JeremyReesnz retweeted
The simultaneously frustrating and uplifting thing about tonight is that it has taken ordinary, decent American voters to do what GOP leaders and elected officials declined to do for two years: Say, "No. We will not participate in this continuing act of self-harm". Thank God for democracy but a little backbone and a little decency on the part of Republicans could have saved them and us from this. #Midterms26
JeremyReesnz retweeted
For all my UK political friends who are US election addicts, this advice on how to handle the mid-terms is GOLD!
Pro tips for Election Day while you wait for polls to close:
1) Stop touching grass. Don’t go for a walk. Don’t exercise. Go home. Keep scrolling Twitter all day. The next tweet you see down your feed will definitely tell you what’s going to happen before anyone else knows.
2) Trust anonymous accounts. They are the most reliable sources of information today.
3) Overreact to everything. If you see someone say there are long lines at a Republican-heavy precinct, assume it’s a red wave nationally. If you see someone say a precinct is empty in a rural area, confidently declare that Democrats will win a supermajority in the Senate.
4) Anecdotes are to be trusted and extrapolated. Especially if they are from anonymous accounts (see #2), and especially if they are about how busy precincts are (see #3). Bonus points if they have a hammer and sickle or an American flag in their bio.
5) Don’t drink water. The whole “drink eight cups a day” adage is just Big Water™️ industry trying to make money off of you gullible sheep. Drink only coffee and energy drinks. Maybe a Four Loko circa 2010 if you can find one.
6) Look at the clock a lot. Contrary to popular opinion, time does go faster when you are watching the time.
Luxon rules out Michael Laws as serving as a minister in his government, after Laws comments about an Opportunity party candidate. rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
What an absolute belter of a candidate debate. Tamaki electorate sounds like a blast. via @tmurphyNZ for @NewsroomNZ newsroom.co.nz/2026/11/04/th…
Oversubscribed....8.4 million ticket applications have been received for when India plays Pakistan in next year's Mens Cricket World Cup group match. 8 million tickets, 34,000 seat venue. That's 247 times the number of seats reuters.com/sports/cricket/n…
These US mid-term elections have had the most money spent on a US election
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About time. Rome prosecutor is reopening one of the most argued over convictions - the death of Italian Marxist filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Depending on your view, he was either bludgeoned by a male sex worker, or by three men with Sicilian accents. ilfoglio.it/en/justice/2026/…
The Great New Zealand Poetry Debate - more from the @NewsroomNZ Reading Room, subtitled "An epic declaration on the state of contemporary poetry in NZ" newsroom.co.nz/2026/11/01/th…
Reminds me for some reason of the argument I puzzled over generations ago for the 1979 School Certificate English exam. It was this piece....theguardian.com/books/2022/o…
The Indonesian wildfire haze is just terrible - and killing people
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It seems a long long time since that wonderful Napoli side of 2022/3, breaking the years or Scudetto drought, demolished Juventus 5-1 in a blistering game. Today it was a tame, mediocre 0-2
Watch Kvaradona and Osimhen and Elmas and DiLorenzo and weep youtu.be/C4htjVFlsYs?si=ceWP…
The visiting Indian media team covering their cricket team have beaten the NZ sports media XI with a four off the last ball, apparently.
This is awful. The author of “Jasper Jones”, a novel of outsider kids in Australia, coming of age, suicide and cricket, is jailed for child porn. A wretch. And a shattering wrench for readers who loved that book.
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