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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 1d

#Curry30 broke the #NBA and I love him for it but it's time to bring back hand checking. I have a funny feeling it'd also reduce serious injuries of the connective tissue variety. And fuck Israel.

spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 7d

Disabled and chronically ill people deserve dignity and respect, not to be used as political cannon fodder.

spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 7d

There are more disabled & chronically ill voters in Australia than there are readers of the AFR; especially so now with an increasing number of previously healthy and able bodied people struggling with long-covid.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 7d

If Labor wants to be taken seriously by progressives they need to stop dog whistling to neo liberals who think disabled and chronically ill people's worth is tied to their ability to generate wealth for the capitalist class.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 7d

Subjecting disabled people to the whims of uninformed, incompetent and under-resourced Plan Managers and forcing them to use registered service providers, many of which were founded solely for the purposes of leaching public funds, is cruel, dehumanising and expensive.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 7d

All of this stems from the government's unwillingness to allow disabled and chronically ill people to manage their own funding and supports.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 7d

I'm surprised they even mentioned the fact that the government has (so far) invested more than $550 million dollars to make this happen. Do Labor not see the irony in their actions or do they think the general public is too stupid to notice?

NDIS rejects $86m in claims amid fraud crackdown

The National Disability Insurance Agency has started the measure to curb the ballooning cost of the $52 billion scheme.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 7d

The government hasn’t hired enough members to make the Administrative Review Tribunal run properly and instead of hiring more their plan is to remove rights from people bringing cases instead. Why should ordinary people pay for government failures like this?!

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 8d

I think a lot of people will find the answers to questions from Monique Ryan (18:13) rather enlightening.

The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 8d

Watch the full discussion📺
youtu.be/5am8CZWQvks

More politicians, lower minimum age: how to strengthen Australian democracy.

YouTube video by The Australia Institute

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 8d

"Perhaps the single most effective democratic reform open to this Parliament is a large increase in the number of parliamentarians."

"More MPs would mean more local concerns are better represented."

Australia Institute researcher Skye Predevac
@skyelark.bsky.social #auspol

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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 18d

Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong should hang their heads in shame that they left the safety and fate of heroic Australian humanitarians in the hands of violent war criminals.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 21d

Anti-intellectualism is a tool for manipulation and control; the vast majority of people don't dedicate their professional lives to being an expert in something just to lie about it. If the vast majority of experts say the government is actively doing harm, then it's very, VERY unlikely they aren't.

spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 21d

It means not just listening to expert consensus, but acting on it. It means abiding by international laws that were developed to protect both vulnerable communities and our collective humanity.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 21d

We need real democracy, and an end to this global techno and financial oligopoly. It won't happen in our lifetime but we can all play a valuable part and make a lot of progress locally.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 21d

China's life expectancy is too! Though to be fair, China's economically very State Capitalism, but seemingly in the pursuit of Communist outcomes? All I'm saying is, we should all be anti-Capitalism by now. Like hard anti-Capitalism, not reformist.

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spaghezzy @spaghezzy.bsky.social · 21d

I really hope that by now most people are finally asking themselves if this is what it's supposed to be like under Communism, why is it happening under Capitalism? Cuba's life expectancy and literacy rates are higher than that of the USA. As in Cuba, possibly the most Communist country there is?

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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 21d

The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25d

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 25d

"Would any other country knowingly destroy its most precious cultural treasures to save a gas company money?"

"And for what? Woodside's North-West shelf project is an export project. It undermines our energy security."

Add your name to the petition to #savemurujuga
✍️ theaus.in/saveMurujuga...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 25d

Denying reality doesn’t work. Pretending things are normal when they aren’t is a recipe for disaster.

We pretended away the Covid pandemic, and ended up in a mass disabling event that is still ongoing.

Don’t pretend away fascism. It’s here. It’s growing.

Refuse to normalize it.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 25d

When intentional and active cruelty becomes government policy, you get Nauru. It is designed to harm people in a vision shared by Labor and the Coalition.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 25

Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.

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Anne Marie @annemarie1.bsky.social · Sep 25

Let's just take a moment to enjoy the fact that @dailymail.co.uk's poll backfired on them yesterday.
They wrote a misleading article about Violet Affleck's speech at the UN (she didn't call for a mask mandate), and expected their readers to say 'no' to masks in healthcare.
75% said YES.
Love it👏

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · Sep 25

If you’ve been following the RFK Jr autism news, then you’ve probably heard that there’s a systematic review “proving” Tylenol causes autism.

Here’s my review of that paper👇🏼

open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

The best evidence Tylenol causes autism isn't great

On Monday, RFK Jr announced Tylenol ‘causes’ autism referencing three studies as evidence. Let's dive in.

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · Sep 25

People: 'Violet Affleck, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Daughter, Speaks About the Impacts of COVID in U.N. Address: 'Our Present Is Being Stolen'

"As Dr. Akiko Iwasaki says..long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children..."

people.com/violet-affle...

Violet Affleck, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Daughter, Speaks About the Impacts of COVID in U.N. Address

Violet Affleck, the daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, delivered an impassioned speech in favor of clean air and masking to prevent the transmission of long COVID-19 in an address at the Uni...

people.com

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