Former education union official, industry super fund chair, history/economics teacher. Labor/trade union,China, Indonesia. Retweets not necessarily endorsement
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R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes retweeted
🚨 « CE N’EST PAS UNE COMPÉTITION ÉQUITABLE. » 😤
Mehdi Taremi 🇮🇷 et ses coéquipiers iraniens se disent ÉPUISÉS des voyages, des entrainements et des contrôles d’immigration et de transit qui DURENT 5 HEURES. 😩
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RT @rusembassynl: Moscow’s patience is being deliberately tested. The idea of a Dutch camp for Russian prisoners of war brings escalation t…
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BREAKING: TRUMP CALLS OUT ISRAEL FOR TARGETING CIVILIANS IN LEBANON:
“You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you are looking for somebody.
There are a lot of people in those houses, and they are not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you.”
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'Britain arrests more people for what they post online than China, Russia, Belarus and Germany'
Today Sir Keir Starmer announced a full ban on under-16s using the major social media platforms. It will be sold to you as protecting children. Read the mechanism, and you find something else entirely.
You cannot stop one child from logging in to Instagram without establishing the age of every adult logging in. And you cannot check everyone's age without forcing every pensioner, every worker, every student to prove who they are. "Child safety" is the cheese in the mousetrap. The child is the shield. The adult is the target.
We have seen this exact identity layer before. Last September Starmer announced the BritCard, a digital ID he wanted made mandatory for the right to work. 2.7 million of us signed against it, the polling collapsed, and the government retreated. But notice what was never withdrawn: the plumbing. The GOV. One Login, the digital wallet, the whole identity scaffold, quietly kept building while our attention was allowed to wander. Now a policy arrives that cannot function without it.
This is not speculation. Phase 2 of the Online Safety Act already runs more than five million age checks a day, most of them on adults reaching for perfectly legal content. One age-verification contractor was breached and roughly 70,000 government identity documents walked out of the door. And Britain already arrests more people for what they post online than China, Russia, Belarus or Germany.
If the government were serious about children it would ban the smartphone in the school: cheap, targeted, proven. It refused, and voted the measure down. It chose instead the path that verifies the entire adult population. Ask yourself why.
The Ministry of Truth does not arrive shouting censorship. It arrives smiling, with safeguarding legislation. Papers please…
Read more... 👇
labourheartlands.com/starmer…
#DigitalID #OnlineSafety #socialmediaban #STARMER
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Team Trump meets.
The G7 leaders plus von der Leyen and Zelensky.
Imagine it
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🇩🇪🇺🇸 Germany's Chancellor Merz, presented Trump with a German national team jersey bearing the number 47 for his 80th birthday
"After all, we're on the same team" — Merz
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R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes retweeted
Could the 2026 Victorian election mark the beginning of the end of Australia's century-old two-party system? One Nation is now leading or tied in most national polls. Leadership whispers are growing. But is this bigger than one premier — or even one party?
On this week's Curtin's Cast, @Dyrenfurth and @KosSamaras unpack:
🔥 Why replacing leaders won't stop deeper political forces
📊 What Redbridge modelling reveals about Labor & Coalition heartland seats
🗳️ Why One Nation's rise threatens BOTH major parties
💥 Why moral denunciation alone won't reconnect voters
🚨 If Victoria sees a One Nation breakthrough, nowhere in Australia is immune.
🎧 Check out Episode 61 now via Apple, Spotify and Youtube:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes retweeted
"Kiss Me"!
What a wonderful gift - to give your BF millions of taxpayer dollars 💰for fictitious work on the fictitious AUKUS. I'm thinking it's time we scrutinised personal relationships in politics. Hello!
@AlboMP & Christopher Pyne
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Zelensky at the G7.
They take him with them, everywhere, as if they can't bear to be apart for more than a day or so....
Same standing ovation and hugs as the years roll by.
It's a cult
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Everyone’s second favourite football team is becoming the symbol of global resistance in a tournament politically honed like a sharp weapon for Trumps agenda.
🚨 MEXICANOS DESPIDEN A LOS HÉROES IRANÍES EN TIJUANA Y LES DESEAN SUERTE EN MUNDIAL
Un honor estar en el lado correcto de la historia...
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R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes retweeted
What on EARTH! The Iranian ambassador was dismissed based on allegations from Mossad, over a singed synagogue door and a trashed cafe. We are talking here of Australian citizens being sexually abused and RAPED.
Why hasn't the Israeli ambassador already on his way back to Tel Aviv
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Diplomatic relations:
Australia will rely on Trump’s Truth Social musings for updates
Ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, and heads of foreign and international missions in Tehran meet with Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister.
Follow: T.me/presstv
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Anne Read: "of course I do not class myself as a terrorist. I accept that I am classed as one by a govt that supports terrorist regimes"
Trudi Warner: "One of the tricks that authoritarian govts play is to label opponents.. as terrorists"
Both women were arrested yesterday.
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For the pro censorship crowd banning the whole Western political leadership, Murdoch journalists and influencers from social media would decisively reduce lies, disinformation and facile slogans pitched at those not paying much attention.Outside of the U.S. most aren’t boomers
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It would be *much* more socially transformative to ban social media for over-65s
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"Sorry, you can't play in the World Cup because Mark was crap at geography at school."
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Shouldn't one of the requirements for a country to qualify to play in the World Cup that it be a country that people have heard of?
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R.Shearman. staying put for the vibes retweeted
70,000 Hearts Beat for One Country: Iranian Fans Unite in Historic Stadium Moment
The Iranian national team’s head coach hailed the stadium atmosphere as a historic turning point, as 70,000 fans set aside their differences to passionately support their country.
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Marles haunts the corridors of the Pentagon
Wong is best mates with Rubio
Kevin 07. Hockey and Greg Norman were everywhere
DFAT’s ‘Mr Inside’ in Washington has billed Australia $170,000 — and declared only three lobbying activities via @crikey_news crikey.com.au/2026/06/16/dfa…
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Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape, beatings at hands of Israeli forces theage.com.au/politics/feder…
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Shocking loss of sovereignty. And we are paying them to do it!
"As to the question of what the boats are for, the only credible answer is for them to play the role which the United States manifestly wants them to play."
- Former Foreign Affairs Minister Gareth Evans at the public inquiry into AUKUS.
#auspol
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