Olympic highlight in this house.

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

tl;dr: CBP fired a new weapon into domestic airspace that the FAA had previously warned posed grave risk to human life. It did so without warning to FAA and without restricting airspace. FAA restricted airspace in response. White House overruled them. The target turned out to be a party balloon.

For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs. Peter Thiel.

Who needs 3 waters... #Nzpol

Chch folks 👇 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

After having no further updates since January 23 (over 2 weeks ago!), ManageMyHealth have posted an update The release states that they have "recommenced notifying a further group of patients this week". managemyhealth.co.nz/mmh-cyber-br...

Plz watch, like and follow this new NZ ytube channel by Dr David Small, as he cuts through Western‑centric narratives, corporate media filters, + algorithmic bias to offer clear, contextual analysis of global events + explores the forces radically reshaping our world. www.youtube.com/@SmallWorldG...

Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.

Someone should put together a compilation of the 'Melania' reviews and release it as a doco. I'd pay to hear them again (My fave is ... if they played it on a plane, people would still walk out)

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

I'm absolutely gobsmacked watching America. So much crime and corruption and yet leaders remain in place. In any other western democracy (or previous presidencies) they would have resigned i shame long before now

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

This guy (Pinker) is the speaker for a Free Speech Union event tomorrow in Takapuna. h/t @kyledchurch.bsky.social

I wouldn't usually recommend something made with AI but I'll make an exception for this. You'll be smiling at the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=66EX...

This is the power of people over billionaires and large corporations. The Pattison group were scared about how this would affect their sales across their consumer-based companies. Boycotts/threats of boycotts work. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in their home by a man pretending to be law enforcement. Now independent journalist Georgia Fort has masked men at her door. This isn’t law enforcement. It’s tyranny. They’re going after the press. They want them silenced.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Of course this is who he wants….

And then they came for the journalists...... www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.

All i can say is that a an archaeologist (a) i wish my specialist knowledge a was LESS relevant to the present moment and (b) nothing breaks the spell of capitalist violence faster than taking just how long we existed without it and that there have always been alternatives

ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin

“I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

The Heritage Foundation was a founding think tank of Atlas Network (and more centrally of the Christian extremist Council for National Policy, also est 1981). It says it’s out now. Re-hemisphering was in Heritage’s Project 2025. Heritage also wants massed nukes. www.snopes.com/fact-check/v...

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Bovino is just the patsy - a noxious and odious fall guy. Stephen Miller is the architect and prime mover of the whole thing. Everything they do is at his direction - often after his threats. As long as he runs policy in the WH, nothing will change no matter how many Bovinos come and go.

filmed 10.20am saturday. i'm talking to a lifelong resident of minneapolis who lives a few block from where alex pretti was executed. as we were talking, he showed me a video of the execution, as more police march in. sound up (all my reporting it found at webworm: www.webworm.co)

This 👇is what leadership looks like. Please listen if you want to have a little hope for the people of the US www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYc_...

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Its a big read but a very important one

Trump's Greenland circus is burying the real story: climate change created a NEW OCEAN in the Arctic. That's why it's suddenly "strategically important." We're fighting over access that shouldn't exist while the planet melts. Humans are something else. Watch the full video: youtu.be/6ZbmkG8n8QU

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

Want to help struggling residents of Minnesota? Buy this knitting pattern (up to you if you use it) All proceeds from the sale of this pattern go to the immigrant aid agencies who will distribute the funds to those impacted by the actions of ICE. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

No! The footage shows him filming on his phone. Lies do not make this anything but another extrajudicial killing

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Alex Pretti, who is identified as the man fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, was an intensive care nurse dedicated to treating veterans. Read more about him here: https://wapo.st/3M62eyV

What lying fucks they all are.

Tauranga People. Takitimu Drive about to close between 11th ave and 15th ave. Potential slip about to occur. Take care if in that area Contractors already on scene.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

Trump's Jan 20, 2026, 6:58 PM "Truth Social" Post, Beyond just Sudetenland. #auspol #ukpol #cdnpol #nzpol #EUpol #politics

Paywall off this one. Govt believes the economy will recover fast enough & widely enough to win again. It assumes households & businesses will step forward to fill the gap left by a retreating Govt, just as happened in previous fiscal consolidations. 1/n #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Three of the Ogala Lakota men who were taken by ICE are being held at a former concentration camp. ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans. They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first. They’ve been kidnapped.

Louder for the folks in the back: thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-01-2...