RossM
rossm57.bsky.social
RossM
@rossm57.bsky.social
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drifting over from that other place; concerns about failing democracies, climate change and many other issues still the same; reposts/likes are not endorsements
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Midas touch in reverse -apart from his various personal income streams.
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A systematic review of 511 studies showed that immunisation against COVID-19, RSV, and influenza was safe and effective in people of all ages.
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police understand this well. Look at the new police powers to harm people living in poverty. Facing “serious” charges opens up whole new categories of state harm. That’s why police pile up charges on some and protect others from additional and collateral consequences.

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Labor are sneaking through extraordinary powers to let police and ASIO cut peoples welfare if they’ve been charged with a crime.

This is an unacceptable power grab, and will harm families and partners of people reliant on payments to survive.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'Power grab': Labor under fire over new move to cut off Centrelink payments
The last-minute additions have been called into question, with advocates arguing they set a "dangerous precedent".
www.sbs.com.au
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Here’s a powerful message from Michael E. Mann: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it.

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
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"The conflict over the Ontario advertisement, then, is not simply about how the Republican Party has shifted on trade. It lays bare how our media environment has remade the performance of the presidency itself."
"To Trump, Reagan’s composed performance, with its affirmation of consensus, is almost intolerable. It must be discredited not because it is inaccurate but because it represents an entirely different model of what presidential authority looks like." -Jake Lundberg
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump
Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.
www.theatlantic.com
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This is an American citizen being beaten by Trump's masked thugs—after they cuffed him.
Evanston, IL

Please watch. Please share.

Brutal footage of Trump's masked thugs beating a man who is already cuffed.

Witnesses said ICE slammed on their brakes, causing the red car to rear-end them.

This is the pretense ICE used to brutalize these citizens.
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"There is no pause for the Palestinians. There hasn’t been for decades. Israel remains committed to condemning them to perpetual dispossession and ethnic cleansing. And the UK media remains complicit, shielding Israel as it carries out its strategic objective."

And not just the UK media.
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The most important thing about the ad is Trump’s response to it. trib.al/AHGEdp8

Imposing an additional 10 percent tariff on Canadian goods because one of their provinces ran an ad during the World Series demolishes the legal justifications for Trump’s tariff policy.
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Aussies have to read this....🤬🤬🤬
When you get up the nose of Zionists, throw the facts out the door. It is time that facts were provided referenced by evidence - Israel has committed genocide in Gaza - and continuing to do so. Israel ignors UN advisory opinions and legal genocide experts. michaelwest.com.au/zionist-doct...
Shadow War: Zionist doctors keep relentless pursuit of Israel "dissenters" - Michael West
Zionist doctors continue their public campaign against healthcare workers they perceive critical of Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians.
michaelwest.com.au
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The President has immunity.

Now Stephen Miller is telling ICE they have federal immunity while “fulfilling their duties”.

We have a dictator with a secret police force and both have immunity from prosecution.

This is fascism.

They can and will do whatever they want.
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A more accurate headline:
'What Happened in Gaza Might Be Far Worse Than Israeli-Complicit Western Media Have Reported.' #GazaGenocide
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"The idea that we “all have to learn to get along together”, which the Ezra Kleins of the world love to harangue people with, and which weak-hearted politicians love to adopt because it means they don’t actually have to do anything" @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
'Sensible' centre? Tell that to the giants of The Rocks and Eureka
We've had decades of sanitising radical progressive action in Australia, to make successes seem as if they were just the sensible position.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
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Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?
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Media fixation on Rudd v Trump is indeed vomitous.

And yet another excuse for mainstream media to dumb down foreign policy to personality politics, while ignoring real issues:
- why has there been no independent Australian review of #AUKUS?
- is the US alliance still useful, or is it now dangerous?
• Sky News Australia grub goads Trump to hate on our Ambassador.
• Easily manipulated narcissist Trump takes the bait.
• Back home, the entire irrelevant right wing mob (Coalition MPs, NewsCorp, Nine and ABC hacks) all call for Rudd's resignation. Vomitous. 😠 #auspol #journalism
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Nope, you cant make us.

We have a 1st amendment right to post our images.

Treasury just asking for new lawsuits. Openly.

#whitehouse
“As construction proceeds on the White House grounds, employees should refrain from taking and sharing photographs of the grounds, to include the East Wing, without prior approval”

— Warning letter from Treasury official

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
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The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Israeli terrorism and ethnic cleansing in the #WestBank continues.
The western political and media establishment looks the other way.
Israeli settler mobs attacked Palestinian farmers in Al-Nazla Al-Sharqiya, north of Tulkarm, stealing their harvested olives and detaining them for hours by force, another act of settler violence against Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. 🤬🤬🤬
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I ❤️ my hometown.

Well done…