Ani O'Brien
@aniobrien
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Like good faith disagreements & principled people. Dislike disingenuousness & Foucault. Care about women’s rights, justice &democracy. Awfully centrist 🇳🇿🇬🇧
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Joined May 2009
NEW PINNED TWEET: To settle speculation about my politics... I’ve given votes to Greens, Labour, National & ACT (gen & elec) over the years. I worked in the Leader of the Opposition's office in 2021. I party voted Green and electorate voted Labour in 2017. Within a year I was
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Luke Yarwood (L) jailed for 18-months over 𝕏 post seen by 33 people. Vs. Bob Vylan: NOT jailed after demanding death to IDF soldiers during Glastonbury set seen by millions on BBC.
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My publishers cancelled me because they fell into a moral frenzy and believed it was the right thing to do. Russell Brand’s editor led the charge.
prospectmagazine.co.uk
When I looked into the circumstances behind my abrupt cancellation, I discovered that close friends and colleagues were the first to give up on me
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Two Syrian migrants, aged 27 and 31, are charged with raping 18-year-old woman in Cheshire
dailymail.co.uk
Police were called to Winsford at around 5am on Sunday following reports a woman, 18, had been sexually assaulted. Diyar Mohammed Abdulsalm and Dilgash Adil were later arrested.
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Anyone else bored by the Epstein files? I just can’t believe the only person in jail for underage trafficking is a woman.
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Glanced at BlueSky again and they're earnestly trying to reenact 2020 Christmas because of the seasonal flu wave. That time was the best thing ever to happen to those people
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Truth. We were blackmailed. Few people understand the pressure we were under if you had a trans-identified child in California and had Kaiser Permanente health insurance. We were expected to start our kid on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones almost immediately after
“If you’re a parent, don’t ever let a doctor tell you, essentially blackmail you, into thinking that you must accede to a transition for your child because, if you don't, the child will kill themselves…Scientific evidence does not support that.” —@NIHDirector_Jay
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🚨 BREAKING: Crushing LOSS for Gavin Newsom right before Christmas. A federal judge just ruled California’s parental exclusion policy UNCONSTITUTIONAL, blocking schools from secretly transitioning children as young as kindergarten.
🚨BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez has issued a summary judgment decision finding Parental Exclusion Policies UNCONSTITUTIONAL & issuing a Class-Wide Permanent Injunction in Thomas More Society case Mirabelli v. Olson. In a first-of-its-kind, class-wide,
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This is the most important advice parents didn't get for the last decade.
“If you’re a parent, don’t ever let a doctor tell you, essentially blackmail you, into thinking that you must accede to a transition for your child because, if you don't, the child will kill themselves…Scientific evidence does not support that.” —@NIHDirector_Jay
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Suns out in Auckland finally! Throw myself in our adult paddling pool or nah?
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An Auckland man was convicted of viewing multiple objectionable publications including a video that "featured multiple beheadings and extolled Muslims in the West to join Isis and conduct terror attacks". The Manukau District Court gave him permanent name suppression!
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The Free Speech Union's Silent Night (Censor's Delight)
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Not fishing for people to tell me I look younger than 35. Just not wanting people to be thinking I’m a child. I’m a grown woman.
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Some people on this hell site seem to think I’m a lot younger than I am. I get “silly little girl” often. I’m in fact turning 35 on Friday. I have wrinkles, bills, & some fucked up life experiences. I know I need to stop using filters for videos but I’m coping with ageing ok.
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I had a long chat with Debbie Ngarewa-Packer last week. She said she’s not sure “anyone” could lead the expelled MPs, trouble started well before the by-election, and she’s not sure what they are fighting to come back to
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