Sometimes I think how it's a straight line (a single dot?) from "how come Americans didn't realise who the bad guys in Starship Troopers were" to the year 2025.

Noting, apropos of nothing, that there is exactly one MP who was in Parliament - and on the government benches in fact - when the Springbok tour went ahead. Fitting, given a speech he gave today.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

In 1976, African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympics because New Zealand stood with apartheid South Africa. Nearly 50 years on, that echo lingers and the stain remains far longer than we care to admit to ourselves.

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

4/ Congressman Dan Goldman promised to follow up on the incident, which he called another example of “secret police officers who are attacking our communities with excessive violence…and they just think that they can do it with impunity, because nobody is holding them accountable.”

3/ To be clear, these sorts of actions were outside the norm historically for ICE agents. Yet under Trump’s second term, immigration courts have shifted from being seen as relatively safe venues into places where immigrants face the risk of surveillance, arrest and sometimes even violence.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Feels like we've returned to the 1970s when NZ became something of a pariah through much of the world for its continuing ties with apartheid South Africa.

If you’re in Wellington / Poneke there is a protest against the genocide in Gaza and our government’s shameful complicity at 1 pm in Cuba Street, by the bucket fountain. #nzpol

Also, this claim: "Go look at other Western economies around the world and how fast they count their vote. We must be the slowest folk on the planet." Australia - voting day 3 May and final results 12 June (37 days) NZ - voting day 14 Oct and final results 9 November (26 days)

what if we kissed on the pretty freight machine

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

don't call it fascism it's just blood and soil authoritarian nationalism that glorifies violence with a toothbrush moustache

At the point where I refuse to believe a thing *isn't* satire until it is reskeeted by Mr Onion

Yes, this is why the “they’re not groyper” fixation also misses the target because it is only a technicality. This *is* postmodern fascism at its heart. 20th century fascism was a result of industrial capitalism meeting nationalism while this the result of consumerism meeting racialized nihilism.

I've seen this skit before.

what i want to know is how many people canceled reservations at disney properties

Weird how Charlie Kirk’s killer is not even a news story anymore

Post noods, but only high quality noods

I love this

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

Trump and Epstein statue appears on National Mall An anonymous group called The Secret Handshake has taken credit for the 12-foot statue. A work of protest art representing President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is seen on the National Mall, Sept. 23, 2025, in Washington.

good job chat we successfully bullied a major corporation to the point that the late night host they canned is making jokes about it in his return monologue american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

Another storm surge video, this time from restaurant Bistro La Baie in Tseung Kwan O at 6.08am Wednesday.

🌀✚10 The doors of the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel could not hold back the floods (Video via HK01)

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Going to give this a try.

Counterpoint: Politicians must wear hairnets to do interviews about food manufacturing.

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

Opinion | The woke left violated Disney’s right to free speech by forcing the company to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air

yeah, they have it roughly backwards. the ideal protester isnt an armed cadre who only uses signal, its a retired teacher and grandmother of three who makes the security services decide whether they’re comfortable batoning her to get by

posit::conf wrapped up just last week! There were some wonderful talks by R-Ladies. Here are a few: AI Coding Assistants: Hype, Help, or Hindrance? 💬 Rebecca Barter @rlbarter.bsky.social 🖇️ rlbarter.github.io/posit-conf-2... A refreshing take on what to consider before asking an LLM for code.

The homeopathic cure for autism already exists

New bridge in the red zone looks epic. While Wellingtonians squabble interminably over their awful retro bridge, Christchurch gets stuck in and builds for the future. Powerful.

“21% of americans trans” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person is not transgender. Genders Georg, who lives in new york & transitions over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Bluesky, just here to say I appreciate you when things are otherwise no laughing matter

News Analysis: For President Trump, a wide-ranging crackdown on mainstream media institutions and political opponents is not about hate speech, but about speech that he hates — namely, speech that is critical of him and his administration. nyti.ms/3VsCyO4

he was at the Atlantic beforehand thanks largely to their commitment to the Cosmic Balance, where for every good piece they must publish one bad one.

there's no grift easier than the conservative pundit, which is one of the big reasons they're all so absurdly thin-skinned.

Good for thought

I know you know this, but. It's to mock us. It's a dominance play. It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth. They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

One of the best GOP impersonations ever?

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

new edition of Andor: syril challenges cassian to debate him at the cafe, and gors take a break from being massacred to cheer them on. "wow", says cassian, "we really are the terrorists. im so owned. "

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

There's no need to put Shadi Hamid in anybody's feed just sayin' you can block and move on