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Lula Goes HARD

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Hello, new followers. I track ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. This is what the ICE Air operation looked like yesterday, Oct. 23, 2026. --88 flights --14 removal stops --3 third-country removal stops --Nearly all adult passengers shackled at the ankles, wrists & waist.

“CHILDREN IN POVERTY CANNOT EAT A SURPLUS”!!! Say it louder team, and keep on saying it loud! 💚🕊️✅✅ #nzpol #NZ #Aotearoa #TaxTheRich #ForAllOfUs

TWO DAYS NZ registration cuts off in the midst of this holiday weekend (not after it) 300k+ missing voters elections.nz/stats-and-re... No it’s not more organised No it won’t speed up vote count Yes it is voter suppression Yes it unfairly advantages wealthy/older voters SO Get registered!

Which parties care? covidaction.nz/en/covidonth...

Double check, triple check, friends !

Voting in the general election is now open for New Zealanders living overseas! 🗳️ You have until 7pm NZDT on 7 November to get your vote in. Don’t miss your chance to have your say! #kikorangi #nzpol

#nzpol remind everyone you meet to register (why didn’ this get more air time earlier?- if you recall the govt’s chaos strategy was to flood the zone with changes so while everyone was focused on the Fast Track legislation & Regulatory Stds this voter suppression act passed at Xmas 19 Dec 2025 😔)

Terribly disturbing and important.

You know how folks reckon publicly delivered projects are never on time or under budget? Westgate Te Waiarohia station for NW Busway was finished on time and $19m under budget, and that funding is now being put towards improving Newton off ramp for buses ahead of schedule. CC: TPU & politicians

The scale of it. Astounding: "At the last election, more than 450,000 people enrolled or updated their details after voting began, including 110,000 on election day itself. This time, anyone who misses the 25 October deadline will have their vote excluded." #nzpol rnz.liveblog.pro/lb-rnz/blogs...

There are just six days left to enrol, but we are about 130k behind where final enrolment got to last time - when people could still enrol all the way through election day. It is becoming very hard to see this gap really closing in such a short time.

Hard agree. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s because Meta sued the author and got a gag order that prevents her from saying a single word about her own book. Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to human rights and democracies the world over, including ours. It is vitally important you know how and why.

My teenage children, who have never set foot in NYC, go around saying "Help me, Mamdani!" whenever anything goes wrong and/or they can't figure out their homework, just to give everybody a sense of the scale of this man's presence in the culture lol

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

Teachers, whānau, youth workers, friends of young people - this is a great opportunity. Please spread the word! A scholarship to study law for Māori and Pasifika school-leavers who are the first in their family to head to university: www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Suggest a mate?

Yes. That was easy!

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So if we want to pay for better cancer treatment for New Zealanders, who should we take money from? The answer, from National: literal starving children.

Teachers, whānau, youth workers, friends of young people - this is a great opportunity. Please spread the word! A scholarship to study law for Māori and Pasifika school-leavers who are the first in their family to head to university: www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

Sorry, I'll explain. We currently react to inflation by reducing the disposable income of spenders so that demand falls and unemployment goes up. We use a bufferstock of unemployed people to keep workers desperate, so wages are suppressed and we don't get a feedback loop (wage 🔄 prices) [🧵 1/n]

A troubling tale has a troubling sequel. Be aware some of the language quoted in this post is offensive. I’ve left it uncensored because I want readers to make their own judgements about the character of the people I’m quoting. the-end-is-naenae.ghost.io/first-do-no-...

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

India’s ‘Cockroach’ leaders detained; New Delhi in lockdown https://aje.news/i4llmb

The editor's choices on @cartoonmovement this week, by Tim Dolighan (Canada), Marian Kamensky (Austria), Peter Sully (New Zealand) and Steve Jones (UK) Check out over 123,000 cartoons on www. cartoonmovement.com/

In the 1960s a single parent could live in a lush country estate with two meadows, one with a lion and the other with a dragon. This is what they took from us.

Very nice to have both kids back at home after adventures 😍

Every so often I get asked about tee shirts. I've always wanted to do them, but I wanted to do them "properly", which to me means a full size range, and preferably locally made. But I just don't have the spoons to make that happen. So... if you'd like a tee shirt: www.redbubble.com/people/these...

Wasps are in the garden so nows the time to watch out for any #Yellow-leggedHornets that may have survived MPI's eradication programme, and winter. Not just Auckland, any survivors may have hitched a ride out of town. www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/... #agsky #HoneyBees #pollination