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Posts by Merryl Bartley

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National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

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Andy Borowitz (@borowitzreport) Accurate

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Always enjoy centrists believing despite it all we can’t do anything to hurt our alliance with the USA, as if it is actually in our interests to be a US marine and sub base, as if that is a cheap form of our defence, as if that makes us safer.

It stopped being 1942 a long time ago.

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How to Tell a Policy from a Slogan - and Why the Difference Could Cost You Everything BYV: For every Australian who suspects they’re not getting the full story.

"A policy gives you something to check. A slogan gives you something to feel. Propaganda gives you something to fear." open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

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The Seduction of Simple Answers Why the LNG profit theory of war collapses under the weight of reality

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This is a total misrepresentation of the conversation! 🙄 She's using that as a example of how there was no consistency nationally.

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Tim Dunlop (@tdunlop) And now we have the South Australian election as a data point

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3 Books That Explain a War the Government Spent $90 Billion Failing to Predict and I Predicted for Free The enemy. The board. The blast radius. If you read all three you will know more about this war than the people running it. Twenty minutes. Every minute will make you money.

3 Books That Explain a War the Government Spent $90 Billion Failing to Predict and I Predicted for Free
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Pete Hegseth’s Private Search History TBR Sunday Read

Pete Hegseth’s Private Search History
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Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.

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One Rule for Some. Another for the Rest of Us. One teenager. Fifteen police officers. Six words on a singlet. And the architects of Robodebt still walking free. How did we get here - and what do we do about it?

One Rule for Some. Another for the Rest of Us.
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#auspol #NACC
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WHAT IF IT'S A BIG HOAX AND
We CReATe A BeTTeR
WORLD FOR NOTHING?
• ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
• PRESERVE RAINFORESTS
• SUSTAINABILITY
• GREEN JOBS
• LIVABLE CITIES
• RENEWABLES
• CLEAN WATER, AIR
• HEALTHY CHILDREN
• етс. етс.

WHAT IF IT'S A BIG HOAX AND We CReATe A BeTTeR WORLD FOR NOTHING? • ENERGY INDEPENDENCE • PRESERVE RAINFORESTS • SUSTAINABILITY • GREEN JOBS • LIVABLE CITIES • RENEWABLES • CLEAN WATER, AIR • HEALTHY CHILDREN • етс. етс.

About time for this to get another run I reckon.

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I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

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Hold the presses!
𝑩𝑨𝑩𝑬𝑻 𝑻𝑾𝑬𝑬𝑻𝑺 𝑺𝑶𝑴𝑬𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑻 𝑰𝑺𝑵'𝑻 𝑩𝑨𝑻-𝑺𝑯*𝑻 𝑪𝑹𝑨𝒁𝒀!!! ⤵️

Mark this moment, everyone. It may never happen again ...
#auspol

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Antoun Issa (@antounissa) Not a day seems to pass where we're not all caught up in some social media rage. One day it's Epstein, another it's Pauline, today it's Albo’s dig at Grace Tame - we are stuck in an endless cycle of r...

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Tim Wilson Wants to Talk About Respect. But First, a Few Questions. Reputation laundering, borrowed credibility, and the psychology of the charm offensive - what Tim Wilson's community forum really tells us about how he operates.

Tim Wilson Wants to Talk About Respect. But First, a Few Questions.
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This Graph Exposes Our Rigged System
This Graph Exposes Our Rigged System What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess

Do you know how much the typical worker would be making today if their wages had grown as much as CEO pay?

This graph holds the shocking answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

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The Albanese lullaby Naming and resisting the anti-democratic effects of the prime minister's calls for "social cohesion" and "lowering the temperature"

The Albanese lullaby
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How Party Preselection Controls Parliament By Denis Hay   Description Party preselection controls Parliament by deciding candidates long before voters cast a ballot. Introduction: The hidden election before Election Day Most Australians believ...

The hidden election before Election Day.

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There's a reason you feel unwanted Poorleen....

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“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus …
Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

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Jesse Jackson was a champion for civil rights, economic justice, and world peace.

I have always remembered his moving call for moral clarity at the 1988 DNC.

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A man is standing on ladder at the top of a large barrel looking down into it holding a stick
He says to the man holding the ladder ‘All I can see is Ted, Jacinta and Tim’
The other man says ‘Scrape Harder!’
The man replies ‘I have!’

A man is standing on ladder at the top of a large barrel looking down into it holding a stick He says to the man holding the ladder ‘All I can see is Ted, Jacinta and Tim’ The other man says ‘Scrape Harder!’ The man replies ‘I have!’

Barrel Scraping
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

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Taylor snares himself in Dutton's migration trap — because without migrants, we're f***ed Angus Taylor faces the same problem as Peter Dutton on migration: you can scare voters about who's coming in, but what about demands to cut migration altogether?

Great explanation of the effects of demonising immigration
Taylor snares himself in Dutton’s migration trap — because without migrants, we’re f***ed www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/16/a...

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Olympics Update: Trump Wins Gold in Downhill Presidency “Obama never won this," he boasted.

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