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Reselsnark
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Cringe, and woke Australian who works in the technology and product space with a media speciality.

Ex-law student and reformed student politician.
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Reselsnark @reselsnark.bsky.social · Apr 4
I’m going to reiterate my view that ‘illiberal democracy’ is a mutually exclusive term.

You can face an illiberal polity where people get to vote, but that isn’t a democracy.

I can’t imagine why I feel the need to restate this at the moment.
reselsnark.bsky.social
Everyone in the US should be utterly embarrassed by this sort of fawning and grovelling over an incompetent, incoherent fascist by a conga line of suckholes.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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kevinbonham.bsky.social
kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/10/tasm... I've expanded my article on the upcoming expansion of Clark to include a summary of the initial submissions. #politas
Tasmanian Redistribution: Clark Must Expand, But Where?
Tasmanian and Australian psephology, opinion poll analysis, election analysis and political commentary by Dr Kevin Bonham.
kevinbonham.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
"Broke ranks" isn't even true. They admitted Schumer was in the room the whole time!
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h
JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15h
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
cinesthetic. @ @TheCinesthetic - 6h Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best. 5 cinesthetic. © @TheCinesthetic - 14h What film have you gone into absolutely expecting to hate but that ended up pleasantly surprising you the most? 303 t7 703 • 15K Elon Musk • Great movie 9 98 17 47 0 cinesthetic. @@TheCinesthetic - 1d Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances. cinesthetic. • @TheCinesthetic-2d What's your favorite movie with a "rotten" (below 60%) rating on Rotten Tomatoes? © 44к ni 217K 贝 Elon Musk • x 2 @elonmusk - 16m Man on Fire is great! • 64 to 16 • 187
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
I loved this conversation with Andi, and tried to get at something important that I think has been lost: feminism is a discrete ideology, and has a more specific meaning than “anything any woman ever says about gender.”
The vagueness and nonspecificity that characterize “Did women ruin the workplace?” are hallmarks of right-wing rhetoric, says Moira Donegan, a Guardian columnist and writer-in-residence at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research who co-hosts the podcast “In Bed With the Right.” “One revealing thing about the conversation is that you can tell these people are in an epistemic bubble where they’re not being challenged on what they’re saying. [They] presume a kind of intellectual entitlement where these are not words you have to make your audience understand. It’s one thing to do that when you’re at the National Conservatism Conference; it’s another when you’re in The New York Times.” Donegan adds one more term to the list, pointing out that the conversation “uses ‘feminism’ as a euphemism for ‘women,’ rather than defining feminism as a set of political commitments or ideals. [When] it’s espoused by a woman and is about gender, that’s presumed to be sufficient to define it as feminism.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human....
🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human dignity in Gaza. Among the cases is N.A., a 42-year-old mother from northern Gaza, who told PCHR she was raped four times by Israeli soldiers and subjected to repeated torture and humiliation in detention after she was detained while passing through an Israeli checkpoint set up in northern Gaza in November 2024. 📌 Her testimony in full: “At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me. That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.” Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: November 10, 2025. PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention Against Released Palestinian Detainees
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
America is entering its Australia era

The great @justinmikulka.bsky.social -->>>

powering-the-planet.ghost.io/the-end-of-t...
Due to the fracking boom the U.S. was producing much more gas than it could use. Access to global markets was the only way to make a profit on producing natural gas in the U.S. which spurred the massive investment in U.S. LNG export terminals and now the situation has been reversed as the U.S. will be exporting so much gas in the form of LNG that the U.S. will have a gas shortage and domestic gas prices will rip higher. It’s already happening. From the Wall Street Journal:
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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luckytran.com
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.

This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
Canada is currently experiencing a large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles that began in October 2024 with cases in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories. While transmission has slowed recently, the outbreak has persisted for over 12 months, primarily within under-vaccinated communities. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. PAHO's Measles and Rubella Elimination Regional Monitoring and Re-Verification Commission reviewed recent epidemiological and laboratory data, confirming sustained transmission of the same measles virus strain in Canada for a period of more than one year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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peterclines.bsky.social
This point here is the exact problem with all "centrist" arguments. If I'm starting at center and negotiating with the right, any result is going to be on the right. It will never, ever be on the left. There is absolutely no point between zero and negative ten that is a positive number.
walkerbragman.bsky.social Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11h
It desperately needs stronger leaders.

And that means it needs hardline progressive leaders. When you start from the moderate position, you have less room to negotiate.

And you end up getting less every time.
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
"The Appeasement Eight gave Republicans bipartisan cover, and established another point of leverage Trump has over Congressional Dems...in a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Therefore, preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move."

Yep:
nicholasgrossman.bsky.social Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h
I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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miriamcosic.bsky.social
'Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War', is about to air on ITV in UK:

Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers

By Julian Borger (lr)

#Gaza #IDF
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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eurogamer.bsky.social
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.

Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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aljazeera.com
Hamas condemns Israel’s “daily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.
Israeli drone strike kills two in Gaza as ceasefire violations mount
Hamas condemns Israel’s “daily and continuous violations” since a truce came into effect last month.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
What we just witnessed was state-sanctioned Nazism
What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?
www.smh.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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nickdmiller.bsky.social
Well worth a read on the man who's about to be honoured with a state funeral. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson
For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away.
www.smh.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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blmckean.bsky.social
"For one engineering professor, the decision to leave the Air Force Academy became clear after he repeatedly was told he could lose his job any day...Johns said people on the faculty now live in fear of retaliation and are afraid to speak out. Academic freedom is gone, he said."
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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seamusbyrne.me
I recently had a live chat with @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social about their new book, Conspiracy Nation, for the Media Futures Hub at UNSW. The conversation is now on the podcast feed. Check it out!
pca.st/episode/8ee9...
Conspiracy Nation: book discussion with authors Ariel Bogle and Cam Wilson
pca.st
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
Two paragraphs from the article, pointing out Telegraph hypocrisy
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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kibblesmith.com
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.

Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.

In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.

Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
A fantastic investigation showing that the unit run by Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol agent in charge of racial profiling in LA and Chicago, is an outlier even in an agency already notorious for unnecessary use of force. Obama and Biden could have fired him, but didn't.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
A scorpion sitting atop a frog sitting atop Lucy's football
burgessev.bsky.social Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 14h
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
The BBC’s problem is not really impartiality, it’s understanding the relationship between impartiality and accuracy.

The two are paired in the BBC’s code. Due impartiality is paired with due accuracy. The BBC forgets this all too often, focussing only on impartiality and neglecting accuracy.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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atrupar.com
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM