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Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Very pleased to see Helen Clark calling the current NZ govt’s response the disgrace that it is.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

Finally, if anyone's going to complain about the left critiquing Hipkins, they better be make an equal or greater number of posts complaining about Hipkins' persistent undermining of the Greens and TPM.

But for some reason every time I point this out y'all act confused.

Glowing character references for abusers to be banned in court ‘As if being a ‘good bloke’ cancels out the violence you perpetrate.’

This needs to happen in AoNz

Character references to be scrapped in Victorian courts for crimes including rape and assault
‘As if being a ‘good bloke’ cancels out the violence you perpetrate.’

At least 70 people, including some 60 children, were killed when U.S. and Israeli strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, according to the Fars News. The attack reportedly struck during school hours, with about 170 girls inside. Videos show families screaming and digging through rubble as rescue crews searched for survivors. Tehran has vowed retaliation. Dr. Foad Izadi of the University of Tehran told Al Jazeera: “We are fighting the epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs little girls.”

At least 70 people, including some 60 children, were killed when US & Israeli strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, according to the Fars News.

The attack reportedly struck during school hours, w/ about 170 girls inside. Vids show families screaming...

What no one seems to be talking about is that there *was* a nuclear accord signed in 2015, one that Iran appeared to be keeping to – and Trump tanked it in his first term, essentially because the US had negotiated and signed it during Obama's presidency.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

As an Iranian in exile as some call it, I want nothing more than a regime change in Iran.

But what I don't want is my country destroyed, people killed, and all looted by Americans!

#FuckYourWar

I told you. Apparently only Israel has the right to defend itself. #nzpol

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

#nzpol
Pay attention Aotearoa NZ.
The National/NZ First/ACT coalition govt are 'considering' giving your legally protected private biometric data to a foreign country being led by white supremicist fascists who are rounding up 20 million US residents for mass deportation via concentration camps.🧐🤬

America needs regime change.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

Watch Luxon not condemn America & Israel’s illegal attack on Iran…. #nzpol

Thinking of all the ordinary people who will be killed, injured & traumatised by more war. It’s always the innocents that suffer the most. 🥺

see if you can spot when a select group of insiders found out about the current war on Iran:

Israel and the US are aiming at conducting at least four days of intense bombing of Iran. The assassination attempt on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei failed, and he was moved to a secure location. His residence & 30 other locations were struck, including presidential & intelligence buildings.

Wall Street Journal: Israel Strikes Lebanon Amid Iran Attack By Jared Malsin The Israeli military said it struck targets belonging to the militant group Hezbollah in several areas of southern Lebanon on Saturday. Hezbollah is an important ally of Iran, one of several militia groups throughout the region that Tehran has supported in its long-running shadow war with the U.S. and Israel. Any conflict with Iran risks a wider conflict that could involve those allied militias. Hezbollah was significantly weakened by an Israeli military offensive in 2024 that killed many of the organization's top leaders.

Israel is bombing Lebanon too, according to the Wall Street Journal

I know the temptation to joke about dying in World War III but try to remember that who almost always dies in wars of US imperialism are millions of Brown people

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

FLASHBACK - Is that it? Jack Tame on seeing Nicola Willis's budget model in 2023

The National Party released most of its policies only weeks before the 2023 election, but demand Labour to release theirs now #nzpol

Not only that, their costings didn't measure up - no surprise

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

Called it. But then, so did everyone else.

I wrote about allegations by ANOTHER Epstein victim who said Trump raped her when she was 13 years old. The New Republic responded by writing multiple hit pieces on me. That other child rape case, and its court documents, are in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT.

Story framed as solar doesn't work when it's a technical issue. This is such a bullshit and misleading headline #nzpol

Yep. A dilemma which seems to be getting worse day by day. There is, of course, a solution...

The general impression I seem to be getting (admittedly, from my blinkered social media mind you) is that the British political establishment (including a lot of the media there) appear really quite angry at the audacity that one not of their own succeeds in offering an actual alternative to folks.