He’s clearly unwell, and if he were a family member we’d be talking about, & insisting on an urgent (mental) health intervention. With respect to the Greens, this is far more than a distraction - and it’s telling the Speaker didn’t intervene at all. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361... #nzpol
Winston Peters launches tirade against Chinese-Kiwi Green MP
“This is called democracy, unlike what you're used to. So go back to where you come from, you loud mouth, and maybe you'll learn something,” Peters said.
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Anonymous artists placed a 10-foot-tall “Iran War Participation Trophy” in Manhattan. “While some concern themselves with military strategy ... President Trump demonstrated the courage to participate regardless of the final score,” a plaque reads.
‘Iran War Participation Trophy’ mocking Trump arrives in New York
The work, which was first displayed in D.C., is the latest installment by a group of anonymous artists that trolls the president. Passersby had mixed reactions.
washingtonpost.com
You couldn't make it up ... well unless you are generative so-called intelligence. For this they are trashing the planet and disrupting communities with data centres? www.ft.com/content/7e14...
PwC published reports on AI marred by AI hallucinations
Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology
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Relentlessly attacked by…. whom exactly?? and for whose profit motive, and to what end for the 🔥🔥⛽️💀Earth we borrow from our children, and their children? Another non-elected fossil fuel approved PM for #UKPol Do take note #Ausol #NZpol #Canpol
FFiona Harvey@fionaharvey.bsky.social · 2w ago
Miliband - they attack him because they know what he’s done has worked, and attack net zero as it’s against their vested interests. Physics and chemistry remain true whoever is in charge. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This is (relatively) good news. Brazilian President Lula’s pledge to protect the Amazon appears to have paid off. In 2025 the smallest amount was burned in 40 years. It’s still a tragedy that any of it is getting burned, but this is real progress.
Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline of area burned in 2025
The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.
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If I even whisper something about being Jewish, I have people screaming at me about Israel (a country I have never even visited). But a gov employee talking about Jesus Christ on the job as the Christian Nationalists who run the US bomb Iran in a religious war? That's just life in America.
Emily J@emexastris.bsky.social · 4mo agoCould have made the exact same speech minus the words “Jesus Christ” and it would have been a warm expression of humanity’s interconnectedness and how we should care for each other, but that wouldn’t have reminded the non-Christians that we are less than.
So pleased to see that the defamation claims against @sanjanah.bsky.social and @tvnz.bsky.social did not succeed. It’s still very concerning to see billionaires attempt to stifle public discourse through the courts. Who would want to put themselves through that? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Julian Batchelor ‘wholly unsuccessful’ in defamation claim against TVNZ
Julian Batchelor’s defamation claim against TVNZ has been thrown out.
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Simeon Brown and the rest of the CoC should learn from this but as they refuse to listen to experts, or use real evidence, I despair that we are in for more fatalities under this government #nzpol
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
This coalition of cruelty has made sure every policy creates more homeless people so they could lock them up. They got rid of thousands of jobs, underfunded public support systems, no tenants rights, sold public housing, all to benefit the wealthy. Next on the Project25 list is privatising jails.
Government announces homeless move-on orders - for all town centres, not just Auckland
Police can move on rough sleepers or people displaying disorderly behaviour as young as 14-years-old.
rnz.co.nz
Billionaires take so much more resources than the average human. This is why they’re trying to convince you that you need their products over clean air, water, and a liveable planet. We don’t require AI slop to live. #BanBillionaires they’re the biggest beneficiaries and a drain on society!
X2Y@x2y.tech · 6mo agoSAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
Peters is no longer relevant, we don’t need another old far-right populist so desperate to hold onto power he will sell out his own. We need more Māori representation, not someone who destroys our whenua and people for foreign powers!
Te Ao Māori News - 🤖 (unofficial)@teaonews.bsky.social · 6mo agoNZ First is campaigning for a referendum on the future of the Māori seats, seeking their abolition. Winston Peters argues the seats are no longer relevant
Paris prosecutors raid the offices of Elon Musk's X. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X
The Paris prosecutor's office said a search was underway at the French offices of Elon Musk's social media network X on Tuesday as part of an investigation opened in January 2025.
