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Bergen Belsen: Eighty years on, survivors and families remember camp's horrors

Very funny indeed!

Lest we forget. This is the ANZAC poppy which I am wearing today. I am also reading "The Choice" by Auschwitz survivor Edith Edgar - a remarkable woman who uses the hell she's lived through as motivation not just to live a wholesome life, but to help other people with PTSD.

A vectorized ink sketch depicting an anthropomorphic ANZAC poppy. #art #sketch #anthropomorphic #anzac #poppy

Grateful for their service and sacrifice. #anzac

Remember them all for their sacrifice,we live in fragile times again & I wonder if they would think it all in vain with the state this world is in now. 💐Lest We Forget💐 #ANZAC #Sacrifice

Thanks SkyCity Auckland for once again supporting our Poppy Appeal and ANZAC Day. skycityauckland.co.nz/whats-on/con...

🇺🇦Meet Eva — call sign Jung. An FPV drone operator with the Rubizh Brigade, she signed her Army contract the moment she turned 18. Her mission? To protect the home she loves.

#nzpol Data released by Stats NZ today showed that inflation was 2.5% for the year to March 2025 rising from 2.2% in December last year. The prices of things that you can’t avoid are rising faster than others – meaning inflation is rising faster for those on low incomes. A thread…

What I'd just say to you is, that's different. We're entitled!!! #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #BullshitterBishop

Whatever your view of trans and gender diverse people, under the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 2021 people can legally change their gender. Costello's directive to the MoH is essentially telling the Ministry to ignore NZ law. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#ToitūTeTiriti #Aotearoa #NZ

Now this is a sport I could get behind!

War hero schools a chickenhawk.

🚨#BREAKING 🚨 Whanau please meet Rhys Williams, the New Plymouth businessman thought to be behind the toxic @2ETEKA account and one of Aotearoa’s biggest pos behind the toxic online Benjamin Doyle campaign. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

This is a great day! Benjamin knocked it out of the park with that presser. Curiously, my op-ed wasn't purposefully timed to co-incide with his presser. To my mind this should be the end of the matter. And I think a certain person now has no credibility left. Hate has no place in Aotearoa.

"I refuse to be disappeared by hate". An excellent, strong message for a person that has been the victim of a malicious, out of context smear campaign by the likes of Ani O'Brien, Rhys Williams , Cam Slater, Winston Peters and that ilk. Best wishes to you, Doyle. Kia kaha. #nzpol #kiwi

Our "justice" system did this. Our "justice" system is still doing this. This Government's insincere apology for abuse in state care is meaningless when measured against their actions. No Government can claim that Te Tiriti delegates authority for them to abuse Māori children. #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol

#nzpol Huge new package announced for defence yesterday. $12bn over the next four years – about the same as NZ spends in total on the police. $9bn of the $12bn is new. Quick question…where does the money come from? A 🧵 www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mult...

What I'd just say to you is, let them e̶a̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶k̶e̶ sleep in tents! #LyinLuxon #Idontcare #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

NEW: The Fourth Circuit UPHOLDS Judge Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the US by midnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

San Francisco gets an A+ for presentation and form.

Hands Off Protest Boston! April 5, 2025 Boston Common

remembering fondly when people were like "don't promote 50501, it's not real, it's a psyop"

🔥Go good people goooo! Boston, USA.

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

#HANDSOFF #NYC

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

CHICAGO…

We’re building a #PeoplesMovement. Today, over 3 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy. 
And history shows that when just 3.5% of the population engages in sustained, peaceful resistance—transformative change is inevitable. #50501movement #HandsOff #April5

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Our latest: America ain’t dead yet We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

#NZPol This would be a great time for parties on the left to start making announcements about how they will be rolling back changes to restore Te Tiriti to legislation if they're elected. 90% is a powerful number.

Tell me WHY is there still an isreali ambassador here?? A leader with a moral compass, or ANY SPINE AT ALL would be summoning him to the beehive, berating them for 45 minutes and telling them to pack their shit and fuck off for the SECOND TIME IN 20 YEARS

Free, fresh and locally made school lunches. Labour will bring them back.

"I was top of my class": 13-year-old Gazan recalls school with joy. Now, the education system is in ruins.

The right-wing is attacking Green MP Tamatha Paul because she suggested that some people might feel less safe with heaps of police around. For some people, police represent safety. However, for many communities in Aotearoa, the presence of police creates a sense of fear. Why? 🧵

WTF Trump’s new “minerals deal” with Ukraine amounts to total looting — giving the U.S. 100% control over all extracted resources forever. Profits go straight into USD and out of Ukraine, with the U.S. always paid first — and Ukraine gets nothing in return.