Bridget Hargreaves

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@aniobrien MMP is a joke.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

Facts

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Elon Reeve Musk is single-handedly responsible for making EVs viable, he’s going to space, providing internet to impossible areas (like my airstream on my burned lot).
As an unrepentant capitalist, he’s done more tangible good for us than every socialist politician combined.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

Absolutely incredible. ❤️

[Neuralink @neuralink]

A beautiful surprise

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@aniobrien Appalling.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

For the first time ever, a Women’s Suffrage flag was raised on Parliament’s forecourt.

And I am absolutely thrilled for Katrina Biggs, who spent a year badgering, negotiating, pushing, and even lawyering up until the Speaker's Office relented and allowed women this moment of reflection.

It must be terribly difficult for the staff at Parliament to spend a day without the rainbow progress flag, but I am sure they will survive.

When you think about it, Katrina's fight to fly the flag is an appropriate way to commemorate women’s suffrage.

Women were not given the vote in New Zealand. Nobody benevolently wandered down from on high in 1893 and decided the ladies had waited long enough. Women organised, held meetings, knocked on doors, gathered tens of thousands of signatures, lobbied politicians, and kept coming back until Parliament finally passed the legislation.

New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all adult women had the right to vote.

The flag carries a white camellia, the flower given to the wonderful male MPs who supported women’s suffrage when the legislation was being fought over in Parliament. This is a history significant to us all.

Naturally, someone will respond to this by demanding to know why Parliament is worrying about a flag when groceries are expensive. But remembering one of the defining achievements in our democratic history does not cause the machinery of government to grind to a halt.

Ladies, please remember today that our foremothers did not campaign for women to have a say only when they said the “right” things. They fought for us all. Middle fingers to anyone who says you must vote a particular way or have specific opinions because of your sex.

Huge congratulations to Katrina. This happened because you were stubborn enough to make it happen, and I think the women of 1893 would have thoroughly approved.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@cjsbishop Love the rates cap which will hopefully discourage this sort of behaviour.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I am bewildered, and not very impressed, by the visceral, naked, irrational hatred spat out by some defenders of Jason Arday. If a Cambridge professor is accused of being an unqualified charlatan, the accusation might be racially motivated. On the other hand it might not, depending on the evidence. The correct question to ask is not, ”What is the colour of his skin” but “Is it in fact true that he is an unqualified charlatan?” Please examine the evidence before leaping to the assumption of racism.
As for the idea that journalists “piled in on him” and “hounded him to his death”, most attacks were against Cambridge University. Jason himself was widely regarded as an unfortunate victim of foolish promotion way beyond his ability to cope. In appointing him to a professorship for which he was manifestly unqualified – in ludicrously describing him as “the best in the world” – certain senior members of the university showed a level of patronising condescension towards black people that could fairly be described as racism, while at the same time making him tragically vulnerable to such attacks as came his way.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist 67

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Enes Kanter Freedom, former NBA player, has declared himself a @WNBA prospect.

It's happening. This is the way.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Don't let communists run your state, folks...they'll drive the most ambitious and determined industrialist in the world to go build an empire in friggin' Texas. Our good weather isn't enough to rely on anymore.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

ELON MUSK: “The reason I went so hardcore for Trump was because, to me, this was a fork in the road. If they had another four years, they would legalize enough illegals in the swing states to make the swing states not swing states, they would be blue states. Then they would win the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. And then they will keep importing more illegals to cement that outcome. Basically what happened in California.

It would have been the end. That's why I went so hardcore for Trump. I invite people to do their research. The more they do their research, the more they will see that what I'm saying is absolutely true.”

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Le immagini che arrivano da Ceuta sono impressionanti e dimostrano, ancora una volta, che l’immigrazione clandestina fuori controllo rappresenta una minaccia concreta per la sicurezza dei confini europei.

Mi sono confrontata con il Ministro dell’Interno Matteo Piantedosi. L’Italia non resterà a guardare. Stiamo convocando gli organismi preposti, e all'esito di queste riunioni siamo pronti a intervenire anche con strumenti straordinari per difendere i confini e la sicurezza dei cittadini, come la sospensione dello spazio Schengen con la Spagna.

Sull’immigrazione clandestina non arretreremo di un millimetro: difendere i confini, fermare i trafficanti di esseri umani e garantire rimpatri efficaci continuerà a essere la linea di questo Governo.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@mayemusk @elonmusk Best. Car. Ever.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

The Economist had 90 minutes with an individual shaping the future of our country and the world.

This interview is a clear example of how trust in legacy media is broken. People want the opportunity to learn more about one another—not more division and polarization.

When given the chance to ask about giving the blind a chance to see, advancing humanity through space travel, or providing the disabled the ability to drive a car, the reporter chose clickbait questions meant to drive engagement rather than understand her subject.

Elon did an excellent job answering her questions and explaining his core values while making her look like a fool.

[Marcus Chhan @MarcusChhan]

Not seen this before. RIP Sam Neill.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@aniobrien Absolutely. Couldn’t agree more.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@aniobrien @AucklandIsland Quite right.

[Bridget Hargreaves @BridgetHarg13]

@PronouncedHare Is that Richard Osman’s favourite book?

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

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