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Ah, my Listener column about the government's feckless attitude to climate change is now online. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

My little sister died.Processing this

Elon Musk goes on frantic posting spree after being named in latest Epstein files drop www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-je...

This is iconic.

Just a slight whiff of poo pond stench here in my stately slice of the city.Just enough to remind me of a childhood in Aranui 60 years ago when the stench was awful plus.Rags stuffed under doors stuff.

"You end up paying six times more for emergency repair than you would if you'd actually planned ahead and planned the upgrades or planned a city," says Emily Mabin Sutton, chief executive of the Climate Club, a group that organises climate action. "

So ACT's pro slavery now? A bold progression I guess.They'll have to defer to the Taliban who have been first to legislate it back in.

The workplace relations minister refusing to back a bill to address the issue of modern day slavery doesn't bode well for workplace relations

There it is. Always, always follow the money. When insurers say they can't cover you because of climate change impacts you can finally understand it is real and is causing harm today. Yes, this is a sub-tweet. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The death of manners is a soul sapping thing.

The Left's not going going to get another quality bogey figure like Judith Collins again.Noting she backed densification where the rest of them are too gutless to do it.

The main architect of our national misfortunes does a nice line of faux virtue.

It’s been 38 days since the Epstein files were supposed to be released but weren’t.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... There's been loud voices in the media saying it's too soon to talk about the impacts of climate change... 𝘀𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗦 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲? #ClimateChange #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Caricature #Luxon

NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO. Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol

Superb reportage that adds to what we know and amidst atrocity reminds us not all Americans are monsters.

i've been out in minneapolis all day, talking to locals and trying to wrap my head around the murder of alex pretti. it's 11.23pm, and this is what i've arrived at. please RT, it's free to read: www.webworm.co/alexpretti/

GEORGIA… 🔥

TODAY IN MINNESOTA: Hundreds of thousands marched through Minneapolis in -10°F, shutting down the city to demand ICE the fuck out of the Twin Cities. People risked frostbite just to make their point. The entire country should be ashamed if they don’t follow.

they are very small and they're having an urgent meeting about it

Our own Green Party is a partner in the Global Greens with the Green Party of England. And this brilliant ad is just as applicable here as there

I burnt off my political and PR capital years ago trying to get political influencers to see the huge danger posed by climate change.Now it's here and magnifying weather into disasters there is no satisfaction in having been right. Sadly, tragically ,the worst is yet to come.

Leading with the chins there Mr Vance.

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

Trump fuels cognitive health concerns with baffling 'peace' gaffe: 'His brain is fried' www.rawstory.com/trump-peace-...

We're down a billion in revenue, but, don't worry, agencies are spending $2.3bn less than expected on people and services, so... we're winning $1.1bn! Govt will work out one day where the money to pay taxes comes from. Govt spends money into the economy, and *then* taxes it back out again ffs.

Vileness aside Trump's running a global masterclass on what can be done when a leader obviously has dementia.Happily the Emperor does have clothes but intact neurological wiring? I don't think so.

'I'm not done': Navy admiral booted by Hegseth now seeks to flip red Congressional seat www.rawstory.com/nancy-lacore/

A Trillion plus loss on the US markets might remind Trump that debtor nations need to play nicely or the debt gets called in.

If you'll recall, Matua Justin tore a few strips off the PM at Akaroa last year. That they're going up North is a very, very precise move.

National are so out of touch they don't seem to know it's Labour's traditional role to create cumbersome and dumb campaign slogans.

So 2 Eyes? 3 Eyes? Doormat Eyes?

CBS News to air 'torched' prison report after getting snubbed by Trump admin: report www.rawstory.com/trump-cbs-26...

The Greenland takeover threats need to be seen for what they are - a diversion organised by a Russian asset - Trump. It's meant to take the world's eyes off Ukraine and the remaining 99% of the Epstein files.Makes you wonder what Vlad's got on Donald.

Now our Government's a craven doormat for tyranny in the USA it might be a good time to remind people once we felt proud to be New Zealanders.

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

Great site to follow @ffrf.org & they will appreciate it...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Judge slaps down ICE operations a day after Trump lavished her with compliments www.rawstory.com/trump-judge-...

'Wolf in sheep's clothing': Brutal focus group shows Trump faces mass defection www.rawstory.com/latinos-trump/

'Make 'em famous!' MAGA border czar wants 'database' of ICE protesters to ruin their lives www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-26...

Trump's Bullying Nobel made me pine for when Fantasy Island was a TV show and not the US Government.

GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he’s going to prison for child porn. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/gop-...

No knee op for me thanks to an MRI that showed a combo of mild arthritis and wear and tear from someone once told they were maniacal in their movements.Which the specialist said was pretty much the case. Relieved.

Shocking shift as plurality of voters now want ICE abolished www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-26...

Just a reminder that the NZ Govt 100% fucked around with its Reserve Bank in the last couple of years because the Finance Minister cut its funding and prompted an internal crisis, leading to the Governor resigning early.