying with drugs at a luxury villa on Koh Phangan early Tuesday morning.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

What I don't get is why people living in poverty and struggling to survive don't simply dip into the $3 million in super they have squirreled away for tax minimisation purposes

'Eating mostly brown food': The 'devastating' juggle faced by a rising number of Australians

With one in seven Australians living below the poverty line, researchers and advocates say that COVID-era universal income is the solution.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

FFS

The Age (unofficial) @theage.nzcow.com · 1d

📢 You can go for decades working hard to accumulate wealth, only to finally get there, and not really know what to do with all the money. Here are some tips.

I’m 55 with no kids. How should I spend all my money before I die?

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Lucien Rees 💬🚴🏻‍♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't heard a single federal politician talk about what they might do about this. If asked they would simply recite talking points about 'creating jobs' and 'growing the economy'.
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'Eating mostly brown food': The 'devastating' juggle faced by a rising number of Australians

With one in seven Australians living below the poverty line, researchers and advocates say that COVID-era universal income is the solution.

www.sbs.com.au

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

The thin gruel of culture wars are all they have to unite themselves on.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

LOL the city of Bendigo wants feedback on how they handled its writers fest. Don’t hold back now..

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

All in the game yo

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Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot.bsky.social · 1d

Leading economist: Continuing fossil fuels is "futile" because it leads to mass-death and economic collapse.

The fossil fuel industry's product isn't oil, or gas, or energy — it's murder and theft. Full stop.

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

Starship booster 15 explodes into sea

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

They never seem to manage it.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

The Israeli government prefers a weakened Hamas in a besieged Gaza, to any alternative administration (including a neo-colonial one run by Blair).
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.