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Anna among the weeds
@annanimus.bsky.social
🎨 I paint the sky
✏️ I write to think
🕊️ Poetry is necessary in dark times
🧹 GOW, allergic to cats
🦘 AusPol
🌱 There will be weeds
☕️ And there’d better be coffee

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Hello Bluesky. Hope the mood is better here (I’ll do my best to add, not subtract).
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Dr Assal Rad—

“Killing dozens of Palestinians is not a 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦.

“It’s a massacre.”
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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The cost.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL:
❝ Act now and call on Israeli authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and all other arbitrarily detained Palestinian health workers. ❞
Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
Act now to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
www.amnesty.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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📌 Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, has now spent 320 days in Israeli detention after being seized during the army’s raid on the hospital last December. His family notes he is being unjustly held, and rights groups report he’s been denied medical care...
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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What we think of neo-nazis
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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This is probably the only story you will read about Gough’s left nut today…beautiful piece by Mike Bowers

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
11th November 1975, a pivotal moment for Australian politics and me
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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"Whitlam wasn’t perfect. But he was big. He was brave. But mostly, he was rational. He bulldozed his way through the incrementalist policy that kept Australians small, and scared and ill-educated and insular because he knew the evidence was on his side." - @amyremeikis.bsky.social for The Point
Whitlam’s legacy is one of possibility and hope. He showed us what a brave, grown up Australia could look like.
Whitlam showed us what a brave, grown up Australia could look like.  And 50 years later, you have to wonder – is it even possible to make Australia brave again?
thepoint.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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An era calling for courage over caution
November 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Israeli authorities continue to illegally detain Palestinian health workers including Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.

On Monday, UK healthcare workers, Healthcare Workers Watch & Health Workers4Palestine joined Amnesty activists to demand Palestinian health workers illegally detained in Israel are released.
October 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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ICYMI, this was an excellent interview with Chris Hedges.

Kudos to Dave for getting this exclusive.
But there is a key question arising that mainstream media pretend they don't have to answer:

Why are Australian journalists so scared to confront the truth about Israel and Palestine? #auspol
I interviewed Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges for an hour about the Western media betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club of Australia, fascism and a violent empire in decline.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...
Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Israeli courts have extended the arbitrary detention of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.

On 27.12.24 Israeli military arbitrarily detained him, a paediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

His name was initially on the release list as part of the ceasefire deal. He must be released immediately.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Chris Hedges in conversation with @davemilbo.bsky.social on Gaza:

"You don't balance truth with lies".

#TheSundayShot
@theshot.net.au
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“Once again, Morrison is extraordinary in everything but merit.”

The Saturday Paper has some excoriatingly great editorials and this is one of them.
Editorial: Scott Morrison’s last and only meaningful acts in parliament were about securing his first opportunities outside it. AUKUS is less a security partnership and more a one-man superannuation scheme. satpa.pe/K2fKgAv
The one-man super scheme
Of all the things Scott Morrison does not understand, and the list is long and often embarrassing, somewhat in the shape of his prime ministership, China would rate very close to the top.
satpa.pe
October 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Listening to @abcnews radio news on the release of "Israeli hostages" and "Palestinian prisoners" and the "end of the war" and I'm really sick to death of this whitewashed pro-Israel biased shit that is genocide denial and dehumanizes Palestinians. #auspol #GazaHolocaust
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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nobody panic but that is a tiny cygnet riding on the back of the adult swan!!!!!!!!!!!
October 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Mosab Abu Toha—

"A Palestinian hostage who’s just been released was told his wife and children were slaughtered by Israel while he was held hostage.

"His youngest daughter was turning two years old on Oct 18, in five days.

"You will not see this story on CNN, BBC, NYT, WP, or other MSM outlets."
October 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Laura Tingle. ABC. Analyses. The political theatre of Donald Trump's Middle East trip masks glaring questions about the peace plan.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
The theatre of Trump's Middle East trip masks important questions
Donald Trump's unconventional and often haphazard approach to diplomacy means there are countless questions about what has driven him to date, and what might determine whether he stays engaged in the ...
www.abc.net.au
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya!
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Here's a great Shot debut from David Rayfield. "Writing has nothing to fear from AI – just from those who support it"
Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot
“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...
theshot.net.au
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Cool with me.
October 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A letter to those who taught me my Jewishness, and who now sit on the other side of a deep chasm.

When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The NPC has absolutely shamed itself.
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM