Paul Tudor MW

Here's the rest of the world, taking $12.6bn over the last year in net interest income (compared to $1.1bn central Govt). INCREDIBLE that is it the Govt interest payments that get the media coverage. [4/n]

Annual job growth still stuck firmly in the negative - running just short of 30,000 below the same week last year. Misery compounds. (1/2)

I Love Watching Yankees Fans Suffer www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Daulton Varsho is pretty good.

The mystery of NZ's world-famous mince and cheese pie

Who created our quintessential cuisine? Credit for first putting cheese in a beef pie is hotly contested – but one thing seems certain, it was a Kiwi. Jonathan Milne investigates.

If you want new relevance for journalism, it is actual people can legally attest to the source of videos, images, & events, & the handling chain. This does need better, verifiable open crediting and metadata.
But also, anyone trying to maintain a rep for reality needs to not share unverified things.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Explain, how the U.S. bailing out Argentina for $20B, while China buys soybeans from them instead of U.S. farmers, is putting "America-First?"

Also, dissolving ACA Healthcare, raising health insurance for ALL Americans, but finding $200M for a ballroom and tax cuts for the rich.

So my Q is this: who wants this? What people think, yes, I want to go somewhere where my ears are assaulted from the moment I get there to the moment I leave? Why is this a thing? 👴🏻

This post will age me but I don’t care… was watching a bit of the game in LA last nite, and couldn’t help but notice that every second that there wasn’t a pitch being thrown, there was loud obnoxious music blasting. 👇

Carrie Fisher and her Mom Debbie Reynolds in 1961

They love their superlatives in the US but the Great Lakes are simply named appropriately.

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

Main Grape Varieties in Alsace, 1968-2022. Riesling's amazing surge from #3 to the undisputed #1. And Sylvaner's abysmal decline from #1 to #7.

Virginia Beach ends partnership giving students automatic public library access A partnership that allowed Virginia Beach Public Schools students to use school IDs at the city libraries ended, and some library advocates are concerned it could create barriers to access. The…

A partnership that allowed Virginia Beach Public Schools students to use school IDs at the city libraries ended, and some library advocates are concerned it could create barriers to access.

Enviro group back-footed as freshwater pollution limits loosened

An ongoing battle over Canterbury nitrate discharge enters a new chapter after law changes influenced a High Court decision

Environment minister accused of using position to influence council's legal process Penny Simmonds says it is "wholly appropriate" to engage with the primary sector.

If this conflict of interest proves true, Penny Simmonds needs to be stood down by Luxon.

Accountability is necessary to ensure those in power don’t help there mates unfairly.

Let’s hope we have transparency on this getting sorted.

#nzpol #bhn

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A public service announcement about why you shouldn’t defame a lawyer

Government stops short of major energy shakeup, rejects asset sale The government has indicated it is willing to back major electricity projects with fresh investment, though the questions of what, when, or how much remain unanswered.

So tax payers fund power infrastructure projects for the electricity to be sold back to them at profit.. for shareholders... #nzpol

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We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

Basically, if you’re well off, and your parents are well off, they can join you in NZ.

Notable clarification added at the end:

“The Cabinet paper on the recognition issue was prepared by staff in Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ office, not foreign ministry staff.”

Interesting article, thx 🙏

Friday read: Champagne’s slow but steady march to organic - Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News As Champagne celebrates an exceptional vintage, recent news has been less positive for the region’s organic producers: the rate of conversions has been...

New from me in Harpers Wine and Spirit: #Champagne’s slow road to organics harpers.co.uk/news/fullsto...

In today’s NZ Herald

Govt breaks out the diggers as economy slumps

Analysis: Telling Kiwis to just 'look on the bright side' won't distract from material realities of rising unemployment and a shrinking economy.