Shane
@shanesw.bsky.social
Data miner in Aotearoa - New Zealand
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This is real 😂😂😂
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is real 😂😂😂
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Tbf a civil war partly kicked off by foreigners gaming a social network by being better at producing anti-foreigner hate clickbait for cash then natives is pretty funny
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Tbf a civil war partly kicked off by foreigners gaming a social network by being better at producing anti-foreigner hate clickbait for cash then natives is pretty funny
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On the brighter side
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
On the brighter side
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US VETERAN DROPS THE TRUTH
Lt Col Anthony Aguilar exposes the REAL Gaza death toll is much more then estimated
Lt Col Anthony Aguilar exposes the REAL Gaza death toll is much more then estimated
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
US VETERAN DROPS THE TRUTH
Lt Col Anthony Aguilar exposes the REAL Gaza death toll is much more then estimated
Lt Col Anthony Aguilar exposes the REAL Gaza death toll is much more then estimated
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Lenny feels the love
'I love you': Lenny Kravitz dedicates first NZ concert to Kiwi lawyer
'I'm Lenny Kravitz and I'm never leaving New Zealand.'
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Lenny feels the love
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All I can say is I attended a Democratic Party event in DALLAS, TEXAS 10 days ago with officials and candidates and the biggest cheers were for Mamdani and the most questions/most frequent topic of conversation was Epstein.
We should not overthink this.
We should not overthink this.
Pundits have said Zohran is a strictly-NYC phenomenon. But a DSA member named Kelsea Bond just got elected to the Atlanta City Council. I talked to her about how she won.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South
An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
All I can say is I attended a Democratic Party event in DALLAS, TEXAS 10 days ago with officials and candidates and the biggest cheers were for Mamdani and the most questions/most frequent topic of conversation was Epstein.
We should not overthink this.
We should not overthink this.
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
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The Govt's rationing speclialist (aka MSD) is overheating trying to constrain benefit spending, but the number of people on a working-age benefit continues to sail way above forecasts. We are watching a permanently scarring event here. Grim.
November 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The Govt's rationing speclialist (aka MSD) is overheating trying to constrain benefit spending, but the number of people on a working-age benefit continues to sail way above forecasts. We are watching a permanently scarring event here. Grim.
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There’s some interesting emerging scholarship about this, btw
Exploring a vulnerable side to dark personality: People with some dark triad features are gullible and show dysfunctional trusting
Although people higher in “Dark Triad” (DT) constructs are known for manipulating and distrusting others, a few studies suggest these people might als…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
There’s some interesting emerging scholarship about this, btw
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So we are finally protesting the right people.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So we are finally protesting the right people.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.
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"The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
~ Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
~ Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein
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“Peter Thiel “drew on a wide swath of religious thinkers, including… the **Nazi jurist** Carl Schmitt, whose work he said helped create the core of his own beliefs” … 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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yesterday on RNZ I talked with Kathryn Ryan about cuts to NZ science funding and the risk of losing talent www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment
#nzpol
here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment
#nzpol
October 30, 2025 at 9:33 AM
yesterday on RNZ I talked with Kathryn Ryan about cuts to NZ science funding and the risk of losing talent www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment
#nzpol
here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment
#nzpol
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Threatening to withhold congressionally approved funds to affect a state election sounds an awful lot like blackmail. 2 crimes, 1 post.
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Threatening to withhold congressionally approved funds to affect a state election sounds an awful lot like blackmail. 2 crimes, 1 post.
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And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.
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In Washington Post polling, a double-digit percentage of Republicans shifted from strongly to only somewhat approving of his presidency since February — a kind of shift that could crack the door open for GOP criticism and defections.
www.pbump.net/o/the-number...
www.pbump.net/o/the-number...
The number in new Trump polling that’s most worth watching
Even by the standards of Donald Trump's poorly reviewed second term in office, the poll numbers that have come out over the past week are miserable. An NBC poll found that two-thirds of Americans thin...
www.pbump.net
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
In Washington Post polling, a double-digit percentage of Republicans shifted from strongly to only somewhat approving of his presidency since February — a kind of shift that could crack the door open for GOP criticism and defections.
www.pbump.net/o/the-number...
www.pbump.net/o/the-number...
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NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range."
POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'
Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
www.nbcnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range."
POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made comments critical of Trump.
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/wo...
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/wo...
Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Denial of His U.S. Visa & Trump’s Threat to Strike Nigeria
We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made comments critical of Trump. As Trump threate...
www.democracynow.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 AM
We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made comments critical of Trump.
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/wo...
www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/wo...
How to deprogram your MAGAts this thanks giving www.youtube.com/watch?v=95g_...
I Was in a Cult. This Is How I Know Trump is One | The Daily Beast Podcast
YouTube video by The Daily Beast
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
How to deprogram your MAGAts this thanks giving www.youtube.com/watch?v=95g_...
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When JPMorgan alerted the Trump administration to the existence of $1 billion in funds Epstein held which were clearly connected to child trafficking, Trump responded by suppressing the information. Why?
JPMorgan flagged $1B in ‘suspicious’ Epstein-linked deals to Trump administration
Over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks raised red flags in 2019, new documents reveal
www.independent.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
When JPMorgan alerted the Trump administration to the existence of $1 billion in funds Epstein held which were clearly connected to child trafficking, Trump responded by suppressing the information. Why?