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Hi Sam! I'm XXXXX a postdoctoral researcher in XXXXX. I'm from NZ, was born and raised in Auckland, and did my PhD at the XXXXXXXXXXX. I've never lived anywhere else other than NZ, I used to want to build my scientific career there. And now, I don't ever see that happening. It feels like I have to choose between science and living in NZ. Maybe I was naive? I don't know, I thought maybe we learned lessons from the pandemic about how research was important and had benefits to humans? Let alone the fucking economy?? Anyway, pardon my french. Thank you for saying what you said. I'm proof of it, and there are so many others in my shoes. You better believe we will all be voting from wherever we are in the world. Ngā mihi nui, -- XXXXXXXXXXX - Postdoctoral Researcher

yesterday on RNZ I talked with Kathryn Ryan about cuts to NZ science funding and the risk of losing talent www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment

#nzpol

Whether its 9 points ahead or 20 there is going to be plenty of katchup on the White House walls

Threatening to withhold congressionally approved funds to affect a state election sounds an awful lot like blackmail. 2 crimes, 1 post.

And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.

The number in new Trump polling that’s most worth watching Even by the standards of Donald Trump's poorly reviewed second term in office, the poll numbers that have come out over the past week are miserable. An NBC poll found that two-thirds of Americans thin...

In Washington Post polling, a double-digit percentage of Republicans shifted from strongly to only somewhat approving of his presidency since February — a kind of shift that could crack the door open for GOP criticism and defections.
www.pbump.net/o/the-number...

Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy' Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range."

POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Denial of His U.S. Visa & Trump’s Threat to Strike Nigeria We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made comments critical of Trump. As Trump threate...

We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made comments critical of Trump.

www.democracynow.org/2025/11/3/wo...

YouTube video by The Daily Beast I Was in a Cult. This Is How I Know Trump is One | The Daily Beast Podcast

How to deprogram your MAGAts this thanks giving www.youtube.com/watch?v=95g_...

JPMorgan flagged $1B in ‘suspicious’ Epstein-linked deals to Trump administration Over 4,700 transactions, including wire transfers to Russian banks raised red flags in 2019, new documents reveal

When JPMorgan alerted the Trump administration to the existence of $1 billion in funds Epstein held which were clearly connected to child trafficking, Trump responded by suppressing the information. Why?

Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit Was Made by a Bra Manufacturer This wearable spacecraft let humans take one giant leap away from Earth

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/neil...

A series of two story buildings with their roofs torn off, road flooded out, debris everywhere.

Damage to hospital complex, Black River, #Jamaica. #Melissa

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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Trump says he'll think about Kremlin's Russia-Alaska tunnel pitch The suggestion came amid talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump about possible resolutions to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Perhaps they are a lot of both — but what is important to take note of here is that they are very, very slowly attempting to involve Russia with the U.S., so we will not notice or react to it.

But I’m noticing it.

The proposal to connect Russia & Alaska w a tunnel was another very noticeable step🤔

This One Matters: A "No Kings" Protest Guide For Oct 18 and beyond ...

This is a protest guide for No Kings—updated to include information about potential agitators and how to keep it peaceful. It's very important not to let violence erupt: psychopete1.substack.com/p/this-one-matters-a-no-kings-protest

Exactly, it will legitimize their position.

Oh yes we most definitely will!

Trump Offered a Helping Hand to Argentina. It Backfired.

Trump said US wouldn't help Argentina if his "favorite president" Millei doesn't win reelection. This backfired. The peso tumbled. Millei's opponents railed against US extortion. Govt rushed to try to assure Argentines that Trump wouldn’t abandon the nation based on Milei’s political fortunes

We have found our bard for these times .

YouTube video by Jesse Welles No Kings

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWG0...

YouTube video by RNZ The 9th Floor | Episode 3: Jim Bolger | RNZ

In later years , seeing the results of those polocies he regretted them and called neoliberalism a failed experiment www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHvT...

JP Morgan reportedly had to oust a security chief backed by Palantir after executives found out he was spying on them J.P. Morgan Chase reportedly ousted its special operations head, Peter Cavicchia III, five years ago after learning that his insider security group had spied on the bank's top executives.

How Peter Thiel's Palantir operates: JP Morgan reportedly had to oust a security chief installed on references from Palantir after executives found out he was spying on them. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/19/j...

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The “Moral Monsters” Among Us Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?

The mounting deaths in Trump's concentration camps. “Contracts are being distributed to Trump’s buddies and people with no experience running detention centers, many of these contracts are no-bid. They’re incarcerating people and allowing them to die, not providing medical facilities. It’s horrific”

Maps show how expected increases in monthly premiums vary by age and geography.

If ACA healthcare subsidies are not extended, a 60-year-old earning $65k in Key West, Fla. could see premiums go from $460 a month with the subsidies to $2,400 a month without.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Open Letter to Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs: The New Zealand Government must recognise the State of Palestine As students, staff and alumni of the university community in Aotearoa (New Zealand), we express our profound dismay at the Government’s recent decision not to recognise the State of Palestine. Aotearo...

Open letter from staff, students, and alumni of the New Zealand community of universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Lie + Ice = Lice ....Democracy has a Lice infection !