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Raymond Sagapolutele

@raysagapolutele.bsky.social
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Aotearoan born Samoan Artist and Academic

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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who has picked up a camera to create a portrait, snapshot, posed, studio or at an event image, has documented the dead. Thats not a statement tied to the contemporary but a reference to the mauri of those we hold in our frames at any time in our lives. Alofa and respect 💙 #photography
Self portrait of the artist, Samoan with glasses and sporting a beard.
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 29/09/2026
#nzpol ✅✅
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one is coming out of the brutality of these places rehabilitated, or set up for a life away from crime. #nzpol Abuse in state care continues. Young person taken to hospital after attack at youth justice facility www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...
rnz.co.nz
Young person taken to hospital after attack at youth justice facility
A young person was beaten up by seven others in an attack at a youth justice facility last month.
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Currently watching the coalition getting all feral and back stabby. Its glorious. #nzpol
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Maximus Watching Fallout on Prime Video
ALT: Maximus Watching Fallout on Prime Video
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"On the Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Journalists, we won’t forget 262 journalists killed 433+ injured 50 detained 3 still missing" via Marie Todaro
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The right’s “nO moRE taXeS” refrain is such bullshit. Tax is good! Tax is how we get all the good things that we all rely on. We just need to make tax fair. Tax capital gains, tax the rich. 🎨 @slanecartoon.bsky.social
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chris Penk knows fiction because that is where his claims/lies about abortion law reform sit. Chris Penk is not a journalist. He thinks Hager is not a journalist. He is incorrect. Chris Penk aligns himself with people who display a lack of moral integrity and operate in an underhand way. #nzpol
Chris Penk looking for new friends or supporting old friends with the headline above a photo of Nicky Hager that reads:  Nicky Hager's Dirty Work belongs in the fiction section
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September 25, 2026 • 4:00am
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Patrida Sutton @patridanz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The TPU keep referring to Hager as a Left wing activist when he's previously been very critical of Labour re GM and the Corngate scandal, while the TPU are genuinely hard right wing activists. Words matter. #nzpol
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“FOR THE FIRST TIME, THERE'S A NEW WAY TO REPORT SEXUAL HARM IN AOTEAROA.” INDEPENDENT. CONFIDENTIAL. FREE. #nzpol And so needed. www.tika.org.nz
tika.org.nz
Tika | Collective Legal Action Against Sexual Harm
New Zealand's first independent way to report sexual harm. When your report connects with others, take legal action together. Safe, private and free.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More than 200 healthcare professionals at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital have signed a letter warning they are in a crisis, calling on Health New Zealand to prioritise patient and staff safety. Middlemore Hospital staff declare healthcare 'crisis' www.rnz.co.nz/news/indonz-... #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Middlemore Hospital staff declare healthcare 'crisis'
More than 200 healthcare professionals at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital have signed a letter warning they are in a crisis, calling on Health New Zealand to prioritise patient and staff safety.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lol. The sector that makes $1m in excess profits a day gets to regurgitate nonsense, obviously the reward for a big advertising budget with the media is your reckons don’t get fact checked. #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Supermarket sector overhaul must be backed by facts, not assumptions, warns Foodstuffs North Island
Foodstuffs North Island says an overhaul of the supermarket sector must be guided by evidence, not assumptions.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did you know? David Seymour’s “Charter School” Class war scheme, is costing us 6 x more, than your own child’s public education. Did you know, and then did you vote for more of that? Ick. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #TaxTheRich #ForAllOfUs #NZ
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kyrie Irving says he will pay Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair’s fine for putting Hind Rajab’s name on his eye black
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The child's name was Mohammed Al-Zeinati. He was 15, somehow we are expected to not speak out against the actions of those who see children as legitimate targets. He, with so many thousands of others deserved to live a life free of the horrors of war. May his soul find peace. #FreePalestine
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The true death toll in Gaza may never be revealed but something tells me the numbers we have been seeing are very conservative. Shame on all of us, fuck Israel and free Palestine 🇵🇸
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not content with giving us leaky buildings, that cost people everything, the country billions, and is still a problem, National wants to do even more damage. “A big change coming to the building industry has raised fears a Grenfell Tower-type disaster could be in the making in NZ.” #nzpol
rnz.co.nz
Decades of building industry research at risk
The future of our world-respected building research association is looking shaky with a government move to cut the dedicated levy that funds it.
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This week is Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week). The official theme for 2026 is Ake, Ake, Ake – A Forever Language, focusing on Te Reo Towns. Reporter Denise Piper speaks with Te Kamo High School prefect Charli McDonnell, who is helping lead her community’s celebrations. #nzpol
nzherald.co.nz
'It's a privilege': Teenager leads town's Māori language celebrations
The 17-year-old has organised free te reo Māori coffee for the Te Kamo community.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Found elsewhere, worth a share here. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not a drag queen.
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Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial) @teaonews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori has begun with an election promise from the Green Party to invest an additional $200 million in the language over four years.
teaonews.co.nz
Greens promise $200m boost for te reo Māori initiatives
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori has begun with an election promise from the Green Party to invest an additional $200 million in the language over four years.
