Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉

that thing everyone said was inevitable happened bsky.app/profile/jsra...

Trust @ronnisalt.bsky.social doesn’t mind me copying this from the other place to here…

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

Christ this is so depressing.

They don't even try to not lie. They know they don't need to care.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

🚨 NEW: 58% of Australians agree that a genocide is happening in Gaza, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network

88% of Greens voters and 72% of Labor voters were among those who agreed with the UN report on Gaza

I'm a 'no" on net zero
Because we can do better
Net zero a crock - offsets open to lobbying and corrupt influences and interpretations of what's in or out, and soft targets by polies/ industries that don't want change, or invalidly argue we can't

Australia needs to target real zero, not net zero

A culture of leniency. Exposing wrongdoing or protecting wrongdoers? - Michael West Corporate regulator ASIC lets crooked bankers walk free, and the notional anti-corruption commission ignores Robodebt.

ASIC doesn't prosecute bankers, or NACC the perpetrators of Robodebt.

@yelgeb.bsky.social on the blistering double standard in prosecuting white collars v blue, and protecting corporate reputations
#auspol #ANZ #austrac
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Chris Bowen taunts Dan Tehan following his visit to Nuclear sites in the US saying Tehan’s post-trip YouTube video shows “he did not visit any small modular reactors, advanced modular reactors or micro reactors, perhaps due to the small technical detail that none exist”🔥🤣 #QT

Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia  — Australian Friends of Palestine Association AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

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Seems v much like the NPC was not truthful about its cancellation of Hedges' scheduled appearance on OCT 20.

'Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia'

www.afopa.com.au/blog/2025/10...

We're still waiting for Albo to condemn the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. #auspol

Actually Albo .. didn't Australia abstain from a ceasefire vote in Oct 2023, saying "We can affirm Israel's right to defend itself"?

Just saying bc your second last par says "consistently part of intl pressure for a ceasefire in Gaza"

Australian gas keeps the peace in Indo-Pacific: King Any future east coast reservation will have no impact on crucial supply to Asia, the resources minister has assured her Japanese counterparts.

The Australian Government gives foreign owned gas corporates our gas for free, so they can export it to Japan who on-sell it for a profit while Australians face shortages.

Now our Resources Minister reckons we are going it for world peace

lol

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Here's a list of questions for Senate estimates that will probably, definitely, not be asked We’ve compiled a short list of the questions that could be asked at estimates, but probably won’t be.

Here’s a list of questions for Senate estimates that will probably, definitely, not be asked @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/07/s...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

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Liberal MP claiming the budget will face a $58bn black hole -- when the budget isn't out, is peak LNP gaslighting. Remember their Back In Black mug? 😂 #auspol

YouTube video by The West Report The solutions they wont use to fix the housing crisis | The West Report

First Home Buyers scheme: tinkering about the edges. Govts know what the problem is, don't have the will to stand up to the lobby and inevitable scare campaigns
#auspol
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zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

quote from book THEY KNEW about grim realities of secession in the US, written in 2021, published in 2022, applicable to now

Do not fall for secessionist propaganda or “Texas is invading Illinois”! Pay attention to who is saying this, who is screwing you over, and what their end goal is.

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

@StephenM on X: The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks. 04 Oct 25

Here is Stephen Miler of the Trump administration targeting "far-left Democrat judges" and accusing them of shielding "leftwing terrorism." This was YESTERDAY.

i do not respect this belief but it is enlightening to wrap your head around the fact that a significant number of your political rivals believe you are literally in league with satan, and act with concomitant zeal and brutality

Guess I'd better vote for the Australian white ibis, since we destroyed their natural habitat and they're doing the best they can. #auspol

Where the fuck is the Bar-tailed Godwit? The bird is a legend. #auspol

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

First they came for Ben Roberts-Smith, and everyone went "he's over there, hiding behind Kerry Stokes' couch"

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show Trump Government Purge is All According to Plan — Sarah Kendzior

On the shutdown: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqk9...

The US is a semi-authoritarian state. Folks need to grasp that it's not all or nothing -- authoritarianism has a sliding scale. Different states repress in different ways; some are harder on commerce than on speech or vice versa. Pundits deny the complexity in order to dismiss real, growing threats.

Or Trump is a lifelong liar and propagandist who doesn't care if he's caught because he knows he won't be punished.

Trump is not the admin's main ideologue, but the idea that he's brainwashed instead of flagrantly lying is bizarrely generous. Flagrant lying showcases power. He's always done it.

Greens and Australian Christian Lobby form ‘unholy alliance’ to shut down late-night pokies in NSW Exclusive: The political foes have set aside decades of animosity to ‘work constructively on gambling reform’ after both describing the NSW government’s actions as insufficient

Apparently shutting down a tiny portion of gambling is "unholy". Thanks Guardian. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The ease at which the LNP and most journalists lie is astonishing. #auspol