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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 56m

Good resistance tips here.

Project 2025, Silicon Valley & Tech's AI War on Democracy | The Nerd Reich Podcast Mailbag

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 3h

“Israel forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison.”

Some Palestinians have been held prisoner with little food for decades but it was this detail that really got me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 14h

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Taxpayers' Union congratulate Atlas Network Partner, Maria Corina Machado, for winning 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
The Taxpayers' Union congratulates fellow Atlas Network participant Maria Corina Machado for winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize over the weekend.
Taxpayers' Union Executive Director Jordan Williams said:
"Pro-freedom think tanks in Venezuela were among the very first Atlas Network partners in the early 1980s, promoting the ideas behind the movement for human rights and democratic norms in Venezuela that inspire the country's residents to this day. Machado has tirelessly strived to promote democracy and fight dictatorship in her country."
"Although Machado's involvement in Atlas
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"Although Machado's involvement in Atlas predates mine, she was heavily involved in Atlas Network at about the same time as New
Zealand's now Deputy Prime Minister, David Seymour."
"I am delighted to see that Atlas Network will continue to stand by her side, and alongside all of the world's freedom's champions, every step of the way."
"On behalf of the Taxpayers' Union - also an Atlas Network Partner - we extend our
congratulations."

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 16h

Never forget that Tony Blair belongs in the Hague. He signed off on this torture that they call "harshing".

Interrogation techniques at 'Britain's Abu Ghraib' revealed

Video showing brutal mistreatment is submitted during high court proceedings brought by former Iraqi inmates

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 18h

It's like fighting with the menswear guy is a rake these fools keep needing to step on for some reason

"you can't win, Rocky"

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 19h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting framing of *checks notes* the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church issuing pastoral instructions to his bishops and talking about *re-checks notes* Catholic doctrine and practice, as he has absolute authority to do under canon law and two thousand years or so of precedent.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 21h

Celia Wade-Brown looks under the numbers and highlights actually a more positive sea change in the Māori Wards voting numbers.

A little bit heartening.

#nzpol

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 1d

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 1d

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being removed.

Just 204 road cones confirmed gone thanks to heralded ‘tipline’

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being removed.

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 1d

This whole story is actually amazing, and the Pathe footage astonishing.

ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 11d

George Formby in South Africa. Worth reading for the quotation from Beryl Formby which ought to go into the anthologies.

ayewellhmm.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/g...

George Formby; Anti-Apartheid Hero

Yes, you read that title right! After blogging about how my neighbours and friendly rivals the Wiganers came by the name ‘pie eater’ earlier in the week, I thought I’d shed the sp…

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 11d

George Formby in South Africa. Worth reading for the quotation from Beryl Formby which ought to go into the anthologies.

ayewellhmm.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/g...

George Formby; Anti-Apartheid Hero

Yes, you read that title right! After blogging about how my neighbours and friendly rivals the Wiganers came by the name ‘pie eater’ earlier in the week, I thought I’d shed the sp…

ayewellhmm.wordpress.com

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 3d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait to see the regulatory impact statement that outlines the impact of this decision on everyone who isn’t a farmer

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes

The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years and is ruling out agricultural taxes on methane emissions.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 2d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats' rather than fixing people's everyday lives

Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’

www.bylinesupplement.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 2d

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.

#nzpol

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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Ben Torkington @bentorkington.bsky.social · 2d

it appear Radio New Zealand Herald has been acquired by Fox News www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Trump, 79, has 'cardiac age' of 65-year-old, doctor says

The oldest person to assume the US presidency has been described as vigorous and fit by his physician.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 2d

NO doubt Laura Kuenssberg or Trevor Philips will be interviewing a Reform spot tomorrow morning - perhaps they could ask 🤔

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 2d

watching these moral vacuums of comedians (bill burr, aziz ansari etc) *double down* by using the same PR lines to justify shilling for a journalist-murdering regime at the royadh comedy festival is.... something.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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audioculturenz.bsky.social @audioculturenz.bsky.social · 2d

Gareth Shute tells us a bit about his great new story: Banned! Ten videos and songs “with issues”... @garethshute.bsky.social
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ban...

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Cars are still bad @jondoesnotexist.bsky.social · 3d

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno, man... I dunno. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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