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Australia wants to offer Trump ‘deal he can’t refuse’ after US slaps Australia with tariffs byteseu.com/835895/ #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #World #WorldNews


the threat of a marginal electorate gets shit done - community has begged for over a decade for a pool, now we get one when there’s a high chance the incumbents might lose their comfy electorate, they’re so transparent it’s pathetic (but I’ll take it)


With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)

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Milwaukee mother deported to Laos, a country she has never been to, where she doesn't know anyone and doesn't speak the language (Katie Hawkinson/The Independent)

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In the #littlefreelibrary ! Exploring all the diverse ways that children journey to school across the globe, this book celebrates the universal joy of childhood, friendship, and learning. A wonderful starting point for discussions about other cultures and lifestyles ! #gifted by @pubspotlight.bsky.social & #newfrontierpublishing #kidlit #booksky #books #bookstodon @bookstodon @kidlit

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Milwaukee mother deported to Laos, a country she has never been to, where she doesn’t know anyone and doesn’t speak the language byteseu.com/835889/ #America #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USPolitics #USA #USAPolitics



Hold


Hold on to the light
the Moon reflects
upon your heart,
though, it may burn
with so gentle, fierce
intensity.
It is the light
of desires, tracing
a path, through a void
where stars hide,
extinguished
by an endless,
deepening night.

Hold on to the light
the Sun sheds,
burning, into
your discouragement.
It is the cleansing,
the fire of dreams
unattained, but,
which will not die.
These wait,
through endless cycles, of
unending, remade lives,
for you to find
the path, past every
snare, mistake, or
problem, until
you spiral into your
waiting, destined place,
beyond the stars,
where the universe
dreams your victory.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

#SJAshcroftsPoems #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #MyWordsMyWork




Sure, it's all prediction, but even if it's off by a big chunk, the underlying issue - withholding aid = death among those who once received it - means you created the conditions for many deaths.
Cause & effect America. Here, correlation & causation align.
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Right now it feels impossible to get anything done, but we all have to. So I wrote about how I’m trying to break my doom spiral by doing one thing: dansinker.com/posts/2025-03-16…


Fetterman and Newsom should be driving the stake into the MAGA movement's heart, capitalizing on every failure, every fraction, every fraud, and every ignominious disgrace. Instead, they're acting like it's 2016, and Trumpism is some fresh new force they need to accommodate rather than an exhausted grift circling the drain.
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Trump is a renowned golf cheat, at his and other courses.

He probably ended up playing with himself to win the trophy
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump

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During Franco dictactorship in Spain, he used to go "fishing". Always catching the biggest fish in the River and a photo to prove it. Then It was known that those fishes were, in fact, dead already and hanged in the hook for the picture. Dictators like to show off like the losers they really are



Fire revival

It's a late winter afternoon in the spinifex grasslands of the Great Sandy Desert. Pintupi Elder Mantua Nangala holds a firestick and presses it against a clump of dry grass.

The fire catches.

The patch is overtaken by flames, crackling as it burns.

Nearby, young family members watch on.

After European colonisation, desert people gradually left their nomadic lifestyles, and traditional burning practices lapsed.

Many people later returned to Country and resumed burning. Now, Elders are teaching the younger generations how to use fire to regenerate bush foods for both people and animals.

Our new research shows how reinvigorating these practices could help conserve the bilby – an important, culturally significant species threatened with extinction.




"We are living through a period of protracted awfulness, and the end is not coming anytime soon. Those in power would like nothing more than to keep you exhausted and impotent, incapable of getting anything done (especially the things that will undermine their power). So do one thing."

great read from @dansinker

dansinker.com/posts/2025-03-16…

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I think that’s why the #TeslaTakedown has grabbed so much attention

It’s a thing people can do themselves and see a result

Doesn’t rely on influencing sellout corporate politicians

And the idea of attacking the wealth of a billionaire is gratifying




Events for the 17th of March from Wikipedia:

• 1985: Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_…
• Birth (1888) of Paul Ramadier, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1961) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ram…
#history #events #historical #today @histodons

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