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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 7h

FUN FACT:

Our military is not being paid,

but the ICE gremlins are.

Make that make sense.

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 3h

Tories

Labor backs down on key elements of controversial superannuation tax plan

Jim Chalmers announces backflip on policy to tax unrealised superannuation gains on account balances of more than $3m

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4h

While the media and political class fixate on tinkering with superannuation, a new report finds that 1 in 7 Australians are living in #poverty.

And it's 1 in 6 children.

In such a wealthy nation, this is an obscene policy choice. #inequality #RaiseTheRate #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

One in seven Australians living in poverty: report

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

www.abc.net.au

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 52m

I'm sure it's just an innocent misunderstanding. I can think of a thousand innocent reasons why someone might say that...
um...
wait a minute...
how about?...
*sweats*
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 1h

We are so deep in the mire, the corrupt sewer of corporate influence, that it's only occasionally that something so silly happens to remind us where we've got to and what absurdities have become normalised...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Senator David Pocock has been turfed out of the Australian Parliament Sports Club! What?! | First Dog on the Moon

Was it for unsportspersonlike conduct? No it is much funnier than that

www.theguardian.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel’s got a monorail to sell Wales…

Farage promises ‘fresh thinking’ for Wales but says policies will come later

pembrokeshire-herald.com/124234/farag...

Farage promises ‘fresh thinking’ for Wales but says policies will come later

Reform leader hints at major changes ahead of Senedd election REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage has said it is “too early” to set out detailed policies for next year’s Senedd election – but promised his p...

pembrokeshire-herald.com

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 22h

Jfc this is dystopian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

Your grandfathers didn’t storm Normandy so you could be afraid of the word antifascist or “antifa”

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

The thesis is we're in a world information war waged by authoritarians disassembling ways of knowing that contradict truth-by-authoritarian-personal-gnosis using lies and synthetic media not to confuse people with false evidence but to coerce participation in the make-believe via affective resonance

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d

My in-laws were very "why don't we take one car?" when we first got married. Put a stop to that right quick. #QOTD

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Andy Churnwell @churnwell.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing to think that there was a time before social media when, if you were a gobshite, everybody ignored you. There was no way to make money saying stupid, provocative things because nobody wanted anything to do with you.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 1d

So let Trump and his fellow loonies expend huge amounts of time and money banning a hashtag #antifa, and then just call it something else? Like #FaAnti?

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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 2d

It was a no-win situation so why not go big?

Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Peace Prize should go to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Delivering peace through superior trolling.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 2d

Surely a 'waiver' is no waiver at all if signed under duress. At least in any legal system with even a skerrick of fairness. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 3d

So Schrödinger's Albo is president and supports the work of the club but has nothing whatever to do with it?

Have I got that right?

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 3d

So we have a sports club sponsored by those whose entire business model is predicated on making problem gamblers and their families homeless, organising football matches with said homeless.

Way to go, and whoopie-do. Big of you indeed.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 3d

ANTIFA:

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𝕃𝕦𝕜𝕚𝕦𝕞 @americanmanifesto.news · 3d

Think the shutdown is just politics? This playbook declares it an American Firewall, demands Epstein files, ends tariffs, stops healthcare theft, and refuses any compromise. https://americanmanifesto.news/the-shadow-comms-brief

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 3d

Does not even understand the basic tenets of rational thought.

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Michelle Suiter 🇵🇸🍉🕊️ @michellesuiter.bsky.social · 3d

With no conclusive evidence whatsoever RFK Jr told pregnant women not to take Tylenol bc it caused austism
Now he’s looking for the proof to back up his claims
Worst Sec. of Health ever!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 3d

We'll see what happens, but anyone who blindly trusts that any progress will be made in Gaza is, umm, perhaps being a tad naive.

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 3d

Unless your name is impossible to pronounce, no. Get over yourself.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Strong flat white for Batman: should I use a ‘coffee name’?

Some people go undercover when ordering takeaway – here’s what baristas think of the practice

www.theguardian.com