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Sharon Bowen 😊💜
@newbieryder.bsky.social
Left leaning, dog loving gardener, reader of books, & listener of music. I crochet, knit & sew too! 💜🎶🌸🌿📚🐶🐶🐶

Wonnarua - Upper Hunter NSW, Australia

Electrician • Community Worker • Student • Small Business owner • Volunteer • Lawyer • Retired
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This place is nice, I like it, but there are so many that I have no common connection with.

I don't follow US football, & I'm not a veteran, but I am an ally to lgbtqia+, believe in social justice, kindness & our shared humanity.

So if I don't follow you back, this is also part of the reason...
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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HERITAGE FOUNDATION: "Nice state ya got there. Pity if anything happened to it."

INDIANA: "Oh, *do* fuck off."
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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'Pig-headed' is the way Terry Carney, of Robodebt fame, describes the response of the Department of Employment to the second Commonwealth Ombudsman report into their error-riddled privatised jobseeker compliance program. You can see why for yourself here. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
‘Particularly strange’: Ombudsman damns welfare compliance
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the Commonwealth ombudsman says government departments still need to ‘unlearn’ the culture that produced robodebt.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.

Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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“He is not unstoppable and you are not without power”

Remind yourself of this every day.

Especially on the bad days.
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The @nswsocialists.bsky.social make some excellent points here re the recent explosion at the chemical waste facility operated by Coopers Environmental in St Marys, western Sydney. I wonder if ABC News will report these concerns. 🤔 #auspol #nswpol #environment #NSWSocialists
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Over fishing

Humans are arseholes
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

YES ….YES ….just fucking yes

The “rats” just got another “ratting” ..as “rats” are wont …
Breaking: Walter Sofronoff loses appeal against corruption finding
The man who led the inquiry into the criminal prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann loses his appeal to have serious corruption findings against him overturned.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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And nothing will be done about it. It suits the government to have Aboriginal people fighting for justice on so many fronts it makes it impossible for us to organise and force proper action on a Federal Treaty or other high priority area’s.
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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BREAKING: The DOJ has filed its opposition to my motion for expedited processing of the EPSTEIN TRAINING VIDEOS. They're arguing that there's NO WIDESPREAD PUBLIC INTEREST. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-doj-re...
NEW: DOJ Responded to Our Epstein Training Materials Motion, Arguing There's No Public Interest
They also argue that the existence of the training videos doesn't raise any questions about government integrity!
www.muellershewrote.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Queensland's social housing register has reached a record high of 54,922. Signing a lease to live in a tent at a caravan park will disqualify people from the crisis accommodation category. They remain on the housing department's register. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Queensland family living in a tent says they're not considered homeless
Simone Owen is living in a tent with her husband and two children, but she says they are not considered homeless so do not qualify for crisis accommodation.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, condemned on Monday “brutality of the Israeli genocide” in Gaza, saying it was carried out “with the complicity of far too many states” At the Doha Forum.

Read article: 👇
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251209-un-...
UN special rapporteur denounces ‘Israeli genocide with complicity of states’
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, condemned on Monday “brutality of the Israeli genocide” in Gaza, saying it was carried out “wi…
www.middleeastmonitor.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The Whiniest Bitch in America, Part 2: The FIFA Peace Prize

I want a peace prize,
I deserve a peace prize,
Nobody’s ever worked for peace like me,
I stopped eight wars, nine, possibly fifty—
(But just up here, in the galaxy between my ears)
Everybody’s talking about
blakandblack.com/2025/12/07/t...
The Whiniest Bitch in America, Part 2: The FIFA Peace Prize
I want a peace prize, I deserve a peace prize, Nobody’s ever worked for peace like me, I stopped eight wars, nine, possibly fifty— (But just up here, in the galaxy between my ears) Everybody’s talking...
blakandblack.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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youtube.com/watch?v=W68-... On the 45th Memorial Day of John Lennons passing I found this rather sad yet beautiful. It’s made by Yoko and Sean. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Ian
Film: WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko - The Academy Award® winning Animated Short
YouTube video by johnlennon
youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Albanese and Watt are delivering an environmental nightmare, writes Bob Brown. satpa.pe/3PJdv8I
Watt reforms leave door wide open to environmental carnage
ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.
satpa.pe
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Analysts expect new ABS data to show net migration holding steady around 315,000, defying claims of both a rebound and a collapse.

Australia’s migration numbers defy both camps
~ @abulrizvi.bsky.social

independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Australia’s migration numbers defy both camps
Analysts expect new ABS data to show net migration holding steady around 315,000, defying claims of both a rebound and a collapse.
independentaustralia.net
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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I've just finished reading the judgment in the Lehrmann appeal to the Federal Court and a few points really stuck out - apart from the fact that the appeal judges agreed that Lehrmann's story was an absolute fabrication.

Lisa Wilkinson was found to have been poorly done by in the original judgment
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...

A well argued rebuttal of the mea culpa of the bloke who shat in his own hat
Bruce Lehrmann’s big lie
Bruce Lehrmann is a liar. For years now, he has lied about the night he raped Brittany Higgins. He has made a small industry from this lie. He has sold it to television networks, in exchange for cocai...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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It must also be said, that Sean Kelly writes like butter.

My review of Sean Kelly's latest piece in the Quarterly Essay.

The Good Fight 👇🏽

www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2025/1...
December 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Justice.

Rajwinder Singh has been found guilty of murdering Toyah Cordingley in Cairns in 2018. Say her name and let's not forget.

What the f*** is wrong with men like this?!

#StopTheViolence
#StopKillingWomen

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Toyah Cordingley murdered by former nurse, jury finds
It took a jury in the Supreme Court in Cairns seven hours to reach the unanimous guilty verdict after an almost four-week retrial.
www.abc.net.au
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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A $7m program of work by KPMG has drawn both the VC of UTS and his deputy into an integrity scandal and raised questions among staff about whether a series of denials were dishonest. satpa.pe/XyadcHI
‘Kicking and screaming’: UTS admits to secret spreadsheet
Calls grow for the resignation of  UTS vice-chancellor Andrew Parfitt, who knew of the KPMG-produced list targeting ‘underperforming’ staff even as his office denied it existed.
satpa.pe
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM