Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺
@margaretmorgan.bsky.social
Dutch resident, Australian writer (fiction, TV, film, librettos) with earlier careers in law & biology.
Plantenliefhebber, GL-PvdA
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https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan
https://www.margaretmorgan.info/
Plantenliefhebber, GL-PvdA
[🚫DM unless we know each other]
https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/margaret-morgan
https://www.margaretmorgan.info/
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One of the most damaging and enduring aspects of the Dismissal, fifty years ago today, was its poisoning of the electorate against the Whitlam government, ensuring that it would lose the subsequent election and creating fear of progressive government.
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#auspol
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FYI - AI is now auto-enabled in gmail by default. Here's how to turn it off:
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#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
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#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
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November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
FYI - AI is now auto-enabled in gmail by default. Here's how to turn it off:
www.tumblr.com/imonthemooni...
#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
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#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
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Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.
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bringing up Epstein and peddling obvious lies about your ties with him is certainly a choice
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
bringing up Epstein and peddling obvious lies about your ties with him is certainly a choice
Some Democrats seem to be putting an effort into actually communicating with people.
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(I'm now subscribing to both Le Monde and De Volkskrant. It's good to get a broader take on global issues. And it's handy for language-learnin'!)
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(I'm now subscribing to both Le Monde and De Volkskrant. It's good to get a broader take on global issues. And it's handy for language-learnin'!)
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Aux Etats-Unis, les démocrates s’inspirent des méthodes du monde MAGA pour mieux contrer Donald Trump
Lors d’un rassemblement destiné aux consultants, aux cadres et aux influenceurs progressistes, les démocrates ont mis en avant de nouvelles formes de communication dans une sorte de miroir inversé des...
www.lemonde.fr
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Some Democrats seem to be putting an effort into actually communicating with people.
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(I'm now subscribing to both Le Monde and De Volkskrant. It's good to get a broader take on global issues. And it's handy for language-learnin'!)
www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
(Gift link)
(I'm now subscribing to both Le Monde and De Volkskrant. It's good to get a broader take on global issues. And it's handy for language-learnin'!)
www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
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Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth increased by $3B in 2025.
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth increased by $3B in 2025.
When Trump goes down, whether at the hand of justice, the mob, or bodily entropy, the world will rejoice.
It's almost unhealthy just how much I want to witness his profound humiliation and shame.
A sense of justice for his many direct victims -
and all of us lesser victims,
is very necessary too
A sense of justice for his many direct victims -
and all of us lesser victims,
is very necessary too
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
When Trump goes down, whether at the hand of justice, the mob, or bodily entropy, the world will rejoice.
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i believe it was churchill who said ‘senile pedophile hitler is the worst form of government, except for all the others’
They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
i believe it was churchill who said ‘senile pedophile hitler is the worst form of government, except for all the others’
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
Interesting thread, suggesting that Trump will be the one who is sacrificed. It makes sense, given the tsunami of damning evidence about to break over hundreds of billionaires and power-brokers.
It was only a matter of time before Trump became more a liability than a useful idiot.
It was only a matter of time before Trump became more a liability than a useful idiot.
Someone is going to have to take the fall for this though, and its going to need to be someone big enough that everyone stops dusting off their pitchforks.
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Interesting thread, suggesting that Trump will be the one who is sacrificed. It makes sense, given the tsunami of damning evidence about to break over hundreds of billionaires and power-brokers.
It was only a matter of time before Trump became more a liability than a useful idiot.
It was only a matter of time before Trump became more a liability than a useful idiot.
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A yellow-footed rock-wallaby catches the last rays as the sun sets at Boolcoomatta.
November 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A yellow-footed rock-wallaby catches the last rays as the sun sets at Boolcoomatta.
When the Libs "stumble back into government, the energy transition will be irreversible. There will be no reopening of shut-down coal-fired power stations, or stripping the solar panels from ten million suburban rooftops." - @birmo.bsky.social
#Auspol
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#Auspol
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They know they've lost.
