Fran Yule

Fran Yule

@fjyule.bsky.social

Kind of surprised I'm 80 and still standing - born a natural socialist/humanitarian despite being surrounded by racists, zenophobes, misogynists, patriarchal laws and social norms. Never excelled or even conquered anything in particular but I've explored

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲
@amsickofpollies.bsky.social

Wow. Let’s hope this happens again!! Cos after the 20 or so years it’s gonna take the Dems to repair, restore, reverse the MAGA actions and policies, they’ll have 30 years to implement drastic long overdue changes. Starting with the Electoral College!! And universal healthcare!! I’m excited!!

Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

HIVE MIND -= I have one form of primary ID which some services don't want and not enough secondary forms - - never had a need for a drivers' licence. My passport expired yonks ago - I'm 81 and slowly but surely being locked out.

Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

A tough-on-crime government has defended banning an international human rights watchdog from its prisons and watch houses. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention planned to inspect Northern Territory correctional institutions this week.

Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

Thanks to Aukus we are now morphing into a US military outpost - won't be long before every state will have one or two US bases and it doesn't matter whether it's due to Labor's policies or Liberal - an inevitable outcome. We will lose what sovereignty we had or did we really ever have it anyway?

Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

Don't like Marles but I dislike the thought of more "significant" US military bases in Australia. I keep wondering how many Aussies would welcome this "closer tie" bullshit and I realise the anti-US population in Australia is very small.

abc.net.auLive: Australia to host 'significant' US military assets at bases after AUSMIN talksDefence Minister Richard Marles says the US will pre-position "significant" American assets at several Australian bases, including Osprey aircraft. Follow live.
Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

When my sister, brother and self were sexually violated way back as little children, pedophiles were described as "dirty old men" - and there was no avenue open for kids to talk about it - at least now it's finally being addressed publicly

abc.net.auBreaking: Paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith could have been 'detected and disrupted earlier'The Queensland government in January ordered a review into how one of the country's most notorious paedophiles was able to offend for so long.
Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

Hegseth ordered all 11 people to be killed on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean because they were on a military target list, sources have reportedly claimed. QUESTION - how did the US actually ID the 11 narco terrorists? What kind of equipment did they use to be so definite?

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Collin Fisher 🇺🇦
@collinfisherphd.bsky.social

BTW, support for NATO in the US is at its highest in years.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Basically it looks like weakening democracy by supporting nationalist parties across Europe, and trashing NATO - this is Putin's dream wishlist The US under Trump is tearing apart the global rules based order I prefer closer ties with the EU than with the US under Trump

Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

Netanyahu said Israel expects to move "very shortly" to the second stage of the Gaza cease-fire. Speaking alongside German Chancellor Merz, Netanyahu rejected calls for a Palestinian state, saying its purpose would be to destroy Israel.

Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

Australia news live: Bragg says ‘every back yard’ could fit a new house or granny flat as he ties Liberal party’s future to housing Not all solutions are simple. Larger sections could fit a compact unit. However, that creates ghettos which, in turn, cause crime and environmental disasters.

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Mr. Elias
@theeliasrework.bsky.social

Keep posting it....Republicans deserve to lose all their seats in Congress. Matthew 23:27-28 (Jesus says): "Woe to you, teachers of the law ...., you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean".

Fran Yule
@fjyule.bsky.social

This morning one media headline assured me that Trump's Maga support was crumbling This afternoon a different media headline told me Trump's Maga support is rapidly growing I fully expect that by midnight Trump's support will be midway and nobody will care

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑@50501movement.bsky.social

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

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Paul Eric
@pauleric70.bsky.social

An icon and and a legend🔥 -Helen Thomas Her career came to an abrupt end in May 2010, after a rabbi with a video camera asked her about Israel outside the White House. Thomas said Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to places like Poland, Germany and the U.S.

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Mark Hamill
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

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Paul Eric
@pauleric70.bsky.social

The Hermitage ⚜️💙⚜️the Peacock Clock is one of the most extraordinary surviving 18th‑century automata. Created in the late 1770s by James Cox, it was bought by Prince Grigory Potemkin for Catherine the Great, shipped to Russia in pieces, and reassembled there.

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Paul Eric
@pauleric70.bsky.social

An Irish restaurant owner dragged an Israeli soldier who came to his workplace out by the collar. "You are not welcome in Ireland, f**k off from this country."