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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. 💛💙🌻♥️💚🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 Aussie 🦘 https://katecarruthers.com/
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JFC keir starmer is such a disappointment 🤦‍♀️🙄

I assume Iran is going to be retaliating with cyber & information attacks. Seems like their propaganda machine should be spinning. And AFAICT we have gutted state capacity to detect or fight an info war. Outside, X doesn’t seem to do shit w/bots anymore, & places like SIO were political casualties.

#Ukraine needs and deserves support against #Russia much more than #Israel against #Iran.

🧵Some analysts suggest the lesson other regimes will learn from the U.S./Israel-Iran war is that a nuclear arsenal is the best protection: Nobody messes with North Korea, after all. But if regimes look closely, they might draw other conclusions. 1/7

Briefing at the Pentagon, Hegseth says last night's airstrikes on Iran "took months of weeks of preparation." In case there was any remaining doubt that this has been in the cards.

Iranian parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz. Final decision needs approval from the National Security Council.

It’s all gone now. It was nice having it though.

“Israel & the United States, through aggressive policies & exaggerated narratives, have created a threat in the Middle East that did not previously exist” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250622-the-architects-of-instability-how-israel-and-the-us-ignited-the-middle-east-nuclear-crisis/

Please help these folks if you can. Things are so bad in Gaza now. 🙏

Min. Plibersek declined to call in Tamboran's #Beetaloo fracking plans to be assessed under the EPBC's expanded "water trigger" So @envirojustice.bsky.social lawyers will be in court 23 June to test whether Tamboran's Shenandoah South Pilot fracking proj should’ve been assessed livestream link👇

Javier Bardem went so hard on the genocide of Palestinians that the View had to cut to commercial break

Raf Epstein rips into “friends & colleagues” in the media for not asking “whether or not what Israel is doing is illegal” in Iran & “not even asking questions about what the intelligence is” Phil Coorey “I don’t think they care” Epstein “But that’s the problem!”💥 #ABCInsiders

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

It seems like a good time to post this. The late MP Tony Benns incredible speech against the war in Iraq. youtu.be/A7ciGW7h7PI?...

Please help these folks. Times are so hard in Gaza now. 🙏

The world is scary at the mo. So here a puppy I met yesterday. Her name is Bennet, for Elizabeth Bennet. She’s 10 weeks old, and this was her first walk outside. She played with some other older fluffy dogs who were very gentle with her.

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

Iran, USA, Israel, these are all interesting, of course, but don't forget…

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

"infectious disease specialists are warning the virus is "impossible to contain," given the current level of transmission. The province reported another 24 cases on Friday, including 14 in the north zone, nine in the south and one in the Edmonton zone." Mask up #yeg! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

right now bombing Iran is incredibly unpopular. i suspect the admin is betting this will inspire retaliatory terrorist attacks against Americans that will help to manufacture consent for further escalations.

Pretty sure Iran is basically going “you’re not the boss of me” rn #USpol

Marles is probably in his office right now using his pointer fingers as guns and going “pew pew”

Bye Tassie it’s been lovely 👋

The chapter of RFK’s most recent book - that he wrote to defend his belief that COVID was actually a weapon designed to target white people and spare certain groups like Jewish people - in which he talks about how he does not believe germs actually cause disease is called “The White Man’s Burden.”

Dr Assal Rad— "UNICEF Spox James Elder can barely hold back his tears: 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦? "Look at the ruined building behind him, he’s at Nasser hospital. You know, like the hospitals Israel doesn’t target."

Russia has over 1,950 strategic missiles, Ukraine’s military intelligence tells media https://www.europesays.com/2183548/ Russia’s weapons arsenal includes over 1,950 strategic missiles and thousands of drones, the news outlet RBC-Ukraine reported on…

Scott Morrison signed us up to a deal which has seen us give hundreds of millions of dollars for nothing so far, and to tie us to the country that has just kicked off a war. And now he works for a defense consulting company and is on TV telling us this is fine 👍

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Palestine was the test to see what they could do. Not standing in solidarity with Palestinians was not only a major moral and ethical failing it was a strategic mistake that everyone will pay for.

Viewer tips: If you're looking for Iran news on mainstream TV, BBC right now is SO much better than any of the US outlets. Dramatic, and should be studied in journalism world.

It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

This idea of building more housing in the CBD is more proof of the Minns and successive governments stubborn Sydney centric views. Stop spending loads of money on Sydney while giving cities like Newcastle zero funds! Helping places like Newcastle is the solution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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.

Gosh the ABC is really just recreating SkyNews and not very well. #AusPol

🤣 Slightly optimistic: Pakistan plans to nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx5yw8y28o

hearing netanyahu — a war criminal bombing nearby countries in violation of international law, presiding over an apartheid system, and overseeing a genocide in gaza — call iran the “world’s most dangerous regime” is going to make my head explode

Clearly nobody in the US government has seen the Princess Bride “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.” #usplan

Charming: Strait of Hormuz closure in event of US aggression against Iran to paralyze world economy |Press TV Iran https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/19/749997/strait-hormuz-closure-event-us-aggression-against-iran-paralyze-world-economy

I now read the US the same way I read the Russian regime, never believe them until they deny it. #USpol