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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 10h

#NZPol It’s fucking wild that Israel is literally bombing and shooting people in Gaza right now but our entire media is talking about the success of the ceasefire and even a good part of it is now just arguing about whether trump should get a fucking Nobel prize or not.

We have reality problems.

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CindyBax @cindybax.bsky.social · 5d

I love Juice Media
#nzpol
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YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 3h

Memorize their faces.
They are all standing there pretending to still be serious people, but are all knowingly protecting the world’s most powerful child rapist.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 3h

He’s so Christian I can hear God puking from here.

Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone has met a desperate sycophant like Vance in their working lives. Willing to say anything for approval and promotion, willing to debase themselves to any level for a sniff more power.

With the healthcare cuts coming, it turns out Vance WAS the Hillbillies Elegy.

Fancy that.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 3h

Eric Trump… not known for his searing intellect.

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 4h

Eric Trump, in three different right-wing media interviews over the past week, accused Jack Smith of "planting" evidence obtained in the Aug. 2023 Mar-a-Lago raid.

Problem: Smith didn't become special counsel until three months after that search. www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/e...

Eric Trump attacks Jack Smith for “planting” evidence during Mar-a-Lago search that predated Smith’s service as special counsel

www.mediamatters.org

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 3h

Coward Chris Bishop forced to continually answer in front of cameras for 8% David’s lies, and the misconduct of ministers would be hilarious. The man has the charisma of a weak dead flounder.

DO IT!

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Future “Free Speech Union” axiom.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so

a black and white photo of a man in a pinstripe worsted suit, white shirt, and textured necktie. the tie has a nice dimple under the knot.

a photo of donald trump upside down. there is also a nice dimple on his red tie

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 1d

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...

Oppose the Amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area Act

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act.

our.actionstation.org.nz

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Where’s Matt Taibbi when you need incisive journalism?

That corrupt POS must be all over “The Facebook Files” on this obvious illegal move by the Pedo Administration??

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Extortion. Quid pro Quo.
It’s the ONLY thing he knows how to do.

Oh… that and rape children, of course.

How is this demented orange cancer the President?
For. A. Second. Time?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Follow the money.
Who put the funding boost in the coalition agreement and why?
What is Mike King really getting paid?
Why is he resigning?

This has all the hallmarks of classic corruption… right up to the Exec resignation. Dig deeper.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

What you allow your government to do to people overseas, it will eventually do to you at home.

Can’t wait for the drone strike on Arizona unspecified Antifa headquarters…

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

At this point she’s enabled so much evil that does it really matter?

She chose this exact situation, enabled it, fought for it, created it…
I hope the anxiety cripples her.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

This is who the GOP self-select for.
Their ideology attracts exactly this type of person.
These type of people ARE ALREADY ELECTED AND IN CONGRESS.

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Char @kiwichar.bsky.social · 1d

And nobody on planet earth is surprised. War criminals don’t care for peace plans, they care about their genocide plans & theft of Palestinian land and resources. Pure evil imho. #NetanyahuWarCriminal #Geopolitics #nzpol

Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly predictable.

When war stops, Netanyahu goes to prison.
:. He will never stop the war.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

I hope Penis Head, Melted Rimmer and Dementia Peters have not dismantled our virus detection agencies…

This looks really really bad.
Infections of massive flocks with human contact is a perfect recipe for eventual human cases…& there’s a mad Pedo running the US.

If this is already loose… 💀

#nzpol

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

That’s because Simon Watts has the brains and integrity of a flatworm.

Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, the Greens are the only left party with their shit together at the moment.
Labour and TPM better stop effing around and get serious.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 2d

I see the utterly incompetent fingers of Bari Weiss are already enshittifying CBS.

Here for her inevitable fall.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 2d

Yes it’s called: Access.