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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 5h

Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

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Rosie Sea @dacrispylettuce.bsky.social · 8h

NZ has appalling leadership supported by appallingly ignorant, selfish, greedy, short sighted individuals #nzpol

Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 11h

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.

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Shansen - famously the founder of antifas wife @srhansen.bsky.social · 10h

GET OFF SPOTIFY.

They are fascist collaborators.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 17h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

Nicola Willis need to resign.

She fucked our transport artery for years. Christ the incompetence. Mind blowing and so wasteful.

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 14h

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 · 16h

Just menswear guy calmly laying waste again.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 19h

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 · 22h

“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 · 1d

#nzpol

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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
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"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 · 1d

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

www.theguardian.com

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 1d

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"

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

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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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting framing of *checks notes* the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church issuing pastoral instructions to his bishops and talking about *re-checks notes* Catholic doctrine and practice, as he has absolute authority to do under canon law and two thousand years or so of precedent.

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 1d

Celia Wade-Brown looks under the numbers and highlights actually a more positive sea change in the Māori Wards voting numbers.

A little bit heartening.

#nzpol

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Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 1d

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being removed.

Just 204 road cones confirmed gone thanks to heralded ‘tipline’

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being removed.

dlvr.it

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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social · 2d

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Opal - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @opaltiger.bsky.social · 2d

This whole story is actually amazing, and the Pathe footage astonishing.

ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 12d

George Formby in South Africa. Worth reading for the quotation from Beryl Formby which ought to go into the anthologies.

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George Formby; Anti-Apartheid Hero

Yes, you read that title right! After blogging about how my neighbours and friendly rivals the Wiganers came by the name ‘pie eater’ earlier in the week, I thought I’d shed the sp…

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 12d

George Formby in South Africa. Worth reading for the quotation from Beryl Formby which ought to go into the anthologies.

ayewellhmm.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/g...

George Formby; Anti-Apartheid Hero

Yes, you read that title right! After blogging about how my neighbours and friendly rivals the Wiganers came by the name ‘pie eater’ earlier in the week, I thought I’d shed the sp…

ayewellhmm.wordpress.com

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 4d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t wait to see the regulatory impact statement that outlines the impact of this decision on everyone who isn’t a farmer

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes

The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years and is ruling out agricultural taxes on methane emissions.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 3d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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