@frannie2910.bsky.social
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As Elon Musk guts the department overseeing America’s nuclear capabilities, concern is mounting about Australia’s AUKUS deal, with experts advising a turn back to Europe for procurement.
Will Trump upheaval force AUKUS rethink?
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
March 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
As Elon Musk guts the department overseeing America’s nuclear capabilities, concern is mounting about Australia’s AUKUS deal, with experts advising a turn back to Europe for procurement.
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“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.” - Schumer to Bret Stephens.
Is that really his job?
Is that really his job?
Opinion | Chuck Schumer Isn’t Jewish Like the Pope Isn’t Catholic
Derided by the MAGA right and yelled at by the far left, the Senate Democratic leader is inhabiting a very Jewish place right now.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
“My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.” - Schumer to Bret Stephens.
Is that really his job?
Is that really his job?
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"Gaza’s one million children – who have endured more than 15 months of war – have been plunged back into a world of fear and death. The attacks and the violence must stop – now."
www.croakey.org/amid-scenes-...
www.croakey.org/amid-scenes-...
Amid scenes of “unspeakable horror” in Gaza, agencies call for ceasefire and justice
International human rights and humanitarian agencies have expressed horror at Israel’s attacks on Gaza that killed more than 400 Palestinians
www.croakey.org
March 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"Gaza’s one million children – who have endured more than 15 months of war – have been plunged back into a world of fear and death. The attacks and the violence must stop – now."
www.croakey.org/amid-scenes-...
www.croakey.org/amid-scenes-...
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Rudely, arrogantly, Trump’s bullies are barging uninvited into Greenland, where they are not welcome.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Assails ‘Aggressive’ Trip Planned by U.S. Officials
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Rudely, arrogantly, Trump’s bullies are barging uninvited into Greenland, where they are not welcome.
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A Government that puts the needs of its people ahead of the needs of its Party - would act on this.
Neither major Party will put our needs first #auspol
Neither major Party will put our needs first #auspol
March 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A Government that puts the needs of its people ahead of the needs of its Party - would act on this.
Neither major Party will put our needs first #auspol
Neither major Party will put our needs first #auspol
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The $3,500 is such a horseshit number that any decent journalist should be able to shoot down. You pay more tax because you get a pay rise!!!
And guess what? Your after tax income is higher!
And guess what? Your after tax income is higher!
how much is your subsidised business lunch policy going to cost? They will get to that later says Taylor. Guardrails he says. Tax has gone up by $3500 for the average Australian says Taylor. Really? Fiscal guardrails, he says. Lost control he says. #Insiders
March 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The $3,500 is such a horseshit number that any decent journalist should be able to shoot down. You pay more tax because you get a pay rise!!!
And guess what? Your after tax income is higher!
And guess what? Your after tax income is higher!
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Denmark and Finland urge caution for US-bound transgender people
Denmark and Finland urge caution for US-bound transgender people
Travel advice updated amid reports of ordeals at US border after Trump said country would only recognise two genders
Denmark and Finland have updated their US travel advice for transgender people, joining the handful of European countries that have sought to caution US-bound travellers in recent weeks as reports emerge of ordeals at the American border.
Denmark said this week it had begun advising transgender travellers to contact the US embassy in Copenhagen before departure to ensure there would be no issues with travel documents. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Denmark and Finland urge caution for US-bound transgender people
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Gaza’s ceasfire brought hope, but it was the calm before a brutal storm
Gaza’s ceasfire brought hope, but it was the calm before a brutal storm
New strikes are ‘just a beginning’ said Netanyahu, after Trump inspires Israel to seize territory with massive military onslaught
In Gaza this weekend, the mood is darker than it has been at perhaps any time in this long, appalling war. Last Tuesday Israeli warplanes, tanks, artillery, drones and ships launched a wave of strikes, shattering the increasingly fragile pause in hostilities that had brought respite to the devastated territory for nearly two months. The ceasefire had also brought hope which, Palestinians in Gaza said, made the return to violence that much more unbearable.
In a video statement last Wednesday, Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, called on 2.3 million people in Gaza to “banish Hamas”, saying “the alternative is complete destruction and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Gaza’s ceasfire brought hope, but it was the calm before a brutal storm
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Canada : on sort les coudes.
March 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Canada : on sort les coudes.
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When Dutton says LNP will cut the APS by 36,000, remember they've done this before. Then they had to backfill with consultants (an external workforce).
"...that external workforce cost $20.8 billion in the final year of the Morrison government." 👀
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
"...that external workforce cost $20.8 billion in the final year of the Morrison government." 👀
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Who came up with the idea to cut thousands of public service jobs?
The leader of the federal Liberal Party is making some big announcements, including plans to sack thousands of public servants. It is 1951.
www.abc.net.au
March 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
When Dutton says LNP will cut the APS by 36,000, remember they've done this before. Then they had to backfill with consultants (an external workforce).
"...that external workforce cost $20.8 billion in the final year of the Morrison government." 👀
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
"...that external workforce cost $20.8 billion in the final year of the Morrison government." 👀
#auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
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If one of your biggest concerns is 'how many genders there are' can we swap lives?
Your 'problems' aren't actual 'problems'.
