
News Director, Opinion, @ Stuff. Own views. Poet. He, him. Trans rights. #beforeallelsebekind “Certainty is the enemy of curiosity” - Grant Shimmin
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People's humanity is so much more important than their political affiliation, and no, they don't necessarily go hand in hand
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Ok, I didn’t expect a story time on Saturday, but here we go. What I’m about to write is TRUE. It is insane, stupid, and very dumb, but it is true. Earlier today Donald J Trump, the p[resident of the United States, posted that he had offered the job of Press Secretary to Dana White. Well, it was the wrong Dana White… 🧵
Each and every bit of bitching about Green spoilers ignores the fact that this would be a victory for the left if Labour had outperformed National by one point of party vote on the night
But against the most unpopular PM in history, they could not do that newsroom.co.nz/2026/11/08/20…
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I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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Nothing says "we heard the message and ignored it" quite like naming a white nationalist as chief of staff.
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The majority of Americans approve of border security, but disapprove of the admin's harsh ICE policies. So who just got a big promotion? The mastermind behind the harsh ICE policies.
It's almost like he wants to lose 2028, too.
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Elevating Miller to chief of staff is a good reminder that it can and will get worse. There is no bottom for Trump and MAGA. They will not learn their lesson.
We have to expose them and bury them in 2028.
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I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.
His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.
I say that without reservation.
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Our final poll of polls average:
- Labour: 29.3%
- National: 27.5%
- Green: 14.7%
- ACT: 10.1%
- NZ First: 10.1%
- Opp: 6.2%
- TPM: 1.3%
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This is the last thing that I will post about the election results, but I really cannot get past it. It is disturbing me in my soul:
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Somewhere in heaven Bonhoeffer is petitioning God for a better popular biographer.
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Replying to @DavidAFrench
@DavidAFrench is pulling receipts on MAGA this morning and he is not holding back. 😭 GET THEM, brother.
If a MAGA voter is bewildered today, perhaps he should stop making a meme calling his opponents “fake and gay,” delete the post declaring that Indian Americans worship demons, turn off the podcast that’s shrieking at him that every person who votes Democratic is a heretic, and take a very long and thoughtful look in the mirror.
Donald Trump is to blame, but no one — absolutely no one — made you imitate him. nytimes.com/2026/11/05/opini…
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.@JamesTalarico: There was a lot of talk in this campaign about what it means to be a man, and I wanted to take that discussion head-on.
When I got those attacks, I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico — the man who gave me his last name, the man who raised me as his own. Every Saturday morning, my dad would mow our lawn, rain or shine, and then he would go next door and mow our neighbor’s lawn because she was an elderly widow. He never talked about it. He just did it.
A man upholds his commitments to his family and to his neighbors. A man does what’s right even when no one is watching. That’s the kind of man I try to be every day, and I hope that’s the kind of man young guys across this state and country will try to be going forward.
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Every one of these candidates lost.
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Texas has elected a Democrat to the Senate for the first time since Bobby Ewing walked out of the shower






























