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Leon Salter

@islates.bsky.social
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Researcher on precarious work platform capitalism and unions. Try and teach leadership communication @ University of Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 17h
1/ Burnham’s Conference Speech: Positive signs for progressive politics, but the work isn’t done. 🧵 It’s been a tumultuous summer with a new PM. Continuing themes set out over the summer, Andy Burnham told Labour conference the country has been on the wrong path for 40 years.
A screenshot of a news headline from The Guardian. The top category text in red reads "Andy Burnham". The headline reads, "‘He feels more relatable’: Burnham’s conference speech wins praise from drifting Labour voters". Subheading: "The UK prime minister has earned his party a rehearing but the battle of public opinion is not yet won". Byline: Luke Tryl, published Saturday, 3 October 2026.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 17h
If you were sceptical of the claim that AI might destroy humanity, it turns out Trump has been consulting Grok about his Presidency including whether to intervene in Venezuela 😱 time.com/article/2026...
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clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk's Al chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the
U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets.
Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today a friend memorably described the Hon Christopher Luxon as ‘the horrifying result of a bout of hate-sex between a windup cymbal-clapping toy chimpanzee and a roll on deodorant’ … and now I can’t get the image out of my mind #nzpol
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Posted on r/znpolitics
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dada perfection
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Politics of Cars @thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 30/09/2026
Land use includes roads. Every extra lane for a mile of road, in a city, is over an acre of land that could be housing.
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The way it gets reproduced as common sense by our so called “left leaning” media pisses me off. Corin Dann on RNZ this morning
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Ka pū te ruha - Toitū Te Tiriti @kaputeruha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This comment sums it up for me. What good is an economy that crushes its own citizens while lining the pockets of a privileged few? #nzpol
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 29/09/2026
#nzpol ✅✅
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If it’s that flu you really don’t wanna push yourself
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ACT talking about making the student services levy optional . You choose the services you want from a menu. Total neoliberalism
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At the AUSA student issues debate. Great turnout- students are politically engaged - and they’re pissed off
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If it means the end of Ticketmaster I'm all in
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Myself and @sean-phelan.bsky.social wrote back in 2017 about how Campbell Brown played a similar role of the "concerned mum" in the US. Its a very well-worn playbook. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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View of The Morality and Political Antagonisms of Neoliberal Discourse: Campbell Brown and the Corporatization of Educational Justice
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A simple Google search tells you that Anya Zohrab was a ministerial advisor to David Seymour as recently as last year, focusing on charter schools. David Farrar is on the board - the remaining members are all part of the economic-political establishment (hardly representing parents widely)
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Utterly clueless and sycophantic interview by Mulligan. How can he not be aware of the long history in the US of "parent-led" astroturf groups who campaign for "choice" and "standards" (e.g. neoliberal policies)?
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Zohrab was a political advisor for David Seymour very recently, focusing on charter schools. And David Farrar is on the board. But yes they're totally non partisan
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'wants to be evidence-based and non-partisan' is the exact same language that Brown used. I wonder who funds them?
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh god
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent article on the state of the tertiary sector in the UK and how union organizing and campaigning needs to be directed to the state or risk impotence tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/brit...
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British Academia is Dying. It’s Time for a National Industrial Response
Workers in higher education are fighting atomised struggles to save their jobs. A rank-and-file strategy is needed to unite them.
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A habitus that's totally ill equipped to get to grips with the far right
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The NZ political reporting culture has been so focused for so long on masterful gambits, they are unable to contextualise blatant lying and deception as bad and dangerous qualities in leadership situations.
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Manhire criticising Hager for not asking the TPU for comment is typical of the journalistic both sidism that’s so poor at getting to grips with the far right youtu.be/Tip-dFuho-Q?...
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Nicky Hager and Dirty Work: the author responds to his critics
YouTube video by The Spinoff
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pressure must have been placed by Nact as they’ve had some left economists on recently. And this is the best they could come up with
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I bet Tame treated him with kid gloves while anyone left leaning gets a grilling?
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Canada, the US’ neighbour and traditional closest ally siding with the woke Europeans has to sending an oppositional message to trump through this surely?
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Increasingly the whole world against US and Israel I think
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Death cult
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
People vote based on identity not policy
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Talking about the need for police on trains the day we’re celebrating finally having them is peak National
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On the CRL opening day getting my geek on! Even getting excited about the faux leather holders and the extractable ramps
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Now the CRL is open, let's do North of Auckland and Tauranga and more connections to other North Island towns. And more trains for our cousins in the South Island too❤️ #nzpol
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Actually 100 years late
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In today’s Weekend Herald #CRL
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're listed in the top 5 for personal debt while our govt and corporate debt don't even register on the chart. 🤔 #nzpol www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-gover...
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Ranked: Government, Household, and Corporate Debt by Country
Japan leads on government debt at 195% of GDP, Switzerland on household debt at 123%, and Luxembourg on corporate debt at 359%.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This should be a fucking billboard for the entire LW. The more this image pops up across my timeline, the more ridiculous this Government becomes. I mean, CHEWIE is a THREAT? Chewie, as in Chewie from #BHN Chewie? That big putty tat? 🤣🤣🤣 Fucking hoofwanking bunglecunted ridiculousness. 🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #NZ
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Dr Alma Rae @almahawes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is what privatised health care does, and what NACT want for Aotearoa.
Comparison of Canadian and US health data.
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The no policies but we’re not national strategy working like a dream then
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Colin @barco030.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am a Labour shill and even I see nothing I want to vote for. FFS. Sort it out. #nzpol
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dull walking into disaster
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 28/05/2026
If we enacted this here we wouldn't have a cabinet left. #nzpol
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I mean, it’s staring us right in the face. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ #TaxTheRich #ForAllOfUs
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Leon Salter @islates.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s great to see left wing MPs going on the offensive and causing offence. The left has been too timid for too long
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today locals in Asheville, NC rallied against the G20 financial summit taking place in the small Appalachian town this weekend. While US Sec. of the Treasury Scott Bessent meets with central bank governors and other financiers, residents lined the streets and spoke out vimeo.com/1222372992?s...
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Amid G20 Summit Boasting Recovery After Hurricane Helene, Locals Speak Out
This is "Amid G20 Summit Boasting Recovery After Hurricane Helene, Locals Speak Out" by Unicorn Riot on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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spooky kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Who wants a heavy handed metaphor
A national party billboard on a chain link fence in front of an empty lot where fly tipping has occurred
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Allison @handle.invalid · 29/08/2026
All day everyday it’s
A black and white photo of NZ PM Chris Luxon looking real grumpy with the words ‘Fuck them kids’ scrawled across his face.
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Greg Bond @docgregb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I take it that to make this fair all the age 18-19 “youths” will now be exempted from paying tax & ACC levies? No? Then treat adults as adults & give them the same access to benefits as anyone older. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Thousands of youths set to lose access to unemployment benefits after welfare law change
Thousands of youths across the country are set to lose access to unemployment benefits, after a welfare bill passed into law under urgency on Friday night.
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LarryLegend @bwtrainer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
if someone tells you you don't need a union, you 100% need a union
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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
American media outlets are mystified by political speech. These stories that show Dolly Parton was never political miss that she was definitively political She never endorsed candidates or took sides in PARTY politics. She lived her life supporting and defending the downtrodden, that is political!
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