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I beg of you. If you listen to only one other person writing about politics today, let it be Sarah Kendzior. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

#nzpol When 29 miners died at Pike River, New Zealand made a promise. We said, “never again”. We said, “every worker deserves to come home safe”. But now Brooke van Velden is trying to undo that promise. Sign our open letter calling on MPs to stop ACT's Health and Safety Bill in its tracks:

Iran war anxiety sends global container shipping rates soaring  - www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Here's a bit of fun, equal parts data and outright terror - This is the coldest winter - or summer, depending where you are - that you'll experience in the rest of your life, after all #nzpol www.reuters.com/graphics/CLI...

‘Agnès Varda launched her revolt against femininity early. When she was ten, her mother took her to see 𝘚𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘋𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘧𝘴 at the Métropole cinema in Brussels. Varda hated it: “Why does she take care of these little ones all the time?”’ Lili Owen Rowlands: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"They want a world where people know the worst truths but are prohibited from discussing them." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...

Today we are wishing a Happy Birthday to Maurice Sendak, who was born #onthisdate in 1928. If you've not read Where The Wild Things Are, read it today. Or if you've not read it for a while, read it today. And then let the wild rumpus start.

"Civilisation is to groups what intelligence is to individuals" #nzpol

In Gaza, Israel burned both people and land with white phosphorus while much of the world looked away. Today, the same scenes are unfolding in Lebanon before the eyes of the world, yet meaningful action remains absent. Absolute demons 🤬🇮🇱♾️

Here's my day 102 summary of the US Iran war #nzpol share.upscrolled.com/en/post/f5ad...

Chorus out. Open to all. Why is our Govt so afraid of a ghost story that is more than 40 years old and actually isn’t true anymore? #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/scoop-nz-g...

Day 101 of the US Iran war - Yemen is reported as re-entering the conflict, with Bab El-Mandeb potentially closing to Israeli shipping share.upscrolled.com/en/post/83b4...

Has anyone used one of these or know anyone who has? It might just help solve one of the challenges the 90 year old in my household faces each and every day... twistiejar.com/products/twi...

Yemen has entered the war, which means Bab al-Mandab could eventually be shut down along with the Strait of Hormuz.

I find it bizarre that we must fundraise to have a 24/7 rescue helicopter service, but the government will drop $12 billion dollars on a defence spending splurge that includes helicopters - purchasing only a few dozen hours of useful service - instead of tens of thousands of hours of rescue time

We've just shot past 1.5C and are accelerating hard, not braking

Day 100 summary of the US Iran war. Open warfare has now resumed, if it ever stopped. Link to headline summary. #nzpol share.upscrolled.com/en/post/dea1...

corruption allegation facing NZ 2 NZ firms draft a law to stop a Māori leader challenging their climate inaction. A senior staffer to NZ PM received it in undisclosed, private email Govt defence? they’d have drafted a law anyway OECD: NZ lacks lobby regulation www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Prefer this one:

The Albanese government's attacks on #FOI are truly disgraceful. While Albanese wants to keep secret potential sites for disposal of radioactive waste, information is disclosed in other countries, for example the UK: www.bbc.com/news/article... And: www.nuclearwasteservices.uk/2025/01/gdf-...

We have winner 🏆😂👏 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

It's day 100 of the US Iran war now, so here's my summary of day 99. Fairly soon the phrase "smoke em if you've got em" will start to come into effect as fuel and other supply chains start to fail globally #nzpol share.upscrolled.com/en/post/7065...

The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

Family concerned for West Papuan woman taken to Jakarta after appearing in film www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

@greens.org.nz @labournz.bsky.social both could do well to learn from what's being done in by the greens in the UK. Good, workable polices + accessible language + robust campaigning = voter turnout. We cannot afford another three years of what's occurring now. Let's go for the win in '26 #nzpol

TL:DR - this plus the biggest el niño yet experienced arriving very very soon equals very very bad news, what with fertiliser and fuel suddenly unavailable to the world's poorest farmers. We ain't seen nothing yet #nzpol

Check out the bruising. Is he still legally in the line of succession or has he been moved to the line for jail? #nzpol

Don't read the article, but do the read the bluesky comments section on their post. Comedic gold. There is an unpaywalled link to the article hidden in there, but as usual, the economists writing isn't worth even a minute of your one wild and precious life

I keep being reminded of this question and answer: "What is the problem that AI services are being built to solve?" "Wages."

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Given we already aren't managing to avoid making our drink water aquifers toxic, yah nah #nzpol 'Couple of small, modular reactors': A new pitch for nuclear power in New Zealand www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is interesting news - the Maritime Union of NZ has formally affiliated with the Alliance Party. It's the first time a union in nz has ever affiliated with a party other than labour: m.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO26...

Here's my day 96 summary of the conflict in the middle east #nzpol share.upscrolled.com/en/post/00e0...

I will not allow Jewish suffering to be used as a shield for war crimes. And I will not let American Muslims be smeared when 25 years of data flatly contradict it. My analysis of who is really behind antisemitism in the U.S. based on the ADL's own data:

A former US Army combat surgeon who volunteered at Gaza hospital has won a Democratic primary in New Jersey. Here’s what you need to know about Adam Hamawy.

"Do you feed the right-wing anger, which is super racist? Or do you feed the left-wing anger, which could be economically populist?” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & @mollyjongfast.bsky.social debate whether Democrats benefit from adopting more conservative positions. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/democrats-...

Here's my summary of the ongoing war in the middle east - day 95 now share.upscrolled.com/en/post/0819...

Fijian PM Rabuka rejects criticism over new Israeli embassy www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

This is the 2019 Vice Investigation into billionaire bunkers in New Zealand that is still the go to piece. Someone should make a map so we can road trip round them #nzpol youtu.be/Dh1JZVjKUAo?...

Act of retribution or just part of the widespread massacre of essential service funding the government is engaging in? Māori Climate Platform funding axed in Budget www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ... #nzpol

“the proposal amounted to one of the most wide-ranging legislative breaches of Te Tiriti in modern history.” “If the Crown’s proposal proceeds, it will be one of the darkest days for Te Tiriti in all of its 186 years.” #nzpol

Labour's political strategy since 2023: #nzpol

When cheaper is better costs lives, the corp (Richies) lawyers up and the MoE talks about balancing costs, you know you have a Govt with scant regard for the lives of people it is supposed to serve #nzpol Heads should roll over this and where’s the Minister of Education?

TW. Since writing this article about Epstein, his CIA links & a place called Zorro ranch, the author has needed to exit the United States after what sound like several attempts on her life. This week she is somewhere safer and about to publish her next article open.substack.com/pub/alisav/p...