Okay, you’re going to have to bear with me here while I work through what just happened, because things just got very #auspol-after-five-schooners-of-box-wine.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
When the Libs "stumble back into government, the energy transition will be irreversible. There will be no reopening of shut-down coal-fired power stations, or stripping the solar panels from ten million suburban rooftops." - @birmo.bsky.social
#Auspol
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#Auspol
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No one knows or writes about Labor Party history quite like Guy Rundle. Here he is on Graham Richardson.
Great read, covering his early life, his criminality and his role in Labor's factional machinations.
#Auspol
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Great read, covering his early life, his criminality and his role in Labor's factional machinations.
#Auspol
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November 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
No one knows or writes about Labor Party history quite like Guy Rundle. Here he is on Graham Richardson.
Great read, covering his early life, his criminality and his role in Labor's factional machinations.
#Auspol
open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...
Great read, covering his early life, his criminality and his role in Labor's factional machinations.
#Auspol
open.substack.com/pub/guyrundl...
Absolutely love this hilarious piece by Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social on that irrationally rich specimen, Elon Musk.
She is peering into his shrivelled heart here and telling us what she sees. I so hope he reads it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
She is peering into his shrivelled heart here and telling us what she sees. I so hope he reads it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It soothes my bitter heart to know that no matter how much money Elon Musk has, he will never, ever be funny | Rebecca Shaw
What the Tesla tycoon wants his billions can’t buy: being able to get a true laugh
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November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Absolutely love this hilarious piece by Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social on that irrationally rich specimen, Elon Musk.
She is peering into his shrivelled heart here and telling us what she sees. I so hope he reads it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
She is peering into his shrivelled heart here and telling us what she sees. I so hope he reads it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
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If that's Giuffre's name under the redaction bar, then prove it. Remove the redaction. You've already told us it's Giuffre, so you wouldn't be doing anything illegal. So reveal it. Or can't you? Because it's not her?
CNN: The emails that were released don't raise any Qs for you?
GIMENEZ: Not right now, no
C: The email where Epstein says to Maxwell that Trump spent hours at his house w/someone whose name is redacted who Republicans are saying is Virginia Giuffre?
G: Right. And she said Trump did nothing wrong
GIMENEZ: Not right now, no
C: The email where Epstein says to Maxwell that Trump spent hours at his house w/someone whose name is redacted who Republicans are saying is Virginia Giuffre?
G: Right. And she said Trump did nothing wrong
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If that's Giuffre's name under the redaction bar, then prove it. Remove the redaction. You've already told us it's Giuffre, so you wouldn't be doing anything illegal. So reveal it. Or can't you? Because it's not her?
Excellent breakdown by Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social of the implications of the latest released Epstein emails -- what they show and what they don't -- in relation to Trump.
open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
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The Storm Is Here
What if I told you QAnon was half right, but with a mind-blowing twist?
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November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Excellent breakdown by Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social of the implications of the latest released Epstein emails -- what they show and what they don't -- in relation to Trump.
open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Is the media clapping the president at the end of a briefing normal practice in the US, or is it a Trump phenomenon?
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Is the media clapping the president at the end of a briefing normal practice in the US, or is it a Trump phenomenon?
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
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“Big tech has made their choice”
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
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November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files:
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files:
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
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It is really getting harder and harder to glibly dismiss the data centre driven growth of demand in the US, which is causing coal growth domestically and impacting the entire planet's emissions
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
Chinese and EU emissions were more or less flat in 2025 (Chinese emissions may have actually declined slightly, but its too early to know for sure: www.carbonbrief.org/...).
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
US emissions increases drove much of the increase in global emissions in 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It is really getting harder and harder to glibly dismiss the data centre driven growth of demand in the US, which is causing coal growth domestically and impacting the entire planet's emissions
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
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I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
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To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
"Italy’s new legislation marks a turning point in Europe. It is the first to enshrine a modern medical and social view of obesity into law at the highest level."
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Obesity is now legally recognised as a chronic disease in Italy – a historic advance for public health in Europe
Obesity needs specialised medical care, not personal judgement. Italy has enshrined this in law.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Italy’s new legislation marks a turning point in Europe. It is the first to enshrine a modern medical and social view of obesity into law at the highest level."
theconversation.com/obesity-is-n...
theconversation.com/obesity-is-n...