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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 4h

#CLux could look less thrilled to meet the 🍊🤡💩

Did he raise the tariffs? Wouldn't make any difference with the Mango Mussolini. He's demented & doesn't care about anything but himself #nzpol

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Maybe tariffs, definitely golf: What Luxon and Trump discussed in first meeting

The prime minister met the US president for the first time during a leaders summit in South Korea overnight.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.

In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.

A massive percentage came from foreigners.

It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.

But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine

The U.S. president’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top of potentially billions more in unrealized “on paper” gains. Much of that cash came from foreign sources as Donald Trump's sons touted their business on an international investor roadshow.

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Sharon @asharona140.bsky.social · 1d

We all knew this, yet he got away with it

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 1d

If culling NAF Coalition's tax break for landlords makes property investing unprofitable then stop investing in housing. Housing is a necessity & right for people not a $ making scheme for the middle class #PutTheNatsLast it's where they put you #nzpol
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Property investors want Labour to keep tax break for landlords

Property investors want Labour to promise to keep the coalition's tax break for landlords, as the party releases its new Capital Gains Tax policy for the next election. Political reporter Giles Dexter...

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NewshoundAI @newshoundai.bsky.social · Sep 23

A member of a wealthy family in New Zealand has been sentenced to two years and five months in prison for possessing and importing thousands of child abuse images, including extreme child sexual exploitation content. The individual was convicted at Auckland District Court for knowingly

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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · Sep 13

‘NZ Customs will challenge a judge’s decision to grant permanent name suppression to the member of a wealthy family who imported child sex abuse material.

Last month, the 46-year-old man was sentenced to two years and five months’

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Name suppression appeal filed against wealthy-family member who imported thousands of child sex abuse material

Thousands of extreme child sex abuse material was found on the man’s devices.

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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 1d

The real question is:

Why the hell do they keep giving him cognitive tests?

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 1d

Never forget that he’s a deranged criminal psychopath

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KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social · 1d

☆ ☆ C A L I F O R N I A ☆ ☆

#PROP50

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BREAKING: Obama deals SURPRISE blow to Trump, Republicans

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Poli Alert @polialert.bsky.social · 1d

Needham: “Past federal efforts… focused on ensuring ballot access, particularly for non-white, non-English speaking voters. But Trump’s efforts focus on just the opposite: making it difficult or impossible for minority voters to cast a ballot” @atrupar.com

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The DOJ's "election monitoring" is really voter suppression

Trump's Big Lie has become government policy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Not seeing much about the massive anti-Trump pro-Gaza protests are we? Funny, that.

(Instead our media shows us Trump’s embarrassing dance moves and red carpet treatment)

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

If the current administration ever ends, many people in (and around) it will need to be prosecuted. From influence peddling to flat-out murder, their crimes seem to accumulate each and every day.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 1d

Winter pjs back on again ❄️🌬🌨

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Everything’s computer… @atomicmoog.bsky.social · 1d

Who could possibly have predicted the party who tanked the economy to funnel more cash to landlords isn’t in favour of a CGT? 🤷‍♂️

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Nicola Willis slams Labour's capital gains tax plan: 'It's a terrible idea'

The finance minister says another tax is the last thing the economy needs, but an expert calls it clean and simple .

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't have anything to do with the investment properties she owns? #nzpol

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Nicola Willis - WhereTheyStand

National List MP

wheretheystand.nz

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 2d

Of course Nicola Willis thinks Labour's capital gains tax plan is a terrible idea. Think of the landlords & investors! #PutTheNatsLast it's where they put you #nzpol #CGT

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Nicola Willis slams Labour's capital gains tax plan: 'It's a terrible idea'

The finance minister says another tax is the last thing the economy needs, but an expert calls it clean and simple .

www.rnz.co.nz

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 2d

She forgot who is in charge!

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 2d

tRump has never cared about anyone but himself all his life. He only cares about money & from that power. No friends only people he can use and abuse. What's in it for him #DumpTrump #LockHimUp #Unpresidented #LOSER #VoteBlue

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Darren Watson @darrenwatson.bsky.social · 3d

While I'm not really surprised this increasingly Christofascist government is applying their 'worthiness test' to acknowledged victims of state abuse, I am really disgusted. #nzpol

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A grubby, grotty attempt to shirk responsibility for decades of horror

OPINION: The Government’s move to make it harder for some victims of abuse in state care to access compensation is disgusting.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Cromwell MM @cromwellmm.bsky.social · 2d

Nats would never have set up a RC or a redress scheme #PutTheNatsLast it's where they put you #nzpol

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 3d

People forget that when the survivors were fighting for a Royal Commission into State Care under John Key's government, Anne Tolley the then Nats MSD minister said there would never be a commission and the only reason we have it at all is that Jacinda Ardern formally launched it in 2018 #NZPol

Darren Watson @darrenwatson.bsky.social · 3d

While I'm not really surprised this increasingly Christofascist government is applying their 'worthiness test' to acknowledged victims of state abuse, I am really disgusted. #nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A grubby, grotty attempt to shirk responsibility for decades of horror

OPINION: The Government’s move to make it harder for some victims of abuse in state care to access compensation is disgusting.

www.stuff.co.nz