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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

Anyway, this is just pre-emptive bitch in case the PM forces Chalmers to negotiate with the Libs over superannuation rather than just band with the Greens & pass the bill as is.

Grow up and use the Greens to pass the policies you want.

(Prob tho, when the PM prefers politics to policy)

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

Meta has now erased the Instagram account of Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi, less than two days after he was shot dead in the Gaza Strip.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 9h

"The Israeli army may have withdrawn from parts of Gaza, but the shadow of its campaign of exterminating those who documented its genocide lingers on."

The assassination of Saleh Aljafarawi is meant to send a dark message

Gaza journalists have been warned that they still are not safe, that they still face death for reporting.

www.aljazeera.com

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

Not really reported upon, but its not just Hamas holding hostage bodies. The Red Cross today collected bodies of 45 Palestinians from Israel for return to Gaza.

Israel restricts aid into Gaza; Hamas releases bodies of 4 more captives

Handover comes as Trump says Hamas must disarm or be disarmed, 'perhaps violently'.

aje.io

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.

We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

“I tried to find some joy in being released on this day, but sadly, Saba went with my family, and my joy went with her,” he said.

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

“I was very happy to be released because the date coincided with my youngest daughter Saba’s third birthday on 13 October. I had planned to make her the best gift to make up for her first birthday, which we could not celebrate because the war had started,”

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

The utter barbarity of what Israel has perpetrated.

"Upon his release, Radee attempted to call his wife, only to find her phone out of service. He then learned that his wife and all but one of his children had been killed in Gaza during his detention."

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

“The signs of beating and torture were clearly visible on the prisoners’ bodies, such as bruises, fractures, wounds, marks from being dragged on the ground, and the marks of restraints that had bound their hands tightly”

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

Naseem al-Radee, a 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers, never charged with a crime and imprisoned for 22 months. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

“The signs of beating and torture were clearly visible on the prisoners’ bodies, such as bruises, fractures, wounds, marks from being dragged on the ground, and the marks of restraints that had bound their hands tightly”

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

Naseem al-Radee, a 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers, never charged with a crime and imprisoned for 22 months. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 3h

Naseem al-Radee, a 33-year-old government employee from Beit Lahiya was arrested by Israeli soldiers, never charged with a crime and imprisoned for 22 months. And like many others, his detention was marked by torture, medical neglect and starvation at the hands of Israeli prison guards.

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

FILE UNDER: News, very bad #ClimateSky

"Many of the seeps were found at sites that had been repeatedly studied before, suggesting they were new. This may indicate a “fundamental shift” in the methane released in the region, according to the report."

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Francis Markham @francismarkham.bsky.social · 7h

Yesterday was the two year anniversary of the Voice Referendum.

I didn't see any media coverage marking that date. Efforts to memoryhole the episode seem to have been remarkably successful.

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Iron Curtain (Leah Abram) 🏳️‍⚧️ #BringBackLink @ironcurtainyc.bsky.social · 7h

The MSM is only reporting the Israeli hostage stories and not the Palestinian hostage stories. Fortunately, we have @zeteo.com for that: zeteo.com/p/five-pales...

Five Hostage Stories the Media Is Ignoring Because the Hostages Were… Palestinians

The release of Israeli hostages from Gaza has been widely covered by the Western press. But what about the hundreds of freed Palestinian hostages, and their stories of trauma and suffering?

zeteo.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 30

I am once again reposting this absurdly useful essay from Tim and Kate, because not enough of you have read it.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · Jul 5

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 TRUMP CONFIRMS HE WAS AN ACTIVE PARTNER IN THE GENOCIDE:

'Bibi Netanyahu would call me so many times asking for weapons I never even heard of, but we got them here didn’t we? You used them very well.’

Absolutely shameless that this is a world leader.🤬🤬🤬

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 19h

This Christian priest was asked "If the mosques in Gaza are all bombed who will issue the call to prayer?" He replied "If the mosques in Gaza are all bombed and there's no muezzin in Gaza, I will raise the call to prayer at the appropriate time for my Muslim brothers as an honour to them." #SaveGaza

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 9h

So, the Albanese Govt's Education Minister wants to do something about bullying.

Perhaps he could start by ending the legalised bullying of LGBTQ+ students by religious schools.

You know, like they promised in 2022, before walking away from it, and from vulnerable kids. #auspol

Education ministers to consider new national standards to combat bullying
Krishani Dhanji
Krishani Dhanji
Federal, state and territory education ministers will consider a proposal for a new national standard on anti-bullying when they meet on Friday.

The communications minister and eSafety commissioner are also set to brief the ministers ahead of the social media ban taking effect on 10 December.

The government announced the anti-bullying rapid review in February, with co-chairs Dr Charlotte Keating and Professor Jo Robinson to present their findings and recommendations to the meeting.

The education minister, Jason Clare, says the review shows the prominence of bullying in and out of school hours.

Complaints about online bullying to the eSafety commissioner have increased by 450% in the last five years ...
The review reminds us bullying doesn’t stop when the school bell rings any more. Today it can follow you all the way home after school. The internet means that you can be bullied now at any time, day or night, and anyone can see it.

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Polly Hemming @pollyjhemming.bsky.social · 1d

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests.

But sure — protest doesn’t work.
#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

screenshot of ABC article. text captured says Timor-Leste scraps lifetime pensions after student-led protests
Topic:Activism and Lobbying

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Friday 26 September
Police officers in the street usher crowds.
Police appeal to students to clear the road to await the result of the parliamentary vote. (AFP: Valentino Dariell de Sousa)

In short
Protests broke out last week in Timor-Leste, with thousands of demonstrators demanding parliament cancel a $4.2 million plan to purchase SUVs for lawmakers and lifetime pension for MPs and public officials.

Sixty-two members of parliament voted unanimously on Friday to pass a new law that scrapped the pensions for MPs, former presidents, prime ministers and cabinet ministers.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Very jarring how the media treats some lives as inherently and others not.

I am happy for hostages and their families to be reunited, but it’s shocking how little media attention is given to “how do Gazans grapple with the utter destruction of their homes, vast loss of lives, and ongoing famine.”

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning Lal Lal windfarm (in the distance, past the canola fields).

Wind and solar smashed records on Saturday hitting a new peak of 79.8% electricity share on the NEM - without huge curtailment they would have produced 113% of demand.

Huge!

Blue skies, green fields with eucalypts, a yellow field in the midground is in front of the faint white outline of wind turbines.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 9h

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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