Is it really too much for the national news to spend even a few seconds on the harm that bombs do (to people, not petrol prices) @rnzrss.bsky.social ? The voice of the ignorant tyrant is already loud enough.
Kristi Noem Is Leaving a Trail of Death Behind Her in ICE Jails
I've covered deaths in immigration prisons for years, but I've never seen so many people die of what appears to be preventable conditions in such a brief period of time.
This will come back to haunt them. It must.
Nice. I have an emergency Lego Santa in my purse. Super handy.
I'll tell you what, there is a Henry David Thoreau quote for almost everything about the domestic economy. In this case, right there in the first chapter of Walden: "While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them."
I’d blame our latitude. We bought our first corn of the season at the farmers market last week and it was perfect. But so late into summer! It’s just not that much of a thing down here, is it?
They killed him.
It takes a lot to infuriate me and break my heart only because you have to be able to tolerate a lot when covering Trump and fascism and try your best to stay centered and hopeful.
This story I can't let go.
They chose to let him just die.
www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
Everything but the actual issues.
My kitchen window is a 🕷️ refuge, but it’s pretty full on exoskeleton mayhem. One boss lady at a time.
Why, exactly, is the arrest of a former prince at the top of the news this morning instead of this? Instead of further harms to survivors right here at home?
Remind you of anybody #nzpol?
I felt the same way. Wonder how common it is. They’d already had some trims and I was coping okay, but the first time we came to AoNZ they got “boy cut” haircuts and nearly 2 decades later I still feel the shock of it.
Enjoy 'The Butcher of Whack-a-White', winner of the Monica Taylor Poetry Prize 2025, by Jilly O’Brien 💙💚
The insightful judge’s report by Janet Newman is also available online: www.takahe.org.nz/the-butcher-...
Please read the whole quote from the letters of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.
On RNZ, commenting on the latest flooding disaster, “It’s just weather … The weather changes” says the Minister for Emergency Management and Recovery, contradicting his own government’s climate report. #nzpol
environment.govt.nz/publications...
Oh RNZ. How can the co-anchor of our national morning news be “unsure” if taxpayers pay more for roads that can endure the heavy trucks fleet (subsidise the trucking industry)?
From the Land of Sky Blue Waters [(echo) Waters]
Comes the water best for brewing,
Hamm's, the beer refreshing,
Hamm's, the beer refreshing,
Hamm's!
In a classic example of commercial art, an anthropomorphic bear in a small fishing boat wrestles a tangled fishing line while trout look on. The colours are bold and straightforward - black & white bear, green siloutted pines on the banks, blue pond, red boat, dull green fish. The bear looks frustrated by the tangle. The poster advertises Hamms Beer. The slogan at the bottom of the poster says "From the Land of Sky Blue Waters." You can almost hear the jingle.
Hamms (1865 to 1997) with its home in Minnesota, grew to become a US brewing empire. The US lager revolution of the late 19th century was an immigrant success story. And a classic jingle.
Not to mention it's thirst for water... #ai #artificialintelligence #programmers #datacentres #datacenters #copyright #theft The Phoenix Magazine #cartoon
Further to this.
An importing facility ISN’T actually an energy security asset. For one thing, fossil fuels can only be used ONCE. The facility doesn’t do anything without the fossil fuel being shipped to it. It’s the fossil fuel that’s the temp energy asset.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social
If you'd like to purchase the digital version now, I have it up on my shop:
blackmudpuppy.myshopify.com/products/the...
Looks up at two trees, brilliant blue sky, sun streaming through green leaves of tall trees, we see the front doors of two fairie houses. To the left, a two-story house front extends from the rough bark. A bridge made of twine and planks connects to a doorway in the tree to the tree in the right.
Noticed on a walk today. Busy, busy riparian zone.
There are more of us than there are of them. Our sincere love for each other and our simple wish to live is stronger than their hate.
Here is a link hopefully it works www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
I like this one (for buns too). Great texture and keeps well:
www.chainbaker.com/yudane-loaf/
From the start, Polish resistance who were prisoners inside Auschwitz documented & reported to the outside. We should know more about those heroes, like Witold Pileki. They saw where it was leading, pleaded with their government in exile, & nothing happened.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
People are missing a big thing about the saga of the detained 5-year-old. When Vance calls the father an "illegal alien" it seems to reflect a little-known Trump admin move that attempts to nullify asylum claims before they are even heard.
This policy is a horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2056...
What pisses me off most is the ignorance in it. Unless they mean the limited mitigation value of the emissions trading scheme, what we actually had out of Paris (before this gov’t) was useful greenwashing for them (and a reporting & planning system that did them no harm, etc.).
