Mellopuffy

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I believe in love. #Landback. Tangata Tiriti. Cis/She/Her. Ōtepoti home but Ōtautahi bred. Union Strong! ✊🏼

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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Would love a journalist to ask David Seymour which of Charlie Kirk's views he himself supports, and why he thinks a tribute to Charlie Kirk in NZ parliament would be appropriate.

The Democratic Party's approval ratings are terrible, a young Democratic politician solidly wins a primary in the country's biggest city by generating enthusiasm and high turnout, and Democratic leaders think the move is to publicly distance themselves, even denounce him, do I have that right?

Advocating for children to be subject to citizens' arrests reveals the true motives of the policy: giving pathetic bullies a social licence to live out their power fantasy of intimidating and dominating people smaller and weaker than themselves.

no one ever said that fat liberation means you are obligated to eat poorly (whatever that means to you), avoid exercise at all costs, or avoid pursuing your own definition of health help, help, I've been having the same argument on the internet for 23 years someone please kill me

(Not) great to open the NYT app this morning to see a 14 min opinion piece on the front page blaming ‘a radicalized gay rights movement’ (read: uniting and activating to protect trans rights) ‘losing its way’ written by an (white, cis, male) early advocate for gay marriage.