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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 3h

Its even more prim with my very christian mum. No damn, bloody, bugger or hell. As for the story i retold at xmas lunch at aunts request, which included condoms, i received an actual letter sent to where id gone on holiday about said rudeness on Jesus's birthday. I still love her to bits.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 6h

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production.

He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 5h

Mark is one of the US’s leading scholars on the history of antifascism and a professor at Rutgers University. He was harassed by the fascist group TPUSA, and began receiving death threats.

As he and his family attempted to flee the country, this happened:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 11h

Just got sent this from an article by Bryce Edwards. This is completely false, and he never once fact-checked it with me. My campaign was run by me and my small volunteer team. Comments like this reflect a tired mindset that assumes women can’t succeed in politics without a man pulling the strings.

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concerns about transparency and public trust.
The Anatomy of influence - A Wellington case study
Many of the powerful vested interests behind local politicians are barely acknowledged. For example, how many Wellington voters knew that the current Mayor of Wellington, Tory Whanau, had her successful 2022 campaign essentially run by corporate lobbyist Neale Jones?
Jones co-owns and operates the Capital Government Relations firm with fellow political commentator Ben Thomas. The firm is the epitome of the "revolving door"

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 10h

Bryce Edwards, another example of an inadequate White man getting a paid public platform to present biased nonsense in New Zealand.

This country is colonial to its core.

Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 11h

Just got sent this from an article by Bryce Edwards. This is completely false, and he never once fact-checked it with me. My campaign was run by me and my small volunteer team. Comments like this reflect a tired mindset that assumes women can’t succeed in politics without a man pulling the strings.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 9h

Yep

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 10h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 9h

Growing calls for independent #watchdog to keep NZ politicians honest:
As scrutiny of #politicians’ interests rises & public trust in institutions declines, there are legitimate questions to be asked re whether current #integrity mechanisms are working
newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/15/g...

Growing calls for independent watchdog to keep politicians honest

As scrutiny of politicians rises and public trust declines, the Integrity Institute is questioning how potential conflicts are managed

newsroom.co.nz

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

Is Trump a blathering idiot or a shameless liar — or both?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7h

This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.

Tweet from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick quoting Laura N. Rodríguez Presa.
Aaron’s comment: “DHS is an escalation spiral; the more they do things like this, the more people on the ground push back... and I'm deeply worried what the ultimate result will be.”
Laura’s tweet reads: “A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them... Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents ICE activity, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.”
Attached photo shows a federal agent inside a vehicle pointing a rifle out of the driver’s side window.

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 1d

This has been the vicious fucking thing about the "Jobseeker Benefit" ever since Paula Bennett coined it in 2013

In addition to keeping people in poverty it's been a term of propaganda forcing us all to accept the frame of welfare as economic obligation instead of social support

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15h

Canada vs. America

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

Cartoon by @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social.

Chilling.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 2d

And yet this pale little dungeon spawn still wants you to believe Portland is the problem. Portland, a city so gentle it probably writes thank you notes to the rain.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Count Clorox and the Beige Crusade

Stephen Miller is a walking joke with the power (and intention) to ruin lives.

open.substack.com

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 19h

Same for NZ. #nzpol

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

www.spiegel.de

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 13h

This.💯

So much this.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like our current problem with Labour in Aotearoa. We know that National are terrible economically for the majority and BRILLIANT for the tiny minority…labour are bland at best for the majority and still the fuck owned by donors.
Greens at least have real tax and equality policies.

Yoshemo @yoshemo.bsky.social · 19d

It's not that "the left" is too focused on pronouns. It's that the closest thing to leftists in power (Democrats) are only left-leaning when it comes to self-expression rights. They are bought by corporate money and completely refuse to when discuss leftist economic solutions.

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 11h

We've been screaming this for YEARS.

Remember years back when NZ's chin-stroking pundits decided that "identity politics" was divisive? That was the same bullshit.

Imperialism/colonialism IS authoritarian by nature.

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 11h

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 11h

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...
#nzpol

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lieslm.bsky.social @lieslm.bsky.social · 1d

As a boomer who hates winnie, collins et al, dont lump us altogether thanks. #votegreen

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Peace Action Ōtautahi @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️BREAKING ⚠️ 25+ arrests have been made violently by police, who are facilitating the business of war and genocide in Te Pae right now. We, the people, say NO to the aerospace military industrial complex. We, the people, say NO MORE WAR IN OUR NAME. #nzpol #nz #peaceactivism

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