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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do like the new and improved Jack Smith — now with personality!

Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s been quite some time since I’ve been able to use public transport, and I forgot how much I enjoy it. Faster, cheaper, easier than driving. Build more of this instead of roads. #NZPol

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good lord. You could tell me this photo was AI generated by a malign actor trying to smear Mace, and I would believe you without question.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Minister of Tourism Louise Upston on where the $40m came from to entice large overseas acts to Aotearoa. My #cartoon today #NZpol #NZMusic #NZArts

Cartoon. Title: “The Impresario” Two frames. 1st frame shows Louise Upston saying, “I can’t pull money for local performers, concerts and festivals out of thin air!” 2nd frame has her continuing, “and I didn’t pull money for big overseas acts out of thin air” Image shows Upton with her hands out, wearing a suit and bow tie, with money rushing from behind her, saying, “I had the $40 mill coming out the wazoo!”

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@eggerdc.bsky.social Anything to not have to listen to Trump speak, but is that a Martin over your right shoulder?

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's what really burns my toast. I play music in small venues that are hurting. Some are closing. These shiny stadium gigs are fine if they make financial success organically. This crap does nothing for the local music scene; it actually harms it by taking that $ away from Kiwi artists. 1/2 #NZPol

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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who doesn't have Russian oligarchs at their wedding? #DonaldTrumpJr #Trump #MAGA #RussianOligarch #DJTJ #Putin

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the late '80s I was Night Editor at The Minnesota Daily. Me and one other guy, sometime between 10pm and 2am, read and checked every word of the newspaper before the negatives were shot, plates were made, and the paper went to the printer. This was a COLLEGE NEWSPAPER. Not hard.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maybe a little artificial personality is in order.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As long as we're floating awful ideas, we might as well have them carry guns as well.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I pretty much never say this because I think it's a dumb (with a B) and tired phrase, but I really want to wipe that fucking grin off his fucking face.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: The Jesus and Mary Grain

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This was my Little Buddy’s school lunch today (it’s pizza bread in case you can’t tell from looking at it). He says it tasted as gross as it looks; one bite and it went in the bin. Please ask David Seymour if $3.50 each is a good deal if most of the lunches wind up in the compost. #NZPol

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Moved to New Zealand, bought a tiny house and retired early, took up punk rock guitar, became a baseball umpire (in NZ). That’s pretty much it.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the best the USPS can do on a package going from Kentucky to New Zealand — 6 days after they received it. Sorry if I don’t trust them to properly implement this rushed and crazy mail-in ballot procedure.

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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Please, Republicans... turn your little midterm convention into a celebration of the worst president in American history...please. #Trumpapalooza #Trump #MAGA

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Umm, quick quesion: who is the minister currently presiding over a collapse in the health system where there are day-long queues to get seen in hospital? #nzpol

Idiotic Instagram post by Simeon Brown showing an AI generated picture of the Kwik-E-Mart from The Simpsons with a line of people queueing outside. He has renamed it Kiwimart and included a hamner and sickle to represent the Greens new policy.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@samsteindc.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com I’m surprised you guys didn’t know about Joey Ramone’s love letter to Maria Bartiromo in 2002. I bet @willsommer.bsky.social would have brought it up. music.apple.com/nz/album/mar...

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Maria Bartiromo by Joey Ramone on Apple Music

Song · 2002 · Duration 3:58

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here's the thing. Folks are forever trying to divine motives, strategy, cogent thought, etc, from Trumps words and actions. The reality, though, is there's not any of that. He's just genuinely dumb as a box of rocks and only concerned for himself.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what I get on Apple Maps right now when I search for both Lake Ontario and Lake America here in Auckland. Maybe they've only changed it in the District of Columbia. @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @status.news

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This, apparently, is the find out part. And not for nothing, how does Milo get sent home to the UK and not the Central African Republic? (JK, that’s rhetorical.)

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jesus Christ. Did John Waters direct this shoot?

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I checked under the couch cushions, and I’m afraid I can’t help. So how the actual fuck are these jokers going to find that extra billion dollars “elsewhere?”

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One of the things I genuinely love about living here is the colourful language Kiwis use. For example, the word "cunt" is acceptable in many cases where it would not be elsewhere. Like here, for example. #NZPol

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Elon Musk commanding his AI chatbot to be "a little vulgar, longer, and wittier" while insulting another human is so on the nose that it seems like it could have been AI generated. The circle of life, I guess.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As always, thanks for putting in the work and posting these. But I'm sorry, I just cannot listen to this man speak anymore.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There's finally someone I'd be OK with sending to the Democratic Republic of Congo, but we can't even have that.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is Trump the most corrupt president ever? Look at this chart and tell me I'm wrong.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@willsommer.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @samsteindc.bsky.social I expect to be fully bathed in this feud Tuesday morning (Auckland time) when I drive to the gym.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Among the many absurd points made here, the most absurd (and infuriating) is the perpetuation of the wrong-headed view equating Judaism with support for Israel. There are an awful lot of Jews (I'm one) who think the current Israeli government is a bunch of terrorists, and El-Sayed is right about it.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also, and this really drives me nuts, Kushner isn't "the other side of the aisle." He's not a government employee, he doesn't have an official role, and he carries out high-level foreign policy on issues that directly affect his business, without any security clearance. He's just a smarmy dude.

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Steve Perlstein @steveperlstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'll keep saying it. If Labour doesn't capitalise on the coalition kicking itself in the nuts again and again, it's political malpractice and they'll have earned what they get (but we'll pay the price).

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