Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Once again, I'm less scared of Skynet declaring nuclear war on humanity, and more scared of Skynet goading humanity into declaring nuclear war on itself.

🚨PER CAPITAAAAAA🚨

The Shutdown Will Make Trump's Theory of Government--ICE but No Healthcare--Visible www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/01/a...

These words that Nigel Latta wrote in 2015 have always stayed with me

Nigel Latta leaves us.

OMG THIS - so many similarities to Australian Labor too.

So we all pretty much acknowledge that EA won’t exist 3 years from now, right?

This is what I imagine a conversation between two Christopher Luxons while be like.

"Suddenly they find themselves having to compete for success against women, immigrants, non-heteros, and people of color." Joe Jackson was singing about it in *1982*: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ydO...

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. https://cnn.it/3WcFnDd

Gun culture and online radicalization (with extra misogyny) is the underlying theme of this escalating violence from the right and nihilists, as Marcy notes. And this shooting clarifies that maybe too much! The target bring a Mormon temple makes it so confounding that the right shrugs and moves on.

Reminder that measles is a dangerous virus & one of the most infectious diseases there is... Measles outbreak: Two new cases in Northland www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Privatisation doesn't work, especially when it's bloody Serco who couldn't run a prison when the previous Nat government even low-balled the minimum required standards and who have a terrible reputation in many parts of the world. Fuck Simeon. #nzpol

John Oliver on Benjamin Netanyahu: "He went scorched earth" on Yitzhak Rabin at rallies where some say he instigated political violence as crowds "burned images of Rabin in a Nazi uniform and chanted for his death." A month later, Rabin was assassinated. Rabin's widow: "I do blame them."

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Brian & Hannah Tamaki and Destiny Church are responsible for decades of preventable harm to children. Enabling abusers, emboldening abusers, protecting abusers. This shit is still happening now. Why is this sick-as-fuck Christo-fascist cult of abuse not being shut down? #nzpol

There’s a double rainbow! Everything is going to be okay

Snap poll on The Panel: Should the power grid be nationalised? Yes 91.8% No 8.2% #NZPol

No Shane, not coal or gas. Time for NZ to become an electrostate. #nzpol theconversation.com/goodbye-petr...

The CTU is calling on political parties to support communities, and support the economy, by adopting this policy. We need to stop making the same mistake - in believing that more market-based solutions will solve a problem created by the electricity market itself.

If generators chose to invest their returns in new generation, rather than profit, that would help lower electricity costs. We need to make sure that vulnerable people can afford to put the heating on when they need it – not just when the electricity market says it’s okay.

Privatisation in electricity hasn’t worked. We propose to use the profits earned by the existing government stake in gentailers to bring them back into public ownership over time. The faster these companies make profit, the faster they will be in public hands.

Families are increasingly feeling the pinch – with electricity costs up 11.4% just this year. The average energy bill in Victoria is $347 a quarter. In Auckland, it is $603 a quarter. It’s adding to cost pressures, particularly for middle and low-income families.

Manufacturing in particular is under pressure. There are 11,500 fewer filled jobs in manufacturing than at the election in 2023. Annual manufacturing output is now at the same level it was in 2015. Manufacturing needs clean, affordable, electricity and we aren't delivering that.

NZ should be using electricity generation and distribution as a tool of economic development & industrial policy. We have abundant resources to generate renewable energy. We need to make sure this is capitalised on and that we use it to secure well-paid, sustainable jobs

NZ generates the same amount of electricity that we did 10 years ago, despite the population increasing by around a million people. Electricity-intensive industries are leaving. Investment in expanding supply/generation by the generators fell significantly after privatisation.

Over the past few months, the economy is clearly in trouble. Workers are losing their jobs, and places like Tokoroa and Nelson are really feeling the strain. We believe that the electricity market itself is causing some of this harm - with constrained supply driving prices higher

I’ll be a guest speaker at the Affordable Healthcare for All talk, speaking about the dire state of public healthcare in NZ (and how it must be re-built) on October 20, 6pm, in Whangarei. It's a labour event, but open to any and all progressive people. Register: events.humanitix.com/affordable-h...

#nzpol The CTU has today released its report on electricity in NZ. We are calling for electricity generators to be brought back into public ownership - and to recognise electricity for what it really is - a public utility - not just a source of profit. 🧵 www.reimagineaotearoa.nz/publicly_own...

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes. Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

Yeah, doesn't seem very likely to occur focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

They do not need new equity capital. They just need to pay lower dividends.

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

TAKING OUR POWER BACK: NZCTU Economist @clrenney.bsky.social spoke in front of Parliament this morning about our plan to deliver affordable energy in New Zealand by bringing our electricity back into public ownership. #nzpol

2 @isdglobal.org primers useful reading, which reference the March 2019 terrorism in Christchurch, & centrality of The Great Replacement violent extremism. www.isdglobal.org/explainers/t... and www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/u... Consider this against "...and we have to eliminate that threat." 🚨

Observe the shared signalling, & semantic similarities in what a white supremacist - true to form - notes, & what a leading government minister avers. What was once relegated to margins, & related to outright terrorism now mainstream political discourse, & platformed publicly on podcasts every week.

Luxon Govt stopped or blocked four key structural projects which would reduce fossil gas dependence: NZ Battery Project, Gas Transition Plan, Govt Investment in Decarbonising Industry, and Offshore Wind.

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

The NYT ate with this, ngl.

MAGA wants to go back to 1953. Others, 1863. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

Alexa, what happens when you put a fracking executive in charge of the Department of Energy?

MAGA fascists are spreading far-right propaganda by saying the photo of Mormon church shooter Thomas Jacob Sanford in a Trump t-shirt is AI or photoshopped. Some photos have been cropped, but that's it. The domestic terrorist was a MAGA cultist. Deal with it motherfuckers.

I love him even more for trolling MAGA snowflakes like this. Bad Bunny has a heritage that Trumpers are trying to extinguish and it threatens EVERYONE. ¡Vamos! www.rawstory.com/trump-267405...

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

So many bro gamers voted for Trump because they can say the R word and be anti woke again... Well, video game prices have gone UP, ditto console prices. I just paid an absurd $75 for FC 2026 for my son. White supremacy always wins at being self-destructive.

The PM is off his rocker. The SCIENCE tells us we can’t afford to burn even known reserves let alone new ones if we want a hope of having a liveable future… Yet Luxon is asking @chrishipkins.bsky.social to support offshore gas exploration … for at least the next 10 years! #ClimateCrisis