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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · Jun 24
This is a barn-stormer.
The part about Keir Starmer is boggling.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jun 24
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 4h
It's fair to be asking, "who radicialised him?"

People with big online audiences spread hate targeting Doyle, making it more likely someone would act this way

www.nzherald.co.nz/gisborne-her...
Gisborne youth accused of threatening to kill Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle appears in court - NZ Herald
The charges relate to threats allegedly made earlier this year.
www.nzherald.co.nz
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 5h
What a wonderful, grounded take on negotiating life. | Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m... (Gift link)
Mamdani said he remembers once telling his father, a professor of international affairs and anthropology at Columbia, that he was exhausted with “always feeling like a minority.” But his father’s reply changed his perspective. “I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”
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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 5h
As a foreigner living in the US in 2002 and early 2003 watching the consent manufacturing machine was wild.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq
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potion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 6h
western civilisation taking some big Ls lately
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 16h
Mock cover for 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand "Ayn Rand Atlas Needs You To Spot Him Like 20 Billion Dollars 1st Argentinian Edition"
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 9h
#nzpol
"They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they're exclusionary, they're humourless - they're this coalition." - Chris Finlayson
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 9h
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 12h
The coverup is on. Meta has deleted Saleh's account with 2 years worth of footage of genocide.
ajplus on Instagram: "Meta erased Saleh Aljafarawi’s verified Instagram account, with 4.5 million followers, after he was killed on Oct. 12 - removing pu…"
Meta erased Saleh Aljafarawi’s verified Instagram account, with 4.5 million followers, after he was killed on Oct. 12 - removing public access to 2 years of his work documenting Israel’s war crimes in Gaza....Producer: Dikembe Wilkins#Gaza #Palestine #SalehAljafarawi #Censorship #Journalism #Journalist
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James Nokise @jamesnokise.bsky.social · 18h
Some context - i’m not just a fan. I was the biggest fan, growing up, that I knew.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Musical Obsessions: James Nokise and D'Angelo
Comedian James Nokise is a veteran performer in both New Zealand and overseas, and the host of Eating Fried Chicken In The Shower, an RNZ podcast in which he interviews people about their mental healt...
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James Nokise @jamesnokise.bsky.social · 18h
Nooooooooooooooooo
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 19h
D’Angelo has passed away at the age of 51 following battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Grant Brookes (he/him/ia) @grantbrookesnz.bsky.social · 16h
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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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d
Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.
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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 1d
NZ has appalling leadership supported by appallingly ignorant, selfish, greedy, short sighted individuals #nzpol
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 1d
Seems like a good time to share this again - given the government's decision to weaken the methane emissions target and not to put a price on agricultural emissions northandsouth.co.nz/2021/10/18/n...
"We Spent 25 Years Doing Virtually Nothing"
Why New Zealand is one of the developed world's worst climate laggards
northandsouth.co.nz
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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Shansen - famously the founder of antifas wife @srhansen.bsky.social · 1d
GET OFF SPOTIFY.

They are fascist collaborators.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d
Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.
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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 1d
This is utterly embarrassing.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
There’s a major climate summit in Christchurch but the minister’s party won’t let him go
Climate Minister Simon Watts had been due to deliver the closing address at the global Adaptation Futures Conference, but National Party whips refused his leave from Parliament.
www.stuff.co.nz
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d
Now that the final 20 Israeli hostages are free, remember: those claiming violence “began on 10/7” want us to ignore that Israel was forced to free 2,000 Palestinians hostages—some 20 years w/o charge—& 8,000 remain.

If Hamas holding 20 is violence—& I agree it is—what is when Israel holds 8,000?🤔
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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 1d
Nicola Willis need to resign.

She fucked our transport artery for years. Christ the incompetence. Mind blowing and so wasteful.
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d
So-orig it was $551m for 2 top of the line Korean rail ferries delivered this year & next. It cost National $671m to cancel them. We don’t know the added price for these Chinese Ferries-hopefully they won’t be full of asbestos like the rail carriages were #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/14/g...
Govt confirms shipyard for new Cook Strait ferries
The shipbuilder was the "largest modern integrated shipbuilding enterprise in Southern China," Peters said in his media release.
www.1news.co.nz
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 1d
This is a gut-breaking story.
Israel Sent Me to the Same Prison Where It Tortured My Palestinian Brother | Novara Media
After Israel kidnapped him in international waters with the Global Sumud Flotilla, Kieran Andrieu realised he was being held in the same Negev desert facility where his younger brother, Ahmed, had bee...
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d
Just menswear guy calmly laying waste again.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob" Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 1d
Good resistance tips here.
Project 2025, Silicon Valley & Tech's AI War on Democracy | The Nerd Reich Podcast Mailbag
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d
“Israel forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison.”

Some Palestinians have been held prisoner with little food for decades but it was this detail that really got me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home
Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails
www.theguardian.com
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 2d
#nzpol

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TAXPAYERS UNION Post 1 Stephen Franks reposted ... New Zealand Taxpayers' Union X.com @TaxpayersUnion Taxpayers' Union congratulate Atlas Network Partner, Maria Corina Machado, for winning 2025 Nobel Peace Prize The Taxpayers' Union congratulates fellow Atlas Network participant Maria Corina Machado for winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize over the weekend. Taxpayers' Union Executive Director Jordan Williams said: "Pro-freedom think tanks in Venezuela were among the very first Atlas Network partners in the early 1980s, promoting the ideas behind the movement for human rights and democratic norms in Venezuela that inspire the country's residents to this day. Machado has tirelessly strived to promote democracy and fight dictatorship in her country." "Although Machado's involvement in Atlas Post your reply Q "Although Machado's involvement in Atlas predates mine, she was heavily involved in Atlas Network at about the same time as New Zealand's now Deputy Prime Minister, David Seymour." "I am delighted to see that Atlas Network will continue to stand by her side, and alongside all of the world's freedom's champions, every step of the way." "On behalf of the Taxpayers' Union - also an Atlas Network Partner - we extend our congratulations."
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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 2d
Never forget that Tony Blair belongs in the Hague. He signed off on this torture that they call "harshing".
Interrogation techniques at 'Britain's Abu Ghraib' revealed
Video showing brutal mistreatment is submitted during high court proceedings brought by former Iraqi inmates
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 2d
It's like fighting with the menswear guy is a rake these fools keep needing to step on for some reason

"you can't win, Rocky"
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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d
no quarter given lmao
Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors. Nice use of passive voice though! derek guy @dieworkwear • 2h i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.
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