More waves crashing on the sandcastles of hopium. I'm famously pessimistic, but the data continues to surprise me to the downside. It's relentless. We've not seen anything like this for 45 years. Compounding, mutually reinforcing, job-killing dynamics. (1/2)

Join us for the launch of Protect Protest, a coalition established to defend protest as a tool of democracy and liberation.

15 October 4:30pm - 7pm in Government Building Lecture Theatre 1 (GBLT1), Pipitea Campus, Te Herenga Waka VUW

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

Lies, lies and damned statistics…

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God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

I feel like I misunderstood what they meant by back on track

I guess the government wants the EU to apply a carbon border adjustment to our exports.

Israel has bombed Lebanon and/or murdered someone there every single day since the “ceasefire” there

Hours into the Gaza ceasefire, Israel launched heavy air strikes on Southern Lebanon

Peters wants us to accept the Trump “plan” as if we haven’t seen Israel’s record on keeping ceasefires

#NZPol

The jury is in. @albomp.bsky.social hates transparency. Loathes it! #FOI #auspol

No wonder they gotta clamp down on the teenagers what a
disaster govt

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK

Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Launch: Protect Protest Aotearoa.

We're joined up with other groups to resist attacks on the right to protest. protectprotest.nz

Join the launch event with a screening of Operation 8 at 4:30pm October 15th in Wellington. More details: nzccl.org.nz/launch-prote...

Police finally charge one of their own over dangerous pursuits. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/pol...

i know no tech companies are good but man am i glad i don't use apple products, because fuck apple, and fuck tim cook.

Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵
❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌
Seriously, no, for lots of reasons.
1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]

Wellingtonians - Are you interested?

An hour of unlimited play on the machines at Ye Olde Pinball Shoppe before regular opening hours on a Sunday from 10-11 am. N95 or better masks to be worn at all times and there is an air purifier. $20/person and we need 25 people to make the event happen.

This Peter’s facial expression is his “I’m about to tell a big lie, and you know it, and I know you know it - but I also know you aren’t going to call me out on it…so here we are” expression

And trees. Our council keeps cutting them down and not replacing them.

Buried in here: ACT is shrinking DIA's online violent extremism team, which is already too small, because ACT supports far-right violent extremism www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/hawkes-ba...

This is how Israel mistreats foreign nationals the world is watching.

Imagine how it mistreats the thousands of Palestinians it holds without charge in "administrative detention."

Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians since Hamas agreed on Friday to release all captives as part of the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.