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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 4h

#nzpol 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿. youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA?...

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 4h

Something something dead whale…. Anyway, I’m sure it was all cheaper and way more fun than therapy for him.

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe all those drugs, brain worms and road kill wasn’t for the best…

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 5h

I dunno, RFK Jr is pretty murderous too with his anti intellectualism.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h

Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 15h

#nzpol

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 15h

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

Teen charged with making death threats against former Green MP Benjamin Doyle

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

dlvr.it

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 15h

You warm and comfy?

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 15h

Looks who is curled on my lap 🥰

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

Further arrests made over ‘shocking’ arson attack on Peacehaven mosque

Four people have so far been arrested as part of police investigation into attack in East Sussex, which caused ‘significant damage’ Police have made further arrests over an arson attack on a mosque in East Sussex. The building in Phyllis Avenue, Peacehaven was badly damaged by the fire at about 9.50pm on Saturday. Nobody was injured, but police said “significant damage” was caused to the front of the building and a nearby vehicle. Continue reading...

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 16h

I have a cat and she will not leave me alone! Nor will she shut up!

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 19h

Some Tim Curry to enliven your day youtu.be/O9SNV7lPA9E?...

tim curry as mick jagger.avi

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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social · 19h

Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
Find books by László Krasznahorkai in our collection. christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?qu...
Read more on the Nobel website: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 19h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20h

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 20h

A defining novel of 20th-century Ukrainian literature, "The City" has now been brought to English-language readers by Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute in a fresh translation by Maxim Tarnawsky.

One of the greatest 20th century Ukrainian novels, now in English translation

Overwhelmed by the buzzing nightlife of Khreshchatyk Street in central Kyiv, Stepan Radchenko, the despondent protagonist of Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s novel “The City,” looks up at the moon for solace an...

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Daniel Mullis @daenumullis.bsky.social · 22h

Der Historiker Mark Bray, der ein Buch zur „Antifa“ veröffentlicht und an der Universität von New Jersey Kurse zum Thema unterrichtet hat, wollte nach Morddrohungen zusammen mit seiner Familie die USA verlassen. Nun wurden sie an der Ausreise gehindert.

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 21h

International bookshop day is tomorrow and I plan to go to Scorpio Book Shoop. I’ve my eye on a book the. Library doesn’t have and if I win a prize of a stack of new books… 📚 I’d be a pig in poo.

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 22h

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent cartoon after #SirDavidLow on #Trump #Blair #Netanyahu #IsraelGaza #Ceasefire #Gaza - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 21h

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 22h

Drs get to walk away and only deal with them short periods at a time.nurses are there between 9-12* and the true heroes

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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1d

Gee I wonder what she spent that billions on? #NZPol

Government’s books show finance minister borrowing billions to keep the lights on
Lloyd Burr, Emma Ricketts and Zane Small
October 9, 2025 • 1:06pm

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 1d

Wait… the founders of anti-fa are even alive anymore?

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

Pip is an expert in camouflage.
Yes, there really is a dog in this photo.

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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 1d

Not just capitalism… kings of old didn’t care much for the peasants either me thinks.

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