Stephanie Tulloch

Demand the Prime Minister strip the tobacco and vaping portfolio from NZ First As a coalition of health organisations and advocacy groups, we are calling on the Prime Minister Luxon: strip the tobacco and vaping portfolio from New Zealand First. It's the responsibility of leade...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign (and share!): our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/de...

Studied 1k comments against Turei yesterday (it's 1.2k now). New Zealand's Deputy PM, using official Facebook account, directed followers to target senior academic, & wāhine Māori - leading to unsurprisingly awful rhetoric from his constituency. Words have consequences, but DPM's impunity telling. 🤷‍♂️

A closer look at the new members of the CDC vaccine advisory panel For more than a half-century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relied on outside experts to guide the agency’s recommendations on how

A closer look at the new members of the CDC vaccine advisory panel

Several of those picked by RFK Jr. have a history of vaccine skepticism

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What happened to Predator Free 2050?

Today from The Detail: Predator Free 2050 was hit by a Budget blow, and now the 'moonshot' goal is under threat.

💉 I’ve just learnt RFK Jr has named his replacements for the committee.

Some names are familiar to me from following anti-vaccine circles and pseudoscience, e.g. Pebworth, Malone, Levi.

Kulldorff is a member of the Great Barrington Declaration.

I’d expect anti-vaccine/pseudoscience to dominate 😔

BIO getting absolutely killed

Wear a good quality mask and ventilate shared spaces. Test and report. #covidnz #cleanair #NB #maskup

The House: Parliamentary privileges - Race as an aggravating factor? Analysis: Reactions and advice from Parliament's Clerk, Speaker and even the committee chair show it has recommended indefensibly harsh punishments.

This is an excellent contextual unpicking of the Privileges Committee report + recommendations for sanction of TPM's MPs. Journalism like this is essential and we are lucky to have RNZ (+ Phil Smith) to provide it to us.

That explains the ‘NZ’ article - a lazy account full of racist tropes and wilful misinterpretations - fully out of the far right, libertarian playbook. Vile.

New Zealand Deputy PM Winston Peters bemoaned deteriorating standards in parliament in a Facebook post published last week, ignoring his own role in what he highlighted. A new report (sadly) expands on what I published late-Jan this year focussing on the DPM's vaulting incendiary, dangerous speech.

This isn’t just bad news for Novavax. Pharma companies are going to be spooked by the prospect of having to RE-DO (!) entire trials

Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area Deed of Acknowledgement Under the Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area Act 2008, Auckland Council, the Crown and tangata whenua are proposed to enter into a Deed of Acknowledgement.

Under the Waitākere Ranges Heritage Area Act 2008, Auckland Council, the Crown and tangata whenua are proposed to enter into a Deed of Acknowledgement.

The worst people are against this.

Submissions close Monday (28 April).

Toitū te Tiriti

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If you actually wanted to protect women you'd be spending zero energy trying to define us and one thousand energy trying to eradicate intimate partner violence. #nzpol

Very unsettling

A rightwing advocacy org is coordinating membership signups to control the org that runs .nz. Help us push back! NZD 21 to join but you must join by Mar 31 (NZDT) to be eligible to vote at the AGM where it matters. Have your say about the future of Internet governance in NZ! members.internetnz.nz

How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. Here's what that means for your genetic data.

DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown.

Here's what that means for your genetic data.

DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy as CEO steps down Co-founder Anne Wojcicki to pursue independent bid as California attorney general tells users to delete data * Business live – latest updates The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US to help sell itself, as its chief executive quit to pursue a bid for the business after several aborted attempts. 23andMe said late on Sunday that it had started voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri to “facilitate a sale process to maximise the value of its business”. It added that it is operating as usual throughout the sale process. Continue reading...

DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy as CEO steps down

Moose posing for the camera in a field of snow and willow with the forest behind.

Despite it all
It's still Moose Monday

Two pronghorn fawns with their doe watching over them in a field of spring grass and sage.

Something to remind you
It's a world worth saving.

‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness

On International Women's Day 2025, I want to pay tribute to the courage of Dr Viktoriia Kovach, Chief Medical Officer of Ukraine's Third Assault Brigade.

In January, I spent 24 hours with the combat medics she leads on the front line. Please read 🇺🇦

#IWD25

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Distress flag hung at Arches

Distress flag hung at Yosemite

Distress flag hung at Joshua Tree

Distress flag hung at Rocky Mountain

Beautiful trouble! Distress flags hung from iconic sites in National Parks across the country including Arches, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, and Rocky Mountain, as part of a US-wide day of action to protest reckless cuts and firing of federal employees at National Parks.

Farmers sue USDA after agency deletes climate change data The lawsuit says the Agriculture Department is hindering farmers from using the data to make “agricultural decisions” while they also face a recent funding freeze.

Farmers are suing the Department of Agriculture for deleting climate change data farmers use to make decisions and for destroying vital data used for agricultural research.
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No more appeasement, it's time Church meets its Destiny From the University of Auckland – Comment: Destiny Church wants the fear of violence to drive queer people out of public life. We must pressure the Govt to adopt lawfare against the organisation and s...

Thank you Dr Emmy Rakete for this excellent piece.
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“Among those who’ve exited the team are believed to be the only two Pasifika [reps], and the only two LGBTQI voices… were there in July last year when the "turnaround" began. Te Aka Whai Ora Māori Health Authority’s former chief executive Riana Manuel… also now been demoted from the executive team”

“after the Government gave Dr Lester Levy sole oversight as commissioner, almost the entire 16-member executive team has gone”

“all of the six women who were on the leadership team in July last year have jumped, been pushed or demoted”

Cont.d in comments

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Christchurch, underwater

A climate change prophecy of floods and drought in Christchurch - but it will "remain a lucky place".