Jo Ruksenas
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- Reposted by Jo Ruksenas"The title proudly adopted the motto “democracy dies in darkness” after Trump was first elected. Now the paper is an exhibit of his attempts to smother democracy in broad daylight." is both apt and brutal www.ft.com/content/5ca3...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasI can't stop thinking about what Bezos has done to the Washington Post. But I also don't know why I & anyone else is shocked. I went undercover in an Amazon 'fulfilment centre' in 2013 and saw first-hand exactly who Bezos is. We have all been SO naive. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- NEW: Trump's coup is almost complete. And the attack on the press is a central piece of it. Bezos's gutting of the Washington Post cannot be allowed to be just another blip in the news cycle. We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasGambling reform odds: Lab-Libs odds on to stall and do SFA, shorts odds to do nothing, significant reform unbackable. #auspol @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social #whatsthescam they just defeated a motion to talk about it michaelwest.com.au/gambling-adv...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasThe US is spending more money and resources locking up children in ICE camps than they are prosecuting people who trafficked and raped children. Not one arrest has been made in connection with the Epstein files. Thousands of immigrants who’ve committed no crimes have been locked up.
- If you received and answered a 3am call from the United States would you forget it? youtu.be/d89nGyz-KTc?...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasAbbott takes up issues based on the agenda of the think tanks. This should flag as a warning that Abbott is now targeting our courts on these specific issues and has a media and astroturfing campaign behind his attacks.
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasPutin, Xi, Musk, Thiel, Trump, Vance. They all want Europe divided. Why? Because a united Europe is a superpower they cannot bully. That’s why they hate EU regulation. It’s the only force on earth that makes them follow the rules. It’s their kryptonite
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasThe five-day ~40 hour week seems eternal, but only dates back to about 1950. And until 1980s, everyone assumed working hours would keep on declining. @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2026...
- Anyone surprised? Adani selling coal to India at mates rates, costing Queenslanders $400 million - The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/adani-s...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasThis prison music program changed lives, but what happened when it ended?: abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/bey…
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasLet's get this straight. Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election. After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties. Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Why is it that so many of Epstein's circle of male friends... have never decried or confessed to seeing something suspicious or concerning in his conduct or environment, while the few women who have spoken, thought it was blatantly obvious he was an "abhorrent" creep? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasPetition: say no to Herzog visiting Australia — from the Jewish Council of Australia #AusPol www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/02/peti...
- Reposted by Jo Ruksenas'My heart stopped': Valuable trading cards stolen from Pokemon store in Canberra: abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/act…
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasOops, 'nuther one. (The Warrego Highway north of Ipswich is still affected by a bridge strike, and serious damage that happened nearly a year ago. Not so simple to fix.)
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasThe fact that one man controls communications in a war is absolutely insane
- Brave New World? Justice for creators in the age of GenAI - link to document by Society of Authors in the article. societyofauthors.org/2026/01/30/b...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasDefence Minister Richard Marles has refused 12 times to say what changes the US wants to the $368 billion-plus AUKUS agreement. Marles and Foreign Minister Penny Wong met their American counterparts Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in Washington. www.smh.com.au/world/north-....
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasAnyone who is paying attention to the reality of AUKUS (not Labor and Richard Marles) knows we’ll never get any subs and the US will just squeeze as much money out of us as they can before officially admitting this. It’s time to find some backbone and get out of AUKUS!
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasDennis Altman: “GG Sam Mostyn’s remarks reveal deeper flaw in Australia’s constitutional arrangements – one that weakens the independence of head of state and undermines democratic accountability. ….makes her effectively our head of state.” johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasAdani sold coal at mates rates to Indian entities, screwing Queensland out of $400 MILLION in royalties. Who would have thought that a company with a record of bribery scandals would do this in Australia? australiainstitute.org.au/post/adani-s...
- In August the LNP and the company announced a deal to end “a lengthy legal process” regarding “a deal for the mining company to defer royalty payments” signed under the previous Labor government.
- Adani Bravus backdoor $600k Qld LNP donations prior to the Qld election 2024. It's a problem where Qld has real-time donations reporting but donors can send cash via the old federal system & it's outside state laws. Be upfront, use ECQ disclosures. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasAdani Bravus backdoor $600k Qld LNP donations prior to the Qld election 2024. It's a problem where Qld has real-time donations reporting but donors can send cash via the old federal system & it's outside state laws. Be upfront, use ECQ disclosures. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasIn today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:
- Reposted by Jo Ruksenasjournalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasTech billionaires aren't robber barons. Robber barons donated money to educational and cultural institutions, from universities to newspapers. Tech billionaires are destroying them - and building their fortunes on destroying the human capacity to think, learn, empathize, and concentrate.
- NSW upper house Liberal MP Aileen MacDonald raised the issue in state parliament on Thursday. Ms MacDonald questioned whether the state government's grant of $250,000 to the Newcastle Writers Festival was appropriate if Dr Abdel Fattah appears.
