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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday's Russian War crime

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 1d

Report by the UN representative on today's Russian attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region.

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 1d

Steady on.

Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 1d

How does she sleep?

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 2d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 1d

Why don't we care?

Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 2d

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Poverty in Australia 2025: Overview – Poverty and Inequality

povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 1d

Monday's Russian War Crime.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

The aftermath of the Russian attack on #Kharkiv last night:

"First, there was an explosion somewhere nearby, and then… I don't remember anything. The glass cut my legs. It was terrible, just terrible," says one of the victims of the Russian strike on the hospital grounds in Kharkiv.

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 1d

Yay, Rodney Hall – inexplicably passed over for the Miles – up for the Voss! vossliteraryprize.com/long-list-20...

Long List 2025

The judges for the 2025 Voss Literary Prize for the best novel published in 2024 long-listed the following titles from the 52 eligible titles which were submitted by publishers: Jumaana Abdu, Trans…

vossliteraryprize.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely wanton fuckery here. I'm looking forward to the inevitable "there's nothing anyone can do" response from Coillte, the gardaí, and anyone else who ought to be hunting these pricks down and reducing them to penury.

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 2d

What is it?

Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 3d

Liar, liar, pants on fire. If only.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

Peskov: "The Russian side continues to say that we are ready for a peaceful settlement. But the Europeans and the Kyiv regime are showing absolutely no desire to do anything in this direction."

Liar.

Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 6d

A white one too!

Dr Hilary Joyce ⚕️ @drhilary.bsky.social · 6d

Stunning Waratah flowers direct from a friend’s garden yesterday

A display of a white Waratah and four red blooms surrounding in a glass vase with white kitchen background. Flowers are almost spherical and the size of a cupped hand

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), German Expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century #WomensArt

Painting of a sunrise or sunset over an island in silhouette on a calm sea under a dramatic gold, red and purple sky, viewed from a green shore

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 8d

Really?

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10d

Zaporizhzhia 💔
1 person killed, 10 more injured by the Russian attack on the city last night.

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 10d

No. Don't be Manichean. Troops woulda looked even crazier on empty streets

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 11d

How can this not outrage the world?
A West Bank town symbolises the hurdles to Palestinian statehood - ABC News share.google/pet0jgEKZ0UZ...

How an Israeli military order to remove olive trees spiralled into a four-day siege

A quiet town north-east of Ramallah, is on the front line of a territorial battle in the West Bank. It is playing out against the backdrop of international recognition of a Palestinian state.

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Frank #FBPE @thelastcenturion.bsky.social · 12d

Have we all forgotten about the Epstein files?

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 12d

RFK Jr. fires top NIH scientist after she files whistleblower complaint about his effort to undermine vaccines and politicization of research grants. l.smartnews.com/p-6jZAlSWQ/d...

RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint (The Guardian)

Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-R...

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 11d

Absolutely. Don't let derangement syndrome throw shade on Anthony Albanese's global wins as steady approach pays off - ABC News share.google/ftdlHxrXu7Ix...

Don't let derangement syndrome throw shade on Albanese's global wins

This week feels like it's time to officially add Albanese Derangement Syndrome to the diagnostic and statistical manual of political disorders.

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 13d

The comments under every single post about the attack at the Manchester synagogue are insane. A synagogue not an embassy, there is nothing “inevitable” about this.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13d

Book cover art, c.1910 by Margaret Neilson Armstrong, US designer, illustrator, author known for her Art Nouveau style #WomensArt

Book cover in cream with symmetrical design of stylised plants with orange flowers and green leaves as well as ornate text

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Joyce M @jkmoore.bsky.social · 13d

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 12d

Jacob Chansley aka the QAnon Shaman, known for storming the Capitol on Jan 6, has filed a $40 trillion lawsuit against Trump, Musk's X Corp, the Federal Reserve, the IMF, the World Bank, Israel and others, claiming that he's the real leader of the US.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

QAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillion

In a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, that the NSA stole his work for a Batman movie and more.

www.phoenixnewtimes.com

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Richard Signorelli 🌱💙🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @richsignorelli.bsky.social · 13d

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Lindsey Halligan’s Appointment as U.S. Attorney Was Illegal—And That Makes the James Comey Indictment She Signed Invalid, Unconstitutional, and Headed for Dismissal Attorney General, Lindsey… | Mitch...

Lindsey Halligan’s Appointment as U.S. Attorney Was Illegal—And That Makes the James Comey Indictment She Signed Invalid, Unconstitutional, and Headed for Dismissal Attorney General, Lindsey Halligan...

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Margaret Barbalet @margaretbarbalet.bsky.social · 12d

Like that word vindictive.

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