Valerie Heath
@valerieheathmbc.bsky.social
“Alive but elusive” Barrister. Swansfan. 💟= many meanings (often = bookmark); RT= discuss. WE NEED FIRST NATIONS' MAKARRATA and a NACC with public hearings. Democracy needs participation, good information & sausages. Dharug country, Sydney Australia
I know it’s exceedingly trivial given all the heavy things going on in the world rn but I don’t like the change in blue of the bluesky logo #BlueskyBlues
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I know it’s exceedingly trivial given all the heavy things going on in the world rn but I don’t like the change in blue of the bluesky logo #BlueskyBlues
@maddow.msnbc.com thankyou for your coverage of the No Kings protests, it was heartening to see. Now I am seeing more & more about a general strike for Nov 25 - Dec 3. I wd love to see interviews with organisers & vox pops on the issue
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
@maddow.msnbc.com thankyou for your coverage of the No Kings protests, it was heartening to see. Now I am seeing more & more about a general strike for Nov 25 - Dec 3. I wd love to see interviews with organisers & vox pops on the issue
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It's as important then as it is now maybe even more important this is the journalism we need now 👀👇
When The Media Stood Up For Freedom
YouTube video by Robert Reich
youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's as important then as it is now maybe even more important this is the journalism we need now 👀👇
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📸Behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 uprising: Viktor Orbán’s gov't banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.
October 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
📸Behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 uprising: Viktor Orbán’s gov't banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.
Highly recommend the excellent #PipFioretti #AusCrime historical mystery crime police procedural and psychological drama #BoneLands #booksky Boer War vet Gus Hawkins Mounted Trooper policing western NSW 1911
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Highly recommend the excellent #PipFioretti #AusCrime historical mystery crime police procedural and psychological drama #BoneLands #booksky Boer War vet Gus Hawkins Mounted Trooper policing western NSW 1911
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Here’s what was NOT released today:
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
August 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Here’s what was NOT released today:
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ
- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed
- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison
- the Epstein files
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025.... Clean air as productivity powerhouse
Healthier workers: How productivity reform hides in plain sight
Australia faces a neglected crisis that is quietly eroding our labour supply, increasing health costs and dragging on growth.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
August 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025.... Clean air as productivity powerhouse
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Kate on Twitter today.
August 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Kate on Twitter today.
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So Trump has been directly or indirectly responsible for canceling Colbert, PBS and NPR all in the span of one week?
Are people awake to what’s happening yet?
Are people awake to what’s happening yet?
July 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
So Trump has been directly or indirectly responsible for canceling Colbert, PBS and NPR all in the span of one week?
Are people awake to what’s happening yet?
Are people awake to what’s happening yet?
#Colbert #CancelCBS are the lights going off in America?
July 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#Colbert #CancelCBS are the lights going off in America?
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Thank you Stephen Colbert for making wit, humor, knowledge, & empathy cool. Thank you Rachel Maddow for your authentic, brutal, and tireless hope. Thank you Chris Hayes for all your down to Earth fearless reporting.
You all give us the strength to keep fighting the good fight in these dark times ✊
You all give us the strength to keep fighting the good fight in these dark times ✊
July 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Thank you Stephen Colbert for making wit, humor, knowledge, & empathy cool. Thank you Rachel Maddow for your authentic, brutal, and tireless hope. Thank you Chris Hayes for all your down to Earth fearless reporting.
You all give us the strength to keep fighting the good fight in these dark times ✊
You all give us the strength to keep fighting the good fight in these dark times ✊
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Two exceptional humans; Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow.
Two lanterns in this dark time.
One makes me laugh and think.
The other makes me think and laugh.
#FreePress
Two lanterns in this dark time.
One makes me laugh and think.
The other makes me think and laugh.
#FreePress
July 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Two exceptional humans; Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow.
Two lanterns in this dark time.
One makes me laugh and think.
The other makes me think and laugh.
#FreePress
Two lanterns in this dark time.
One makes me laugh and think.
The other makes me think and laugh.
#FreePress
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You took that thought right out of my head, I guess great minds think alike. Bet we are not the only MSNBC fans who would watch!
July 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
You took that thought right out of my head, I guess great minds think alike. Bet we are not the only MSNBC fans who would watch!
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Hire him at MSNBC. Give him a late show, same format, and expand the type of programming that your network does
July 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Hire him at MSNBC. Give him a late show, same format, and expand the type of programming that your network does
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I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage #DoIt
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage #DoIt
July 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage #DoIt
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage #DoIt
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Where is the US travel advisory, Albo? People are being disappeared without due process.
#AmericanFascism
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
#AmericanFascism
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
California worker dead and hundreds arrested after cannabis farm raid
US federal agents have arrested hundreds of workers during a immigration raid in the latest escalation of President Donald Trump's campaign for mass deportations.
www.abc.net.au
July 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Where is the US travel advisory, Albo? People are being disappeared without due process.
#AmericanFascism
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
#AmericanFascism
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
July 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I refuse to call an American concentration camp the same thing it calls itself at its attached gift shop
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
Maybe American journalism should search in the garbage for its self-respect and start taking the same position?
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"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes: https://theatln.tc/cyHqCYsc
July 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"One of the most important, and most overlooked, functions of protest is to prevent the dreaded 'spiral of silence,' which can begin when people wrongly believe that their own point of view is not widely shared," Betsy Levy Paluck writes: https://theatln.tc/cyHqCYsc
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If you get pissed, crash your car spectacularly and there are no injuries, you’ll lead the ABC News.
If you bash your partner it’ll go unreported unless you kill her.
This has always been the rule in Australian newsrooms.
If you bash your partner it’ll go unreported unless you kill her.
This has always been the rule in Australian newsrooms.
June 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If you get pissed, crash your car spectacularly and there are no injuries, you’ll lead the ABC News.
If you bash your partner it’ll go unreported unless you kill her.
This has always been the rule in Australian newsrooms.
If you bash your partner it’ll go unreported unless you kill her.
This has always been the rule in Australian newsrooms.
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Doug Cameron nails it on The Sunday Shot saying (paraphrased) the job of the ABC is not to provide balance by broadcasting both sides of an argument or a variety of alternative views whether factual or not but to broadcast the truth. Vis balance is not lies vs truth. Truth to Power.
June 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Doug Cameron nails it on The Sunday Shot saying (paraphrased) the job of the ABC is not to provide balance by broadcasting both sides of an argument or a variety of alternative views whether factual or not but to broadcast the truth. Vis balance is not lies vs truth. Truth to Power.