Collette Snowden
@drcollette.bsky.social
British/Australian - Communication and Media academic and writer interested in media effects on human society.
Everything interests me, especially communication, media, language, music, technology, complexity, and contradiction.
Everything interests me, especially communication, media, language, music, technology, complexity, and contradiction.
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So a Texas megachurch is running a theocrat factory, explicitly training candidates to impose biblical law because they’ve decided church-state separation is a one-way street. This isn’t faith; it’s a hostile takeover dressed in a cheap suit.
“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said.
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So a Texas megachurch is running a theocrat factory, explicitly training candidates to impose biblical law because they’ve decided church-state separation is a one-way street. This isn’t faith; it’s a hostile takeover dressed in a cheap suit.
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
The cruelty and inhumanity of this action are unfathomable and yet totally consistent with everything about Zionist Israel.
You thought the ceasefire would end it - no way - it just dispersed the criminals of the IDF to every corner of Palestine to continue the ethnic cleansing/genocide.
You thought the ceasefire would end it - no way - it just dispersed the criminals of the IDF to every corner of Palestine to continue the ethnic cleansing/genocide.
Israeli occupation forces forcibly expelled the elderly Palestinian Umm Zuhri Shweiki from her home in Silwan’s Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, handing the property to Israeli settlers.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The cruelty and inhumanity of this action are unfathomable and yet totally consistent with everything about Zionist Israel.
You thought the ceasefire would end it - no way - it just dispersed the criminals of the IDF to every corner of Palestine to continue the ethnic cleansing/genocide.
You thought the ceasefire would end it - no way - it just dispersed the criminals of the IDF to every corner of Palestine to continue the ethnic cleansing/genocide.
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Israeli occupation forces forcibly expelled the elderly Palestinian Umm Zuhri Shweiki from her home in Silwan’s Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, handing the property to Israeli settlers.
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Israeli occupation forces forcibly expelled the elderly Palestinian Umm Zuhri Shweiki from her home in Silwan’s Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, handing the property to Israeli settlers.
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Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
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Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
Now do you understand Nazi Germany?
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Now do you understand Nazi Germany?
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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🚨 Yesterday, 833 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy Israeli police protection, conducting provocative tours and rituals. This act highlights the ongoing aggression faced by Palestinians.
Stand with us in solidarity.
#FreePalestine #AlAqsaUnderAttack 🌿✊
Stand with us in solidarity.
#FreePalestine #AlAqsaUnderAttack 🌿✊
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨 Yesterday, 833 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy Israeli police protection, conducting provocative tours and rituals. This act highlights the ongoing aggression faced by Palestinians.
Stand with us in solidarity.
#FreePalestine #AlAqsaUnderAttack 🌿✊
Stand with us in solidarity.
#FreePalestine #AlAqsaUnderAttack 🌿✊
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Wafaa Hamad, a Palestinian girl who lost her entire family in an Israeli air strike on their home in Gaza on 03Sept2024, has died after a year of suffering due to the lack of medicine and care under Israel's blockade. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Wafaa Hamad, a Palestinian girl who lost her entire family in an Israeli air strike on their home in Gaza on 03Sept2024, has died after a year of suffering due to the lack of medicine and care under Israel's blockade. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
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A state funeral for cash-for-comment John Laws would be a celebration of corruption.
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A state funeral for cash-for-comment John Laws would be a celebration of corruption.
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Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
It’s always pure projection.
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
It’s always pure projection.
November 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
It’s always pure projection.
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
It’s always pure projection.
Truly amazing that with all that weaponry and training they don't revolt against their own impoverishment.
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Truly amazing that with all that weaponry and training they don't revolt against their own impoverishment.
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I’ll put it more simply: my first (and best) aerobatic flight instructor looked me in the eye before our first lesson and said: “remember, airplanes really like the ground. They really really like the ground.”
Aviation is inherently dangerous: a million pounds of metal and fuel magically flying at 500mph. The engineering and systems we have developed are just amazing and have given everyone the idea that it’s all cheap and safe. It ain’t. It’s expensive and it requires constant vigilance and organization.
'That just gave me chills': CNN anchor spooked by Kentucky governor's report on UPS crash
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
I’ll put it more simply: my first (and best) aerobatic flight instructor looked me in the eye before our first lesson and said: “remember, airplanes really like the ground. They really really like the ground.”
