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picketer.bsky.social
Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.
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Different sets of serious criminal charges in three jurisdictions before you are 30. Could happen to any tertiary educated white bloke In Australia.

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The deal China did in the last month with the Cook Islands (where the people are NZ citizens) seems much more important than a minor naval exercise but watch people chase the bouncing ball about "live fire."

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The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

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This headline for a policy that costs $8.5bn over 4 years, of a budget that by 2027-28 is expected to have total spending in a year of $826 billion.

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Did anyone get him in the sweep?

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Shawn Fain, UAW President: “Trump is president because we have candidates in this party who can’t decide who the fuck they want to represent.” Democrats need a real leader of working people setting the agenda for the entire Party. A change is coming...and I am here for it!

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when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

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Latin Fiesta is on in Fitzroy and saw a stall crew getting out of a car in matching very new red and gold T's that said "Spanish Gözleme" on them. Full marks.

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What if 2 million civil servants emailed Musk back with “I read Grimes’ tweet. You better call her. Your kid is sick.”

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A short but very powerful book. (Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism, 2nd Ed, 2024)

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Slope so bad the umpire has to stand at point? Square leg on the boundary has a nice view from that height though.

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[Vatican City] Me: [chanting] conclave, conclave- Catholics: conclave, CONCLAVE Giovanni Battista Re: [pounding his clipboard] CONCLAVE, CONCLAVE, CONCLAVE!

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Cromwell, Saint-Just, Lenin. Not liberals.

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As we head into the election, reminder that just because you think a particular bit of campaign creative (vid, audio, meme, whatever) sucks, or even if you viscerally hate it, that it may not be bad" or 'ineffective. More likely is it just wasn't done for you.

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This was a great discussion.

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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They wont oppose it during an election campaign but if they form gov they wont implement it either. Dont listen to anyone who fails to point this out.

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Thirsty Bernard thinks building suburban heavy rail is the same as building nuclear power stations, he is very smart.

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The modern Butsudan.

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A volksgemeinschaft and a state embodied by one man with a project to restore national greatness you say? Interesting.

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The thing about swastikas spray painted on the side of a cybertruck is there’s a 50/50 chance the owner did it.

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Going to start doing RETVRN posting for basic government functioning. Going “this is what they took from you” and it’s a childhood vaccine schedule and pasteurized milk without any manure in it.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Pie and sauce for example.

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how does humour convey health update?

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

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ABC News says Australia playing England in "Pakistan's capital Lahore." Righto then............ #championstrophy

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I just gagged reading this. "In November 2024, when their son was just two months old, Musk texted St Clair, “I want to knock you up again.” Just a few weeks ago, in early February, Musk told St Clair that the two “have a legion of kids to make.” www.usermag.co/p/scoop-ashl...

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Reading.

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