An absolute thrill to publish this.

The current MP for Ilam sure does things differently from the last. (Me, it’s me!) FYI despite *everything* (and while taking staff safety extremely seriously) we didn’t trespass a single person from our office, let alone the entire Mall. #nzpol

On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has: -Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks -Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise -Made the largest cut to SNAP in history -Canceled the annual food security survey Shameful.

Ahead of #COP30 a new article from me, unpacking whether New Zealand's 2035 Paris Agreement target (a 51-55% reduction) meets Paris Agreement criteria. TLDR lol no. (outside the paywall, thanks Carbon News!)

"I’m pleased Keir Starmer is going to COP — but Rosebank’s emissions are equivalent to 28 of the lowest-income countries combined, and this government still won’t rule it out.” Zack Polanski calls for real leadership from the government ahead of #COP30.

Timely reading for those attending #COP30. If you’re in Belem, please ask the New Zealand delegation difficult questions about this.

As a millionaire who never leaves his luxury car or office endorses the forced removal of homeless people from Auckland's CBD, a reminder that crime there is down 35%. (Ironically Hosking's column is about how "we don’t deal with emotive stories well, because of fear")

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Oh, this is good.

Most of these changes will be legislated in 2026, so it's not a done deal yet!

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

It should be requirement that any MP's office paid for by Parliamentary Services be accessible from a public place - the effect of this privately issued trespass notice is that all who have received them cannot now visit the MP's office at all (for protest or other reasons) for a 2 year period.

The Zero Carbon Act was a significant step forward in Aotearoa's obligations to respond to the threat of climate change. The non-parliamentary drivers of the Act, Generation Zero, particularly focused on how to make the legislation survive elections and changes of government. It's very moderate.

As civil rights groups warned 7 years ago.

"So people are being picked up at… three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning for the purposes of being re-detained. Some of them only with a week's notice of removal to Nauru." Australia’s ‘Dawn Raids’ are just as scandalous as New Zealand’s were.

“I want to leave this House knowing I’ve been a good ancestor,”

the only part of the system to actually work as intended and convict Trump was his jury, which the judge then proceeded to nullify on political grounds

A few things: a) Make an OIA request for all information held by the police about (i) the incident and (ii) about the decision to trespass people. b) Will the FSU speak up about this? c) Ask questions to the Minister of Justice @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social about the Bill to restrict protests.

Several protesters were trespassed from Fendalton Mall for attempting to hold the government to account for their non-actions #NZPol www.psna.nz/press-releas...

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

This is a great piece of journalism - dogged, determined and doing a great service to the local community

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Hey, would you look at that, how weird news.sky.com/story/rachel...

The BBC’s continued use of X is indefensible

The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.

Israel is trying to divide Gaza in half along their “yellow line” mondoweiss.net/2025/11/ther...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

More red flags #NZpol "Christina Hood, an independent climate policy expert who has advised governments of all stripes on climate and formerly headed the International Energy Agency’s climate unit, said the changes to consultation requirements were unacceptable." newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/g...

Journalists should be calling the ‘Medicard’ an ID card since that’s clearly what it will become if introduced.

@albomp.bsky.social’s transparency crushing #FOI Amendment Bill just passed the House of Representatives. How did your MP vote? Labor MPs: For SECRECY Coalition MPs: For TRANSPARENCY Greens MP: For TRANSPARENCY Teal and independent MPs: For TRANSPARENCY #auspol

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Oh no pathetic old Europeans will never be able to match these rampant capitalist stallions in the Valley.

University pension scheme under fire for Israeli investments

Among the many ignominious things ACT will be despised for is its part in attacking what was already a weak response to the climate crisis.

what kind of people wake up, the morning after a historic election won by a very large margin by the city's first Muslim American mayor, a committed progressive & human rights advocate, and decide *this* is the politician they are going to attack? ok, i know the answer. still.

the united states government acknowledges but does not endorse new york city’s claim on staten island, a strategic ambiguity political scientists refer to as the One New York Policy

Mainstream media pundits have some kind of condition where whenever Mamdani speaks, they hear the adult “wha wha whaaaa” from the Peanuts. I have no other rational explanation for how much truly invented rhetoric they attribute to him.

🇮🇱We obtained leaked high-level Israeli government documents. They reveal how the Israeli government waged a ten-year lobbying campaign in Britain to protect its officials from war crimes arrests. www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobbi...

It's not organ theft, it's murder to steal their organs. Because you can't take usable organs from dead bodies, they HAVE to be alive when the organs are taken.

One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Appeals to the Commissioner can vary hugely throughout just one year – take a look at our video to give you a quick sneak peek to just how diverse our topics can be! For more info on what else we have got up to this year, visit: www.foi.scot/2024-25-annual-report

The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together. archive.is/8VqQJ [this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]

“You’ve been repeating several times that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe that Israel should pay for the reconstruction of Gaza since they have destroyed almost all its civilian infrastructure?”

Organised people can defeat organised money. #Mamdani

Good quote in this about the conflict of interest being institutionalised - which is the big problem for the appointed model of the Lords. The selling point is experts chipping in on their areas of specialty - where they are likely to have exactly these kinds of conflicts of interest.

PSA: I’m in the OG nanny state now, so won’t be able to see any DMs people might send me for the next couple of weeks.

I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to! My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