Michael Bollen

Michael Bollen

@pmbollen.bsky.social

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The Australia Institute
@australiainstitute.org.au

Turns out "The Cloud" is a big, noisy, environmentally damaging shed, that no one wants anywhere near them. In the latest episode of “What’s the Point?” co-CEO Richard Denniss explores the inconvenient truths about where our data is going. #auspol

Michael Bollen
@pmbollen.bsky.social

Trump promised $5,000 stimulus checks from DOGE cuts. You got 0. Trump promised $2,000 stimulus checks from tariffs. You got 0. Trump promised $1,000 checks from Obamacare cuts. You got 0. Trump promised $1.98 gas. You got $4+. Trump now has more promises for you.

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D.Moore
@d-moore.bsky.social

“It is a very serious thing to allege. If it is true, the government should be in emergency session in COBR right now considering their response to the most serious Russian intervention in internal British affairs for years.” Labour. Call the COBR meeting 🍿 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comNigel Farage’s Russian hack claim ‘without any merit’, former NCSC chief saysCiaran Martin says Reform UK leader’s allegation over Guardian report on £5m gift ‘entirely unsubstantiated’

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Mr. Spock 🖖
@spockresists.bsky.social

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🧊 🎣

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Simon Marks
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social

Trump claims Iran is "afraid to say" they want to make a deal, as his approval ratings crater. My latest live update from Washington, for The Claire Byrne Show on Ireland’s Newstalk: 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/887913...

audioboom.comSimon Marks Reporting / March 26, 2026 - Trump claims Iran is "afraid to say" they want to make a deal, as his approval ratings craterUS President Donald Trump has insisted that Iran is taking part in peace talks as he continues to push back on Tehran’s denials of being at the negotiating table. Simon's live update for The Claire Byrne Show on Ireland's Newstalk.
Michael Bollen
@pmbollen.bsky.social

It begins to look like that Trump and his cronies are about to achieve with their adventure in Iran what 40 years of campaigning for green energy could not: demand for EVs, solar energy, heat-pumps, demand for pretty much everything electric, is soaring.

Michael Bollen
@pmbollen.bsky.social

Suggestions for Thanksgiving gaslighting your MAGA family: I’m more grateful for this Thanksgiving meal than last year’s because it cost so much more. I agree with RFK Jr.—polio’s not so bad. Pete Hegseth has made me feel so much better about my drinking.