Brannavan Gnanalingam

RIP Frederick Wiseman (1930—2026)

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Will NZ stand up against the illegal annexation of the West Bank?

Post a banger that isn’t in English
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No skin off my nose being remaindered! I’m happy readers can find my books, no matter how long it takes. Hope you enjoy!!

More than 200 killed in mine collapse in eastern DR Congo: Report Rights groups have raised concerns over conditions at the mine, which supplies about 15 percent of the world's coltan.

Rights groups have raised concerns over conditions at the mine, which supplies about 15 percent of the world's coltan.

Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Disgrasian alert

Whiti holds a handwritten sign that says: r/bookclub Kurangaituku ANA Whiti Hereaka u/tauken1 Monday 26 Jan 9pm GMT 4pm EST

I’m doing an AMA on Reddit (r/bookclub Kurangaituku) on Tuesday 27 Jan 10am NZ time (26 Jan 9pm GMT, 4pm EST) So if you have some questions about Kurangaituku, or what my current favourite cheese is head on over there.
Here’s me mugshot with the info.

The tragic loss of lives in NZ flooding events this week are climate change deaths. Media and govt are avoiding the topic.

Leaders and commentators must acknowledge the emerging reality of ordinary summer rainstorms carrying volumes of water akin to tropical cyclones of previous decades.

This phenomenon - this experience - is best articulated in @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's Paradise Built in Hell.

When you are there, and you see an entire city of goddamn heroes around you, it is nothing short of a transcendent experience.

Iran’s protesters need our support – not another western-intervention disaster | Owen Jones Previous meddling has damaged the region, and once again the the US and Israel don’t have Iranians’ best interests at heart, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

We should stand by Iran's protesters as they fight a repressive theocracy.

We should also oppose yet another catastrophic Western intervention.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

The thing that always gets me about this kind of stuff is like, are we seriously expecting Palestinians to remain either neutral or positive towards Israel despite it literally killing them, destroying their culture and making it unsafe to live on their own land, at risk of being forced out of...

One of the greats, RIP

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One https://theonion.com/every-trait-disqualifying-ice-agent-from-previous-jobs-ideal-for-current-one/

Sign in the crowd of protestors reading "THE YEAR JUST FUCKING STARTED MAN"

for real

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

I want Aotearoa to at a minimum suspend 5-eyes and all other military connections to the US. Australia Canada and the Uk should do so too.

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Can’t wait to see who’ll get to lift the FIFA Peace Prize in 2026

Awesome list of a whole bunch of international books I haven’t heard of, but will need to track down, and thank you to Pip for including Kartik Popat as one of them

Acting in Home Alone 2 is obviously no barrier to political success

Your regular reminder that NZ's immigration system is cruel and irrational and as bad as anything you might have read about regarding less "enlightened" countries; the only difference being it is enacted through bureaucratic means rather than physical ones.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Lost opportunity of combining the Ministries for the Environment, Transport and Housing and calling it METH

What a horrifying weekend of news. Too much.

While I loved Magellan by Lav Diaz, I’d have to say Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent is my favourite film of the year. It knocked me out - shaggy, devastating, and horribly tense. Similar terrain to the (good) PTA One Battle After Another, but was more emotionally resonant

Yasmine Hamdan - I remember I forget بنسى وبتذكر, by Yasmine Hamdan 10 track album

And my favourite album is I remember I forget from Soapkills legend, Yasmine Hamdan - yasminehamdan.bandcamp.com/album/yasmin...