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Social media thrives on those not making decisions abusing those who do. I say the same thing - stand for Parliament. Teals & Independents have been elected. Don’t bemoan & demean - do something constructive. No excuses, no decrying ‘the system’. Wong’s personal journey is remarkable. Try it.

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New in PN: SCOTUS clears the path for Trump's network of global gulags "With one paragraph, the Court undercut lower court judges and consigned countless immigrants to be renditioned to a system of gulags. It will have lasting corrosive effects on American civil society and respect for the courts."

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Gideon Haigh’s fascinating review of ‘Working for the Brand’, in which he describes the Antoinette Lattouf case as “that peculiar hill on which the ABC elected to die”.

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⬇️…”report wrongdoing, you’ll be fired”🤯 If you can’t see a problem with this mandate, you will soon feel and experience hopelessness & oppression! “Justice and constitutional rights” will become archaic words in a book that missed being burned-waiting for discovery. Please see the problem here😔

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Like we said yesterday: speak out and you’re fired. The Trump administration has made it clear, if you report wrongdoing, you’ll be fired. A senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told staff he was willing to ignore court orders to push Trump’s deportation agenda.

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President Macron: "With President Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO Summit to reaffirm France’s unwavering support. I strongly condemned the massive Russian attack on Dnipro and the recent strikes on Ukrainian cities in the past weeks.👇

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For starters, Kim Williams needs to publicly apologize to Antoinette Lattouf. Then commit to working with staff to fix this.

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www.thedailybeast.com/tourist-mads...

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At least the civil justice system cannot be controlled by one man - wapo.st/44h4BnF

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Trump's bombing of Iran points up the failures of Congress and the Supreme Court at providing any checks on his power. open.substack.com/pub/shanlonw...

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By ignoring his own U.S. Intelligence (Tulsi Gabbard testified Iran was not close to a nuclear weapon), and attacking Iran... Trump has acted like King Louis XIV of France, essentially declaring that the king and the state are one and the same.

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"five players and seven staff members had their visa applications rejected, prompting immediate cancellation of the trip." So how does the US expect to host a successful Olympics and World Cup, when the Trump regime's central operating principle is #racism? www.irishstar.com/sport/other-...

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NEW: Pauline Hanson has faced questions over One Nation's history of members quitting, while also saying she doesn't know if she'll serve a full term if re-elected in 2028 WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRB...

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Children from Gaza with cancer are finally making it to Jordan for long-promised treatment. But a plan to allow as many as 2,000 patients out of the war-torn enclave has slowed.

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I don't know what it's like to be in hell or what it looks like from the inside, but hell often happens here, in Ukraine, at night. It's the hell that Russia has brought to our land. This is the Donetsk region: Russia has launched airstrikes on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

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This is very readable for non-specialists and highlights the historical dereliction of responsibility of courts and Congress to stop executives unilaterally initiating military action. The post-9/11 AUMFs that have been used as a blank check by Dems and Republicans were always going to end up here.

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Medvedev Hints at Nuclear Support for Iran as Russia Deepens support for Tehran

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We made it home before it got dark. How grateful I am to be right here. What a gift

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Day 1215 of Ukraine having to fight to exist. And today it's a fight to even get any media time to expose Russia's crimes, as events in Iran and Washington dominate the agenda. All the🇺🇦 news, all the time, let's begin Sunday's thread..

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Thankfully history never repeats www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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At least we can finally well and truly retire that BS talking point: ‘Trump never started any new wars.’

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President Zelenskyy - I met with Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme. We discussed the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and how Russian terror keeps creating new needs every day — from food to shelter to emergency support for entire communities.👇

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“‘I just find it fascinating that this student can write an article, a series of articles that are essentially manifestoes, and that’s free speech,’ Ms. Chatman said, referring to Mr. Damsky, ‘but my class can’t be called “Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.”’” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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We have an important and urgent message for you today. Stay the course. Hang in there. Let’s push forward together. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

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What an obscenely terrible headline. I can assure the legacy media that Democrats are not looking to be politically targeted, manhandled, handcuffed, arrested or indicted. The handcuffs are a symbol of authoritarianism, injustice, intimidation, and government abuse. Nothing more.

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New in PN: “Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party” — @mcopelov.bsky.social unpacks his signature phrase "When the right-wing party becomes a far-right party, that’s a recipe for our system being taken over."

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#Auspol It's a shakedown and they expect everyone to buy from the US Defence Industries.

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Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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ICE agents concealing their faces: Can they really do that?

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If only we had warned folks before the election that the real plan wasn’t border security…it was mass deportation in the interior, federalizing the National Guard, ripping people out of homes, families, jobs, and schools. Oh wait…we did. This segment with the author of 2025 aired one year ago.

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Crickets from JD Vance. 🍿

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Has the mainstream media just been ignoring this for more than four years?? 👿👇🏼

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🎶 Our talented young kids, singing on the tram in Lviv — their voices turning an ordinary ride into something magical. Even in wartime, Ukraine sings. 💛💙

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In Public Notice today: “Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties.” This is very important Everyone should read this:

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𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐒𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐎𝐇𝐍 𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃𝐘: "𝐈𝐟 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞?"

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Mayor Karen Bass standing on business🔥 His name is Senator ALEX Padilla.

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❗️🇷🇺 Russia hit Kremenchuk with cluster munitions, aiming to cause maximum civilian harm. Strikes targeted energy facilities. Some submunitions, shaped like toys, pose a serious risk to children. Fragments with metal balls up to 10 cm wide were also found at the scene.

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🤯⬇️

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U.S. Congressman Don Bacon: "There’s one big problem: Ukrainians refuse to be part of Russia. Stalin murdered approx 4 million Ukrainians in the 1930s and that is just one of many chapters. Ukraine wants democracy, free markets, rule of law and to be a part of the West. They want no part of Russia"

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Today we made history. Countries have come together & agreed the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution that will provide the 🌍 with robust, independent science. Environmental multilateralism delivering again, #ForPeopleForPlanet. www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

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