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Today seems like a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), whose pioneering work in X-Ray diffraction led to the discovery of the structure of DNA – but only after one of her photos was stolen and shown to the men who would later win a Nobel Prize for the discovery (without citing her).
Witness History - Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer - BBC Sounds
The scientist produced an X-ray photograph in 1952, that helped show the structure of DNA
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Today seems like a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), whose pioneering work in X-Ray diffraction led to the discovery of the structure of DNA – but only after one of her photos was stolen and shown to the men who would later win a Nobel Prize for the discovery (without citing her).
Everyone who lives in Portland needs to post this far and wide. Propaganda cannot go unchallenged.
I live in the Portland Metro Area and commute into downtown every and day, and that is a lie. It simply isn't true. The Fuhrer and his minions are just trying to push a narrative that gives them the excuse to send troops here and cause choas. But to say police here were under assault is bullshit.
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Everyone who lives in Portland needs to post this far and wide. Propaganda cannot go unchallenged.
People without a conscience = Sociopaths.
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
People without a conscience = Sociopaths.
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‘Cannot be defeated': Gaza university graduates first class since war 🇵🇸🎓
"I am not only a graduate with a degree in English Language and its teaching methods, but also living testament that the human spirit cannot be defeated," says one student at the ceremony.
youtu.be/B0ECa0kd0cI
"I am not only a graduate with a degree in English Language and its teaching methods, but also living testament that the human spirit cannot be defeated," says one student at the ceremony.
youtu.be/B0ECa0kd0cI
'Cannot be defeated': Gaza university graduates first class since war | AFP
YouTube video by AFP News Agency
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
‘Cannot be defeated': Gaza university graduates first class since war 🇵🇸🎓
"I am not only a graduate with a degree in English Language and its teaching methods, but also living testament that the human spirit cannot be defeated," says one student at the ceremony.
youtu.be/B0ECa0kd0cI
"I am not only a graduate with a degree in English Language and its teaching methods, but also living testament that the human spirit cannot be defeated," says one student at the ceremony.
youtu.be/B0ECa0kd0cI
It is quite shocking to discover the extent of the working poor in the USA.
Why do people accept this while billionaires suck up more and more of the profits of their labour?
Why do people accept this while billionaires suck up more and more of the profits of their labour?
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It is quite shocking to discover the extent of the working poor in the USA.
Why do people accept this while billionaires suck up more and more of the profits of their labour?
Why do people accept this while billionaires suck up more and more of the profits of their labour?
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Wise up Americans.
I'll just let the experts do all the explaining. #SNAP
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wise up Americans.
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“Hate is now a franchise, and Hanson is one of its longest-serving licensees.”
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The Hypocrisy of Hanson: Howard’s Political Love Child
Fifteen thousand kilometres from the chamber in Canberra where she ought to be, Pauline Hanson takes two weeks off from her day job to finesse her selfie at Donald J Trump’s Mar-a-Lago CPAC. Hard work...
theaimn.net
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“Hate is now a franchise, and Hanson is one of its longest-serving licensees.”
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Americans are still so naive -acting like this disparity is a surprise?
The end game is clear - dispose of as many immigrants as possible, but starve citizens into a low wage market to fill the labour gap.
The Hunger Games is not just a Hollywood movie.
The end game is clear - dispose of as many immigrants as possible, but starve citizens into a low wage market to fill the labour gap.
The Hunger Games is not just a Hollywood movie.
Contrast this with the video I just posted of Americans standing in food lines this weekend, in the rain and cold.
Don't have to wonder where the SNAP funds are.
Don't have to wonder where the SNAP funds are.
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Americans are still so naive -acting like this disparity is a surprise?
The end game is clear - dispose of as many immigrants as possible, but starve citizens into a low wage market to fill the labour gap.
The Hunger Games is not just a Hollywood movie.
The end game is clear - dispose of as many immigrants as possible, but starve citizens into a low wage market to fill the labour gap.
The Hunger Games is not just a Hollywood movie.
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Contrast this with the video I just posted of Americans standing in food lines this weekend, in the rain and cold.
Don't have to wonder where the SNAP funds are.
Don't have to wonder where the SNAP funds are.
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Contrast this with the video I just posted of Americans standing in food lines this weekend, in the rain and cold.
Don't have to wonder where the SNAP funds are.
Don't have to wonder where the SNAP funds are.