YankAussie

YankAussie

@yankaussie.bsky.social

American living in Australia, Woke AF, news junkie, ally 🌈, pro-choice💗, supporter of human rights, Celiac, nature lover, who likes funny cat/dog videos and people who don’t suck. 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌊🗳️✊🏾🌏

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As an American & Australian dual citizen, who has now lived in Australia as long as I lived in America, I feel well qualified to understand the cultural differences between the two countries. 🇦🇺🇺🇸1/6

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America’s inflated sense of worth & dominance has created a harsher cultural identity. It seems crueler to me now. America first! - dispite the global consequences of its actions. America is the BEST! - despite other countries leading in areas of health, education, public safety & quality of life.

I feel very lucky to be an American living in Australia. I wish America could adopt a bit more Australian humility and gratefulness. That really would help Make America Great Again. 🇦🇺🇺🇸

As an American & Australian dual citizen, who has now lived in Australia as long as I lived in America, I feel well qualified to understand the cultural differences between the two countries. 🇦🇺🇺🇸1/6

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When I moved to Australia, Australians immediately welcomed me to the ‘lucky country’. The sense that we are all very lucky to live in such a beautiful, safe and well functioning country is ingrained in Australia’s cultural identity.

There is a real gratefulness and appreciation of what Australia offers to those who live here. Looking at the two ways of being, I now believe the Australian way of acknowledging and appreciating how ‘lucky’ we are to live in Australia has created a kinder society, where gratitude is at its core.

As an American & Australian dual citizen, who has now lived in Australia as long as I lived in America, I feel well qualified to understand the cultural differences between the two countries. 🇦🇺🇺🇸1/6

Being raised in America I was always told that America was the BEST country in the world! That we were bigger, stronger and smarter than all the others. America has a boastful arrogance ingrained in the culture identity.

Keep them safe Australia.

CNN@cnn.com

Five members of the Iranian women's soccer team have applied for asylum in Australia, where they have been playing in the Women's Asian Cup. https://cnn.it/4rZKULE

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So for all you “leave NATO” dummies out there, wanna explain how we defend ourselves without them? Britain, France, Germany, the GCC (Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman) are currently knocking down Iranian missiles and drones. And this is just Iran. Not a peer.

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NEWSMAX: Do you think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself? REP. NANCY MACE: No, absolutely not. I think he was murdered. I don't know if it was an intel agency or what it is. The data from the videos cameras was erased.

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BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office as part of the Epstein files investigation, per the BBC. The probe centers on allegations he shared confidential material with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as trade envoy.

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Any political party spreading lies about voter fraud as a pretext to make it harder for every one to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone. Remember this.

Now adding sunspots solar flares to my list of worries.

Peter Head@peterheadcbe.bsky.social

“A few days ago, sunspot 4366 didn't exist. Now it is a behemoth almost half the size of the great Carrington sunspot. Rapid growth is making the sunspot unstable. It has unleashed dozens of solar flares in past 24 hours, including a powerful X8-class flare” www.spaceweather.com

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The arrest of Don Lemon is textbook fascism—a brazen attempt to silence reporting on a criminal regime. Stand up for Don, because our rights stand and fall with those of courageous journalists throughout this country.

ICE: Your raise your voice, I will erase your voice.

MinnMax@minnmax.com

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

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Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

For profit detention centers and daily quotas for ICE, creates a system that needs be be fed bodies. They will grab the easiest ones to ensure they make their numbers. Horrifying consequences of a rogue system anointed by Trump, MAGA and Project 2025. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.comA teen with no criminal background was deported by ICE, leaving his community aghastEmerson Colindres’ coach says his case is an example of how those getting taken by ICE “are your friends and neighbors … and then one day they're just gone.”

Putin needs Iran to stay relevant in the Middle East and the Saudi’s want Iran taken out. Both Putin and the Saudi’s own Trump in different ways - Trump’s pimping himself to the highest bidder will not end well with these close associates. 1/2

Trump has negotiated himself into a very tricky corner. (Side note - Since Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard are both bankrolled by Putin, it now makes sense that they are actively pushing back on America getting involved in the war with Iran) 2/2

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substack.com/home/post/p-... I won't say this is true, I have zero way of knowing. But if any of it is true the 2024 election has to ripped apart and investigated. Please read this and think it through. The 7 swing states going the way they did and the 7:00 PM call of the election was stunning!

substack.comShe Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

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"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

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We have a president who virtually never thinks rationally, logically, or even in sequential steps. Nor can he fully comprehend causes and effects. His base of knowledge on virtually all subjects relating to governance and economics and world affairs is minimal. (1/2)

Making Smog Great Again!

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

What?!?! The EPA has drafted a plan to eliminate all pollution controls from coal and gas-fired power plants. The agency claims these plants “do not contribute significantly” to dangerous pollution or climate change, arguing their emissions are a small and declining share of global totals.

The key is: Mandatory voting, with preferential choices and a completely independent electoral commission overseeing the process to ensure a free & fair result that truely reflects the will of the people. 🪡 2/3

The result in Australia is exactly why US Republicans want to disenfranchise voters and make it as difficult as possible for people to cast their vote. Australia has a true democracy despite Murdoch’s best efforts. 3/3