Already Tuesday here in Aotearoa NZ. Still no rapture. Disappointing.

Shaun King backing up Tucker Carlson that Jews killed Jesus. It is important to state this bluntly (I should actually write a piece about it): Antisemitism is close to getting mainstream. One thing preventing it on the right is Trump's support of Israel, but Carlson and others are pushing it.

Yall, we've broken containment and made it to Facebook! 😭😭😭

MAGA's Horst Wessel Moment: Using Charlie Kirk's Murder to Advance Authoritarianism MAGA is using the murder of Charlie Kirk to mobilize their cult & incite hate against all their critics, but the majority is fighting back with our voice and money. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

This was especially obvious in the early years when so much of their marketing revolved around spamming online with memes with some weirdo no one had ever heard of owning the libs. He was a brand built through the sheer brute force of billionaire-funded marketing budgets.

This absolutely correct. I would add that no sentient being should take Fang seriously about ANYTHING but particularly about organizing. He doesn't know anything.

O, you like speech marks. Hate this modern trend for avoiding speech marks. I wonder what Edmund Spencer has to say…

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

We're in the last two weeks of Writers on Mondays for 2025. Come along to Circa Theatre today at 1215 to catch a lively hour of performance - five scripts from the MA Script workshop will be in the spotlight. Free admission, all welcome!

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

Sauron Was Practicing Metallurgy The Right Way by Ezra Klein

Change dem to Labour and it explain’s Starmer’s position now

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Call and/or text your loved ones regularly, nothing else really matters.

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“i don’t read fiction” damn sorry about your flaccid imagination

Writers of Aotearoa, his is your reminder that Turbine | Kapohau 2025 is open for submissions of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction until 1 November - check out the submission guidelines and send us your work!

“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:

Lol

Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

Can’t be putting that green card at risk.

We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air. This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Am struggling with the idea that people like me somehow don't understand the legitimate concerns of people who attended the Tommy Robinson march. I literally had National Front fliers through my letterbox in my childhood in Greater London and I went to school and university with actual fascists.

Do you want to be a famous writer? You just have to vomit that book up babe

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That arc of history is looking like it’s bending the wrong way…

I think it bears repeating that Candace Owens is a heinous antisemite and you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to her.

if you're organising an event in 2025 you absolutely need to post the information somewhere that isn't Facebook, a huge chunk of people no longer have accounts and can't access it

I would like a refund for every movie and book who told me the fascists would be evil geniuses when they are, in fact, utter fools.

My life is waiting in playgrounds as my 8 year old daughter hangs out with her friends.

The reason for the anger at posting Kirk’s words is simply that we are entering a fascistic world where the truth is dangerous and lies become facts. It is literally how fascism sustains itself. Turning bigots into martyrs and innocent people into criminals. And that’s why saying the truth matters.

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership? Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word. Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles. He is a coward. He should resign.

Sally Jenkins blocked me for pointing out that she doesn't seem aware of Kirk's role in January 6. Kirk was civil in organizing the January 6 insurrection; I am apparently not civil for pointing out he did that.

Starmer won’t say racism is bad because he’s running a white supremacist government. It’s okay to say it!

Eventually, something will happen that prompts Keir Starmer to speak out against racism and for multiculturalism. And just as Reform voters hear him talk about immigration and judge him insincere, progressive voters will know he doesn't really mean it when he finally talks about basic human decency.

Lots of “I don’t talk about politics” people suddenly posting about politics as well. How interesting that this is where they choose to speak out.

It *might* be funny, if it wasn’t fascism in a shit Crocodile Dundee hat.

Charlie Kirk’s actions and rhetoric has directly led to political violence. He also helped make the difference in an election where fascists who spread extreme violence on the vulnerable were put into power. If that isn’t part of the message against political violence, it misses the point.

Tonight at Unity Books Wellington, Elizabeth Knox launches her new YA novel, Kings of this World. 6pm, all welcome!

Podcast hot takes tomorrow will be intolerable

A famine is underway in Gaza City and in the surrounding areas. In Israel, meanwhile, the agricultural economy is so rich—and food so abundant—that it has entered into luxury alcohol markets.

Here’s how to disable video autoplay on social media platforms like X, Facebook, and YouTube. Others, like Instagram and TikTok, aren’t as easy.

I'm sick after seeing the video of Charlie Kirk being shot. Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence — no matter who is hurt — will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.

Maybe don’t post rn

@bsky.app censored a image I shared yesterday (Rugendas's reprentation of naked enslaved Africans in a slave ship) for being "sexually suggestive"...

President Vance is going to be such a whiny and cruel shitbag of a president.

First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him