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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 11h

BANGERZ Education attempts forced charter school takeover of Kelston Boys' High
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BANGERZ Education attempts forced charter school takeover of Kelston Boys' High

The $153,000,000 charter school grift continues under ACT's regime

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 12h

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Deb Urban (@daurban57) on Threads

Only Shakespeare could have written this better! I love the British ❣️

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 12h

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Tracy Campbell (@lamb.cut) on Threads

This was tragically misjudged PR by Israel. No good could possibly come of any state's Minister standing next to Brian Tamaki. No competent political advisor would have allowed it. Even more tragic ...

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 19h

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Mon.DaVinci (@mon.davinci) on Threads

Zohran Mamdani’s win in NYC isn’t just shaking up local politics, it’s wrecking the pro-Israel lobby’s entire global playbook.

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 1d

What Comes After The Current Financial System Ends?
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What Comes After The Current Financial System Ends?

Chaos? A return to gold? Bitcoin? Or, perhaps, something we haven't seen in 70 years?

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 1d

Who Runs Turning Point New Zealand? open.substack.com/pub/mountain....

HERE THEY COME!

Who Runs Turning Point New Zealand?

Plus: Free Speech Union's Jonathan Ayling is awarded taxpayers' money to run a pro Judeo-Christian Altum Academy charter school in Wellington

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesday's Chorus: Where's the solar & batteries? And a proper CGT?
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Tuesday's Chorus: Where's the solar & batteries? And a proper CGT?

30% of dairy farmers in Southland & Otago still without power five days after wild winds flattened power poles; Locals surprised & farmers scramble for diesel generators; Labour goes for CGT-lite

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 1d

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Resist a third term for Trump

Trump’s ally, Steve Bannon just admitted that Trump has no intention of leaving the White House in 2028. He confessed that ‘there’s a plan’ to get Trump a third term as President, breaking the constit

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion: We’re spending all our money on roads that suck thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

We’re spending all our money on roads that suck

At this point, the New Zealand government is basically just a road-building authority with bits tacked on. And not even a very good one.

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 2d

Trump rules out vice presidential run to stay in power after 2028…..

YEAH RIGHT!

sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 2d

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Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) on Threads

“I’m not going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country…We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, li...

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 3d

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Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) on Threads

"Forgive me, but how in the world is this not on the front page of every American newspaper, leading every cable news show, and right smack dab in the middle of every legacy media homepage? Why are we...

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 4d

Mum of teen who died of cancer says Oranga Tamariki contributed to 'suffering'

sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 4d

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Tracy Campbell (@lamb.cut) on Threads

Winston Peters lost his big debate at the Oxford Union by 140 votes to 70. What an embarrassing old sod for New Zealand.

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 4d

www.threads.com/@halcyons_mo.... ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW?!

Tamati Blundell (@halcyons_models) on Threads

Not ro be outdone by Judith Collins meeting a pile of deplorables, Our moronic old boomer has been getting some candid shots with this Brexit pushing right winged populist.

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 4d

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Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) on Threads

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👇🏻👇🏻@michelleisawolf

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 5d

Laser focused .. on spin
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Laser focused .. on spin

Plus: Auckland protest photos

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 5d

Friday's Early Bird & Dawn Chorus: Choosing $30b of motorways instead of real wage increases
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Friday's Early Bird & Dawn Chorus: Choosing $30b of motorways instead of real wage increases

100,000 protest against Government's 1% pay offers to teachers, doctors & nurses in biggest marches in 40 years; Mega-strike against real wage cut offers set against $14 billion blowout in RONs costs

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 7d

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Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) on Threads

Love this

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 7d

Stuff's Lloyd Burr writes article inferring striking workers are "political" and Labour / Greenpeace puppets
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Stuff's Lloyd Burr writes article inferring striking workers are "political" and Labour / Greenpeace puppets

Burr unironically asks: "Politics or pay - what’s really behind the mega strike?" without understanding all action is political, and that unions are made up of individual workers who vote

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 7d

23-OCTOBER Mega-Strike Posters & Luxon's "Comfortable"
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23-OCTOBER Mega-Strike Posters & Luxon's "Comfortable"

Check PSA for updated details

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 7d

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No Kings Interview. Now this is a true 🇺🇸 patriot. God bless this man!!! @usarmyoverlord

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 7d

New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 7d

Wednesday's Early Bird: 65% of voters support mega-strike
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Wednesday's Early Bird: 65% of voters support mega-strike

Poll finds 65% of voters back 'mega-strike'; Public Service Commission pays Facebook to run attack ads on strikers; Willis considered removing Governor from RBNZ board; Labour lukewarm on tolls

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sammy1949.bsky.social @sammy1949.bsky.social · 7d

The fusing of AI firms and the state is leading to a dangerous concentration of power open.substack.com/pub/hardrese....
"DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER"

The fusing of AI firms and the state is leading to a dangerous concentration of power

A researcher says that we should focus not just on AI-related job loss or LLM models--but on the consolidation of market power between tech firms building AI and the government

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