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Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Tweet: @vexwerewolf Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth" Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem Show this thread 9 paints • 12 hrs The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

Amazing

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

Good news for kiwi's..

That have moved to Australia..

Monday, 13 October dawning, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

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Matt is a legend and his work is stunning, his residency is a chance to see him in action.

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

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The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Van Velden can see end of the road for cone hotline Reports halved each month with just one in five resulting in action, as the minister says councils proved to be the culprit

#NZpol Beyond stupid

BVV to close cone hotline after she’s worked out how things work, and having learnt,

“but they [contractors] are actually following what they were told to do”

Like she could have simply asked how things work first.

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www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...

I see that the landlords are putting those tax breaks to good use maintaining their rental properties. Did you hear that rents are down in Wellington?

Diwali I see from others

Just wondering the same

Families miss out on FamilyBoost after being caught by quarterly income rule Parents hoping to claim childcare rebates have been rejected because their quarterly incomes are too high ‒ despite being told it was based on what their households earned yearly.

Amelia Wade dives into the Family Boost policy, which was designed in a hurry using guesswork, and is now so complex one Kindergarten has hired a staffer explicitly to help parents navigate it:

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

I’ve deleted a post that I grumpily made when I woke up this morning just don’t have the spoons to be honest with all that’s been going on lately

Please let the answer be yes

It just really irritates me that these come through the News section. Sure the lifestyle stuff has its place but is this news?

On an intellectual level I get all of that. I still dislike it a lot. Guess that’s why I never, ever listen to the Panel 😊

My mentee Fatima just evacuated from Gaza on a scholarship and is trying to raise money to support her family back home through two one-hour tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) classes next weekend. Information on how to sign up is at the end of her video.

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A screenshot from 5 years ago when Stuff launched 'The Forever Project' and promised to do better on climate coverage

A screenshot from the piece where they (rightly) call climate change an epoch-defining challenge and they promise better, more meaningful coverage

I'm old enough to remember 5 years ago when they promised us great things and now they're just like 'lol fuck cycle lanes and fuck the future'

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

I hate it and all if its tilt towards what feels like emulating Buzzfeed

when i was being examined for my senior coxing licence in Oxford, she asked if I'd ever been in a boat crash, I said yes, she asked what I happened, I said "a manatee tried to mate with the shell and it capsized then broke in half" and she did not know how to respond to that

How to *nearly* understand what's going on.

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They literally show a housewife in a servant's uniform. They see women just as a product to purchase rather than a human being.

Something L shaped so it comes through under the window?

Looks like the perfect spot for some widely spaced corner shelves for plants or to display treasures or something along those lines

I think that what we can infer is that insider trading is rampant, there is an expectation that if you are onside with the administration you will not be prosecuted for it, and there is a belief this admin will not be leaving, so YOLO.

Sigh

The uptick in these has been noticeable recently

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?