Standing room only for launch of He Told Us. 7 yrs on after 15 March, NZers are still asking: What was known? Missed? Learned? Security depends on public trust. Trust depends on accountability. Accountability depends on information. Truth matters. This matters. Read the book!

I ❤️ librarians. #BookSky

This book launch on Thursdy in Auckland: Hope you can make it. An important book for all NZers to read and all people in security should learn.

National are breaching the Fiscal Responsibility Act for starters. But Labour need to grow a set as we know Parliament can NOT bind a future Parliament and nor can its Budgets. Also Currency is Sovereign Also Constitutiional Reforms www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

A Must Read! Book release of "He Told Us." Reading this, not through the eyes of a casual reader, but as someone who warned NZ govt before March 15, warned of the far-right threat yrs prior, warned social media companies in 2015, and the supported those affected b/c warnings went unheeded.🧵1/4

When a helicopter that costs 4000 teacher salaries can be destroyed with a drone cheaper than a new Corolla, does spending 2% of GDP on defence really make sense? Column today: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

Dear Hamilton NZ, A 🧵1/4 As our city grows, we need to think beyond just replacing what we have today and start building for what our communities will need now and for tomorrow.

If systems don't ensure accountability, people still can.

Breaking news: The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.

Embarrassing for NZ media that it took the @nytimes.com to visit rural Māori communities to show the hardship they are experiencing.

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees.

Peeps! I've decided to resurrect my blog, Infectious Thoughts using @ghost.org. The first task I set myself was to create a calculator for people to work out how many periods they've had/days spent bleeding! #PeriodFriendlyWorld infectious-thoughts.ghost.io/ever-wondere...

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

On Eid...a day they would have been preparing food and celebrations

"Luxon's Govt keeps saying there's 'no magic money tree' for basic public services and child poverty - but there is one for landlord tax cuts and new military spending?" - Chlöe Swarbrick @greens.org.nz 27 May #nzpol

#nzpol 🇳🇿 this story should have the government over the coals! It should be a big deal!

An Unexpected Honour. Recently I was presented with a letter & a silver coin by NZ Security Intelligence Service, a recognition traditionally given only to departing staff. I was surprised and honoured. Through IWCNZ advocacy , I spent years contributing to NZ 's national security space. 🧵1/3

Yikes!👀👇

What have you built in the last 12 months? What have they built in the same time? Was it just for you or for others? We're their efforts for themselves or others? Thoughts? Today's reflection...

#4) @rawiri.bsky.social has also written 5 posts to explain and to ask us all to step up and submit. "The Treaty argument. The evidence. The clinical logic. The ask to allies. How to act." Please read 🙏 rawirimckreejansen.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

For anyone struggling with people showing who they are and not standing beside you as they once said they would, remember there are more good people than bad in this world. The right people will understand and accept you. If your choices are not harming others, they are yours. Arohanui ❤️

Re-upping this, penned almost exactly a year ago. | Institutional collapse: How 10,000 public sector job cuts threaten New Zealand’s national, and human security sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i... #nzpol

We said there were more and we've been gaslit on it for years...this is why all such proceedings and evidence should be open to public . www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

OECD (which knows more than know National so therefore is woke) lampoons LNG Terminal idea. OECD also states to balance the tax system we should implement a Capital Gains Tax www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Remember there are things that work. Don't lose hope!

and here we go... keep calm and carry on, apparently "We are in the process of asking questions and seeking more information about this preliminary proposal. Accordingly, we are not close to a point where the New Zealand Government would be making any decisions about it."

@rodemmerson.bsky.social Each week at least one of your cartoons makes me laugh/cry. This one did both.... but the one I enjoyed most as the Little one, inviting them into his "office" 🤣 you even got how he stands a bit sheepishly to the side.

Folks, I've been nose deep into my studies for a good 10 days. Does anyone want to update me on top good news or bad (outside of Trump, Iran, gas prices...those I couldn't escape)?

OPINION: Journalists, family of Tom Phillips and academics and lawyers are restrained from discussing the case. But if you are the NZ Police, you can tell your version of events to 700 million people on Netflix.

Decent analysis of what Israel's up to in ignoring ceasefire obligations youtu.be/6ND3xOmG7ig?...

Lebanon has declared a national day of mourning after Israeli attacks killed at least 254 people in a single day.

To cap off his first 100 days in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani walked the full 6 miles home from New York City Hall last night — greeting New Yorkers along the way. 🍎

Eligible men will automatically be registered into the military draft pool by December as part of an effort to streamline the previous process of self-registration and save money.

🧵1/5 And here we are again, govt clearly has no learnings from findings that there were clear failures to provide community support by Corrections. It resulted in multiple people stabbed . Communities not trusted, resourced, or included beforehand. Govt and corrections... haven't learned.

NZ Foreign Minister meekly standing next to US secretary of state and US govt... He had nothing to say... even when reporters ask about war crimes. www.c-span.org/program/publ...

Contact your senators and rep immediately. He must be stopped. This is absolutely insane and unimaginably dangerous. We all know what he wants to use.

so many atrocities... another to consider... this one from the past that is finally being brought to light

Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's

You all know, right, those apartment buildings are people's homes? Deliberately destroying without cause is not collateral damage. Targeting of civilians, destroying homes, forcibly uprooting families. Carries penalties for those doing it: reparations (restitution, compensation), damage costs

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

Everyone, get your invoices prepared!!! 👇

This is sad, but everyone should see it. Trauma continues long after an event.

If you choose not to join a treaty banning cluster munitions and still use them, it’s difficult to claim the moral high ground when another non-signatory does the same. Neither should... but alas, here we are www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Bravo Russel Norman and Greenpeace. #FuckFonterra

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