Smithiesm
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Smithiesm
@smithiesm.bsky.social
🇯🇵🇳🇿 Tangata Tiriti from Ōtepoti Dunedin | He/him | Toitū te Tiriti
I love to go jump in the lake or get in the sea.
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In Germany, a lot of houses have these Stolpersteines on their sidewalks or stoops. They’re a memorial to victims of the Holocaust who were ripped from that home. Some houses have a few. Other houses have many.

ICE has started going door to door in America.
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Stop calling us killers or we will kill again
Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."
January 11, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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Is Luxon following Willis' new WFH rules? #NZPol
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Has he asked Willis if he's allowed?

Nicola Willis told working from home already not an ‘entitlement’ before setting new public service expectations

Putting the Chris into hypocrisy
Watch: Nicola Willis demands tightening of working-from-home public service arrangements
Public Service Minister Nicola Willis has directed department bosses to tighten up on working-from-home arrangements.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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#nzpol Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand, because this sh*tty National/NZ First/ACT coalition govt is selling you out.
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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Danish guy gets it
January 7, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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In light of the rampant abuse of power NZ is facing with this Govt dismantling laws that stop us being looted and taken over by big money it's probably a good time for people to check out or revisit this excellent investigative piece by Mihingarangi Forbes ... #NZPol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOj...
MATA Reports | ACT: The Foreign Influences That Have Shaped David Seymour's Political Agenda | RNZ
YouTube video by RNZ
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Prosecute them all. Beyond the depravity of this, it's pure theft. The local prosecutor should open an investigation and charge them all.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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So naturally, you know what to do…👇

Enjoy. 😎✨
December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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And guess what?

The FCC immediately changed the website to state that the agency is not independent right after Carr's comments!
December 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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And cuts keep coming. NZ Health Ministry not renewing Flu Tracking contract. Very short-sighted given the monster flu season unfolding in UK/EU right now.
December 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.

His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.

A true hero.
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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It's so bad, we now have an article in the international edition of The Guardian.

“unprecedented in both its length and its language”

@evacorlett.bsky.social doing some of her best work, again.
#nzpol
UN report sounds alarm over Māori rights in New Zealand
UN committee raised concerns over government policies including scrapping the Māori Health Authority and funding cuts for Indigenous services
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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“New Zealand is moving backwards on racial equality, and Māori rights are under serious threat.”

Read this whole article. It would take Olympic-level twisting to deny any of it - and the fact this isn’t front page news across the board absolutely reinforces the point.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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This might be the reason Luxon refused to be interviewed by Jack Tame on Q&A all year…BaCk On TrAcK or just talking smack? 🤪 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
December 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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How internet became 'enshittified' - and how to fix it
www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...
How internet became 'enshittified' - and how to fix it
Analysis: One theory explains how the internet went from fun to infuriating.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Peter Thiel’s #Palantir sells Al tools that help law enforcement agencies like ICE
analyze massive amounts of personal data = Authoritarian Police State
It's a big reason why it is quickly becoming the most dangerous corporation in #America & beyond. #NZ #UK #EU #Democracy

youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?...
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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This is criminal. "A lethal risk", is “a critical safety issue" NZ Electrical Inspectors Assoc
"we know of no other country in the world that allows this" yet #BrookeVanVeldon sees human lives as disposable, for #profits. #health #safety #deregulation #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
WorkSafe rule change introduces 'lethal' risk of electrocution, electrical inspectors say
A dispute has escalated over the past month as electrical inspectors repeatedly plead with officials to do a U-turn, RNZ can reveal.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM