@gaileastcoaster.bsky.social
Idealist, advanced-in-age-and-wisdom (I hope), lefty but no longer holding illusions that pollies can be trusted. Or the oligarch media. Truth matters+++ !
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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They say most suspensions are reversed, so what’s the harm?
But everyone who’s received that text message knows the harm starts there. Anxiety, stress, wasted time & energy. It starts even before that – submitting to mistreatment just to avoid the text.
Ty @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.
But everyone who’s received that text message knows the harm starts there. Anxiety, stress, wasted time & energy. It starts even before that – submitting to mistreatment just to avoid the text.
Ty @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.
Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests
“The numbers are so unimaginably high, it is actually easy to lose sight of how crazy this all is,” @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org @antipovertycentre.org
#NobodyDeservsePoverty
“The numbers are so unimaginably high, it is actually easy to lose sight of how crazy this all is,” @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org @antipovertycentre.org
#NobodyDeservsePoverty
Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests
Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawful
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
They say most suspensions are reversed, so what’s the harm?
But everyone who’s received that text message knows the harm starts there. Anxiety, stress, wasted time & energy. It starts even before that – submitting to mistreatment just to avoid the text.
Ty @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.
But everyone who’s received that text message knows the harm starts there. Anxiety, stress, wasted time & energy. It starts even before that – submitting to mistreatment just to avoid the text.
Ty @caitkelly.bsky.social for reporting.
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Environment Minister Murray Watt says the govt won’t ban new coal, gas mines or native forest logging, bcoz they still need to “demonstrate that they’re not having a significant impact” on the environment. So then ban them? They always significantly impact the environment. #Abc
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Environment Minister Murray Watt says the govt won’t ban new coal, gas mines or native forest logging, bcoz they still need to “demonstrate that they’re not having a significant impact” on the environment. So then ban them? They always significantly impact the environment. #Abc
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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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You should care about Jamaica and Sudan even if you don't know anyone there and the news isn't covering it. The anti-Blackness embedded in folks' lack of empathy is gross.
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
You should care about Jamaica and Sudan even if you don't know anyone there and the news isn't covering it. The anti-Blackness embedded in folks' lack of empathy is gross.
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@pennywong, nothing with the USA, outstrips Australia and our ppl.
We will not tolerate coming second fiddle to Felon 47 and a country who would walk all over us and put themselves first...
DISGUSTING
We will not tolerate coming second fiddle to Felon 47 and a country who would walk all over us and put themselves first...
DISGUSTING
October 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
@pennywong, nothing with the USA, outstrips Australia and our ppl.
We will not tolerate coming second fiddle to Felon 47 and a country who would walk all over us and put themselves first...
DISGUSTING
We will not tolerate coming second fiddle to Felon 47 and a country who would walk all over us and put themselves first...
DISGUSTING
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He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.
Remove him from office.
Remove him from office.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.
Remove him from office.
Remove him from office.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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More military investigating the already compromised military NACC personel. Why not Judge Whealey or Geoffrey Watson or someone else from the Centre for Public Integrity?
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/10/23/n...
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/10/23/n...
NACC appoints Colonel Gary Hevey, for Robodebt hearings, to protect Major Generals Paul Brereton and Kathryn Campbell?
Army Colonel and barrister Gary Hevey RFD SC has been appointed as Counsel Assisting the Robodebt investigation that the National Anti-Corruption Commission Commissioner, and Army Reserve Major Genera...
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
More military investigating the already compromised military NACC personel. Why not Judge Whealey or Geoffrey Watson or someone else from the Centre for Public Integrity?
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/10/23/n...
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2025/10/23/n...
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Israeli terrorism and ethnic cleansing in the #WestBank continues.
The western political and media establishment looks the other way.
The western political and media establishment looks the other way.
Israeli settler mobs attacked Palestinian farmers in Al-Nazla Al-Sharqiya, north of Tulkarm, stealing their harvested olives and detaining them for hours by force, another act of settler violence against Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season. 🤬🤬🤬
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Israeli terrorism and ethnic cleansing in the #WestBank continues.
The western political and media establishment looks the other way.
The western political and media establishment looks the other way.
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Yes that is 2nd in the whole world.
The IMF reports on 191 countries.
We are also only 1 of 7 out 191 countries with a "AAA" credit rating.
Better than the USA etc.
