Not that it's OK for ICE to treat anyone this way, but this woman is a green card holder. She's a legal immigrant who did everything legally and she's been kidnapped by ICE.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

This is par for the course in terms of what is happening to legal residents of the US, who have literally done everything by the book. Is the Big Fat Nothing that the NZ govt is doing to help her - other than letting Winston lie about it - par for the course for what we can expect of our own govt?

Loaded Tubi on my laptop and I'd left the VPN on a Sydney server, made me realise Australia is getting a much bigger range of movies than we are

"Saturday’s thumping victory for One Nation in the NSW seat of Farrer can hardly be over interpreted. It proves Pauline Hanson’s populist movement is an indiscriminate threat, and that the foundations of the two party system are growing weaker by the day." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"The Mandalorian and Grogu needs to convince casual viewers they do not need to have completed 23 hours of bounty-hunting homework." It's me, I'm casual viewer

From Ideology & Modern Culture by John B Thompson (1990) Reminded me of a job where I told my manager that I'd like to renegotiate my employment agreement if the next pay review didn't put me on the living wage. I was told I couldn't "bring my politics to work" e hoa work brought politics to me.

I don't think I've paid much attention to UK local/regional* elections before but these ones are going to be something of a bellwether for the future of the UK and possibly other places as well *Apologies to Wales and Scotland for implying your countries are merely regions

Whatever your opinion on the disestablishment of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, once it's formally gone TVNZ should make the begining of the new era by airing George Carlins "seven words you can't say on television" bit Who is going to stop them?

"Following the move, the internet will be riddled with conspiracies and misinformation. In other words, not much will change." thespinoff.co.nz/media/07-05-...

#OTD 30 years ago today, on 7th May 1996, the first trials opened at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. From opening until its dissolution in 2017, the ICTY oversaw 161 indictments for crimes committed in the Yugoslav wars. #OnThisDay #RememberingSrebrenica

"The post, which Stuff has obtained, included a photo of a passage from an English translation of Hitler’s 1925 autobiographical and political manifesto Mein Kampf." www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

for anyone wondering why the "voyager media awards" have booted voyager's naming rights, some clues in this webworm piece from last year: www.webworm.co/nzmediaawards/

"The News Publishers Association said it became aware of social media content Woodhouse had re-posted. It said the NPA considered it was "inconsistent with the values and standards" it upholds for New Zealand news publishing." www.rnz.co.nz/news/media-t...

If online media is outside the scope then there's not much point in keeping the BSA just for TV/radio Now it's being scrapped, we need to strengthen the human rights act, the harmful digital communications act, and the harassment act

"Quote from Count Dankula" — the Russian government

My mind automatically adds the words 'England Prevails' to the end of every Reform UK tweet I see

Reform Home Affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf advocates a future government would make decisions on locations of detention centres solely/primarily on political grounds.

If horse racing is unsustainable without tax breaks we should just let it die www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I'm looking for the next Gaza based writer to commission an article from My DMs are open. Pay is US$140, and I can pay via GoFundMe or Chuffed (can't send money to Palestine on PayPal from my country) I can not write the article on your behalf

you can also use the notify me tag on libby on this motherfucker be first in line when your library orders it show early demand, libraries will order more — or any, depending on how small the publisher is — copies of a book. everyone wins ❤️

The #Gaza doctrine is expanding in #Lebanon: systematic, deliberate, and total destruction of civilian life and infrastructure, carried out with complete impunity. Governments of the world must hold the Israeli authorities to account. act.gp/4eXmu1J

Yes, and it’s not like she’s alone in this position.

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David Seymour on 1News claiming we're bringing in migrants to be fast food workers. The 'migrants' you see in fast food outlets are international students whos visas allow them to work up to 25 hours a week International education is one of our biggest export services worth $4.52 billion a year

No wonder ACT were the party of "The modern slavery bill is not our priority". Under these proposals, migrants would pay more and receive fewer services, in a less secure situation. Sounds like you're creating a deliberate migrant underclass to supplement your unwillingness to tax the rich.

Racism aside, it's... interesting that ACT's policies are going to piss off everyone who rely on visa workers: more red tape for accredited employers, more hoops to jump through on the English language requirement, and more costs for everybody.

Freeview launched in New Zealand 19 years ago today. I was working at a Dick Smith Electronics store at the time and remember selling a lot of set top boxes and efen the occasional dish 📡 For a brief time you could watch Australian television which was carried by the same satellite 🛰️

I wonder how much wealth a 50 something year old man needs before having 14 kids to four different mothers and posting about how white people are oppressed on Twitter almost daily starts to be seen as an aspirational figure and not a weird loser *This describes Elon Musk

Time to go home, folks. The perfect Bluesky post has been posted.

One of Alex Jones' younger chuckleheads whose name I haven't bothered to learn has taken over the desk and is noting that "everyone questions everything" now. "I don't know if that's even a good thing. We have to have some touchstone of reality." I'm going to die of a toxic irony overdose tonight.

Beautiful

POV: you got a good deal on some frozen pizzas

This is quite the graph (from newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/30/t...)

I turn 40 today which means I only have to do the whole "I've just gotta make it through this month" thing 300 more times then I can superannuation

Pleased to be able to share this new book that I have contributed two chapters too You can pre-order now and there's a pay-it-forward option to help someone who can't meet the cost also get a copy farrightplaybook.nz/shop/

Truly an absolutely fucking thrilling time to be a minority in the UK right now. These are all from just the past few weeks.

They believe in nothing

I see Shane Jones appears on far-right network that regularly platforms, & promotes Christchurch terrorist's violent extremist ideology (rebranded as 'remigration'), & amplifies the same anti-Indian racism, & xenophobia through his "butter chicken tsunami" framing. Dangerous, & disgusting. #nzpol

Tonight's watch is Hive (2026) Has middling reviews but it's been getting some good buzz among horror fans so I'm checking it out

Botswana has removed the colonial era law criminalising same sex relationships (it has already been ruled unconstitutional) This is decolonisation gayexpress.co.nz/2026/04/bots...

I mean, they sound very objective

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

— 🇸🇩 NGOs and Human Rights Violation watchdogs related to the UN and Red Cross have tracking the RSF's attacks on rural and isolated villages in the region, identifying patterns of attack.

A population strategy would make a lot of sense. I wonder if there would be reluctance to have one in part because it would likely fuel 'great replacement' style conspiracy theories www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Someone asked to do a TradeMe pick up in the CBD and since I was meeting people for a drink anyway I said sure So that's why I'm standing outside a bar with a broken laptop like a non-playable character with an unusual side quest