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Andy Fleming

@slackbastard.bsky.social

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Anarchist, cat-lover, and avid reader. https://www.patreon.com/slackbastard

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @taliajane.bsky.social about 'How Good is America?' 🇺🇸🫡

4.30pm, OCT 16, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio+ app, podcats 🐈

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #267 w Talia Jane on God Bless America : October 16, 2025

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Talia Jane [Bluesky/Twitter]. Talia is an independent journalist based in New Yawk covering political protests & social movements. Unsurprisin…

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Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social · 1h

The paperback edition of my book OPUS goes on sale TODAY

With a new afterword bringing the story up to date, including details of Opus Dei’s links to Project 2025, the human trafficking case against it—and the challenge Pope Leo faces in holding this abusive cult to account

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Miquel Ramos @miquelramos.bsky.social · 16h

He conversado con el profesor y amigo @mark-bray.bsky.social sobre su exilio tras las amenazas de la extrema derecha, la situación en los EEUU en este segundo mandato de Trump y las resistencias ante el auge fascista.
En @publico.es

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Mark Bray conversa con Miquel Ramos: Las amenazas trumpistas y el exilio

YouTube video by Diario Público

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1h

Ding dong.

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Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Dies

YouTube video by SexyGirlz2020

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21h

#OtD 13 Oct 1909 radical educator, Francesc Ferrer, was executed in Barcelona. Sentenced to death by a military tribunal despite no solid evidence being brought against him, his murder caused protests across the world. This is a collection of his work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/ana...

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 10h

rt if you are the founder of antifa

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 10h

This is just insane political theater. The FBI knows that there is no antifa network. And let’s be clear- neither of these media personalities are journalists.

The FBI showed up to my house to discuss my TV show exposing Antifa's network. If you are a member of Antifa or providing material or financial support for Antifa, I might be a little concerned because the FBI is DEADASS ...

The FBI has launched a FULL investigation into Antifa, and spent the weekend calling journalists who've been victims of Antifa violence I received a call from the FBI Sunday morning, and confirmed others did as well.
The Trump admin WILL take down this terrorist network

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2h

cheers

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Luke @aleofatime.com · 2h

Unfortunately not true.

That kid is a sweet kid who has had a few cats through the war. He loves(d) them a lot. Simba was only gone a couple days.

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ahmedlittlefarmer on Instagram: "I can’t believe it’s finally over…No more bombs, no more drones.I can finally smile again, play with Simba, and feel safe. 🕊️For t…"

I can’t believe it’s finally over…No more bombs, no more drones.I can finally smile again, play with Simba, and feel safe. 🕊️For two years, I was scared every single day.But today, I’m not scared anymore.The war is over… and I’m still here — alive, with Simba beside me. 🐾💛Peace feels strange… but beautiful.Please, let it stay this way. 🌿#ahmedlittlefarmerView all 10,238 comments

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2h

SXSW Sydney is a yuppie's idea of "culture" yeah?

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PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 2h

It's live! Spread this, support this, and wish us luck! The project starts in two weeks
www.firefund.net/pathstoecore...

Weaving Paths to Ecological Revolution

From Brazil to the world, spreading the projects and struggles that will help us survive the ecological crisis

www.firefund.net

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King Mob Approximately @aggroslav.bsky.social · 2h

Cathy Rutherford. I'll always remember her name because of this clip.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2h

A Palestinian child with his best friend, Simba; re-united after two years, apparently. 🥹

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Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 6h

“Only a people trained to accept being ruled by a violent power structure can really question someone’s right and need to forcefully defend herself against oppression.”
― @petergelderloos.bsky.social How Nonviolence Protects the State

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Netpol @netpol.org · 2h

'The UK is leading by bad example, abusing the international standards to which it itself agreed by bringing in these draconian laws that are designed to stop protest against any of the issues that are uncomfortable for the UK government." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 2h

Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 1d

New from me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 2h

It must be so hard to be a member of the censored left behind rebels, only getting constant coverage and the support of the wealthiest people on earth...

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Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 3h

Must read: an eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by Dr Ezzideen Shehab, an incredible young writer and GP.

Published by Readers & Writers Against the Genocide. Out Nov 10. Pre-order from indie bookstores now! All $ go to support Ezzideen. More deets:
linktr.ee/readerswritersagainstgenocide

Red book cover with photo of Ezideen Shehab.

DIARY OF A YOUNG DOCTOR
Notes from the genocide in Gaza

Ezideen Shehab

Pull quite:

‘I am no longer a doctor. I am a witness. To the slow murder of dignity.To a land where medicine is a cruel joke and survival is a sin.'

Pull quote:

‘How did we come to this?
How did we become a people the world no longer believes are fully human?
Is it because our blood is too cheap? Or is it because the world has learned to look, and then to look away? If so, then it is not we who have lost our humanity. It is you.’

From Diary of a Young Doctor by Ezzideen Shehab

'Written under siege and in the shadow of unrelenting violence, Dr Ezzideen Shehab's words carry both the clinical precision of a doctor and the searing intimacy of a witness.
These are writings of unbearable clarity, carved out of catastrophe, that will not allow the world to look away?’
Sara M Saleh

'What a privilege to read these words from a brave and compassionate witness to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
When language is often insufficient to describe the daily horrors, Dr Shehab conjures a world of grief, resistance and unimaginable resilience. Read this book.’
Antony Lowenstein

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3h

"Chef Andrew Gruel, of American Gravy Concepts" is 100% a Tim & Eric bit that escaped containment into reality

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 8h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition @ponekeantifa.bsky.social · 3h

Join us for the launch of Protect Protest, a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation.

15 October 4:30pm - 7pm in Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW

campaign launch + film screening "Operation 8"

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3h

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See : Nova Peris found sharing anti-Muslim content on social media, Dechlan Brennan, National Indigenous Times, June 16, 2025:

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Nova Peris found sharing anti-Muslim content on social media

Former Olympian and former Labor senator Nova Peris OAM has been sharing Islamophobic content on social media.Ms Peris, a Gija, Yawuru and Gagudju woman, is among several First Nations Australians cur...

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3h

via AMW

'If the Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia was pictured at an event with a person who shared tweets calling Jews “Satan worshipping cockroaches” that “need to be eradicated” you can bet they would be removed from the job and it would be front page news.'

Jillian Segal, Nova Peris, Sharri Markson.

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 4h

Municipal monitors will be reappointed to the embattled City of Whittlesea council in Melbourne's outer north, where a controversial mayor is due to return from a 6 month suspension later this week
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #springst #auslaw
ex Qld LNP, ex KAP, Aidan McLindon now sadly in VIC

'Wrecking ball' former mayor to return to Melbourne council

Municipal monitors will be reappointed to an embattled council in Melbourne's booming outer north following an inquiry probing the lead-up to the suspension of a former mayor.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 4h

'In the encounter, which Murton filmed, an officer told her: “Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government.”'

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Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

www.theguardian.com

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