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fuckers
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Have we tied politicians benefits and salary to a yearly performance review yet? It would bring me great joy, as a voter, to see our public officials reap the rewards of the consequences of their decisions. If they're going to talk a big game and all. #nzpol
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They cant even put his name or former position in the title, still.. #nzpol
Tim Jago, sex offender
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I used to be pro-Israeli in my younger days, then I saw this on the news. I was left wondering why Muhammad al-Durrah was killed when he was just a child. The more I learned the more I understood. Palestinians are the victims of occupying parasitc state. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 #fromtherivertothesea
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
These industries no longer even put food on NZ tables. They grow food for 40million to feed their bank balances and want to do that without care or concern for the environment or people. Exploited RSE workers, polluted rivers, NZers not affording food. #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/rural/361067...
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Winston Peters and David Seymour and their parties are incredibly dangerous for this country. Luxon doesn’t see it because his North Star is only being PM, he doesn’t care about this country at all. Hipkins can’t care cause that would mean reckoning with Labour’s past decisions that got us here.
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every day the people that represent our govt prove how out of touch and unsuitable they are to take our country forward. If Winston finds everything that colours our future insufferable and woke, maybe he's a bigoted dinosaur unaware his time is coming to an end. Tofā tamā, haere ra. #nzpol
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I come from the era where Scott Summers was written as an insecure dweeb, this new era of ubermensch Cyclops is kind of cringe. #teamlogan
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“If a pollster knows how you will vote before they ring, the poll is not measuring opinion. It is manufacturing it.” #nzpol www.klaut.media/single-post/...
klaut.media
The poll that lands first
Jordan Williams and David Farrar have spent twenty years learning how one poll can move another. Their Taxpayers’ Union–Curia poll just did it again.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2026
Just gonna share this again.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Family violence is up 18% under Luxon’s govt. Violent crime up 6%. They’ve kept women poor (pay equity stripped & benefits cut) so they can’t leave their broken violent partners. That’s only what’s reported too, 50% never report family violence at all. 💔 #nzpol #NZ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
stuff.co.nz
‘I’m just waiting for the babies to come out,’ relative says after triple homicide
Police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman and two young children were found at a Glenholme home. A man found at the property is assisting police.
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nod--64.bsky.social @nod--64.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Free Palestine. #Fuckisrael #israeliWarCrimes
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Politicians should work on policies and less on adjusting for poll results. Get a grip Labour. #nzpol
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keven-pittsinger.bsky.social @keven-pittsinger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This walking culture war is the distraction ACT deploys because David Seymour can only do so much when it comes to punching down. #nzpol
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Inhuman cruelty. Fuck ICE.
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TENOR: MY NAME IS PATI Saw this on the big screen tonight via a fundraiser, and wow. Much alofa and respect - I did indeed shed a manly tear of manliness watching this. youtu.be/gev68NRQR00
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TENOR: MY NAME IS PATI | Official Trailer | In NZ Cinemas March 5, 2026
YouTube video by RialtoDistribution
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Raymond Sagapolutele @raysagapolutele.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I spent a ridiculous amount of time in my youth just picking films on video from our local video store. Sending any of our siblings to pick a film could mean a 2-3-hour wait. I'd later work part-time for the same video store. Best job ever. #videoezy
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
British editorial cartoonist David Parkins illustrates the bottom line.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Where in the fuck is Mitch at?🙄
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
In today’s HeraldOnSunday
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Of course he lied to Congress. Hello?! He's RFKjr. His Samoa trip and his motives are well-documented. In this tiny island-nation, his actions are directly responsible for sickening thousands, the deaths of at least 83 people – most were children under five years old. He's trying to cull us!
theguardian.com
Senator calls for criminal investigation of RFK Jr after Guardian report
Newly obtained records indicate health secretary lied about Samoa trip during Senate confirmation hearings last year
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And the government’s response hasn’t been more jobs it’s been less support, less care and lies. The Government’s callous attitude towards our youngest and most vulnerable is beyond shameful #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...
rnz.co.nz
'Alarming' youth unemployment hits poorest communities hardest
School leavers in some of the country's poorest and smallest districts face a near impossible battle to find work or training places, with unemployment among 15- to 24-year-olds jumping dramatically i...
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Our power bill is $660. The cost of keeping us & the moko warm when ill. NZ has the flu because the govt defunded flu vaccines for under 12s in a cost of living crisis, & because people have to choose between heat, food & rent the hospitals they also underfunded & understaffed are buckling. #nzpol
VoteNZ orange man and dog image with the words: 

Enrol. Vote.
Be heard.
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locus @locuslebe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#nzpol So a dying duck Australian owned mine, and a penny share hopeful with no operating history are thoughtlessly tossed $50m of taxpayers money. That they are then given fast track approval to mine without having to manage environmental and energy risks is sheer stupidity
newsroom.co.nz
Shane Jones changed funding rules to steer $50m to ‘high-risk’ mining projects
Minister says the political and economic benefits of critical minerals operations are worth the risk, and thinks he can convince NZers to agree with him. Fox Meyer reports.
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