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Passionate about equity and social justice. Proudly woke af. A ‘dirty leftie’ according to my ex-MP. #VoiceTruthTreaty. Meanjin, Turrbal country

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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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08.10.2025 04:40 — 👍 3175    🔁 1935    💬 253    📌 267
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TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

05.10.2025 04:37 — 👍 13881    🔁 5968    💬 851    📌 337

Hear hear

06.10.2025 05:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Seriously, "leftie" journos in that room, where. the . fuck. are. you? It might be time to put ethics and morality ahead of your career prospects. This is a holocaust and a fascistic assault on democracy in the West. And you're just gonna sit there quietly? Go fuck yourself.

06.10.2025 00:22 — 👍 236    🔁 82    💬 16    📌 2
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Exclusive: Anthony Albanese overruled push for public NACC hearings The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body.

More than 2 years after the NACC was established, it hasn’t held a single public hearing. Now we learn the PM pushed to make it harder to hold them.

Public hearings are vital to building trust - the Govt should be making them easier, not harder.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/10...

05.10.2025 07:57 — 👍 204    🔁 77    💬 10    📌 3

Free to read.
#auspol
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/21743/...

03.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 16    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 2

Awful AUKUS! $389 bloody BILLION found outside the budget ‘overnight’. Covid also showed taxpayers how the govt can allocate off budget billions ‘overnight’ to suit any new priority.
How do we continue to accept the “can’t afford it” deceit?

WHAT? “forward deployment US base in Toowoomba”? Link?

02.10.2025 12:44 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

🔴 Santos Limited has racked up a 10th straight year of zero corporate tax payments from $48 billion in sales.

🔴 Ichthys LNG Pty Ltd paid zero corporate tax for the 6th year running, from $43 billion in sales.

Add your name to make the gas industry pay their fair share > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...

03.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 157    🔁 84    💬 10    📌 12
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If you say Dems should negotiate with Trump, please confirm you've read the pre-shutdown Trump EO that authorizes you and yours to be probed as terrorists if you commit any thought-crime listed on the right-hand side of this Ken Klippenstein report excerpt.

*That* is who you want to negotiate with.

03.10.2025 00:36 — 👍 839    🔁 388    💬 60    📌 31
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Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals

$1.5 million of 🇦🇺 taxpayer💰per head but asylum seekers still going without food.

Huge contract blowouts, added to the cost of the latest secret MOU with Nauru raises serious questions of gross mismanagement.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

02.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 151    🔁 72    💬 4    📌 11
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She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook

02.10.2025 20:43 — 👍 9783    🔁 3736    💬 400    📌 191
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It sure isn’t!

02.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rationing is why we have waitlists - currently around 200,000 are waiting on home care. The Royal Commission said instead that we should have places for everyone that needs care. Labor have ignored this, and would rather let some older people die than cough up to look after them

02.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Aged care waiting lists a ‘calculated denial of services’ that could be fatal, Senate inquiry warns Greens-chaired inquiry says system should be demand driven despite Labor’s dissenting view that this could cause unintended flow-on issues

Stop ‘rationing’ aged care and end the wait lists - that’s what a majority of Senators in our Aged Care Inquiry have agreed to work towards.

Sadly, Labor disagreed and voted to ensure enforced shortages meaning people die waiting 12mo+ for care.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

02.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 45    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 3
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Why isn't this idiot sanctioned by the Senate for this dangerous nonsense?

02.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 123    🔁 23    💬 14    📌 1

Instead of getting hauled over the underperformance coals for his incompetence and corruption, Morriscum gets rewarded with a humongous payout. Not only that, the Board overseeing his payout did so in blatant contravention of compliance.
A fucking disgrace.
#auspol

02.10.2025 04:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Looks like AJ Leonardi is owed an apology.

The NYT, which mocked his research on Covid and the immune system, is now effectively admitting Covid does damage the immune system.

Ignore Leonardi's peevishness for now; he was right.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

01.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 103    🔁 35    💬 6    📌 2
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Court rules police strip search power abused on 'industrial level' - Law Society Journal The NSW Supreme Court has delivered a landmark judgment that ultimately invalidates the systemic strip search practices of NSW Police at music festivals.

The NSW Supreme Court has delivered a landmark judgment that invalidates the systemic strip search practices of NSW Police at music festivals, awarding $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff, the largest class action ever brought against an Australian police force lsj.com.au/articles/cou...

01.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 106    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 1

Never has a group developed so complete a hearing problem as Republicans confronted with actual words that Trump has said over the last decade.

01.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 2678    🔁 573    💬 108    📌 20
Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office
YouTube video by NBC Chicago Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.

youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

01.10.2025 10:30 — 👍 8328    🔁 2868    💬 210    📌 407

Who pays exactly for Dan Tehan to travel to the US to research nuclear tech? I assume it’s me and you #auspol

01.10.2025 08:39 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

And there it is.

I'm watching the people vs robodebt on @sbs on demand.

A program about people being in debt, sometimes to the extent they commit suicide.

Yet SBS run ads for sports gambling companies during the episode I'm watching.

This is shocking & horrendous.

Ping @squigglyrick.bsky.social

01.10.2025 09:11 — 👍 217    🔁 26    💬 6    📌 2

The level self delusion from this man when he’s a butcher is quite remarkable

01.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 45    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 0

What a surprise. The most important issues for the public are those constantly platformed by MSM.

Notice how Welfare has moved down since the government and media have stopped demonising claimants.

01.10.2025 08:40 — 👍 48    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0
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Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

01.10.2025 00:34 — 👍 9493    🔁 3517    💬 497    📌 225
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“It’s a war from within.” Trump prepares the generals for what comes next.

Focusing on the ridiculous veneer is a mistake because the substance of Trump's speech was as serious as a heart attack. The entire senior leadership of America’s military has been put on notice.
www.thebulwark.com/p/its-a-war-...

01.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 380    🔁 129    💬 26    📌 10
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@governor.ca.gov

30.09.2025 20:08 — 👍 901    🔁 395    💬 46    📌 14

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

01.10.2025 02:49 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This Bozo is an offence to our system of government...a complete waste of parliamentary space.

01.10.2025 07:48 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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