Gwen Brandt

Typhoon #Kalmaegi has intensified to the equivalent of a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. It will be making landfall in the next several hours over central Vietnam.

It’s always delicious!

And today they are trying to work out how to make homeless people become invisible people instead, while they flog off state housing to their private developer mates. Bitter living everyone! #OneTermGovernment #nzpol #NZpolitics #Aotearoa #NewZealand

White square bowl with mac n cheese and green peas and a stainless steel spoon sticking out from the food

Lunch today and took a pic for @ninjakitty.bsky.social #teampeas

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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If you work in healthcare and aren’t constantly appalled by the suffering people endure over something as stupid and unnecessary as people going without food or proper nutrition (or housing or medicine etc) in the wealthiest country in the history of the world then why are you working in healthcare?

The Luxon Government's surprise move to gut the Zero Carbon Act has upended six years of cross-partisan consensus on climate change.

They are unfit to govern in 2025.

#nzpol

Just to remind ppl that zohran campaigned as unapologetically pro-Palestine so stop saying it’s an untenable position

Oooo - it looks amazing!

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.

A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”

Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.

On 5th November 1881, only 144 years ago, 1600 Crown Government troops invaded and destroyed the peaceful Taranaki Maori settlement of Parihaka, in the name of colonisation.

Forget Guy Fawkes. Remember Parihaka.

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.

They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

A great egret is fishing in the water. It is staring into the water looking for fish, but its reflection makes it look as if it is staring at its own reflection

The world is your mirror . . .if you are this egret hunting for breakfast.

#birds #egret #heron #birdoftheday #longbeak #nature #wildlife #photography #protectnature #EastCoastKin

Enforced re-colonisation is enforced IGNORANCE. This kind of psychopathic intellectual dishonesty will cause generations of arrested development of future young minds, destined to survive in a world they will forever struggle to understand. This is beyond belief. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa

Posting an A.I. generated video is like posting a picture of a shit that somebody else took

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

@rooseveltinstitute.org - barely 3 months after you gave them this award, all of the teen vogue political coverage staff have been laid off. perhaps the individual journalists deserve this award more than the callow institution which threw them away in capitulation to fascism

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

"If the minister is going to use TALIS data, she should also look at the TALIS data that says the biggest cause of stress for New Zealand teachers is government changes, that only 14 percent of teachers believe the government values them."

I see the coloniser govt is going to remove Te Tiriti from schools now.

The pace of their white supremacy is really something. #nzpol

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

Yes, it is this scary in science. We were world leader only 10 months ago.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

So odd

Kids exposed to COVID in utero may be at higher risk for autism, other brain problems

CIDRAP: 'Kids exposed to COVID in utero may be at higher risk for autism, other brain problems'

'Massachusetts General Hospital researchers analyzed data on 18,124 live births at Mass General Brigham from March 2020 through May 2021'

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/kid...

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

You might have seen that Siouxsie won her legal battle against the UoA, but even after the damages were awarded she ended up massively out of pocket.

So she's asking for help - There's been lots of support already, which is cool to see - Siouxsie deserves it!

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

💔💔 Thinking of you and your family during this time and time to come!

NYC Food Resoures/Distributions Email to add resources/corrections or DM us on Instagram @nycresourcelibrary Food Help NYC - map of all registered food pantries in the 5 boroughs Lemontree - food/food resources database Brooklyn ...

Regularly updated list of FREE FOOD IN NYC for the 1.8 million New Yorkers who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month.

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URL to share: tinyurl.com/nycfreefood

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.