ardrigh
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ardrigh
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Listening to Judith Collins talk about Apps is like listening to your nana talk about Teletext #NZPol
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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What dastardly, murderous fucks are behind the bondi shooting.

Australias nazi scene?
December 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Another gun buyback.

That’s what I want my tax dollars spent on: get those awful death devices out of my country.
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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We don't yet know the ethnicity, religion, or nationality of the two gunmen in Sydney, and their exact motivation is still unclear, but already David Seymour is linking this tragic event to the Middle East, and his followers are engaging in xenophobia and Islamophobia
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Once again we learn that the Metropolitan Police have been using undercover agents to spy on a group working to hold the police to account.

If you spy on an anti-corruption group the logical conclusion is that you’re pro-corruption.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police spied on group set up to expose wrongdoing in Met, inquiry hears
The HCDA, which sought to expose police corruption and violence, was secretly monitored for a decade
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Someone apparently didn't read the last five pages in Mussolini's biography.
INBOX: James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida Governor who is accused by his competitor Rep. Byron Donald of statutory rape, released a campaign video today pledging "to make the trains run on time," a direct reference to the Fascist dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini
December 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Furniture inspired by nature and love, and crafted out of wood, is on show in Nelson.
Wooden it be nice: Fine woodwork on display
Furniture inspired by nature and love, and crafted out of wood, is on show in Nelson.
dlvr.it
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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"The British empire invented and commited crimes so heinous people had to invent new words for them" is a surprisingly large category 👀
The word dystopia was first coined by John Stuart Mill to describe the British governments rule in Ireland

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

"they ought rather to be called dys-topians... what they appear to favour is too bad to be practicable."
Dystopia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I read the Hipkins thing as him saying being progressive is hard so Labour will stop even trying #nzpol
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Yeah see... A "different Labour" is 75% of the problem there champ.

#nzpol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I'd hoped Hipkins would resign as leader but, now it is clear he won't, I see no point in attacking him. Within his caucus there are MPs who are on the left of the party and several more who are likely to be elected. I will be supporting the Greens to ensure they have too many MPs to ignore #nzpol
'Opportunity to stamp my own mark': Chris Hipkins promises a different Labour
The last election saw Labour's six years in government come to an end, and Hipkins returning to the opposition benches just 10 months after becoming prime minister.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... You'd think Kennard's would look at the bad PR resulting from this and act to mitigate it....
‘Pieces I’ll never see again’: $30k of rare collectibles stolen from storage unit
Phillip Taylor has spent two decades hunting down rare Matchbox cars.
www.stuff.co.nz
December 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are:

money
being born into money
knowing other people with money
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Republicans keep trying to kill Obamacare while their own districts are clinging to it like it’s the last lifeboat on the Titanic.
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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If you commit murder you should definitely fear "personal legal blowback."
U.S. military members fear personal legal blowback tied to boat strikes
Staff officers and at least one drone pilot have sought advice from outside groups over legal concerns about their own involvement — or potential involvement — in the strikes against suspected drug bo...
www.npr.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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First, a scientist’s hair became mixed with crucial evidence. Now another scientist has handled vital samples without gloves and outside the lab.
Second forensic blunder revealed in Scott Watson case
First, a scientist’s hair became mixed with crucial evidence. Now another scientist has handled vital samples without gloves and outside the lab.
dlvr.it
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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thanks brett kavanaugh!
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.

So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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JD Vance Reminded To Use White House Service Entrance
JD Vance Reminded To Use White House Service Entrance
WASHINGTON—During a confrontation in which it was firmly reiterated that the front entrance was for approved personnel only, Vice President JD Vance was once again reminded by White House security to ...
theonion.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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This is a *fantastic* look for the administration: telling the student paper that if they want to know the new grade appeal policy, they can file an open records request
December 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM