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Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:41am
What a shitty day for America.
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:39am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Trump sought to have special counsel removed: Mueller report https://t.co/dBJS5NSGrh
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Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:35am
@ChadTheFourth I haven’t read it.
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:32am
Why would he think that? https://t.co/aPzEMbFFUI
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:19am
RT @JohnJHarwood: Mueller taking note of Trump associates’ lies, deletion of relevant communications and use of encrypted comms that can’t be retrieved: “cannot rule out possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional/new light on events described”
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:13am
RT @MikeDorning: BREAKING: Mueller said he lacked confidence to clear Donald Trump of obstruction of justice but suggested Congress could take action on at least 10 instances where the president sought to interfere with the probe.
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:06am
RT @ZekeJMiller: WASHINGTON (AP) — Mueller's report reveals Trump's efforts to seize control of Russia probe and force the special counsel's removal.
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 8:54pm
Hugo put it better: “Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries... Time is the architect, the nation the builder.”
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 8:54pm
Re Notre Dame, worth reading Edward Hollis’ essay on its 1860s restoration (in ‘The Secret Lives of Buildings’). The project was driven by Hugo and our need for the ballast of history in tumultuous times. Seems almost fitting that another restoration would be needed now.
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 7:32pm
French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault (Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent) tells @AFP he will donate 100 million euros to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 5:51pm
@abdu Um.
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 2:00am
@niccijsmith @rdctokyoAFP Oh please god no
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 1:05am
And there she is https://t.co/0WVdld9L3C
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Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 12:33am
@niccijsmith @rdctokyoAFP Not Fiji please.
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 12:12am
Busy day at Royal Randwick for #Winx’s last race https://t.co/LbsSNeDhO7
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Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Friday Apr 12 - 6:49pm
Trump’s fresh incitement of violence against Muslims comes a month after Christchurch and a day after one of his supporters appeared in court for going to the mosque + hurling abuse at the survivors. He told the judge he was just repeating what he’d heard. https://t.co/qzX02cFcIK
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Friday Apr 12 - 6:28pm
RT @RBrulin: Today in class I played 3 mins of @IlhanMN 's CAIR speech incl "some people did something" passage & asked students to discuss They agreed w/ her, saw nothing wrong w/wording & were STUNNED & ANGRY when I showed them Tweets & NYPost front page This campaign v Omar is SHAMEFUL
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Friday Apr 12 - 5:50pm
Fascinated to see if this does work. McConnell is clinging to a left-right framing of politics that hasn’t changed much since the Cold War. l suspect voters have moved on. Trump certainly has. This may be the most fundamental question of the Australian election too. https://t.co/qB7jgt7YtR
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:38am
RT @jcartillier: "Few things about the Trump administration are predictable, but it’s a safe bet that if the president makes a controversial move, an anonymously sourced reference to Ivanka’s distress will circulate soon after." https://t.co/898pcyhfuy
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:17am
@EllenBarryNYT @DaveClark_AFP @prashantrao That’s Agence France-Presse to you.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:08am
@EllenBarryNYT @prashantrao What about ‘brunch’ or are you guys still in meetings?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:03am
@isaacstonefish Amen
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 9:13am
@Ibishblog Yes! Totally blinding obvious.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 8:01am
We really need to go back to allowing raking at the ruck. https://t.co/U20s1VkAGU
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 4:56am
RT @sommervilletv: The children no-one wants. The families of Islamic State Group at Al Hol camp, Syria. https://t.co/k8gQbJjtSV
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 4:52am
@Moni_Komp @matt_levinson @GreenJ There are plenty of issues related polls, almost all of the party preference polls ask other questions.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:41am
'Scared' Muslims avoid Christchurch mosques a month after attacks https://t.co/XwnDnmGFj1
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:39am
@TheMurdochTimes @PatsKarvelas @Scottludlam We could debate whether Assange is a journalist or not, but even if he is, that is not what he's been charged with in the US, its immaterial to him skipping bail in the UK and utterly irrelevant to any rape charge he may face in Sweden.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:27am
@finger8 hard pass.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:24am
Bravo @PatsKarvelas for asking Assange's supporters about his ties with Russia. @Scottludlam, respectfully your claim that there are no links is puzzling. Public evidence of WikiLeaks' interactions with the GRU are alone enough to raise serious questions.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 1:52am
@matt_levinson @GreenJ There is a huge accountability deficit in politics today. Entrenched partisanship means politicians govern in the interests of a single group and don't care about being found by the media to lie or dissemble. I don't know what the answer is.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 1:49am
@matt_levinson @GreenJ Really interesting questions. Ideally polls are good enough to inform policy decisions. Agree we need more participatory democracy and effective means of consultation. We can't have elections once every blue moon being a blank cheque with little accountability in the interim.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 9:34pm
@leighsales @samanthamaiden It's very "The Death of Rasputin"
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 9:21pm
@JGBlades @JamieTahana Yep.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 9:12pm
RT @AFP: Best photo of the year? Haunting image by Getty photographer John Moore of a little girl crying as she and her mother are taken into custody by US border officials has won the prestigious World Press Photo Award https://t.co/kMGvyEPbeQ
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 7:17pm
RT @GlennThrush: nein nein nein https://t.co/Xs53k70Vel
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:54pm
@MarkLandler @EllenBarryNYT Congrats!
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:34pm
@little_pengelly While you are our elected representative, can you please, please, please behave with some decency?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 10:39am
Today is a good day to link to news agencies like @AFP @AP @ReutersAgency and @business who keep bureaus in places like Khartoum year after year, decade after decade.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 10:20am
RT @MarkSZaidEsq: This is not a threat to journalists. I advise journalists all the time on dealing with #classified information. Real journalists don't solicit or assist their sources in stealing information. https://t.co/MAZhRNzBx4
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 10:11am
A whole generation of people in the Mid East (+ reporters) can remember standing in crowds like this. Infectious even for cynics. People giddy imagining suddenly limitless possibilities, only for their future to again be pissed away by kleptocrats + powermongers. Bitter sweet. https://t.co/LUlbaVASus
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:33am
@DaveClark_AFP @dannyctkemp @IntlCrimCourt Chick or Rafael?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:27am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Military council declares ceasefire across Sudan, including Darfur: minister https://t.co/smdP0ljcF2
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:26am
Over to you Australia! @AFP (Quito) Foreign minister says Assange's Ecuadoran citizenship withdrawn
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:23am
New Zealand police arrest Trump fan over Christchurch mosque abuse https://t.co/WwoFa2zTsj
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:15am
Bashir is gone. The military wants to stay in power for two more years. This plot is getting really old.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 7:33am
#BREAKING @AFP (Sydney) Australia says to seek consular access to Assange, 'confident' he will get legal due process in UK
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 7:03am
Remarkable, extremely lengthy and virtually unchallenged defence of Assange by two guests on @abcnews just now.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:53am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING WikiLeaks founder Assange will not be extradited to a country with death penalty, Ecuador president says https://t.co/wXBlN5XnAG
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:48am
@Felix_Nuno @APHClarkson Their alleged bribing of nothing Malagasy candidates had a stench of amateurism as well
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:45am
@APHClarkson I'd say the same will be true of Haftar.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:36am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Sudan protesters storm security building in eastern city: witnesses https://t.co/m0vIGHV4oF
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:35am
#BREAKING @AFP (Khartoum) Sudan security agency frees all political detainees: state media
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:27am
#BREAKING @AFP (Stockholm) Swedish Assange accuser urges prosecution to reopen rape case: lawyer
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:19am
New Zealand cops have arrested a man wearing a Trump tee-shirt who went to a Christchurch mosque where dozens were shot dead and proceeded to hurl abuse at worshipers.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:04am
"Daily-life protocols" -- "joder Julian! vacía el lavavajillas, por favor!" https://t.co/qRYPA0PlIK
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 5:59am
RT @Kate_McClymont: Can we have a rest? Rush defamed, Folau restrained, ScoMo proclaimed and Assange detained. What a news day! https://t.co/RIjeeSnunP
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 5:40am
ALERT @AFP British police arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:56am
Hot take! https://t.co/4H5NDV6Esg
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:39am
@JackNorton8064 Maybe an example to the cricket team on how to deal with unacceptable behavior, as they ponder world cup and Ashes selection :)
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:37am
@desnotdez I wondered the same.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:32am
Such a disappointment for rugby fans, on multiple levels. https://t.co/3zxoXkugzJ
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:03am
#BREAKING @AFP Rugby Australia 'intends' to terminate Folau contract: statement
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 2:06am
@MartynNamorong Immigration?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 2:05am
@DavidColtart Too true. I've seldom been more disappointed to be right re Mnangagwa.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 1:58am
This has to be a piss take. https://t.co/pTmFF3foa3
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 1:38am
Huge if true... Bashir has survived the first Arab Spring, indictments for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, being declared a state sponsor of terror post 9/11 and the secession of South Sudan. https://t.co/FLAzcdgSSL
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 1:26am
Top Papua New Guinea minister resigns over vast gas contract - @AFP https://t.co/6Wiw7QoxWo
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 11:38pm
Wallabies team sponsor @Qantas says Folau's "really disappointing" comments "clearly don't reflect the spirit of inclusion and diversity that we support." The career of a very talented player and his appearance at the RWC in serious doubt. https://t.co/5wYLApB8GH
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 8:56pm
@marc_lotter Marc Marc Marc.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 8:45pm
A man working at an Australian immigrant detention camp in Papua New Guinea has been charged with a second count of "sexually touching" a fellow Paladin employee. He's been granted bail, but has surrendered his passport.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 7:39pm
The shit Trump does that would get any other President evicerated and/or impeached is just astonishing. https://t.co/orDuw8uTDO
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 6:30pm
Australia will have an election on May 18. Both parties framing it as a traditional ideological debate over left-right economic policies. Interesting to see if that resonates with voters increasingly concerned by climate change and the political system itself. https://t.co/eYlHweO1h2
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 4:52pm
Russian interference in another election. This will continue until real consequences are imposed. (Also they should get better intel, they could have saved money by backing Rajoelina or Ravalomanana from the start.) https://t.co/2BKhAYxFMi
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 4:15pm
RT @noa_landau: PR firm behind Likud's hidden cameras in Arab polling sites boasts of lowering voter turnout. FULL STORY HERE👇🏻 https://t.co/qE1AFtR75K
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:56pm
Word of the day: Illeism https://t.co/FY8iuhZJyU
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:36pm
RT @DavidPriess: News reports overstated what Barr actually said about the Mueller report and frequently confused prosecutorial judgments with normative judgments and presumed factual conclusions from declinations. The press can do better, @qjurecic & @benjaminwittes say: https://t.co/d7BZYLsi12
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:32am
@JeromeTaylor @DaveClark_AFP @mulhollandrory Roberto hasn't aged a bit
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1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:29am
RT @BBCNewsNI: The DUP accepted a further £13,000 donation from a pro-Brexit group in the months after the EU referendum: https://t.co/bv60D3hoOR https://t.co/6cFpYKU9IQ
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 2:05am
@glcarlstrom Perhaps a cautionary tale for democracy writ large.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 12:18am
That was quick. https://t.co/WeGk62Vklt
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 11:48pm
Australia's Attorney General is on TV making the case that all Australian political parties are corrupt.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 11:08pm
Please God make this election end. https://t.co/Y8lkPyCrw6
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 10:14pm
The impact of migration on wages has been studied quite a bit and the results are far from conclusive https://t.co/QxLwA7DiOs https://t.co/gzMVQIUAba
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:56pm
@DrCraigEmerson Interesting piece, how did you get the figure of 900,000 temporary work visa holders?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:48pm
@clairlemon That 900,000 includes Kiwis and students?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:20pm
RT @AFP: #UPDATE Agence France-Presse bureau chief Aymeric Vincenot was expelled from Algeria on Tuesday after the authorities refused to renew his press accreditation for 2019 https://t.co/1utfCgJNPq
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:12pm
In case anyone is wondering how the Australian election is going. The opposition proposed people eventually buy more electric cars. The PM said it would result in no more weekends. We've got at least a month to go. #SendGin
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 5:36pm
RT @ABCArts: In 1974, the ABC asked a bush painter what he thought of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles. His response might surprise you. #RewindABC https://t.co/Fg9qqU35M4
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 4:10pm
Let’s play our favourite game: “Guess Trump’s motivation!” Political, financial or pathological? https://t.co/5mP4wUwQCX
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 3:43am
This carries the same feeling of deep shame as the Gurkha court cases or the Windrush scandal. We broke a promise to friends and desecrated our own values. It would be nice to not be ashamed of my country, just for a little while. https://t.co/gUkvysxS4K
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 1:31am
Opinion? I'm terrified to click. https://t.co/db0VkLIZTA
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Monday Apr 8 - 9:59pm
Papua LNG agreement was signed today with Total, Exxon and others. Country will have a roughly 22 percent stake in the $13 bln project and will have some costs deferred until production begins.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Sunday Apr 7 - 9:41pm
Nielsen was close to Kelly, I’m surprised she lasted this long. But I didn’t see the ‘policy isn’t quite facist enough’ resignation. https://t.co/MHLEH3RPGc
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Saturday Apr 6 - 4:11pm
@APHClarkson I’ve heard a similar argument from senior people in Benghazi, but they basically say ‘he’s an old man, just placate him’
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 6:56pm
Periodic reminder that America has a far right government. https://t.co/fYzuQ0ckoP
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 5:57pm
@bronaghwaugh Nicer memories. I just finished series one and it floored me thinking back to Omagh —standing at a stall in central Cairo, picking up a paper and realising too slowly that the photos of carnage on the front page were not from Tel Aviv or Gaza.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 5:42pm
@MatthewBevan He’s the one talking about the death penalty (if you were suspicious you’d wonder who gains from raising an issue that divides Europe and the US). As far as I’m aware Sweden doesn’t have the death penalty for anything, including rape.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 5:25pm
This should end the master tactician vs uninformed chancer debate https://t.co/Kul5QikL4Z
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 4:56pm
@curates_egg A cautionary tale.
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:41am
What a shitty day for America.
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:39am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Trump sought to have special counsel removed: Mueller report https://t.co/dBJS5NSGrh
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Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:35am
@ChadTheFourth I haven’t read it.
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:32am
Why would he think that? https://t.co/aPzEMbFFUI
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:19am
RT @JohnJHarwood: Mueller taking note of Trump associates’ lies, deletion of relevant communications and use of encrypted comms that can’t be retrieved: “cannot rule out possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional/new light on events described”
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:13am
RT @MikeDorning: BREAKING: Mueller said he lacked confidence to clear Donald Trump of obstruction of justice but suggested Congress could take action on at least 10 instances where the president sought to interfere with the probe.
Andrew Beatty
1 day ago: Thursday Apr 18 - 11:06am
RT @ZekeJMiller: WASHINGTON (AP) — Mueller's report reveals Trump's efforts to seize control of Russia probe and force the special counsel's removal.
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 8:54pm
Hugo put it better: “Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries... Time is the architect, the nation the builder.”
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 8:54pm
Re Notre Dame, worth reading Edward Hollis’ essay on its 1860s restoration (in ‘The Secret Lives of Buildings’). The project was driven by Hugo and our need for the ballast of history in tumultuous times. Seems almost fitting that another restoration would be needed now.
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 7:32pm
French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault (Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent) tells @AFP he will donate 100 million euros to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral.
Andrew Beatty
3 days ago: Monday Apr 15 - 5:51pm
@abdu Um.
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 2:00am
@niccijsmith @rdctokyoAFP Oh please god no
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 1:05am
And there she is https://t.co/0WVdld9L3C
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6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 12:33am
@niccijsmith @rdctokyoAFP Not Fiji please.
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Saturday Apr 13 - 12:12am
Busy day at Royal Randwick for #Winx’s last race https://t.co/LbsSNeDhO7
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6 days ago: Friday Apr 12 - 6:49pm
Trump’s fresh incitement of violence against Muslims comes a month after Christchurch and a day after one of his supporters appeared in court for going to the mosque + hurling abuse at the survivors. He told the judge he was just repeating what he’d heard. https://t.co/qzX02cFcIK
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Friday Apr 12 - 6:28pm
RT @RBrulin: Today in class I played 3 mins of @IlhanMN 's CAIR speech incl "some people did something" passage & asked students to discuss They agreed w/ her, saw nothing wrong w/wording & were STUNNED & ANGRY when I showed them Tweets & NYPost front page This campaign v Omar is SHAMEFUL
Andrew Beatty
6 days ago: Friday Apr 12 - 5:50pm
Fascinated to see if this does work. McConnell is clinging to a left-right framing of politics that hasn’t changed much since the Cold War. l suspect voters have moved on. Trump certainly has. This may be the most fundamental question of the Australian election too. https://t.co/qB7jgt7YtR
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:38am
RT @jcartillier: "Few things about the Trump administration are predictable, but it’s a safe bet that if the president makes a controversial move, an anonymously sourced reference to Ivanka’s distress will circulate soon after." https://t.co/898pcyhfuy
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:17am
@EllenBarryNYT @DaveClark_AFP @prashantrao That’s Agence France-Presse to you.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:08am
@EllenBarryNYT @prashantrao What about ‘brunch’ or are you guys still in meetings?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 10:03am
@isaacstonefish Amen
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 9:13am
@Ibishblog Yes! Totally blinding obvious.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 8:01am
We really need to go back to allowing raking at the ruck. https://t.co/U20s1VkAGU
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 4:56am
RT @sommervilletv: The children no-one wants. The families of Islamic State Group at Al Hol camp, Syria. https://t.co/k8gQbJjtSV
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1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 4:52am
@Moni_Komp @matt_levinson @GreenJ There are plenty of issues related polls, almost all of the party preference polls ask other questions.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:41am
'Scared' Muslims avoid Christchurch mosques a month after attacks https://t.co/XwnDnmGFj1
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:39am
@TheMurdochTimes @PatsKarvelas @Scottludlam We could debate whether Assange is a journalist or not, but even if he is, that is not what he's been charged with in the US, its immaterial to him skipping bail in the UK and utterly irrelevant to any rape charge he may face in Sweden.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:27am
@finger8 hard pass.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 2:24am
Bravo @PatsKarvelas for asking Assange's supporters about his ties with Russia. @Scottludlam, respectfully your claim that there are no links is puzzling. Public evidence of WikiLeaks' interactions with the GRU are alone enough to raise serious questions.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 1:52am
@matt_levinson @GreenJ There is a huge accountability deficit in politics today. Entrenched partisanship means politicians govern in the interests of a single group and don't care about being found by the media to lie or dissemble. I don't know what the answer is.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 12 - 1:49am
@matt_levinson @GreenJ Really interesting questions. Ideally polls are good enough to inform policy decisions. Agree we need more participatory democracy and effective means of consultation. We can't have elections once every blue moon being a blank cheque with little accountability in the interim.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 9:34pm
@leighsales @samanthamaiden It's very "The Death of Rasputin"
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 9:21pm
@JGBlades @JamieTahana Yep.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 9:12pm
RT @AFP: Best photo of the year? Haunting image by Getty photographer John Moore of a little girl crying as she and her mother are taken into custody by US border officials has won the prestigious World Press Photo Award https://t.co/kMGvyEPbeQ
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 7:17pm
RT @GlennThrush: nein nein nein https://t.co/Xs53k70Vel
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:54pm
@MarkLandler @EllenBarryNYT Congrats!
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:34pm
@little_pengelly While you are our elected representative, can you please, please, please behave with some decency?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 10:39am
Today is a good day to link to news agencies like @AFP @AP @ReutersAgency and @business who keep bureaus in places like Khartoum year after year, decade after decade.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 10:20am
RT @MarkSZaidEsq: This is not a threat to journalists. I advise journalists all the time on dealing with #classified information. Real journalists don't solicit or assist their sources in stealing information. https://t.co/MAZhRNzBx4
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 10:11am
A whole generation of people in the Mid East (+ reporters) can remember standing in crowds like this. Infectious even for cynics. People giddy imagining suddenly limitless possibilities, only for their future to again be pissed away by kleptocrats + powermongers. Bitter sweet. https://t.co/LUlbaVASus
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:33am
@DaveClark_AFP @dannyctkemp @IntlCrimCourt Chick or Rafael?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:27am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Military council declares ceasefire across Sudan, including Darfur: minister https://t.co/smdP0ljcF2
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:26am
Over to you Australia! @AFP (Quito) Foreign minister says Assange's Ecuadoran citizenship withdrawn
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:23am
New Zealand police arrest Trump fan over Christchurch mosque abuse https://t.co/WwoFa2zTsj
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 8:15am
Bashir is gone. The military wants to stay in power for two more years. This plot is getting really old.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 7:33am
#BREAKING @AFP (Sydney) Australia says to seek consular access to Assange, 'confident' he will get legal due process in UK
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 7:03am
Remarkable, extremely lengthy and virtually unchallenged defence of Assange by two guests on @abcnews just now.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:53am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING WikiLeaks founder Assange will not be extradited to a country with death penalty, Ecuador president says https://t.co/wXBlN5XnAG
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:48am
@Felix_Nuno @APHClarkson Their alleged bribing of nothing Malagasy candidates had a stench of amateurism as well
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:45am
@APHClarkson I'd say the same will be true of Haftar.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:36am
RT @AFP: #BREAKING Sudan protesters storm security building in eastern city: witnesses https://t.co/m0vIGHV4oF
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:35am
#BREAKING @AFP (Khartoum) Sudan security agency frees all political detainees: state media
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:27am
#BREAKING @AFP (Stockholm) Swedish Assange accuser urges prosecution to reopen rape case: lawyer
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:19am
New Zealand cops have arrested a man wearing a Trump tee-shirt who went to a Christchurch mosque where dozens were shot dead and proceeded to hurl abuse at worshipers.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 6:04am
"Daily-life protocols" -- "joder Julian! vacía el lavavajillas, por favor!" https://t.co/qRYPA0PlIK
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 5:59am
RT @Kate_McClymont: Can we have a rest? Rush defamed, Folau restrained, ScoMo proclaimed and Assange detained. What a news day! https://t.co/RIjeeSnunP
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 5:40am
ALERT @AFP British police arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:56am
Hot take! https://t.co/4H5NDV6Esg
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:39am
@JackNorton8064 Maybe an example to the cricket team on how to deal with unacceptable behavior, as they ponder world cup and Ashes selection :)
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:37am
@desnotdez I wondered the same.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:32am
Such a disappointment for rugby fans, on multiple levels. https://t.co/3zxoXkugzJ
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 4:03am
#BREAKING @AFP Rugby Australia 'intends' to terminate Folau contract: statement
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 2:06am
@MartynNamorong Immigration?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 2:05am
@DavidColtart Too true. I've seldom been more disappointed to be right re Mnangagwa.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 1:58am
This has to be a piss take. https://t.co/pTmFF3foa3
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 1:38am
Huge if true... Bashir has survived the first Arab Spring, indictments for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, being declared a state sponsor of terror post 9/11 and the secession of South Sudan. https://t.co/FLAzcdgSSL
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Thursday Apr 11 - 1:26am
Top Papua New Guinea minister resigns over vast gas contract - @AFP https://t.co/6Wiw7QoxWo
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 11:38pm
Wallabies team sponsor @Qantas says Folau's "really disappointing" comments "clearly don't reflect the spirit of inclusion and diversity that we support." The career of a very talented player and his appearance at the RWC in serious doubt. https://t.co/5wYLApB8GH
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 8:56pm
@marc_lotter Marc Marc Marc.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 8:45pm
A man working at an Australian immigrant detention camp in Papua New Guinea has been charged with a second count of "sexually touching" a fellow Paladin employee. He's been granted bail, but has surrendered his passport.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 7:39pm
The shit Trump does that would get any other President evicerated and/or impeached is just astonishing. https://t.co/orDuw8uTDO
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 6:30pm
Australia will have an election on May 18. Both parties framing it as a traditional ideological debate over left-right economic policies. Interesting to see if that resonates with voters increasingly concerned by climate change and the political system itself. https://t.co/eYlHweO1h2
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 4:52pm
Russian interference in another election. This will continue until real consequences are imposed. (Also they should get better intel, they could have saved money by backing Rajoelina or Ravalomanana from the start.) https://t.co/2BKhAYxFMi
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 4:15pm
RT @noa_landau: PR firm behind Likud's hidden cameras in Arab polling sites boasts of lowering voter turnout. FULL STORY HERE👇🏻 https://t.co/qE1AFtR75K
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:56pm
Word of the day: Illeism https://t.co/FY8iuhZJyU
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:36pm
RT @DavidPriess: News reports overstated what Barr actually said about the Mueller report and frequently confused prosecutorial judgments with normative judgments and presumed factual conclusions from declinations. The press can do better, @qjurecic & @benjaminwittes say: https://t.co/d7BZYLsi12
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:32am
@JeromeTaylor @DaveClark_AFP @mulhollandrory Roberto hasn't aged a bit
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 3:29am
RT @BBCNewsNI: The DUP accepted a further £13,000 donation from a pro-Brexit group in the months after the EU referendum: https://t.co/bv60D3hoOR https://t.co/6cFpYKU9IQ
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 2:05am
@glcarlstrom Perhaps a cautionary tale for democracy writ large.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Wednesday Apr 10 - 12:18am
That was quick. https://t.co/WeGk62Vklt
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 11:48pm
Australia's Attorney General is on TV making the case that all Australian political parties are corrupt.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 11:08pm
Please God make this election end. https://t.co/Y8lkPyCrw6
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 10:14pm
The impact of migration on wages has been studied quite a bit and the results are far from conclusive https://t.co/QxLwA7DiOs https://t.co/gzMVQIUAba
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:56pm
@DrCraigEmerson Interesting piece, how did you get the figure of 900,000 temporary work visa holders?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:48pm
@clairlemon That 900,000 includes Kiwis and students?
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:20pm
RT @AFP: #UPDATE Agence France-Presse bureau chief Aymeric Vincenot was expelled from Algeria on Tuesday after the authorities refused to renew his press accreditation for 2019 https://t.co/1utfCgJNPq
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 9:12pm
In case anyone is wondering how the Australian election is going. The opposition proposed people eventually buy more electric cars. The PM said it would result in no more weekends. We've got at least a month to go. #SendGin
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 5:36pm
RT @ABCArts: In 1974, the ABC asked a bush painter what he thought of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles. His response might surprise you. #RewindABC https://t.co/Fg9qqU35M4
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Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 4:10pm
Let’s play our favourite game: “Guess Trump’s motivation!” Political, financial or pathological? https://t.co/5mP4wUwQCX
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 3:43am
This carries the same feeling of deep shame as the Gurkha court cases or the Windrush scandal. We broke a promise to friends and desecrated our own values. It would be nice to not be ashamed of my country, just for a little while. https://t.co/gUkvysxS4K
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Tuesday Apr 9 - 1:31am
Opinion? I'm terrified to click. https://t.co/db0VkLIZTA
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Monday Apr 8 - 9:59pm
Papua LNG agreement was signed today with Total, Exxon and others. Country will have a roughly 22 percent stake in the $13 bln project and will have some costs deferred until production begins.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Sunday Apr 7 - 9:41pm
Nielsen was close to Kelly, I’m surprised she lasted this long. But I didn’t see the ‘policy isn’t quite facist enough’ resignation. https://t.co/MHLEH3RPGc
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Saturday Apr 6 - 4:11pm
@APHClarkson I’ve heard a similar argument from senior people in Benghazi, but they basically say ‘he’s an old man, just placate him’
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 6:56pm
Periodic reminder that America has a far right government. https://t.co/fYzuQ0ckoP
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 5:57pm
@bronaghwaugh Nicer memories. I just finished series one and it floored me thinking back to Omagh —standing at a stall in central Cairo, picking up a paper and realising too slowly that the photos of carnage on the front page were not from Tel Aviv or Gaza.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 5:42pm
@MatthewBevan He’s the one talking about the death penalty (if you were suspicious you’d wonder who gains from raising an issue that divides Europe and the US). As far as I’m aware Sweden doesn’t have the death penalty for anything, including rape.
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 5:25pm
This should end the master tactician vs uninformed chancer debate https://t.co/Kul5QikL4Z
Andrew Beatty
1 week ago: Friday Apr 5 - 4:56pm
@curates_egg A cautionary tale.