Nathan Simms

ooh, and the bones. can't forget those $35 a kilo bones.

$35 a kilo, including for the fat.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

The evidence is now clear enough for Amnesty International to directly accuse the Israeli regime of deliberately using starvation as a weapon in Gaza.

Pretty good turn out for the Palestine march in Timaru this morning #FreePalestine #nzpol

A vivid green matte glass lamp in the shape of a Saturn-like planet atop a stepped conic form

I wanted this Saturn uranium glass table lamp from the 1939 World’s Fair so bad. It was part of Wright’s Machine Age Design auction; the estimate was $1,000–1,500 and it went for $5,715 🪐

Mr Luxon's unforced errors continue. A golden opportunity to score political points against Labour dissipates as he makes another claim that is simply untrue.

One thing about moving to road user charges for all vehicles is that poor people will put off paying because when it's a choice between food and road user charges, food is going to win. Fines and penalties will be the result, along with the need to take high interest loans to clear the debt.

🇵🇸🇦🇺Tens of thousands of protesters marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday, braving cold and rainy weather to call for an immediate end to the #Israeli #Genocide and #Starvation #Campaign in #Gaza

Ceramic bowl with decoration of images of fairies in a woodland

'Woodland Elves VII' c.1920, octagonal bowl by Daisy Makeig-Jones (1881-1945), pioneering UK ceramics designer for Wedgwood, best known for her 'Fairyland Lustre' series #womensart

Warm congratulations to those who organised to thwart the Right's attempt to highjack InternetNZ.

My former comrade was the Communist League candidate for ChCh Mayor in 1992. There was a meet the candidates event on CTV. My former comrade said that Mr Hansen turned up with an empty plastic supermarket bag, and was parted with it only after great reluctance on his part.

The Party label on which he ran in the 1972 election is ... um ... yeah.

My solidarity with striking nurses as a knife-wielding man threatens to kill them as they march in Christchurch.

#nzpol Tomorrow nurses, midwives, and healthcare assistants are striking across the country for safe staffing and safer care.

🕘9am Wed 30 July – 9am Thurs 31 July

Support NZNO members by joining a rally near you—times and locations here: maranga-mai.nzno.org.nz/strike_day_a...

In America, it's just called 'Clue'.

The boo-ing of Mr Luxon was much angrier and more derisory than I had imagined.

Gorgeous Crown Lynn bowl

And vice-versa.

Behold "meritocracy" in all its glory.

"The gun is good; the penis is bad"

BREAKING: The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group have signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end the fighting in eastern Congo aje.io/ldglrt

Voting age to be lowered to 16 in England and Northern Ireland by next general election 16- and 17-year-olds will be given right, already introduced in Scotland and Wales, as part of changes including easier voter registration The voting age will be lowered to 16 in England and Northern Ireland by the next general election in a major change of the democratic system. The government said it was a reform to bring in more fairness for 16- and 17-year-olds, many of whom already work and are able to serve in the military. It brings the whole of the UK voting age to 16, as Scotland and Wales have already made the change. Continue reading...

Voting age to be lowered to 16 in England and Northern Ireland by next general election

Cuban Minister for Labour & Social Security resigned after saying that Cuba has no real beggars. Cuba's President made a rare criticism of another senior Govt figure, stating that her statement lacked objectivity. "The Revolution cannot leave anyone behind ... that is our militant responsibility".

Ray Chung holding a public campaign meeting now? The guy really is trying to dig the largest possible hole for myself.

I'm a 66.4%

Activists took over Hill Street bridge in New Zealand in support of Gaza.
#Gaza

Trump is so useful to the right wing of the ruling class, in the US and internationally, because the standards that are expected of leaders on the right are now so abysmally low. However, if a politician is genuinely progressive, they must be a literal paragon of virtue, just to survive politically.

Remarkable to think that such a fascinating character as 'The Kid' was cut entirely from the original novel.