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BREAKING
It’s been revealed that the Luxon government ‘kicked the tyres’ on game-changing solar subsidies to cut power bills but decided to let us keep paying rising prices - and then to make it even worse with costly gas imports:
www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/588...

Dr Assal Rad—

“Tehran’s metro area has a population of 14-16 million people. Evacuate to where, exactly?

“Calling it an “evacuation warning” while Israel bombs another civilian population is pure theater. Stop normalizing it.”

Sticker on lamp post "Luxon supports bombing schoolgirls "

Seen in Ōtepoti today

Only lunar eclipse of 2026 taking place tonight New Zealand has the "best seat in the world" to view it - so when can you see it and how?

MAY THE BLOOD MOON FAVOUR US IN THE TIME TO COME

(tonight, with low cloud cover so the only eclipse of the year is easy to see)

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

NZ Herald, Audrey Young: "Christopher Luxon's Clare Curran moment - can he recover?"

I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions.

Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018.

Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.

A theory of war What we know about this war so far, more or less for sure:

"Over 110 complaints from service members across more than 30 military installations in every branch of the armed forces... share a common theme: commanders are telling troops that the Iran war is part of God’s divine plan to bring about the End Times as described in the Book of Revelation."
JFC

Orange text: "ICE agents don’t get to pick and choose when the First Amendment applies." Orange text: "We have a right to record law enforcement in public." Orange ACLU logo. Black background.

When ICE agents are working, we have a right to film them in public. Period.

Map of Iran, clearly located.

Primer 101 on US-Iranian tensions. How did they start? 🧵

It’s important to know a couple of points:

* Iran sits between Iraq and Afghanistan

* Iranians are _not_ Arabs (neither Iranians nor Arabs appreciate this confusion)

It's genuinely insane that our own Prime Minister doesn't know that it is literally part of his job to explain.

The outdated theory that caused the world to make a big Covid misstep A “scientific fallacy” underpinned early ideas about how Covid was spreading, leading to mistakes in prevention and control.

Gosh we've been waiting so long for some acknowledgement of this www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Yes many ppl can be asymptomatic and contagious. Very best wishes to you all.

Uh someone might need to redo the numbers on our new LPG terminal

Firstly, the Platt, Harris and Tishkoff study shows that a model where more Neanderthal males had children with modern human females fits the DNA data better than either equal contributions or the other way round. It says NOTHING about choice, & whether that choice was driven by men or women 2/4

Happening now: anti-war protestors are gathereing in Chicago's Congress Plaza for a demonstration against ongoing U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

Tonight's rally follows a similar protest in Chicago on Saturday; other anti-war actions are being planned across the city over the week.

UN review urges Australia to address poverty, housing crises, and strengthen human rights Australia must act on UN findings highlighting major gaps in rights, poverty and housing, the AHRC warns.

Australia's housing crisis has resulted in a UN review calling for housing to be a human right. When the UN is telling a rich country like Australia to do better on housing the government needs to take a long hard look in the mirror. Surely that’s a wake-up call?

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I was wondering that

A travesty!

Actually it's changed ownership since I last checked - bought out by Fox (Murdoch family) and now majority owned by Disney.

Yeah it's not what it used to be back in the day

AIDS went from being a thing that elders whispered about why so and so wouldnt ever be coming around again to a thing people just take meds for on cycle like Type 2 Diabetes

I believe I saw the actual researcher saying their work doesn't show this at all...Nat Geo is now owned by scientologists...

Minmaxxing

Great White Egret in flight

Great White Egret landing.

Great White Egret

Great White Egret with a fish.

I felt lucky to get such good views of this great white egret at Chard Reservoir this afternoon. It flew towards me and then spent some time fishing close by. Lucky for me - not so much for the fish. #Birds #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife #SomersetBirds #Egret

This is also a formalised 'parents own kids' thing I think

States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment

In 1994, before these drugs were widely available and affordable, I lost my closest cousin to HIV/AIDS. He was 36.

I hope we are not cruelly returning to a time when others will have to worry about losing loved ones to a controllable disease.

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

Oh dear

Why Qatari LNG will soon set NZ power prices LNG terminal in Taranaki will tie NZ wholesale electricity & gas prices to global gas prices; Gas price rose 47% last night after Iranian drones shut Qatar's LNG plant; NZ power prices would follow

Chorus out: LNG terminal in Taranaki will tie NZ wholesale electricity & gas prices to global gas prices; Gas price rose 47% last night after Iranian drones shut Qatar's LNG plant; NZ power prices would follow #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Govt once again ignoring expert advice. What would experts know?

I muted Luxon's blurbling. Hipkins is now calling for NZ to stand up for international law, pointing out that Aotearoa relies on it for our security, prosperity, and freedom. calls the US-Israeli bombing a clear breach of international law.

Has Luxon said anything about this? Has he been asked about it?