John Kotlash
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John Kotlash
@jk0125.bsky.social
Politics, left of most others left. Some social knowledge. Bit of a thinker outside the box at times. Sentinel Intelligence sceptic.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Pretty poor form Labor
The Australian federal administration have overseen 1800 jobs lost by the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). Plus. The 350 to go shortly. without any reenstatement of funding lost under the lnp.
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power!......
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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'Damage has accelerated since 2000 due to more frequent extreme floods across major rice-growing regions, a trend likely to be exacerbated by climate change, the researchers found.

...droughts reduced rice yields by an average of 8.1% per year during the 35-year study period'
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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"No sir! All seventeen!"
Image credit: Posteritty.
Happy #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
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November 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Indigenous people don’t offer us hope — they offer truth, which demands we dismantle the systems that made hope necessary.
~ Yuki Lindley

The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
The Amazon storms the COP30 climate summit
Indigenous people don’t offer us hope — they offer truth, which demands we dismantle the systems that made hope necessary.
independentaustralia.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Immigration accountability advocates today unveiled a sweeping new online “Wiki” built on the ICE List project, promising a central, searchable record tying individual immigration agents to raids, vehicles, local police partners, and the legal machinery behind U.S. immigration enforcement.
NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network
The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.
migrantinsider.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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#Buttrose is indicative of an Australia I’m glad to see the back of. She can talk about immigrants not integrating but she represents a wealthy class who keep themselves separate. In every way. Financial apartheid. As for her politics - we know Ita we know. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Ita Buttrose airs unapologetic views on immigration as Albanese returns to ABC Hard Chat a decade on | Weekly Beast
Former ABC chair says Australia has allowed ‘divisive groups’ into the country. Plus: national broadcaster unveils plans for more short-form news video
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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🤬Trump needs to be impeached, removed from office, and locked up in The Hague!
This is not the first time he utters vile verbiage, and it won’t be the last!
Lock him up! 🤬
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Covid inquiry live updates: UK did 'too little, too late' in early Covid response, leading to thousands more deaths - BBC News
Covid inquiry live updates: UK did 'too little, too late' in early Covid response, leading to thousands more deaths
The inquiry says 23,000 lives could have been saved in the first wave England by an earlier lockdown - but also that a lockdown could have been avoided altogether with earlier interventions.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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IPA’s Tim Wilson, “Freedom Boy” legacy speaks for itself.

Tim Wilson is part of the Atlas Network of networks and as such a security risk to Australia and the Australian people. #auspol.
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Yes please, my folks.
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Six veterans posted a video reminding our troops that they swore allegiance to the Constitution-not to Donald Trump-and that they must not obey illegal orders

Because of this, Donald Trump now thinks they should be executed

FOR TELLING OUR TROOPS TO FOLLOW THE LAW

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November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Special Envoy, Jillian Segal, can appoint people now?
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Democracy defenders against fascism. If you would like to be in next one please let me know in comments. Have posts & bio. Going on a protest trip for awhile! ✊🏼See you in the streets! Reposts appreciated. Help your food banks. #MassBlackout
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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
They are deleting the facts that don’t suit their regime.
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Underfunded Universities. Underfunded CSIRO. Underfunded public schools.

$400bn for subs.

Sovereign design and capability is a series of choices. Those choices reveal a nation’s values.

We appear to be a very broken nation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The short answer is no. We’re around the middle of the pack, and a little further down the list after accounting for our relatively high incomes.
Are Australians really paying more for electricity than other countries?
Australia’s electricity prices have gone up a long way over the past decade or so, but global energy trends have also pushed up bills in other countries
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just up the road a few k’s.
The road shown is the main road into every village in Bay and Basin (think small suburbs). It’s still burning but under control. Anyway the photos show how serious it is. 🤞https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/9112865/emergency-bushfire-at-worrowing-heights-downgraded-to-advice/
Worrowing Heights fire: crews race to strengthen containment lines ahead of warmer weather
Inside the emergency warning and the fight to save homes.
www.illawarramercury.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Dogs.
Never acceptable
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Friends, can I ask a favour.

Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy

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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM