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Kia ora We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · Feb 6

Kia ora everyone, I’d like to start out here on this platform with a message of peace, in the spirit of friendship and mutual aid extended to all the people of the world
❤️ 🖤 🤍 💚

Photograph of a handmade protest sign held up high. Text reads: “PEACE FOR GAZA”

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · Aug 17

Israel is also holding approximately 10,000 Palestinian hostages.

Please consider all the hostages next time you’re talking about this. Too many only care about the 50 Israelis.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 14h

1/ The March for White Australia RETVRNS this Sunday, OCT 19.

Below is a list of counter-protests, organised under the banner of 'No Room For Racism & Fascism' /// 'No White Australia. Counter The Far Right.'

Melbourne - 11am @ State Library
Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens
Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place
Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns
Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park
Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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rotnes.bsky.social @rotnes.bsky.social · 20h

Blinkens ceasefire deal was ready over a year ago.
Bibi, Saudis, Qatar and the Ayatollah Complainy decided to stall so they could make room for their beautiful gilded golf resorts placed on bodies of children.
It's a fake religious war. It is a class war as always.

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 14h

Are the 10,000 Palestinian hostages released?

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d

Socialising losses, privatising gain - Groundswell win bigly
National and ACT will push through anti-environment initiatives under urgency as reports confirm NZ's oceans warming 34% faster than global average -Mountain Tui #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

Socialising losses, privatising gain - Groundswell win bigly

National and ACT will push through anti-environment initiatives under urgency as reports confirm NZ's oceans warming 34% faster than global average

open.substack.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 1d

I may be biased saying this, but birds are awesome!

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 2d

After literal decades of jerking our chain, it should be plainly obvious to everyone that the Democratic Party has NO plan to competently address fascism other than to competently plan their stock portfolios around it and send fundraising emails that turn OUR crises into profit-making opportunities.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 1d

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 1d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 13 Oct 1970 famous Black activist Angela Davis was arrested by the FBI in NYC. She had fled California after a warrant for her arrest was issued in connection with an attempted jailbreak. Davis was later acquitted. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

You have simply encountered how incredibly fed up people are

T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

Can you comment on the effect of the absolutely colossal AI bubble that seems to be, almost on its own, propping up the US economy right now, and hiding much of the true picture of the US economy?

T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting to note that while tourism craters in the USA, that the advice is to “book your overseas holiday now” in other words “send more US capital overseas”

It’s kinda amazing how much Trump and MAGA have screwed their own economy here

T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely noticed that the right wing (esp “free speech” crowd) have a tendency to think that expressing political views or disagreeing is “fascism” because they feel like it undermines their sole right to voice their nonsense unchallenged.

My dad and brother both pull this all the time, it’s sad

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Shambolikaaron @shambolika.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't been a teacher for a long time and I was in museums not schools, but I'm wondering what does Luxon mean about "making the curriculum easier to use"? Were there issues with difficulty of use I don't know about? Or does he want a curriculum that doesn't trigger colonial guilt?
#nzpol

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

My dad has this disorder, whatever you call it.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD which most likely translates to 13 Oct c1157 BC, the first recorded strike in history was first reported. In ancient Egypt, gangs of construction workers building for Ramses III launched sit-down strikes in protest at insufficient food rations shop.workingclasshistory.com/search

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Americans

Please stop with the “our laws are good and function well” when they fucking demonstrably aren’t

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 2d

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

Assata Shakur
#socialistsunday

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Tom Sulston @tom.sulston.net · 1d

It's galling to see the Albo government paint the U16 social media ban as a great success when there are expert organisations working with vulnerable children queuing up to demonstrate how it will make young people less safe online.

Children will suffer as a result of the social media ban.

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully enough people wake up to science… I’d really like to still be able to access three meals a day when I’m old and on current predictions it looks more like 1 meal / day.

For my young nephew and niece they’re almost certainly going to face famine.

Horrible but true, sadly

#auspol #nzpol

T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 1d

As grim as this news is (along with similar out of nz) here’s hoping Labor just becomes the new right wing party and the LNP fade into total obscurity.

#auspol

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 1d

Before it won the 2022 federal election, the Labor Party promised stronger action to curb climate change. Since then, it has approved coal and gas projects that will emit a cumulative 6.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. satpa.pe/lzpWeLc

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals

The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

satpa.pe

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