Lee Newton
leenewton.bsky.social
Lee Newton
@leenewton.bsky.social
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Facebook is a scam factory. Meta's own internal audit reveals 10% of their revenue comes from spam advertising - $16bn annually. Between 2020-2023 scam losses in Australia increased 249%. In 76% of cases, contact occurred on Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp).
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Rising Tide starts tomorrow.

'This November, join with thousands as we stop coal exports from the world’s largest coal port at Muloobinba/Newcastle, on Awabakal & Worimi land and water.'

www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal

…There’s always next year to look forward to more mediocrity.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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"The fate of the planet is running a poor second to vested interests and crude personal power plays," writes Paul Bongiorno. satpa.pe/vy1RNYL
Albanese caught in a Türkiye shoot
satpa.pe
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.

This is why you always follow the money.

www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food.

The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.

The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Wow! "Epstein gave feedback on talking points to discredit Mearsheimer and Walt [after their Israel Lobby article in 2006] and used his extensive social network to circulate allegations of anti-semitism against the two scholars" @ryangrim & @MazMHussain
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against Mearsheimer, Walt, and an underage assault victim making allegations against Epstein—in the same week.
www.dropsitenews.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Finally published a major story I've been working on for some time, with my colleague @atikarehman.bsky.social and @sushmitaw.bsky.social.

Leaked documents have revealed Amazon's "dirty energy empire", as families in Mumbai suffer.

www.source-material.org/amazon-data-...
Leak reveals Amazon’s hidden data centres' impact on emissions
Soaring electricity demand in Mumbai, where Amazon has 16 data centres, has led to crumbling coal power stations being kept open.
www.source-material.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Gaza: Heavy rain floods camps as UN warns of ‘bleak’ situation
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www.middleeasteye.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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“Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry heavily and gives their kids free higher education ... we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and charge a fortune to go to uni.”

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November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Has anyone ever managed to call out Albanese et al when they say 'gas is an important transitional fue to net zero' when it just really will be needed domestically for industry and limited use at peak times, and not to sell several fucktons of it overseas like Australia mostly does?
November 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Corrupt to the core. Cover-up child sexual abuse. #EpsteinFiles
Trump's Epstein files 'reversal' is his latest move to suppress them
Some pundits claim that Donald Trump has finally reversed his earlier resistance to releasing the Epstein files. He hasn’t.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Just Saying

33Million #FCKN litres of water a #DAY !!!

is what BHP take from only 2 wells supplied by “The Great Artesian Basin”

we are mining our way to extinction FFS

how can industry not #GAF that this is a Finite Resource a

it’s like all those #FCKRS who thieve from the Murray.

#Auspol
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Read @roycerk2.bsky.social to find out how #cop30 ended

One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Capitalism is the thief that never gets caught

Aral Sea, 1989-2014
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🚨 Exclusive: As PR giant Edelman was gearing up to play its advisory role at the COP30 climate summit, the firm was also lobbying for Brazilian fossil fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it, documents show. Full story below: buff.ly/DwMvot9
Exclusive: COP30 PR Agency Edelman Lobbied Presidency to Favour Fossil Fuel Client
As Edelman prepared to work on the climate summit’s PR, the agency also lobbied for fuel distributor Vibra Energia to help power it.
www.desmog.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress. Her last day in office will be January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Remarkable: Rep Chrissy Houlahan, one of the Dems that Trump called for executing, tells me her office literally filled out a Capitol Police threat report that listed "the president" as the person making the threat.

It's at 9:20 on our pod. Much more like that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2034...
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
As Trump’s call for the execution of “seditious” Dems works against him, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, one of his targets, explains why she and other Dems are warning servicemembers against carrying out ille...
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Sign on to our statement of core values to join a growing movement of Jewish people in Australia who stand for Palestinian freedom and justice - www.jewishcouncil.com.au/supporters#a...
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Trump is asked whether Republican Elise Stefanik running for Governor in New York is right to describe Mamdani as a “jihadist”?

Trump. “No, I don’t.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM