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#springst is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 76 people shared 337 posts with it — around 11 a day. Activity is down 47% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 28 with 49 posts.

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Kevin Bonham
@kevinbonham.bsky.social
2 days ago
A few accounts in the other place have drawn attention to the latest One Nation stuffup in which Western Metro candidate Fiona Lopez is quoted saying this. 457 visas ceased in 2018. #springst
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Lucy Hamilton
@lucyham.bsky.social
2 days ago
Remember how Flint, Michigan was poisoning its Black children with lead in water? Jason Stanley explains in this article that it was Atlas Network partner’s project to help two private companies. The toxic water cost the city more than the original safe. Never trust privatisation. #auspol #SpringSt
Michigan has many examples analogous to Flint, technocracy in the service of business interests, using poor communities of color as a source of profit by seizing their resources, or just callous disregard for human flourishing under Emergency Manager rule. In this section, we consider the ideological motivations for these situations. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a think tank devoted to the pure form of technocratic ideology and privatization I have been attributing to Rick Snyder and the others around him. A glance at their website in September 2016 reveals banners switching between advertisements for three messages, an announcement of the 2016 Michigan School Privatization Survey, and two upcoming events hosted at the Center, "How Pensions Are Bankrupting Cities and States and How to Fix It," and an "Issues and Ideas Forum," called "Worker's Choice: Freeing Unions and Workers from Forced Representation." The Mackinac Center largely steers clear of the divisive social conservative "culture war" issues in which many of its funders are also deeply involved. But this should be viewed through a strategic lens, the lens of technocracy. According to technocratic ideology, fiscal policy is supposed to be guided by "metrics," by "financial expertise," whose benefit is sold as a
value-neutral way to adjudicate policy. If the Mackinac Center were seen to be involved in a socially conservative cultural agenda, it would thoroughly undermine its identity as a think tank devoted to technocratic thinking. The fact that the Mackinac Center for Public Policy is not deeply involved in the culture wars is therefore to be expected. The best way to advance the interests of the funders of the Mackinac Center is by supporting a technocratic agenda through one set of venues, and advancing cultural conserva-tivism via another set of venues. Who are the funders of the Mackinac Center? As Mother Jones reports, it receives "funding from the foundations of conservative billionaire Charles Koch, the Walton family, and Dick DeVos." DeVos is particularly instructive here. There is little doubt that the DeVos family is an important, if not the most important, influence on the agenda If the Mackinac Center were seen of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Richard DeVos Sr., the cofounder of Amway, is worth an esti- to be involved mated 6 billion dollars. He is, according to Mother in a socially Jones, "a life-long Christian conservative and cru- conservative sader for free markets and small government, values he passed down to his four children." In that 2014 cultural agenda, it Mother Jones article, "Meet the new Kochs: The would thoroughly DeVos Clan's Plan to Defund the Left" the DeVos undermine its family's national influence is made clear: identity as a think tank devoted to technocratic thinking. The DeVoses sit alongside the Kochs, the Bradleys, and the Coorses as founding families of the modern conservative movement. Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes-think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. They have helped fund nearly every prominent Republican running for national office and underwritten a laundry list of conservative campaign…
party. Nevertheless, his policies with respect to Emergency Management eerily correspond in precise detail with the Center's long time agenda. In 2005, one of its fellows, Louis Schimmel, published a report for it called "Can Detroit's Problems Be Solved by an Emergency Manager?" This report is a kind of blueprint for what follows in Michigan. In 2011, an article in Mother Jones, "Behind Michigan's Financial Martial Law: Corporations and Right-Wing Billionaires," described the Mackinac Center's central ideology: The Mackinac Center's is a fervent advocate of privatization-its scholars support outsourcing everything from public school districts to Amtrak to state prisons-and backs anti-union legislation for Michigan. In 2007, the center published "A Collective Bargaining Primer," advocating against mandatory unionization and automatic dues deductions for public school teachers and other public employ-ees. Collective bargaining for teachers, the Center claims, "has become a significant deterrent to educational quality." In other words, if you outsource as much as you can and kneecap the unions, the quality of education-and presumably city services—increases.23 Snyder's first appointment as an emergency manager, to the city of Pontiac, Michigan, was Louis Schimmel, the author of the 2005 report for the Mackinac Center. Schimmel was appointed with a salary of $150,000 per year and an indefinite tenure. By privatizing most of the city's services, Schimmel laid off 480 out of 500 city employees, resulting in a 96 percent loss of public sector jobs. It is hard to see why that would be a positive benefit for Pontiac, but Pontiac was eventually released from emergency man-agement, its finances now overseen by a state board. Its municipal assets, however, are in the hands of companies owned by private equity.
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Peter Murphy
@peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Irrelevant grump Steve Price is STILL attacking former Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews, bemoaning his lack of "integrity and decency"! Strange, I don't remember Price writing a similar scathing op-ed about Scott Morrison during the #Robodebt scandal. 🤔 #auspol #springst
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Kevin Bonham
@kevinbonham.bsky.social
4 days ago
Well this is farcical even by AFR standards - it seems the respondent 2PP on the Vic Redbridge/Accent *was* actually 57-43 to L-NP (confirmed by Accent) and they've "corrected" the text to match the incorrect graphic rather than checking the poll report? #springst
3 8 32
Kevin Bonham
@kevinbonham.bsky.social
10 days ago
Bill to abolish Group Ticket Voting has unanimously passed the Victorian lower house. #springst
7 20 129
Scott Hamilton
@sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
‘A permanent Indigenous voice to parliament is being considered as part of treaty negotiations between the Victorian government and the state’s First Peoples’ Assembly.’ #auspol #springst #voice #treaty #truth A Labor State Leading the Way 👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/austr….
Permanent Indigenous voice on the table as Victoria treaty negotiations ramp up

www.theguardian.com

Permanent Indigenous voice on the table as Victoria treaty negotiations ramp up

The ‘interaction’ between parliament and a First Peoples representative body is on agenda, both parties say
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Kevin Bonham
@kevinbonham.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
Very inaccurate reporting re Vic state Morgan SMS poll on tonight's 9 Melbourne news. 1. This poll is not evidence of Labor "bouncing back in the polls" as the previous two Morgan SMS polls both had Labor ahead on 2PP - which no other poll has had this year. #springst
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