And they'll have done no forward planning in relation to housing, healthcare, education etc - all the things needed to support the migrants they're hoping for (along with all the rest of us).

Meanwhile in Russia: host Andrey Norkin claimed Russia is fighting Ukraine with "non-military means" and otherwise could have defeated it "in 2 hours." Instead of supporting his narrative, one guest after another dropped truth bombs, infuriating the hosts. youtu.be/E54_rM8Sjko

In a sane world, there’d be a family intervention and deployment of the 25th amendment.

‘The Guardian today launched a new collaboration with luxury fashion brand Lingua Franca, and theguardian.org, underscoring the importance of independent journalism’ www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

Posted a response to this to on LinkedIn from the perspective of power demand in Sri Lanka. For those in New Zealand, the total power generation capacity in 2021 was 10,080MW, which is what just the NVIDIA GPU's at OpenAI propose to use up. From either country's perspective, this is mind-boggling.

somewhere in Moscow, in the basement of the Kremlin’s secret mind-control branch, the entire staff is being shot

In February, Trump shouted at Zelensky that Ukraine "didn't have the cards." Now, he says, "Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form."

This is interesting: Zelenskyy: “I am very grateful to Trump. I cannot share the details right now. Trump possesses very important information regarding the situation at the front.”

Zelenskyy: “Trump is a game changer by himself. “I think he is more close now to Ukraine situation.”

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Zelenskyy: “Trump agreed with me that Putin will not wait for the ending of war in Ukraine. “Putin will try to find weak places in Europe in NATO countries. He will try to do it.”

Moldovan special services and police have detained 74 individuals suspected of preparing riots and attempting to destabilize the country. politia.md/ro/politia-a...

Communication was via Telegram, often anonymously or through intermediaries based in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and EU countries. For each completed task, participants were paid $300 and were required to submit photo and video evidence as proof of execution.

WE NEED TO STOP MEASURING "THE ECONOMY" BY HOW WELL RICH PEOPLE ARE DOING and tbh or by what they or theirs are saying when their main concern is their paycheque and/or profits and not NZ as a whole. #MoodOfTheBoardroom

This reeks of desperation by an out of ideas government. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

A 12-foot statue of President Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein joyfully holding hands appeared at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. early Tuesday, sparking outrage among Trump supporters. --> 😂😅🤣😁😆 www.themirror.com/news/politic...

1/ A Russian mother protesting for the release of her son three years after he was mobilised has highlighted the plight of the remaining 'mobiks'. Over 85% are said to have died by, and the remainder are being forced to sign contracts at gunpoint. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/igor...

Important 🧵 Former leader of the Donbas Russian separatists Pavel Gubarev to Visioner: “…on many sections of the front we are attacking, while the enemy is defending. Because of this, we are suffering incomparably heavy losses."

Looks like the CEOs liked Jacinda more than Luxon and this was during the pandemic #nzpol www.businessnz.org.nz/wp-content/u...

The WaPo editorial about Trump's autism bullshit really does go there. wapo.st/423IhOe

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Labour's Barbara Edmonds sounding eminently reasonable with a business audience at the Herald's annual Mood event. Also offers to work more closely with National as the 'centre' parties. #NzPol

September 22, 2025

Latest post returns to the battle for Pokrovsk in which both sides have invested heavily. The stakes are high - Russia needs to show something for this year’s constant and costly offensives. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/one-last-p...

Russia's disinformation campaign continues, and having expanded onto Truth Social with Charlie Kirk's death, they're now making content for Truth Social that's all Charlie Kirk related, and pushes buttons related to the LGBTQ+ community, and Ukrainian refugees.

Antifa is the CIA because of Bellingcat, or something.

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

Says it all, really. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Excellent as always from @domesticanimal.bsky.social www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Son's arrived for dinner. Hates my current choice of music so has asked me to play an old favourite. This is it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wxl...

The Pentagon Papers case gives us important insight into why having a free press matters so much. This week has taught us that we have a role to play in protecting the 1st Amendment, & (to quote a woman who would have made a great president), when we fight, we win. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Counterpoint: Shane Jones must dress up like the killer in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" every time he goes on TV to talk about fishing ...

Studied 900 tweets feat. 'autism', & 'vaccines'. Compared this corpus with 900 Bluesky posts feat. same terms. All content posted after Trump's pronouncements. Fascinating differences emerge between conversations, beliefs, attitudes, & perceptions informed by or pushing back strongly Trump's claims.

I'm sorry that happened. Once, I was due to go into a radio interview but just 30 mins prior, was told one of the presenters was 'sick with the flu' but 'we're okay with them coming in' & 'if you like you can do the interview online' I did but hated being put in that position Like sick? Stay away

How hard is it to either cancel a face to face meeting, or if it's critcally important to attend, to wear a face mask? Son had meeting with someone last week who had "just a cold" which turned out to be RSV & passed it on to him & a colleague. So completely rude!!

Playing with people’s livelihoods, ripping away hardworking parents of US citizens from their families — is that just all “collateral damage” to you, Donald Trump and Stephen Miller? Is this heartlessness really the America you want to live in?

Holy shit RFK Jr just used the idea that we should "believe all women" to defend the idea that vaccines might have caused their kids' autism, I am INCANDESCENT with rage

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.

With Alphabet now valued at $3 trillion, California is home to three of the four companies with the highest valuations in history. The Golden State is the epicenter of American innovation and driving national economic growth. We have no peers — and no other state comes close.

Anyone else still waiting to hear anything at all from the Smiths City administrators?

By the way, if you don't protest Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his critics because they are people you don't like or agree with, you are assisting this fascist takeover. Wait until it happens to someone you like and it's too late.

‘2026 Is the Battlefield’ with @garrykasparov.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...