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Samantha Connew
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‘I think every woman should have a blowtorch’ - Julia Child
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
Israel's "ceasefire"
• 875 violations
• 411 Palestinians killed
• 265 incidents of shooting at civilians
• 49 raids into residential areas
• 421 cases of bombing and shelling
• 150 demolitions of civilian property
• 43 Palestinians from Gaza detained
• humanitarian aid still blocked
#FreePalestine
December 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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rachelwithers.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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timhollo.bsky.social
What the everloving fuck is this

They wonder why people think government is a sick joke

Nah, we won't stop funding fossil fuels, or stop gambling ads, or regulate AI. We'll do an unworkable and idiotic social media ban for kids...

Oh and here's a pile of cash for private equity because Tim Tams.
Government fund lends $45m to Arnott’s to help Tim Tams go global Patrick Commins The government’s National Reconstruction Fund has lent Arnott’s Group $45m to help support the Australian name to take Tim Tams worldwide. The money will be used to refinance $1.75bn in debt that comes due in 2026, which is earmarked for “planned future growth capital expenditure”. Tim Tams are already stocked in all major British supermarkets and are reportedly selling well – Brits have bought more than 5 million packets since the biscuits hit shelves in April 2024. The NRF has $15bn in taxpayer money to invest in the country’s manufacturing capability, and recently also lent $36m to the country’s biggest meat pie maker, Patties Food Group. Arnott’s has been around since 1865 and employs 2,500 people across five facilities. While Arnott’s is an iconic Australian name, the company is owned by American private equity giant KKR, which bought the company from Campbell Soup Company in 2019. Arnott’s has not been Australian owned since 1997.
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'The Harp' by Augusta Savage, US sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Her sculpture was displayed at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a sculpture of a row of Black subjects standing one behind the other in a tight row in descending height so as to resemble a harp from the side view, a squating figure is at the front, the sculpture is sited in an outdoor location on grass by buildings
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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volts.wtf
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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mothcub.bsky.social
Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
September 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
It is massive. Thanks to Peter Deppeler on Twitter for the footage. #GazaGenocide #MarchForHumanity
August 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
The Israeli Ambassador to Australia Amir Maimon has issued a statement.

I have fixed the glaring errors. #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
July 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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newyorker.com
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
www.newyorker.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
gandtqueen.bsky.social
Spot on 🎯
July 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
She won’t tell her husband not to spend the family money on supporting hate speech, but is happy to tell government, universities, media etc
Rightio.
July 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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marquelawyers.com.au
Note to governments: If you appoint a lobbyist to a publicly-funded official role, nothing they produce will have any credibility and neither will you.
July 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
You can rationalize it however you want but staying on twitter is a terrible choice. It is not the “town square.” It is the world’s disease-ridden dump. You don’t need to be there to think critically or write relevantly or stay abreast of current events.
July 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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longtimeleftie.bsky.social
So much for 'targeting Hamas'.

"With over 100,000 people killed in Gaza, fewer than 1000 have been combatants."

ONE PER CENT.

Let that sink in.

99% of deaths in Gaza were CIVILIANS.

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p...
Haaretz: Gaza Health Ministry Numbers Were A Major Undercount.
A Horrific Update On The Gaza Genocide.
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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roycerk2.bsky.social
"Underneath his new home, Xu discovered a model train setup, designed around an extensive network of train lines and miniature landscapes."
'I was shocked': Melbourne man's 'unbelievable' find after buying house
Daniel Xu has loved trains since he was a child. In a surprising twist of fate, he now lives above an extensive hobby train network set.
www.sbs.com.au
June 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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strangerous.bsky.social
Mark Kenny nails it
“No one mentions the fact that Israel is also a nuclear power, that it’s not even a signatory to the Non-proliferation Treaty. It doesn’t observe the safeguards of the IAEA.”
“I mean, that just doesn’t get mentioned.”💥 #ABCInsiders
June 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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greenj.bsky.social
Yes. All of this.

open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...
The Lattouf case and the ongoing chilling effects
On pro-Israel pressure campaigns and Australia’s cultural organisations
open.substack.com
June 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
Your reminder, @australia.theguardian.com, that "Israel says" is not journalism. #auspol #FuckIsrael #StandWithIranians
June 18, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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miriamcosic.bsky.social
Love this. The brilliant Laura Tingle.
#journalism
May 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
We acknowledge that many are not comfortable calling out Israel, whether its due to guilt or sycophancy, the point isn’t to attack Israel for their identity but actions & supremacist ideology. Israel is committing war crimes, land theft, and genocide. It doesn’t matter why, only that it stops.
May 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social
3 steps @albomp.bsky.social must take now to condemn deliberate mass starving of Palestinian children by Israel, a crime against humanity. 1. Expel Israeli Ambassador 2. Issue sanctions against Israel 3. Cut all economic, diplomatic and military ties with Israel that enable these war crimes
May 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM