Kells
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Kells
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I'm Australian 🇦🇺. I post my opinions and repost others on the current crisis in the US and my concerns regarding the implications globally. I reserve the right to also post about anything else 😀
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Wasn't going to step foot in the US until Trump and his sycophants were all booted out of office, but all of a sudden, I have the urge to head to NY for a visit and spend my tourist dollars in your city. Congrats, Mamdani, from Australia 🇦🇺
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Trying to buy movie tickets online for 20mins but constant error "we cannot verify you are not a robot".

No "I am human" option, just "close and try again". Tried multiple times.

Obvs, am far too efficient at checkout and entering CC deets. Note to self, must act more derpy when buying online...
October 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
1/2
October 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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It's happening right in front of you.

Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act.

It's happening in plain sight.
October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Puts it into context. This is craaaazy.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I always wanted to visit the US and it makes me sad that I won't be able to in the near future, or perhaps ever. Just too unsafe for any visitors, especially those against Trump and MAGA, and it's going to take a looooog time for people to trust that country again.
A failed democratic experiment.
July 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Somebody please CEASE and FIRE this lunatic...
June 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Every accusation is a confession.
June 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Guy who thinks he's a strongman:
June 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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President Trump stumbles while attempting to board Air Force One
June 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Today closes with ICE looking like biggest pussies on earth. Less than 100 Paramount Angelinos kept ICE agents trapped at a stand off for 8 hours. The civilians were unarmed and only called ICE agents names.
June 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Adolescence is a must watch. Each of the 4 episodes stays with you long after you finish it.
Episode 3 was a masterpiece. Episode 4 broke me.
March 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Voter suppression. It seems US Republicans know they can only ever win by restricting people from legally voting ... pathetic.
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
www.nhpr.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Say what now? This is just daily insanity...
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.

FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts.

newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A quick link to the pro-democracy voices to follow. All listed in 1 place!
With all of the new people here, I am reposting my pro-democracy Starter Pack. I will do a more complete overhaul sometime soon, but this should help get people going!

Enjoy.
go.bsky.app/JSLScTv
March 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
March 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Dear BBC the USA is not ‘stepping up pressure on Ukraine to agree a peace deal’. It is taking Russia’s side in the war.
March 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This. It couldn't be clearer to everyone now whose side they are on.
No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.
March 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
What an insane POV.

RUSSIA started this war by INVADING Ukraine.

When a negotiated end or ceasefire to the war (which Russia WILL renege on later) results in Russia's territorial expansion, Ukraine should what? Consider it?

No, it's not possible to hold that view without being pro-Russia.
Personally, I have been opposed to the war in Ukraine from the beginning, and wanted a quick negotiated end to it and a ceasefire, but it is perfectly possible to hold those views without being openly pro Russia, and anti Ukraine, or parroting Putin talking points. Sheesh.
March 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Oval office ambush. They planned this, thinking it would make them look like tough guys. It just shows who they are.

And if this doesn't show you that Trump IS a Russian asset (regardless of whether he "knows" it or not), what will?

This marks one of the lowest of lows in recent US history.
Trump to Zelenskyy: "Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. You're in no position to dictate that. You're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position. You're gambling with World War 3."
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I watched the video of the Oval Office exchange from today. How Trump and JD Vance conducted themselves is disgusting. I support Zelenskky and Ukraine.

As an Australian, I am horrified about the geopolitical implications of this. We are partners with the USA. This affects us all.

USA, sort it out.
Zelenskyy: "It's not just that the war began somewhere between our countries. The war began when Russia brought this war to our country. They're not right. They didn't respect our territorial integrity. They brought the war to our families. Ukrainians want to hear a position of the US on our side"
February 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM