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Amanda Thomas
@amandathomas.bsky.social
Feminist political geographer working in environmental studies in Aotearoa New Zealand. Co author of Stopping Oil: Climate Justice and Hope (2023) and Imagining Decolonisation (2020). Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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And the person behind Palantir is NZ resident Peter Thiel, given residence in 2011 due to his “exceptional circumstances” - after spending only a total of 12 days in the country. Here’s a recent Guardian article about Theil and Palantir and Trump and AI etc etc www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Peter Thiel’s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans | Robert Reich
Working with the Trump administration, the data company could be used to target the president’s opponents
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is gold - nice work
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Constitutional transformation is already happening, just not in Question Time. I get that pundits have to focus on six MPs, but it's because they can't and won't look at the thousands of daily acts of self-determination that don't require Parliament's permission.
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Done. It was where, at high school, I learned some of the foundations for critical theory (although it wasn’t packaged in that way), which has completely shaped my life and the work I do
October 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM