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raysagapolutele.bsky.social
Aotearoan born Samoan Artist and Academic
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I have a new hero. This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

Eli Roth is a cunt. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act | Helen Clark and Kayla Kingdon-Bebb

Act fumes at Hastings council’s Māori ward videos, mayor says ‘we make no apology’ for them. On ya Hastings; keep up thd good work. You’re rattling ACTs cage! #nzpol

Greta Thunberg and other human rights defenders have been kidnapped by Israel on international waters. The aid they were delivering to Gaza that includes baby formula & medical supplies has been stolen. The ship Madleen was attacked with drones & will be forced to port at Ashdod Port. #3E #FreeGaza

"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life." - Carl Sagan

LAPD out there like

I was shocked to learn that "The rate of workplace death in New Zealand is 60 percent higher than Australia and 500 percent higher than the UK, (and) that our rate of serious injury is 35 percent and 330 percent higher respectively than those two countries."🧵

Incredibly concerned to see the forcible interception of the Madleen in international waters, and thinking of all those who were on board and have been detained. UK must condemn this breach of international law and immediately demand their release.

#Madleen PRESS RELEASE @tepaatimaori.bsky.social (9 June 2025, 2:10pm) "This is not an arrest, it as an abduction. We have grave concerns for the safety of the crew. Israel have proven time again they aren’t above committing violence against civilians." @whaeadeb.bsky.social 🇵🇸 ✊ tinyurl.com/5n73847j

#Madleen "If you are seeing this video we have been intercepted" @gazafreedomflotilla (10 mins ago) #Gaza 🇵🇸 "The Swedish government must protect their citizen! Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by the Israeli military... Email the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs NOW: www.government.se/contacts

“History’s verdict is already in on van Velden’s safety reforms The Government is instructing WorkSafe to be kinder and more supportive to businesses, and to shift its focus from enforcement to advice. We know from bitter history where this leads.” #nzpol Van Velden will have blood on her hands.

...creativity is inherently unsafe...

extraordinary that Thiago Ávila is able to keep getting these videos out from #Madleen while it's under attack. ever strident, clear and committed af ✊❤️ "Our team is doing well. We do not fear them." (5mins ago) 🇵🇸 #Gaza

If you support an entity that thinks stopping food & aid for the people THEY are starving is self defense, you're an asshole. October 7 was a tragedy, not a license to commit genocide faster than before. We're all complicit until Palestinians are free to live on the land of their ancestors.

💥 #Madleen "We are being attacked. Please sound the alarm" - @hiagoavilabrasil (10:15am, NZT) 💥

🚨 #Madleen video clips are frightening. #Madleen is "under attack" as of the last few minutes. Quadcopter drones ("the really dangerous ones") are overhead and "substances" are being thrown on the boat ("chemical weapons"?). The boat's radios are being jammed with random noise.

NBR rich list 2025 - amplifying the folks/employers that don’t pay a Living Wage, don’t pay their fair share of tax, trumpet their philanthropy at the same time as many of them throw money at political parties to ensure they can continue to hoard their wealth, pay less tax and extract more profits.

ICE crossed a line in LA

"All these many years into my life as a library card holder, I still walk into mine and think: I can take any of these books home with me? For FREE? Everyone should be talking about this!” - Melissa Albert, author #ReasonstoLoveLibraries bit.ly/3RGM52r

Urgent: The Freedom Flotilla ship is expected to reach Gaza within the next 72 hours to break the blockade. The coming hours are very critical , we must focus on them and amplify their voices. If you see this, reply with a dot . spread it 🥹❤️

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

"Dawn Raids- The Ugly Reality" Leaflet by Amnesty Aroha, 1976 Ref 94-106-19/07-02, Te Papa.

Fuck Israel and the IDF.

Director Dan Trachtenberg takes advantage of animated format to show just how cool a Predator fighting Vikings or ninja can be in Killer of Killers

I love Mexican art so much

Christopher Luxon’s legacy summed up with 1 headline

Watching a misogynist YT movie reviewer lose it over a Predator Movie where a female Viking, who is an absolute legend, kills one of the aliens. Listening to this idiot framing of the world as being too woke. This moron would get smoked by my cousins as they hyena laugh and roll in his blood.

Dear journalists. When the US President is openly accused of paedophilia the story is either impeachment or defamation. If not, the story is how words have lost all meaning, truth has lost all value, and journalists are now completely desensitised to lying and corruption.

Is Donald surging ICE raids right now to distract everyone from talking about the fact he’s a pedophile with his name all over the Epstein list? Hey, just asking questions here!

#RSB 🚨15 Days Left to Oppose the Regulatory Standards Bill 🗣 Not to sure what to write? It is as easy as… I oppose the Regulatory Standards Bill & I recommend that the bill be thrown out 📅 Deadline: 1pm Mon 23rd June 2025 🔗 Take Action: www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak... #NZPol #OneTermGovt

“The international deep-seabed is the common heritage of all humankind. It must be reserved for peaceful purposes.” — Claire Slatter and Maureen Penjueli.

If Indigenous peoples are effectively unable to ever say no to resource extraction, then what we're really dealing with here is a settler veto #bcpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli #mbpoli #skpoli

David Seymour & the ACT party in cartoon form… #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

“The compulsory Te Tiriti education at the University of Auckland is not a burden. It’s a necessary starting point for migrants, especially for caste-privileged Indian migrants like Dr Parmar, to begin undoing the toxic ideologies we bring with us.” — Mohan Dutta.

“I wrote my book out of a conviction that we white settlers need to be aware that our colonising actions are not something that belongs to the past. Colonisation is happening now, & the reason we don’t know much about it, or find it hard to see & name it, is simply because it’s not being done to us”

“I get so many messages from people telling me how scared they are by what this government is doing. But they also say that watching me speak up gives them hope. I think thats why my tīpuna gave me such a big waha. So that I could use it.” — Tania Waikato “It wasn’t bots, it was us.” #nzpol

There is no defense of Israel and the genocide it has committed. If Damien Grant thinks the death toll in Gaza is unreliable because Hamas are biased for benefit, he should go count the dead himself. Oh that's right, Israel won't let outside observers in. Odd that. #FromTheRiverToTheSea 🇵🇸

Thanks everyone that has donated really appreciate your support. Big love xx T & P

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth. From Saturn. We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

In an angry statement, Pacific Elders warn Australia that approving more fossil fuel projects “compromises the security of our Pacific communities and grossly undermines the spirit of partnership and trust in our Pacific family.” pacificelders.org/statement/au...

Mā mua ka kite a muri.  Mā muri ka ora a mua. Those who lead give sight to those who follow. Those who follow give life to those who lead. 💚

Proof of past privatisation far cups. #nzpol