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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 7h

Former Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk: If you need optimism in the EU, come to Kyiv

On a visit to Brussels, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk sat in a Brussels ...

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TweetyB 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @tweetyb.bsky.social · 6h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Sanders: They have refused to negotiate. And anyone thinks that tomorrow they'll suddenly start negotiating. I think, is smoking what is illegal in many states

AOC: And should be legal in more.

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TweetyB 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @tweetyb.bsky.social · 6h

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 11h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 9h

"Opting to negotiate with the Coalition on the environment is opting to work with the very climate sceptics Australians just rejected."

From co-CEO Leanne Minshull in The New Daily
@leanneminshull.bsky.social #auspol

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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CHOPPER - Woke Boomer @unclechopperrip.bsky.social · 8h

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

Solidarity is the only way

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil.

The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips.

Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms.

If this isn't corruption, what is?

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 16h

The only "peace" I'm seeing as it relates to Gaza is a "perpetrator peace," patting themselves on the back for a job well done, confident they can walk away from their genocide without being held accountable, and the "peace" of a massive graveyard. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

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ChattyCathyPRGuysGrandma @chattycathyau.bsky.social · 14h

Got to love that the LNP, this time Sussssan Ley, trying and kick down Victoria & Victorians

Victorians:- "You want to play that game? Here's even less seats for you." 😎

#AusPol

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TweetyB 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @tweetyb.bsky.social · 20h

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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 22h

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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 22h

How extraordinary! Imagine our government being thoughtful about& investing in protecting their citizens against a future disaster #auspol

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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 22h

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TweetyB 🐀🏳️‍⚧️ @tweetyb.bsky.social · 20h

I’m gonna need a longer lasting version!

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 1d

Thank goodness for the cross bench.

Holding @albomp.bsky.social Labor Government to account.
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Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 1d

'vive la cross-bench'

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI #auspol

FOI amendment bill. A transparency counter-revolution. - Michael West

The biggest ever assault on government transparency has been launched by Labor's tabling of the FOI Amendment Bill 2025.

michaelwest.com.au

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

It’s great to see the cross bench coming out early and with strength opposing the Govt’s evil #FOI Amendment Bill. Here’s @helenhainesindi.bsky.social’s amendment killing off the ability of the Govt to charge FOI applications fees and for officials to summarily dismiss FOI requests. #auspol

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1d

It’s great to see the cross bench coming out early and with strength opposing the Govt’s evil #FOI Amendment Bill. Here’s @helenhainesindi.bsky.social’s amendment killing off the ability of the Govt to charge FOI applications fees and for officials to summarily dismiss FOI requests. #auspol

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 1d

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan warned that the US was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire.

Near the start of their new book, Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez argue that what the astronomer feared is now coming to pass.

Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy

In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.

www.motherjones.com

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