ACLU has won an emergency stay against the immigration ban. People who were being deported are literally being taken off planes right now. https://twitter.com/dale_e_ho/status/825526578952155141 http://live.reuters.com/Event/Election_2016
The ACLU are live-tweeting a protest at JFK Airport demanding the release of refugees being detained there, including Iraqis who assisted the US forces. https://twitter.com/mcohorst/status/825445925069975556 They have stationed lawyers at major ...
Here's my speaking notes from this week's Wellington Fabians discussion, on the political prospects for 2017. https://bootstheory.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/the-political-prospects-for-2017-living-our-values/
Well, I think? I'm terrible at assessing my own speaking. But here are the speech notes! https://bootstheory.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/the-political-prospects-for-2017-living-our-values/
And I'll be popping my speech notes up at Boots Theory some time tomorrow :)
Yes, how dare people feel "entitled" to basic human rights like housing :roll: The selfish people here are the ones acting like anyone who's old, poor, brown and female isn't worthy of basic dignity and support from her community.
She's a taxpayer. She's paid rent for over 20 years. It's her home.
Bloody well put.
"Sure, if you ignore California and New York, Trump wins the popular vote...and the USA's entire gross domestic product drops nearly 25%." https://twitter.com/PeterSHall/status/811613051560624128 See, this is how much of a minority loser Trump is. His ...
+1 Here's a helpful visual guide (including the CNN gigapixel in subsequent tweets). Trump's fans are desperate to pretend he's not an unpopular loser. https://twitter.com/McKelvie/status/823173886451875841
It matters because it reminds people Trump is a minority president, which directly attacks his narrative. https://georgelakoff.com/2016/11/22/a-minority-president-why-the-polls-failed-and-what-the-majority-can-do/
That's certainly one view of the conference.
Some people have Pete George has gone to some lengths to claim that ‘dirty politics’ should only apply to their narrow definition be defined so broadly it's completely meaningless.
Omar Ahmad challenges that quote. Of course it's from an event nearly 20 years ago which no one has a recording of, so the people who want to believe CAIR is evil will say "the reporter is the most credible person" and the people who don't will say "it ...
I deleted the most recent version you attempted to post, not weka. CV's behaviour has been dealt with through the appropriate channels, which you refuse to engage with. It did not need to have gasoline poured on it, which was the only thing your "satire" ...
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You're trying to distract from my point. It is very obvious.
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Trump lost the popular vote. By about 700,000 votes at the most recent count. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2016&off=0&elect=0&f=0 Any analysis or argument which focuses purely on Trump and Clinton and ignores the massive structural ...
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Says the man who only supports women's voices when he can use them as meat shields.
Another post where the clear subtext is "look, I found a Muslim woman who agrees with me so all of you have to shut up now". This isn't how inclusive politics works, guys. You don't just collect all the different oppressions people experience onto a bingo ...
He was at the blockade on day 1 and tweeted in support of the families: https://twitter.com/DamienOConnorMP/status/797227122691444740 Given assurances by Nick Smith and the mine manager that the seal will not be put in place this week, and the earthquake ...
We watched as even people like John Oliver and the entire cast of Saturday Night Live attacked Trump viciously and tried to pave the way to a Clinton victory. Oliver even took it upon himself to attack and ridicule minor candidates like Stein & Johnson, ...
Damien has been down at the site today and tweeted his support: https://twitter.com/DamienOConnorMP/status/797227122691444740
Blaming the media is a mug's game. This is 2016. We have many other channels to use, like Facebook, Twitter and party websites.
All the data available to date shows that Hillary voters had lower average incomes than Trump voters. Trump did not win off the backs of the poor disenfranchised working class. He won off the backs of authoritarian middle class white people.
Um, you do know David Cunliffe is a man, right?
Pike River did have two exits, but the second was a ventilation shaft and completely unsuitable for an actual evacuation. Peter Whittall apparently disregarded even his own safety manager on this point: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pike-river-mine-...
*This government* is the government in charge, right now, when they are planning to seal the mine. Anna Osborne and the other Pike River families don't have the luxury of waiting for a year or however long it takes for us to get a government who gives a ...
John Key is the most approval-craving, poll-focused, "flexible" Prime Ministers we've ever had. If enough people demand he act, he will act.
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