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Daniel Bullen

@danielbullen.bsky.social

280 followers 150 following 850 posts

I stand with Canada, Ukraine and anyone else opposing authoritarians. (a.k.a. The Celica Guy - yes, let's chat about old Toyotas, #savethedragons, #newzealand)

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Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 1d

Simeon Brown tells young jobseekers to “get a paper run” on RNZ this morning 🙀

He is so out of touch, he thinks neighbourhoods still get a daily newspaper delivered
#nzpol

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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Irish-Seanchai @irish-seanchai.bsky.social · 16h

I support Chicago Pastor David Black who was brutally shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE while peacefully protesting!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 1d

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

Gang numbers reach record highs under National - but could be even higher, as police can no longer easily identify members.
Meanwhile gang profits double too. Too bad most Kiwis will never realise in the absence of right wing media dominance & not enough funding on the other side #nzpol #kiwi

Police Minister says record high gang numbers "highly concerning" July 29 1News article

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 2d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Unprecedented corruption

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

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Informed Citizens @johnrwilder.bsky.social · 3d

THIS

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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 2d

I have heard this repeatedly, particularly among the "we must stop Wikipedia being so left wing" brigade.

Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Daniel Bullen @danielbullen.bsky.social · 3d

#nzpol

Daniel Bullen @danielbullen.bsky.social · 3d

CLUXON is STUFFed #nzpol

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 3d

“ “If you want a job, go where the jobs are.”

“he told a broke, exhausted nation in recession that he was “wealthy and sorted”.

“ telling parents of poor kids that if they didn’t like the prison slop on offer in schools, make a marmite sandwich.”

“He’s a dead man walking.”
#nzpol