Title 18 US Code 597: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate...if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: "We're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend. Congratulations."

This story is incredible. Haaretz is reporting not only that UAE President warned Netanyahu a week and a half before Oct 7 that a major Hamas attack was coming, but that he did so at the instance of SINWAR. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs

In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...

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Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2d ago

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

How the mainstream media sucks: Example #9,581…

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."

There we go. Dumbass Stanford has carried out her Atlas orders minus any understanding of the actual goals of education in NZ or any care for expert opinion. “Political Capture” is a quaint way of saying “Whitewashing History” and “White Nationalist Indoctrination” of children. #nzpol

Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 2d ago

'We are heartbroken': Educators say top-down changes roll back decades of progress, disregard Waitangi Tribunal recommendations and strip teachers of professional agency. Hanna McCallum reports.

MSD claiming that the 88,000 starving & sometimes shelter-less human beings, who were denied access to food & shelter by Luxon, who(NACTZ) then claimed was due to “staff” (AI?) picking the wrong “Code” error, should chill your authentic empathic compassionate human bones. 🦴 #WhoAreWeAotearoaNZ

Fancy that… 🤮

RNZ News (Unofficial)@radionz.nzcow.com · 3d ago

📢 Growing debt, an illegal board of trustees, and curriculum and management fees totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars a year prompted Education Ministry intervention at two former charter schools.

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Everything is just impossibly dumb

Germans vote (neo-)Nazi in 2026 and, just as in the 1930s, we all know exactly which British papers, politicians, presenters & pundits will be absolutely loving it… Spoiler alert: they also love Trump.

I’m calling it: Based on current degeneration, I’m guessing Trump shuffles off this mortal coil ~15th Oct 2026 Cause: Multiple. But most likely the KFC arterial fat end boss NB: I’m not a doctor…but I can read medical advice, observe the pedo degrading, & extrapolate… Enjoy Hell, Donnie Deserved💯

Extreme right AfD is projected to get 42% of the vote in the eastern German state Saxony-Anhalt in the elections there today... Cartoons from 2024. #AfD #ExtremeRight #fascism

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

This is a big part of what we're up against.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

"Republicans understand that people aren’t going to read the documents behind their conspiracy theories. The truth is hard to understand and often involves complexity and nuance. They’re able to win the narrative war that way, & it’s having real consequences on people’s lives." — @ninajankowicz.com

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Today's Zealandia walk! The first photo is a native tree fuschia, and you can see from the next 2 photos birds go wild for them. Tui has the violet pollen on its face, kaka is nibbling at a flower. (My fave shot in this lot is actually the Pāpango; I love the composition (if I do say so myself))

So it’s both a fake story and we have plenty of munitions, and they’ve given over 50 polygraphs to attempt to find the leaker. Makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it

Imagine what it would be like if Mr Fix It wasn't on the case

The most enduring image from the STAR WARS trilogy isn’t Leia in a gold bikini, it’s Leia strangling the sexist, capitalist monster who put her in a bikini in the first place, until that piece of shit fucking dies. Kudos for immortalizing it in a museum (and to everyone kissing in front of it).

Amanda Wong@amandawtwong.bsky.social · 7d ago

Babe, do you want to kiss in front of the Leia Choking Jabba The Hutt statue at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art 😳👉👈

Nationals entire campaign strategy is just lie relentlessly with billboards and Ai slop because the truth would be to admit theyve made the cost of living worse, taken the economy backwards, failed on ferries, failed cops, failed on housing, excused racism and delivered just 54 nurses in 3 years.

The high and tight has been a fascist aesthetic for a long, long time, but it's interesting to see it morph into more and more extreme versions.

Do Not Obey. We are Democracy.@zangerliberia.bsky.social · 6d ago

Does he go to Kim Uns barber?

As always, NZ only tops the lists of Corruption-Free countries because they are based on self-reported perceptions of corruption. This current government has shown we (a) have it, and (b) aren't offended by it.

Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 6d ago

Well, that's one way of avoiding bad headlines about corruption... www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

Hegseth pauses busy schedule of inspecting soldiers’ scrotums to make weird comments about Canadian teens’ bodies

Hegseth pauses busy schedule of inspecting soldiers’ scrotums to make weird comments about Canadian teens’ bodies

WASHINGTON D.C. - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has posted disparaging comments about female Canadian Air Force cadets, all while maintaining his busy schedule of personally inspecting the testicles o...

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The GOP's biggest donor is relentlessly tweeting anti-semitic race science, but Democrats have to disavow a streamer. Do I have that right?

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last wk.

Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles

2 months from TODAY is the beginning of the end of the Orange Embarrassment. Check out these Screenshots (as if you needed any more motivation to VOTE on 11/3/26!) Register- Iwillvote.com vote.org Get involved at- Rockthevote.org GoodParty.org DemCast.com Postcardstovoters.org movement.vote

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

TOP is delusional. At this point they are either utterly unaware of history, capitalism, and corporate greed… …Or they are paid to degrade union power, public services and collective goods. Since she is not obviously stupid, I’m assuming the latter. They are a handy vote sink for NACT.

𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™@dallasbarnett.com · last wk.

Absolutely clueless #NZPol