Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/o...

Where did caperberries go?

Has anyone ever tried to (repeatedly) cancel an account with One NZ (for a service that wasn’t delivered) and then got stuck in a vortex where they tell you it’s cancelled and fees are waived then bill you again so you cancel again by email, online, messenger, phone then they bill you again and😬

Ok bye I’m going on holiday now 👋🏼

This probity review was ordered after Stuff’s questions about a conflict of interest concern. It would have been a short report if they’d written what checks were done instead of weren’t.

Home detection for McSkimming

How could I not love this 🤭

The Minister says it would have been inappropriate to ask the IPCA about a McSkimming complaint he was alerted to three weeks before the date he publicly stated he knew of concerns. IPCA says yeah.. nah.

Dates now on the record: Police Minister Mark Mitchell was told of a McSkimming complaint on Oct 14 - three weeks before the date he’s given publicly as when he first heard of concerns.

Deputy Public Service Commissioner pulls no punches (in public service language)

Interested in the opinion of those of you are are ex army

Trickery and fuckery.

Here’s a Saturday long read for you 🌸

Everything ok at the Covid Inquiry?

Too soon.

Auē

Seems like a risky approach to recruitment 🤔 Latest (final?) chapter in the story of Fale Andrew Lesā.

Behind the scenes of one of the biggest weeks in news I can remember

Tapping perfectly into our collective insecurity “I’m Lenny Kravitz and I’m never leaving New Zealand.”

Latest from the McSkimming files

Further fallout in wake of damning IPCA McSkimming report

Police response now in this story. “Proper process has been followed.”

Expecting comment from police on this today

These are the five senior officers who come in for the most criticism in the IPCA report on the McSkimming scandal.

Honestly, the IPCA report into the police (mis)handling of the McSkimming case makes for jaw-dropping reading. But it’s 135 pages long so I’ve read it for you. Here’s my report on one of the most serious failures of integrity in modern policing history⬇️⬇️

The stats analysis is in on the impact of the 2023 “more aggressive” policy change re police pursuits

Brb just gonna figure this out

Excellent from the New York Times editorial board. Its restraint makes it all the more chilling. Facts is facts. Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I was trying to figure out who the guy on RNZ right now reminds me of and realised it’s Tom Sainsbury’s instagram

This story was devastating to write. Imagine what it was like to live it.

If only people who were talented could just stick to their talents.

In Friday afternoon news …

Every year hundreds of New Zealand families experience perinatal loss. There’s a plan to build a nationwide system to give grieving whānau the support they need. But the plan’s authors are so exasperated by how slowly things are moving, they have taken the unusual step of going public.

I am forever impressed and appreciative of people’s willingness to tell their stories 🤍

I did some work for Paddy Gower Has Issues on the Online Casino Gambling Bill. Fair to say addicts think licensing 15 casinos here, who can advertise, is not a great idea.

After the story.

Have just sent a fresh round of questions off to Vietnam’s Embassy and Foreign Ministry but if past experience is anything to go by 🦗 🦗🦗

No extradition of Vietnamese officials accused of sexual assault

Jimmy Kimmel is back! “Efforts by leaders to pressure artists, journalists, and companies with retaliation for their speech strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country.” www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

Ka haere au ki Taihape ☕️

I’m grateful to Annabelle’s parents for sharing her story. Their genuine hope is that it helps other kids. TW: suicide

On being a journalist in times of grief

This one has been a long time coming.

On infectious optimism 🤍

Breaking: major culture review at ACC. "We have fallen short"

The complexity of an abundant life that ended in no suspicious circumstances 💔

Up the Wahs!

This is so cool ❤️

When America sneezes …

MFAT emails reveal "security issue" over Fale Andrew Lesā