@purplekitty.bsky.social
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Humanitarian and Tasmanian legend, Captain Madeline Habib was Captain of the Conscience- a substantial ship, full of doctors and medical aid in a second flotilla. She and her ship have been detained. She first tried to break the blockade into Palestine in 2016.
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/tasmani...
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/tasmani...
Tasmanian skipper detained by Israeli military on aid fleet to Gaza
She has made a desperate plea to the Australian government in a pre-recorded video…
pulsetasmania.com.au
October 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Humanitarian and Tasmanian legend, Captain Madeline Habib was Captain of the Conscience- a substantial ship, full of doctors and medical aid in a second flotilla. She and her ship have been detained. She first tried to break the blockade into Palestine in 2016.
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/tasmani...
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/tasmani...
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One mother and calf trapped for five days ... in distress all this time. FOUR whales now caught in these filthy nets and no way to free them.
Drowning!
Heartbreaking 🥵
BAN shark nets!!!!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Drowning!
Heartbreaking 🥵
BAN shark nets!!!!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Whale and her calf entangled in shark net off Queensland coast
‘Heartbreaking’ drone footage has captured the moment a mother and calf became trapped. Four humpbacks have been snared in recent days
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
One mother and calf trapped for five days ... in distress all this time. FOUR whales now caught in these filthy nets and no way to free them.
Drowning!
Heartbreaking 🥵
BAN shark nets!!!!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Drowning!
Heartbreaking 🥵
BAN shark nets!!!!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Our aged care system needs to be sustainable but expecting pensioners to pay $50 for a shower doesn’t seem viable.
Inspector General of Aged Care has raised serious concerns with the new Support at Home program & we’ve got a senate committee inquiry looking into it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Inspector General of Aged Care has raised serious concerns with the new Support at Home program & we’ve got a senate committee inquiry looking into it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
All pensioners to pay for 'non-clinical' care under home care changes
Older Australians entering the aged care system will have to pay for "non-clinical" services such as showers and help with medication under wide-ranging changes taking effect in November.
www.abc.net.au
September 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Our aged care system needs to be sustainable but expecting pensioners to pay $50 for a shower doesn’t seem viable.
Inspector General of Aged Care has raised serious concerns with the new Support at Home program & we’ve got a senate committee inquiry looking into it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Inspector General of Aged Care has raised serious concerns with the new Support at Home program & we’ve got a senate committee inquiry looking into it.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Incredible that they have gotten in and are doing this but they are in great danger and the least the Australian Government can do is listen to every damn word. And take action. Now.
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings
September 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Incredible that they have gotten in and are doing this but they are in great danger and the least the Australian Government can do is listen to every damn word. And take action. Now.
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
@albomp.bsky.social
#auspol
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Off you go then www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Hastie threatens to quit frontbench, issues huge ultimatum to Ley
Andrew Hastie’s opposition to net zero emissions is well known, but his provocative comments about quitting the frontbench are a fresh test of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s authority.
www.smh.com.au
September 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Off you go then www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
www.technologyreview.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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Extremist, misogynistic haters have no place in Australian parliament. This is hideous stuff from Babet. Calling a woman “thing”, “witch” and “demon” is beyond offensive. I hope the senate condemns this filth.
January 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Extremist, misogynistic haters have no place in Australian parliament. This is hideous stuff from Babet. Calling a woman “thing”, “witch” and “demon” is beyond offensive. I hope the senate condemns this filth.
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Today the Coalition made clear if elected they would sack public sector workers, cut their pay & return to funnelling our money to the big consultants. We lose jobs, pay, expertise, services & money spent in local communities. Good for consultants profits, bad for the country
January 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Today the Coalition made clear if elected they would sack public sector workers, cut their pay & return to funnelling our money to the big consultants. We lose jobs, pay, expertise, services & money spent in local communities. Good for consultants profits, bad for the country
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Superb commentary on Dutton's nuclear 'plan' from cartoonist Matt Golding. #auspol #energy #nuclear #renewables
December 16, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Superb commentary on Dutton's nuclear 'plan' from cartoonist Matt Golding. #auspol #energy #nuclear #renewables
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this is your annual reminder that ocean spray, the cranberry company, is a member-owned co-op that is obligated by their charter to buy their farmers' entire cranberry crop at higher than market prices! so buy your cranberries this week from ocean spray!
November 26, 2024 at 1:44 AM
this is your annual reminder that ocean spray, the cranberry company, is a member-owned co-op that is obligated by their charter to buy their farmers' entire cranberry crop at higher than market prices! so buy your cranberries this week from ocean spray!
