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Chic cat lady - ngai Aotearoa ahau. Social Justice is my bag she/her #NZ/Aotearoa 🇳🇿

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Incredible detail here as Darleen Tana's husband accuses an investigator of tampering with his transcript because of the inconsistency of his own statements. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

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NZ Herald: refers to Peter Thiel as the ‘Kiwi billionaire’ bankrolling JD Vance Me: Throws up in my mouth a little, out of nationalism

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Can we revoke his faux-citizenship already? Kiwi billionaire Peter Thiel’s money links to J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwi-bill...

Revealed: The Kiwi billionaire who bankrolled J.D. Vance’s rise to Trump’s running matewww.nzherald.co.nz Thiel poured millions into Vance's campaigns and might be the reason he met Trump.

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"The problem is, Simeon Brown is wrong. Not just wrong in my opinion, but wrong in regard to the facts." #nzpol

A blanket of misinformation - Greater Aucklandwww.greaterauckland.org.nz Two old sayings have been on my mind lately. The first is: “The pen is mightier than the sword”, describing the power of language and communication to help or to harm. The other, which captures the sp...

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It's almost like they want kiwirail to go with the cheapest less commercially viable option... #nzpol

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#NZPol When our most vulnerable have to make choices like this, do we even need to ask wtaf is wrong with the world with the government driving it?

Power to the People: Grandmother says house so cold and damp mokopuna’s teeth are chattering

House so cold grandson's 'teeth are chattering' as grandma has to choose between food or power billwww.nzherald.co.nz Woman chooses warm meal over warm house and says she can never have both.

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I called it a while ago that National were always planning to privatise KO & the ferries. Today I explain why they are doing the same for our water assets despite Luxon promising it would never happen. And on top of that, Nat 3 Waters costs more. #nzpol #NewZealand #luxon #3Waters

"Shhhh" - National's 3 Waters is loaded with higher costs and lays a path to privatisationmountaintuihere.substack.com Auckland Watercare is the first cab off the Coalition Government's New 3 Waters rank. How did it play out?

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Whatever your line of work or your personal life is, you can rest assured* that Project 2025 has something for you! * be terrified

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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the secret service and police assigned to them are going to react to the huge fuck up by just shooting a lot more people. this is going to happen a lot in coming months

NEW: Columbus, Ohio, police detailed to the RNC in Milwaukee have shot a Black man in his early 20s a few blocks outside of the security perimeter. Details TK. (via Columbus Dispatch, CBS 58 Milwaukee)

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If anybody isn’t aware of the role prominent wealthy business owners played in the rise of fascism in 1930s Germany, the book Nazi Billionaires by David De Jong is a hell of a read.

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I’m not in California, but if you believe in abortion and reproductive rights and you do live there, sign now!

This has 42 reposts and we’ve only gained 5 signers. Please take a second to do this if you live in CA. It’s important.

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Do not obey in advance.

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I'm not normally vengeful, but I want to point to Vance's nomination and ascension as the product of every purported liberal who touted his book as "revolutionary" over the objections of all the folks who knew better. That shit is partially on them, and they need to own that.

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Read this and listen to people from Appalachia on how to fight back against grifters like JD Vance

Hillbillies Need No Elegy — THE BITTER SOUTHERNERbittersoutherner.com In the new book “Appalachian Reckoning,” dozens of mountain voices combine to talk back to J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” arguments. Today, an exclusive story from its co-editor and a powerful essay...

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Wrap it up here, we're done.

A man who fakes his wealth paired with a man who fakes his poverty. Sounds about white.

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I also want to point out that Vance's whole "professors are the enemy" schtick came after he profited enormously from universities. Nowhere was "Hillbilly Elegy" pushed more than on college campuses. He cashed in with six figure speaking fees to talk about Appalachian poverty.

JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Speaking of, if you live in California, please text “Sign PGHZOY” and “sign PHQICF” to 50409 to encourage your reps to join calls for an independent investigation with public disclosure into allegations against BH city officials colluded with antiabortion extremists to prevent a clinic from opening.

This is a really good time if you're not already connected to local groups and organizations organizing around particular issues to find ones in your communities that could use your talents and skills.

How Beverly Hills became an unlikely battleground for the future of abortion rightswww.yahoo.com The campaign by an antiabortion group to block the opening of a specialized clinic in Beverly Hills may offer a playbook for similar efforts in other cities and states.

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The "cultural, political, and social legacy that built this country" is racism and genocide. It needs more than denigration: it needs repudiation, rejection, and recognition of exactly what it is and what it continues to be.

JD Vance took part in the "National Conservative" conference. "He later speculated that a “post-white America” would denigrate “much of the cultural, political, and social legacy that built the country” and spoke of a need to “reform” civil-rights laws." nymag.com/intelligence...

The Authoritarian Plotnymag.com At the National Conservatism Conference, Republican senators mix with racists ranting about “post-white America.”

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In my view - a health equity academic and clinician - this is disgusting.Te Tiriti is a founding document of our counntry www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Watch: Considering Treaty of Waitangi is inappropriate, Seymour tells Pharmacwww.rnz.co.nz Associate Health Minister David Seymour has told Pharmac it is inappropriate for the agency to keep considering the Treaty of Waitangi's place in the health sector.

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"Cost of A&E for 1 respiratory case is about the same as insulating an entire house..." Assuming there's no follow on treatment required and over time, repeated visits will quickly get into 5 figures of taxpayers money... This will cost ordinary NZers in so many ways...

1.3 million homes in NZ were built before 2000. Living areas and bedrooms in winter are 6°C below WHO healthy minimum indoor temp of 18°C. 70% of all NZ homes have no underfloor and insufficient ceiling insulation. Cost of A&E for 1 respiratory case is about the same as insulating an entire house

Unhealthy livingarchitecturenow.co.nz We spend 70% of our time in our homes, yet many New Zealand homes are up to 6 degrees below the WHO's minimum of 18 degrees.

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Lyndy's book isn't just a story of the Living Wage Movement, it's an explainer of how to successfully build and embed a movement for social change in New Zealand - I'd encourage you to take a look even if labour issues aren't your particular battle.

It’s tonight. #NZpol PETER CONWAY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2024 United we stand. How people power won the living wage 16 July 2024 - 5.30pm St. Peter’s on Willis Wellington & Zoom For more info, to register: facebook.com/events/s/pet...

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Frank

Another reason to be wary of buying any homes planned/built during this govt: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government considers rolling back insulation standardswww.rnz.co.nz The changes made last year were the first significant upgrades to minimum requirements for housing in more than a decade.

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Penk wants to roll back insulation standards and backs the word of some (probably imaginary) builders over multiple studies and the wishes of voters. Government by vibes (autocomplete changed that to bribes, which is apposite) and reckons. Expertise and facts be damned. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Government considers rolling back insulation standardswww.rnz.co.nz The changes made last year were the first significant upgrades to minimum requirements for housing in more than a decade.

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Overheating is nothing to do with insulation and everything to do with using a CONDUCTOR of heat to make the window frames. It's like making a teapot out of chocolate

Such a good podcast - congrats Toby Manhire and The Spinoff #kikorangi #NZPol

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this just in

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The boys have been obsessed with a box but because of their size it’s been destroyed in stages - they collapsed it weeks ago and then it’s just fallen apart piece by piece. There’s one bit left and they are refusing to give it up 😹😹🦁🦁 #catboxsunday #teamfloof #catsofbluesky

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All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.

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I keep remembering that the official Republican solution to gun violence is just... more gun violence. "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" means the plan -- the only plan -- is that AFTER the shooting starts, there's more shooting. Prevention isn't even considered.