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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes.

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Herewith my 2026 BingoCard
It’s surely past time to kick Hungary out of EU so they can join Russia properly in economic decline.
February 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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🇭🇺 Hungary Wants to Supply Russian Oil via an Alternative Route

Hungary officially appealed to 🇭🇷Croatia, asking to allow Russian oil deliveries through the Adriatic route. The reason is the suspension of transit through 🇺🇦Ukraine.

Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/hungary-want...
Hungary Wants to Supply Russian Oil via an Alternative Route
Hungary officially appealed to Croatia, asking to allow Russian oil deliveries through the Adriatic route. The reason is the suspension of transit through Ukrai
theukrainianreview.info
February 16, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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@albomp.bsky.social
Your daily reminder that your GOOD FRIENDS WITH ISRAEL are sadistic war criminals...vote greens 💚 dump the Labor/Israel party.
#Video | An elderly man walks with heavy steps, leaning on a walker in the devastated town of Beit Lahia, while the roar of drones fills the sky above him, in an area not far from the yellow line.
February 16, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Women, leave Queensland. #auspol

Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner

Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate
Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner
Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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French prosecutors to set up special team to review Epstein files www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
French prosecutors to set up special team to review Epstein files
Magistrates will analyse evidence that could implicate French nationals and re-examine case of Jean-Luc Brunel
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
February 16, 2026 at 4:38 AM
First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!

www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...
First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day
The first kākāpō chick of the breeding season has hatched on Pukenui Anchor Island.
www.doc.govt.nz
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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Is this the “golden age” economy we’ve heard so much about?

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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The candidate for US Senate endorsed by Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t vote for 20 years, including the 2016 & 2020 presidential elections. apnews.com/article/dere...
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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The higher house prices go as a multiple of median income, the more likely there is a massive market correct correction.

The Government will end up paying for it because the major banks make most of their profits from mortgages and it guarantees bank deposits. #auspol
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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This is hands-down the best thing I’ve read on Epstein‘s worldview and those of his fellow tech, finance, and academic elite. It’s a rough read, but at least every paragraph is a banger. 🔥🔥🔥😭
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Epstein & Co HATE humanities:
“It offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without opening a book they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial & queer studies...& devote their brains instead to the race science & rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”
February 15, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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So very sad to see the resurgence of racism in Britain.

The little englanders need reminding that the 'Spirit of the Blitz' they're all so nostalgic for was *anti-fascist*.

Most Brits are sound, decent people, and I really hope this is just a passing phase.
February 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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"Israel says" is not journalism, @australia.theguardian.com.

And you know it's not journalism. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
February 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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These ones are the go, thanks to @kcar.me. Here's one of them.
February 15, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Farage has said he wants to throw the NHS to corporate vultures. The UK won’t get that back. How could they be so reckless 🤯
February 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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🔴 BREAKING | Israeli PM Netanyahu, who is facing an arrest warrant from the ICC, said he has handed the U.S. pres. five “necessary conditions” for any future deal w/ Iran. He is demanding:

1. All enriched uranium removed from Iran’s territory.

2. Removal or destruction of all uranium enrichment...
February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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One thing about the Republican destruction of academia is their shallow vision of what should replace it. They don't want anything like academics, scholarship, or research to exist, they want it to be nothing more than right-wing pundits spouting off whatever lazy nonsense is needed that week.
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
You can always count on VicPol’s racism if nothing else 🤷‍♀️
February 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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Mere words are totally inadequate. Israelis will probably demand his release.

The West’s greatest moral failure this century? Its support for and complicity with the racist sadistic fascist genocidal ethnic cleansing apartheid Israeli government. We give them $ & bombs to murder babies. BDS Now!
February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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(also it's why antisemitism isn't really that distinct from other bigotries, contra many claims to the contrary. hatred directed at Black people, women, lgbt people who gain some status works much the same.)
February 15, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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fascism is about resentment of those with power, but the key is it's resentment of those who *supposedly don't deserve power*. That's the crossover with antisemitism; it's not that Jewish people are esp rich, but that Jewish people deserve no status or power. (Merchant of Venice is pretty clear here
February 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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yeah. this is the problem with left wing populist analysis. AOC hits this less hard than Sanders in general, but it's still inaccurate.

far right doesn't care about wealth inequality. they are upset that "elites"—ie marginalized people—are gaining status and supposedly ruling over them. 1
That is not what right-wing populists say! They blame various out groups for lots of things, but "wealth inequality" is not one of them because they don't care about that, it is not what's driving them, and it is not what they are claiming to solve. That's your issue. People can have other concerns.
We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
February 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM