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Willie Jackson says he sought the Māori Queen's advice on who to run against Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke in Hauraki-Waikato. Her response: "Good luck!" newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/01/l...

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Sorry but no one overseas actually knows what the Kiwi accent sounds like. They're just projecting what they want it to sound like into their answers.

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“Sorry I said all those slurs in response to someone making fun of my car, in my defense I was drunk driving” is a @dril.bsky.social post come to life

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the president wants to reopen alcatraz because he’s an old man with dementia who is mentally frozen in the 1970s and 80s. he’s not trying to distract you, his brain is just full of holes

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Very nice example for your Time Series Are Tricksy files. When “Compared to the same time last year” leads you astray because the same (calendar) date is not the same (social) time. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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No. You need to send the President you got to jail first. We locked up 7 governors to get this one.

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“There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.” This is the energy I am trying to encourage people to cultivate instead of “they’ll arrest you next.”

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"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." These are the last words of Che Guevara, what he meant was you can't kill the idea or spirit of revolution. Sharks, I am looking for partial investment in a weapon that can destroy a man's ideas

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Christian Zionists: Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people, the apple of God's eye, the center of the universe, the holiest piece of real estate on the planet Also Christian Zionists: Jerusalem is Steak n Shake

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The average American has three friends

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As a kinda prominent Jew in New Zealand, I've received plenty of death threats, rape threats and other violent threats. I've never received one from a Muslim person.

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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This dude is an antisemitic grifter who got suspended from Twitter for posting CSAM. Now he's in the White House press briefing room. We've fallen far beneath any bottom we might have once had.

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There is a difference between saying ‘power grids need to be adjusted and upgraded to unlock the full advantages of cleaner and more cost efficient renewable energy’ and ‘net zero caused the blackout!’. The former is instructive, the latter is fossil propaganda.

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I OIA'd the weekly reports of health system pressure and waiting list data that the Health Minister receives, to get a more detailed look at the crisis facing the Government in health. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/29/w...

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Look, I know these people's brains work differently to ours, but I would be embarrassed to be a grown person calling things "woke" all the time.

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I WANT TO BELIEVE (Every single lower SI hunter bar none that I have ever talked to about this believes there are still moose, and every single one says they would never shoot one if they saw it because nobody wants to be the fuckin guy who shoots the last moose)

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The Government could auction 13.6 million carbon units for $1.1 billion more over the remainder of the decade, the climate commission said last week. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/28/w...

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As democratic institutions struggle to deal with crises like climate change, some are looking to alternative, deliberative forms of decision-making – as in the case of the Porirua citizen's assembly. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/26/k...

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The Government said eight new doctors had started work in Tairāwhiti, but those working in the hospital say there has been just one new permanent hire. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/23/g...

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Forgot to post new articles on here for a bit, will catch up over the day. Last week, I covered an intelligence report I obtained under the OIA saying evolving global and domestic trends will continue to drive extremist sentiment here over the coming year: newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/22/t...

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Bummed I can't be there, but hope it goes well. It's a great book!

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cardinal pizzaballa is not gonna keep his name if he becomes pope. they have to pick a new name. it's gonna be something normal like papa john.

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starting to wonder if some of them have said this so much they believe there's actual a pathogen here and its not just a term they made up

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Gonna say antisemitism is why I haven't won a Voyager yet. No other explanation.

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"... a small number of individuals progressed towards credible attack planning over the past year before government agencies disrupted these activities" | NZ’s terror threat level could rise amid global turmoil newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/22/t... by @marcdaalder.bsky.social

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Children as young as four are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

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Had missed this in last week's official greenhouse gas figures, but methodological revisions mean 2021's emissions were now higher than 2020's, so we haven't had four consecutive years of decreases as might have been thought.

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This line is catching on among the conservative influencers: unless SCOTUS backs down, Trump will be forced to suspend the constitution and declare the US a dictatorship, and it'll be all their fault.

submitted 14 days ago • 118 comments

Yes, let Philip Crump, the guy who launched and then shut down a subscription media venture in the span of nine months, tell you how to do news better. newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/26/z...

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Aside from protecting everyone, democracy and rule of law also protect us. JFNA wants to sell others down the river and in doing so will only secure a very brief reprieve from the same fate.

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Believing that America can or must be good does not require one to believe that America is or was good or that Americans are more important than anyone else in the world. I don't know who it serves to insist otherwise.

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i will remark again on this hallmark of maga politics, which is that trump embodies the organic will of the voters and this imbues him with sovereign power that cannot be checked or limited by any other institution in the society.

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Rewatching Andor in preparation for Season 2 and so much of it maps perfectly onto the Trump regime. These lines from Nemik jumped out to me: "The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it."

Willie Jackson says he sought the Māori Queen's advice on who to run against Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke in Hauraki-Waikato. Her response: "Good luck!" newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/01/l...

Sorry but no one overseas actually knows what the Kiwi accent sounds like. They're just projecting what they want it to sound like into their answers.

“Sorry I said all those slurs in response to someone making fun of my car, in my defense I was drunk driving” is a @dril.bsky.social post come to life

the president wants to reopen alcatraz because he’s an old man with dementia who is mentally frozen in the 1970s and 80s. he’s not trying to distract you, his brain is just full of holes

Very nice example for your Time Series Are Tricksy files. When “Compared to the same time last year” leads you astray because the same (calendar) date is not the same (social) time. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

No. You need to send the President you got to jail first. We locked up 7 governors to get this one.

“There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.” This is the energy I am trying to encourage people to cultivate instead of “they’ll arrest you next.”

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." These are the last words of Che Guevara, what he meant was you can't kill the idea or spirit of revolution. Sharks, I am looking for partial investment in a weapon that can destroy a man's ideas

Christian Zionists: Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided capital of the Jewish people, the apple of God's eye, the center of the universe, the holiest piece of real estate on the planet Also Christian Zionists: Jerusalem is Steak n Shake

The average American has three friends

As a kinda prominent Jew in New Zealand, I've received plenty of death threats, rape threats and other violent threats. I've never received one from a Muslim person.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

This dude is an antisemitic grifter who got suspended from Twitter for posting CSAM. Now he's in the White House press briefing room. We've fallen far beneath any bottom we might have once had.

There is a difference between saying ‘power grids need to be adjusted and upgraded to unlock the full advantages of cleaner and more cost efficient renewable energy’ and ‘net zero caused the blackout!’. The former is instructive, the latter is fossil propaganda.

I OIA'd the weekly reports of health system pressure and waiting list data that the Health Minister receives, to get a more detailed look at the crisis facing the Government in health. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/29/w...

Look, I know these people's brains work differently to ours, but I would be embarrassed to be a grown person calling things "woke" all the time.

I WANT TO BELIEVE (Every single lower SI hunter bar none that I have ever talked to about this believes there are still moose, and every single one says they would never shoot one if they saw it because nobody wants to be the fuckin guy who shoots the last moose)

The Government could auction 13.6 million carbon units for $1.1 billion more over the remainder of the decade, the climate commission said last week. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/28/w...

As democratic institutions struggle to deal with crises like climate change, some are looking to alternative, deliberative forms of decision-making – as in the case of the Porirua citizen's assembly. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/26/k...

The Government said eight new doctors had started work in Tairāwhiti, but those working in the hospital say there has been just one new permanent hire. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/23/g...

Forgot to post new articles on here for a bit, will catch up over the day. Last week, I covered an intelligence report I obtained under the OIA saying evolving global and domestic trends will continue to drive extremist sentiment here over the coming year: newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/22/t...

Bummed I can't be there, but hope it goes well. It's a great book!

cardinal pizzaballa is not gonna keep his name if he becomes pope. they have to pick a new name. it's gonna be something normal like papa john.

starting to wonder if some of them have said this so much they believe there's actual a pathogen here and its not just a term they made up

Gonna say antisemitism is why I haven't won a Voyager yet. No other explanation.

"... a small number of individuals progressed towards credible attack planning over the past year before government agencies disrupted these activities" | NZ’s terror threat level could rise amid global turmoil newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/22/t... by @marcdaalder.bsky.social

Children as young as four are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Had missed this in last week's official greenhouse gas figures, but methodological revisions mean 2021's emissions were now higher than 2020's, so we haven't had four consecutive years of decreases as might have been thought.

This line is catching on among the conservative influencers: unless SCOTUS backs down, Trump will be forced to suspend the constitution and declare the US a dictatorship, and it'll be all their fault.

Yes, let Philip Crump, the guy who launched and then shut down a subscription media venture in the span of nine months, tell you how to do news better. newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/26/z...

Aside from protecting everyone, democracy and rule of law also protect us. JFNA wants to sell others down the river and in doing so will only secure a very brief reprieve from the same fate.

Believing that America can or must be good does not require one to believe that America is or was good or that Americans are more important than anyone else in the world. I don't know who it serves to insist otherwise.

i will remark again on this hallmark of maga politics, which is that trump embodies the organic will of the voters and this imbues him with sovereign power that cannot be checked or limited by any other institution in the society.

Rewatching Andor in preparation for Season 2 and so much of it maps perfectly onto the Trump regime. These lines from Nemik jumped out to me: "The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it."

[FDR, December 7th, 1941, off-mic]

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The little tuft of feather 🪶 on his beak 😲