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Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens said on social media that she has moved her May concert – originally scheduled for the Kennedy Center – to a different venue in Washington, D.C.

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The GOP passed a budget resolution tonight that will gut Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital programs — as 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Why? To finance more tax cuts for the top 1%. We have socialism in this country for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

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The headline that 21 DOGE staffers have resigned is a little misleading. These were employees of the United States Digital Service, which existed pre-administration and was absorbed into Musk’s team. These aren’t the young idiots; these are actual civil servants.

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Is he letting Trump attend?

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Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Threatening to sack someone because you don't like their advice is very "Trumpian" of the Coalition. #auspol

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In all, Dutton has purchased $12,040,450 worth of property & sold $18,819,500 worth of property & businesses, either jointly or by himself..' He 'has long been a critic of changes to family trusts, negative gearing or capital gains rules that can favour property investors..' #auspol

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The reason the Right has gone nuts is climate change. It will take collective action to prevent a catastrophe. They are philosophically opposed to collectives. They either change their philosophy or deny reality. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Net zero. My @smh cartoon.

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Frightening … And guess what, y’all will be next. (PS .. I believe that is the correct US DOGE English.) #auspol

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You first.

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There is, of course, no "other perspective" on genocide per se, and the ABC's language here is concerningly sloppy, betraying the same unconscious bias that the Lattouf hearing graphically exposed.

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Well, well well … #auspol

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Yet another inquiry finds nuclear is not right for Australia. 🚫☢️ #auspol www.acf.org.au/federal-inqu...

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Extraordinary evidence from ASIO that they still haven't listed the National Socialist Network as a terror network despite their proclaimed Nazi ideology and threats against police and judges. These guys are so bad even twitter banned them!

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Fucking what???

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White's assessment is blunt: "The sooner we cut our losses and get out of AUKUS the better, and if the Trump administration's scepticism offers a chance to do so, we should grab it." #CancelAUKUS #AusPol

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This is how you do it too.

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AUKUS risks are mounting. Australia should prepare to build French nuclear attack submarines (SSNs) 🇫🇷. Australia should begin planning to acquire at least 12 French-designed Suffren submarines. The current AUKUS plan for eight nuclear attack submarines (SSNs) has always been flawed. The French

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Bruce Lehrmann must be peeved that he isn’t a US citizen. With a rap sheet like that he probably would have been in the running for US Attorney General

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"My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA," Friedrich Merz Via BBC News Australia needs to do the same. Are you paying attention @australianlabor.bsky.social? #CancelAUKUS #AusPol

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I’d like to think of myself as a peaceful person but sometimes you just need to fight. And fight hard. 🙃🤞🦋

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Pay attention, America.

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Keep up the momentum!! #secularhumanism #auspol

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

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Rest In Peace Roberta Flack

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This is some of the craziest shit an American politician has ever said.

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This man is a galactic moron.

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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

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This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

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