Elizabeth Ashby

Elizabeth Ashby

@dibbasashy.bsky.social

Ecologist, owner of Labradors, Labor supporter, Tigers tragic. Hurtling through the autumn of my life with dodgy knees.

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"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

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🚨 UNICEF estimated in 2 years, on average, 28 kids a day have been KILLED in Gaza No reasonable person would dispute Israel's right to respond after Hamas's atrocities — BUT such large-scale KILLING of CIVILIANS by Israel was something Trump COULD HAVE STOPPED www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

abc.net.auTrump deserves credit for stopping the fighting, but his key claim is overblownIn the tragic arc of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Donald Trump may have closed the latest — and most violent — chapter.

Ugh. As if we need more evidence of Agent Orange's lack of empathy and humanity, but he keeps serving it up.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

VON DER LEYEN: “Thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children must be returned to their families.” TRUMP: *completely ignores her, congratulates himself on slapping tariffs on EU goods (raising prices on Americans)*

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Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

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Treasury Department files reviewed by Senator Ron Wyden’s staff members show 4,725 wire transfers, adding up to nearly $1.1 billion, associated with just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. Follow. The. Money.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet." https://trib.al/ZTn3IyO

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New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.  If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

Christ almighty.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Liberal Party gave more money to anti-Welcome to Country disinformation group “Advance” last financial year than Federal Government spent on the ceremonies over its entire term. Advance has been aggressively attacking the $450k Government spend… theklaxon.com.au/sa2o

theklaxon.com.auLiberals give “Advance” more than Gov’t spends on Welcome to Country - The KlaxonThe Liberal Party gave more money to “Advance” last financial year than the Federal Government has spent on Welcome to Country ceremonies over its entire three-year term.

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"I was going about my normal duties, happily dog whistling away as I represented the good folk of Dickson, whilst also being a part time property developer, when I, and my wife, accidently tripped and fell into a complicated Family Trust structure that we set up under a tent in the back garden."

How did America become so cruel?

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Love love love The Clash!

Punk Rock History@punkrockhistory.bsky.social

Released 43 years ago today "Know Your Rights", a single by the Clash from their album Combat Rock. The Clash-Know Your Rights Live !! US Festival 1983 #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #knowyourrights #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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As of now, Peter Dutton has not proposed any specific, concrete policies directly aimed at supporting the Stolen Generations. While he apologized in 2023 for boycotting the 2008 National Apology, his actions and policy proposals since then have generally focused on broader Indigenous affairs :

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Friends don’t try to get friends to bankrupt their family members who need medical care just to help their other really rich friends get even richer, Donald.

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

chronicle.comOpinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: ServilityIn 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

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