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Twenty five sleeps until the United States celebrates that time a violent protest at Boston Harbour escalated to a revolutionary shooting war to get rid of the authoritarian rule of a cognitively impaired despotic thug.

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If Gavin Newsom is the answer, the question must be "Are we at the Ninth Circle of Hell yet?"

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As far as I'm concerned Gavin Newsom and Tom Holman can go fuck themselves with the same broken glass-bespangled dildo. Performative white male machismo is what landed us in this stool pit in the first place...

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If I hear one more variation on the This Is Not Who We Are Blues, I swear to Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all the angels and saints that hands WILL BE THROWN. This IS who we are. This is who we've always been, and will forever remain.

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I've long been of the view that if alleged adults insist on behaving like children, they should be treated accordingly. A very good place to start is by taking their toys away if they won't take good care and make appropriate use of them.

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Serious question: How many bookstores near you driven out of business by greedy landlord fuckery are still empty store-fronts generating precisely ZERO income? I've got a not-too-little list...

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Now available to view on Neon (they given us the lead banner!) and, I assume, Sky Go.

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Your fucking enraged reminder that Adam Schiff is exactly the kind of politician who will show up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge for a photo-op, but sixty years ago would have scolded civil rights protestors for harming their cause by being so damn "provocative"

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If the Catholic Church is so short of ready cash, why don't they leave Hard to Find alone and put the Bishop's House, a fabulous historic character residence with work-from-home potential in ever-desirable Ponsonby, on the market? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%...

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This is bad enough, but I'm also sick with fear that Warwick Jordan is going to exit the trade entirely and close down the whole show, including the branch and online warehouse in Dunedin. And who would blame him? Booksellers are heroes in my book, but there's only so much anyone can take...

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"Iconic Auckland secondhand bookstore Hard To Find is being evicted by the Catholic Church – eight years after the church performed a “miracle” by saving the bookshop." If anyone wants to talk about their Lord Satan, my DMs are open... #BookSky #pukapuka newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/09/c...

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To be fair, Los Angeles really does have a problem with armed gangs of thugs roaming the streets terrorizing innocent people just going about their lawful business at the command of criminals. They're called ICE and the National Guard. Why aren't their commanders being arrested and deported?

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Here's a reason for Auckland #FilmSky nerds to brave the weather and show up at tonight's #AucklandFilmSociety screening. Courtesy of the Goethe-Institut, this film is open to the public by donation (notes only, please!) AFS members, as always, are free. 6.15pm, Academy Cinemas, Lorne Street.

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I know Gavin Newsom and far too many (mostly white) politicians and pundits aren't listening but STOP FUCKING SCOLDING THESE PEOPLE TO "REMAIN PEACEFUL." THEY'RE NOT THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY IN THIS PICTURE. DAMNIT.

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Anyone else sick of hearing L.A. protestors being scolded to "remain peaceful" as if the masked and armed agents of white supremacist state violence would never, ever try and provoke some shit? Or just LIE?

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If DARK and Fassbinder's WORLD ON A WIRE tickled your fancy, Monday's #AucklandFilmSociety offering, Enigmatically stylish quantum mind-shag THE UNIVERSAL THEORY will be right up your Straße... More info at: www.nzfilmsociety.org.nz/auckland.html #FilmSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zYE...

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Thunderstorm like God is upstairs, stoned out of His tree, and dragging the furniture back and forth across the floor.

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"Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages." Stanley Baldwin spoke those words (often credited to his cousin Rudyard Kipling) in 1931. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

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I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

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I know Gavin Newsom is too chicken shit to do this, but where is the warning that that every National Guardsman who sets foot in California without legitimate and lawful authority will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?

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Just a reminder that we can also celebrate art and creativity, and I would even argue that it is imperative at a time like now; at all times; to do so. Good luck to all the nominees.

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America, you have one job: Instead of saying "America has no kings", remind yourself what happened to the last one. With the Fourth of July holiday just around the corner, it shouldn't be difficult.

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There's a lot to absorb in the new trailer for season 3 of #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorks, but I am OBSESSED with Uhura's new do and Hot Scotty. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBix...

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When the LAPD, poster children for militarized over-policing of poor "minority" communities, are taking a hard pass on riding along with your Big Brother street thuggery, its past time to listen to the message the universe is screaming in your ears.

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Thoughts and prayers with every satirist struggling with how to take the piss out of a New York Times that exists in a perpetual quantum state of self-parody.

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As the Fourth of July holiday draws ever nearer, it would also be a great time for Americans to remind themselves that this celebrates how a "violent protest" against government over-reach at Boston Harbour ultimately escalated into a revolutionary war against the British Empire. Which you won, BTW

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CLOUD ATLAS. Seriously. I have a weak spot for massively problematic, ludicrously ambitious kinda marvellous when not being painfully cringe epic cinematic hot messes. #FilmSky

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