Smaccaroo
@smaccaroo.bsky.social
Health professional with an interest in the world being a better place... and family, sport, food, politics,etc. Brand new Pop.
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The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare.
👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.
👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.
April 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare.
👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.
👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.
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Australia is actually a low-taxing nation.
We pay much lower tax on our personal income than most all other nations.
Serious about tax? - look at tax concessions on superannuation, capital gains tax, how gas companies are taxed. TENS OF BILLIONS going to the richest and the most profitable.
We pay much lower tax on our personal income than most all other nations.
Serious about tax? - look at tax concessions on superannuation, capital gains tax, how gas companies are taxed. TENS OF BILLIONS going to the richest and the most profitable.
If you pay personal income tax, you're paying too much. Our reliance on income taxes harms our economy, and neither Labor nor the Coalition are serious about doing anything about it, preferring shallow stunts like this. Time for an everything-on-the-table tax review. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
March 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Australia is actually a low-taxing nation.
We pay much lower tax on our personal income than most all other nations.
Serious about tax? - look at tax concessions on superannuation, capital gains tax, how gas companies are taxed. TENS OF BILLIONS going to the richest and the most profitable.
We pay much lower tax on our personal income than most all other nations.
Serious about tax? - look at tax concessions on superannuation, capital gains tax, how gas companies are taxed. TENS OF BILLIONS going to the richest and the most profitable.
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‘No Other Land’ Directors Use Oscar Speech to Call on World ‘to Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian People’
variety.com/2025/awards/...
variety.com/2025/awards/...
‘No Other Land’ Directors Use Oscar Speech to Call on World ‘to Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian People’
While accepting the best documentary Oscar for "No Other Land," directors took the opportunity to make a robust plea for "a political solution" to the war in Gaza.
variety.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
‘No Other Land’ Directors Use Oscar Speech to Call on World ‘to Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian People’
variety.com/2025/awards/...
variety.com/2025/awards/...
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Interest rates not to blame for cost of living crisis says man who promised he wouldn’t increase interest rates and then wouldn’t stop increasing them…
The former RBA governor lifted rates too high and the current Governor is being too slow in cutting them.
The economy needs another cut ASAP
The former RBA governor lifted rates too high and the current Governor is being too slow in cutting them.
The economy needs another cut ASAP
March 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Interest rates not to blame for cost of living crisis says man who promised he wouldn’t increase interest rates and then wouldn’t stop increasing them…
The former RBA governor lifted rates too high and the current Governor is being too slow in cutting them.
The economy needs another cut ASAP
The former RBA governor lifted rates too high and the current Governor is being too slow in cutting them.
The economy needs another cut ASAP
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BASH: You voted to approve Marco Rubio's nomination to be secretary of state. Did you make the right choice?
CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.
CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.
March 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
BASH: You voted to approve Marco Rubio's nomination to be secretary of state. Did you make the right choice?
CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.
CHRIS MURPHY: Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake. I think a lot of us thought Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Trump on an issue like this.
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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
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Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.
February 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.
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We are one news cycle away from Trump giving military aid to Russia.
February 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
We are one news cycle away from Trump giving military aid to Russia.
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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
February 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
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Our institutions are not really all that subtle at letting us know whose rights and views are not considered important
EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Our institutions are not really all that subtle at letting us know whose rights and views are not considered important
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Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."
February 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."
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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."
February 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."
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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
February 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
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Some good news at last.
JUST IN: NASA says there's now a 3.1% chance an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032, up from 2.6% yesterday.
This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received, surpassing 2.7% in 2004
This is the highest risk assessment an asteroid has ever received, surpassing 2.7% in 2004
February 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Some good news at last.
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white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge
February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
white nationalist men are too emotional to be in charge
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Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
February 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
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Slashing funding for life-saving treatment for personal gain: It's cruel, it's heartless, it's Elon.
Misery
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Slashing funding for life-saving treatment for personal gain: It's cruel, it's heartless, it's Elon.
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Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."
February 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."
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It should surprise no one to learn that these jokers don’t give a shit about free speech
February 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
It should surprise no one to learn that these jokers don’t give a shit about free speech
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So NACC has belatedly decided to investigate the six top bureaucrats referred to it by the #Robodebt Royal Commission. It should never have taken this long, and even now the whole process will be secret. It’s a disgrace. Why is NACC boss Paul Brereton still there? #auspol
February 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Declining media/political/economic literacy has been a policy of the LNP for 30 years now.
It worked
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
It worked
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Call for 'immediate' curriculum overhaul after 'shocking' civics results
National test results show just 28 per cent of Year 10 students are proficient in civics.
www.abc.net.au
February 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Declining media/political/economic literacy has been a policy of the LNP for 30 years now.
It worked
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
It worked
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records
February 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records