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Science fiction author from New Zealand, living in Australia. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Peter-Cawdron/author/B00600L9FO

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Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

#writerslife

01.03.2026 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1981    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 41
Richard Hanania tweet: Has any theory in international relations been more discredited than blowback?

It turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine.

Richard Hanania tweet: Has any theory in international relations been more discredited than blowback? It turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine.

I swear these people don't have object permanence

02.03.2026 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4064    πŸ” 400    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 157
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Algorithm denies high level care for Melbourne man with advanced MND Graham Crossan cannot eat, talk or breathe unassisted but he's been denied funding for high-level care due to a new way of assessing aged care funding.

Advocates fear My Aged Care funding algorithm could become Australia's next robodebt www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

28.02.2026 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Birds Aren’t Just Declining. They’re Declining Faster, a New Study Finds.

The proverbial canary in the coal mine? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...

27.02.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

28.02.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 23736    πŸ” 4303    πŸ’¬ 1329    πŸ“Œ 320
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This is a hideous betrayal of the country, in exchange for a bribe.

27.02.2026 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6963    πŸ” 2935    πŸ’¬ 257    πŸ“Œ 139

If America was a country filled with people where the contents of the Epstein files could take down a president we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with. He was elected AFTER access Hollywood, child separation, covid, being found liable for sexual abuse etc.

27.02.2026 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5281    πŸ” 1118    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 72
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Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration

β€œOn the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote.

β€œ[The government] knows this.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

27.02.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11465    πŸ” 4384    πŸ’¬ 379    πŸ“Œ 162
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Tax billionaires out of existence.

26.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 17024    πŸ” 3843    πŸ’¬ 565    πŸ“Œ 304

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

26.02.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1715    πŸ” 610    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 28

Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.

27.02.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 16714    πŸ” 3954    πŸ’¬ 499    πŸ“Œ 156
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

26.02.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 38765    πŸ” 16463    πŸ’¬ 1828    πŸ“Œ 1080
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Women always lose the β€˜He said She said’ arguments. I demonstrated this neatly in the Lawrence Krauss case. 1st investigation was my word against his. Fast forward to an in depth Buzzfeed article finding corroborating witnesses, ASU forced to open a 2nd investigation & found that I was truthful.

24.02.2026 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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What is Bonesmashing? Inside the Extreme Looksmaxxer Technique As looksmaxxing enters our lexicon, the practice of bonesmashingβ€”tapping your face with a hammer to shape your bone structureβ€”is trailing close behind.

β€œIt’s hard to get an accurate sense of how many people actually hit themselves in the face with a hammer but it’s not zero” sounds like a line about congress but no

24.02.2026 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 621    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 37

Donald Trump is the biggest threat to US national security.

Laws should be passed that invalidate presidential candidates who can not pass a security clearance, or have been convicted of a felony.

23.02.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8260    πŸ” 1909    πŸ’¬ 402    πŸ“Œ 96
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This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

23.02.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 24003    πŸ” 3815    πŸ’¬ 397    πŸ“Œ 299
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Never enough for healthcare or education, always enough for bombs.

22.02.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4926    πŸ” 1567    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 59
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Former Deutsche Bank Exec Connected to Trump Loans Dies by Suicide in Malibu - LAmag Thomas Bowers, who worked above Trump's personal banker, was 55

From 2019: "Bowers isn’t the first Trump-connected Deutsche exec to commit suicide. In 2014, Deutsche derivatives analyst William S. Broeksmit, who reportedly had links to Trump and Russia, hung himself from a dog leash at his home in London."
lamag.com/politics/deu...

23.02.2026 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a brick wall and making a shame gesture . ALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a brick wall and making a shame gesture .

Not the books or the adaptations (early seasons are awesome), it’s the travesty that butchered the ending, destroying a final book that will probably never be written now :(

23.02.2026 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as β€˜violent perpetrators’

Abolish ICE and start over. They are polluted culture of lies, violence and impunity. Rotten to the very core and HUGE WASTE OF MONEY. Tear it down and start again.Β Β 

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

22.02.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2518    πŸ” 609    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 32
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A 21-year-old Moroccan woman was beaten by her family when they found out she was a lesbian. She sought asylum in the US & Trump tried to deport her to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal.

Sometimes we get distracted by how incompetent our country has gotten, we forget how evil it has gotten.

22.02.2026 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4229    πŸ” 1590    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 73
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New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

22.02.2026 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 23100    πŸ” 6595    πŸ’¬ 640    πŸ“Œ 656
Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff
Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to
Greenland to take care of the many people who are
sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!!
President DJT

Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!! President DJT

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good.

Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies.

So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

22.02.2026 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8222    πŸ” 2623    πŸ’¬ 754    πŸ“Œ 232
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β€˜They’re gaslighting us’: More disability homes close as state funding ends More than 80 group homes for disabled residents have closed, upending the lives of some of Victoria’s most vulnerable people.

84 disability group homes in Victoria have closed since the state government privatised their operation to five providers in 2019. These are highly specialised homes and staff are not easily replaced www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

22.02.2026 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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As the country does nothing about climate change have you considered growing only certain kinds of plants to stop your family dying in a horrible bushfire event?😣

21.02.2026 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes! And it can't come soon enough!

20.02.2026 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 13661    πŸ” 4342    πŸ’¬ 788    πŸ“Œ 393
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ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

β€œA bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

19.02.2026 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5894    πŸ” 3184    πŸ’¬ 285    πŸ“Œ 401
Respondents have already wasted valuable time and resources.  Worst of all, not only does detention without due process deprive members of the Bond Eligible Class of their liberty, economic stability, and fundamental dignity, but it also harms their families, communities, and the fabric of this very nation.   IT IS SO ORDERED.

Respondents have already wasted valuable time and resources. Worst of all, not only does detention without due process deprive members of the Bond Eligible Class of their liberty, economic stability, and fundamental dignity, but it also harms their families, communities, and the fabric of this very nation. IT IS SO ORDERED.

Wow.

Fed. judge tells DHS, ICE, Sec. Noem, AG Bondi, EOIR and others that they are harming "the fabric of this very nation" by defying a court order that vacated their automatic-detention policy.

Order is linked here:

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

19.02.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4813    πŸ” 1565    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 83
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Listen closely to every word of this

19.02.2026 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 10641    πŸ” 4941    πŸ’¬ 353    πŸ“Œ 320