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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 15h

Every vote counts whānau
In the Kaipara there are 5 votes in it - on the one hand we could get the racist, climate denier Larsen or on Friday when specials are counted Kaipara might get its champion for the people
Snow Tane.

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Dr Tara McAllister @taramcallister.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d

While this young man should of course face justice, the mostly middle age men who incited this violence should too, but it's unlikely they will

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned | Stuff share.google/viSA8fS2oy3F...

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 2d

🤣 my post from exactly one month ago:
"Anyone who runs for council with "common sense" in their blurb - auto 🚩"

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 9d

At least 9 cases in Northland this morning - this could well become a massive problem very, very quickly that we do not have the health infrastructure to deal with.

Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 11d

"The percentage of children fully immunised at 24 months in Northland is 62.3%" This is so so shocking. Vulnerable communities have been left to rot by every fucking government for decades. Disgraceful.

Six measles cases confirmed in Northland as contacts isolate

Two new measles cases have been identified in the Bay of Islands.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10d

This is what happens when society tells techbros they're very very very special people

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 9d

Beyond embarrassing. We have installed solar at our house and in the time it took to make the decision and installation the company gave us extra free panels - thats how much the price of the technology is dropping.

Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 9d

Stupidity in a nutshell. Spending $200m to subsidise the most expensive fuel for a power plant - diesel. And remember we as consumers pay for the most expensive power generated at the time it is produced.

$200m would have been better spent on residential solar and battery schemes...

Big new diesel power plant will help in energy crises, says Marsden Point chief

Once, govt looked to build a zero carbon green power plant at the Northland oil terminal; now things have changed. Jonathan Milne reports.

newsroom.co.nz

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 9d

That is my Mumma - past retirement and still one of the best mental health nurses in Aotearoa.

Public Service Association @nzpsa.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING NEWS: More than 3,500 mental health and public health nurses have voted to strike for 24 hours on Thursday 23 October for better pay and conditions.

The image is a dark-green photo of a blurred scene from a PSA rally. The text reads: 'Breaking news'. '3,500 Mental Health & Public Health Nurses to Strike on Thursday October 23.’ PSA logos are in the bottom corners.

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 9d

My other fav Jane

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9d

Actor and activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment first backed by her father Henry Fonda in 1947, to fight against what the group calls a “coordinated campaign” from the Trump administration to curb freedom of expression. https://wapo.st/4nxKYQw

Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 9d

Paging most of NZ media

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9d

"To my colleagues in mainstream media: your silence is complicity. Your 'boths-sides-ism' is complicty. Your euphemisms for genocide is complicity."

From my speech accepting the 'Path of Truth' award from Palestinian diaspora group KTH.

Full speech: zeteo.com/p/palestine-...

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 11d

My favs were Bebex = breakfast and the cutest
Hoppycopper = Helicopter

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 11d

“Over the past five years, $1.8 billion has been wasted on drilling 58 wells, and gas reserves are still falling. It’s time Luxon faced reality: NZ must shift to cleaner, cheaper energy alternatives and fast." - Labour

Luxon/National just always a dud #nzpol #kiwi

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 11d

"The percentage of children fully immunised at 24 months in Northland is 62.3%" This is so so shocking. Vulnerable communities have been left to rot by every fucking government for decades. Disgraceful.

Six measles cases confirmed in Northland as contacts isolate

Two new measles cases have been identified in the Bay of Islands.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 11d

I have studied leadership actually its all you people out there who are wrong actually. I am awesome.

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 11d

i see they just tripled down: www.rnz.co.nz/news/correct...

RNZ responds to Media Council ruling on coverage of teen’s death

The Media Council has upheld complaints against RNZ over its article "Teenager starves to death alone in emergency accommodation". RNZ Chief News Officer Mark Stevens responds.

www.rnz.co.nz

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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 12d

as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)

In their ruling, released today, the NZMC also took issue with that, writing:

The parents are entitled to express their views about the tragic events and their views on the teen’s gender identity and RNZ is entitled to report them. But their perspective came from a particular point of view and drove the narrative. The fact that the story was brought to RNZ by a group that is regarded as having an anti-trans perspective should have alerted RNZ to the fact that there was a wider agenda at play.

The NZMC concluded:

The Council believes RNZ should have been aware that there was a wider agenda at play and another side of the story that needed to be told, particularly when further information emerged after the publication of the first story. They could have provided a balancing alternative perspective in a number of ways, in the original story or subsequently.

The complaint is upheld for lack of balance and fairness.

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The Press @thepress.co.nz · 14d

A loosely coordinated network of candidates with roots in the anti-mandate movement is contesting this year’s local elections.

Behind the boring promises: the protesters trying to reshape local democracy

Candidates linked to the pandemic protest movement are increasingly targeting council seats under community banners.

www.thepress.co.nz

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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 17d

This is your regular reminder that according to IRD, the richest 350 families in the country pay an effective tax rate of 8%

Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 17d

Someone is going to have to pay to keep the country's finances in order, says Treasury, and since it obviously can't be landlords or tobacco companies or the wealthy, we're afraid it's going to have to be you.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 17d

They are saying 32% GST and 72 for retirement age so we will happily accept 20% GST and 68 for retirement age. Why don’t they say 5% wealth tax and 40% corporate tax on big conglomerates? No of course they won’t say that no siree.

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations!

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 17d

He has a website which probably has his agents contact details on it somewhere.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 18d

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 18d

He is cracking me up again today.
I know its serious but it is so funny - he should be at the retirement village doing sing a long Sundays!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "I'm really good at predicting things. During the campaign they had a hat -- a best-selling hat -- 'Trump was right about everything.' And I don't say that in a braggadocios way, but it's true. I've been right about everything."

Toni Potter @tonipotter33.bsky.social · 19d

Just spat all over the computer screen I laughed so hard. Guys this dude is President

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19d

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."