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Peace Action Wellington @peacewellington.bsky.social · 6d

Your right to protest is under threat.
Join us for the launch of PROTECT PROTEST a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation. Wednesday 15 October at 4:30pm at Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW.

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 10h

Having just finished reading it (& on to another cuppa tea) - I thoroughly recommend this book, if you’re interested in the last 50 years of activism for Māori self-determination.

It’s beautifully written, & includes many images of Tāme’s artworks & performances.

Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 14h

Also me today. A cuppa and a goood book.☕️🫖📖

An older woman smiling wrily as she holds a fresh copy of Tame Iti’s book, ‘Mana’

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 10h

Good thread on ‘Māori leadership’, which also begs the reminder that Parliament is not the only decision-making body of note, & that we all have more agency than we admit, we just need to recognise it.

deb te kawa nō aotearoa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social · 16h

Agree with Sacha below. Māni is always offering a masterclass. One caveat, though, and this is absolutely not for Māni or Mihi or the other journalists skilled in Te Ao Māori me Te Ao Pākeha politics.

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 17h

The masterful Māni Dunlop on where things are at with Te Pāti Māori, with context.

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 14h

Also me today. A cuppa and a goood book.☕️🫖📖

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Kaz @serenity22.bsky.social · 18h

More misleading BS from min of Ed, Stanford. #nzpol

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 15h

We needed James Shaw, & his clear-sighted advocacy for climate action, during the 8 years he was an MP, & then Minister for Climate Change. Heaps of progress.

Then we got this 🤡
My hope is that a 1-term government can’t unravel all the completed work.

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 17h

New: Climate Change Minister Simon Watts concedes the Government’s new methane target could result in outcomes not consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C above preindustrial levels – a threshold mandated in New Zealand and international law.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/15/c...

Climate minister admits new target may breach global 1.5C goal

Climate Minister Simon Watts admitted the Government's new methane target may not be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.

newsroom.co.nz

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 15h

I hear Real Groovy might be starting up hiring again. Perfect part-time job for a teenager who loves records!

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 1d

More waves crashing on the sandcastles of hopium. I'm famously pessimistic, but the data continues to surprise me to the downside. It's relentless. We've not seen anything like this for 45 years. Compounding, mutually reinforcing, job-killing dynamics. (1/2)

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20h

Israel has killed at least five people in Gaza so far today.

Israel claims they came too close to the imagined “yellow line” in Gaza City.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Gaza ceasefire tested as Israeli forces kill five Palestinians

Israeli troops redeploy in Gaza according to agreed deal, but clashes and killings threaten stability of the ceasefire.

www.aljazeera.com

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 15h

Dumb & dumber don’t seem to realise how all these pesky regulations work.

I once had a friend who worked in Min Health, & was privy to health inspection data for food service biz. She had a blacklist of places she wouldn’t eat in, due to vermin reports.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Frank was Antifa.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Sinatra on what it means to be an American in 1945

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 16h

This.

But also the whole thread leading up to this summary.

Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 17h

tl/dr: evil actors that do widespread harm like genocide are able to do so because we believe they can, and we allow them to do so. We can act to change that, but only if we believe it is possible.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 16h

18 years on, never forgotten.

Ka whaiwhai tonu mātou, ake , ake , ake .

An older woman wearing a black T-shirt with the words ‘State terrorists kidnapped my friends’ printed on it.

This refers to the 2007 Urewera Raids, which ultimately led to NZ Police being censured by the Attorney General and others.

Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, one name really stuck out, as being likely to show every ‘entitlement’ trait possible 😏

I did snigger.

I still know a few of those who got elected, despite moving away in 2013. Welli is such a small world…

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Would that be Tony’s sister?

My kids went to school with Tony’s, a good couple of decades ago now…

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like he didn’t get in; from my quick scan of names of possibles to respond to that description ;-)

Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

Horizons RC

www.electionz.com/LGE2025Resul...

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

GWRC here

www.electionz.com/LGE2025Resul...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Katie @anarkaytie.bsky.social · 4d

*cartman voice*
“Respect mah authoritay!”

www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/10/s...

Speaker wants to meet Te Pāti Māori over contempt concern after disruption

Oriini Kaipara’s extended speech and two haka in the House prompted Speaker Gerry Brownlee to suspend proceedings yesterday.

www.1news.co.nz

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.