So, if the media, the Libs, the Nats, One Nation, are saying things are bad in Oz, I think we can safely assume they are lying.
The IMF reports on 191 countries.
We are also only 1 of 7 out 191 countries with a "AAA" credit rating.
Better than the USA etc.
So, if the media, the Libs, the Nats, One Nation, are saying things are bad in Oz, I think we can safely assume they are lying.
October 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Yes that is 2nd in the whole world.
The IMF reports on 191 countries.
We are also only 1 of 7 out 191 countries with a "AAA" credit rating.
Better than the USA etc.
So, if the media, the Libs, the Nats, One Nation, are saying things are bad in Oz, I think we can safely assume they are lying.
The IMF reports on 191 countries.
We are also only 1 of 7 out 191 countries with a "AAA" credit rating.
Better than the USA etc.
So, if the media, the Libs, the Nats, One Nation, are saying things are bad in Oz, I think we can safely assume they are lying.
Have the IT people at BOM lost their cotton picking minds? tried to check state weather obs via their usual spreadsheet. New webpage: “Page 1 of 55001 results for Observations”. 🙄 How pathetic that someone has to take a perfectly good website and “improve” it because, well, they can…😡
October 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Have the IT people at BOM lost their cotton picking minds? tried to check state weather obs via their usual spreadsheet. New webpage: “Page 1 of 55001 results for Observations”. 🙄 How pathetic that someone has to take a perfectly good website and “improve” it because, well, they can…😡
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Australians pay 4 times more in HECS repayments than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax!
Australia Institute analysis shows replacing the PRRT with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise over $17 billion a year.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Australia Institute analysis shows replacing the PRRT with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise over $17 billion a year.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Australians pay 4 times more in HECS repayments than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax!
Australia Institute analysis shows replacing the PRRT with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise over $17 billion a year.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
Australia Institute analysis shows replacing the PRRT with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise over $17 billion a year.
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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I heard a Nat on RN talking about ‘prime farming land’ being sacrificed to wind turbines &solar. Let’s ignore coal mines & fracking as he did, but no one wants profitable land converted. Its in the rubbish land every farmer has that can be converted to renewables that opportunity lies. &he knows it.
October 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I heard a Nat on RN talking about ‘prime farming land’ being sacrificed to wind turbines &solar. Let’s ignore coal mines & fracking as he did, but no one wants profitable land converted. Its in the rubbish land every farmer has that can be converted to renewables that opportunity lies. &he knows it.
So our teeny, micro, Opposition wants Kevin Rudd to be gone as Ambassador (smh).
Donot they understand they don’t get a say any more? I’d much prefer Albanese, and Rudd himself, deal with the issue than Ley. It needs a level of diplomatic professionalism/ experience she just doesn’t have.
Donot they understand they don’t get a say any more? I’d much prefer Albanese, and Rudd himself, deal with the issue than Ley. It needs a level of diplomatic professionalism/ experience she just doesn’t have.
October 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
So our teeny, micro, Opposition wants Kevin Rudd to be gone as Ambassador (smh).
Donot they understand they don’t get a say any more? I’d much prefer Albanese, and Rudd himself, deal with the issue than Ley. It needs a level of diplomatic professionalism/ experience she just doesn’t have.
Donot they understand they don’t get a say any more? I’d much prefer Albanese, and Rudd himself, deal with the issue than Ley. It needs a level of diplomatic professionalism/ experience she just doesn’t have.
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Our healthcare system is strained with packed waiting rooms, patients waiting in pain for years, and delayed appointments due to cost. But a solution exists.
A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion a year, funding that could help our healthcare system.
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol
A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion a year, funding that could help our healthcare system.
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Our healthcare system is strained with packed waiting rooms, patients waiting in pain for years, and delayed appointments due to cost. But a solution exists.
A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion a year, funding that could help our healthcare system.
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol
A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion a year, funding that could help our healthcare system.
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social #auspol
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ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.
October 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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BlueSky just verified the White House account. I responded by doing the only appropriate thing:
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
BlueSky just verified the White House account. I responded by doing the only appropriate thing:
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Australia and gambling is like the US and guns: we know how harmful it is, but our politicians refuse to do anything about it.
On gambling, Australia is a collection of banana republics — while our cowering government watches on
www.crikey.com.au
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Australia and gambling is like the US and guns: we know how harmful it is, but our politicians refuse to do anything about it.