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Why I Need the Birds A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Govt backtracks on fossil fuel phase-out Australia, the UK, the EU and Pacific nations backed a roadmap away from fossil fuels at COP30, but New Zealand didn't sign up

New: Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says the Government is no longer committed to advocating for a global phase-out of fossil fuels, marking a significant change in position.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/26/g...

Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE

And here's the AI video that National deleted:

National deletes AI video of police seizing gang patches Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.

Paywall now lifted: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...

Send this to the gannet in your life 💃🦢🪶

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National deletes AI video of police seizing gang patches Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.

New: Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would ‘draw the line at’ using AI video ads, but after National published two AI videos in the past month, his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/25/n...

Mike Hosking is wrong about the results of the UK Covid Inquiry this morning. The inquiry found an earlier lockdown could have saved 23k lives. It did find that "stringent restrictions short of a mandatory lockdown" if imposed earlier could have avoided a lockdown – which is diff from "unnecessary".

"The main legacy of Merrick Garlandism isn’t failure to mete out justice for past crimes; its that he created incentives for future ones. If they could transgress as far as they did and get away with it, why not go further?"

Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if the second phase comes out with some pretty normal findings. The commissioners all seem reasonable, from what I've heard. Terms of Reference are a little skewed, but not impossibly so

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

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Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

Some say the swastika is a symbol of hate. Others disagree. We'll have to leave it there.

Confusion reigns as climate minister appears unaware of own announcement The Govt says it rejected the Climate Change Commission's advice a month ago, but the commission says it hasn't heard anything from the Govt.

Simon Watts says he announced back on Oct 12 that the Govt would reject the Climate Commission's advice to have a carbin negative 2050 target.

That surprised many, including, presumably, Simon Watts, who on Oct 14 told me that announcement would come "in due course".
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/21/c...

Well they'd have to read it...

Between the booths flooding and a fire breaking out in the Blue Zone, feels like maybe someone is trying to tell us something at #COP30

Indeed, our own Royal Commission found NZ's strategy was the right one.

No 'gas renaissance' in landmark report charting NZ's energy future NZ is on track for a 98 percent renewable power system by 2030, a sweeping new report on the energy system has found.

A new report from consultancy BCG finds the influence of gas over power prices could fall from 90 percent last year to 25 percent by 2030, as New Zealand builds out more renewables in the coming years.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/19/n...

If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.

If only NZ was as ambitious as... any country other than Iceland.

Behind the Govt's urgent move to make it cheaper to import dirty cars Analysis: NZ's electric car sales dropped 70% last year while global sales rose, but the Transport Minister says his policies aren't to blame, writes Marc Daalder

NZ’s electric car sales dropped 70% last year while global sales rose, but the Transport Minister says his policies aren’t to blame.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/18/g...

You cannot vote for a Te Pāti Māori candidate (or any other) in a Māori electorate if you are on the general roll.

Dry years (which would be 92% renewable by 2030)

No 'gas renaissance' in landmark report charting NZ's energy future NZ is on track for a 98 percent renewable power system by 2030, a sweeping new report on the energy system has found.

New: A follow-up to the major 2022 BCG report into the future of the energy system finds NZ is on track for 98 percent renewable electricity by 2030, with work needed to shore up existing gas fields but no "gas renaissance" on the cards.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/19/n...

Thanks as always for your work Natalie!

Chicago Trib on teenage anti-ICE activists: "If I get the opportunity to fight like this for the rest of my life, I would be totally OK with that."

The future of our country depends, in part, upon whether the Democratic Party does or does not have space for young people like that.

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