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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 2h

If they do it when you’re not looking you must go to the high-end joints

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 2h

because Adelaide is so close to the “Indo-Pacific environment”

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 2h

they all know this

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 3h

“According to the suit, Mr. Davis was driving west in a traffic lane when he passed a store where he had meant to have his cellphone repaired. Realizing he had gone too far, he turned and drove the short distance back in the bike lane, the suit says.”

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 18h

is that roster the Epstein phone book?

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 19h

he’s been giving them all the weapons they wanted, he literally said that in his speech

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 23h

ideally we’d like fewer people buying cars at all 🤷‍♂️

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 23h

What proportion of people will buy a car in the next two years?

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 23h

looking forward to the telemovie

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

“In the 2025 budget request, total military compensation is $600 billion. (Of that total, $236 billion is for DoD and $365 billion is for VA.)”

so over $4b per week for DoD alone. Nobody’s giving that away.

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

the number of people taken captive by Israel increased from 5,200 to 11,100 since October 7, 2023.

The vast majority of these prisoners are from the occupied West Bank – 400 of them children.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 1d

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

“the number of people taken captive by Israel increased from 5,200 to 11,100 since October 7, 2023.

The vast majority of these prisoners are from the occupied West Bank – 400 of them children”

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

Israel declared war on The West Bank?

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

“raising further questions”?

there is no question

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

Phase two, where Israel goes back to killing Palestinians bsky.app/profile/fina...

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Israeli soldiers killed several Palestinians in northern Gaza on Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump touted the end of the war in the coastal enclave. on.ft.com/494LYXX

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

they know MAGA voters never hold them to account

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

tbf Israel were doing this pretty much every day before Oct 7 too, so…

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

So integrity is sending bombs to Israel that he knew were being used to commit genocide? Fuck me you guys are cooked.

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

you keep saying Biden was too weak and thinking this wins the argument 😂

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

newsflash… Biden IS a Zionist www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Joe Biden, a proud 'Zionist' since 1973

COLUMN. As the first US president to declare himself a 'Zionist,' Biden is determined to remain true to a commitment to Israel that goes back more than half a century.

www.lemonde.fr

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

right so now you’re literally asking how would my solution have solved this given Biden was so weak 😂

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

tbf I think @lolou01.bsky.social point was that if Maccas can make a $1 coffee then beans (and hence a tariff) shouldn’t be that much of a factor in a $5 coffee

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 1d

caving in? Dude I’m Australian, you Americans should try getting yourselves a real democracy

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