Barbara Flowers
@babsflowers.bsky.social
Erstwhile, but eternal, law librarian. Love all Bachs, the greater and the lesser. #auspol
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Trump is trying to sell Palestinian sovereignty for $1 billion per seat while Palestinians are still being bombed and starved under the so-called “ceasefire.”
This isn’t diplomacy, it’s profiteering off genocide. Australia better not touch this with a 10-foot pole.
This isn’t diplomacy, it’s profiteering off genocide. Australia better not touch this with a 10-foot pole.
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Trump is trying to sell Palestinian sovereignty for $1 billion per seat while Palestinians are still being bombed and starved under the so-called “ceasefire.”
This isn’t diplomacy, it’s profiteering off genocide. Australia better not touch this with a 10-foot pole.
This isn’t diplomacy, it’s profiteering off genocide. Australia better not touch this with a 10-foot pole.
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Bruce Springsteen: “If you stand against heavily armed federal troops using Gestapo tactics in an American city and believe you shouldn’t be killed for exercising your right to protest, send a message to this president — ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Bruce Springsteen: “If you stand against heavily armed federal troops using Gestapo tactics in an American city and believe you shouldn’t be killed for exercising your right to protest, send a message to this president — ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Is the #StateLibraryVictoria now run largely by a money-mates board? Is our State public library run by people who don't understand it? We don't even have a Chief Librarian. Damage must be reversed. Rolling fiascos: plans to cover the dome with videos, censorship scandals & staff expert exodus.
January 18, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Is the #StateLibraryVictoria now run largely by a money-mates board? Is our State public library run by people who don't understand it? We don't even have a Chief Librarian. Damage must be reversed. Rolling fiascos: plans to cover the dome with videos, censorship scandals & staff expert exodus.
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#StateLibraryVictoria management wants the controversy it's caused to go away. It will not. The people of Victoria won't cop it being turned into a soulless husk. The beloved cafe just handed to corporate caterers. Queens Hall, a great 19th Century hall of books, now gutted & a wedding venue.
January 18, 2026 at 11:55 PM
#StateLibraryVictoria management wants the controversy it's caused to go away. It will not. The people of Victoria won't cop it being turned into a soulless husk. The beloved cafe just handed to corporate caterers. Queens Hall, a great 19th Century hall of books, now gutted & a wedding venue.
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....to the front line. 😉
January 18, 2026 at 11:24 PM
....to the front line. 😉
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It’s part of the business model of a lot of these firms, as are grants for social programs for Aboriginal communities that are won by mining companies and the like, then 80% of that grant is spent on administration within the company and the rest on advertising.
January 18, 2026 at 10:29 PM
It’s part of the business model of a lot of these firms, as are grants for social programs for Aboriginal communities that are won by mining companies and the like, then 80% of that grant is spent on administration within the company and the rest on advertising.
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January 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
This view of Trumpism has been promulgated in Indy media for a while. No sign of any of it in the Oligarch's Heralds.... money to be made, corporate alliances to be invested in...
www.thenerve.news/p/us-nationa...
www.thenerve.news/p/us-nationa...
Trump in plain sight: how a new US security document has changed the world
The crises over Venezuela and Greenland are not accidental – they are part of the White House’s stated vision for a new world order run by the ‘great powers’, writes analyst and former diplomat Arthur...
www.thenerve.news
January 18, 2026 at 10:57 PM
This view of Trumpism has been promulgated in Indy media for a while. No sign of any of it in the Oligarch's Heralds.... money to be made, corporate alliances to be invested in...
www.thenerve.news/p/us-nationa...
www.thenerve.news/p/us-nationa...
"The UK has embedded a notorious US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of President Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland."
broligarchy.substack.com/i/183932001/...
broligarchy.substack.com/i/183932001/...
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
broligarchy.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:45 PM
"The UK has embedded a notorious US military surveillance company whose founder is a close ally of President Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally, Greenland."
broligarchy.substack.com/i/183932001/...
broligarchy.substack.com/i/183932001/...
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Pretty much every church in Minneapolis does. It’s only a small handful in downtown and one in north that don’t. Same goes for the mosques and synagogues. Our religious community is very, very liberal
January 13, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Pretty much every church in Minneapolis does. It’s only a small handful in downtown and one in north that don’t. Same goes for the mosques and synagogues. Our religious community is very, very liberal
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LIBERATION THEOLOGY NOW
January 13, 2026 at 5:24 AM
LIBERATION THEOLOGY NOW
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We may not need the files.
But the public wants and deserves them.
