Leon Botstein, longtime friend of pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has resigned as president of @bardcollege.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in Mobile v. Alabama, which gave us the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the Supreme Court just nullified in Louisiana v. Callais. Every word applies to the current majority: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

We cannot continue to allow this president to give in to every wish of Vladimir Putin. Video: buff.ly/Ow2EVDt

Grownups equals white people, apparently

I have been saying this for awhile and people seem genuinely shocked to have that realization exposed in the simplest of terms.

Bingo! It’s their common denominator.

The Academy has banned AI from being eligible for Oscar nominations or wins. • Only roles demonstrably performed by humans with their consent are eligible for nomination or victory. • Screenplays must be human-authored to qualify for nomination or victory.

It's a bit weird that an organisation as institutionally powerful and free from consequences for killing people, being racist and misogynist, like the cops, can be fatally and terrifyingly undermined permanently by a Green politician pushing a retweet button.

Oh for crying out loud, just increase our tax base already.

This is unhinged. This is an unhinged thing to say. "Let's not warn people about potentially deadly weather, so that instead they go out and spend money*" *"And maybe die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make on behalf of business, who are the real victims here."

NZ political donations so far this (election) year. Interesting to note the parties get increasingly right wing from the bottom to the top. Answers a lot of questions though. #nzpol

For 2026, registered political parties have to let the Electoral Commission know within 20 working days when they get more than $20,000 from a single donor between 1 January of election year and the day before election day. ACT is at $605,000 - donated by ten people. Wonder what that is buying 🤔🫠

@barbedmonds.bsky.social @chrishipkins.bsky.social Please tell me that you're not considering this? Just tax billionaires, not means test millionaires #nzpol

I have an idea let's vote for anyone else but Labour www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

I mean she's plain wrong on the facts of whether proportional representation has been good for the left's representation In my experience this sort of view rests on a delusion that voters for "the left" constitute a broad supermajority that is betrayed by the left's existing institutional parties

If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine ceases to exist. IF Russia ceases, the war ceases

AOC caught EPA administrator Lee Zeldin in a damned lie.

Lucky we didn't vote for the 'communists' who would have just destroyed businesses 'on principle' #nzpol

Luxon wanted NZ to show "explicit Iran war backing" AFTER the US bombed The Minab girls primary school that killed 120 children. Think about that.

So, what did happen to that plan to acquire a sea-going rescue tugboat for Cook Strait? My #cartoon today #NZpol #Infrastructure

It's amazing that nobody will understand this: They don't think. They don't remember. They have no cognition. They're pattern matching systems that produce answer-shaped responses. This is no different that giving a script admin privileges, except this script is rewritten on the fly.

Jones blames The Green Party. 🥳Heck yeah, thats an endorsement imo. That’s why I’m voting for them Jonesy, and not men like you that’d sell our environment down the toilet for donors and dollars. #nzpol Party vote Greens for a greener NZ 🎉🎉 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Actual quote from BP's new CEO: "We're heading in the right direction." We'll say it again: The fossil fuel industry literally depends on doing straight-up mass-murder.

#nzpol Outstanding @rodemmerson.bsky.social 😂😂😂

Just like the Taney Court before the Civil War, the Republican Roberts Court has completely delegitimized itself through its rulings, in addition to its illegitimacy as a minority-rule institution.

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

Conservatives have spent generations teaching this lie. They take control of governmental functions, destroy them on purpose, and say, "See? We should priviatize this because government doesn't work." It's absolutely intentional, and it's why we have billionaires.

In 1964, when my father was 20 years old, he went to Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer. NPR interviewed us in 2021: www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1...

bAcK oN tRaCk #nzpol

TVNZ political editor barred from doing her job for a week as punishment for being mildly disrespectful to people whose job is to lie to her face every day www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-t...

@fran4dunedin.bsky.social doing the mahi @greens.org.nz always pushing for the right things #nzpol

Winston Peters versus reality. “It won’t be very long before it’ll be over. It won’t be months” - Peters on the war, 11 March The US would “continue the current blockade for months” - Trump, 30 April This government is blinded to reality by its slavish devotion to Trump. #nzpol #iran

Our media ought to be compelled to preface every article about a politician or party with a line on the donors they represent. What context could be more critical to the public interest?

#taxtherich Wealth tax NOW

The other thing to note here is that half of Green Party donations come from their own MPs who tithe 10% of their salaries. Which ever way you cut it, Labour and the Greens are cash strapped and resource poor & it's a David vs Goliath battle between left and right

You love to see it.

Ironic that MAGA Winston Peters and NZ First get to paint Luxon as the US toad, I mean Luxon is but Peters is not one iota better Outfoxed by the fox, Luxon

NEW: The Oversight Committee just announced Pam Bondi will appear before the panel on May 29 for her Epstein files deposition.

A Supreme Court where 5 of 6 conservative justices appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators elected by minority of Americans just effectively killed Voting Rights Act, country’s most important civil rights law. This is not democracy

The US midterms are not about choosing a politician this year; they’re about choosing between people who want to serve the public and a criminal GOP that wants to continue to rob it blind & destroy what’s left of the United States for its external and billionaire backers.

A growing number of liberal states are considering raising taxes on their wealthiest residents. via @stateline.org

So the NZ Govt helped two rich white men who had assaulted a policemen in Thailand to come home. A virtual get out of jail free card, but Winston Peters - The Minister In charge - is MIA for a NZ woman (not rich) detained in an ICE facility despite committing zero crime. #nzpol

lux’s shitty line about fully supporting the US invading Iran was a mask-off moment. #nzpol

lmao the emails were released by OIA, Christopher, and they show that weirdly Winston's experience is clearly on show by stopping Luxo from going full War shagger

Oh suddenly offensive language on social media is not okay? But when people called Ardern a c*** who needed to be hanged that was okay? Lmao okay! #nzpol

WHITESIDES: I want to talk about the Apache helicopter that flew over Kid Rock's property on March 28. An investigation was launched. Did you personally direct termination of that review? HEGSETH: I did WHITESIDES: How does canceling a command-initiated review support a culture of accountability?

🚨BREAKING: The Florida Senate voted 21-17 Wednesday to approve a gerrymandered map that could deliver up to four more Republican seats in Congress in the upcoming elections. The vote sends the measure to Gov. Ron DeSantis. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...