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Sandra McDonald

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...

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November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."

October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Oct 13

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

October 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

"If you believe in democracy & our freedoms & country, this is why you fight. You don't know if you'll win, but if you don't fight you're guaranteed to lose" - @davidnir.com on Dem strategy heading into the shutdown

Check out our new full ep of Nir & Rupar here: www.publicnotice.co/p/the-comey-...

September 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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Ronni🧂Salt

@ronnisalt.bsky.social

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I've obtained exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the United Nations security room

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September 26, 2025 at 7:55 AM

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MFWitches

@mfwitches.bsky.social

Another important post on our Kyle and Jackie O campaign which we hope you'll read in our screenshots and respond to, witches.

We've hesitated to call this issue out, but no longer feel we have a choice.

So let's keep going. And let's get Kyle sacked.

#ToYourBrooms

Picture of a naked woman as a stone statue with a sword in one hand and a man’s severed head in the other.

The words on the meme say “Your body, my choice—-“

Since the Kyle and Jackie O campaign began, MFW have faced backlash from a mainstream media (and a few politicians) determined to erase us from commentary about the issue.
And while we know why they're doing this (they hate the power of social media and need to shut us up because we're stealing their thunder) it's reached the point now where we need to call it out.
Yet it's risky and uncomfortable for us to do so. Because when in the past we've pointed out how we're erased from this work, people always tell us to
"rise above it". To "let it go" and "focus on our wins". And while it's true we mustn't be diverted from our crucial witchy tasks the thing is, there are important reasons we can't ignore this forever:
1. When the media erased MFW during the Alan Jones campaign many witches got upset. They rightly felt it wasn't fair, so some abandoned their work getting advertisers to withdraw. Now, we see this pattern with Kyle: some witches feel that if we don't get much attention, our work mustn't have value. Since we can't let our campaigns be thus destroyed by a mainstream media trying to imply we're unimportant, we must remind witches that media silence doesn't mean we're doing anything wrong (in fact, means the exact opposite).
2. Further to Point 1, the media's silence around MFW is a true sign of our power. They're scared because we expose their manipulations and lies; we don't play by their outdated rules; and we aren't beholden to their patriarchal constructs. They know if they highlight our work (even negatively) it brings us more attention from people also frustrated with media lies, and they can't risk that. But be aware that if we ever get too powerful to ignore they'll then switch to trying to destroy us (as an entity, or by going after one of our Admins).
3. We all know women have been methodically erased from history and that

3. We all know women have been methodically erased from history and that despite some gains, this continues. During the Jones campaign, a male-led group got at least half the kudos while doing 5% of the work. We made a promise then that we'd never allow ourselves to have our successes minimised in that way if we could help it. We've the right to stand up for our achievements, even if this gets us labelled whingers or over-sensitive hysterics (be aware: that response is itself just another way women are shut up). We owe it to the women coming after us to unapologetically claim MFW's successes, and call it out when others refuse to.
The pieces published in recent days erasing MFW would be laughable if not so deceptive. Several media organisations are now openly using MFW's hard work exposing Kyle to either write their own pieces or fuel their own investigations, or both. The one in the SMH the other day from a woman claiming responsibility for Jones' sacking when she did nothing of the sort was bad, but perhaps it was yesterday's effort by Crikey listing a completely different organisation as responsible for getting Jones sacked (again, a lie) which was worse. Or perhaps it was the one out just this morning in which the Guardian (serial offenders on this now) have lifted an entire MFW post yesterday and re-crafted it in their own words.
The saddest thing of all is nearly all those posting these pieces recently are women: sad, captured handmaidens for a media Broligarchy they bizarrely work so hard to defend. And who'll be damaged by the media's woman-hate that MFW works so hard to reform just as much as all of us will be if campaigns like ours fail.

investigations, or both. The one in the SMH the other day from a woman claiming responsibility for Jones' sacking when she did nothing of the sort was bad, but perhaps it was yesterday's effort by Crikey listing a completely different organisation as responsible for getting Jones sacked (again, a lie) which was worse. Or perhaps it was the one out just this morning in which the Guardian (serial offenders on this now) have lifted an entire MFW post yesterday and re-crafted it in their own words.
The saddest thing of all is nearly all those posting these pieces recently are women: sad, captured handmaidens for a media Broligarchy they bizarrely work so hard to defend. And who'll be damaged by the media's woman-hate that MFW works so hard to reform just as much as all of us will be if campaigns like ours fail.
Bravo, ladies.
Slow fucking clap.
Nevertheless, we'll keep going. REAL witches know who started this #VileKyle campaign, who's doing all the hard and mostly unpaid work, and who'll deserve nearly all the credit when he's finally gone.
The media's outrageous lies are noted, and their lack of feminist solidarity clearly understood.
So let's keep going. We're on our own but luckily, we witches are all we fucking-well need.
Who's in?
#ToYourBrooms

November 22, 2024 at 2:34 AM

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Rick Morton

@squigglyrick.bsky.social

Exclusive: NACC asked former Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson to review its Robodebt decision and then rescinded the offer over concerns that a former Coalition Minister (Person 6) would rain hell. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

Exclusive: NACC dumped Gleeson over concerns for Coalition minister

Former solicitor-general Justin Gleeson’s appointment to review the NACC’s decision on robodebt was rescinded over concerns it might offend a Coalition minister who was referred for investigation.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

November 15, 2024 at 8:30 PM

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Louise Milligan

@milliganreports.bsky.social

Can law and regulation achieve more truthful elections? I’ll be on a panel @MelbLawSchool for a discussion on one of today's defining challenges, moderated by Jon Faine.
🗓️ Monday 2 December 18.00-19.30 (Melbourne)
➡️ Register go.unimelb.edu.au/mb98 #auspol #auscon