- Zionism is a sickness. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasBut, somehow, Jeff Bezos had $75 million to squander/bribe for his useless, money-losing Melania vanity movie. Who needs accurate, smart reporting when you can have shameless, stupid propaganda?
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasIt's clear that the group behind these calls has *already decided* that half the artists in the Biennale are problematic. If they start cancelling exhibits this could easily destroy the Biennale.
- Reposted by Jo Ruksenas⚡️ Russian bot networks are flooding social media with fake reports using the Epstein files to smear President Macron and Ukraine.
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasImagine you're an artist who's worked hard for years, finally getting a chance to present work in a major, critically significant exhibition – work you hope connects with audiences and convinces critics – and you're told someone with no skills in your field will be doing a 'walk-through'
- Reposted by Jo Ruksenasbeing an NDIS support worker can be hard, but it's also rewarding. This is my friend Bilal. His family moved to Perth from Pakistan in 2003. We spend most sessions taking trips to the Lego Store. Here he is pitching his idea for a 'tenga x lego' collab. He is a dreamer! He inspires me! # able
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasIt feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasBreaking News: A federal prosecutor was said to have been fired after an outburst over the caseload brought on by the immigration crackdown.
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasBREAKING: Religious Education (RE) in Northern Ireland is set for significant overhaul. It will no longer be exclusively Christian or controlled by the four largest churches, and will be subject to a comprehensive review led by education professionals. A huge success for our campaign! 🧵
- Reposted by Jo Ruksenas#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Richard Jones from You and I Are Stars and Night. A gorgeous quayside composition with water birds and zinging colour. From Kate Hosford's imaginative bedtime journey. Beach Lane Books 3 Feb 2026. @simonkidsuk.bsky.social @apaintedmouse.bsky.social @beachlane.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasDepressingly true ... substack.com/@caitlinjohn...
- “This is indicative of a larger story in the country, which is that Trump is flailing politically and looking for ways to assert pressure.” Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
- Reposted by Jo Ruksenas🚨The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offenses including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasLIVE: Israel kills Palestinian as 5 allowed to exit Gaza for medical care aje.news/294iv7
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasYawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and each of us may have a distinct yawning "signature"
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasThe last ten minutes of this is a message I would imagine resonates with a lot of veterans right now. What were the sacrifices of these guys dead buddies for, if the Constitution doesn’t matter… youtu.be/5sdbSkbRk80?...
- "I was trying to get the happiest things in my head, and trying to make it through, [and not think of] the bad things that will distract me," he said. "… you know, the waves are massive and I have no life jacket on…I kept thinking 'just just keep swimming. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
- Reposted by Jo Ruksenas“you need to also be able to treat people as human beings”, counsels Templeman. “This is a good opportunity to demonstrate our maturity as a democracy” she says, infantilising Palestinians whose actual babies are not “recognised as human beings” by Israeli politicians like Herzog.
- Does this work the same way in Australia? youtube.com/shorts/tCifN...
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- Reposted by Jo RuksenasIs Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it | Margaret Sullivan
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasAs has always been the plan, with the Trump crime family racking in the profits.
- They’re the top U.S. Olympic medal hopes in bobsled, and they’re also working moms www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...
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- Reposted by Jo Ruksenas“We are about to head back into parliament – and the sitting year proper – with one of the major parties again focused on itself, and the other doing all it can to ensure the focus remains on its rivals,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Read more on The Point: theaus.in/4tct6Ol
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasMayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new leader on Saturday to run New York City’s Department of Correction. Stanley Richards, who most recently served as the chief executive of a prisoner advocacy nonprofit, will be the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the department.
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasImportant piece. AUS needs charter of Human Rights #auspol podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7...
- Memories…. After the election, Palmer – having failed to win a single seat – claimed credit for the Morrison government’s victory, www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasPrivatisation IS A DISASTER. This must be avoided. Venezuelans OWN this. Not foreign grifters.
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasYou know who’s not in the Epstein files? Undocumented immigrants Drag queens Trans people The poor, unhoused, marginalized and disabled The people you’ve been taught to hate weren’t involved in the sex trafficking ring. The billionaires were. The wealthy. The ruling class.
- “We heal through relationships. That’s how we really make change.” Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/h...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasSteve Bannon interfered in the 2019 Australian federal election, as part of a global effort to stifle climate action. He should face investigation under Australia’s foreign interference laws. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
- The transition being attempted is huge, more needs to be done, and there may be difficult moments ahead... Some actors – the Queensland LNP government, for example – are doing their best to prevent it. The Sunshine State government? Why? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Jo RuksenasAs sea levels rise, droughts grow and storms become more intense, saltier water has increasingly made its way into coastal woodlands from surrounding water bodies. In some places, forests have given way to shrubland.
