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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4h

“It’s not only that that’s immoral, it just doesn’t work. The victims are not going to just walk away. Organisations such as ours, or anyone who cares about humanity aren’t going to walk away. The victims can’t forget.”
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Denial and amnesia: Is the global community ready to welcome Israel back?

Analysts express concern over the rehabilitation of Israel, even as it says it has done no wrong.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23h

Solidarity is the only way

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

Champagne will be popping at the RBA today - they achieved their aim of getting 4.5% unemployment!

So well done on not cutting rates last month! Real finger-on-the-pulse move!

Chart showing Australia's unemployment rate since Jan 2022 and how in Sept 2025 it hit 4.5%

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!"

Pamela Jo Bondi

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Sally McLean @sassamalinka.bsky.social · 22h

Hot and windy.. perfect bushfire conditions which is very worrying

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Sally McLean @sassamalinka.bsky.social · 22h

Hot here in Geelong Victoria too

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

One of these countries is not like the others...

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Chart showing the annual growth of Australian short-term visitors to the top 10 destinations:

August
US -10%
Indonesia 2%
Thailand 4%
S-E Europe 5%
Total 6%
N-W Europe 6%
NZ 7%
UK 7%
Japan 8%
India 8%
China 12%

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Hitchhiker @42inabook.bsky.social · 1d

Four reasons Australia's superannuation system isn't the world's best johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

One additional point ( although partially covered here) is that the “Schemes” do not address the inequality, caused by contributory interruptions, for Women..= circa 25% LESS retirement benefit

Four reasons Australia's superannuation system isn't the world's best

When Australia embarked on its unique retirement incomes system in 1992, the World Bank was quick to encourage other countries to take the same approach to averting the old age crisis, claiming it wou...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

How about no.

AFR headline: RBA says Australians will have to accept lower wages growth

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 1d

Many of the 90 bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities under the ceasefire deal showed signs of torture and execution, including blindfolds, cuffed hands and bullet wounds in the head, according to doctors

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 1d

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Sally McLean @sassamalinka.bsky.social · 1d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2d

BREAKING: The RNC sued Hawaii, demanding access to its voter roll maintenance records.

It’s the latest GOP lawsuit targeting Democratic-led states, as part of a nationwide campaign to cast doubt on secure elections.

RNC Sues Hawaii for Access to Voter Roll, List Maintenance Records

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, color me shocked.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Pocketsquare cares not for the homeless. Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie announced on Thursday that the existing requirements for developers to include 20% social & affordable housing in the Woolloongabba Priority Development Area would be removed. #qldpol www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

‘Good planning, not red tape’: Opponents speak out as Gabba housing quota scrapped

Developers no longer need to include social and affordable housing in the Woolloongabba Priority Development Area, sparking the ire of the state’s peak social services group.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 3d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 3d

Attribution science just got more specific

Australian researchers have just proven and itemised harms caused by a single fossil fuel project - Woodside’s Scarborough project.

Their study can be replicated in legal cases everywhere

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Scientists calculate the cost on climate and human lives of gas project emissions

Fossil fuel companies and governments have argued it’s not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Respect to those who got here first.

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