Reminder: National has always taken the side of Apartheid regimes.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Too funny

Winston just needs one more dead baby & then it’s all go…right? #WhoAreWe #nzpol #NoConfidence #OneTermGovernment

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

Our full media statement here: www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO25...

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

If you had mocked up this Truth Social post in late 2024 as "the future under a Trump 2.0 administration" it would have been ridiculed by media and fact checkers. "There is no position called 'Secretary of War'" they would have said and, "the military can't be deployed for domestic law enforcement"

Mornin, @thehill.com

Yeo #nzpol

No wonder the tippy top of the GOP wants to keep this a secret. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. 'Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile' is in select theaters October 2. To find a theater near you, visit: theonion.com/badpedophile

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

There are good reasons not to do this. There are however bad reasons to do this, which brings us to Hegseth. He says the greatest danger to the US is not China or Russia but internal factors. He could be right, if what he has in mind is himself. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A couple good overviews in the past week too: * tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-... * davidcel.is/articles/rai... i don’t normally self plug but i went through the pain of poring over this dreadful man’s blog so others wouldn’t have to

CARTOON OF THE DAY (Updated Version)

I just learned about mapspast.org.nz So cool. Go wherever and then use the layers control to explore what old maps are available there.

BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.

The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.

I wish every country had a leader like Jacinda Ardern. Including New Zealand. Maybe ESPECIALLY New Zealand. The world would be a better place. Watch the interview if you haven’t. #Leadership @jacindaardern.bsky.social

Shame

I love this

On this we agree wholeheartedly.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The simple explanation is that many Christian traditions lean into Jesus as superhero and don't particularly care about Jesus as ethical teacher or model, even denigrating those emphases as misleading.

man i miss a leader youtu.be/xJg1McSvgo8?...

Everyone who has taken Tylenol is either dead, or will die in future.

Highest meth use in years, doubled in a year. Now the highest gun related homicide in 20 years and calls for strong gun laws Psst the Minister in charge of firearms is ACT Party gun lobbyist Nicole McKee #nzpol #kiwi

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Trump’s inability to pronounce “acetaminophen” raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

Trump Announcement: Baby eye colour is controlled by what flavours of Ice Cream are eaten during pregnancy.

You know the govt are destroying the Health system on purpose right? It's an Atlas/Project 2025 thing. Completely fuck public services and then privatise them. The "charter" schools are just Seymour getting the private system started ready for fail-over. #nzpol

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but read it out loud to yourself, just incase you missed the warning the first time. #EndFascism #HumanityFirst #nzpol #Geopolitics #politics #ProtectDemocracy

no charlie kirk joke i make will be as funny or insensitive as this

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

It’s Dutch* and it’s funny. *So don’t you dare yell at me “this”time.

There goes the First Amendment.

The BCR was 0.2

Trump’s gonna cancel The Onion next.

Ardern resigned when her preferred PM poll numbers dropped to 30%, saying she clearly wasn't what NZ wanted anymore. Luxon is on 20% and still adamant he's doing a fucking brilliant job. Never send a white dude CEO to do a competent woman's job.

The FCC once enforced the "fairness doctrine," requiring broadcasters to air both sides of an issue. Now, the FCC enforces an unfairness doctrine, threatening broadcasters that air views critical of Trump or his MAGA right.

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat Steadily worsening climate crisis, increasingly deadly pandemics, and an unprecedented weaponization of antiscience that renders us helpless in our collective efforts to address any of the great challenges we face. time.com/7317436/scie...

A reminder that the only reason Republicans are shitcanning basic checks and balances and rules of order is because they cannot imagine a circumstance in which they will ever be out of power again. www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/p...

SANCTION ISRAEL NOW: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/nz...