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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛

@losgatos.bsky.social

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Ka mua, ka muri American/Kiwi living in Aotearoa. She/her. Hockey #GoAvsGo, gardening, cat lady, traveller, history, politics, knitter. Big into privacy and democracy. Will most definitely be snarky about politics. Animals are better than people.

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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 15h

Nice juxtaposition @bernardchickey.bsky.social #nzpol

Scoop of the day: PM Christopher Luxon has had the council rates on his Waiheke Island holiday home revised down by $8,100 after he objected to the valuation on the Onetangi home being too high at $10.5 million. The valuation was cut to $7 million, according to NZ Herald-$’s Chris Knox this morning, citing land value records. Luxon’s property was one of 47 in Onetangi that had their valuations cut, with a total of 211 ratings valuations downgrades across all of Auckland’s 630,000 properties.

Quote of the day: “Our biggest concern is those over 65. We’re seeing a significant number of over 65s, who are on fixed incomes and can’t cope with the rise in food or power, because a lot of them are renting.” North Harbour Budgeting Services general manager Claudette Wilson via (RNZ)

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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 15h

And this whole thing, what an abomination. If you come to #NZ on holiday, boycott all of the pig foods please. These poor pigs aren't allowed to MOVE.
@newsroom.co.nz #nzpol
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Behind NZ Pork’s campaign to keep farrowing crates - Part 1

Animal advocates won a High Court battle in 2020 but with recent law changes have pig farmers won the war?

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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 15h

oops #nzpol @thespinoff.bsky.social

Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 15h

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Juggernaut 2: coming soon

YouTube video by The Spinoff

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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 16h

This is quite shocking actually. I'm a bit late to it, but doesn't this fly in the face of the very public apology - and what now seems like a part PR effort - in May by Stanford and Luxon? I mean the whole f*&$%ng point is that the abuse was the causal factor! #nzpol
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Govt to make it harder for some abuse survivors to get redress

The same week the Government announces the Solicitor-General is leaving the role, the coalition has introduced legislation that will further shield the state from taking responsibility for the horrifi...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2d

History endures and one day emerges.
Every masked ICE thug, DOJ lawyer or DHS bureaucrat today shoving people into vans, or losing children in private-prison gulags, or exporting immigrants to random countries: Masks and following-orders excuses won't be enough. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Department of Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 2d

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

One of Trump's billionaire buddies just bought Paramount. Now, he wants to buy Warner Bros.

That means one giant company could control almost everything you watch on TV.

Graphic that reads: TRUMP'S BILLIONAIRE BUDDY JUST BOUGHT PARAMOUNT. NOW, HE WANTS TO BUY WARNER BROS. THAT MEANS ONE GIANT COMPANY COULD CONTROL ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU WATCH ON TV: HBO CNN CBS NEWS SHOWTIME TBS COMEDY CENTRAL TNT PARAMOUNT+ TLC HGTV NICKELODEON CARTOON NETWORK ANIMAL PLANET CBS SPORTS ADULT SWIM TEENNICK BOOMERANG COOKING CHANNEL DISCOVERY CHANNEL FOOD NETWORK SCIENCE CHANNEL THE CW NETWORK TRAVEL CHANNEL BET MTV VH1

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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 2d

I thought the whistles had been put away

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?

THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3d

Trump got reelected and the U.S. hasn’t won a World Series game since. Will the humiliations on the global stage never cease?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

"Tearing down the White House and replacing it with a facsimile of Mar-a-Lago isn’t any less appalling because Trump cajoled companies into paying for it. Indeed, it might be worse. Funding a pet project via the coercion of private donors creates a closed loop and complete lack of accountability."

King Trump turns US Treasury into his personal piggy bank

He thinks our money is his.

www.publicnotice.co

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Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 3d

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4d

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

Dos gatos 🐈🐈‍⬛ @losgatos.bsky.social · 3d

It's all for show, it'll come out after, like t's mythic donations to the military, it never happened, was all about the lip service

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4d

I talked a lot of shit when I was trying to get everyone to turn off Desperate Housewives and Sunday Night Football. But if that's the crooked path to pop culture immortality, so be it. Thanks for the shoutout, [email protected]