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History teacher, corporate survivor, marathoner. Somewhat obsessed with 🇩🇪. All views are my own etc. He/him.

Auckland
Joined November 2011
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We commemorate the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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“decide yourself” – Thank you, R.E.M. This support of Radio Free Europe is incredibly touching. ffm.to/remrfe2025?mc_cid=179…
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I have posted my submission on the Treaty Principles Bill here. Submissions close at midnight on 7 January and I have included a link to where you can make your own in the post. meetingplace.nz/2025/01/trea…
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Nobody should have any illusions now
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FUCK.
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Nobody says it better than Michelle. Watch this – and then make sure you’re ready to vote tomorrow: IWillVote.com
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This video is incredible. Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.
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A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.
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A more honest title for the Treaty Principles Bill would be the Treaty Abolition Bill, since that is what it effectively seeks to do by a sidewind.
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Really striking view of Tim Walz from deep in the @nytimes archives archive.is/2024.08.05-031636…
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Putin is running on fumes and is therefore determined to derail the West in 2024, Jonatan Vseviov, Secretary General of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, warns in his panoramic essay about the current state of the horrific #WarinUkraine balticsentinel.eu/8063253/jo…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Freddie Miles has one of the best character introductions on screen ever in THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY.
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How about this for a catch from Glenn Phillips overnight?! 🫨 #NZvAUS
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A clear and brave message from @navalny in case the regime should kill him.
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Historian Tom Holland Debunks Putin's Historical Inaccuracies in Tucker Carlson Interview
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For 36 years the Court of Appeal’s Treaty principles have worked to the Crown’s advantage as a conservative stopgap against the inevitability of Te Reo text. Why someone like Seymour would want to blow up one of the best legal window-dressing tools the Crown has is strange.
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2 December 1940 | French Jewish boy, Raymond Jedwab, was born in Bourges. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 7 March 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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This - the greatest European speech on the Hamas murder raid, Israel war vs Hamas, rising antiJewish racism and toxic sham ‘history’ of Decolonisation - is deeply moving. Its decency and moral clarity is striking…
It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel. A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.
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