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A federal judge on Monday blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S., dealing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda another legal setback. n.pr/4rxZWrE
Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians
A federal judge on Monday blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S., dealing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda another legal setback.
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Judith Collins will head the law commission, meaning it’s no longer independent and run by a very untrustworthy National plant. John Key today was asked about her “departure from politics” on @rnzrss.bsky.social claiming she was cleared of everything in the #DirtyPolitics book, it‘s an outright lie.
No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive
A ‘War of Stories’: Humanitarianism in the Disinformation Age | @heatherleson.bsky.social from the @theifrc.bsky.social invited me to pen this article mid-2024. I sent it to her months ago, and finally got around to publishing it.
Peters exposes tactics as he and Slater gear up for another smear campaign, telling the audience to support it without evidence. This is why they destroyed public media, so please support independent media! Expect a lot more #dirtypolitics with NZME amplifying it! thisquality.com/the-fading-s...
The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 7mo agoBreaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
Please share the he’ll out of this and get in submissions asap. This is being rushed through before Xmas, likely because we are distracted and busy this time of year! www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/fa...
Fast-track amendments another blow to environment and local communities
A new Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill slams the door shut on communities, says Forest & Bird.
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Trump keeps admitting in public that he's directly running all DOJ operations—which would include deciding to keep the Epstein Files hidden to protect himself—and media keeps pretending not to hear him. Here, he states unambiguously that he *personally decides* on all DOJ payouts to alleged victims:
Trump says he ‘could be’ seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “could be” seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department as compensation for past investigations into him, though he professed to have little knowled...
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The looters are allowed in Aotearoa again, and of course there’s full transparency of who and what these buggers are up to. Just joking, apparently an Aussie company set up two months ago, no email, and how searching for a finite resource that (if there) is killing the planet “lasting value for NZ”?
Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 10mo agoScoop: The first application for an offshore oil and gas exploration permit since the repeal of the ban on offshore drilling in August has been lodged, by an Australian firm that was set up less than two months ago and that doesn't have a functioning email address. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/21/f...
Everyone should heed the words of Nobel Peace Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social “please choose courage over comfort, facts over fiction, hope over fear… please act now before it’s too late”
Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Maria Ressa@mariaressa.bsky.social · 11mo agoLiterally and figuratively an information armaggedon: information integrity is the mother of all battles. Win this, and we can win the rest. Lose this, and we lose everything. (discussed the choice between armaggedon and apocalypse with Jon Stewart Thursday)
Greens are “so woke rn”! Rather be woke than the alternative with NZF voters less likely to survive a pandemic. Winston Peters may have made a bold move to get into power, but how many of his angry grey base will make it to the next election?
David Hood@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 12mo agoI think it says a lot about NZ's Green Party being environment/ecosystem/science based rather than some of the cultural trends in other countries, that the Green Party had the fewest voters who had never had a covid vaccination 0.34%. 32.5% of NZ First voters say they never had a covid vaccination.
National has introduced a bill to allow pest species to destroy national parks, in the name of protecting "herds of special interest" for hunters legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill 151-1 (2025), Government Bill – New Zealand Legislation
The Bill ensures that there is no requirement to exterminate valued introduced species that have been designated as herds of special interest.
legislation.govt.nz
Unsurprisingly, ’Speak Up For Women New Zealand’ have said exactly nothing about this latest attack on women by the Government. Don’t worry, they’re both laser focused on the big issues - like where Caitlin Spice should wee and poo.
An anti-government militia group is making threats against weather equipment that it says is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned employees.
Anti-government group threatens crucial weather radars, NOAA warns
Veterans on Patrol, which spread conspiracy theories in the wake of Hurricane Helene, has encouraged followers to visit sites hosting weather equipment.
washingtonpost.com