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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

City is made of council Please vote. I do not know how else to say this.

Did you get water from a tap? That’s pipes. Council.

Did you drive on a road? Council.

Did you use a pedestrian crossing? Council.

Did you go on a bus? Again, council.

@haydendonnell.bsky.social Opinion: City is made of council

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City is made of council Please vote. I do not know how else to say this.

Please vote.

City is made of council
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🚨A new under-reported NZ Bill: Summary Offences Amendment Bill closes 2pm Mon 6 Oct.
The Bill risks criminalising legitimate protest, is vague, unnecessary, gives wide Police discretion, allows arrest without warning, & could chill free expression.

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While accepting her first Emmy for her role in HBO's 'Hacks,' Philadelphia Eagles fan Hannah Einbinder ended her speech by saying, "Go Birds, F*** ICE and Free Palestine."

Check out our latest politics coverage, including how to defend immigrants against ICE here: tnvge.co/x9pufYG

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

A few years ago some people said oh wow I actually like spending time with my family and doing non work things after work and not commuting and all corporations in union went ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT.

Four-panel meme using scenes from “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones,” featuring Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala sitting in a grassy meadow. • Top left: Close-up of Anakin, wearing a dark tunic, speaking with the caption: “Ai is going to be used to change the world.” • Top right: Close-up of Padmé, wearing an ornate floral headpiece and an off-the-shoulder dress, smiling brightly with the caption: “As a tool to make the world better right?” • Bottom left: Close-up of Anakin looking back at her silently, without a caption. • Bottom right: Wider shot of Padmé in the same meadow, but now her dress is altered to reveal exaggerated, prominently large cleavage. She looks toward Anakin with a serious expression, and the caption repeats: “As a tool to make the world better, right?”

We’re so doomed

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

English to appear above te reo Māori in New Zealand passport redesign The move reflects the government's commitment to using English first, Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says.

We are the first peoples of Aotearoa, who extended our manaakitanga to non-Māori. Agreeing to share our country. This Government has no intention of honouring Te Tiriti, instead choosing to entrench systemic racism. Shame. I am appalled and heartsore.

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Watch: Lewd gossip about Tory Whanau shared by Auckland councillor Maurice Williamson The sexually explicit comments were made in an Auckland Council committee meeting.

People may question why I’m opening up now, or calling this a political hit job. Frankly I don’t care what people call it, the community DESERVES to know who these men are. If they can’t treat colleagues with basic decency, they don’t deserve to be elected. Don’t be gross, easy as that.

There’s zero political incentive for someone no longer running for mayor to use the election spotlight to contribute to the current ‘conversation’ about gendered harassment pushing people out of NZ politics.

Imagine knowing for years that a bunch of your male peers are fixated on your sex life.

Not a single negative can be attributed to this bill. Not a single cis person has had their lives impacted by this bill.

It has only helped to make life that little bit easier for trans folk & hopefully contributed somewhat to better acceptance.

Especially considering terf island next door.

A story in 4 parts

coroner finds NT police officer who shot Kumanjayi Walker was racist and can’t rule out that racism played role in fatal shooting

constable Zachary Rolfe was racist and it cannot be ruled out that his attitudes contributed to his conduct on the night. He shot and killed Kumanjayi Walker a coroner has found.

The inquest findings into Walker’s death were delivered by the northern territory coroner Elisabeth Armitage in Yuendumu on Monday. She said she could not exclude the possibility that Rolf’s views had contributed to the fatal shooting. “ Mr. Rolf was racist and he worked in and benefited from an organisation with the hallmarks of institutional racism” Armitage said

this is the big news we should be sharing today

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Submit against the Regulatory Standards Bill The Regulatory Standards Bill is designed to put profit ahead of people, erase Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and make effective provision of public and community services incredibly difficult.

A good simple resource👇🏽

At very least state “I oppose the Regulatory Standards Bill. It should be thrown out. I do not want an amended version of the Bill passed.”

Seymour’s behaviour personally attacking NZers who oppose his bill disqualifies the Bill. Too much power to him who abuses it #nzpol

The most obvious things continue to be found to be true.

Greenpeace submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill - Greenpeace Aotearoa We thank the Select Committee for the opportunity to submit on The Regulatory Standards Bill. Greenpeace strongly opposes the Bill and recommends that it be rejected in its entirety.

Here’s the Greenpeace submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill. Feel free to copy any of it that you’d like to use in your own submission!

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In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar. Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars known to Western astronomers as the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. Matariki is a shortened version of Ngā mata o te ariki o Tāwhirimātea, "the eyes of the god Tāwhirimātea".[1] According to Māori tradition, Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind and weather, was enraged by the separation of heaven and earth – his parents, Ranginui and Papatūānuku.[1] Defeated in battle by his brother, Tāwhirimātea fled to the sky to live with Ranginui, but in his anger he first plucked out his eyes as a gesture of contempt towards his siblings, and flung them into the sky, where they remain, stuck to his father's chest. In Māori tradition the unpredictability of the winds is blamed on Tāwhirimātea's blindness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matariki

Mōrena Aotearoa NZ

Mānawatia a Matariki

#Matariki (Pleiades | Subaru) above That Wānaka Tree

#NZ #Māori #Holiday #NewYear #Nikon #Photography

People all over the place appear to have lost their entire minds about school closures during the pandemic rather than losing their entire minds about MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING DURING THE PANDEMIC

What is wrong with everyone

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards

Seymour is LYING! We can't submit via a bot as the Parliamentary submission process is designed to stop them: "Google reCAPTCHA is used on the website to help secure the site against cyber attacks that could flood the submissions system with computer generated submissions and cause it to crash."

Deputy PM David Seymour defends Chris Bishop's AMA outburst "Just because you become a senior minister, it doesn't mean you should stop having opinions."

boom, straight out of the gates our newly minted deputy prime minister defends a senior minister doing a bit of the ol drunken racism.

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'May be that people agree': Deputy PM Seymour defends Bishop's AMA outburst

The thing that Seymour misses with the ongoing and bollocks “silent majority” narrative, is that when people had a chance to speak, they spoke loudly to him and his ilk. And they said, to quote Matua Don, ‘shut up, dickhead’.