Maureen Perkins
@maureen473.bsky.social
lover of time alone, woollen crafts, movies and books, learning and teaching, Lego, Scandinoir TV and laughing
Next step will be Trump freezing Venezuelan oil exports to all except the US
January 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Next step will be Trump freezing Venezuelan oil exports to all except the US
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Apparently this is a real plaque in Galway
December 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Apparently this is a real plaque in Galway
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Quid pro Schmo strikes again?
@cnn.com @usatoday.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @nbcnews.com @axios.com @politico.com @apnews.com @reuters.com
@cnn.com @usatoday.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @nbcnews.com @axios.com @politico.com @apnews.com @reuters.com
Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
U.S. Moves to Drop Charges in International Soccer Corruption Case
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Quid pro Schmo strikes again?
@cnn.com @usatoday.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @nbcnews.com @axios.com @politico.com @apnews.com @reuters.com
@cnn.com @usatoday.com @washingtonpost.com @latimes.com @nbcnews.com @axios.com @politico.com @apnews.com @reuters.com
So the Trump administration can add piracy to murder and paedophilia on their long list of characteristics #stealingoil
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
So the Trump administration can add piracy to murder and paedophilia on their long list of characteristics #stealingoil
The US military involved in war crimes? Surely not.
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The US military involved in war crimes? Surely not.
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#NewZealand is in danger of becoming a private island for the personal use of Peter Thiel & his accomplices.
Think I’m exaggerating❓
Thiel has been buying up NZ for years, and making huge investments into politics to destroy democracy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2018/fe...
jacobin.com/2025/11/pete...
Think I’m exaggerating❓
Thiel has been buying up NZ for years, and making huge investments into politics to destroy democracy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2018/fe...
jacobin.com/2025/11/pete...
Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
Peter Thiel recently generated headlines with his rambling diatribes about the Antichrist. Thiel’s lurid, apocalyptic view of world politics may be ludicrous or even deranged, but his wealth and power...
jacobin.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
#NewZealand is in danger of becoming a private island for the personal use of Peter Thiel & his accomplices.
Think I’m exaggerating❓
Thiel has been buying up NZ for years, and making huge investments into politics to destroy democracy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2018/fe...
jacobin.com/2025/11/pete...
Think I’m exaggerating❓
Thiel has been buying up NZ for years, and making huge investments into politics to destroy democracy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2018/fe...
jacobin.com/2025/11/pete...
If there is one thing FIFA understands it’s corruption #PeacePrize
December 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
If there is one thing FIFA understands it’s corruption #PeacePrize
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It's 4,000 BC.
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's 4,000 BC.
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
How hot is Damien Lewis? And yes I’m watching #Homeland again . No judgement please.
a showtime ad for billions shows a man making a face
ALT: a showtime ad for billions shows a man making a face
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
How hot is Damien Lewis? And yes I’m watching #Homeland again . No judgement please.
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@thejacksonite.bsky.social She didn’t use her real name and he kept getting them dismissed. In the filing I shared originally, in paragraph 8, which I asked you to read, those cases were referenced which means those are the same people.
READ PARAGRAPH 8
www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
READ PARAGRAPH 8
www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
@thejacksonite.bsky.social She didn’t use her real name and he kept getting them dismissed. In the filing I shared originally, in paragraph 8, which I asked you to read, those cases were referenced which means those are the same people.
READ PARAGRAPH 8
www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
READ PARAGRAPH 8
www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
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YYYEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘The job of a lifetime’: Line of Duty to return for seventh season
The hit BBC crime drama is coming back to screens for the first time since its record-breaking 2021 finale
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
YYYEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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@cnn.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @washingtonpost.com @ms.now @news.sky.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @nbcnews.com Trump can’t succeed without the medias attention. Journalists have the power to weaken him by refusing to cover his Whitehouse. Abuse in the workplace should not be tolerated. Sue him!
I wish we lived in a land where if journalists heard the president call one of their colleges "piggy" or suggest another of their colleagues, who was butchered for what he wrote, in some way had it coming, they would close their laptops, leave as soon as possible, and ask to be reassigned.
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
@cnn.com @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @washingtonpost.com @ms.now @news.sky.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @nbcnews.com Trump can’t succeed without the medias attention. Journalists have the power to weaken him by refusing to cover his Whitehouse. Abuse in the workplace should not be tolerated. Sue him!
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FBI Director Kash Patel DOES NOT want you to track his luxury jet.
But you can.
Read more: interc.pt/47H9Dg9
✍️ @sambiddle.com 📹 @jordanuhl.com
But you can.
Read more: interc.pt/47H9Dg9
✍️ @sambiddle.com 📹 @jordanuhl.com
How to Track FBI Director Kash Patel’s Jet #politics #trump
YouTube video by The Intercept
youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
FBI Director Kash Patel DOES NOT want you to track his luxury jet.
But you can.
Read more: interc.pt/47H9Dg9
✍️ @sambiddle.com 📹 @jordanuhl.com
But you can.
Read more: interc.pt/47H9Dg9
✍️ @sambiddle.com 📹 @jordanuhl.com
What’s wrong with nz government when we are forced to agree with Winston #assetsales
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 AM
What’s wrong with nz government when we are forced to agree with Winston #assetsales
Once again surprise is expressed about why many women don’t report sexual abuse, especially when police or politicians are involved. What a crock of shite from Mitchell and Collin’s tonight
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Once again surprise is expressed about why many women don’t report sexual abuse, especially when police or politicians are involved. What a crock of shite from Mitchell and Collin’s tonight
Disgusting cowards. They will say it was to help people on food stamps but it sure won’t help them in the long run
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Name them and shame them!
We know who to primary and remove from office at first possible ability.
Name them and shame them!
We know who to primary and remove from office at first possible ability.
The 8 Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown
There are few obvious threads connecting the group who broke the partisan impasse.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Disgusting cowards. They will say it was to help people on food stamps but it sure won’t help them in the long run
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
We are finally seeing how far the US is from being the land of the free. Now can we dispel the myth that it’s the richest nation? When you owe trillions of dollars you are not wealthy.
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We are finally seeing how far the US is from being the land of the free. Now can we dispel the myth that it’s the richest nation? When you owe trillions of dollars you are not wealthy.
That’s a lot of New Yorkers not voting?
November 5, 2025 at 4:31 AM
That’s a lot of New Yorkers not voting?
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Let's be clear: the removal of Te Tiriti from the Education and Training Act is an attack on the human rights of every child in every school.
November 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Let's be clear: the removal of Te Tiriti from the Education and Training Act is an attack on the human rights of every child in every school.
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Hi, my name is Erica Stanford, and instead of having the guts to got through the proper regulatory process and make my case to the sector, I'm going to use sneaky, undemocratic means to strike at the heart of what it means to be a learner in New Zilund, and then hide behind my media mates.
Erica Stanford: Why I'm removing Treaty rules for schools
OPINION: The move reverses a 2020 change.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Hi, my name is Erica Stanford, and instead of having the guts to got through the proper regulatory process and make my case to the sector, I'm going to use sneaky, undemocratic means to strike at the heart of what it means to be a learner in New Zilund, and then hide behind my media mates.
That’s 8 billion a month that is effectively subsidising businesses that pay poverty wages and increase their profits
Trump administration will provide half of usual funds to Snap recipients in November www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump administration will provide half of usual funds to Snap recipients in November
Contingency funds will keep benefits going for nearly 42 million people in the food assistance program, says Trump
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
That’s 8 billion a month that is effectively subsidising businesses that pay poverty wages and increase their profits
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Spraying someone with bears seems even more illegal
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Spraying someone with bears seems even more illegal
Of course I have a life outside of work and care for an elderly parent. Two weeks ago I had a mammogram, last week a dentist appointment, and just got a reminder about my regular eye exam. My cup overfloweth
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Of course I have a life outside of work and care for an elderly parent. Two weeks ago I had a mammogram, last week a dentist appointment, and just got a reminder about my regular eye exam. My cup overfloweth
If Trump has been scared by the House of Dynamite movie into his nuke testing idea, bet he stopped watching 2/3rds of the way through when he found out the president was black
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
If Trump has been scared by the House of Dynamite movie into his nuke testing idea, bet he stopped watching 2/3rds of the way through when he found out the president was black