Jennifer Ward

Isn’t pusillanimous suitable? Synonym for timid. But cool to see the etymology!

Perfect word for our subPrime Minister Luxon.

Christopher Luxon forced into another correction over Iran war visas The Greens say the prime minister "snuck" into the House "late last night" to correct the record.

I miss some cool Spanish words with no real translation to English when it comes to this guy… today’s one is : “pusilánime”… it comes from Latin pusillus (small) + animus (spirit). It literally means “small-spirited.”

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All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Six years ago a client came to me. His landlord was trying to evict him over the last payment of a rent to own contract. The client had remodeled the entire house himself with his own hands, a room at a time.

Today, client won the house.

Some days are good days.

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Support long-term thinking not just next year's profit

Things like fundamental research at 2% of GDP

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Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Luxon refuses to commit to greater transparency around biometric data sharing with the fascist US #nzqt

When Aotearoa/NZ needs a leader… we get this corporate, middle-manager side-shuffle 🤔. It’s pathetic. He should just go away at this point. He’s so embarrassingly ineffectual. Give me Jacinda’s clarity & decisiveness any day.

Christopher Luxon forced into another correction over Iran war visas The Greens say the prime minister "snuck" into the House "late last night" to correct the record.

He's really, really, incredibly, bad at this.

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Does regime change ever work? History tells us long-term consequences are often disastrous Regime change has long proved tempting to large states. But it rarely goes to plan.

Today’s US leaders are unlikely to accept the counsel of history. But they would do well to remember the simple message of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s “Pottery Barn” rule for attempts to overthrow governments: you break it, you own it.
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He was also demanding the full release of the Epstein files just a week or two before he was killed. Funny how that works…

Once again, a single cartoon tells more truth that the entire US Congress.

Thanks to Rick McKee for making our current situation easy to understand.

I heard they also painted a boundary on the pavement for the lions to stay inside of

The Internet has little sympathy for Dubai's tax-dodging influencers Brits in Dubai headed to the slave-built hellhole to avoid tax - but now they need rescuing they want the British government to come get them

Brits in Dubai headed to the slave-built hellhole to avoid tax - but now they need rescuing they want the British government to come get them

Fossil fuels are the currency of both climate change and terrorism.

If the primary responsibility of government is the health and safety of its citizens…

Lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry wouldn’t be in the halls of congress…

THEY’D BE IN JAIL.

THIS #nzpol ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Mideast war exposes fragile oil, gas dependency As in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, the new war in the Middle East is exposing once again how far Europe and others lag in replacing imported fossil fuels with domestic solar and wind power, speci...

Good piece from @afp.com on the longer-term lessons for European energy re: Iran crisis.

"Only by reducing structural dependence on oil and LNG imports can Europe durably shield its economy from recurrent external shocks."

Literally a death cult.

Those "Christians" wouldn't recognize Jesus if He walked up and introduced Himself.

And … scene. bsky.app/profile/jona...

It is logically impossible to believe that you are in God's small select group of chosen beloved and that everyone else is rightfully doomed to eternal torture without on some level not caring what happens to those other people.

It's a genocide theology.

Mass extinction? The planet destroyed?

That's how you get your gated forever community.

It's a genocide theology. It's an apocalypse cult. It sold a billion copies of a book series called Left Behind.

It's running our government.

It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.

We need lots of these and similar all round the country to counter the media being largely captured by RW rhetoric.

Hegseth must be drunk. The White House, ICE, and Oberfuhrer Stephen Miller are not in Iran.