Pete
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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If you want the current Luxon government out, then you need Labour.
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
If you want the current Luxon government out, then you need Labour.
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Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
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Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them
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This is important and significant. These are the guidelines that were submitted and agreed before political interference. The ones that should have been published.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This is important and significant. These are the guidelines that were submitted and agreed before political interference. The ones that should have been published.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
PATHA have taken a stand of not having their name used to give credence to the rewritten ones, and released the correct ones.
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Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
Clinical Guidelines | Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa Inc. (PATHA)
patha.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Y’ALL. PATHA RELEASED THE NEW GENDER AFFIRMING CARE GUIDELINES. THE ONES THE GOVT SUPPRESSED
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
GET IN IT
patha.nz/resources-an...
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People complain about academic writing being opaque and verbose but the wanton anti-intellectualism in govt sources misquoting a literature review, ripping it wildly out of context, and using it as an example of wokeness gone too far is not something that can be solved by improved communication.
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
People complain about academic writing being opaque and verbose but the wanton anti-intellectualism in govt sources misquoting a literature review, ripping it wildly out of context, and using it as an example of wokeness gone too far is not something that can be solved by improved communication.
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Today I and everyday I am:
Grateful for Vaccines
Grateful for Science
Grateful for Public Health Workers
Grateful for Doctors
Grateful for Nurses
Grateful for Scientists
Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up.
#Thanksgiving
Grateful for Vaccines
Grateful for Science
Grateful for Public Health Workers
Grateful for Doctors
Grateful for Nurses
Grateful for Scientists
Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up.
#Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Today I and everyday I am:
Grateful for Vaccines
Grateful for Science
Grateful for Public Health Workers
Grateful for Doctors
Grateful for Nurses
Grateful for Scientists
Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up.
#Thanksgiving
Grateful for Vaccines
Grateful for Science
Grateful for Public Health Workers
Grateful for Doctors
Grateful for Nurses
Grateful for Scientists
Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up.
#Thanksgiving
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Is "if you were offended, *we would apologise for that*" an apology, or a signal of an intent to apologise at a later date but the later date never happened? I feel like I need to dig up Derrida and get him in here for a 3hr lecture to determine whether this counts as an apology.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Is "if you were offended, *we would apologise for that*" an apology, or a signal of an intent to apologise at a later date but the later date never happened? I feel like I need to dig up Derrida and get him in here for a 3hr lecture to determine whether this counts as an apology.
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has labour tried running against national?
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
has labour tried running against national?
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Everyone complaining that we shouldn't be talking about rolling Luxon would be deep into a multi-part series as to why the PM needed to be replaced if it was a Labour govt with these numbers/issues.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Everyone complaining that we shouldn't be talking about rolling Luxon would be deep into a multi-part series as to why the PM needed to be replaced if it was a Labour govt with these numbers/issues.
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I mean this is why I have not written an MSM column saying 'we should stop talking about people wanting to roll Luxon because it's in the national interest for the biggest idiot available to lead National into the next election as I, an annoying leftist, want them to do as badly as possible'
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I mean this is why I have not written an MSM column saying 'we should stop talking about people wanting to roll Luxon because it's in the national interest for the biggest idiot available to lead National into the next election as I, an annoying leftist, want them to do as badly as possible'
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If I were a journalist seeking to prevent people from discussing the possibility that the Prime Minister sucks so much that his own caucus believes they would be better off without him, I would simply not write yet another poast about it
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If I were a journalist seeking to prevent people from discussing the possibility that the Prime Minister sucks so much that his own caucus believes they would be better off without him, I would simply not write yet another poast about it
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Why does anyone with half a brain and the ability to read know that will happen but people in government and the farming industry apparently don't?
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
Tesco's warning to New Zealand farmers
If New Zealand farmers want to continue exporting to the lucrative UK market, they will have to commit to a better climate future, says UK supermarket Tesco.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Why does anyone with half a brain and the ability to read know that will happen but people in government and the farming industry apparently don't?
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
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I'll sing along with songs I don't even like
It's an illness
It's an illness
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I'll sing along with songs I don't even like
It's an illness
It's an illness
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If only someone had mentioned that reneging on our global commitments could have consequences
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Watch: Have climate policies put trade at risk? McClay responds
Trade deals worth billions of dollars, each year, require New Zealand to continue with its climate change obligations.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If only someone had mentioned that reneging on our global commitments could have consequences
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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As Craig Renney revealed to a shocked Dr Gary Payinda, Te Whatu Ora underspent its wages budget by $500m which has been signed off by Willis & returned to general coffers. Let that sink in. The money was there, but they deliberately underspent. On orders?
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
As Craig Renney revealed to a shocked Dr Gary Payinda, Te Whatu Ora underspent its wages budget by $500m which has been signed off by Willis & returned to general coffers. Let that sink in. The money was there, but they deliberately underspent. On orders?
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Capitalism forces me to wake up at 5:45 because corporate landlords drove the cost of housing so high I can only afford to live 90 minutes away from my office. 99% of my work could be done at home, and 99% of it could be done at literally any hour of the day. I do worse work being forced to do this.
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Capitalism forces me to wake up at 5:45 because corporate landlords drove the cost of housing so high I can only afford to live 90 minutes away from my office. 99% of my work could be done at home, and 99% of it could be done at literally any hour of the day. I do worse work being forced to do this.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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Oh and remeber it came out that seymour didnt even have to fight for it, didnt have to make it his red line issue. Luxon didnt even have the political instincts to know this was toxic waste
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Oh and remeber it came out that seymour didnt even have to fight for it, didnt have to make it his red line issue. Luxon didnt even have the political instincts to know this was toxic waste
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The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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As he states in the video, the BBC is still a very good news source and there are thousands of great journalists there. The problem is the quasi political heads of the corporation who are now prepared to censor valid arguments out of fear.
Disgraceful.
Disgraceful.
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
As he states in the video, the BBC is still a very good news source and there are thousands of great journalists there. The problem is the quasi political heads of the corporation who are now prepared to censor valid arguments out of fear.
Disgraceful.
Disgraceful.
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Today a senior minister in the government of New Zealand declared she was disgusting that schools have chosen to adhere to the principles of
te Tiriti o Waitangi.
I’m sure you’ve seen the clip.
te Tiriti o Waitangi.
I’m sure you’ve seen the clip.
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Today a senior minister in the government of New Zealand declared she was disgusting that schools have chosen to adhere to the principles of
te Tiriti o Waitangi.
I’m sure you’ve seen the clip.
te Tiriti o Waitangi.
I’m sure you’ve seen the clip.
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Like, what did you expect you dumb Shore wanker (I am from the Shore/same school and can therefore be snotty about its obvious limitations)
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Like, what did you expect you dumb Shore wanker (I am from the Shore/same school and can therefore be snotty about its obvious limitations)