Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne. The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.

Israel has forced more than 200,000 Lebanese out of their country and into Syria as part of their imperial takeover of the Middle East. Genocide and invasion ignored. 🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪

What do you want to bet that our PM is not addressing our nation because doing “woke” things like widening support for struggling communities, encouraging work from home, providing free public transport etc is way too much to bear for a govt unable to grasp what governing in a crisis actually means.

“The months ahead may not be easy.” What a change, hearing a leader talk in terms of preparedness for months, not weeks, and hearing them outline immediate actions taken by the government to protect the country from the current crisis rather than blaming the last lot at every possible opportunity.🫠

#nzpol We should all be able to live with dignity.

The policy described would violate rules of international law prohibiting (i) the destruction of property without absolute military necessity & (ii) forced displacement. The former is a war crime, the latter a war crime & crime against humanity. I discussed this with Reuters here: reut.rs/4dStXyu

Hey folks, I got an urgent request for you. ICE is using our DMV data to track protestors. This isn't getting enough attention given... well... everything else going on. And we need state governors to put a stop to it. They need to hear from you. Very easy action item -- takes 30 seconds. 1/2

Fonterra has just had to admit it broke the law around deceptive and misleading advertising with its claim that its butter is "100% NZ Grass Fed". They feed their cows millions of tonnes of palm kernel in fact. Here is the backstory to the case: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Shame on Australia's National Press Club for platforming lies and state-sanctioned propaganda! More here too www.deepcutnews.com/p/national-p...

I contributed my voice to this story because it is an important issue: the Atlantic and NYT are regular vehicles for empowering a white supremacist, heterosexist and transphobic ruling class, and it's important to understand the mechanics of how that works.

Crickets from the GBD/Brownstone types (McCullough, Kory etc.) on this study even though fluvoxamine was part of their FLCCC protocol. This means either: • Their grift has already developed around zinc and ivermectin • It was never really about helping people www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️Happy Trans Day of Visibility!🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Blocking so many stupid genAI accounts

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

'Forced to cut housing' These are idiotolgical political decisions, not forces of nature or laws of science, but idiot politicians making horrendously bad & evil decisions.

#nzpol #kikorangi

I hope everyone’s learned their lesson about “let’s run our government like a business” bullshit Businesses can be run into the ground Not really supposed to do that with governments

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American kids want you to know that mass deportation is traumatizing them. “When I go to school, I pray I come home safely,” said 16-year-old U.S. citizen Arnoldo Bazan. “Whenever I hear sirens or see an officer, my heart starts racing. I don’t even know when I will see my father again.”

Oh great, it's April Fool's Day, so every dickhead with a half-funny thought in their head is ramping up the AI image slop

“The closures of Heinz Watties, Greggs, & McCain…will have implications for NZ’s #FoodResilience & security, will cause significant #JobLosses & threaten the viability of local vegetable growers…& NZ’s ability to feed itself with #LocalProduce” - Steve Abel, Greens My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol

When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenter in the conversion therapy case 😞 It's so upsetting, and I just want to remind folks that Trans Lifeline is a resource you should take advantage of right now if you need it. Your life is precious. +1-877-565-8860 translifeline.org

#nzpol New Zealand has lost 41,465 filled jobs in the past two years. Working people cannot afford to wait while the Government tinkers at the edges:

Warning to the Dems: Elissa Slotkin is NOT the center of your party or where your base is. Neither is Mallory MCMorrow. They are where the donors are, NOT where the voters are. Do NOT neuter the energy of your base to appease the concerns of your money. MONEY DOESN’T VOTE!! PEOPLE DO!!

In the meanwhile @ryanhisner.bsky.social and others discovered some peculiar preference of BA.3.2 toward kids , there is now something new growing apparently fast: it is PQ.16.1.1 with this spike: 22N 59S 184S 253G 417T 420N 435S 456L 478T 493E nextstrain.org/fetch/genome...

How the rest of the world sees this: 1 out of every 3 USians approves of all of this.

Another @nzpsa.bsky.social win Join your union✊🏻 #nzpol

So we are at the syphoning petrol from parked cars stage and this government is talking about communism. At this point we need a snap election.

41,000 jobs lost in 2 years is wild. Auckland lost 21,000 filled jobs over the same two-year period while construction shed 20,000 jobs & manufacturing 10,000. Over 165,000 Kiwis are now unemployed, worst in 13 years, but much worse when you consider 3% of NZ citizens have fled for overseas

This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.

Regardless of party politics, Willis and National have kinda painted themselves into a corner both rhetorically and ideologically here. Not only have they spent the last number of years delegitimising pandemic crisis interventions to the point they have to avoid anything that hints of crisis ...

Robert Kagan just published a scathing obituary about the American-led order. Read it here www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

In 1976, Israel killed 6 unarmed Palestinians protesting Israeli land seizures - the day is commemorated annually as Land Day. Since then, Israeli land seizures have multiplied and illegal settlements have eaten up the occupied West Bank amid regular settler attack. #Infograph

Why has Luxon not ejected Israeli diplomats? Is anyone still unclear that Israel’s Government, the IDF and the Israeli voting public are the Nazis of our time? -Genocide -Rape -Murder -Ethnic cleansing -Openly using the language and framing of Hitler No? Then read below: #nzpol

Ive seen some incorrect dates floating around. So just an FYI, members due to renew have till the 30 June and should now have an email with instructions. New members need to sign up by 24 April to vote at the AGM. #InternetNZ

Let us not abandon MN purely because the news cycle has turned

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

“…more than half the additional capacity that would have been enabled under the new plan may now be cut.” VOTE THEM OUT NZ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

1-3 I think our relatively calm period with COVID is coming to an end. Below, I've plotted percentages of variants with the percentages of lab confirmed COVID hospitalizations (dotted line).

I just signed this action.greens.org.nz/restore_rail...

“Israel is repeating the Gaza playbook in its war on Lebanon: large-scale displacement of civilians, destroying infrastructure, targeting hospitals and healthcare workers, and killing journalists. And the world has become numb to Lebanese loss and suffering.” — @mbazzi.bsky.social, DAWN Fellow

This is Daisy. She helped her human make the bed today. Through moral support. 13/10 (IG: daisyneverhelps)

Honestly it is insane that we are letting COVID do this. My kid is now old enough to be sure he doesn’t have a sense of smell, thanks to COVID. Like what the fuck. And we’re all just sort of letting this virus go around when it does things like erase a child’s sense of smell. Just one of many.

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

“It’s hard to avoid the impression that a government already making life hard for the lowest earners has decided to double down, leaving those households out of the response to a crisis that affects everyone.” Let’s not forget, they fucked us all BEFORE this war started. They won’t stop now. #nzpol

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