One time in China, there was a retaliatory arrest made during the Meng Wanzhou case, and two Canadians named Michael were nabbed, likely a mix up. Both were found “guilty.” Anyways, let’s see what we learn about Ian Roberts arrest by ICE.

“This isn’t just being out of sync with our friends. It is morally reprehensible to be turning our back when we see an unfolding genocide.” A welcome clear statement from Chris Hipkins. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labour-pa...

When JLaw has more moral clarity and bravery than the entire NZ government smh

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Losing my goddamned mind

Gosh how embarrassing

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

more on this this morning: The Government's controversial voting law will result in a 411% increase in the number of votes being thrown out, according to the Electoral Commission. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

The Govt's stated reason for restricting voter enrolment in the last two weeks of the election has been speeding up the final count. But the Electoral Commission just told the Justice Select Committee that wouldn't happen - with or without the law change it would take 20 days. t.co/N0vRXHMbMt

I am not a lawyer or anything but this is really fucking funny right like i literally cannot stop laughing

ABC News is out of control

"I would rather interact with a chatbot than date a person" is a perfectly valid, within-your-rights way to live your life, just like "I would rather read books" or "I would rather play the Sims." But if I told you I was dating somebody in my active Sims game, you would understand that was false.

This is not a romance. Nobody is "in love" with apps. There are no A.I. boyfriends. You cannot "date" a chatbot. Accepting this framing and treating it as real is tech-industry propaganda. slate.com/technology/2...

BIG DUMPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROKI IS BACK 😍

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Holy shit, is he trying to grift his way into Nazism!??!?!?

bring it? we never stopped #25yearslater

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

lmao anyone else remember GWAR in Empire Records?

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Yo is the Rapture happening or nah I'm sleepy

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

Now that’s what I call a pivot

This absolutely correct. I would add that no sentient being should take Fang seriously about ANYTHING but particularly about organizing. He doesn't know anything.

Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

this exists it is called thinking

When Tanner Scott got the final out I literally screamed out hell yeah Etsy witch in my car totally normal behaviour

I'm going to complain once again that while I have MLB tv, I am blacked out of apple tv games on there in NZ, and yet Apple tv here does not actually carry these games, so I can't watch them even though I have a subscription to both.

Hi hello. The Dodgers can clinch a playoff berth today! with: a win OR an AZ loss

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

If Ben Rortvedt keeps doing what he's doing I might have to buy a tee

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

oh this is very bad

this is far from the point, but has anyone considered that Brendan Carr is mad because he looks like this at 46

My god all these magazines just out here begging me to cancel my subscriptions... rolling stone, vanity fair...

ezra klein is such a joke

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I love the way National, in opposition, refused to acknowledge that global markets were the main driver of inflation, but in government, after a massive campaign of cuts, they're all like "waaaah, global pressure!"

The reason why corporations and billionaires love the idea of AI replacing the workforce is because it knows labour is the only force that can topple them. Maybe folks should take a stand now before even that is taken away.

Damn wonder if a ruling class of aristocratic elites is once again acting in a unified class interest. Wonder if there’s a class that can unify its interest in return. Won’t be looking into it

From before the announcement (earlier this morning), the Reserve Bank expectation was -0.3%, and of the major banks 3/5 expected it to be worse with a -0.4% or -0.5% (The NZIER was also quoted, as an outlier, as forecasting around 0% for the quarter). The announced plummet was -0.9%.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Also me every time people think it's acceptable to show up at your door or call you at 8am in NZ

we are in really unsettling place that we're facing a deeply unpopular regime that is making everything appreciably worse but the people with the power to stand up to them and takes steps to maintain basic political stability are capitulating without a fight

I mean it wasn't like plenty of experts and people who have fled authoritarian countries / dozens of documentaries have warned exactly how this was gonna go down for the pundit class to insist those people were hysterical and overreacting 🤷🏽‍♂️

ah, well