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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 9d

@albomp.bsky.social

Nothing yet posted on this BlueSky account by our PM on the piracy on the high seas and the kidnapping of Australian citizens seeking to deliver desperately needed aid to starving babies, men, women & children?!

International rules based order, anyone?
@senatorwong.bsky.social

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 2h

Change the gun laws. Restrict gun ownership. Ban automatic weapons.

Look to Australia for laws that actually work to keep people safe.

NPR @npr.org · 2h

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say. n.pr/42CYV7t

4 killed and 20 more injured in shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 2h

Zelenskyy asks for more air defences in Macron call

"Russia is now taking advantage of the moment," the Ukrainian leader said

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

Letitia James is being indicted for saving $50/month on a loan?

Gee, I wonder how much loan money Donald Trump saved when he got more than $270 million in debt forgiven after he failed to repay loans on his Chicago skyscraper development . . .

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

www.nbcnews.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 2h

Here is the link to vote: birdlife.org.au/australian-b...

Quick. Vote for Baudin’s cockatoos for Australia’s bird of the year. They’re endangered and need their profile lifted fast do they get protection.

Australian Bird of the Year 2025 - BirdLife Australia

It’s back. Australia’s favourite feathery showdown is here once again! The Guardian and BirdLife Australia have launched Bird of the year 2025, nominations now open!

birdlife.org.au

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greatratbag.bsky.social @greatratbag.bsky.social · 6h

Peace for a few days, then the IDF will resume operations b/c some Palestinian kid threw a rock at an Israeli tank

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 3h

100%. Freedom of speech and thought, speaking truth to power, providing context & facts & history tend not to get a Guernsey in our media, on contentious issues … even in our ABC.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

Chris Hedges sets out truths about the 'peace plan' that so many western journalists avoid.

Truths that National Press Club members,
especially the ones who have accepted Israeli junkets and drunk the Zionist Kool-Aid,
preferred not to be confronted with? #GazaGenocide #NPC #auspol

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Miscellaneous Loose Unit @misc-loose-unit.bsky.social · 8h

We need to smash the Murdoch Stokes corporate shareholder owned media in Australia

Also teach young people civics politics and real Australian history in schools

Also tax churches especially American prosperity cults

#auspol

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 3h

That’s why conservative media hype up triggers of fears… like immigrants, people of colour, different religions, trans kids, science denialism…

Fear sells papers and it makes people less cognitively functional. Trump, Putin, hitler Howard, Abbott, Dutton, Hanson, Murdoch…they all use it.

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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 8h

All countries are vulnerable.
World is full of RW dictators & autocrats.
Western democracies are only more vulnerable now, as capitalism is starting to fail & the deteriorating global environment, conflict & climate warming is pushing people to be more fearful!
Fearful people are a fascists dream!

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DispatchesfromBizarro @mrdahl15.bsky.social · 7h

In Australian politics I see culture wars like racism being weaponised with misogyny. (Cultural femicide? Insert your own signifier.)

It's prevalent here; name a country where it isn't?

Australians are actively importing trendy versions of cultural femicide.

DV up; hate crime up; truth down.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 3h

It’s IOF’s usual schtick. The piles of dead Palestinians they were forced to kill or who were killed in “crossfire” or who refused to comply with a direction, or who we wearing a PRESS vest…

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 3h

I agree. I don’t blame migrants. I blame right wing politicians and conservative media for deliberately dividing the community and scapegoating minorities. It’s a trick as old as time.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 8h

Huge March for Palestine Rally in Boorloo Perth today

Crowd scene of people carrying Palestinian flags, wearing keffiyehs, and signs. The sign reads it’s not complicated. It’s genocide. Free Palestine.

A young woman in blue jeans and a black T-shirt holds a sign above her head which reads 20 point colonisation plan. In the crowd behind her assign can be seen that reads, sanction apartheid Israel

The crowd of Palestinian supporters matches through Murray Street Mall in Perth. Sunshine pause through the tree leaves. A woman in the full ground holds a sign that features PM Albanese photograph & reads:
War criminal
Complicit in genocide

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 8h

Huge March for Palestine Rally in Boorloo Perth today

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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 12h

Huge rally for Free Palestine today - I think the biggest ever. South Australian’s want a just, lasting peace, Palestinian statehood and self-determination, hostages free, pursuit of war criminals and an end to any Australian public investment in armaments.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 19h

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO

If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’

www.nwo.nl

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 10h

Fri 10 Oct: week 20 protesting the @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of Woodside's carbon💣 North West Shelf Extension

Meanwhile Enviro Min Murray Watt opts to do a deal with the Coalition on EPBC laws that yet again, rules out a climate trigger

Not promising 👉 theconversation.com/labor-is-clo...

Protestors outside the allegedly pro-environment Josh Burns' St Kilda office. The dark orange banner says STOP NEW GAS IN WA and NT

Foreground on photo shows the XRmobile whose bonnet is decorated with a owl with outstretched wings beseeching us to Save Our Forests
A placard on the windscreen says LABOR = CLIMATE WRECKERS
In the background, protestors across the road hold up a banner and placards.
The dark orange banner says STOP NORTH WEST SHELF GAS

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 12h

Anything less than leave it in the ground, stop burning fossil fuels will never be enough and that is the crux of the matter.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 18h

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning and Happy Sunday to everyone who correctly remembers that contrary to trump's post, Joe Biden was NOT the President on January 6, 2021 -- trump was.

His delusional episodes are increasing, it's time for the 25th Amendment.

HE IS UNFIT TO SERVE.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23h

❗️Reportedly, these are armed uniformed Russian men at the Estonia-Russia border.

Friends from Estonia, could you please provide more details? Thank you!

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 9h

It’s time for Australia to reassess its AUKUS nuclear subs deal. So many eggs in one basket of never-never coming secondhand subs was always a dumb, dud deal. It’s al the more-so now.

Dump AUKUS. Become a smarter, kinder, more independent nation free of hegemonic Uncle Sam.

Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 1d

We must learn from Ukraine. Ukraine air defences take down 80% of targets.

Ukrainian drones stopped Russian advance on land and in the Black Sea, and devastated the Russian strategic bomber fleet. Ukraine shows besides tech we need integrated command & a new warfare ecosystem.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 9h

We Australians seem to be very vulnerable to right wing media/political forces/oligarchs’ manipulation. I hope this changes as the younger generations come to voting age.

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