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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺

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Dutch resident, Australian writer (fiction, TV, film, librettos) with earlier careers in law & biology. Plantenliefhebber, GL-PvdA [🚫DM unless we know each other] https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan https://www.margaretmorgan.info/

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Half of humanity is frightened of violence.

The other half is frightened of ideas.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9h

It is slightly funny that Türkiye and Australia are fighting over COP31 hosting rights while their biggest gas companies team up to see who be the worst climate criminals

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Woodside’s 16.5 Mt/y Louisiana LNG Project Gains Turkish Support in HOA
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By Jacob Dick on October 02, 2025 at 9:05 a.m.
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Woodside Energy Group Ltd. is looking to place a significant portion of the capacity of the first phase of its Louisiana LNG export project under contract as a part of a tentative supply deal with Türkiye’s state-owned pipeline company.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 11h

An American (legal) tragedy.

"Ensuring that the executive respects the rule of law is the ultimate test Roberts may face. Suppose the Court orders the president to end a policy because it violates the law—a policy Trump deems essential to his cause. If the Trump decision and the Court’s loss of public legitimacy lead the president to think he has the power to disobey that order, what safeguard against authoritarianism will be left?"

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-trump-united-states

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 9d

As someone who experienced the 2000 era tech bubble collapse, this is fucking wild to watch. No one wants to pay for this bullshit which is why they keep forcing it on everyone, while spending the GDP of a reasonably sized country to build more of the thing that no one wants. It's fucking absurd

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abdohassan.bsky.social @abdohassan.bsky.social · 13h

Israel soldiers inscribe “humanitarian aid” on bombs they were dropping on our families in Gaza.Recently posted on Instagram by an Israeli soldier - a shell inscribed with the words "Humanitarian Aid ✡️"

Caption says: "Aid is on the way. Bon appétit😉"

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19h

How do I block all the AI slop? Also so far ai so just made my life 1000000 times more annoying.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 17h

I wonder if this was another DM that Trump accidentally sent out to the world. Perhaps he meant to be passing on a directive to Bondi.

Just imagine the rotting word salad he vomits daily into the DMs of his minions. It'd be a full time job just to work out what the hell he means.

Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 19h

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21h

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

bigthink.com/strange-maps...

poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 20h

"How is this even legal?" is a question I see daily coming out of the US.

"Legal" is an irrelevance now.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

A video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown is now playing at airports across the U.S.

How is this even legal?

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 20h

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The party eats good intentions.

Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, it's astonishing.

It reminds me of various career Democrat politicians in the US who are tinkering at the edges of what Trump is doing, thinking that there'll be elections and things will return to normal.

They won't. Nothing short of a massive uprising will save the US.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 23h

This is the equivalent of appeasing 1930s Germany.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 23h

Of course it's better than the current alternative, but that's a very low bar. It doesn't alter the fact that there is a massive gulf in Australian politics leaving a huge swathe of progressive voters unrepresented.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 23h

The Labor govt isn't one man. He has the support of the parliamentary party, having led the party to a resounding victory.

If you want serious change, you need more than a new leader.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 23h

And all it cost was a second-hand Boeing 747.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

we are nearing the point where our robots can take your dog for a nice little hike while listening to your favorite playlist, giving you more time on the weekends for the important things like making sales calls

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Labor isn't the left.

Australia quite simply doesn't have a major progressive political party.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Japan! Very cool. (Do send me an email with details of the trip, and photos! I need to hear. 😊)

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should be clear at this point that like the US federal government has collapsed.

There are no branches. There are no rules.

There is just one man and his truth social posts.

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 1d

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RIP Diane Keaton. Loved her.

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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 1d

Onderzoek | Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden.

Vanuit de PVV-fractie worden in het geheim met AI racistische ideeën gepromoot

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee…

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