My crim professor had to end class early the day we went over sexual assault bc the men in a large lecture hall which was mostly men kept asking the most horrific questions indicating they were just realizing they’d committed sexual assault under the law and deciding the problem was the law not them

Just thinking about the time I was at a CLE held by a group of women lawyers, and one of the lawyer speakers (a cis man) said that men can't mentor women anymore because "we're all afraid you'll cry rape." Then, when one of the women said she'd been assaulted by her boss and broke down crying,

Who is the 'Tax Payer Union' and what are they up to? Hint, they're not a union. They seem to be waging war on Māori. So who are they, who does their dirty work, and how do they roll? A revealing investigation sheds some light👇 teatatinotoa.substack.com/p/is-tpu-wag... #nzpol #atlasnetwork

NZ science funding I may add some thoughts about this another day, as this article has strong parallels with my views on the subject. I’d really like to see NZ governments do better with science. 1/2

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For several years DC comics management just flat out never assigned any women to work in the editorial offices for the Superman titles. Women were denied opportunities to work on THE original superhero because one of the managing editors was a known sex pest.

‘Death star’ chandeliers and disco dancefloors: making this year’s most dazzling theatre shows

Given the summons NZ’s Foreign Minister received last week to urgently discuss “cooperation on critical minerals supply chains” there is a definite game to play called “what resources will we ̶b̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶ agree to supply to the US”?

"My cloaca!"

"It cost money to be poor. ... According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 58[%] of families [living in poverty] could not afford 'the costs associated with a conviction.'"

spoiler: it’s an ableist word invented by a eugenicist and was used to deport or institutionalize people. www.npr.org/sections/cod...

BOOM! South Australia's power prices have plummeted as they near 100% renewables, proving to the world that relying on wind and solar with battery back-up is possible, more reliable and costs people less. THIS is how we avoid the next oil crisis. #EnergyRevolution

German far right pledges migrant deportations and Russian school exchanges - #AfD candidate #UlrichSiegmund said that they would “make history” at a time when many people “no longer feel safe in our home country . . . we barely feel at home anymore”. www.ft.com/content/93d8... via @FT #VladimirPutin

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed. Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children. www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Hungary stands at a breaking point: after 16 years of Viktor Orban’s rule, a surging Tizsa party is challenging his grip on power. The transnational far-right syndicate has to go. On Sunday April 12th, Please Vote for the Tisza Party and Péter Magyar! #RestoreDemocracy www.bbc.com/news/article...

The woman conducting this panel (right) was my advisee a dozen years ago, when she was a refugee fresh from Iraq who always wore hijab and would not shake hands with a man. Now she's an accomplished documentarian who has taught both here and in Iraq, and when she recognized me today, she hugged me.

While reading the news from Budapest, take a moment to look at this photo of Hungarian-American Bela Lugosi at an antifascist rally in Los Angeles during the war.

Nearly six years reporting on working homeless families taught me one thing: the precarity isn't incidental to the profits. It's how you get them. Kimberly-Clark could pay a living wage and still clear almost $2 billion a year. They can afford to pay workers enough to live. They just choose not to.

So great to see renewables plus batteries are collapsing power prices where they are rolled out at scale. The NZ Govt may be trying to reinvent the 1950s, with its love of expensive climate killing fossil fuels, but elsewhere history is moving on. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

An investigative journalist was in disbelief Friday as President Donald Trump's Medicare chief was caught using wildly inflated numbers to attack a Democratic state — then his own agency admitted the figures were bogus.

Every little signature helps halt this madness! Let them know it's madness by signing! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/trigger-...

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📌GET THIS: Hungary’s elections are tomorrow, and things are so bad for the nation’s dictator and Trump’s buddy, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, we have learned there was a plan to stage an assassination attempt to get Hungarians to rally around him. Sound familiar?

Australia’s ampurta is making a big comeback. The tiny desert marsupial was once thought close to extinction. But between 2015 and 2021 it expanded its range by 48,000 km² to 238,441 km², thanks in part to its resilience in extreme conditions. buff.ly/Kx58Mjq #ShareGoodNewsToo

The new highly mutated covid variant BA.3.2 and the impact on children.

"No one should be taking medical advice from some dude who looks like an overly frizzy John Oates."

The National Party: you’re on your own. Māoridom: our Marae are open. This year, vote for Te Tiriti #nzpol

A useful piece, reminding us how NZ’s government has consistently failed to respect the judgments of the courts, and opted to legislate away the decisions they don’t like. thejackalman.blogspot.com/2026/04/luxo...

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

ME: [first day as a detective] Was the robber armed? VICTIM: No ME: *writing ‘probably a snake’ in my notepad* Thank you.

The party that claims to be bravely defending “Western Civilization” from its supposed imminent destruction by barbarian hordes, has empowered a guy who eats roadkill to shut down research on one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in decades.

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

Among children (0-17) in New York (state), BA.3.2.* was 11% (n=27), vs 1.4% among adults (n=14), so a ~8X higher rate among children. 🧵

Here's the latest variant picture for the United States, to late March. The XFG.* "Stratus" variant remained dominant, but fell to 62%. BA.3.2.* "Cicada" has debuted in the top 7 lineages, growing strongly to 12%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #USA 🧵

Alan Moore, SNAKES & LADDERS

This is an absolutely must read. 5-star Paul Krugman and @thelisagraves.bsky.social @alexaronson.bsky.social Top to bottom, every word. You’ll know more than years of reading NYT or Wapo. And get her book - Without Precedent on Roberts’ corrupt court. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Kia ora. Thinking of everyone who’s feeling a bit anxious, especially those affected by extreme weather here and across the country in recent weeks, months and years. It does feel relentless. Wind is picking up. For the next 24 hours we can still expect very strong winds,

Excellent statement from Zack “I personally support Welsh independence…we maintain informal ties, as we do with the Scottish Green Party, we all support each other as one family But we support subsidiarity - power should be at the most local possible level. & that has to include a country,”

NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Argument by word cloud.

Calls for transparency on medicine shortages caused by Iran war

It’s not the native giant tussock toetoe, another sawgrass. Where pampas grass is natures meatsaw, toetoe is like a carbon fibre eldlric vibroblade. blog.doc.govt.nz/2022/05/10/p...

Conservatives will enshitify your society, enshitify your environment, enshitify your work, enshitify your future, enshitify your hope, enshitfiy every aspect of your life and still demand you have children.

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It is such an indictment of this government in particular but also prior governments that we treat human beings like this in New Zealand. This is absolutely despicable and an unacceptable status quo. The biggest thing on this person’s wish list is to be able to buy cheese. NZ is deeply broken.

Wow. These folks know the score.

Public Education forever

i’m not being mean or anything like congrats to everyone but i met one of these women and how poor and ruined her life was after she freshly fled in her car. her nerves were shot. she’s one of the people that made this possible, and she’s forgotten and unheard from