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Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa
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ALRANZ has been advocating for reproductive justice since 1970 and we aren't going anywhere ✊🏽
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Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand Aotearoa @alranz.bsky.social · Jan 22
ALRANZ's website is down but being fixed asap! Email us info@alranz.org if you want to become a member! Sliding scale and $0 if money is an issue. We're SO happy you're here! In solidarity ✊🏾 ALRANZ Executive Committee
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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govevers.wisconsin.gov
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️
No.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
alranz.bsky.social
We will define what a woman is: anyone who is fed up with ppl trying to define a woman. A woman is someone who is fed up w/the current govt going back on equal pay. A woman is someone who sees a 🚩 when the anti-choice PM puts an anti-choice politician as Minister of Health #nzpol #abortion #equalpay
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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jennifilm.nz
Had a good yarn about US election results & UK polling showing that actually, politicians that stand up for diverse communities with their full throat are succeeding and cynical rights-bargaining incrementalism ain’t a winner
1of200.bsky.social 1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 3d
1/200 S2E170 - Everybody HRRTs

We await a ruling from the Human Rights Review Tribunal in NZ, while Progressive populism, including trans rights, now seems a vote winner in both the UK & US - how is the NZ left positioned?

w @l11p.bsky.social @jennifilm.nz @kyledchurch.bsky.social & Angela
1/200 S2E170 - Everybody HRRTs — 1/200
As we await a ruling from the Human Rights Review Tribunal, Jen and Angela give us a rundown on what’s been happening during the hearings. Progressive populism, including trans rights, now seems a vot...
www.1of200.nz
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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patbrittenden.bsky.social
#BHN Tonight at 9pm
- Chloe Swarbrick versus HDPA on move on orders
- Nicola Willis on Herald NOW talking unemployment
- Kieran and theBISH on Breakfast
- The right go after Craig Renney
#nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social

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#BHN Chloe Swarbrick versus HDPA | Nicola Willis on Herald NOW | Kieran and theBISH on Breakfast
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November 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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audebm.bsky.social
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats!
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
A busy first day as your Mayor-elect: early morning interviews, transition announcements and meetings. More to say on all of it tomorrow.

But a highlight was lunch with my Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social at Laliguras Bistro in Jackson Heights.
Zohran and AOC, smiling together in a restaurant. Zohran and AOC sitting together at a table. Nepalese food at Laliguras Bistro, including chili chicken with tingmo bread and aloo dum
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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sachadylan.bsky.social
Our next government needs to be ready to reverse a whole lot of harm immediately. No pissing around. #NzPol
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
what a night
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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atrupar.com
AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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patbrittenden.bsky.social
#BHN Tonight at 9pm
- Unemployment at 9 year high
- Seems the PM lied in the house yesterday as revelations today say rough sleeping to be banned in CBDs
- Don't mess with the Zohran as Mamdani takes the NY Mayoralty
#nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social

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#BHN Unemployment at 9 year high | Rough Sleeping to be banned in CBDs | Don't mess with the Zohran
Ricardo Menéndez March joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about news today that unemployment has risen again to near nine-year high of 5.3% Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral election as Democrats pick u...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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wendythurm.bsky.social
It's a Democratic clean sweep in Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. A blue wave. A blue tsunami. A tornado of shit for Trump & the GOP who are left screaming about deranged election fraud conspiracies. We won. We fucking won. And now we need to act like it.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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samshirazi.bsky.social
Obviously have to wait for full results, but looks like a blue wave in Virginia

Dems on track to sweep statewide offices

Going to retain majority in House of Delegates and make gains

Spanberger will be first incoming Dem Governor with a trifecta since 1989 election
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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envinyon.bsky.social
Fucking EVERY county in virginia shifted blue compared to the 2024 election
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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gelliottmorris.com
Some blue counties in Virginia and New Jersey are approaching 75-80% of the number of ballots they cast in the 2024 presidential election www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-to-wat...
How to watch tonight's statewide election results, plus final forecasts in key races
What the early and Election Day turnout data is saying in Virginia and New Jersey
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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amyoc.bsky.social
AS Goes Virginia

So GOES The 2026 MidTerm Elections
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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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therickydavila.bsky.social
Democratic candidate Jay Jones has won the Virginia Attorney General election.

Democratic Ghazala Hashmi has won Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor race, which is a flip.

Democrats are sweeping elections tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
alranz.bsky.social
Take note PM Luxon et.all: Ppl DON'T LIKE the #antiabortion or #antitrans BS! We do not like injustice like pay equity removal, Te Tiriti removal, RSE guidelines that erase LGBTQIA, not paying teachers & health workers & selling off our oceans & land &, tax cuts for tobacco & more. #nzpol #aotearoa
mttwls.bsky.social Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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mttwls.bsky.social
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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andreagrimes.com
Massive news for VA, I believe this guarantees they'll be able to get abortion rights on the state ballot next year. The antis spent hell of time and money in VA trying to stop this and absolutely face-planted.
mttwls.bsky.social Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 6d
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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jennifilm.nz
Okay now nz labour stop looking at uk labour and look at Mamdani instead of
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM