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Former ABC broadcast journalist, presenter. Pioneered Australian *national* radio talkback on ABC Radio National. Podcaster: https://rss.com/podcasts/transitzone/ THEMES: DEMOCRACY/JOURNALISM FUTURES/INTERVIEWING/AUSTRALIAN REPUBLIC/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY.
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“Thousands of private messages reveal young #GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, #slavery & rape.” How surprising? #Trump #MAGA #fascism #racism www.politico.com
Politics, Policy, Political News - POLITICO
Nobody knows politics like POLITICO.
www.politico.com
mediaactive.bsky.social
“Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagonism’”. No surprises there? A profoundly patriarchal society despite its history for a time veering otherwise. #China #XiJinping www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women’s conference
Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagonism’
www.theguardian.com
mediaactive.bsky.social
#USA “State department says it has ‘no obligation’ to host foreign nationals who ‘celebrate heinous’ death of far-right activist”.“Celebrate” is #propaganda spin. In their own jurisdictions, citizens are fully entitled to comment upon #Kirk. #fascism #freespeech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US revokes six foreigners’ visas over social media comments criticizing Charlie Kirk
State department says it has ‘no obligation’ to host foreign nationals who ‘celebrate heinous’ death of far-right activist
www.theguardian.com
mediaactive.bsky.social
Midst everything else, including rampaging #ICE (SS) lawless thugs across American “blue” states, #Trump, #petehegseth are mudering people, extra-judicially, off Venezuela. Not interdicting. If lawful arresting. Blowing to smithereens. No evidence. Just claims. #ruleoflaw #fascism
#dictatorship #USA
gtconway.bsky.social
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
mediaactive.bsky.social
“Repairing this damage requires a leader who respects scientific integrity & transparency, listens to experts & can restore trust to the federal health apparatus. Instead, Kennedy has become a driving force behind this crisis.” #Trump said he’d let #RFKJr “go wild”. See the results. Chaos. #fascism
mediaactive.bsky.social
“We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.” #Trump is unfurling his #fascism project & consolidating his #dictatorship in plain sight . #RFKJr is vandalising #USA #publichealth for generations. #fascism #democracy www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
mediaactive.bsky.social
“We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.” #Trump is unfurling his #fascism project & consolidating his #dictatorship in plain sight . #RFKJr is vandalising #USA #publichealth for generations. #fascism #democracy www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
www.washingtonpost.com
mediaactive.bsky.social
#AUKUS the zombie. But so many bucks to be made meanwhile? #auspol #Trump #USA #fascism
1earthmedia.bsky.social
#AUKUS is the new Coal & Gas for former parliamentarians jobs.

Chris Pyne, Joe Hockey, Dolly Downer, Joel Fitzgibbon, Kim Beazley, Julie Bishop, Andrew Robb, Sophie Mirabella, Amanda Vanstone, Mike Kelly, Brendan Nelson, Arthur Sinodinos, and of course, Scott Morrison are all arms dealers

#auspol
AUKUS: Revolving door, spiralling down – Arena
Critical * Radical * Australia * Earth
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mediaactive.bsky.social
“Perhaps the most important bit of news today is that Fox has also refused to sign the Pentagon’s insane new restrictions on media, restrictions ironically enacted by a Fox News weekend host who famously got the job because he ‘looked the part.’”. #freepress #Trump #petehegseth #democracy #fascism
mediaactive.bsky.social
Of course they’ll get worse. Much worse. We’ve had the #Trump 2.0 prologue. Now Act One. #ICE SS are rampaging: lawless thugs. The #USA military are bending to the “Mad King’s” will. How soon will we witness citizens’ blood spilt on the streets? Trump is shredding the #ruleoflaw. #fascism #democracy
mollyjongfast.bsky.social
If you’re worried things can’t get worse, I assure you…..

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mediaactive.bsky.social
Of course they’ll get worse. Much worse. We’ve had the #Trump 2.0 prologue. Now Act One. #ICE SS are rampaging: lawless thugs. The #USA military are bending to the “Mad King’s” will. How soon will we witness citizens’ blood spilt on the streets? Trump is shredding the #ruleoflaw. #fascism #democracy
mediaactive.bsky.social
I have been reading up again on Mussolini & Hitler. There are numerous clear parallels (that are “normalised” via the reporting, framing methodologies of “public interest” #journalism) & rhymings with the current #Trump era. Stephen Miller & Goebbels for one. The #ICE SS another. #fascism #democracy
mehdirhasan.bsky.social
There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.
murshedz.bsky.social
"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?
mediaactive.bsky.social
OPINION Discuss. Throw #AI into the mix. 6 month old babies with IPads. We’re throwing away what actually made our species “successful”. Potent cognition. Critical thinking. Powers of analysing shape shifting variables & nuances. Most now is binary based? #books open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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mediaactive.bsky.social
“They look like ribs of a giant creature rising from green water, but the ghost trees of Louisiana are really time capsules – submerged trunks and root flares from cypress and tupelo that died as salt crept inland and water levels rose.” #history #environment flip.it/DJdtsG
The Ghost Trees Found Deep in Louisiana’s Swamps - discoverwildscience
They look like ribs of a giant creature rising from green water, but the ghost trees of Louisiana are really time capsules -
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mediaactive.bsky.social
That smell of “normalisation” in the morning? #USA taxpayers fund US defence to the tune of trillions of dollars. “new press rules” is anodyne #journalism
that enables, amplifies #authoritarianism. Pathetic. #Trump #petehegseth #freepress #fascism
milestaylor.bsky.social
INCORRECT HEADLINE: Reporters refuse to sign Pentagon’s new press rules

CORRECT HEADLINE: Pentagon launches sweeping effort to censor the news, kicks out major media outlets
mediaactive.bsky.social
“‘Ms Brockman was taken to the ground, battered, handcuffed, & her pants were pulled down exposing her bare buttocks,’ Thomson said. ‘No one should be treated like that in this city, in this country or anywhere else in the world.’” Lawless thugs. She was commuting to work. #ICE (SS) #Trump #fascism
mediaactive.bsky.social
“Attorneys representing a producer for Chicago’s WGN television station who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week in Chicago, say the incident ‘should be alarming & horrifying to every person in this country’”. #freepress #Trump #fascism #democracy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chicago TV journalist’s arrest in Ice raid ‘alarming and horrifying’, lawyers say
Attorneys for Debbie Brockman, released with no charges, deny agent’s claim she ‘threw objects’ at border patrol car
www.theguardian.com
mediaactive.bsky.social
We have even seen videos of #ICE thugs spraying pepper spray into the intake valves of inflatable frogs in Portland. How fucked is that? #protest #democracy #Trump #fascism
mediaactive.bsky.social
Frogs & chickens? #Trump falsely claims Portland is “burning down”. Easily provable otherwise esp by #USA “public interest” #media #journalism. But #MAGA #propaganda works in the land of the gullible & ignorant. Pathetic. #fascism #protest #ICE flip.it/9D3e37
Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous. That’s the point
Protesters in cities like Portland, Oregon, are using humor to reveal the absurdity of MAGA’s claims about them—and it might be working.
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