"Pop Propaganda, Utah Update, and more" ft Dani Katz 6/7/22

The Dani Katz interview (I had never heard of her) was pretty great, despite the seemingly-unfitting name. It's @ roughly 27:00-101:00.

I mean, where has SHE been? Highly recommend watching her. Nothing I didn't already know… more of a "preach it, girl," which I wasn't really expecting from the way the interview started out.

Wellington: Violent threats aimed at New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern requiring police involvement have almost tripled since 2019.

An official information request, reported by Newshub, has revealed police dealt with 50 threats targeting Ardern in 2021, up from 18 in 2019.

The data showed anti-COVID-19 vaccine or anti-mandate sentiment was behind many of the threats.

Gun law reform in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch Mosques terror attack was another driver.

“My job is to make tough calls that not everyone likes,” Ardern told the television show AM.

“Now that - never ever - is a reason for anyone in any leadership position to face threats and I don’t want to trivialise it by saying it comes with the job. But unfortunately, in recent times, that’s increasingly been the case.

“Does it change what I do or how I do it? No.”

New Zealand media outlets have reported an increase in protection afforded to the prime minister and her office to deal with the increase in threats.

In February, anti-vaccine protesters staged a three-week occupation of the lawns and streets outside parliament house in Wellington, with Ardern as a unifying hate figure.

Protesters carried signs comparing her to Adolf Hitler, called on government leaders and journalists to be tried and hung, and at one point attempted to surge and enter parliament.

Police tolerated the protest for 24 days until clearing the scene in an ugly and violent end to the occupation, with protesters setting fire to tents and structures as they were moved on.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/violent-threats-against-jacinda-ardern-surge-20220613-p5at94.html