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So excited to be bringing back ArtScarves Pre sale ends Wednesday Nz Only. $75 Free postage www.helenbeech.com/paint/p/seat...
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Continuing to enjoy the LA Times "America leans at least as much toward white nationalism as it does toward democracy (and that’s being optimistic). Nobody says it out loud, on either side, which is obscuring the real shape of Showdown 2024." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Opinion: The force propping up Trump that we still don't talk aboutwww.latimes.com Non-MAGA America seethes at Trump's lies, bluster and authoritarianism. But neither Biden nor any younger, healthier Democrat directly moves to shut down his appeal at its root — toxic whiteness.
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In better news, the workshop roof is finally on 😸 Clap, please.
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"Trump can say seven outrageous things on a Saturday, and by Monday people have forgotten about them. That’s the problem with Trump... he's a firehose of bullshit... as a result, he’s held to a completely different standard than Biden." -- Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes on the GOP's Trump cultwww.publicnotice.co "In the minds of MAGA world, he has never lost. There have been no defeats."
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Nothing to see here 😳
Yet another tick upward for the 12-month running mean global temperature (updated through June 2024)... Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
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Trump thinks Project 2025 should stand back and stand by
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Dear America This is how most countries transfer power after elections. Look and learn.
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It seems that the UK are getting rid of the Tories, but they are replacing them with a "at least we're not them" labour government. AoNZ need to pressure our opposition parties to give us something to vote for, rather than expecting us to simply vote against the other clowns. Start now dickheads!
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In great news: heroic scenes at Auckland Council, with a near-unanimous pushback against this indefensible government overreach on local streets. 🙌 Including a strengthened response on safe speeds around schools (carried by a casting vote!). Very very grateful for the integrity on display today. 🙏🥰
Of all the baffling ideas this govt is pursuing, this one’s a doozy *even by their own lights*: a cost-benefit review of safe speed zones around schools found they’re 45x better for the economy than Simeon Brown’s strictly-school-gate notion! www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/07/04/s...
Speak up for safe speeds - Greater Aucklandwww.greaterauckland.org.nz Simeon Brown’s lethal draft speed-setting rule is The draft Rule proposes to introduce a binding schedule of speed limit classifications that specify speed limits available for each road type. When ma...
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I don't even remember seeing a single bit of Dem messaging, it was mostly up to marginalized and underfunded progressive consumer advocates to warn people, and they were mostly treated as hyperbolic
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.
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Chlöe Swarbrick, slammed the plan as a "36-point bingo card" that has "no meaningful solutions". ... "Today's plan has shown, once again, that this Government is more concerned with keeping its wealthy mates happy than building a better future for all," said Marama Davidson. #nzpol
Luxon "unveils action plan for the next three months" RNZ live updates below: #nzpol
Post-Cabinet media briefing 1 July 2024rnz.liveblog.pro
Greens unleash on Government's new action plan as '36-point PR spin' | Newshubwww.newshub.co.nz "Christopher Luxon is not in the boardroom anymore."
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OK I admit it. I did not anticipate a fascist US in my lifetime. It's deeply unsettling.
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Apologies to unknown artist for lack of attribution. via FB #nzpol
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via twtr (tx @nzkatya.bsky.social ) This explains nearly all of what we are seeing in AoNZ. The cookers are useful idiots. #nzpol
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While not quite as anomalous as 2023, #Antarctic sea ice extent once again remains way below average for this time of year... More graphs: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
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Hey @dimsie.bsky.social , you won't know any other way because the coward media won't report it but Luxon got booed by the crowd at the Warriors game lol we really hate him
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Every New Zealander must watch the latest show of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight in which he lays out the Tory shit Britain has been punished with for the last 15 years, shit that is playing out here in AoNZ right now. You can find it on Neon
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omg it's nearly 9 o'clock and I'm still in bed 🙀 Manawātia a Matariki, everyone. Hope y'all get to relax ☀️☀️
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Tough on crime turns out to be just another way to siphon money into the private sector. Don't be fooled into thinking Paul Goldsmith cares about your safety. via Tennessee Holler #nzpol
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AoNZ's new GPS on transport is all about roads and explicitly hostile to active transport (the same week we have had more devastating floods in Wairoa). via twtr - here's why that's a problem. #nzpol
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