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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 7h

How many deaths will it take for Damian to agree it's genocide? I've seen figures of 200,000 quoted. Plus the injured. Machado's Nobel Peace Prize confirms that the West has lost its moral compass. Maybe it never had one. Cathy Wilcox 👇

Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly, the head of Local Gvt who supp 3W lost his mayoralty tho he's still head of LG. As Alexa Cook ptd out, mayors of councils with double digit rises lost. Mayor of Clutha retired. He regrets his 4% rate rises bc it's left them with a huge catchup bill for water
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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 8h

Someone found this old book and posted many of the cartoon. It's scary how many still resonate!

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 15h

Mick Hall on the Nobel Peace Prize - again the best critical analysis you'll find

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Nobel Prize dovetails with US war plans

Venezuelan Far Right opposition leader given Nobel Peace Prize as the US builds up its naval attack forces in the Caribbean.

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 8h

I found historian Geg Grandin a few years ago & have read sev bks on Am. Empire's Workshop focused on decades of USA exploiting & undermining Latin Am. America America details history of USA & Latin Am. USA feels it has a right to interfere in Latin Am but deports immignts from countries its ruined.

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 9h

Farmers forget, there are no cows on a dead planet! Artificial milk will undercut our dairy because cheaper milk powder will be adopted by business. Eg Milk pdr is used to keep potato chips from sticking.

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 9h

Robert Reich says airport controllers are the key. Last time, when they called in sick from stress, first big planes were affected, then private planes. When ppl can't fly, esp high flying biz men, they get pissed off & phone their congressmen.

Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 9h

And yet 25 electorates said no to Maori Wards. I'm bitterly disappointed in NZders & disgusted by our leadership. We abuse the generosity of Maori.

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 9h

Country quota 1881-1945 made rural seats 25-28% smaller bc they are the backbone of the nation! When Lab reversed this in 1945, Fed Fmrs was so angry that they threatened to stop town supply. They felt entitled then & do now. 100% Pure NZ! Yeah, nah. 🤑🐄

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 11h

Lyndon Johnson said Gerald Ford couldn't chew gum and walk at the same time!

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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 12h

In related news I am presently transcribing a podcast episode covering the OECD's report "Tax Policy Reforms 2025". And guess what Denmark did? Introduce a carbon tax on agriculture aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from agriculture & forestry by 30% by 2030.

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 11h

5 relatives in my family died in WW1. 3 in one family, the Rudkins. When we toured the war cemeteries in Belgium & France, I visited them all save one bc his body was never found. His name is engraved on the Menin Gate. I find it disheartening our leaders are rushing to rearm. Never forget.🪦

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 12h

The daughter of a woman in my bk group transitioned. Her mother sd, ever since she was small, her dghter hadn't felt right in her body. So based on that, I'd say parents aren't the driver. Georgina Beyer was always v grounded & we've just elected our 2nd trans mayor.
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Jacquie Grant, 82, leads Westland mayoral race by narrow margin

It's a tight race for the Westland mayoralty, with Hokitika businesswoman Jacquie Grant leading the race against incumbent Helen Lash by just 64 votes. Grant - who has lived as...

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 13h

AotearoaNZ has just elected its 2nd trans mayor. And she's 82!
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Jacquie Grant, 82, leads Westland mayoral race by narrow margin

It's a tight race for the Westland mayoralty, with Hokitika businesswoman Jacquie Grant leading the race against incumbent Helen Lash by just 64 votes. Grant - who has lived as...

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 21h

In this piece Marli Olive Wesley, a Sāmoan-Fijian American writer and analyst unpacks the appeal of right-wing conservative American figures like Charlie Kirk — and what it reveals about faith, survival, and misplaced allegiance in Pacific communities.

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Faith, survival, and misplaced allegiance | E-Tangata

“We are a people who have endured land theft, blackbirding, nuclear testing, deportation, and exile . . . Yet again and again, we align ourselves with those who uphold the very systems that shrink us....

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 1d

I was stunned to read that Gerry taught Maori at Ellesmere College. Yes, parliament is a Epn institution, but hey, it's 2025, this is AotearoaNZ, time to adapt the protocols. Gerry looks like a toothless buffoon.

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 1d

The most moral army in the world!🤬

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure Willis & Winston will now withdraw their comments about calling off the Greens' attack dogs!
No? Me too.

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 1d

'They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they’re exclusionary, they’re humourless – they’re this coalition.‘
Chris Finlayson

Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we have advance voting too. However, our present RW coalition gvt has chged the rules for enrolments. The last gvt let prisoners vote & ppl cld enrol & vote even on voting day. Now enrolment's been cut to 2 weeks b4. Late votes mostly went to LW pties. This gvt's limiting enrolment to help them

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Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 1d

I never joined FB, but I did leave Twitter after they limited me. I'm still confused about what I said that crossed their line as I don't post offensive comments. I took it as a sign from the universe to leave.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 1d

"I said I was Jewish. They ripped me by the ear and forced me to bend down and stare at the flag of the state of Israel."

Watch David Adler, Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International, recall the abuse of the Global Sumud Flotilla crew in Israeli detention.

5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud…

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Scotty - every day is a new outrage - NZ @scotty-nz.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprisingly, neither Finlayson nor Palmer had kind words for Act leader David Seymour’s failed Treaty Principles Bill. The former described it as an attempt to “replace long-standing, well-defined principles with what would be described as vague constitutional statements”

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

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Scotty - every day is a new outrage - NZ @scotty-nz.bsky.social · 1d

The National Party seems to have lost its sense of decency, and any idea about how to run the country for all New Zealanders.

Anne Salmond: Hunger Games in the Beehive

Comment: Radical libertarian ideologies are generating extreme inequality and ripping the social fabric of NZ, writes Anne Salmond. Don’t we want to be a place where talent wants to live?

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