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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 5h

is that roster the Epstein phone book?

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 6h

he’s been giving them all the weapons they wanted, he literally said that in his speech

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 10h

ideally we’d like fewer people buying cars at all 🤷‍♂️

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 10h

What proportion of people will buy a car in the next two years?

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 11h

looking forward to the telemovie

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 11h

“In the 2025 budget request, total military compensation is $600 billion. (Of that total, $236 billion is for DoD and $365 billion is for VA.)”

so over $4b per week for DoD alone. Nobody’s giving that away.

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 12h

the number of people taken captive by Israel increased from 5,200 to 11,100 since October 7, 2023.

The vast majority of these prisoners are from the occupied West Bank – 400 of them children.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 14h

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 12h

“the number of people taken captive by Israel increased from 5,200 to 11,100 since October 7, 2023.

The vast majority of these prisoners are from the occupied West Bank – 400 of them children”

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 12h

Israel declared war on The West Bank?

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 13h

“raising further questions”?

there is no question

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 13h

Phase two, where Israel goes back to killing Palestinians bsky.app/profile/fina...

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h

Israeli soldiers killed several Palestinians in northern Gaza on Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump touted the end of the war in the coastal enclave. on.ft.com/494LYXX

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 13h

they know MAGA voters never hold them to account

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 13h

tbf Israel were doing this pretty much every day before Oct 7 too, so…

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 13h

So integrity is sending bombs to Israel that he knew were being used to commit genocide? Fuck me you guys are cooked.

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 15h

you keep saying Biden was too weak and thinking this wins the argument 😂

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 15h

newsflash… Biden IS a Zionist www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Joe Biden, a proud 'Zionist' since 1973

COLUMN. As the first US president to declare himself a 'Zionist,' Biden is determined to remain true to a commitment to Israel that goes back more than half a century.

www.lemonde.fr

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 15h

right so now you’re literally asking how would my solution have solved this given Biden was so weak 😂

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 15h

tbf I think @lolou01.bsky.social point was that if Maccas can make a $1 coffee then beans (and hence a tariff) shouldn’t be that much of a factor in a $5 coffee

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 16h

caving in? Dude I’m Australian, you Americans should try getting yourselves a real democracy

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 16h

Also there’s 10g of beans in a shot of coffee, even with the very best beans this costs less than 50c. Labour etc are a bigger component.

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 16h

sure dude. It’s not like I making this stuff up myself you do realise

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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 17h

luckily 500lbs bombs don’t kill humans 🤪 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

U.S. to again ship 500-pound bombs to Israel, reversing suspension

The Biden administration will send 500-pound bombs to Israel that had been held up since May over concerns about the Rafah invasion. But 2,000-pound bombs are still under review.

www.washingtonpost.com

Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 17h

because you’re in Canada not USA where tariffs are imposed 😂

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