Andy O'Brien

Dominion Voting Systems, once at the center of 2020 election conspiracies, has been sold to a firm run by a former Republican elections official promising to “restore trust in voting.” Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to do it.

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

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Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Botany should be taught as a life skill at High School because I can tell from here with the rushes and the bright green isolepis (indicating it is very wet) that you wouldn't want to drive a ute in here.

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Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

When Trump came along—a fellow oligarch, looking to use the power of the American presidency to enrich himself and his cronies as much as possible—these figures jumped at the chance to share in the spoils. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Morning!

Yeah I do ☕️

The chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize confirms that Donald Trump does not meet the moral and ethical standards associated with the award, citing a lack of courage and integrity a trait that defines MAGA.

Dear President Obama, I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza." Palestinians have families, too. This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide. I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world. Love, Ms Rachel

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

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Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

She is selling assets. Income producing assets. Important infrastructure assets.
These people are economic vandals assert stripping the country

So Argentina, with its Trumpite leader & Atlas-Network-wet-dream ultra-neolib economic policies has...how do I put this...turned into an ECONOMIC BASKET CASE requiring eye-watering bailouts.

Crazy & scary to think this Milei admiring Govt will have learned nothing from this debacle.

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

“Sure I destroyed the economy to give tens of billions of dollars to landlords and rich donors, but look I found some assets to sell that *could* be spent on fixing school buildings and if you believe that, you’ll believe anything”.

The secret diary of .. the Coalition Titanic

Two not very able seamen head for the iceberg

i’ll never get over this

Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize Donald Trump has once again been cruelly snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, despite what he insists was an “incredible” year of personal achievements in the field of “peace, which is very …

NEWS! Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize newsthump.com/2025/10/10/f...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

Quick, someone ask Peters to condemn THESE threats!
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado wins Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.

Given his opposition to the Venezuelan dictatorship, this is impossible for Trump to argue against - genius from Nobel - an element of subtle trolling that hammers home the committee’s pro-Democracy message twice over with just one decision.

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

There should be 6 o’clock news coverage of this fact and a very public apology from peters and the rest of them who leapt to blame and inflame. #nzpol

Fox News is even more pathetic than I thought.

Fox News is even more pathetic than I thought.

the world: idk about this AI slop. we should maybe not do that

the sweatiest guy you've ever seen: you don't understand. it's inevitable. it's coming to kill us. we have to make more

Watch: House thrown into confusion as MPs knock off early, blocking bill from becoming law There weren’t enough MPs at Parliament on Thursday afternoon to vote on a bill to allow Sunday morning advertising.

Yesterday Brownlee suspends parliament after the haka for MP Oriini Kaipara
Next day they dont have enough votes blocking a TV advertising bill.

National Coalition running a shit show.
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