Kailash Kiwi
@kailash-kiwi.bsky.social
I’m a Kiwi in Aotearoa who watches US politics as a hobby. Kind of concerned right now to be fair. 💣🚀🍊☢️
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My 6yo has started pretend electronic locking her bedroom door at night so Trump can't get in. She seemed to think that he himself is going into homes and causing harm. There are children in her school whose families have been impacted by ICE so we assume this is where the concern came from.
A Wash Post review found instances of parents arrested near campuses in at least 10 states so far this year. Actions near campuses—which include shooting a man, releasing tear gas and engaging in a car chase—have prompted lockdowns. @justinemcdaniel.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
In cities targeted by ICE, empty desks and school disruptions follow
One in 5 students in Charlotte missed school after a recent ICE crackdown began. It’s the latest city where schools felt the impact of Trump’s deportation effort.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My 6yo has started pretend electronic locking her bedroom door at night so Trump can't get in. She seemed to think that he himself is going into homes and causing harm. There are children in her school whose families have been impacted by ICE so we assume this is where the concern came from.
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What could this be? The label simply describes it as a ‘decorated part of an item of unknown function made of maple wood’.
A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
What could this be? The label simply describes it as a ‘decorated part of an item of unknown function made of maple wood’.
A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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A lot of effort clearly went into decorating it, whatever it was. Any suggestions?
Found in the Bronze Age pile dwelling settlement of Ludwigshafen-Seehalde, 2000–1600 BC
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Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
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A rainstorm was expected, which meant farm workers in Bakersfield CA were rushing to pick up grapes set out to dry and become raisins earlier in the season. #WeFeedYou
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A rainstorm was expected, which meant farm workers in Bakersfield CA were rushing to pick up grapes set out to dry and become raisins earlier in the season. #WeFeedYou
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Since they said disobey unlawful orders I guess this is an admission?
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Since they said disobey unlawful orders I guess this is an admission?
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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You should definitely get Lindsey Halligan to indict them.
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
You should definitely get Lindsey Halligan to indict them.
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They don't call 'em vulture capitalists for nothing.
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
They don't call 'em vulture capitalists for nothing.
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It’s way past time that qualifying nations refused to attend the World Cup. This is just yet another reason. None will though.
President Donald Trump's administration will not permit supporters from Haiti to enter the United States next summer after the nation qualified for the World Cup.
Donald Trump tells one nation's fans to stay away from World Cup in America
www.mirror.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
It’s way past time that qualifying nations refused to attend the World Cup. This is just yet another reason. None will though.
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Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The latest on research from the Vatican Observatory, thanks to La Civiltà Cattolica, the Jesuit periodical that has been in publication since 1850.
November 2025 updates on VO Research from La Civiltà Cattolica - Vatican Observatory
The latest on research from the Vatican Observatory, thanks to La Civiltà Cattolica, the Jesuit periodical that has been in publication since 1850.
www.vaticanobservatory.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The latest on research from the Vatican Observatory, thanks to La Civiltà Cattolica, the Jesuit periodical that has been in publication since 1850.
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Plato: "The bad are never truly at one with one another or with themselves".
They understand each other perfectly.
That's why mutual friendship is totally out of the question.
At best, they can be partners in malice.
They understand each other perfectly.
That's why mutual friendship is totally out of the question.
At best, they can be partners in malice.
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Plato: "The bad are never truly at one with one another or with themselves".
They understand each other perfectly.
That's why mutual friendship is totally out of the question.
At best, they can be partners in malice.
They understand each other perfectly.
That's why mutual friendship is totally out of the question.
At best, they can be partners in malice.
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Here in Pembrokeshire, overnight, the snow has nearly vanished. It clings on in the small places where the sun hasn’t reached. Like clumps of sea campions making a patchwork of white beneath our toes. Out at sea, do the puffins dream of warmer calmer days on Skomer Island speckled with campions?
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Here in Pembrokeshire, overnight, the snow has nearly vanished. It clings on in the small places where the sun hasn’t reached. Like clumps of sea campions making a patchwork of white beneath our toes. Out at sea, do the puffins dream of warmer calmer days on Skomer Island speckled with campions?
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New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
The Orbanization of the American press
"The really unnerving thing is Trump using state power to influence who a company gets sold to," Matt Gertz tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New in PN: @mattgertz.bsky.social on the Orbanization of the press
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
"Everyone just accepts that of course the FCC will only allow a merger if it goes to a person that Trump wants to own it. That’s a very precipitous decline in our broad public assumptions of how govt power is supposed to be wielded"
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The writers have done a spectacular job this season revamping their fascinating "Marjorie Taylor Greene" character. The suspense over what she will do next is compelling. A lot of things are going on with MTG, maybe some good, others bad, and we won't know exactly what for two or more seasons.
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The writers have done a spectacular job this season revamping their fascinating "Marjorie Taylor Greene" character. The suspense over what she will do next is compelling. A lot of things are going on with MTG, maybe some good, others bad, and we won't know exactly what for two or more seasons.
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A win! A federal judge has halted a Trump administration plan that relied on confidential tax records to target migrants for deportation. In a ruling issued today, the judge said the IRS improperly shared the tax information of several migrants earlier this year.
November 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
A win! A federal judge has halted a Trump administration plan that relied on confidential tax records to target migrants for deportation. In a ruling issued today, the judge said the IRS improperly shared the tax information of several migrants earlier this year.
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It's a hard no in our house. We're lax about a lot but none of this horseshit. I'd sooner let my kid play CoD in an Xbox lobby than let her play Roblox and that's saying a whole lot
If we have a kid we are absolutely forbidding Roblox. I know I will inevitably cave on a number of other stupid things all their little friends are doing, but this is a hard line in the sand that no amount of screaming will change.
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It's a hard no in our house. We're lax about a lot but none of this horseshit. I'd sooner let my kid play CoD in an Xbox lobby than let her play Roblox and that's saying a whole lot
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put my book down for a sec to see if anything interesting happened today
a man in a suit is holding three boxes of pizza .
Alt: Community scene where Troy walks in with pizzas and everything's on fire
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
put my book down for a sec to see if anything interesting happened today
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Far right getting whiplash
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Far right getting whiplash
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I went offline for an hour and came back already three major news cycles behind.
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I went offline for an hour and came back already three major news cycles behind.
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