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@mousewolf.bsky.social

Antipodean Septuagenarian. Retired English teacher. Social justice and climate change are key for me. I worry about the world that my precious grandchildren will inherit.

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Just sayin’!!!

29.07.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1277    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 17
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🚨🚨Holy Shit!! Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is not fucking around with this fiery speech on the Senate floor.πŸ’₯πŸ”₯πŸ’₯We need this from every Democrat if we are going to push back on fascism and save our fragile Democracy!! More of this please!! Bravo Senator Booker!!

29.07.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1818    πŸ” 736    πŸ’¬ 175    πŸ“Œ 110
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Starmer is thinking what we are thinking and what most of the world is thinking.

28.07.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 30317    πŸ” 9263    πŸ’¬ 1772    πŸ“Œ 626

Memo to #abc730: Mike Pezzullo was sacked from the APS for breaching its Code of Conduct FOURTEEN TIMES. He left in disgrace. He was officially stripped of his Order of Australia. Why is he now being given access to your prestigious platform?

23.06.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1029    πŸ” 340    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 28
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It’s heartbreaking to watch a nation that once inspired the world now struggles to hold itself together.
This isn’t the America we believed in!
As a neighbor, it’s painful to watch the fire spread from a home we once admired.
The #DefendersOfDemocracy stands with our American brothers and sisters!

23.06.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3058    πŸ” 1214    πŸ’¬ 247    πŸ“Œ 98
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TouchΓ©.

23.06.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 40140    πŸ” 8161    πŸ’¬ 822    πŸ“Œ 339

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

22.06.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 44448    πŸ” 10321    πŸ’¬ 1820    πŸ“Œ 709
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Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

08.06.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 47016    πŸ” 14543    πŸ’¬ 2962    πŸ“Œ 1370

Everyone should say it:

The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism.

Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy.

But that's not what's interesting about Miller.

It's not brains. It's bile.

08.06.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 27513    πŸ” 6590    πŸ’¬ 859    πŸ“Œ 306

I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…

08.06.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 16091    πŸ” 2047    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 81
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Australian governments are meant to represent the interests of Australians, not multinational gas corporations.

Australians are tired of rampant gas exports driving up their power bills.

✍️ Add your name to the call to fix Australia's gas export problem!
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_expo...

07.04.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 154    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 9
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

04.05.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 36739    πŸ” 12347    πŸ’¬ 2966    πŸ“Œ 1134
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So all the dirty tricks, the hordes of brethren, the mazes of campaign signs, the getting people's faces ... That really worked well #LNP

#auspol #australiavotes #election2025

04.05.2025 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’₯

20.04.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 32814    πŸ” 9028    πŸ’¬ 740    πŸ“Œ 527
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

01.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 54250    πŸ” 10200    πŸ’¬ 936    πŸ“Œ 494
Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.

Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.

02.04.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 70001    πŸ” 9443    πŸ’¬ 890    πŸ“Œ 318
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β€œWe must dissent because America can do better.” Good to hear Wisconsin Judge Susan Crawford quote Justice Thurgood Marshall in her victory speech tonight.

02.04.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 37135    πŸ” 5465    πŸ’¬ 275    πŸ“Œ 142
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He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.

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Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

02.04.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 32690    πŸ” 5289    πŸ’¬ 418    πŸ“Œ 341
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True story

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🎯 🎯 🎯

19.03.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 16606    πŸ” 3718    πŸ’¬ 470    πŸ“Œ 174
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The damage Fox has done to the truth, is incalculable…

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I'm Not Running in 2026, But I Am Getting to Work We all have work to do in delivering a better kind of politics for America.

I care deeply about who Michigan will elect as Governor and send to the U.S. Senate next year, but I have decided against competing in either race.

I wrote more here about my decision and how I view the work required of us all in this moment:

13.03.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 36411    πŸ” 5682    πŸ’¬ 1867    πŸ“Œ 515
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Here’s a cheat sheet with all the phone numbers for the US Senate. I have a feeling we’ll be calling them a lot in the near future.

13.03.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8718    πŸ” 5100    πŸ’¬ 411    πŸ“Œ 315
β€œImagine a man who would not fight for his country berating a man for fighting for his”

β€œImagine a man who would not fight for his country berating a man for fighting for his”

#SlavaUkraineπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

06.03.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 23080    πŸ” 5261    πŸ’¬ 521    πŸ“Œ 190

I see tomorrow is Friday.

Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day?

Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else?

I just can’t keep track.

06.03.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 45450    πŸ” 7373    πŸ’¬ 3613    πŸ“Œ 557

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