Already 10% of the way there after one day. To meet the goal I just need 900 people to pledge $5

"Red, white, and blue flags waved in the air. Faces equated grief with grievance. And the choreography of the event enacted what it was actually about: a fascist liturgy, consecrating Kirk as saint and warrior in a holy war for the nation's soul." culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/mart...

I’m not a terrorist I’m a Palestinian A father, a husband, someone’s son If u believe me, PLEASE leave a dot just a . My family is hungry and trapped in a dangerous area, I feel powerless can’t help them😭 gofund.me/e9d5d8fbf @mommunism.bsky.social ✅🙏

Crowd funding campaign now live! I'm raising money for a limited series podcast investigating how the campaign to quit the Paris Climate Accords went from the fringe to the mainstream www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...

"When academics can't invoke settled patterns of far-right mainstreaming without hitting up against coordinated harassment campaigns sanctioned by elected officials, we've already lost something important." culture-centered.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-...

Eclipse time

For those who want the tl;dr on my very long thread on the false "trans extremism" nattative spread by the far right recently, this post is it. It's worth checking out the whole thread, tho - because the data is there, demonstrating how far removed from reality the transphobic far right is.

Church gives standing ovation to AI audio clip of Charlie Kirk saying words he never said www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/char...

everything changed, everything destroyed, everything gone

No movement today Please continue sharing or contributing if you are able to 🙏🏼💚

"a relentless campaign of threats, break-ins, threats on their child, assaults, and police interventions that turned their life, and their child’s, into what they call “a tsunami” of fear." www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/21/a...

'an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about'

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

This is even more true 5 years later, main difference now is it wouldn't just be YouTubers but the most powerful and influential people on Earth

Tonight's watch is the 1983 cyberpunk thriller Brainstorm

I suspect Trump hiking the fee for the skilled worker visa used in the tech sector won't result in more tech jobs for Americans, just the big tech companies who effectively operate without borders doing more of their work outside the US

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

Jacinda Ardern has called the situation in Gaza what it is: Genocide She has also called for more countries to recognize Palestine, wonder if that will have any influence on our current governments decision www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacinda-a...

I've only read the name not heard it spoken, but I'm sure 'Bob Vylan' is pronounced like Dylan / villain (some clever wordplay there) and not the way my mind wants to parse it as Bob VLAN [Robert Virtual Local Area Network]

We are here

Environment Canterbury has declared a nitrate emergency over drinking water pollution worries. The intensive dairy industry has contaminated lakes, rivers, and drinking water with unsafe levels of nitrate - putting rural communities' health at risk. Image credit: Sharon Murdoch / Stuff #nzpol

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

The most dispiriting thing about this Kimmel thing is that Disney spent millions on ANDOR but none of them seemed to have watched it.

This is why UBI would be such a big deal. It's an important layer in a society's immune response to authoritarianism, collectively gives us more power as individuals to push back against injustice and abuse.

FREE SPEECH IS A GIFT FROM GOD AND NO MAN* CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU! *except Donald Trump

For what it's worth Motorheads "eat the rich" has re-entered the countdown

Gaging the political mood of the nations tradies by comparing how many songs from Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down and Rise Against vs songs from Kid Rock, Disturbed, and Metallica are in this year's Rock 2000

“To take a position against genocide is certainly not an antisemitic thing to do. Most Jews are against genocide, and we were taught to be against genocide, and we were taught, as well, that ‘never again’ is a slogan that should apply to all people.” truthout.org/video/judith...

Comparing what's happening to the careers of people who have made comments on Charlie Kirk with what happened to the careers of people who signed bombs destined to be dropped on Gaza really shows the way some lives are valued more than others

It felt like the end of the world in Gaza. Scenes unknown even to the fiercest of wars. The city is burning, annihilated entirely, wiped out to the last soul😥

Instagram ads trying to get me to buy a mousepad styled like a traditional Balkan rug, I'm not going to buy one but at the same time I'm thinking "yeah I can see why the data you have on me led to me seeing this ad"

Guy who describes the Marvel movies as 'American tokusatsu'

Imagine you and your family haven't eaten in days... This is our reality right now! 💔😢 $10 from you could fill empty stomachs and save vulnerable lives 💔 Who can help? Even sharing the appeal could make a difference! 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1388...

Honestly, no one, absolutely no one should be asking, "what the hell is going on right now?" The only appropriate question is, "why when people told me this was what was going to happen did I just tell them they were overreacting?"

Almost every night on 1News there seems to be a story that can be summed up as "sports match imminent, fans excited"

So…to clarify, he wants it to be illegal to be against fascism?

New research overrides the Government’s insistence that nursing shifts are safely staffed, suggesting thousands more hires are needed. My analysis: newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/18/s...

Seeing some Muppets might actually help right now yeah www.avclub.com/muppet-show-...

"Since Kirk's killing last week, far right internet users and conservative figures have engaged in a mass cancellation and censorship campaign that has resulted in teachers, military personnel, journalists, and a slew of other workers getting fired, suspended, or disciplined for social media posts."

A message from my friend Tasneem in Gaza: "Tanks are approaching us suddenly, death is close, the situation is very, very scary, the bullets are very strong, random." The civilians rely on our donations to survive and feed their families. Please give to Tasneem and others. 🙏💕 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Comedy is legal again! Wait... I'm getting word that.. Oh nonono

The people who spent years telling us that deplatforming was censorship and they opposed it on principle, not because they agreed with the people being deplatformed, seem to have gone awfully quiet lately

"two sitting members of Congress have crossed a new threshold, explicitly calling for the institutionalization of transgender people—an escalation even by today’s standards." www.erininthemorning.com/p/two-republ...

ministry of defence to left and the beehive to the right

"Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Occupied Gaza" That was how 1News introduced the first item today. One day, everyone will have always been against this

Birdle 🇳🇿 17/09/2025 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz

It's possible to run a web server on a disposable vape, device with similar processing power to a computer from the early 90s www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/m...

I enjoy the spooky season as much as the next person but I think September is too early for Halloween decorations Not to mention we have all manor of real world horrors to contend with right now