@chrisluxonmp If you were actually doing these things, your political career and the country would both be in better shape.
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Anna in Aotearoa
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Anna in Aotearoa
@annanotherthng
Still loitering around in this social media hellscape against my better judgement. Tweets may contain swear words & typos. #FreePalestine
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A few disgusting, greedy people have been making a fortune off the back of the misfortune of most of humanity. God knows how they sleep at night.
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency bbc.in/4tkKWyi
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@KendalPeters11 @tonydpoison Definitely nothing in the bible about Jesus dressing up like a numpty & wheeling his cross around Jerusalem slagging off people for being good samaritans.
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@tonydpoison What has a crucifix on wheels have to do with Britain First bollocks?
I'm not religious, but I'm pretty sure Jesus wasn't from the UK
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Imagine leaving your house in a union jack 2 piece carrying a crucifix on wheels through the streets of Manchester and thinking you're remotely normal.
Mukhtar@I_amMukhtar
Britain First are protesting in Manchester.
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@rolandsmartin Men’s mental health is an important topic to discuss but this case is about misogyny, coercive control, abuse, domestic violence & murder - not suicide. Your determination to centre abusive men instead of abused women is misguided at best & ignorant & dangerous at worst.
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The reality hits close. Some of the same men we laugh with and hang around are carrying anger that can turn violent. If we’re serious about protecting Black women, we have to create real spaces for men to confront pain before it becomes harm. youtu.be/5SDo20zvDDU
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@torontobaddy @BasedMikeLee @MariaBartiromo @Kash_Patel God I hope he’s drunk enough to file that lawsuit! 🍿
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@BasedMikeLee @MariaBartiromo @Kash_Patel Can’t wait for discovery! Patel is gonna wish he didn’t sue. 🤣🤣🤣
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They thought they could take a free, cheap shot at Kash Patel
They were wrong
@MariaBartiromo: “So you’re gonna sue them?”
@Kash_Patel: “Absolutely. It’s coming tomorrow.”
Raise your hand if you hope he wins
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@KaeleyT @AliStachs Right! I’ve also done both & find being a SAHM much harder in alot of ways. It was the right choice for our family & I’ve got no regrets, but it’s a thankless job & much less interesting than my work used to be. People shouldn’t be judged either way.
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I’ve been both a career woman and a stay at home mom. The hate and judgment I received from the right as a career woman was infinitely worse than the heat I presently take as a SAHM. But all this contempt in all its iterations is just gross.
People need to leave women alone and mind their own business.
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Feminism usually gets blamed for devaluing motherhood and stay-at-home-moms.
But NO ONE is more disrespectful of stay-at-home motherhood than rightwing patriarchy bros.
It’s almost like they just don’t want women to be able to win.
Work outside the home, and you’re a feminist shill. Stay home with your kids, and you’re a privileged non-contributing freeloader.
They don’t want you to vote because you can’t be drafted in the military, but if you join the Army of your own volition, they’ll accuse you of trying to be a man and make it crystal clear you’re not welcome there either.
These guys need Jesus.
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Absolutely fucking terrifying that a business is putting out a political manifesto that basically describes a future where private companies led by sociopathic tech bros will have the equivalent of the nuclear codes & decide who to sell them to.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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Anna in Aotearoa retweetledi
The banality of evil.
Rod did not just 'repost fake news.' He circulated a vile slander that Peter Magyar had microwaved his family's pet in front of his children.
This was not merely 'dumb' - it testified to how he had internalised the dehumanising discourse of Orban's propagandists.
He didn't think to verify the absurd, Orwellian claim because it was 'normal,' received wisdom, for those on the regime's payroll.
As Arendt understood, modern tyranny owes less to malice than to thoughtlessness and a failure to reflect on the consequences of one's own actions.
Rod Dreher@roddreher
Friend just reminded me I reposted fake news (that I fell for) abt Peter Magyar before election. I’d forgotten. I was dumb to believe it & repost. I apologize. Moving soon, but I love Hungary & its ppl, and wish the incoming PM good luck serving this great land.
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@BarryMc61653357 @gunner947947 @reece_dinsdale She’s probably online at the moment googling “does Glenn Close sell Dalmatian coats?”
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Anna in Aotearoa retweetledi
Let me make this very clear.
This is a still from a film.
This is not me.
This is a character I was portraying.
This image has been stolen by someone in Restore, or by someone who supports Restore.
I find the party, and its supporters, utterly abhorrent.
#FightTheRight
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Anna in Aotearoa retweetledi
Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.
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Anna in Aotearoa retweetledi
I mean… France is investigating allegations involving CSAM and sexually explicit images of children allegedly being generated by Grok. There are already multiple real U.S.-based investigations and legal actions over the same conduct.
So why isn't the U.S. DOJ aggressively pursuing it here? Is it because Elon gave $250 million to Trump's campaign, or are we supposed to pretend that has nothing to do with DOJ suddenly deciding France went "too far"?
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@sszinglehead @brettroberts You’ll have to read Project 2029.
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@brettroberts Is there a Strait of Hobbits too?
Are you planning a takeover of Australia?
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Anna in Aotearoa retweetledi
They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.
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This is awesome!!! This man is an absolute hero!
Lane Brown@lanebrown_3
Hero Principal Kirk Moore—who tackled a school shooter at Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma is crowned prom king! This man deserves a raise! Hero.
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@gunner947947 @reece_dinsdale Yes. Actors do this. Do you think Anthony Hopkins should support serial killers who eat people just because he got paid for playing one in a film?
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@reece_dinsdale Yet you took the check to portray one 🤷♂️
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@Huculinka @Loverism__ @SkilosTheDog His transformation is so awesome!!! He looks so beaten down by life in the first pic and I’m so happy he found the right human family to make him feel safe and loved enough to be himself and live his best life!
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@annanotherthng @Loverism__ Thank you. Here is the first photo of him from the shelter. We knew we had to take him home and surround him with softness. He grew up to be a confident dog with a great sense of humour. He is a Greek harehound mix from Crete, you can follow his nonsense on @SkilosTheDog 😉
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@Huculinka @Loverism__ Omg look at him all dressed up and matching his Dad!!! - Skilos’s sassy cuteness was the thing that made me notice your initial post!
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@annanotherthng @Loverism__ We already are, almost 9 years now. 😎 Skilos, our rescue pup, makes the cutest blissful noises whenever you cover him with a blanket. 🥰
The last photo is the boys' fit check for the wedding. (My dress is copper-coloured.)
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@solomonmissouri mind you the only male perspective that matters is their son who discovered their bodies
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“From a male perspective” is insane
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@AmeshiaCross This is what you post after that abusive man murdered his wife and left his kids to find their parents bodies? WTF is wrong with you?
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Omg. My prayers goes out to Justin's family and loved ones. Having known him for years and just speaking to him on Sunday this is really heartbreaking.
nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/…
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