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Occasional Barrister mostly surfer Social justice + environment, top of the list

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 16h
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 7h
This class act of a human, correctly front foot’s the genocide apologists. Can we have a Govt here like him please www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Mamdani releases plan to combat antisemitism and hate crimes in New York City
Strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues, and focus on folding Jewish history into public school education
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21h
If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No new Taxes ! Is the saddest political slogan this side of Timbuktu. What is it with fundi religious weirdos Luxon, Brown, etc and their obsession with not paying tax ? Doesn’t seem very Christ like. It also illustrates how close ideologically nasty mean spirited Act, and National actually are.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.
David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump rejects Iran deal, and no Iran are not budging, rightly. Trump says he’ll continue with war crimes as per usual after the mid terms. I feel sorry for Iranian civilians then, he’ll be angry, senile, and completely out of control. Blood thirsty Genocidal Israel will be over joyed.
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Che Tibby @chetibby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looks like I'm using the SPF50 this summer...
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sums it up perfectly.
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Question. wtf. Why did NZ not join many other countries and walkout during the war criminals UN speech ? Honestly, why not ?
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is good from The Spinoff, quite complex legislation too, they nail it. thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-0...
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Revealed: Six months of roadside drug testing in New Zealand, by the numbers
Where it's happening, how many drivers have tested positive, what drugs have been detected and more.
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Iran’s (despicable regime notwithstanding) negotiating position with the US completely understandable why on earth would they give an inch. The US have shown themselves to be completely untrustworthy, make an agreement then tear it up and bomb you. They lie and lie and lie.
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This would be a great question to ask any Republican office-holder.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow. Labour announced policy on Israel vis a vis genocide in Gaza - has teeth ! As. It. Should. 👏
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Stinky Jim @stinkyjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you did a Venn diagram of key policies favoured by: Act,The Atlas Group,The NZ institute, and The Tax Payer Union - it would be one single perfect circle. Thanks Nicky Hager.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As we suspected:
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OwairakaAroha @owairakaaroha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For the benefit of Jordan Williams, David Farrar et al, here is a comprehensive list of everyone who has successfully sued Nicky Hager for defamation in relation to allegations made in his meticulously researched books: .... End #NZPol
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In NZ we call these tropical cyclones - they’re booting much stronger, much faster —- just frkn SIGH! !As climate scientists predicted 25 years ago
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
"There's gonna be a time when it's too late, and we won't have a chance of letting them survive as a nation" -- Trump makes more genocidal threats against Iran
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
National’s Shane Reti replacement - RealEstate guy Lloyd Budd says increase in slips plus floods not CC caused but because “too much intensification and concrete”. Asked if accepts science on CC he said “No”. Then later calls Newsroom changed to Yes. 😂😂😂 The state of National - completely moronic.
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END EVERY REPUBLICAN @mlf3430.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I can no longer call myself a Republican. There's no voter fraud. Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah." -General Colin Powell END EVERY REPUBLICAN before REPUBLICANS END DEMOCRACY!!
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fun fact: Bilingual means there're only two languages
An idiot tweets "fun fact: the 'B' in LGBTQ+ proves that there are only two genders"
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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I hope there is a time to come where these people are held to account for being the climate ghouls they are.
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Ministers axed clean energy rule from gas loan scheme at last minute
A scheme designed to help businesses get off gas will subsidise them to use coal, diesel or LPG instead – if they wish.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Remember the iron rule of reporting on the Middle East: Nothing justified Oct 7th. Oct 7th justified everything.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. Why the hell is Trump trying to send him $2.8 billion worth of bombs?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Only Johnathan Freedland (Guardian) could go to Israel and write a column without mentioning war crimes, apartheid, or Genocide. It’s all Netanyahu you see, he’s the only issue.
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is some super impressive investigative writing
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
er.. so Houston, about that problem
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tommy Robinson has come out in support of Ed Sheeran, classy. 😂
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What an utter coward Ed Sheeran is. His statement literally two sides a genocide. I dont actually know any of his songs, this shall continue in perpetuity.
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukas Graham officially quits the tour. That's literally all of Sheeran's openers.
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Lukas Graham on Instagram
4,371 likes, 248 comments - lukasgraham on September 15, 2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t believe the U.S. taxpayer should continue to arm Netanyahu’s government with deadly military equipment. I believe Netanyahu is a war criminal and that his government has committed genocide in Gaza. This doesn't make me antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheehans bumbled PR statement on (kicking Macklemore off the tour cause he called out Israel) is hilariously bland. Kind a chat gbt ish. God - get a backbone
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Watching ACT justify their policy to freeze the minimum wage by talking about how hard it is for small businesses to pay their staff. Nobody deserves to have their small business subsided by their employees taking a pay cut Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Tweet from Hbomberguy reading

I run a failed business that will run out of money and turn to dust if I have to pay my 4 employees $3 more an hour. Allow me to tell you how to run the economy
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"How to Fix a Broken British Economy" Andy Burnham has correctly diagnosed the problem – the country is run in the private rather than the public interest. Here’s what he must do if he really wants to end the blight of neoliberalism. @graceblakeley.substack.com's first column for Zeteo UK:
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How to Fix a Broken British Economy
Andy Burnham has correctly diagnosed the problem – the country is run in the private rather than the public interest. Here’s what he must do if he really wants to end the blight of neoliberalism.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Cartoonist: Slyngstad
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran - really quite the wet blanket.. gawd. I mean there’s no edge, and *really* no edge
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's only one solution to the danger of an AI-triggered nuclear war: decommission all nuclear weapons everywhere. On paper, the major powers are signed up to this objective. Now they need to do something about it.
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Andy @andydruid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Act Party is:
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 13/09/2026
Hillary Clinton and others want us to think that once Netanyahu is out of the way, the US-Israel alliance can return to normal. But the problems of Israel go beyond one bad prime minister or one bad government. bit.ly/3UOflc6
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Accountability for the Gaza Genocide Can’t Focus on Netanyahu Alone
Getting rid of one bad leader won’t bring justice.
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