Gaza and Protest Why freedom of speech matters

@timothysnyder.bsky.social with the truth about protest & Gaza.

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A waterfall, some sheer rock & native forest

Waterfall in the Kā Roimata-o-Hinehukatere Franz Joseph Glacier valley Kā Tiritiri-o-te-moana the Southern Alps.

This waterfall comes from a creek flowing from Alex Knob, 1303m (yes I've been dying to say this, lol) on the Fritz Range

Eligible voters were asked whether they approved or disapproved of how National leader Luxon has been handling his job as Prime Minister. The proportion who approved was 38%, while 52% disapproved and 10% didn't know or preferred not to say. This gives the National Party leader an overall score of -14, his lowest approval rating as Prime Minister. Since he took the top job, 1News has surveyed voters on this question three times. In June 2024 Luxon scored -5, in March/April of this year he scored -7.

The whole poll is a nothingburger because hardly anything has changed EXCEPT THIS

Because we hate him

We really really hate him #nzpol

I have a theory that Wellington city has hit 48% voter turnout (with specials still to come) because our people wanted to vote against nastiness and division and for nice and normal candidates. And for the Māori ward!

NZ world leaders: votes for women, nuclear free and the first country to legislate to weaken its climate targets.

Relatedly, was reading Naomi Beinart's piece in the Guardian this morning, & thinking about how (increasingly) true it must be for NZ too. | As boys shift to the right, we are seeing the rise of the ‘new chill girl’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I bet it was good.

"The plant, located near Simferopol, houses two Siemens gas turbines that
***were installed in 2017 despite existing sanctions*** against Russia."

zinnia/ cosmos garden and a blue sky in the background and I was trying to get the sun and the flower bloom to perfectly align

yard art for your sunday mornin🖤🌼☀️

It’s a wonderful thing and everyone please do it.

I lost one of my best friends to bowel cancer this time last year. It is a horrible disease.

Laugh at the silliness of turd wrangling and keep yourself safe.

I may never meet you or even know you but love to you all.

Now, go shit on a stick❤️

Special education staff decimated after government shutdown firings: Sources The nation's special education services have been significantly damaged after Friday's mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

Didn’t he just give 20 billion to Argentina? abc7news.com/post/us-depa...

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

4/ Russia may be able to pose a significant threat to NATO on a timeline much sooner than 2036 and without necessarily reconstituting its tank fleet.

European authorities continue to report increased unidentified drone sightings in European airspace near military facilities.

3/ This event is the first instance of ISW observing “little green men” (a euphemism the Kremlin uses for the Russian military forces in unmarked uniforms) operating near a NATO state in the context of the “Phase Zero” campaign. isw.pub/UkrWar101225

2/ ISW continues to assess that Russia has recently intensified its covert and overt attacks against Europe and that Russia has entered “Phase Zero” — the informational and psychological condition-setting phase — of its campaign to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.

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Russia deploys "little green men" with weapons to the border with Estonia
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💔Rest in peace, brave heroes.

Yay we're 'famous'

I’m enjoying the retaking of frogs. I always felt incredibly sad for the original illustrator of pepe who had his creation stolen and exploited

The regulatory standards Bill is being pushed through to serve the interests of non-New Zealanders. Our thug government has been captured by global interests. As long as Luxo gets his knighthood and money, he doesn’t give a flyingF.

Same here.

Currently there is no way to prevent- which needs changing ASAP

Duncan, a question if I may - how do we prevent such abuse of the democratic process going forward? What mechanism can you put in place to prevent this?

Yes, we will repeal it.

We will repeal it in the first 100 days.

If Peters or Seymour don't collapse the House of Cards first, National's own MPs could well do so. That is their only chance for many of them to survive past 2026. And they care about that.. not Luxon's knighthood or the Bill.

The rifts in the CoC are widening. Luxon needs to avoid the collapse.

I think that's the truth of it right there.