Tom Quinn
@tomquinn.bsky.social
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Number cruncher. Story teller. Coalition builder. Vision setter. Working to build a better future and drive emissions down as fast as possible. #atypoineverypost #climate #energy #economy #IntRel Posting from Dja Dja Wurrung Country
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So a few weeks ago we packed up the trailer, loaded up the kids and set off on a three month road trip up Australia's East Coast.

Will share some sporadic updates and reflections here as we go.
A wing door trailer with bikes loaded on the draw bar ready to start the adventure.
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kjephd.bsky.social
Part of the reason many Germans supported the Nazis was that there really was a lot of violence in the streets & they wanted order. But much of that violence was carried out by the Nazi paramilitary SA.

So the Nazis presented themselves as the solution to a problem they intentionally created
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Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
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rashmee.bsky.social
Jonathan Katz tells it like it is: "...if you turn to most American sources today, you’d think not just this war but maybe all wars in the region are over. They are saying that for one reason above all: because it’s what Donald #Trump wants to believe"...#Israel #Gaza theracket.news/p/this-isnt-...
This isn't peace
Israel is threatening the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, the occupation continues, and the real negotiations haven't started. But Trump wants the glory.
theracket.news
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?
santiagomayer.com
Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
#Israel kills Palestinians in Gaza and has announced it will not abide by the terms for facilitating humanitarian aid, despite the #ceasefire agreement. This is reported by various news sites. Nothing on Australia's ABC News re this. Do they have a blanket rule: no negative reports re Israel? #Gaza
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ingridm.bsky.social
trying to imagine white media disinvesting from Israeli lies and even now can not find any evidence whatsoever - throughout two straight years of livestreamed genocide and massive peoples movements for Palestinian liberation - that ruling class white solidarity is waning.
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
I'm certain ABC News will report:
ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRE
KILLS MORE PALESTINIANS
That would be accurate factual reporting. Looks online, scrolls down numerous ABC reports. Nothing. 😠 #AlJazeera reports it. 👇 #JournalismMatters #Israel #Gaza #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
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climatecouncil.org.au
You might know that Australia has set a climate target of 62-70% - that’s how much we’re aiming to reduce our climate pollution over the course of the next decade, compared to 2005 levels.

How does that stack up against other countries around the world?
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Anyway, this is just pre-emptive bitch in case the PM forces Chalmers to negotiate with the Libs over superannuation rather than just band with the Greens & pass the bill as is.

Grow up and use the Greens to pass the policies you want.

(Prob tho, when the PM prefers politics to policy)
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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.
tomquinn.bsky.social
Meta has now erased the Instagram account of Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi, less than two days after he was shot dead in the Gaza Strip.

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tomquinn.bsky.social
"The Israeli army may have withdrawn from parts of Gaza, but the shadow of its campaign of exterminating those who documented its genocide lingers on."
The assassination of Saleh Aljafarawi is meant to send a dark message
Gaza journalists have been warned that they still are not safe, that they still face death for reporting.
www.aljazeera.com
tomquinn.bsky.social
Not really reported upon, but its not just Hamas holding hostage bodies. The Red Cross today collected bodies of 45 Palestinians from Israel for return to Gaza.
Israel restricts aid into Gaza; Hamas releases bodies of 4 more captives
Handover comes as Trump says Hamas must disarm or be disarmed, 'perhaps violently'.
aje.io
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davidpocock.bsky.social
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!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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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tomquinn.bsky.social
“I tried to find some joy in being released on this day, but sadly, Saba went with my family, and my joy went with her,” he said.
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“I was very happy to be released because the date coincided with my youngest daughter Saba’s third birthday on 13 October. I had planned to make her the best gift to make up for her first birthday, which we could not celebrate because the war had started,”
tomquinn.bsky.social
The utter barbarity of what Israel has perpetrated.

"Upon his release, Radee attempted to call his wife, only to find her phone out of service. He then learned that his wife and all but one of his children had been killed in Gaza during his detention."
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“The signs of beating and torture were clearly visible on the prisoners’ bodies, such as bruises, fractures, wounds, marks from being dragged on the ground, and the marks of restraints that had bound their hands tightly”
tomquinn.bsky.social
Naseem al-Radee, a 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers, never charged with a crime and imprisoned for 22 months. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.
tomquinn.bsky.social
“The signs of beating and torture were clearly visible on the prisoners’ bodies, such as bruises, fractures, wounds, marks from being dragged on the ground, and the marks of restraints that had bound their hands tightly”
tomquinn.bsky.social
Naseem al-Radee, a 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers, never charged with a crime and imprisoned for 22 months. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.
‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...
www.theguardian.com
tomquinn.bsky.social
Naseem al-Radee, a 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers, never charged with a crime and imprisoned for 22 months. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.
‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail
Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...
www.theguardian.com
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giantwhispers.bsky.social
FILE UNDER: News, very bad #ClimateSky

"Many of the seeps were found at sites that had been repeatedly studied before, suggesting they were new. This may indicate a “fundamental shift” in the methane released in the region, according to the report."
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...
www.cnn.com
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francismarkham.bsky.social
Yesterday was the two year anniversary of the Voice Referendum.

I didn't see any media coverage marking that date. Efforts to memoryhole the episode seem to have been remarkably successful.
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
I am once again reposting this absurdly useful essay from Tim and Kate, because not enough of you have read it.
70sbachchan.bsky.social
“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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marisakabas.bsky.social
"a test"? you mean...a violation?
AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire