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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 1d

This. All. Day.

James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 1d

It's a crime to stop and board shops in international water. It's a crime to remove people from those ships.

Detained suggests that the Israeli government had the right to stop these ships and take these people. They absolutely didn't #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

NZ flotilla members detained by Israeli forces arrive back in Auckland

The three New Zealanders were welcomed at Auckland International Airport by a crowd of supporters.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 1d

If you have to use the C-word or a B-word in an argument, you've already lost the fight. (Wisdom from my elders).

a woman in a tuxedo is standing in a boxing ring talking to another woman .

ALT: a woman in a tuxedo is standing in a boxing ring talking to another woman .

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 1d

“Deeply disturbed to learn Nigerian flotilla activist Okey SIN Vitalis has gone missing since his abduction from the Freedom Flotilla by the Israeli Occupation Forces

Please raise your voices for this man!

We know how deeply racist the occupation is”

Please share widely - MSM is ignoring

#NZPol

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Voting in the local body elections closes in a day, with turnout so far at just 22 and 23 percent in Auckland and Hamilton but almost double that in some small centres

‘Some people don’t even know an election is on’

newsroom.co.nz

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize nominations close Jan 31 & are based on previous work. Folks hyping a certain man now seem to miss that point. Whether deserving or not, Nobel has awarded to the undeserving before...so if it happens, it only reflects on the prize’s validity, not truth.

a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it

ALT: a gold coin with a man on it that says nobel on it

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza shared details today on how Israel’s two-year genocide has deliberately collapsed the Strip’s health system. Hospitals, clinics, and oxygen stations have been destroyed, medicine stocks depleted, and famine conditions worsened.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 3d

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine

As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 3d

8.40am NZ Time

The Conscience, with Will Alexander and Ava Mulla from Ōtautahi onboard, are nearing where previous flotillas have been attacked by Israel

Keep amplifying Gaza
Help keep us safe
Tag media and politicians

@philtwyford.bsky.social

#NZPol

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Ari from Aotearoa @arinic.bsky.social · 3d

Rana, Youssef, and Sam in Amaan, Jordan. Soon they will be on a flight back to Tamaki Makaurau

#NZPol

A group of people inside a civil building

Second from left is Sam, then Youssef and Rana.

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 4d

You may have heard Peters trying to make the situation with the abducted NZers all about him

They’ve been released and their flights home paid for by the people who love them

Unlike Peters, who has all his flights paid for by taxpayers

#NZPol

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure how far you'll get on that thing... but give it a go 😁

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

Let's celebrate the Masters ... and leave the rest to be sorted tomorrow. We'll done!

fireworks are displayed over a body of water in the night sky

ALT: fireworks are displayed over a body of water in the night sky

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

I saw that and it made me cry.

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

As you indicated I have a platform, and my views have been clear for a long time. I stand for non-violence and honouring the rule of law and human rights. I shouldn’t have to repeat that, whether for individual or group cases, simply because of who I am. 3/3

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

Such positioning is common: calls for condemnation framed as if silence equals guilt. Many see it as collective blame or collective responsibility attribution trying to hold someone accountable for what is clearly an individual act against another individual’s home. 2/3

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

I have no political affiliation with the Green Party, and our connection to the Palestine issue is that I, like more than 70% of the world, oppose genocide. To be honest, your reply felt to the first post seemed like both a deflection and a kind of compelled denunciation or loyalty test. 🧵1/3

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

? Are you inferring I've been violent in some way?

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

Explain how I'm connected with that event please? And how the point I raised relates to your request condemnation for property damage to a residence?

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 4d

The three achieved more diplomatically than the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Perhaps he should reimburse NZ for funds wasted on his UN trip last month, so those resources cover their return flights. After all, they had their own transport until unlawfully detained by another government.

Peters insists Kiwis detained in Israel 'can find their own way home', taxpayers won't foot flights

The family of the trio detained were in tears asking for the Govt to bring them home.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 5d

Let's get the vote higher and let's get the correct candidate up front.

Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 5d

Excuse me @thespinoff.bsky.social, this is some Hamilton erasure. Fourth largest! Fastest growing!

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

With a week to go, how is voter turnout looking in the big cities?

Three snazzy graphs showing the state of affairs in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

thespinoff.co.nz

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 5d

Many mainstream outlets may be silent, but we cannot be.

IWCNZ calls on the NZ Govt to act with integrity: recognise Palestine, uphold international law, and end silence in the face of injustice.
Read the full press release here:

#Palestine #NZPolitics #HumanRights #NZPol

IWCNZ Urges NZ Government To Act On International Law, End Silence, And Recognise Palestine

A principled stance requires that Aotearoa honours its agreements and insists that all states we interact and conduct business with do so as well.

www.scoop.co.nz

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 5d

Morally that may be true, but legally it isn’t. In NZ, once a young person reaches the age of legal capacity for those rights , parental responsibility ends unless they lack capacity and then wouldn’t be entitled to those rights listed.

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · 5d

I hear the pain in what you’ve shared, and I don’t dismiss that. My post was only about the legal question of whether 18–19 year olds should still be their parents’ responsibility when they already hold full adult rights in the areas I listed. That’s the tension I was pointing to.

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PrivetEye @priveteye.bsky.social · 7d

#protest #genocide #gaza

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