Regulatory Standards Bill will expose the SPCA to penalty if they remove abused animals; it will expose taxpayers to compensate suspected criminals for confiscated assets; farmers can do as they want; Peter Thiels can build bunkers anywhere. A terrible bill with > 98% opposed. #nzpol

Israel Reaches Its Mass-Murder Quota | Common Dreams Around 1,275 Israelis died as a result of the attack on October 7. Israel’s mass murder quota was therefore around 63,750 (= 50 x 1,275). This was reached in recent weeks, according to the Gaza Minist...

Israel Reaches Its Mass-Murder Quota

Around 1,275 Israelis died as a result of the attack on October 7. Israel’s mass murder quota was therefore around 63,750 (= 50 x 1,275). This was reached in recent weeks, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health www.commondreams.org/opinion/isra...

Why Does US Media Continue to Undercount the Gaza Death Toll? | Common Dreams It makes a difference in driving the greater intensity of political, diplomatic, and civic pressures to have a count of 600,000 rather than 67,000 or 200,000 children rather than 20,000 children murde...

Why Does US Media Continue to Undercount the Gaza Death Toll?

It makes a difference in driving greater intensity of political, diplomatic, and civic pressures to have a count of 600,000 rather than 67,000 or 200,000 children rather than 20,000 children murdered www.commondreams.org/opinion/medi...

Coach, Chanel, Gucci and other luxury brands, stop profiting from the Amazon's destruction. The Amazon is being chainsawed so Coach, Chanel and other luxury brands can sell $9,000 handbags. A new investigation shows Gucci, Balenciaga and other luxury labels source leather from cattle raised

A new investigation shows leather used by Chanel, Gucci and Balenciaga comes from cattle raised on recently deforested Amazon land.

The brands can still shift to verified, deforestation-free suppliers - if enough of us join this fight: drop Amazon-linked leather action.eko.org/a/coach-chan...

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Behold the breeders… 🤨🤦‍♀️ #Wtaf #ScienceOverStupidity #nzpol #TikTokTrashTalk #Contraception #Aotearoa #NewZealand

The next step is explaining why women should not vote.

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This is expected with NACT running loony evangelical MPs who lie about their social engineering plans.

Penk, Luxon, Simpeon... they all planned for this.

The new online war against birth control Today from The Detail: The contraceptive pill is under fire on social media. Why birth control is being called "poison" online - and what doctors say.

Anyone else find this terrifying? We're going backwards at a rate of knots. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/t...

When art is life: the exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) Chris Knox biography, reviewed A compelling portrait of personality and punk.

When art is life: the exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) Chris Knox biography, Not Given Lightly – Craig Robertson’s long-awaited biography of the iconic, contradictory artist, reviewed by Claire Mabey thespinoff.co.nz/books/11-10-...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Robby Starbuck's Trump administration connections raise broader questions about the extent to which corporate America has capitulated to the Maga movement www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

‘Peace’ Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win Nobel Prize

Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed as democracy www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

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PETITION: Stop Dairy Expansion No dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency! Call on the NZ Parliament to end dairy expansion now to protect public health and fresh water.

Greenpeace lit up Fonterra’s Auckland HQ with the message: “The nitrate emergency: It starts here.”

Fonterra is driving a drinking water crisis across rural New Zealand – more cows means more dairy cow urine and fertiliser run-off in rural communities’ drinking water greenpeace.nz/r2ld7v

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat?

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘We Must Keep the Pressure On’: Humanitarians Say Ceasefire Doesn't Erase Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams While welcoming a ceasefire, human rights advocates say that merely halting two years of genocide is not enough. "We must keep the pressure on," said one former UN official, "until all perpetrators an...

‘We Must Keep the Pressure On’: Humanitarians Say Ceasefire Doesn’t Erase Gaza Genocide

“This much-needed and welcomed ceasefire does not change the simple fact that Israel has just committed a genocide in Gaza,” wrote co-founder of European Jews for Palestine www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ce...

