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Retired minimalist. Found a place in the Central Wheatbelt of WA. Every day I'm amazed with the resilience of this Earth and the persistent damage we humans inflict upon it through consumerism. Heart failure survivor. O

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International Women's Day. Never closer to equality, nor closer to losing it. - Michael West Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. IWD

"Women's rights are rolling back at the exact moment women are being pushed closer to war, poverty and public violence. This is not drift. It is design"

#IWD is tomorrow.

Very good analysis by Aleta Moriarty
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/internationa...

07.03.2026 04:02 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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I don’t know about you, but watching the price of fuel rise at the bowsers over the last week has left me feeling like fuel companies are taking Australian motorists and Australian consumers for mugs.

What are you doing ACCC? @jimchalmers.bsky.social #FOI #auspol

06.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately I have to concede that you are right David.

I'm sure I'm not the only Labor person to say so.

@albomp.bsky.social is all the way with the "Trumpet for War". He is incredibly disappointing.

07.03.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes.

How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims?

The ALP in your head is long dead.

07.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 420 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 10

President Macron is working with partners to keep the conflict from spreading.

Anthony Albanese is leaving it to his fascist friends in Washington and Tel Aviv to sort out the legal technicalities.
While refusing to tell the Australian public how far our bases and personnel are involved. #auspol

07.03.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a smugness that infuriates me.

Their selective recordings and broadcasting is where historical research is drawn from, by future generations.

So often, it is the history of wealth, power & the greedy, not of the proletariat & cultural minorities, which I find to be much more interesting.

07.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good media coverage I suspect. Same reason the Epstein crowd are still at large, despite the FBI admitting that the ritual torture and murder was too hot to add to the rape of minors, espionage, etc.
The media is insanely selective about outrage. It's their job.

07.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds about right.

07.03.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Below is a list of dangerous cults in the USA.

I suspect affiliates of these cults are also active here in Aust.

Why Zionism is not on this list as a dangerous cult is beyond me, they are the most insidious of all the cults & have usurped the Gov'ts of many Western Nations, including Australia.

07.03.2026 02:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Dumb as a rock.

How to fund WWIII in one easy step.

Where do they find these witless fools?

Why do omnipotent billionaires spend so much time looking for intelligent life elsewhere within the universe when we have this level of intelligence here on Earth?

It beats me.

07.03.2026 02:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck, Beessent with that you stupid fucking asshole.

07.03.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"For all its talk about the rules-based order, the Albanese Government has capitulated to MAGA values of violence and brutality, 'without mercy'".

Australia has clearly traded in its sovereignty for the AUKUS deal, we are now an appendage of the USA's Department of War machinery.

07.03.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This whole anti immigration talk is boosting racism and division within our country.

Any attempt to suck up One Nation oxygen by negating their policy and rhetoric just stokes further grief for non white people and sets a tone of discrimination not seen since the 1950's and 60's.

#Multiculturalism

07.03.2026 01:24 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to divide a nation Australia needs a mature, balanced debate on immigration and it needs it as an urgent priority. Unfortunately, it is a policy area too easily abused by political opportunism, misinformation and emotio...

John Hewson: Taylor insisted he is β€œnot seeking to be One Nation-lite”, as Coalition bleeds voters to anti-immigration party. I’m not so sure. He has reinstated to his front bench 2 colleagues notorious for their outspoken views on immigration: www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22740/...

06.03.2026 21:01 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Or even 40 years.

07.03.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#Israel

07.03.2026 00:08 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This whole saga makes @albomp.bsky.social even less credible as Australia's Prime Minister.

I am so, so disappointed in this man.

The killing of 15 people at Bondi Beach by 2 Islamist fanatics was terrible.

Revenge killing of Palestinians & Iranian citizens by the thousands is much worse.

07.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shorter America This Week: Is Australia at war?; Iran; What more is there to say? It isn’t always easy to keep up with what’s happening in the US. β€œShorter America” is a series where Dr Emma Shortis loops you in on what’s going on in America and shares news and analysis that you ca...

AUKUS has dragged us in … yes we are at war!
thepoint.com.au/news/260307-...

07.03.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Surely the sarcasm button forgot to be pressed here by Ollie?

Or did he miss the memo on the Epstein files?

07.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El NiΓ±o

The worst possible news

This means 2C will likely be breached in the late 2030s

So much for us being on track for a 2.8C rise by 2100

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

06.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9
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Are Billionaires Evil? Wealth Ethics & Inequality Data Analyze billionaire ethics with hard data: US top 10% own 67% of wealth while bottom 50% own 2.5%. Explore whether extreme wealth is inherently unethical.

Without a doubt the USA committed war crimes, it goes without saying.

The war against Iran by Israel & their sponsor, is a UN gazetted illegal war of aggression on a sovereign Nation.

USA is a dangerous & lawless Country & has tumbled into a hell of greed & power.

lucidance.org/articles/are...

07.03.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to β€œtake all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

β€œThe 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”

07.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 822 πŸ” 401 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 107
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Push for gas tax as LNG exports reap huge profits after one week of war Gas prices tripled in 2022, which was the last time an international conflict hit energy markets. Experts say it may happen again due to the Iran war.

In 2022 oil prices doubled and gas prices quadrupled after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Australian govt needs to act quickly to ensure that domestic prices are protected from price spikes internationally and that we get a fair return on windfall profits from multinationals' exports of our LNG.

07.03.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

And it is both this Government and their political opponents who are stoking racism, except where antisemitism is concerned.

Islamophobia, Sinophobia, Indophobia and racism against First Nations people has risen exponentially this year and the smug media continue with their pro Zionist approach.

07.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: β€˜No one’s feeling safe’ Australia has announced an inquiry into racism and hate directed at First Nations people, as Lidia Thorpe says racism has β€˜never been this bad’

#auspol #racism 🀬

Indigenous Australians share the racist messages they receive online: β€˜No one’s feeling safe’

07.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3

The weirdest things to have happened.

Some racist Christofascists laying on of hands to a paedophile "Trumpet of War" President.

History can surely not see this any other way.

"The man who destroyed the world" is the only headline here..

07.03.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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@papaesoco.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social

06.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just a reminder for those of you who still, for some reason, think Winston Churchill was somehow not a corpulent piece of garbage.

The UK and US deposed the democratically elected Mosaddegh in 1953, because he was impacting BP’s profits. The PM who initiated this was Churchill.

06.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall: β€˜I’m going to put Marco over there’ | CNN Politics President Donald Trump told CNN Friday morning that Cuba β€œis going to fall pretty soon.”

@papaesoco.bsky.social he thinks he is King of the World; someone has to stop him.

edition.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

06.03.2026 19:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The weirdest fucking thing you'll ever see.

www.instagram.com/reel/DVis8qY...

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