Far Fletched 🏹🏹🏹🏹

Newspaper dinosaur. Bleeding heart leftie and union supporter. Whitlam admirer. Sports lover and 🐯 fan. On Dhauwurd Wurrung (Gunditjmara) land.

[Far Fletched 🏹🏹🏹🏹 @FletchPeter22]

Joining the Xodus. Hope to find some of you on other SM, starting with Threads. Also look me up on Insta (same user name).

[Far Fletched 🏹🏹🏹🏹 @FletchPeter22]

@aaronsmith Defamation case or racial vilification case?

[Far Fletched 🏹🏹🏹🏹 @FletchPeter22]

@JensonHarris121 🪃

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

If young men are being attracted to rotten figures like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, and Andrew Tate, it tells me that we, as a society, are failing them.

[Kira Kosarin @kirakosarin]

to the young boys who follow me:

Do not let these andrew tate, joe rogan alpha male dumbasses convince you that the way to respect, money, power, or joy is following their footsteps

It is impossible to scare or intimidate women into liking you

Be empathetic, be open, don't ever be afraid to be SOFT.

Not that it should be transactional, but show up for women and they will show up for you.

What the women in your life need is kindness, and what you need and deserve is a life full of love and connection.

Elon Musk redpill bullshit is not the way to get that, I promise you

[Adylady 🌹also on BlueSky -AdyLady99 @AdyLady9969]

@AlboMP Ridiculous. Try sorting out the REAL threats here. The power of media oligarchs. The concentration of media ownership in Australia. Murdoch and Stokes' impact and influence on our democracy. The lack of truth in media coverage!

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

"Safeguarding our own democracy from the kind of instability the US faces is critical."

"Australia has an extremely important role to play in advocating for the integrity of democratic institutions and the rule of law," writes @EmmaShortis.

[Australia Institute @TheAusInstitute]

So...how about that AUKUS deal?

Former PMs have slammed the deal as disastrous for Australia’s long-term interests, it is clear that Australia should end its conciliatory deference to the USA & instead begin advocating in our own national interest.

[Emma @emma__jayne14]

If you think contentious US political issues don’t spill over into Australia, tell me why we were already voting and arguing over abortion again in Queensland just weeks ago

[John Lyons @TheLyonsDen]

WASHINGTON: 3 US networks call Pennsylvania for Trump. Short of something extraordinary Trump set to re-enter White House. My analysis: majority of Americans believe that Trump can ease their economic pain. Alienation of working poor/middle class trumped Harris’ message of hope.

[Aaron Woodford @awoodf01]

@samanthamaiden @senbmckenzie @newscomauHQ Easy mistake to make…

Maybe she could implement some kind of colour coded filing system to keep track

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Tonight I learned something I’ve always suspected. Most people will support a rapist over a woman.

[💧Elizabeth Marr @JmarrMarr]

Let a Trump victory be the lesson Aust desperately needs to learn. Never allow religion to dictate or run Gov as it does in the US. Religious schools in the US are as dangerous to democracy as an army of invaders, little focus on science, history, civil laws or critical thinking

[Far Fletched 🏹🏹🏹🏹 @FletchPeter22]

@michaelkoziol @smh @theage Shock win? Wasn’t he favourite?

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

On Monday @DefenceAust cancelled a $7B military satellite tender. Today at Senate Estimates we found out that Defence has burned $90M or your money getting to that cancellation point. #SNAFU at Defence #auspol

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

First it was 0...

Then 1...

Now more than a dozen.

And what will the consequence be? Nothing.

A system with no accountability only fuels the already declining public trust in politics.

Reform to transparency & lobbying is desperately needed.
https://t.co/V2UMlaHVUH

[Far Fletched 🏹🏹🏹🏹 @FletchPeter22]

@bugwannostra “Local media” want to import US political environment and associated “presidential” campaigning to enable Fox-style angertainment and commentary. Promotes lazy horse-race “journalism”. Murdoch laying foundations with Sky.

[Far Fletched 🏹🏹🏹🏹 @FletchPeter22]

@TheNoisyTrunk @ElaineM11584892 6/. Australia’s MSM is now openly partisan and the ABC has been white-anted by political appointments.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Caitlin Johnstone on living in the West in a time of genocide:

"Our lives here in the west are far, far more comfortable than the lives of people in Gaza, but they are also far less truthful, and far less capable of nourishing the human spirit.

"We marinate in lies and psychopathy, watch lies and psychopathy, eat drink sleep and breathe lies and psychopathy. Our minds are full of garbage and our hearts are full of shit, and we are wading around up to our ankles in the blood, sweat and tears of the global south. This festering sore of a civilization is the only soil in which the western-backed genocide in Gaza could take root."

More here: https://t.co/90OGIDkPs1

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

Whatever happens in the US election, women have flexed their muscles in support of their inalienable right to make decisions about their own bodies, frightening right wing politicians everywhere. https://t.co/nFoJKeziTS