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So the 🍊🤡 plans to send ‘homegrown’ Americans to El Salvadoran death camps now.

I hope the ICC is keeping tabs on El Salvador, for one.
April 15, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Does this describe him too?
April 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Dutton is what happens when a large portion of the populace is racist, uninformed and wilfully ignorant.
A comic illustration of Dutton, Michaela Cash, and Pauline Hanson essentially saying, ‘If you don’t know, stay stupid.’ However, you can always educate yourself.
February 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Siri, what are the penalties for #insidertrading in Australia?
February 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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This is what they’re after, isn’t it?
Republicans hate books
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Food for thought.
‘We don't have to surrender to the momentum of the right by becoming more like them. We don't have to catch this virus because America sneezed.’ From Zoe Williams on The Guardian
February 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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From Carl Sagan's 1995 book: THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science. But there's another reason: science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and paperatition. but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As
February 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Using Google Maps in Australia, and it’s looking a little non-committal.

And sorry, but it’s #GulfOfMexico
Gulf of Mexico is the correct name, not Gulf of America. Google Maps referring to this body of water as Gulf of America is dumb AF.
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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The Commonwealth and Public Sector Union said Dutton's criticism of diversity and inclusion positions was straight from the playbook of the US president, Donald Trump, who has declared war on so-called DEI programs since returning to White House.
January 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Just leaving this here…
January 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Well it was fun, though it lasted just a few hours.
January 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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America’s friends after the #TiktokBan 😂
January 19, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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It should be easy to embed Tiktoks in this good place, because gems like these are worth sharing even just for laughs (or not).

Here’s to #MarkZuckerberg and his masculine energy 😂
January 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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If you’re a woman in #Sydney and this guy randomly approaches you, beware. You might be being filmed without your consent.
A screenshot of Minje Kim wearing a eyeglasses equipped with secret cameras.
December 31, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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A photo of Luigi Mangione, patron saint of health insurance victims
December 15, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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I’m gobsmacked by the audacity of this doctor and the systemic failure of the hospital that obviously benefited from his medical malpractice. At least 10 patients died under his care, all involving lethal doses of phenobarbital.

I mean, WTF dude’s practically a serial killer!

#thisisjournalism
December 7, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

13/20
The image shows the cover of the book, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson. The design features a close-up of a bear’s face in the foreground, set against a lush green forest background. The title is displayed in large white letters at the top, with the author’s name, Bill Bryson, in bold white text at the bottom. A yellow banner below the bear highlights the book as a New York Times Bestseller and includes a subtitle emphasizing the rediscovery of America on the Appalachian Trail.
December 7, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

12/20
Cover of the novel ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ by Laura Esquivel. The artwork depicts a traditional Mexican kitchen scene with a woman preparing food, specifically kneading dough. She is wearing a white dress and surrounded by cooking utensils, bowls, and ingredients, emphasizing themes of cooking and domesticity central to the story. The illustration style is vibrant, with warm tones and a folkloric aesthetic that reflects the novel’s cultural and magical realist elements. The title and author’s name are prominently displayed.
December 6, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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Holy crap this is disturbing, even for a non-American like myself.

#JdVance
#PeterThiel
#Yarvin
Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the "Dark Enlightenment." Among other things, it openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies and views nations like the United States as outdated software systems. Yarvin seeks to reengineer governments by breaking them up into smaller entities called "patchworks," which would be controlled by tech corporations. Each patchwork would be ruled by a "realm": a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens' hands with no fear of legal consequences-because they're a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws. Vance did not get this extremist ideology from his Appalachian upbringing or— needless to say-Yale Law. It was incubated in America's tech capital, San Francisco, where he forged crucial ties with Thiel, Yarvin, and David Sacks, the longtime Thiel associate and pro-Putin crusader who recently hosted a Trump fundraiser at his mansion in Pacific Heights. And if Vance ends up in the White House, it will be with $45 million in monthly campaign contributions from Musk, who already made a $44 billion in-kind contribution by gutting San Francisco-based Twitter and transforming it into a right-wing misinformation weapon.
December 6, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

11/20
December 4, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

10/20
December 4, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

9/20
Cover of the book, ‘Confessions of an Economic Hitman’ by John Perkins. This book is about how the United States screwed the world and wielded influence through economic and political sabotage.
December 1, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

8/20
One of the most horrible books I’ve ever read. If you want to understand the mindset of today’s techbros and greedy tycoons, this is the book for you.
November 29, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 7/20
#Skybook
💙📚👀.
#Books
#Bookchallenge
Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
November 22, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 6/20
#Skybook
💙📚👀.
#Books
#Bookchallenge
#AngelasAshes
November 21, 2024 at 12:53 PM