If there’s nothing to hide, release all the Epstein files‼️
#Voices4Victory #SheShed
But the public wants and deserves them.
If there’s nothing to hide, release all the Epstein files‼️
#Voices4Victory #SheShed
January 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
We may not need the files.
But the public wants and deserves them.
If there’s nothing to hide, release all the Epstein files‼️
#Voices4Victory #SheShed
But the public wants and deserves them.
If there’s nothing to hide, release all the Epstein files‼️
#Voices4Victory #SheShed
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“…the US has one key weakness: it relies on others to pay its bills via large external deficits. Europe, on the other hand, is America's largest lender: European countries own $8 trillion of US bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined.”
January 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
“…the US has one key weakness: it relies on others to pay its bills via large external deficits. Europe, on the other hand, is America's largest lender: European countries own $8 trillion of US bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined.”
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World leaders should be marched through ruins of Gaza to actually witness firsthand what the genocidal far right Netanyahu regime has perpetrated upon the Palestinian people.
This barbarity has no place in the 21st century and feeble world outcry is a collective slur against humanity
#auspol #Gaza
This barbarity has no place in the 21st century and feeble world outcry is a collective slur against humanity
#auspol #Gaza
January 18, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Knut Hamsun
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...
uwapress.uw.edu
January 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
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Time for the EU and UK to impose targeted travel bans on key figures in the Trump regime. They shouldn’t be able to holiday in Paris while planning an invasion of Greenland.
January 18, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Time for the EU and UK to impose targeted travel bans on key figures in the Trump regime. They shouldn’t be able to holiday in Paris while planning an invasion of Greenland.
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Yeah, I saw an article in Herald Sun a few days ago about this. I forget the headline but it was about 'GetUp' being broke etc, but I noticed on the opposite page of the print newspaper was an article quoting the IPA as a 'reliable source'.
January 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Yeah, I saw an article in Herald Sun a few days ago about this. I forget the headline but it was about 'GetUp' being broke etc, but I noticed on the opposite page of the print newspaper was an article quoting the IPA as a 'reliable source'.
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I wanted to be a journalist since I was a kid, as long as I can remember. I remember getting excited when the primary school teacher wheeled in the TV for the ABC's BTN.
I faced a choice. Follow my dreams or continue writing utter bullshit for Murdoch.
But being a reporter, I wasn't silly.
I faced a choice. Follow my dreams or continue writing utter bullshit for Murdoch.
But being a reporter, I wasn't silly.
January 18, 2026 at 4:14 AM
I wanted to be a journalist since I was a kid, as long as I can remember. I remember getting excited when the primary school teacher wheeled in the TV for the ABC's BTN.
I faced a choice. Follow my dreams or continue writing utter bullshit for Murdoch.
But being a reporter, I wasn't silly.
I faced a choice. Follow my dreams or continue writing utter bullshit for Murdoch.
But being a reporter, I wasn't silly.
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I once worked in a Murodch newsroom. Murdoch is a lying c*&t, and the journalists who remain in his newsrooms are lying pieces of shit. Simple as that. I know they lie. I know some of the bullshit I had to write to keep my job. It wasn't journalism, it was right-wing propaganda for Murdoch's mates.
January 18, 2026 at 3:38 AM
I once worked in a Murodch newsroom. Murdoch is a lying c*&t, and the journalists who remain in his newsrooms are lying pieces of shit. Simple as that. I know they lie. I know some of the bullshit I had to write to keep my job. It wasn't journalism, it was right-wing propaganda for Murdoch's mates.
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GetUp is being attacked by Murdoch, who wants to declare people-powered campaigning dead and buried. Let's prove him wrong! getup.to/m74gvH9B2Ip4...
Prove Murdoch wrong
GetUp is being attacked by Murdoch, who wants to declare people-powered campaigning dead and buried. Let's prove him wrong!
getup.to
January 17, 2026 at 6:55 AM
GetUp is being attacked by Murdoch, who wants to declare people-powered campaigning dead and buried. Let's prove him wrong! getup.to/m74gvH9B2Ip4...
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American commentators and right wing politicians are expressing shock that countries they have repeatedly threatened with invasion, disrespected on the international stage, and economically bullied are forging new alliances.
Sorry guys, but it’s FAFO time.
Sorry guys, but it’s FAFO time.
January 17, 2026 at 12:18 PM
American commentators and right wing politicians are expressing shock that countries they have repeatedly threatened with invasion, disrespected on the international stage, and economically bullied are forging new alliances.
Sorry guys, but it’s FAFO time.
Sorry guys, but it’s FAFO time.
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He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.