James Gates

Donald Trump is what you get when you combine the Great Gatsby with Weekend at Bernie’s.

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After a multi-year legal battle, I've been granted a restraining order against the notorious white supremacist Phil Arps

Arps fought this every step of the way (with legal aid) and I've been left with a hefty legal bill, I'm fundraising to cover the last part of the cost

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domino meme with Gamergate as the smallest block and Cabinet full of rapists as the biggest

The last decade in US politics

This is the only meme you need.

Manuia le aso Faraile!

Disappointing to see Shakespeare platform the c-word.

Upper Hutt Parsley

She’s So Radish

Captain Artichoke Heart

Polyfest from the cheap seats on a rainy day.

If ACT and their followers are so keen on democracy, as they say they are, they would have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and taken part in the submission process offered to them.

YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame Brett Christophers: Reason for caution over BlackRock investment | Q+A 2023

Geographer Brett Christophers interview here in Aotearoa. Check out his fab New Enclosure from 2018 (I’m going to read his others). Everything he says tracks with what @garyseconomics.bsky.social is saying. A lot of that wealth transfer is through land and property.
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Done.

I love Anthony Browne’s books and I love how he manages to turn Hansel and Gretel into 1980s Mike Leigh.

“Yes the fascists took over and destroyed the planet. But for a beautiful moment in time, we owned the libs.”

Totally. There were at least 2 cool band mums in this story.

4). Anyway, they were a really nice bunch of people and their band was cool.

3). So after a while of trying the lovely mum eventually called the AA (she thankfully had an account) and an hour later the AA showed up to this house on the banks of Lake Pupuke and unlocked the car. By that stage it was too late to jam and I went home and I never became a member of Womb.

2). Anyway, after knocking on the door and introducing myself we went back to my car (my mum’s car) to grab my gear. Except I had locked the keys in the car and couldn’t get them out.

1). Womb is a cool band. Back in the 90s there was another cool band from the North Shore called Womb. I think a Westlake Girls’ band. I can’t remember why (maybe they were looking for a new bass player), but I went to jam with them at the drummer’s house, well, her mum’s house.

It’s so obvious that Brian Tamaki is cynically exploiting the unresolved trauma and associated violence of broken men.

Of course!

Remember when Richard Prebble had “been thinking” so he decided to write about it?

Elizabeth Rata is NZ education’s Hyacinth Bucket.

YouTube video by strettonbull New York Dolls - Looking for a Kiss

RIP David Johansen. I remember seeing you in Scrooged in 1989 with Bill Murray and wondering who the hell you were. Turns out you were a fucking legend. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvmv...

My pond? Bardo

At the party when you only know one person there and you’ve have one too many hits from the bong.

Neo-Liberace.

Hmmmm. I can ask media colleagues

Outrage after Israeli police raid famed Palestinian bookshops Israeli police raided the famed Education Bookshop in occupied East Jerusalem.

Going after books and bookstores…it’s becoming obvious that a feature of fascist societies is being stupidly oblivious to one’s fascism. www.aljazeera.com/amp/program/...