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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 3h

The only two communities who have elected a trans mayor are the progressive strongholds of Carterton and Hokitika

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 3h

Or to say he has lowered the cost of a drug by 1000% without immediately being asked what was the old price and what is the new

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 3h

Jacquie Grant, who is 82 years old and a trans woman, looks likely to be the new mayor of Westland www.westlanddc.govt.nz/media/u0kbft...

www.westlanddc.govt.nz

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Antifa leader Habeas Corpus has been arrested in Portland.

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 3h

Clearly Little will need to triangulate to relieve the fears of the non voting centrist majority

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 3h

Dompost got it's arse kicked in the election. Big loser.

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Sue Tyler @styler.bsky.social · 4h

Wellington voters don’t think bicycle lanes are bad for the city. If they did our councillors would look different

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 4h

Predictable and status quo friendly results across Canterbury except for Selwyn which chose to just absolutely send it

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 6h

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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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 5h

Gracious as ever:
Defeated Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung, who narrowly retained his Wharangi/Onslow-Western ward seat, said his message to voters was: “This is what you’ve chosen. Live with it.” Of Andrew Little " He’s lying about something."
From The Spinoff.

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 12h

Auckland’s once paper of record, the Herald, senior local affairs reporter wrote 0 articles on the race, even taking an overseas holiday as the campaign reached its peak. ‘No-one cares about city politics’ no doubt is the excuse, well no one can if all they are feed is imported gossip, for clicks.

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 5h

Oh man, which far-right rag is publishing this crap?

*looks*

oh, right.

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 6h

And our friends out west have returned Calvert and Chung (boo, wtf) and Matthews (yay)

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 6h

Tiefenbacher, O'Brien and Osbourne in my ward is about what I expected. Will be funny to see how Tiefenbacher goes as a councillor given how arrogant his mayoralty bid was. (I'll resign if council doesn't fall in line behind me type talk)

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 6h

Little as expected doing it easily in Wlg. Chung getting twice the vote of Calvert though? Our righties are a weird mob pōneke

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 6h

There is sooo much paper and sooo many people warning me about 'consequences' wtf?

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 6h

The dog has definitely caught the car

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 6h

Central issues were a reasonable council having to create a new water entity (as required by central govt's "Local Water Done Well" policy) + costs of infrastructure development driving up rates. Let's see how the nutty right manages to deal with these issues over the next 3 years ... .

Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 7h

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 6h

Also ... remember when Whanganui wouldn't even put an "h" in its name because Maoris were bloody well asking for too much?

(Additional update: Michael Laws lives in Cromwell these days and is stinking up the Otago Regional Council.)

Whanganui votes to retain Māori wards
Whanganui has voted to retain its Māori wards in a tight contest.

Progress votes show 6663 people voted to retain a Māori ward, while 6213 voted to have it removed.

More than 1000 ballots left the Māori ward option blank.

Juile Herewini on 906 votes and Geoff Hipango on 738 votes have been returned as Māori ward councillors.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 7h

Well fuck - Selwyn has elected a majority of Council with links to VFF, Act, and Trump fans. Maybe put that on the no fly list for the next three years

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 12h

is this what people on the right side of history say

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

we will cut trump and his forces off from the sea

Beau @runningsignal.com · 8h

Dem Governors have more control over trade than they understand.

70% of international trade is running through the black dots. Most of the biggest sea ports, and most proximal to water.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 9h

most annoying part of having a baby is how everyone you know is all "can I see the baby" "where's the baby" "I don't see the baby" "is there actually a baby" "I don't mean to imply anything" "it's just that... You've been different lately" "ever since you fainted during that weird electrical storm"

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