Ruth Dawkins
@dorkymum.bsky.social
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Ruth Dawkins
@dorkymum.bsky.social
· Aug 8
Seems like there has been a big influx of new folk here from Twitter/X this week, so maybe time for a quick reintroduction 👋🏻
I’m an immigrant in lutruwita/Tasmania, originally from Scotland. A mum, wife, writer, introvert.
I’m an immigrant in lutruwita/Tasmania, originally from Scotland. A mum, wife, writer, introvert.
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Ma'am you were vice president of the United States of America
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
The post ‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Ma'am you were vice president of the United States of America
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“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
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UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
www.reuters.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
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I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
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It is truly astounding how much they want to hurt people
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It is truly astounding how much they want to hurt people
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The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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You can watch "Shirley Valentine" in its entirety on YouTube. It's one of their free movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
Shirley Valentine. (Full Movie)
YouTube video by Brian King
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
You can watch "Shirley Valentine" in its entirety on YouTube. It's one of their free movies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYj...
Ahh heck 💔
Rest in peace Pauline Collins.
Shirley Valentine will always be one of the best British movies of all time!
Shirley Valentine will always be one of the best British movies of all time!
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Ahh heck 💔
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As a Jew who works on stuff like human rights and international law, it is such a breath of fresh air to have one candidate willing to find a first principles, human rights-based answer on Israel and repeat it endlessly for a very, very long year, trusting that many Jews understand and agree
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
As a Jew who works on stuff like human rights and international law, it is such a breath of fresh air to have one candidate willing to find a first principles, human rights-based answer on Israel and repeat it endlessly for a very, very long year, trusting that many Jews understand and agree
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The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
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"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception"
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution
In 1988, the U.S. was in prime position to dominate the industry for decades to come. But thanks to fossil fuel giants, China is instead the world’s superpower in renewables.
newrepublic.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception"
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
@aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>
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Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
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VP served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush
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Cheney will be remembered for key role after 9/11
The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Dick Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84.
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.
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I think it's so awesome that print and digital media is ran by evil people
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I think it's so awesome that print and digital media is ran by evil people
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The US-sponsored framework of "ceasefire" agreements with Israel is predicated upon one theme: the Arabs cease, and Israel still fires.
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
Despite a ceasefire, Israel has demolished villages in southern Lebanon
Along Lebanon's border, Israel has continued demolitions and attacks despite a ceasefire in the country's war with Hezbollah last year.
www.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The US-sponsored framework of "ceasefire" agreements with Israel is predicated upon one theme: the Arabs cease, and Israel still fires.
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?
@4boat.bsky.social thanks so much for the repost ❤️🙏🏻
November 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
@4boat.bsky.social thanks so much for the repost ❤️🙏🏻
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November 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I know the need is great and a lot of us have reached the capacity of what we are able to give, but if you are able to spare even the cost of one coffee this month, please consider my dear friend Hala and her family, whose story you can read on their GFM.
www.gofundme.com/f/hala-and-f...
www.gofundme.com/f/hala-and-f...
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I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan
To give some credit there is a growing chorus of dissent on this issue in Congress, lead by Van Hollen, Sara Jacobs, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar among others.
Van Hollen, Jacobs Reintroduce Bill to Prohibit U.S. Arms Sales to UAE Until They Cease Support of RSF in Sudan | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.-51),...
www.vanhollen.senate.gov
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan
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I’m in total agreement. For the average white person to put their bodies on the line to push back against American fascism takes a substantial escalation in the political climate, particularly if they are not immediately the targets of the fash.
I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’m in total agreement. For the average white person to put their bodies on the line to push back against American fascism takes a substantial escalation in the political climate, particularly if they are not immediately the targets of the fash.
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I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.
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you know what I was just saying about how only white men are permitted to embody the American Working Class
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
you know what I was just saying about how only white men are permitted to embody the American Working Class
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Begging people to understand how big of a deal a net 40-point shift against Israel among your base within two years is for the Democratic Party
Only about one-third of likely Georgia Democratic primary voters believe supporting Israel is in the U.S. national interest. It’s the latest sign of a widening internal rift more than two years after the start of the Israel-Hamas war. #gapol
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Georgia Democrats are shifting their stance on Israel, poll finds
One-third of likely Democratic primary voters say supporting Israel is in the U.S. national interest. That's down from 54% two years ago.
www.ajc.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Begging people to understand how big of a deal a net 40-point shift against Israel among your base within two years is for the Democratic Party
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Thread of required reading
If you want to understand what the actual revolutionaries in Sudan think about this, we have been covering this @merip.bsky.social for over a year and a half.
www.merip.org/2025/10/the-...
www.merip.org/2025/10/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thread of required reading
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The standard pro-Israel complaint was previously directed toward protesters as “what about Sudan” — now it seems to be “OK now you’re talking about Sudan but picking the wrong side”
Jewish Insider is now running a "what about" piece against those who are critical of the US-backed UAE's relationship to the Sudanese RSF.
Anti-Israel activists, lawmakers ignore Muslim Brotherhood, Iran links to Sudan’s SAF
As they denounce the UAE’s alleged backing of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, far-left lawmakers have passed over the Muslim Brotherhood affiliations and foreign backing of the rival Sudanese Armed Forc...
jewishinsider.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The standard pro-Israel complaint was previously directed toward protesters as “what about Sudan” — now it seems to be “OK now you’re talking about Sudan but picking the wrong side”
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Western governments preferred to break the world, destroy every institution that uplifted human rights in some capacity, just so they didnt have to extend those human rights to us. Think about that.
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Western governments preferred to break the world, destroy every institution that uplifted human rights in some capacity, just so they didnt have to extend those human rights to us. Think about that.