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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13h
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes removed.
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 11h
I have opened this one up immediately to all. Thanks to paying subscribers in advance. Survey finds 27% of NZers now struggling financially, up from 16.5% in 2020; Also, 48% believe they have to leave NZ to get ahead, up from 28%; 1/2 #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/48-now-fee...
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48% now feel they have to leave NZ to get ahead
Survey finds 27% of NZers now struggling financially, up from 16.5% in 2020; Also, 48% believe they have to leave NZ to get ahead, up from 28%; National U-turns on parking for housing rules
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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Build it and they will come
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Ratan Prakash @rprakash08.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why have so many politicians turned 'TAX' into a dirty word? The loudest complainers are happy to use all the services and infrastructure that taxes pay for. Rob Campbell always on point. #nzpol #tax #election26 #nzpolitica newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/12/a...
newsroom.co.nz
Anti-taxxers set their sights on wealth taxes
Opinion: Rob Campbell examines the political opposition to wealth taxes, looking at new economic evidence from Norway on startup founders, innovation and tax revenue
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am once again reminding you of how many rightwing pearls were clutched and how insistently resignations were demanded when Marama Davidson, who was not a Cabinet Minister, said she liked the chocolate with the te reo Māori name
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Dr Sharon Bell @sharonbell.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I admire the dedication of the person who keeps vandalising this sign.
The National Party campaign sign on SH2 south of Pito-one reads “Labour 9 new taxes. National 110 new taxes”
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Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I was shocked to learn today that Mike Hosking is campaigning for a left wing coalition.
A NewstalkZB ad picturing Mike Hosking saying “I will leave the country if a left wing government is elected”
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026
elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
Bless this LEGO designer in particular.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No shit. Way to tell that crazy Twatzi Laura Looney off, Bill.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
50% of that gain should have been taxed
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Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · 08/10/2026
5 years ago, I wrote this op-ed. The Labour party had the power necessary to end austerity on their own. No need to convince any other party to support them. They continued with austerity and the damage it causes to the public research system. They've told us they will keep doing it. #NZPOL
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End the age of austerity in science funding
OPINION: Covid-19 has resulted in redundancies among scientists, at a time when we need them most.
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Remember when Paula Benefit went hard on this and the results were so negligible that they tried to hide the results #NZPol
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Like clockwork, the govt that has done more to destroy employment than any other in decades is trying to get re-elected by blaming people for being unemployed. No solutions, only punishment. Pure cynicism. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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What about drug testing at Parliament? Luxon is ‘quite open’ to it
Follow the election campaign live.
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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 08/10/2026
Perfect response from Chlöe Swarbrick and the @greens.org.nz.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just piss off, you desperate creeps. You've done this before, and it was a total waste of time and money. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
rnz.co.nz
National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries
National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one, we see a crow’s face. It says, “I AM DEATH’S MESSENGER”.
In panel two, we see the same crow’s face. It continues, “YOUR TIME IS NEAR”.
In panel four, we see the crow awkwardly hopping away from a stick figure.
In panel five, we see the grim reaper with the crow perched on his hand. The grim reaper says, “So you should probably fly away dramatically instead.”
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Ellsworth Green @greenellsworth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ok, now that shit is funny. And more true than not, regarding many men.
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pretty much BUT: the southern corridor as a 2 lane expressway from Papakura to Ramarama needs to be done to take the Quarry trucks off Beach Road in Papakura and onto the Southern Northern End Wayne Brown is right,
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The very same voters that cause the actual division in New Zealand. And those like Ken who seriously need to be denazified
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From @nakedpastor.bsky.social
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact.
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I Love Animals @petsanimals.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My foster dog had never been indoors before. This is her first nap, on a bed, in a home. ♥️
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bottle of water at the polls: ELECTION INTERFERENCE Promise voters $5,000: 🇺🇸 DEMOCRACY 🇺🇸 Glad we cleared that shit up.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To bring Auckland to Tauranga Inter City Rail up to snuff with full electrification, and trains running at 160km/h every hour both directions is about $4b or half a Road of National Party Significance. JAPAN, HONG KONG, AND SINGAPORE are all ready to assist us! Just ask! voakl.net/2024/01/30/e...
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Enter Japan: Inter-City Trains Between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga? Yes Please.
In a bold proposal, the idea of implementing Japan Rail-style intercity services in New Zealand’s Golden Triangle gains significant traction with wide-ranging support, marking a striking shif…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
which neither of those stack in the absolute slightest
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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Irrefutable proof cats are evil @cats-are-evil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#caturday #cats
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Peter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely savage from RNZ: National leader Christopher Luxon did not want taxpayer funding going into a "white elephant" that was not commercially viable. "Of course we're very committed to our 17 roads of national significance and we make no apology for that."
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 01/10/2026
Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE’s ‘Enforced Disappearances’ of Noncitizens | “Disappearing people into a network of remote detention sites, hiding their whereabouts, and cutting off their access to outside help is the definition of an enforced disappearance.”
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Human Rights Groups Ask UN Panel to Help End ICE's 'Enforced Disappearances' of Noncitizens - Bucks County Beacon
The practice involves withholding the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation from families and lawyers.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s remarkable how many people can move on a street when those people don’t feel the need to always take a massive car with them. Mobility in cities is about space.
Busy European street with buses filled with people in a long line of people on bikes, waiting for the light to change in a separated, protected bike lane. Imagine if all those people or each in a separate car.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This playful cat completely made the window cleaner’s day. Original post
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Ducati5 @ducati5.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Hope ☄️ (NO DMS!) 🇨🇦🇬🇷 “Know Thyself.” @xtrahope1515.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Local news fact-bombed-checked Schmitt-head’s entire “gotcha” in one sentence: “Top corner, Section 109, Row 1.” Except that seat doesn’t exist in Atlanta. 🤡 Wrong arena. Wrong team. Wrong game. Schmitt didn’t catch Jack Smith in a lie. He caught himself in a nonexistent seat.🪑💀🤦😵‍💫🇨🇦
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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