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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 2h

This *was* their "hide your connections better" campaign!

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 2h

Hope everyone involved in that campaign go eat a bag of 5G nanobots

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 2h

Hope everyone learnt their stupid damn lesson from this:

1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink

2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 7h

Dompost Pundit voice: this result will mean the new mayor will need to reach across the aisle, at some risk of angering his base, in order to really build the legacy that the city so dearly needs and deserves

Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 8h

The new Wellington City Council will include 5 Labour councillors and 4 Green councillors, plus Andrew Little, giving the two party "coalition" an increased governing majority - 10 out of 16 votes, compared to 8 under the previous council.

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Brannavan Gnanalingam @brannavan.bsky.social · 6h

Better Wellington everyone

Joel MacManus @joelmacmanus.bsky.social · 8h

The new Wellington City Council will include 5 Labour councillors and 4 Green councillors, plus Andrew Little, giving the two party "coalition" an increased governing majority - 10 out of 16 votes, compared to 8 under the previous council.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 8h

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 9h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 5h

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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 7h

Given he got in on the seventh iteration of votes, it is a good example of why it can be important to rank every candidate in an STV election rather than just those you like.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 7h

He was down to the 7th (last) round! Not exactly razor thin, but definitely could've lost.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 7h

Oh yeah, that half counts.

Chantalle Smith @chaneyz85.bsky.social · 7h

Andrea Compton was elected in Takapū/northern. She started her campaign as part of them. But she was one of them that distanced themselves after Chungs comments about Whanau.

I wonder if the distancing might have favoured her? But not sure, given how the ward can vote

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Chantalle Smith @chaneyz85.bsky.social · 7h

Andrea Compton was elected in Takapū/northern. She started her campaign as part of them. But she was one of them that distanced themselves after Chungs comments about Whanau.

I wonder if the distancing might have favoured her? But not sure, given how the ward can vote

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 7h

It's gotta be half a mil, if you include the value of all the commercial billboards, right?

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 8h

I hope Better Wellington has to declare its electoral expenses (does it, @graemeedgeler.bsky.social?), mostly just so we can get the maths on the "how much did they spend per WCC councillor elected?"

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 8h

A shame that Ray Chung didn't lose his ward seat (though it was close), but all and all a good repudiation of Independent Together.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 16h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 1d

PEOPLE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. MY GOD THERE ARE LUNATICS STANDING FOR SEATS

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1d

Only one in five Aucklanders have voted in local elections

With two days remaining until polls close, only 21.9 percent of eligible voters had returned their papers.

www.rnz.co.nz

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hope50.bsky.social @hope50.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr.'s medical book

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 2d

The GOP caved. The Dems caved. Wall Street caved. Big Law caved. The Ivy League universities caved. The DOJ caved. The FBI caved. The media caved. At America's moment of crisis, the only ones who stood strong against tyranny were the furries.