Mining accidents happen. As helicopters and geologists return to drill in Golden Bay, opposition group Sams Creek Collective say piling up acidic, arsenic-bearing waste above their water supply is a price too high to pay, especially if most profits go overseas. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/12/f...

Make this disgraceful grasping government a one-term one. 'It seems that local and regional government are being set up as a target to distract New Zealanders from their dissatisfaction with the current regime. No-one should fall for such a transparent ploy'. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/27/a...

As the helicopters and geologists return to the rugged valley, opposition group Sams Creek Collective say that piling up acidic, arsenic-bearing waste rock at the top of their water catchment is a price too high to pay, especially if most of the profits go overseas. newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/12/f...

'On notice': Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Thank you Greens. Can Labour + Te Pati Maori step up and pledge this too? Today I filed my submission against the shameful Fast-track Approvals Amendments Bill.

Love all the writers, artists, comedians, and the science community who have stepped up to offer rewards - and the community here who has amplified and donated to this very worthy cause. The power of people to work together to make things right when leaders fail is one of the best things I know.

If there was ever any doubt they're working for the same people 😠 #nzpol

This cause is close to my heart and my home in Golden Bay - please sign: community.greenpeace.org.nz/petitions/sa...

"Spokespeople for the Israel Defense Forces and the government are trying to blur the reality, but even Israel's official numbers confirm the hunger in Gaza." www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Where is the military advocate general? The IDF chief of staff? The attorney general? The leader of the opposition in the Knesset? The speaker of the Knesset? The president? Quiet. We are massacring. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

In their dreams, from David Slack open.substack.com/pub/subslack...

Open letter calls for halt to the undemocratic Regulatory Standards Bill

What happens when children are taught to hate? Excellent article, read the comments too - "A new survey showing that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support the expulsion of Gazans was met with disbelief among those who stubbornly believe that extremists are outliers." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Israel's former prime minister speaking out -"Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.. it’s the result of government policy – knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gaza is beyond desperate. Thank you New Zealand and Australia for signing. What other concrete actions take we take? Sanctions? Expel the Israeli ambassador? www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250519-ove... via @middleeastmnt

Go Andrea! ".. I didn’t call anyone a C-word...I described a decision. A conscious, strategic political decision to wipe 33 existing claims and force applicants to reapply, all because the Government’s Budget didn’t add up". www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...

Well said, Andrea Vance — again. #PayEquity ✊

Exactly #nzpol

'In my view this is nothing but a short-term ruse to shore-up a Budget that was tanking... This is craven economics and cowardly politics. New Zealanders deserve straight answers to these questions...' open.substack.com/pub/craigren...

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

17-year old Aussie kid Gout Gout is on fire, blitzed his heat in the iconic Stawell Gift race from a staggered one metre handicap start. Can't wait for tomorrow's final. He's going to be a huge athletics star...after he finishes school! www.smh.com.au/sport/athlet...

There is no justification at all for Israel to resume the war in Gaza. Israel's march of folly continues. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"Palestine’s Arab neighbours are not the only ones sitting on their hands. A Europe and UK so keen to defy Trump’s developing plan to carve up Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin are doing absolutely nothing to stop the slaughter in Gaza." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/rama...

Gosh.

Helen Clark commenting … #nzpol

The suspension of all US intelligence sharing with Ukraine would also allow Russian forces to intensify their drone and missile strikes against the Ukrainian rear, affecting millions of Ukrainian civilians and the growth of Ukraine's defense industrial base (DIB). isw.pub/UkrWar030425

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

Even Hoskings has had enough? 😂😂Did Luxon ever answer the question or just blather on 'till the end? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

For once I'm agreeing with Luxon, "extremely ill-advised" does kind of sum it up -https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360576654/mark-mitchell-david-seymour-should-have-gone-police-watchdog-instead-writing-letter-support

Excellent example of stating the obvious!

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

More from “You Thought It Was an Onion Headline, But It’s Actually True…”

Once the cyberbarons fully occupy and effectively seize control of the Treasury and other key government agencies, it won’t be long before they relegate Trump to a rubber-walled romper room, wheeling him out for occasional bursts of what passes for charisma to humor him with the illusion of power.

"Trump's litigation-as-bribery scheme seems almost quaint while Elon Musk is tearing the wires out of the govt. Even in the face of that existential danger, however, this new world of media shakedowns, run by the most powerful person in the world, is alarming."

"if the cap fits..."

Who died and made him boss is my next question. Or maybe that’s the question to come.

So there’s lots of CRAZY stuff going on, which makes seemingly CRAZY reports seem more plausible. It would be great if we all still take a breath and double-check to make sure things are real, so everyone can focus on the real stuff. I will now go and immediately not follow my own suggestion.

Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward. They can't just wish it away unless we let them.

Are you paying attention? Don't get distracted by the tragic plane crashes...

Nobody is going to regret a trade war with Colombia more than Don Jr. Nobody.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform. Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ? Their greed is our opportunity.

Just emailed off my RSB submission. It's an emphatic no from me.

The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.

What a pathetic shambles and attempt at passing the buck. And she had the chutzpah to stand there and tell the media that "I've delivered". Not from my viewpoint at the top of the Mainland she hasn't. Shame on Nicola and dear lord here comes Winston yet again with a shiny new title. This mob.

What a wild week. "It is critical now to reflect on what the devastating tale of Syrian governance and civil war mean. Syria under the Assads was neither unique nor the work of just a few local brutes". www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

You just can't keep a good fashion trend down... the orcas have brought back the dead salmon hat look from the 80s. 😂 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

An excellent ode indeed, thank you author “O King, How do you feel your first year On the Golden Throne has gone?”, Inquires an eager scribe. “What I would say to you,” answers the King..." newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/01/a...

Nichols: You have the makings of a not so slow motion authoritarian takeover of the United States government. And people ought to be really concerned about this.

The economists' letter to the Government today is essential reading so I've opened this one up immediately for full reading, listening and sharing. Thanks again to paying subscribers for their permission in advance. open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...