*I don't want to swap brains though, yours is bigoted, narrow minded and fucked up.
Your 'problems' aren't actual 'problems'.
*I don't want to swap brains though, yours is bigoted, narrow minded and fucked up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If one of your biggest concerns is 'how many genders there are' can we swap lives?
Your 'problems' aren't actual 'problems'.
*I don't want to swap brains though, yours is bigoted, narrow minded and fucked up.
Your 'problems' aren't actual 'problems'.
*I don't want to swap brains though, yours is bigoted, narrow minded and fucked up.
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The ABC News website is atrocious. Vacuous tabloid clickbait stories. 👇 You have to search for actual news. And STILL no report on Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum recognising the state of Palestine or welcoming the new Palestinian Ambassador Nadya Rasheed. 😠 #Palestine #JournalismMatters
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The ABC News website is atrocious. Vacuous tabloid clickbait stories. 👇 You have to search for actual news. And STILL no report on Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum recognising the state of Palestine or welcoming the new Palestinian Ambassador Nadya Rasheed. 😠 #Palestine #JournalismMatters
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Here’s a better view of a recent cartoon from @anntelnaes.bsky.social the incomparable political cartoonist Ann Telnaes (also a fellow #CalArtian). Not sure I’d pay to see this production but we all know he fiddles while America burns.
March 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here’s a better view of a recent cartoon from @anntelnaes.bsky.social the incomparable political cartoonist Ann Telnaes (also a fellow #CalArtian). Not sure I’d pay to see this production but we all know he fiddles while America burns.
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How does anyone justify this anymore?
If you do, I'm sorry, you're a genocidal psychopath. I hope someone in your life intervenes and talks to you about how you've completely dehumanized an entire people and become blinded by your hate and racism.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
If you do, I'm sorry, you're a genocidal psychopath. I hope someone in your life intervenes and talks to you about how you've completely dehumanized an entire people and become blinded by your hate and racism.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
March 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
How does anyone justify this anymore?
If you do, I'm sorry, you're a genocidal psychopath. I hope someone in your life intervenes and talks to you about how you've completely dehumanized an entire people and become blinded by your hate and racism.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
If you do, I'm sorry, you're a genocidal psychopath. I hope someone in your life intervenes and talks to you about how you've completely dehumanized an entire people and become blinded by your hate and racism.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
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So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.
March 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.
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This is one headline from the hearing that just ended: the word contempt was uttered, by Boasberg, as a way of summarizing his line of questioning related to compliance with his TRO.
Only once, without an explicit threat attached, but still.
Only once, without an explicit threat attached, but still.
Boasberg: Two more questions for Mr. Kambli (US) that don't relate to contempt / disobeying court orders. 1. Was Trump's Tren de Aragua proclamation signed in secret on Friday? Or on Saturday? Need to know timing and when US thinks it went into effect.
March 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is one headline from the hearing that just ended: the word contempt was uttered, by Boasberg, as a way of summarizing his line of questioning related to compliance with his TRO.
Only once, without an explicit threat attached, but still.
Only once, without an explicit threat attached, but still.
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"The department did not say how it knew that Dr. Alawieh had attended the funeral, which was held in a sports stadium and attracted tens of thousands of people." -- www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
Deported Professor Rasha Alawieh Attended Hezbollah Leader’s Funeral, D.H.S. Says
Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained in Boston and denied entry when returning from a trip to Lebanon. The government says she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"The department did not say how it knew that Dr. Alawieh had attended the funeral, which was held in a sports stadium and attracted tens of thousands of people." -- www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
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BREAKING: The Trump Administration has declared war on the United States Institute of Peace
March 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING: The Trump Administration has declared war on the United States Institute of Peace
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what could possibly go wrong
BREAKING: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support, according to leaked memo, despite the Trump admin repeatedly saying it doesn't plan change the program beyond addressing fraud and waste.
trib.al/FGerC2d
trib.al/FGerC2d
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support
Changes could break the system, former officials say.
trib.al
March 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
what could possibly go wrong
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Anti-Abortion Lawyer Pushed Out of F.D.A. After Republican Senator’s Pressure Campaign
The episode underscored the continuing purge of civil servant attorneys across the government, claiming, in this instance, a conservative casualty.
The episode underscored the continuing purge of civil servant attorneys across the government, claiming, in this instance, a conservative casualty.
Anti-Abortion Lawyer Pushed Out of F.D.A. After Republican Senator’s Pressure Campaign
Hilary Perkins, a career lawyer and a conservative, was targeted by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri for defending the Biden administration’s position on the abortion pill.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Anti-Abortion Lawyer Pushed Out of F.D.A. After Republican Senator’s Pressure Campaign
The episode underscored the continuing purge of civil servant attorneys across the government, claiming, in this instance, a conservative casualty.
The episode underscored the continuing purge of civil servant attorneys across the government, claiming, in this instance, a conservative casualty.
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They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.
If the Supreme Court ultimately agrees with what the gov't is arguing today, that the President has broad Article II powers that would permit it to deport people & there can be no judicial review, then literally no one is safe.
March 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They want the unreviewable power to grab people and render them to a foreign gulag.