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KatEagle @kateorlyk.bsky.social · 2d

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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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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 1d

How are you taking anything from that drawer on purpose…

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 4d

Fucking outrageous nonsense. What a bunch of bootlickers.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 5d

And what do the corporate sponsors expect in return?

Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 6d

You are so, so dumb, man.

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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 6d

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

"I'm strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve.
"I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 6d

Cheerful scenes from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip shortly before a ceasefire agreement is expected to take effect, offering a glimmer of hope for an end to the ongoing Israeli genocide that has been raging for over two years.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 6d

"left for dead on a Darwin road by a driver who did not stop to help, and then later sent text messages to his friends describing the victim as an "oxygen thief" and a "dog"."

This passes for justice, in the N.T. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

'There's no justice': Outrage as Jake Danby walks after fatal hit-and-run

A fatal hit-and-run case in Darwin has exposed deep disparities in the NT’s justice system, say Aboriginal leaders, as the victim’s family speaks out.

www.abc.net.au

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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 6d

The entire NT should be mad that this absolute grifter has abandoned any pretence of representing her community.

Using her platform to elevate one Queenslander against renewables, this Charlie Kirk garbage (he was a fascist plain and simple) - no shits given about us here at home. #auspol

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 7d

Jacinta Price has lashed & accused the ABC of not providing enough coverage on the assassination of Far Right advocate Charlie Kirk. Takes issue with ABC referring to him as a “Far Right advocate”

Pfft. ABC wouldn’t shut up about Kirk. And yes Jacinta, he’s far right, like you. #Estimates

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 6d

If they just let them all fight she would emerge victorious

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6d

For the first time, the Deloitte report also publicly maps out the business rules of the jobseeker punishment system

Here's the tech the government inflicts on poor ppl every day - everyone is subject to it: single mums, ppl with disabilities, homeless ppl

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Desert Boy @bakefreeordie.bsky.social · 6d

How is this at all meaningfully different than Robodebt?!

The absolutely fucked up lengths - the time and effort and $$ - our government will go to to deny people some basic welfare and dignity.

Imagine a world where people can be out of work for a bit without being punished for it. #auspol

Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6d

The Deloitte report was received by the Department last year but was not publicly released until almost 12 months later

DEWR tried to hide it as long as possible — not because of AI errors — but because it documents the widespread unlawful administration of Mutual Obligations

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 6d

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 9d

Watch | Israeli occupation forces have released new drone footage from Gaza, revealing the mass destruction and the erasure of every means of life in the Strip.

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 12d

"why don't the police arrest ICE?" same reason the SS didn't arrest the gestapo, dumbass

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OpheliaPG @opheliapg.bsky.social · 9d

“It’s Bisan from Gaza. The bombing didn’t stop even for an hour” - Bisan Owda 💔

#RiseUp #ShutItDown #StrikeForGaza #R2P #BDS #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine youtube.com/shorts/w7rsx...

The bombing didn’t stop even for an hour.

YouTube video by Bisan Owda

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 9d

'The maritime domain is at the heart of our shared security and our prosperity. Australia wants all of us to operate by the same rules. Disputes must be managed in line with international law - not force.' ~ Penny Wong, SEP 26

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel complain of ‘degrading and humiliating’ treatment

One tells consular officials his arm was dislocated and head slammed into ground while another fears she may have a stroke

www.theguardian.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 9d

Seriously, "leftie" journos in that room, where. the . fuck. are. you? It might be time to put ethics and morality ahead of your career prospects. This is a holocaust and a fascistic assault on democracy in the West. And you're just gonna sit there quietly? Go fuck yourself.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11d

Could the National Press Club be less embarrassing and less complicit in the genocide of Palestine/the West's decline into overt fascism, pretty, pretty, pretty please? 🙏 Cancelling Chris Hedges' talk on the betrayal of Palestinian journalists only proves his point. Truly, truly pathetic

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 9d

“It’s not just Netanyahu, but the State of Israel that is committing crimes. States must act by severing strategic, military, and economic relations, otherwise they become complicit. The responsibility also falls on us citizens.”
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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