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Hobartian. Raptors and Roos. Maggie whippet Contributing to the totally constructive discourse
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Replying to @andycraig.bsky.social
Muddling through is not good enough. It's kicking the can down the road for the next would-be autocrat to try again and try harder. It can be repudiated as a fundamental discontinuity in legitimacy and its perpetrators punished accordingly or else the democratic death spiral doesn't stop with him.
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Albanese weighs his post-political career opportunities at fossil fuel corps against 13-year-old Melelusi Sokotia's lament that she and her friends dream of “becoming teachers, doctors, builders” but spend their lives "wondering if their island would survive into their adult lives"
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Strong opening
Excited to be chosen as Leader of the @greens.org.au, together with @stephhodgins-may.bsky.social as Deputy Leader. Now is the time to build the Greens as the home for all who want climate action, a fair return on our resources, a secure home and income, and to not sell out to the US or the 1%.
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Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Love the fact that my mortgage will get even harder to pay down later today in large part because of a convicted felon & warlord that my government has signed up to a > $360 billion defence pact (scam) with. Great work, @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social!
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There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."
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Is “a short ferry ride from Argentina” a euphemism or just history rhyming?
A Thiel-Altman-&-Andreessen backed “network state” called Praxis is planning a tech colony in Uruguay & has a nonbinding deal w/ a development led by a former advisor to Javier Milei. Located a short ferry ride from Argentina, the move aligns w/ the “Tech Bros”’ increasing interest in the region. 1/
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Replying to @grammyrulz.bsky.social
He was in floor 104 or 105 when it hit. He went down 30 flights, put a woman on his back, and carried her down another 20 more. He then went back UP, administered first aid, helped with the fire. He was found in the lobby. 18 ppl said he saved them. He had an almost complete NYFD app in his home.
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Britain - and frankly every other nation - needs to build homegrown social media platforms to free ourselves from American toxin and domination. US platforms are quite simply evil. We're surrendering billions and political control to the world's most dangerous men In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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