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Still flabbergasted over the deputy Liberal party leader so casually saying supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza was necessary to ensure an ongoing relationship with the United States. Essentially that the deaths of thousands of children is OK because it'll make the US happy.
November 20, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Still flabbergasted over the deputy Liberal party leader so casually saying supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza was necessary to ensure an ongoing relationship with the United States. Essentially that the deaths of thousands of children is OK because it'll make the US happy.
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The head of the NACC, Paul Brereton, may be a decent man, but he is desperately out of his depth as the head of this large, multi-faceted, public-facing, modern, public service organisation.
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
November 22, 2024 at 4:36 AM
The head of the NACC, Paul Brereton, may be a decent man, but he is desperately out of his depth as the head of this large, multi-faceted, public-facing, modern, public service organisation.
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
His disastrous performance this afternoon in the Senate hearing underlines that in very clear detail.
#NACC
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To review:
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
November 21, 2024 at 2:38 AM
To review:
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
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Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.
November 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM
im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.
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The full low-down on RFK Jr.’s connection to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa and, just as important, how he lied about it. That’s key. Kennedy is an inveterate liar. He makes up facts & plots, and he lies about what he himself has said. Another con man.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa
He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:45 PM
The full low-down on RFK Jr.’s connection to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa and, just as important, how he lied about it. That’s key. Kennedy is an inveterate liar. He makes up facts & plots, and he lies about what he himself has said. Another con man.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Back in 2012, a bunch of us decided we'd had enough of the way Alan Jones talked about women. We decided to #destroythejoint. Much love to all those women and men who helped. www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
I took on Alan Jones. I survived, but the backlash terrified me
Everyone knew that Alan Jones was the most powerful man in media. But how he wielded that power created fear - real fear.
www.smh.com.au
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 AM
Back in 2012, a bunch of us decided we'd had enough of the way Alan Jones talked about women. We decided to #destroythejoint. Much love to all those women and men who helped. www.smh.com.au/national/i-t...
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I really don't get how Democrats can be handed the easy layup of "Republicans are uniting to suppress the underage sex trafficking report about an unliked and unqualified nominee" and decide the best thing to do is minimize its importance.
Sorry, @hakeemjeffries.bsky.social, Trump’s cabinet is not a distraction, and the public has a right to the Gaetz report even if Republicans on the Ethics Committee decide to be partisan, and cover up a child sex trafficking scandal.
No, Trump's Cabinet Is Not A "Distraction"
They're cabinet secretaries, ffs!
www.offmessage.net
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 PM
I really don't get how Democrats can be handed the easy layup of "Republicans are uniting to suppress the underage sex trafficking report about an unliked and unqualified nominee" and decide the best thing to do is minimize its importance.
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The head of the NACC, retired judge Paul Brereton, is incapable of leading a public service organisation of over 260 people with a very forward facing and very public role
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
I wish I was making this up, but the boss of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has given a speech where he admits that he acted with "apprehended bias" during the Robodebt non-investigation. As Bernard Keane and many others argue, Brereton has to resign www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
Discredited Brereton should stop whingeing and resign from the NACC
The National Anti-Corruption Commission head devoted a major speech to explaining why he shouldn't resign. It perfectly demonstrated why he should.
www.crikey.com.au
November 18, 2024 at 4:09 AM
The head of the NACC, retired judge Paul Brereton, is incapable of leading a public service organisation of over 260 people with a very forward facing and very public role
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
He appears either unwilling or unable to accept that he does not have the skill set required for such a vast undertaking
#NACC
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I wish I was making this up, but the boss of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has given a speech where he admits that he acted with "apprehended bias" during the Robodebt non-investigation. As Bernard Keane and many others argue, Brereton has to resign www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
Discredited Brereton should stop whingeing and resign from the NACC
The National Anti-Corruption Commission head devoted a major speech to explaining why he shouldn't resign. It perfectly demonstrated why he should.
www.crikey.com.au
November 18, 2024 at 3:45 AM
I wish I was making this up, but the boss of the National Anti-Corruption Commission has given a speech where he admits that he acted with "apprehended bias" during the Robodebt non-investigation. As Bernard Keane and many others argue, Brereton has to resign www.crikey.com.au/2024/11/18/p...
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Seriously - The Australian's front page is an "exclusive" from the CEO of Glencore - the world's second biggest coal miner - saying that Albanese should slow down the transition to renewables and use more coal
November 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Seriously - The Australian's front page is an "exclusive" from the CEO of Glencore - the world's second biggest coal miner - saying that Albanese should slow down the transition to renewables and use more coal