Fun Fact: Every Twitter influencer recently outed for working for Vladimir Putin is also getting paid monthly checks from Elon Musk

The answer to this question was apparently millions of dollars

This is a VERY important study (free to read). Authors find Christian nationalist statements by US Senators predict instances of actual physical violence by self-professed Christians against religious minorities in their state. Holds w/numerous controls & robustness checks. 1/2

The free study is found here. Important evidence that political messaging matters, but even more, that Christian nationalist messaging may provoke Christian-against-non-Christian violence. More work is needed, but this is an important step. 2/2 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Counterpoint: I am Jewish and have a really big problem with armed Kahanist-inspired groups patrolling campuses. It has not “come to this.” This is not about “defending Jews,” it’s about intimidating Palestinian solidarity student protesters (many of whom are themselves Jewish!)

Two Islamic schools in Auckland are on lockdown after a suspicious phone call and threatening emails. No students are on site at either school and they will remain closed for the day nzherald.co.nz/nz/school-lock…

Te Tiriti o Waitangi is an agreement between multiple sovereign nations, not a ‘partnership between races’. The latter is a lie used to justify the dishonouring of commitments the Crown made in Te Tiriti which gave it (and by extension, non-Māori people) the right to be here.

Those people still have that right, by the way. Te Tiriti isn’t a barrier, it’s an invitation. It invites tauiwi to make Aotearoa home, subject only to the Crown honouring its very basic promise that Māori would retain our rangatiratanga. Don’t let politicians tell you otherwise.

In some ways Te Tiriti is deeply unique, but in other ways it’s like any other treaty the government has signed since. Treaties are agreements between sovereign nations which extend rights and make reciprocal promises, while obviously retaining the unique identity of each group.

In those other treaties the guarantee of our nation’s self determination is so obvious it doesn’t need to be said. Our free trade agreements don’t say we won’t take the other country’s land, language and customs because that would be absurd.

So while we should still consider Te Tiriti o Waitangi unique and sacred, which it is, maybe it would also be useful to think of it as just a normal treaty sometimes. I think that’s one of the logical endpoints of rejecting the lie that Māori ceded sovereignty. Just a thought.

The living wage being about being able to meet basic needs but also participate in society is an important point. stuff.co.nz/money/35040494…

Most people I know earn below the living wage, they don't join clubs or societies, don't donate to charity, don't contribute to crowd fund campaigns or subscribe to any media. They just can't afford to. But all those things shape the society we live in, they're left out of that

I often think about how the working class used to have their own institutions; the friendly societies, the credit unions, what we used to call working men's clubs, even a lot of sport and music clubs. Wages have been pushed so low that that stuff has all but disappeared

The average profile of a mass shooting in the USA and NZ is a white male. In both the US and NZ, the average profile of his victim is non-white (USA - black female, NZ - migrant). Conservative racists are still treating non-white lives as recreational hunting fodder.

Uploaded two hours ago, so after media had reported that two Islamic schools were on lockdown after threats. YouTube continues to provide a platform for this mans Islamophobic (as well as anti-Māori) content

YouTube if you have the stomach for it, you can report the video at the below link. The most egregious comments are at 1:01 and 1:30, lots of hate filled comments that can be reported too youtube.com/watch?v=9Fe0z7…

YouTube YouTube is unlikely to do anything about reports from end users, Netsafe has a way to report hate speech and extremism that you may want to consider report.netsafe.org.nz/hc/en-au/reque…

For my hand full of Balkan followers; Croatian MP Zdravka Bušić was in New Zealand recently and met with our deputy prime minister, researching her background for an article if anyone can point me to some good sources

the only Serbo-Croatian I know is "laži" and "sedi" (because sometimes I walk a Montenegrin dog who doesn't understand English commands) But I doubt there'll be a lot in English, stuff I can Google-Translate might be ok