Anna Liedtke of the #FreedomFlotilla was raped by Zionist soldiers. "I’m sharing it for all the women who experience sexual violence [and] on behalf of those who did not survive those attacks, those who cannot speak about it because they are still in prison." www.thecanary.co/global/world...

‘A prime example of lawfare’ Three senior British barristers have been accused of using their professional seniority to intimidate Palestine activists and opponents of Israel’s genocide

'The democratic question raised by the BSA's destruction is not, in the end, about broadcasting law. It is about whether Aotearoa retains the institutional capacity to constrain, even modestly, the merger of disinformation and political power.' @mohanjdutt.bsky.social #NzPol

FYI for people in Wellington tomorrow:

No matter who Americans vote for as President they always end up with Benjamin Netanyahu.

The move to cut Treaty references from five acts and amend up to 14 others has been criticised by the National Iwi Chairs Forum

Winston Peters wringing his hands that the party of Jeanette Fitzsimons is dead. The party of Winston Peters that Fitzsimons opposed is also dead, but the far right zombie still led by his foul revenant staggers on.

A new report about online abuse against women politicians just dropped. This one also highlights a new AI tool designed to help, used by @misswhanau.bsky.social. Here's a breakdown of the report, cross posted from Instagram (a bit more measured than last time I talked about it lol) #nzpol

I wish they cared this much about shootings when it happens to children at school.

Western officials are like "Violence has no place in our society [bombs a school]. We've all got our differences and disagreements [sponsors a genocide], but it's important for us to find a way to make peace [starves a civilian population with siege warfare]."

A barbaric country that is one of the few countries in the world that still has the death penalty. An outlier in its profound cruelty. Humane people would rebel.

Kamala Harris Chose To Lose

are you part of a progressive left wing org ? as we head towards the election @1of200.bsky.social will be trying to platform as much cool organising and implementation as possible hmu if you want to discuss campaigns, ideas and solutions in a podcast or livestream format

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

I loathe these articles, which always come with hidden privilege - an electric car, the ability to renovate. Same vibes as “we bought a home” (because we have generational wealth from our parents). Media - the wealth distribution crisis isn’t about buying oats in bulk. Talk about taxing the rich.

AKA, I will keep arming an illegal, apartheid state of war criminals, rapists, and child killers.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A weird thing happened post marriage my address was changed on the electoral roll. They changed my address to my husband’s place! Straight away I changed it back! I have been on the Māori for the last two elections. #NZpol Reminder if you want to change rolls need to before August!

#nzpol We should all be able to live with dignity.

I’m one of only 15 ppl giving an oral submission on the English Language Bill tmrw! 😎🫶🏽 Written ones haven’t been uploaded yet so I’ve not had a chance to gauge what the other submitters might say. SO!! I’m v open to hearing unique hot takes I could include (linguistic lens)! Please share :) #NzPol

41,000 jobs lost in 2 years is wild. Auckland lost 21,000 filled jobs over the same two-year period while construction shed 20,000 jobs & manufacturing 10,000. Over 165,000 Kiwis are now unemployed, worst in 13 years, but much worse when you consider 3% of NZ citizens have fled for overseas

Highly recommend this reading from Fired Up Stilettos. BTW to the Chair of the committee, it is not a serious offence to consensually send nudes to other consenting adults. If those were leaked in any way, THAT is a serious offence. #nzpol

The Green Party conference was due to vote on a motion opposing Zionism. It has been hit by a DDOS attack to try and prevent the vote from taking place. I look forward to all politicians (especially the ones who wrap themselves in the flag) condemning foreign interference in British politics.

Half a million people standing against the far right. Half a million people who care about each other and our communities. Half a million people ready to make hope normal again.

This family won't be watching the Olympics or buying any merch that supports them. They can fuck **All The Way** off. #Transphobes #CowardlyIOC #TheyBentTheKnee www.newsbreak.com/news/4559740...

Good morning, Israel has not "moved troops' into Lebanon. Israel has invaded Lebanon. Use the right language cowards

France has confirmed 40% OF ALL GULF OIL AND GAS INFRASTRUCTURE IS DESTROYED. It will take at least three years AFTER THE DRONES STOP FLYING to rebuild that infrastructure. National have their heads firmly up their arses if they think this will blow over www.france24.com/en/france-co...

Beneficiary numbers have soared to a 12-year high, under a National government that promised a reduction. They were the highest both by volume and percentage of the working-age population since at least the 2013 welfare reforms. #backontrack #nzpol

A former political adviser for Winston Peters lifts the lid on the two decades of collusion and between party and primary industry. Interventions this term include legalising deep sea trawling, hiding camera footage, removing environmental protections

"Up to 10 patients in Palestine’s Gaza are dying daily while waiting for medical evacuation, as Israeli restrictions on movement and border crossings continue, according to the Palestinian enclave’s Health Ministry."

You heard the man.

I know it's an election year and they want donors but this seems a very tone deaf time to be swishing about like a bunch of rich cunts. I mean never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake so #NZPol

Our Relationship with Israel must Change….

Let's recap some of Brooke Van Velden's greatest hits (on working Kiwis)

people with a health condition or disability make up OVER HALF of the approx 300,000 working-age people on a main benefit these are ppl who have to go to medical/health appts, attend WINZ appts, get their kids to school, sort out groceries/food, take kids to activities and so on and so forth

Sometimes people ask the best Tiriti and racial justice questions in class. Here is some questions and answers from a recent class. www.heathercameassociates.com/post/too-har...

“It’s worrying that while everyone else has looked aghast at the ICE raids in the USA, the New Zealand government has decided that immigration and police officers need greater powers to enable them to do the same.” nzccl.org.nz/media-releas...

We could barely muster a response to an actual genocide but threaten to raise the cost of fuel and we're suddenly outraged. What an absolute disgrace. Also, Iran is defending itself from the US, with its 19 military bases in the region, and Israel, who ATTACKED THEM. Wtaf. #freepalestine #notowar

This is an incredible piece of research, and deserves you watch. It’s about conversion therapy, but so much on top of such but related, including the Cass Review. Content warning for pretty much nearly everything btw.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

❝ The cycle of wars in the Middle East will not end by managing symptoms. It will only be broken by confronting its cause: the unresolved question of Palestine, a question of inalienable rights, of law and ultimately of accountability. ❞ — Husam Zomlot • Ambassador of Palestine in the UK

May Albanese and the crowd of evil bastards leading the so-called 'civilised' west live long enough to feel crippling shame for their cowardice on Palestine and Iran. My vote in Nov is going to someone who stands with Palestine and against this evil, imperial war. #freepalestine 🇵🇸 #nzpol #auspol

Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program. So that's a lie. Albanese knows it's a lie. I know it's a lie. The whole fucking world knows IT'S A LIE. #auspol #Iran

no rocks for war crimes pls

We're busy packing suitcases of medical aid to bring to Cuba tomorrow. 🇮🇪 🇨🇺 GRMA to all who've assisted us source it (special thanks to Dr David Hickey). The USA is illegally and savagely strangling the island and crippling its people.

Maybe one day someone will study the insanity of pretending like everything is normal at work while the craziest things happen in the world year after year and how that messes with your head.

It’s weird how much it upsets people when I talk about how the American apparatus has had and continues to have a genocidal attitude toward Black people and its not because they’re upset about the genocidalism, it’s that they don’t want to confront their own normalization of anti-Black violence

Activist and former congressional candidate Cameron Kasky: “In America, the mass murders of brown, Muslim children are written off as negligible if even addressed at all.”

"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem