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Mike Morgan

@mikeohope.bsky.social

Appalled Kiwi watching the rise of fascism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, right wing cruelty and greed in the USA and here in Aotearoa.

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Great to see Augustus Pablo but maybe King Tubbys meets rockers uptown, Original Rockers or another 70s classic?

02.08.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...the Emperor... complete fucking moron. How did he get his job again?

02.08.2025 07:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly ๐Ÿ‘‡

01.08.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm not sure why no one is getting the real grift. Trump tells everyone tariffs are on the other country and media doesn't push back. The billions of dollars he is taxing US consumers goes into his slush fund for gold ballrooms, ICE, billionaires and the majority goes into his own pocket. Simple!

01.08.2025 05:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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31.07.2025 06:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Another month, another cycle of Ardern-bashing disguised as political commentary.

Damien Grantโ€™s recent column in Stuff (framed as a review of Jacinda Ardernโ€™s memoir A Different Kind of Power) is not just dismissive. Itโ€™s part of a well-worn pattern: minimising women leaders' intellect, attributing their success to branding, and implying they were merely reactive, not strategic.

What looks like a lukewarm book review is actually part of a broader cultural script. A woman leads during a crisis, governs with empathy, and breaks with traditional leadership styles. In response, we downplay her decision-making, question her intellectual heft, and mock her legacy, not through substantive critique, but through casual derision.

This is not a neutral observation. Itโ€™s part of the cycle of gendered political violence.

Online abuse of women politicians doesnโ€™t emerge in a vacuum. Itโ€™s driven by misogyny and reinforced by media commentary that undermines their credibility, leadership, and intellect. When women in power are consistently portrayed as unserious, overly emotional, or lacking depth (all based on patriarchal attitudes), it invites contempt that in turn fuels online violence against women leaders.

The commentary claims โ€œall we have left is Kindness.โ€ As if kindness in leadership isn't itself political. As if leading through a terror attack, a volcanic disaster, and a global pandemic without cruelty or ego is somehow unremarkable.

Critique Ardernโ€™s decisions, by all means. But when male leaders are allowed complexity, while women are reduced to soft branding and hollow virtue, we should ask: What kind of power do we really value?

Another month, another cycle of Ardern-bashing disguised as political commentary. Damien Grantโ€™s recent column in Stuff (framed as a review of Jacinda Ardernโ€™s memoir A Different Kind of Power) is not just dismissive. Itโ€™s part of a well-worn pattern: minimising women leaders' intellect, attributing their success to branding, and implying they were merely reactive, not strategic. What looks like a lukewarm book review is actually part of a broader cultural script. A woman leads during a crisis, governs with empathy, and breaks with traditional leadership styles. In response, we downplay her decision-making, question her intellectual heft, and mock her legacy, not through substantive critique, but through casual derision. This is not a neutral observation. Itโ€™s part of the cycle of gendered political violence. Online abuse of women politicians doesnโ€™t emerge in a vacuum. Itโ€™s driven by misogyny and reinforced by media commentary that undermines their credibility, leadership, and intellect. When women in power are consistently portrayed as unserious, overly emotional, or lacking depth (all based on patriarchal attitudes), it invites contempt that in turn fuels online violence against women leaders. The commentary claims โ€œall we have left is Kindness.โ€ As if kindness in leadership isn't itself political. As if leading through a terror attack, a volcanic disaster, and a global pandemic without cruelty or ego is somehow unremarkable. Critique Ardernโ€™s decisions, by all means. But when male leaders are allowed complexity, while women are reduced to soft branding and hollow virtue, we should ask: What kind of power do we really value?

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Lol snap.
(From my Linkedin)

27.07.2025 01:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The Trump admin is making a deal with one of the worst convicted child sex traffickers in history to protect Trump.

26.07.2025 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4248    ๐Ÿ” 1230    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 200    ๐Ÿ“Œ 54

There is so much ugliness and insanity coming from all directions it is impossible to keep up. I guess that's the point. The new mega concentration camp in Texas should be the final straw for international sanctions. But it won't be.

26.07.2025 06:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And to harvest the crops that the people they are kidnapping and trafficking used to harvest. Fucking obscene.

26.07.2025 06:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Chronic intelligence insufficiency.

18.07.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Woke nonsense? Looks like the National Party Gen Z social media manager has been inhaling Maga. Embarrassing.

17.07.2025 06:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Psychopath.

16.07.2025 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't understand why millions of Americans aren't out on the streets every single day, why there aren't month-long general strikes, why Fox News hasn't been shut down. What's up with this "we will have a protest day in 3 weeks and another one in September" bs? You will lose it all.

16.07.2025 06:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Will mechahitler swerve to hit non-white and disabled pedestrians?

12.07.2025 04:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well played ๐Ÿ‘‡

12.07.2025 04:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Appalling behaviour. What went so wrong that so many terrified man babies were created?

11.07.2025 06:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bluesky needs a "that makes me really fucking angry" button. Disgusting.

11.07.2025 05:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jarred red capsicums that is.

09.07.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One from left field. Mix anchovy oil with butter. Then layer gruyรจre and thin slices of chorizo and red peppers. You're welcome.

09.07.2025 03:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘‡

05.07.2025 01:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken Congress?

Our corrupt Supreme Court?

Our ridiculous buffoon President?

04.07.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22300    ๐Ÿ” 6747    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1645    ๐Ÿ“Œ 510

Cesspool scum.

03.07.2025 05:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We are going to need a new word because vile or disgusting are not strong enough to describe what the Trump regime is doing.

03.07.2025 01:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And images of them laughing about it. How did one country produce so many sociopaths?

02.07.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yโ€™all are bad

02.07.2025 04:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4604    ๐Ÿ” 948    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 157    ๐Ÿ“Œ 72

Watch this ๐Ÿ‘‡

02.07.2025 02:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Exactly ๐Ÿ‘‡

30.06.2025 06:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Still happening. Appalling that Adobe hasn't been held to account. Cancellation fees for Adobe Stock amount to 12 months of subs. Criminal.

21.06.2025 05:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@foxylustygrover.bsky.social Thought you might find this interesting.

18.06.2025 23:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Brutal.

18.06.2025 20:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15606    ๐Ÿ” 7348    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 401    ๐Ÿ“Œ 554

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