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

The Trump administration is “shrinking the courts because they don’t think they’re going to need them.”

Last chance to vote for council with one more day to go After a promising start, turnout is on the slide – but there's still time to get out and vote....

Last chance to vote for council with one more day to go

Beware Trump's Ceasefire Deal Absent Meaningful UN Action to Halt Israel's Genocide | Common Dreams Without concrete global efforts to hold Israel to account, Trump’s new occupation plan for Gaza offers little hope for the future to the besieged, starved, bombed people of Gaza.

Beware Trump’s Ceasefire Deal Absent Meaningful UN Action to Halt Israel’s Genocide

Without concrete global efforts to hold Israel to account, Trump’s new occupation plan for Gaza offers little hope for the future to the besieged, starved, bombed people of Gaza www.commondreams.org/opinion/ceas...

A Life Among Letters unearths an unseen chapter of Czech typography The book gives Clara Istlerová’s revolutionary contribution to design the attention it deserves, and takes a radically personal approach to making a monograph, questioning: “what does a designer’s sto...

A Life Among Letters unearths an unseen chapter of Czech typography – Clara Istlerová’s revolutionary contribution gets the attention it deserves, with a radically personal approach for a monograph: “what does a designer’s story look like when it includes a life?” www.itsnicethat.com/articles/cla...

Stephen Miller Says ‘Quiet Part Out Loud,’ Claims Trump Has Unlimited ‘Plenary Authority’ Before Going Silent in Interview | Common Dreams During an ominous interview, Trump's deputy chief of staff argued that Trump has "plenary authority"—essentially limitless power—to use the military in US cities. He then abruptly went silent, prompti...

Stephen Miller Says ‘Quiet Part Out Loud,’ Claims Trump Has Unlimited ‘Plenary Authority’ Before Going Silent in Interview

“Miller’s statements show their real position. Trump’s power to invent pretexts for emergency actions is limitless.” www.commondreams.org/news/stephen...

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says The government needs to

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

The Clash’s Mick Jones shares his Rock & Roll collection for the ages The punk band’s co-founder and lead guitarist shows his collection of pop ephemera – decades in the making – forming the Rock & Roll Public Library.

The Clash’s Mick Jones shares his Rock & Roll collection for the ages

The punk band’s co-founder and lead guitarist shows his collection of pop ephemera – decades in the making – forming the Rock & Roll Public Library www.itsnicethat.com/articles/roc...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

YouTube video by Peter McLennan Chris Knox: Songs Of You And Me - a documentary about Chris Knox (1995)

Chris Knox: Songs Of You And Me - a documentary about Chris Knox (1995), by Peter McLennan www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQjv...

The Honest Broker Launches an Interview Series with Our First Guest Cory Doctorow And let me introduce our interview host Jared Henderson

The Honest Broker (Ted Gioia) Launches an Interview Series with Our First Guest Cory Doctorow: incisive commentator on culture and technology, with a new book entitled Enshittification, and this promises to be one of the most widely discussed topics of our time www.honest-broker.com/p/the-honest...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Are We on the Road to a Totalitarian US? | Common Dreams In important ways the Trump brand of authoritarianism contains hallmarks of totalitarianism in seeking to ensure that there is only one permissible way to think..

Are We on the Road to a Totalitarian US?

In important ways the Trump brand of authoritarianism contains hallmarks of totalitarianism in seeking to ensure that there is only one permissible way to think www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Dems, Don't Fund the Destruction of US Democracy | Common Dreams ​Democrats need to hold a nationally televised news conference and announce as a unified group that they won’t fund the federal government if Trump is going to use those dollars to invade blue cities.

Dems, Don’t Fund the Destruction of US Democracy

Democrats need to hold a nationally televised news conference and announce as a unified group that they won’t fund the federal government if Trump is going to use those dollars to invade blue cities www.commondreams.org/opinion/dems...