The world is rightly outraged by the illegality of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela. But an invasion motivated by converting the world’s largest oil reserves into CO₂ emissions is not just a crime against international law - it’s an unconscionable and sadistic assault against our entire planet.

Donald Trump won’t stop with Venezuela. Cuba, Greenland, Colombia and Mexico are already in his crosshairs. This is U.S. imperialism, plain and simple — and it must be resisted in all its forms.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

So their plan seems to have been to drop bombs, snatch Maduro, and bully the remnants of his government to give the U.S. what Trump says we want. So like everything else they do, this is both unconscionably immoral and catastrophically stupid. This really is the administration of vicious idiocy.

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Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

Trump's attempt to transform South America into puppet regimes that serve his corrupt/US interests will turbocharge anti-US sentiment across the continent. The political winners will be the South American populist left (ironically who Trump is trying to weaken) who've long opposed 'US imperialism'.

Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Text - Marama Davidson MP Greens call on Luxon to show leadership! The Prime Minister Christopher Luxon needs to show leadership and moral courage and condemn the US attacking Venezuela. This is a unilateral attack that goes against any enduring pathway to international peace through justice.

Minor point, but will any AoNZ journalists being asking questions of Luxon and Collins about whether Rocket Lab's increasing entanglement with the US regime means that rocket launches of satellite technology from Mahia are supporting the USA's illegal incursions into sovereign nations? #nzpol

What a great day for Vladimir Putin! I can picture him in the Kremlin, watching the EU & the UK play dumb while Trump trashes Int. Law, their media reporting Maduro's abduction as an 'arrest'. I bet he's thinking: Should I also detain Zelensky and subject him to Russian justice?

The law is what Trump says it is, international or domestic SCOTUS made it possible and there is no opposition in congress The United States is a dictatorship

Strongmen may have killed international law, but they were aides and abetted by cowards.

“Gone are the days when companies like Instacart and DoorDash can bully their way into record profits on the backs of workers and consumers," said Sam Levine, the incoming head of the Dept. of Consumer and Worker Protection under Mayor Mamdani.

Happy new year. At the celebrations at Auckland viaduct last night and got a real taste of the inequality hopefully we can start to move away from in 2026 (1/2)

Happy New Year, lets make 2026 the last year with billionaires. Tax wealth, end fascism.

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

All of this 👇

Tis the season for hate and division tra la la la www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

We are truly in cloud cuckoo territory now

#nzpol I'm really uncomfortable about this news. I think it's time for our media and opppsition politicians to be asking very blunt questions (that don't go away) about AoNZ based companies and AoNZ govt involvement in the wars and genocide machinery being used by others abroad. 🤬

This is bonkers, neoliberalism destroying our healthcare system on purpose. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

"The Denver Gazette pointed out that one of those messages was stationed near the Colorado Capitol, and that both altered signs appeared the same night as a live recording of 'The War on Cars' podcast."

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

To the tomb, the writer comes and goes, Dreaming of lively, lovely prose . . . No better gift this or any time of year than @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's inspired work. Highest and warmest recommendation!

Drag him.

@nznationalparty.bsky.social @actpartynz.bsky.social @nzfirst.bsky.social NO to asset sales NO to privatisation NO to PPPs NO to road tolls NO to RSA NO to Fast Track NO to Charter Schools & new curriculum NO to AUKUS YES to Te Tiriti, pay equity, full funding of public health education & services

Nearly two thirds of 13 to 17-year-olds in the UK have a Snapchat profile according to Ofcom We’ve gone through documents showing that some users have deeply unhealthy relationships with the platform – specifically concerning issues of addiction, anxiety and body image

so it begins

I’m fascinated by the Wuffy robot dog I’ve seen advertised on YouTube as a “realistic AI robot puppy”

I wrote a thing on AI and left strategy acmesmokescreen.substack.com/p/the-algori...

What the hell is going on with the new New Zealand school curriculum, and what does it have to do with the Atlas Network? (No, really!) A thread: #nzpol #kikorangi

Let us be real. The "problem" in local government that National/ACT/NZ First want to fix, is there are too many 'green' politicians in regional councils who care about the environment and are taking (moderate) actions to reduce the damage caused by big polluters. In particular, dairy, our sacred cow

✍️ Why Digital Sovereignty Matters In the wake of recent cloud blackouts, IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @paologerbaudo.bsky.social highlight the importance of #DigitalSovereignty and dangers of technological subordination. 🔗 Read their @tribunemagazine article here: buff.ly/euZgJ8z

Why our car consumer culture is the problem, not the internal combustion engine “The tyres contributing most to the problem were found on both EVs and utes”.

From Daniel Vernon... On hiw the Nats screwed Kiwisaver (more than once)... and now expect us to pay more,as the cost of living skyrockets... open.substack.com/pub/yeehawth...

what % of Deloitte’s work could be handled by one person using search and replace to update their standard presentation with the name of their current client www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Govt plans to: 1. Fuck this 2. Fuck that 3. Fuck you 4. Fuck them 5. Fuck local govt 6. Fuck some things 7. Fuck some more things 8. Fuck what's left 9. Fuck Wellington 10. Fuck the rest 11. Sell fucking everything Repeat twice

Says something about the way New Zealand politics has worked during my lifetime that there are *two* ready comparisons to this government's reckless hatchet job on the basic institutions of our society: the first terms of both the Lange and Bolger governments.

The first post from our new ACMe (Association for Communication and Media Studies) substack. My friend and former supervisor Sean Phelan on Winston Peters' invocation of the culture wars and NZ government's inaction on Palestine: acmesmokescreen.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

You might have seen National propaganda on how much kiwis are saving on mortgage payments. So, quick reality check, and a little explainer... The actual average interest rate on *all* NZ mortgages moves slowly - in large part because most of us plucky mortgagors are on fixed rate deals [🧵1/n]

Fantastic win for Uber drivers and Workers First Union. This has been a long time coming (way too long - in the courts since 2022), but common sense has prevailed. Let's hope Van Velden doesn't pull the rug out underneath them with new contractor legislation... www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/17/s....

📢 Anita Hart was last seen on CCTV along Gillespies Road heading towards Akatarawa Road, and her vehicle was found on Gillespies Road.

KICK PETER THIEL AND HIS DODGY MATES OUT OF NEW ZEALAND #nzpol

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

appropos of going outside daily, I have to note that drivers have just absolutely and completely lost their minds. I'm amazed that it has, somehow, gotten continually worse why do drivers do this to themselves. just in full psychopathic rage all the time, everywhere

we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”