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Whooping cough / Pertussis.
Some uninformed trolls were slinging around the tired 'misinformation' and 'anti-vax' labels this morning in response to a comment I made about what the research says about this illness.
I've gathered a few key snippets from studies and articles that some might find interesting/useful/informative. 🧵
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Looks like Simeon found the broom. 🧹
The Health Minister has replaced the Medical Council leadership, arguing the regulator had drifted into ideology rather than sticking to its core job.
Long overdue clean-out? Or should politicians stay out of it?
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Jun 14
Why the word cis is derogatory towards women
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Jun 15
📬 Paul's Mailbag: HSNO Feedback Closes Tonight ⚠️
"A truly magical place. It's a great reminder of the power we have when we come together." – Vicky, RCR listener
From mysterious UFO encounters and economic concerns to digital ID and gene technology debates, Paul Brennan opens the mailbag and highlights just a few of the many messages received from listeners.
📣 Feedback on the HSNO Amendment Bill closes at 11.59pm tonight, 15 June:
parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeS…
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Jun 14
Ugh. This is DISGUSTING @LushLtd. Teenage girls love to shop in your stores and here you are happily encouraging them to CUT OFF THEIR HEALTHY BREASTS in the name of trans pride.
This is beyond repulsive. It's dangerous and sick. No parent should allow their child near your stores.
Please share: #BoycottLushNow
Jun 14
Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council),
As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display.
I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal.
Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated.
They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive.
Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure.
Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation.
If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice.
I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason.
What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated.
I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this:
Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering.
Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating.
For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Murray
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Jun 14
This is the craziest card trick I’ve ever seen in my entire life and there’s not a soul out there that can explain how he did this.
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Jun 15
Detransitioner @burnyourbinder fields questions about my "No Child is Born in the Wrong Body" sign. Marblehead MA Pride
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Jun 14
It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear friend and VFF Regional Coordinator for Auckland's North Shore, Darag Rennie, has passed away suddenly while on holiday in Rarotonga.
Many of you knew Darag personally. Others knew him through his appearances on RCR, where he generously shared his insights as a retired MD and holistic practitioner.
Darag and his wife Sally have been steadfast members of our community for many years. During some of the most challenging times our movement has faced, Darag was a calm and steady presence. Thoughtful, intelligent, principled and kind, he never sought recognition or applause. He simply kept showing up, supporting those around him and doing what needed to be done.
The photo we've chosen to share was taken just a couple of weeks ago at VFF Connects 2026, where Darag received our tongue-in-cheek "Best Dressed From the Waist Up" (on Zoom) award. With his dog on his lap and that familiar grin, it made us laugh then and it makes us smile now.
Our hearts are with Sally, their daughters, and all who knew and loved him.
Only recently, Graham Hood spoke about the importance of living in such a way that one day you earn yourself a good funeral. Darag certainly did that.
The measure of a life isn't found in titles or accolades, but in the quiet difference we make to the people around us. By that measure, Darag lived an extraordinary life.
Thank you, Darag, for your service, your friendship, and the example you set for all of us. You will be sorely missed.
Please keep Sally and the family in your thoughts.
Alia, Claire and the VFF Team 💔
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Jun 13
🎙️ Brennan Barometer: When Does Public Safety Become Public Surveillance? 👁️
"Are you ready for some more potential state overreach?" — Paul Brennan
A clip from Chantelle Baker sparks today's discussion as Paul Brennan examines a proposed Police Amendment Bill that would broaden surveillance powers and raise fresh questions about privacy, oversight and civil liberties.
Dive deeper with Paul's interviews featuring Nathan Seiuli @Pillar_NZ or Australian civil liberties advocate Tim Roberts @NSWCCL.
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Following the horrific stabbing of a 17-year-old girl in Brierfield.
Alex Phillips has a powerful message for Keir Starmer.
Well said.
@ThatAlexWoman @talktv
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So womanly...
Jun 13
A man pretending to be a woman, suspected of murdering a little boy, publicly assaulted female journalists.
Naturally Australian media referred to him as "she".
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Jun 12
“Sneaky Business” surrounding Fast-Tracked GMO Reform ⚠️🌱🧬
Organics Aotearoa NZ @OANZ spokesperson Brendan Hoare raises concerns about fast-moving changes to gene technology and agricultural regulation in New Zealand, and how they’re being developed.
“What is the rush?”
He raises concerns about the speed of the changes, limited consultation and analysis, and the potential impacts on New Zealand’s organic and non-GMO sectors and export markets.
📣 Feedback on both the HSNO and ACVM Amendment Bills closes Monday 15 June.
🎥 Watch here (all inks in the show notes): rcr.media/episodes/brendan-h…
🔗 Say no to the Gene Tech Bill: rcr.media/gene-tech/
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Jun 12
Weather Warning — Wellington's "Invisible Success" 🌧️🌊🤣
“Safetyism. It’s infected everything.”
Wellington's recent state of emergency sparked evacuation orders, wall-to-wall media coverage and warnings of a major storm event.
This week on the Brennan Barometer, Paul Brennan asks whether the response matched the reality, and what the much-publicised "invisible success" reveals about modern risk management and safety culture.
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Jun 12
🎙️ Riding Shotgun: Hope and Its Limitations 🏍️
“Could an absence of hope actually create the opposite effect?”
Riding Shotgun returns as Rachel Stewart @stew_rachel takes on a powerful modern idea: hope. Is it something that drives us forward — or something that quietly keeps us still?
🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/riding-sh…
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Jun 12
"So those guidelines are such that you must treat people on the basis of their skin colour." - Rachel Stewart
Rachel Stewart questions whether modern policing policies are strengthening or weakening public confidence in equal treatment before the law.
Should public institutions be completely colour-blind, or should they take race and background into account when making decisions?
Rachel Stewart @stew_rachel and Maree Buscke @MacBuscke discuss on their new segment: Both Barrels
🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/both-barr…
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Unbelievable.
Jun 11
TOP wants to tax your grandma thousands per year because they think property appreciation is "making money".
"Ah well they can always downsize". To what? A coffin?
This is Marxism.
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Jun 8
As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride.
This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP.
Inclusion! WOO! 🙄
The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life.
That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature.
And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement.
The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law.
Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together.
You know... Normal things.
The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included".
What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings.
Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work.
How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement?
Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes.
Somewhere along the way after the TQ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship.
The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all.
I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype.
If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this.
The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.
The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.
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Not a vision I'd want in my brain when thinking about a FOOD service...🤮🤮🤮
Jun 7
🇺🇸🏳️🌈 HelloFresh is apparently marketing their meal kits as prep for anal sex during Pride Month.
"But for those of you who are... prepping... we have an extensive line up of high-fiber recipes available. Happy Pride." WTF?!
This is what happens when a brand's marketing team has zero adults in the room.
Source: @HazelAppleyard / Writer: Jamie
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Rest here, weary traveler.
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You've scrolled so far, you looped back to the beginning of the internet and started over.
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Jun 6
"Universities are now this place where, well, I really wouldn't send my dog." - Rachel Stewart
Rachel Stewart says universities are failing many young New Zealanders, while trades, apprenticeships and real-world skills continue to be undervalued.
Has the push toward degrees come at the expense of practical education?
Rachel Stewart @stew_rachel and Maree Buscke @MacBuscke discuss on their new segment: Both Barrels
🎥 Watch here: rcr.media/episodes/both-barr…
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