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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Oh yes it is

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“Promising to reduce the size of the public service is a cheap political stunt.” New research shows that sacking public servants actually costs the country a fortune, as public jobs are replaced by consultants, contractors and labour hire workers. New research from @futurework.org.au #auspol

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"AI for sustainability is mostly speculative. We already have the tools we need to solve for climate change" "I helped create a mythology of AI as a force for good. It's based on magical thinking: it's distracting from the very real harms that are happening today"

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An explosive new report from Australia’s independent Climate Change Authority reveals the Federal Coalition’s nuclear scheme would see climate pollution blow out for more than 20 years, leading to up to 2 billion tonnes of additional climate pollution by 2050. #auspol #DuttontheDud #Renewables

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Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Here's @instanterudite.bsky.social. 'Dutton’s dangerous dance: decrying one form of racism while stoking all the others'

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You guys know I am a passionate Odesza fan. They have collaborated with the producers of Severance to create a musical and visual experience leveraging the theme and mood of the show. It's amazing. #Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+ youtu.be/JRnDYB28bL8?...

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"The Japanese Ambassador here in Australia said, ‘Japan needs Australian gas for keeping the neon lights of Tokyo,’ but it's not true." - Dr Yuki Tanabe at the Australia Institute's Climate Integrity Summit 2025

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"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking lifesaving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Big Gas is taking the piss. Help us spread the word, and share this. 👇 90% of WA’s gas is exported. Big Gas takes 73% the gas for free. To add insult to injury, these gas exporters have never paid resources tax. Add your name to make them pay their fair share: theaus.in/collect_gas_... #auspol

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Demand the gas industry pays royalties! Add your name demanding the gas industry pays its fair share. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_...

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As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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For eight decades, alliances have formed the bedrock of American foreign, trade and cultural policy. But not any more. Europeans, but also America's Asian allies, need to accept this new world, and learn how to live in it. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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If you're concerned by the USA under Trump, and the danger this presents, please consider reading & signing Adam Jacoby's petition urging our AUS Parliament to reconsider Australia's alliances, agreements and cooperation with the USA. 👇 #auspol #USPolitics www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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I took my 92yo father to see his doctor to help translate. The doctor was trying to explain to me how my dad should use an asthma inhaler with spacer. “Think of it like you’re using a bong” he suggested. I looked at him. He looked at me.

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"I can’t support Lachlan if he doesn’t change his stance on climate change,” Prue wrote. “He has now appointed the ghastly Tony Abbott to the Fox board, which I’m sure you know.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

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Gold @thejuicemedia.bsky.social 👏👏👏 youtu.be/JBqVVBUdW84?...

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Some great commentary from @amyremeikis.bsky.social "The Albanese government has walked away from (what it promised to do - my paraphrasing here), all to clear the decks ahead of an election where it will try to hold on to power. You have to ask – what for? To do what?" #auspol

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Don’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.

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The Albanese Govt has walked away from its nature positive laws, its superannuation changes, taking on big tech, & even the bare minimum of gambling advertising reforms, all to clear the decks ahead of an election where it will try to hold on to power You have to ask what for? To do what? #auspol

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On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.

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Went to the Melbourne one. Thousands of people. Do you think it will make any of those QLD conservatives feel one iota of sympathy?

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Thousands march at trans youth rallies opposing Queensland puberty blockers ban, organiser says

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Went to the Naarm Melbourne Protest Trans Youth National Day of Action today with our trans daughter. Empowering to see so many people there and hear some powerful messages from different speakers! Fuck the Queensland govt for endangering trans kids by denying them care!

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An #Anonymous message to the people of the United States and Trump. #3E (part 1)

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BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court. This is an attack on accountability and free speech, exposing people in the U.S. to punishments for helping ICC investigations on atrocities committed anywhere, including genocide and war crimes.

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

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Labor just voted with the Coalition to kill THEIR OWN Nature Positive reforms🤯 Enough crossbenchers voted to keep it alive in the Senate for Labor to have passed their long promised reform. Neither of the major parties will stand up for Nature 😥

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'The tragedy surfaced as an unforeseen opportunity for preening in the spotlight. He rebuffed a question about visiting the scene as though it was an affront. “You tell me the site,” he said. “What do you want me to do, go swimming?”'

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Anal warts lol

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In Australia, it's legal to lie in a political ad. In the next few months, we will endure another federal election campaign with unfiltered exposure to lies and disinformation, UNLESS the Government passes truth in political advertising laws, which 87% of Australians support. Let's get it done!

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Australian voters, Coles and Woolworths have joined forces with Kmart and Costco to publicly support the ARA's application to the Fair Work Commission to scrap overtime, evening and weekend penalty rates, and work breaks. If this goes through it will be used as a precedent everywhere. #AusVotes2025

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‘They’re excited by Trump’: Dutton’s inclusion strategy www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Costco, Microsoft, Apple and Pinterest are doubling down on DEI. Because diversity, equity and inclusion are good for business. #DEI www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/b...

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Yep, when you hear that mining is huge, remember they mean the profits are huge... The Hospitality industry pays more wages to Australians than does mining.

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a message for anyone who said we were "overreacting" about the results of the 2024 election youtube.com/shorts/bJKLz...

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JUST NOW: @aoc.bsky.social tells people to stick together and not underestimate what tech billionaires will do/suppress to “placate” Trump - pointing to the lack of coverage of Elon’s salute on major media outlets as an example. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFHHmP_...

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Australia is one of the biggest exporters of gas in the world. So why are our energy bills so high? "Our govts gave control of gas resources to a bunch of mainly foreign-owned gas corps & let them export as much as they want." @markogge.bsky.social explains how big gas is ripping us off. #auspol

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Just a reminder: the media will not save us. Most people working in the media think it is their job NOT to save us.

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well son, you have to understand that a lot of people really wanted to say slurs without repercussions

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was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

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Who the f*ck did Dutton think Pauline Hanson was talking about in 1996? Or his idol John Howard in the 1980s?

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Scoops w/ @mikeisaac.bsky.social and @sheeraf.bsky.social: -Zuck overhauled Meta’s hate speech policy in Nov after convos with Andreessen about progressives policing speech -Kaplan led the policy rewrite, championing the removal of language protecting trans people www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

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🚨 this week the coal industry launched a dirty campaign against the independents through an ‘astroturf’ group: ‘australians for progress’. using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.

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