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Dislike but fascinated by antivaxxers and the conspiracist/far right.

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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The latest iteration/front group for the Voices for Freedom led cooker coalition Fun fact: The US version 'MAHA Action' is run by Dr Assem Malhotra who lies a lot eg he claimed the GB Royals got cancer from the COVID jab t.ly/ruWL9 The VFF coalition toured him around NZ fundy churches in 2023
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This primary school principal was conned by Voices for Freedom's antivax bullshit and got active in their front group 'NZTSOS' She lost her job, can no longer teach and has to pay £22750 The tribual found a '“remarkable dearth” of insight, remorse or reflection'. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Principal collected children’s Covid details for anti-mandate court fight
Kathryn Pick passed pupils’ Covid-19 health information to a lawyer acting for an anti-mandate group she belonged to, the Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal found.
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Paparoa @paparoa.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has been linked to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler. Great work from @comingupcharlie.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...
Nic Wells (neo-Nazi from NZ First party), and Paul Henry (ordinary racist from ACT party)
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I agree with this whole thread. Especially this.
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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
How The Right Wing Hijacks Maori Influencers: Weaponising Mãori Identity Against the Treaty -which protects NZers human rights, environment & assets from marauding corporations #nzpol #Māori #AtlasNetwork #division open.substack.com/pub/drhsingh...
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is correct.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Re-upping this thread from 2yrs ago given the judgement in my case: Julian Batchelor 'wholly unsuccessful' in defamation claim against TVNZ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... As Prof @hendysh.bsky.social noted as well, billionaires behind far-right's lawfare lead to widespread chilling effects. #nzpol
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Julian Batchelor ‘wholly unsuccessful’ in defamation claim against TVNZ
Julian Batchelor’s defamation claim against TVNZ has been thrown out.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 25/01/2026
the maga theory of how you establish an authoritarian state
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a man sitting at a desk with a peacock logo on the bottom
ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a peacock logo on the bottom
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This kiwi kid has suffered awfully from whooping cough and may now have a brain injury. But you have to read down to the end of the article to find out they weren't vaccinated. Meanwhile antivax cookers Voices For Freedom are busy marketing Xmas merch. www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-adv...
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'Our little miracle': Baby who flatlined with whooping cough still fighting
Eden Taylor-Gillespie flatlined after a full-body seizure from malignant pertussis.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Of course he would say that. Peters launched his last election campaign on Reality Check Radio, his political career depends on the ability for online platforms to spread disinfo without any accountability to the public www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Winston Peters accuses Broadcasting Standards Authority of 'Soviet era stasi' censorship | RNZ News
It follows a decision to begin regulating podcasts and online media.
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Jean Fisch @jeanfisch.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Just to show the absurdity of the analysis - Imagine - 45 studies of looking at Venus through a beer bottle finds evidence of rings around Venus - 1 study of looking at Venus through a telescope finds no rings Would you conclude "there is evidence that Venus has rings"?
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Jean Fisch @jeanfisch.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Quick Test: - 45 studies of 0.3-20k children over 2-10 years based on interviews without any control yield 20% increased risk - 1 study based on 2.5m children over 25 years based on medical data shows 10% but, after control against siblings, shows 0% increase What is the scientific conclusion?
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
ABC News, 12 Jan 2012: "North Korea Reportedly Punishing Insincere Mourners"
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This is incoherent and hypocritical given NZFs stances on supposed plots to undermine NZs sovereignty & foreigners in general But it won't make a blind bit of difference to his cooker support base, because all their stated values and principles are fig leaves to hide their authoritarianism.
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr. www.pbs.org/video/shot-i... Watch whole thing, but especially: 34:32-onward RFK, Jr 43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.
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Shot in the Arm
Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why? My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to leave alone with his kids?
Experts are calling for a full inquiry into the case, saying questions have to be asked about what agencies knew.
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Moreover, MAHA as a movement is eugenicist, which is not surprising because antivax and huge swaths of alternative medicine are suffused with eugenicist thinking. RFK Jr.’s approach to measles is a good starting example. sciencebasedmedicine.org/measles-maha...
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Measles, MAHA, and “soft eugenics”
I've long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Now that a second child has died of measles, it's time for me to take a look at the "soft eu
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This is a depressingly clueless take.Trump and RFK Jr. In fascist regimes science is subverted to serve ideology, and the ideology being served is quite recognizably fascist.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It's official: NZ First is the cooker party
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Gift link:
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Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.
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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Fascinating if scary account of how a conspiracy theorist became a powerful force in NZ Parliament, advising NZ First Ministers. HT Andrea Vance in SST 💐 Links to local govt candidates too. FYI @theprogressreport.co.nz #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... or unpaywalled archive.is/cZRWx
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How a conspiracy poster landed a job at the heart of government
A NZ First staffer who attended the Parliament occupation is still sharing conspiracy theories and far-right content while working in the office of Winston Peters.
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Antivaxxers constantly lie about vaccines causing mass deaths and injuries to stoke anger They promote 'Nuremberg 2.0' to frame retribution as "protective violence" And use this threat of violence to intimidate/silence their critics The "medical freedom" movement is extremist and authoritarian
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
New Guardian article about the Bhattacharya op-ed www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/4
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Experts condemn NIH director’s defense of cut to vaccine research
Critics say Jay Bhattacharya’s comments on so-called failure of mRNA vaccines to ‘earn public trust’ are ‘astounding’
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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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After CDC shooting, its employees turn their anger to RFK Jr. and Trump
Investigators allege the shooter targeted the agency because of his coronavirus vaccine beliefs, according to two CDC officials briefed on the case.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
🧵I keep seeing/hearing mention of QAnon's "Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles" conspiracy & hand to God it makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills that NO ONE MENTIONS THE ANTISEMITISM. They are talking about Jews. They are talking about Jews. They are talking about Jews. HERE LET ME HELP:
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
McKernan was one Voices for Freedom "expert witnesses" at the COVID Inquiry. He said "what I'm about to say will shock you" before giving a long presentation on his debunked theory that COVID vaccines change your DNA. So no surprise he, like VFF, is "not an antivaxxer" who opposes all vaccines
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FACT Aotearoa @factaotearoa.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
In this year's local government elections, all kinds of people are running. But some of them aren't necessarily who they seem. Charlie Mitchell sets out how the "freedom movement" - riddled with conspiracy theory - is organising, on the down-low: www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... 1/
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The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence
Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
At this point the only evidence they need for anything is "The people you hate said the opposite".
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Jim Marr @jimmarr.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Secrecy, spin, media training and blatant dishonesty - including passing themselves off under false identities - are hallmarks of "concerned citizens" groups spearheading a right wing push to grab council seats around New Zealand www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607... #nzpol
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The quiet campaign: Inside the freedom movement’s bid for council influence
Voices for Freedom and like-minded groups are campaigning for council seats, changing their rhetoric from the pandemic to potholes.
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you joined InternetNZ to help stop the takeover by rhe FSU and Hobson's Pledge, you've done some great work tonight Consider bringing that energy to other civil society organisations, groups like Voices for Freedom are also trying to take advantage of low participation to push their agenda
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Berlinski: “So I was genuinely surprised—after all that drama and the buildup!—to discover that no, there is not one single word in these documents that says anything like what Gabbard claims. No reasonable speaker of English could read them and draw those conclusions.”
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I remember watching Hannah Alps (counterspin) and Liz Gunn (NZ Loyal) talking about how transgenderism was an orchestrated Marxist plot to corrupt the west. (cultural Marxist conspiracy theory) As Liz spoke they put an article from a Nazi publication (National Vanguard) on screen behind her.
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Max Soar @maxsoar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We look at the seamless transition of the so-called 'freedom movement' from vaccines to gender, the ways transphobic politics connects elements of the fascist-right, and how Peters and NZ First are at the pointy end of attempts to manufacture a coercive state response to the gender moral panic
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FACT Aotearoa @factaotearoa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Voices For Freedom have just emailed their members urging them to stand in local body elections. Although they do want members to stand in contested seats, this call for action is specifically to seek out uncontested seats. 1/
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Voices for Freedom's Covid Inquiry submission promised to expose "the truths the public was never meant to see" It claims Kary Mullis, inventor of the PCR test, said it "specifically should not have been used to detect covid" But Mullis died in August 2019, months before anyone knew about covid
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Members of far-right, antivax conspiracy theorist group Voices for Freedom happily stood alongside fascists issuing death threats Now the COVID enquiry is giving them exactly what they always wanted - an official platform to promote antivax propaganda What does that say about NZ politics? #nzpol
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
An anti-vax conspiracy theory is/was NZ has been mismeasuring its living population, so estimated death rates were too low. Stats NZ has finished the retrospective 2018-2023 population estimates in light of the 2023 census, and it will surprise no-one here NZ still had below expected death rates
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
And now, flawless arguments from the most pressing issue facing voters during a cost of living crisis.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"Delaying the onset of puberty in kids seems like it's punitive, as if they believe neurodivergent people don't deserve normal sexual development. "Kennedy prefers kids get measles." His cousin called him a "predator." She wasn't exaggerating. www.salon.com/2025/04/14/r...
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RFK's phony study into autism isn't just an assault on science — it's a war on children's health
The head of this "research" is no doctor — and has a history of torturing kids with fake autism "cures"
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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
In a tried & true playbook, when you can't make progress on the things that ACTUALLY matter (cost of living, health care, jobs), it's time to rile up the conspiracy nuts as a distraction. This is Anti-health, anti-science, & will most hurt the marginalised. www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath...
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'Let them decide': NZ First introduces bill seeking referendum on fluoridation
NZ First's Winston Peters is determined to give Kiwis the right to choose as part of a new bill.
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fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
@keithng.bsky.social good source re Inwood @undupable.bsky.social
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Paul Wilson 🇳🇿🧠🔬🦕🎲👾🏳️‍🌈🦑 @paulwilson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
How Many Misrepresentations Can One Open Letter Contain? The LGB Alliance offers us a Parade of Absurdities. Support #PrideMonth www.traces-of-therapy.com/p/how-many-m...
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How Many Misrepresentations Can One Open Letter Contain?
The LGB Alliance offers us a Parade of Absurdities
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