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ruthcallaghan.bsky.social
Australian who talks, writes & thinks (and sometimes gets paid for the privilege). Delighted by shiny things, travel, family and cryptic crosswords.
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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 7 hours ago • 214 comments

Sorry, what exactly about the Russia Hoax was the hoax? Because it looks pretty spot on right now. I’m sure all those clever opinion writers who pooh-poohed it could explain it to me.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What’s that? Australian arms of US tech giants only celebrate diversity when it’s good for their bottom line then drop it at the first political heat? And hope no one will remember? I’m certain that won’t backfire at all. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 3 days ago • 389 comments

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

You don’t sound wise and pragmatic when you refuse to take the words of a despot seriously and downplay his threats. You sound ignorant of history and as credulous as the rest of his marks.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 4 days ago • 628 comments

Who would have thought that ‘Canschluss’ would not be a winner north of the border 🤷‍♀️

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

submitted 5 days ago • 2642 comments

The radical left. Allegedly so organised and powerful they could force people to rename their lunch container. This nonsense is frankly embarrassing.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Yes, Bluesky, I give you ‘leopards would eat my face face’ gospel. Wait for it. And enjoy. vt.tiktok.com/ZSMFsXHGY/

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

beginning to think “may you live in interesting times” is the single most devastating curse in the history of humanity

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

submitted 12 days ago • 123 comments

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

submitted 13 days ago • 486 comments

“Lied”. They lied.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, Musk, and Vought turn their attention to the FAA: 'The boys throw stones at frogs in jest. The frogs die in earnest.' fallows.substack.com/p/this-is-se... By me.

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

👇👇

submitted 15 days ago • 1265 comments

Would be interested to know how Australia’s new mandatory jail term for hate symbols would treat the swasticar stickers. There is already an offence in some states against displaying a flag with swastika, but do legal minds have a view on how the laws wd treat pejorative use of the symbol?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Me too... mango strawberry blueberry parfait. Me too.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

#TheNightmareStartedWhen a weasel got loose.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

I remain mystified about what is going on in #TheArchers and my strategy of only reading skeets is not helping. 🤷‍♀️

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Maybe the real trade war was the reputational damage we pointlessly self-inflicted along the way?

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

And in “I’m not as crazy as I thought and that is somehow not great news news” it turns out my crippling anxiety was mostly just intuition and that intuition was pretty spot on

submitted 19 days ago • 61 comments

Of course I’m awake and on my phone. This doom won’t scroll itself, you know.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

okay but you aren’t again, you could be shutting down all senate business by denying every single unanimous consent request, you could be down at Treasury with cameras, you could be doing something other than issuing strongly worded statements your actions have to match what’s happening

submitted 20 days ago • 52 comments

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus. - TURKISH PROVERB

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Can't spell tariffs without FFS

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

There is no such fucking thing as being “too woman” to pilot a helicopter, “too gay” to land a plane or “too black” to be an air traffic controller. There is however, such a thing as being too hateful, too stupid & too sociopathic to be president. And we call that Donald Trump.

submitted 21 days ago • 547 comments

I don’t wanna alarm everybody but I’m like 95% sure February is next

submitted 22 days ago • 41 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 22 days ago • 3628 comments

I almost shudder to ask but is there any post-leopard feast introspection going on at all among voters now getting the raw end of the mango’s laws?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

submitted 23 days ago • 1312 comments