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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 11h

Last month The Australian platformed two players in the nasty NatCon space as if they were just urbane nostalgics for a better Britain before “indiscriminate” immigration. You need to see who these men are.
#Auspol
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"The Australian": feeding national conservatism to Australia's power elites

National conservatism is the ideology that surrounds Trump. It is the faux intellectual dressing for MAGA.

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently, Facebook is perfectly fine allowing Neo-Nazis to advertise.

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 13h

I am not sure anything has changed for the better since the #RobodebtRC. Indications are the cruelty and destruction of people already suffering in an #economy that is designed to create inequality continues. #auspol

💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @mylesjaybee.bsky.social · 16h

When a government starves people to prove they’re “earning” help, that’s not policy, it’s economic violence. Labor’s Centrelink regime is indistinguishable from Morrison’s.
#EndPoverty #RaiseTheRate #auspol

Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests

Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawful

www.theguardian.com

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chaøs @chaos0s.bsky.social · 13h

Albo @albomp.bsky.social won election joined the tories. Sucks trump for approval #auspol

Houso Albo class traitor, fighting for $bnaires to expand their clifftop mansions #aukus

Houses only for Albo's 🤑

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 13h

Australia's wholesale electricity prices in the national electricity market fell 27% in the September quarter. Wholesale prices make up 38% of household bills. The bills of 4.2 million solar homes are 18% lower than non-solar. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian wholesale electricity prices are falling. So when will power bills stop rising?

The cost of generating power is definitely getting cheaper but the savings may take time to flow through

www.theguardian.com

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 12h

Another war for America to lose.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16h

Important issue that got very little coverage

Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 16h

Good intentions won't save us on this slippery slope

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Good intentions aren't enough to keep us from this slippery slope

It is a very, very slippery slope to start cherry-picking about the rights provided to people, even when you abhor the decisions they make.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

Project 2025 calls for the removal of kids from poor single parent households to be placed with “proper” parents.

With SNAP being cut, the judgement on low income families is only increasing.

Meanwhile 1,790 kids went missing from Georgia foster care. Many of them were likely sex trafficked

'An urgent issue': Hundreds of Georgia foster kids may have been sex trafficked, report says

A new report shows that hundreds of children have likely been sex trafficked while in Georgia’s foster care system.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15h

While their supporters vilify anyone who doesn’t work and receives government assistance, congress gets paid throughout the shutdown.

While people lose their Medical care, congress gets healthcare for life.

While folks lose SNAP, congress gets over $70 a day for food

Hold them accountable:

Sign the Petition

Hold Congress Accountable: No Pay or Benefits During Government Shutdowns

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 15h

My visual metaphor as I conclude with the possibility that a Trump/Heritage Foundation nuclear winter could “solve” the climate crisis.

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 12h

A sure sign that you are perceived as a threat to them.

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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 1d

“If the health and wellbeing of older Australians was really the government’s central concern, they would have designed a universal system based on need, not a rationed and two-tiered system where only the wealthy are guaranteed care, and for-profit providers call the shots.”
#Auspol

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 1d

Today, older people across the country - hundreds of thousands of whom are on miniscule fixed incomes - will cop increased costs for their care and support so for-profit providers can continue making a buck.

How do I know this? The minister said so.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

“Let them eat cake!”

It’s day 31 of the government shutdown and Trump is hosting a fancy expensive Halloween party when 42 million Americans are about to lose their SNAP.

This is a perfect example of the bloated rich excess of the billionaire class

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

No one deserves to starve.

We have enough food to feed everyone, but we have a serious problem with wealth inequality.

We must stop viewing those who are disabled and/or poor as moral failures and start recognizing the system is rigged against us.

It’s rigged against everyone but the 1%

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 1d

Letting Go: Stoics and Buddhists in Conversation #Stoicism
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Letting Go: Stoics and Buddhists in Conversation

In Buddhism, the teaching on letting go is not about throwing away things, but about releasing the desire that they stay the same.

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pceebee23 @pceebee23.bsky.social · 1d

oh well Albo... just proving how neo-con he and his mob are... ..refusing to end privatisations of NDIS ...and aged care... or Jobsearch ...nope just same old same old.. fiddling at the edges like Rudd and failing but protecting lots of $$$ for private corps... www.thecourier.com.au/story/910217...

Historic aged care reforms spark concern

A landmark overhaul of the nation's aged care rules is in effect, enshrining older Australians' rights into law...

www.thecourier.com.au

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

The secret ‘jobs for mates’ report Labor won’t release

Labor faced a dramatic revolt in the Senate over its refusal to release a secret report meant to fix the culture of cronyism – and jobs for mates.

The secret ‘jobs for mates’ report Labor won’t release

Murray Watt has talked a big game about fixing environment laws by the end of the year. But this week, attempts to do that fell apart.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 1d

Murder

Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 1d

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Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links

The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.

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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 2d

This is the issue. When politicians jettison facts & evidence because it does not fit with their world view, they have lost any right to lead.

Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 2d

Misogyny aside; the LNP’s wilful ignorance in regard to all things scientific is a serious concern

Any party that chooses to base its political views and values on misinterpretations of biblical myths written over 3,000 years ago should not be allowed to govern anything

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 2d

Facebook allowing advertising for Fascists/Neo Nazis. Reported but then Facebook community values align with fascists.

A screenshot of an ad for white Australia featuring neo-Nazi poster boy Thomas Sewell

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Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social · 2d

I think a mark up to $14-15 sounds fair considering they are coming from the same factory.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 2d

Your irregular reminder that entities like the Reserve Bank are empowered to do little more than “discipline” you. Inflation is complex now. RBA has one tool and it bashes workers on the head with that hammer. Threat of unemployment keeps you accepting lower wages. #AtlasNetwork #Auspol

Market pricing suggests a less than 10 per cent chance of a November rate cut. (Getty Images:
Brent Lewin/Bloomberg)
Inflation data kills
November rate cut chances as RBA faces headache
ANALYSIS By business editor
Michael Janda
Updated 29 Oct 2025 1:42pm AEDT

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Powerd Media @powerdmedia.bsky.social · 2d

News Wrap for Friday 31st October 2025, featuring the history of horror films and disability, and the problem with the charity model of disability used by many autism charities.

Read more: https://loom.ly/ZUZPFY8

Friday 31st October 2025

Weekly wrap of news from Powerd for the week ending Friday 31st October 2025

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Poor people should be allowed cookies

Disabled people should be allowed cookies

Kids whose parents are on SNAP should be allowed cookies

No one is being given “extra” money for the odd treat

They’re sacrificing something else

Let them have the treat.

Life is hard enough.

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