This could be *the* epic crowd sourced satire poem of all time. Comment are gold, seems a work in progress. Meri Kirihimete. 😆 🔔🎁

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air

Spoiler: he is so fking guilty. Karma, do your thing!

Some of the bills passed under urgency are absurd No bill passed under urgency should be permanent, they should all require a proper pass though parliament after 3-9 months

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

Just a little something for your day. Kenneth C. Steven

We recently launched ProPublica Narrated, a podcast feed where you can listen to our best long-form investigations, read out loud. First up: “Sick in a Hospital Town,” produced w/ Theater Of War Productions, tells the story of U.S. health care: https://bit.ly/4pO8lXd

Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.

"Oh hello. You're home early"

OH MY GOD THEY DID

Simpsons even predicted the Trump Battleship... 👀

This is the NZ system. Get a corrupt bunch of lobbyists turned politicians, some voter data harvesting tech and propaganda creators and hijack a democracy... NZ is fast losing all protections to just being completely gutted of land, water and mineral rights...

Why?

I feel the English language needs to invent a few new words for describing "if you don't laugh you may cry at the dark paradox at the core of this moment –which also contains 50 shades of shit for your olfactory displeasure"

It’s difficult times but if you can plz renew/Gift @nzgeo.bsky.social for 2 years if you can. We got it with our last FlyBuys points & are hooked. It’s quality journalism, packed with precious living things of Aotearoa NZ, things we need to protect. Check out the site. www.nzgeo.com #kikorangi

little things ... www.reddit.com/r/sports/com...

this seems somewhat a metaphor for my brain today...😅

Jasmine Crockett: “Did Trump’s DOJ really think dropping hundreds of blacked out pages counted as complying with the law— I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next level”

This is bonkers, neoliberalism destroying our healthcare system on purpose. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

I love alt text. Not only does it make images accessible, I be having fun with the descriptions. Extra space for my lil jokes

Quelle surprise...

See they're all gleefully lining up the shot glasses in the Nazi bar, while Grok pours...

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

What accountability and justice looks like for rich pedo businessmen and politicians

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

Apparently not.

“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.

Yes please. We can have better services, support and lives we just need to vote for political parties that understand it’s a political choice. #nzpol 'Public good over corporate greed': Greens challenge Willis to debate them instead.

He's an accomplished bullshitter. That's it. His one skill. He can bullshit on anything. He's a useless manager, he doesn't read, he's let Seymour hijack our constitution with no mandate, he does no work, he has no idea what any of his ministers are doing - a vainglorious strutting cock.

👀 "Joe Biden living rent free in Donald Trump's mind." Mentions him on average 6.3 times per day. Blurted Biden's name 8 times in 20 minutes. "Constant obsession" "Now he's putting up crazy plaques"

The Government has just rushed through its voter suppression law. The Electoral Amendment Bill will disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters—it has no place in a healthy democracy. #nzpol

"It was as if I had been dropped into a movie scene where the character is suspended in a void – no walls, no ceiling, no floor – just a black expanse of existence, a place where loss echoes without end." 🕯️Sometimes Christmas season is not merry... it's complicated or sad.

Quote of the Year from Andrea Vance (see post below) about Nicola Willis' Budget and her and her colleagues attacks on women like cutting Pay Equity for women workers. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... #NZpol More on swearing. Actions are worse than swear words. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-...

There's a direct connection between the rapid expansion of data centers across the country and the explosion of pro-AI dark money super PACs and Big Tech lobbying efforts.

everything is so fucking stupid

One minute into Trump's deranged speech, and it's like an old man with dementia yelling at the woods with his pants around his ankles.

Epitaph for a Minister & a govt. #nzpol "Turns out you can have it all. So long as you're prepared to be a c…t to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet,”

Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

We won! I won my judicial review!

The govt are corrupt and making laws they have no business making in processes that are absolutely bad faith. They have NO MANDATE. eg Selling sensitive conservation public land to OVERSEAS INTERESTS should have a referendum.

❗Seymour's Constitutional Coup: How the fuck has NZ govt got away with forcing through laws that allow them to sell off precious land, hock critical assets, gut the health system, with corrupt process transfer billions of $$ public wealth and land - FOREVER - to donor billionaires - and no mandate?

These are a few of my favourite words …

🚨NO national coverage🚨 🚨🚨🚨NO FEMA🚨🚨🚨 We are the “news,” so spread it and let’s see how we can help.

NZ's pedo friendly courts strike again... makes you wonder how many judges are pedos or friends with abuse in care predators or the like....?

How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial