#nzpol Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand, because our politicians sure as hell aren't.

We know that’s not true!

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

NEW: After ProPublica reported that the White House intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate, two senators say the behavior “raises grave questions regarding the independence and impartiality of federal law enforcement operations. By Avi Asher-Schapiro and @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍 An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

Sorry guys universe is splitting open starting today

We don't really know how bicycles work.

Mark Epstein echoed previously reported concerns that the Trump administration is tampering with the files ahead of their release.

1. lol 2. today's White House meeting with Mamdani is currently scheduled as "closed press," which means it might not be much of a showdown

The 2nd greatest act of self-harm in recent history, only surpassed by the election of Donald Trump.

Trump’s Department of Education excludes nursing as a professional degree. Let’s consider that we already have a shortage of nurses. This will restrict funding to nursing students. It’s like one stupid thing after another with this guy. 🔄 www.statesman.com/news/article...

New research shows how low-income communities of color bear the brunt of pollution past and present, and how that legacy of injustice is likely to reverberate for generations as seas rise. We have the story at @insideclimatenews.org A thread. 1/ insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...

Weingarten: Take a step back and think about the priorities. Where are children and young people in any of these priorities? The only time they talk about children and young people is when Linda McMahon gets on TV or writes an op-ed about her next steps in cutting the Department of Education…

He misses the good old days when him and his pal Epstein could do whatever they wanted in front of women. x.com/RonFilipkows...

Have you listened to this week’s #Uncanny episode, Case 4: Road Ghosts yet? In Case 4 we examine the potentially paranormal encounters people have whilst driving. If life is a highway you might not want to ride it all night long after this…listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts🎧

Neurological impact of Covid on children, Canada craps the measles bed, PPE prevents healthcare infections, and more johndupuis.substack.com/p/neurologic...

We were only given a black and white narrative on COVID. This wasn’t a real choice. It was never about lockdown or open up. It was always about not mitigating for airborne transmission bsky.app/profile/elho...

i hope all your kids are smarter than ai, and the people designing ai to be as addictive as cigarettes, and the politicians enabling generative cigarettes, and the sales rep selling generative cigarettes to their schools, and the middle managers who will insist they use generative cigarettes at work

yup. www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

WHOA. The FBI was/is spying on a Signal chat for a New York immigration court watch group, claiming they were “anarchist violent extremist actors.” Your reminder that the government is watching and don’t say anything in a big group chat you wouldn’t say on TV. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

DOD contractors “mistakenly” landed on a Mexican beach, declared it US property and planted “restricted area” DOD signs, triggering a tense confrontation with armed Mexican forces. Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs. Yet another example of total incompetence.

Comforting shade provided by pasture trees. #scape #landscape #cows #pasture #shade #trees #mountains #eastcoastkin

Following the 2nd report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, a bunch of people are moaning about lockdown, saying we should have been more like Sweden. Moaning about the report. You folks won - the world decided to ignore COVID. Why are you so miserable?

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people. This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

Shout out to Akbar who found this rare piece of fossil chimaera tooth plate on last weekends's fossil walk! Chimeras are shark-like fish, with teeth designed for crushing and grinding their shelly prey. #FossilFriday Did you know we sell fossil walk vouchers? charmouth.org/chcc/product...

It has taken them a few decades, but they definitely understood the assignment in Missouri. Billionaires are sending taxpayer money to private religious schools, and they have funded the politicians who helped them achieve the goal.

In the richest city on Earth, 40% of NYC families can’t afford weekly food costs, and food prices are up 33% over the past decade. It’s time for a city government that puts affordability at the top of the agenda.

I'm glad my kid has completed primary and secondary education otherwise we'd ask if homeschooling would be better. I am a qualified teacher and could cope with pre-2023 curriculum. Now? Education overhaul: what changed in 2025, + what's in store for 2026 #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station in the harshness of space Researchers hope findings can be applied to humans living in space www.cbc.ca/news/science...

it's afraid

I'm not going to repost screenshots from Grok for the same reasons I don't use any LLMs even when they're outputting silly/ amusing synthetic text. (This image is great for so many purposes. I first saw it posted by @redeyedjedi.bsky.social so I am hoping that's the right credit for its source!)

🍃🌹🌿 Excellent! ‘Expression of kotahitanga’: More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi #TeTiriti #schools #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/expressio...

Dad has been in hospital for a few weeks. No access to GB News. It has been very refreshing being able to have a normal conversation with him again, not one mention of immigrants or liberals.

Spineless speaker does it again

🔴 What Labour and the BBC have in common… Their mutual naivety towards the feral right-wing media is causing them to make huge strategic mistakes. 📝 New post 👇🏻

The consumer base for luxury goods is shrinking—but the ultrawealthy are still spending.

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hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay

JUST IN: A federal judge says one of the Venezuelan men — illegally deported to El Salvador in March before he was swapped back to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange — is now missing, possibly a victim of the violence he was seeking asylum from. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Reform UK's former Welsh leader and close Nigel Farage associate, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for repeatedly taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Crow: "What he's trying to do is use fear and intimidation and threats to silence opposition. And if he's successful in doing that, we are all lost. I'm not going to allow him to do it. I'm going to stand up and I'm going to lead, and I'm going to do what's necessary to uphold the Constitution."

They said “science fair-style” and we took it seriously. See you at the Chicago Waldorf School for the 40th Ward Dems candidate fair! ☺️

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Duck — Tlatilco workshop, ca. 1000 BCE

On Monday, a European #humanrights NGO filed a criminal complaint with the national counterterrorism prosecutor’s office in Paris accusing #TotalEnergies of complicity in #warcrimes, torture and enforced disappearances,all in northern #Mozambique www.politico.eu/article/patr... #oilandgas means #war