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Bryce
@sparkypossum.bsky.social
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Just an old lefty in search of truth ☮ Primary school ethics teacher 🌻 Getting back to the garden on Bundjalung land in northern NSW 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
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sparkypossum.bsky.social
Israel: silencing dissent everywhere theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Israel: silencing dissent everywhere - The Shot
The pro-Israel lobby isn’t designed to balance debate nor to enrich it – it is designed to silence it.
theshot.net.au
July 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06...
Australian foreign policy is in the doldrums
Opinion polls indicate Australians are at last waking up to the fact that their country’s security reliance on Trump’s US is no longer tenable.
johnmenadue.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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mondoweiss.net
Israel is using the war on Iran to further its colonization and annexation of the West Bank, turning Palestinian communities into caged enclaves.

mondoweiss.net/2025/06/how-...

#Palestine #Israel
How Israel is using the war with Iran to accelerate its annexation of the West Bank
Israel is using the war on Iran to further its colonization and annexation of the West Bank, turning Palestinian communities into caged enclaves.
mondoweiss.net
June 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...
The first-ever historic agreement between the US and Hamas – with Netanyahu in a secondary role
The direct talks between the United States and Hamas took Israel by surprise and led to an agreement that resulted in the release of the Israeli-American captive Edan Alexander.
johnmenadue.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
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x.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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pupfiction.bsky.social
Should change his name to Murray-Darling Watt
urbanmyf.bsky.social UrbanMyf @urbanmyf.bsky.social · May 12
Murray Watt for the environment, eh? Let's hope he makes a lot of noise! #auspol
May 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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nadinejcohen.bsky.social
Australia: We don’t want MAGA-style conservative populist bullshit anywhere near us

Angus Taylor: FUCK YEAH JACINTA NAMPIJINPA PRICE
May 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Now that Dutton's a feather duster will he dispense with his fake reading glasses? 🤓
May 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
Ugh. The incels are onto this over at the other place. I’m trying so hard not to respond. 🤢

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...
The Coalition commits to Christian Nationalism
The Republican Party thought it could ride the tiger of the Christian Right: instead, that movement swallowed the party whole.
johnmenadue.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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kathmallott.bsky.social
Security without submarines: the military strategy Australia should pursue instead of AUKUS
theconversation.com/security-wit...
Security without submarines: the military strategy Australia should pursue instead of AUKUS
By adopting a different military philosophy as its guide, Australia could manage its security largely on its own.
theconversation.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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China takes the helm in countering Trump's tariff offensive https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/china-takes-the-helm-in-countering-trumps-tariff-offensive,19602?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol
China takes the helm in countering Trump's tariff offensive
Trump's latest move in his ongoing trade war drew the ire of many global economies, with China delivering swift retaliation.
independentaustralia.net
April 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
This ⬇️
owenjones.bsky.social Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Mar 24
Do you think we're going to get away with this?
March 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
We evacuated from Lismore to Iluka on the Clarence River to sit out Cyclone Alfred and found Iluka is prepared. Love this place! 😏
A sad looking single row of sandbags along the low river bank, river on one side, road on the other.
March 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Mainstream media fails to mention positive Labor policies johnmenadue.com/mainstream-m...
Mainstream media fails to mention positive Labor policies - Pearls and Irritations
2025 Australian politics, an all-important election year, began on a high with a host of initiatives taking effect from January 1.
johnmenadue.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
Why Albanese is in trouble
Where’s the urgency from Labor? Unfortunately, Albanese doesn’t do urgent. In fact, it’s hard to point to any Labor achievements that haven’t been incremental, minimal, indexed or unavoidable.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
This is as worth reading as the analysis it's responding to (which I also posted)

www.vox.com/politics/395...
There’s a very popular explanation for Trump’s win. It’s wrong.
A Democratic data expert’s autopsy of the 2024 election perpetuates a comforting fiction.
www.vox.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Climate and security risks? Shhh, says the Albanese Government johnmenadue.com/climate-and-...
johnmenadue.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heterose...
Comedians obsessed with 'wokeness' are the ones ruining comedy
there's nothing less funny than old lazy jokes about cancel culture that we've heard before
open.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Had a look at the alignment of the planets tonight (along with the full moon). Amazing! You really get a feeling of our place in the solar system. Worth checking out. 5 stars. 🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇
January 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Just want to dive right into that luscious chocolate pool of marshmallows 🤪
Close up view of home made Rocky Road in a casserole dish showing pink and white marshmallows covered in luscious dark chocolate.
January 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Just broke off our tree.. Tulip Tree flowers still attached to their flowering, waratah shaped central hub.
Circular cluster of large orange flowers attached around a waratah shaped central flowering hub.
January 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Made baba ganoush today and only burnt myself once. Winning! 🤣
Removing the charred skin of 3 aubergines. The ingredients including aubergine flesh, lemons, Tahini, cumin, garlic, paprika and olive oil. The finished baba ganoush sprinkled with paprika and olive oil.
January 2, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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lucyham.bsky.social
The #AtlasNetwork is the globally-proliferating operation that primarily works to destroy impediments to corporate profits, including protest or First Peoples’ rights. Its top “think” tank is also pursuing nuclear proliferation -and the Armageddon that follows.
lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-atlas-...
December 29, 2024 at 12:39 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Driving home from Christmas at Iluka spotted these two sleepy koalas on the back road to Lismore. 🐨🐨
Close up of sleepy koala in a tree fork Brownish koala asleep in a leafy tree fork. Koala in a tree.
December 27, 2024 at 3:11 AM
sparkypossum.bsky.social
Made a batch of rocky road to take to Christmas day lunch. I licked everything!
Melting chocolate and copha over boiling water on the stove Mixing in the melted chocolate with the sweets and marshmallows The rocky road has been set in the fridge in a casserole dish. The cut rocky road exposing the goodies that lie within!
December 23, 2024 at 6:38 AM