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Musical Obsessions: James Nokise and D'Angelo Comedian James Nokise is a veteran performer in both New Zealand and overseas, and the host of Eating Fried Chicken In The Shower, an RNZ podcast in which he interviews people about their mental healt...

Some context - i’m not just a fan. I was the biggest fan, growing up, that I knew.

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Nooooooooooooooooo

Simeon Brown tells young jobseekers to “get a paper run” on RNZ this morning 🙀

He is so out of touch, he thinks neighbourhoods still get a daily newspaper delivered
#nzpol

Happy 100th Birthday Margaret Thatcher.

NZ has appalling leadership supported by appallingly ignorant, selfish, greedy, short sighted individuals #nzpol

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

GET OFF SPOTIFY.

They are fascist collaborators.

There’s a major climate summit in Christchurch but the minister’s party won’t let him go Climate Minister Simon Watts had been due to deliver the closing address at the global Adaptation Futures Conference, but National Party whips refused his leave from Parliament.

This is utterly embarrassing.

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Now that the final 20 Israeli hostages are free, remember: those claiming violence “began on 10/7” want us to ignore that Israel was forced to free 2,000 Palestinians hostages—some 20 years w/o charge—& 8,000 remain.

If Hamas holding 20 is violence—& I agree it is—what is when Israel holds 8,000?🤔

Nicola Willis need to resign.

She fucked our transport artery for years. Christ the incompetence. Mind blowing and so wasteful.

Israel Sent Me to the Same Prison Where It Tortured My Palestinian Brother | Novara Media After Israel kidnapped him in international waters with the Global Sumud Flotilla, Kieran Andrieu realised he was being held in the same Negev desert facility where his younger brother, Ahmed, had bee...

This is a gut-breaking story.

Just menswear guy calmly laying waste again.

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran Project 2025, Silicon Valley & Tech's AI War on Democracy | The Nerd Reich Podcast Mailbag

Good resistance tips here.

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

“Israel forbade people from celebrating the prisoners’ release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison.”

Some Palestinians have been held prisoner with little food for decades but it was this detail that really got me. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Interrogation techniques at 'Britain's Abu Ghraib' revealed Video showing brutal mistreatment is submitted during high court proceedings brought by former Iraqi inmates

Never forget that Tony Blair belongs in the Hague. He signed off on this torture that they call "harshing".

It's like fighting with the menswear guy is a rake these fools keep needing to step on for some reason

"you can't win, Rocky"

Interesting framing of *checks notes* the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church issuing pastoral instructions to his bishops and talking about *re-checks notes* Catholic doctrine and practice, as he has absolute authority to do under canon law and two thousand years or so of precedent.

Celia Wade-Brown looks under the numbers and highlights actually a more positive sea change in the Māori Wards voting numbers.

A little bit heartening.

#nzpol

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This whole story is actually amazing, and the Pathe footage astonishing.

George Formby; Anti-Apartheid Hero Yes, you read that title right! After blogging about how my neighbours and friendly rivals the Wiganers came by the name ‘pie eater’ earlier in the week, I thought I’d shed the sp…

George Formby in South Africa. Worth reading for the quotation from Beryl Formby which ought to go into the anthologies.

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Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years and is ruling out agricultural taxes on methane emissions.

Can’t wait to see the regulatory impact statement that outlines the impact of this decision on everyone who isn’t a farmer

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Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

Clive Lewis MP: ‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’

Peter Jukes and Hardeep Matharu speak to the backbench Labour MP to understand why the Government is focusing on how to ‘stop the boats' rather than fixing people's everyday lives

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit." Someone named Manny replies: "@grok why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back