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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 5d

It's the topic everyone in Canberra is talking about and now thanks to ChaserBet, you can win big on this bizarre story!

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Serena Joyner @serenajoyner.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry should add *if I were in the US* Thankfully I'm in Aus

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Serena Joyner @serenajoyner.bsky.social · 8h

This would target people like me (climate advocate) and groups like many I have been part of one I currently lead (Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action) . It's chilling.

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Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 14h

This is pretty full on stuff. If you hold anti-capitalism or anti-Christianity views in the US you might well be investigated as if you seek to overthrow of the United States Government.

The Trump administration last month issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum that ordered federal law enforcement — including Treasury and the IRS — to investigate a wide range of advocacy groups that the administration says contribute to political violence. The order, called NSPM-7, mandates that federal law enforcement take a sweeping view of the types of ideas that may be held by a group that is worthy of investigation. They include “extremism on migration, race, and gender,” ” hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality,” and “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity.” Per NSPM-7, those arguably common ideas fall under the umbrella of the “’anti-fascist’ lie,” and are listed in the same category as more extreme ideas such as the ambition to “overthrow of the United States Government.”

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

The whiplash from 'we are going to build responsible AI' and 'were worried about the addictive nature of these tools'

To:

'Were going to build a porn bot', 'were building a additctive, endless scroll social media app' and 'were bringing back the addictive model'

Is pretty big

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Unlawfully built, now leaking through the safety liner. Enough fuel to blow Darwin Harbour to kingdom come

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.

Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.

www.abc.net.au

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 2d

Woodside’s Scarborough gas project likely to:
• push 500,000 people’s local climate beyond the human climate niche
• kill ~500 Europeans
• kill 16 million corals

New research shows individual fossil fuel project -> climate impact attribution
#auspol #ClimateSky

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

It’s worth noting that when he decided to speak out about his unconstitutional ICE detainment, DHS accused him of assault.

They lie.

They blame the victims.

George did nothing wrong. He was just trying to get to work and was hit with chemical munitions and detained for three days.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Serena Joyner @serenajoyner.bsky.social · 2d

What the hell?!!??

Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

No one will remember anything Linda Reynolds did in politics, but we will remember this forever. What a piece of sh#t.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 3d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve been saying this forever. The social media ban will harm kids

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3d

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

www.abc.net.au

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

It is really, really, really stunning to me how the first part in particular has already become so incredibly noticeable.

In the climate space alone I am spending more of my precious remaining life hours convincing ppl that the output of a word generating program is not the default truth......

onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Serena Joyner @serenajoyner.bsky.social · 5d

Couldn’t agree more

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 6d

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Serena Joyner @serenajoyner.bsky.social · 5d

The call is coming from inside the house.

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 6d

The “most moral army in the world”?!

The genocide continues.

Israel is a terrorist nation.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 6d

Israeli tanks stationed along Al-Rashid Street fired shells directly toward civilians waiting to return to their homes in Gaza City.

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livesarah.bsky.social @livesarah.bsky.social · 6d

Any member who doesn’t resign from the Australian Parliament Sports Club in protest over this should be viewed as irretrievably tainted and having a conflict of interest on any legislative matters pertaining to gambling.

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 19d

A reminder …

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Biggerthanfrogs @biggerthanfrogs.bsky.social · 13d

"McInerney, a poetry specialist and associate professor of literature, told a podcast this year that the White Australia Policy was “commonsensical”. On X, he said it should have been enshrined in the Constitution."

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 14d

Two lecturers at Catholic Campion College in Sydney are overt white supremacists. They are both interlinked with #AtlasNetwork and connected operations. Read this reporting to see how overt these figures are.
We look at Pentecostal extremism; watch this too. #Auspol

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The far-right figures teaching students at a
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Stephen McInerney and Stephen Chavura both teach at Campion, a well-connected college in Sydney's west that promises undergraduates a vibrant campus, Catholic values, and a focus on the classics.
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Campion College staff Stephen McInerney and Stephen Chavura are promoting far-right rhetoric. JAMIE BROWN

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 17d

It's actually WORSE

Labor SA Premier Malinauskas has also teamed up with Woodside to GASLIGHT THE PUBLIC

No, WoodCIDE & Premier Malinauskas, ⬆️ FOSSIL GAS production INCREASES C & GHG pollution to our shared atmosphere & worsens #ClimateBreakdown—⬆️ FOSSIL GAS supply is NOT "a net zero solution"☠️

Screenshot of a Woodside Energy LinkedIn quote-post of a post from Liz Westcott

It reads:
"Our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Australia Liz
Westcott caught up with the South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas at The Australian's Energy Nation Conference and thanked him for his powerful endorsement for the role of gas."

Liz Westcott's post reads:
"It was great to catch up with Peter Malinauskas at The Australian's Energy Nation Forum in Sydney.

The Premier shared a compelling example of the role gas can play in decarbonisation.

He said that the Whyalla steelworks transitioning from a blast furnace burning metallurgical coal to using gas for direct iron production would halve the annual emissions of the steelworks.

But the Premier said to achieve it, South Australia will need a lot more gas than is currently available.

To put it another way, he said his support for gas is underpinned by his support for net zero.

At Woodside we wholeheartedly agree. Increased gas supply is a net zero solution.

Thank you for your unequivocal advocacy Premier."

Image shows a smiling Liz Westcott (left) and a smiling Peter Malinauskas (right)

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18d

Just in case anyone is still waiting for a line to be crossed

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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