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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 1d

America is in crisis.

So it's a small relief that the rest of the world is actually getting remarkable stuff done with energy. We just passed a huge milestone globally!

Now back to work on America.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/something-...

Something extraordinary just happened

But of course there's a but. Or two.

billmckibben.substack.com

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprisingly, stopping bottom trawling is really good for life in the ocean. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/26-year...

26 years of video footage shows benefit of bottom-trawling bans - Oceanographic

The University of Gothenburg deployed machine learning to analyse 26 years of underwater footage and analyse seabed changes since trawling ban

oceanographicmagazine.com

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he wants to get on the swing too!

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2d

“No, not hero. We are doing the bare minimum”‼️

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2d

They laugh it off, but they will remember‼️

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

This is the US Govt that the NZ Govt is desperate to get closer to.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Agriculture Minister McClay: “the court decisions could result in more [pollution] discharges needing consents, more consent applications being declined, and consent conditions becoming more restrictive, reducing the ability to improve freshwater quality over time.” Make it make sense.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 8d

NZ often claims to have a world leading fishery management system. Critics like me beg to differ. This is what NZ's fishery management system has done to the orange roughy fishery.

The collapse in the orange roughy fishery managed by NZ.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

August 2024. www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...

www.beehive.govt.nz

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Agriculture Minister McClay: “the court decisions could result in more [pollution] discharges needing consents, more consent applications being declined, and consent conditions becoming more restrictive, reducing the ability to improve freshwater quality over time.” Make it make sense.

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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 2d

Compare and contrast: A statement from an NZ First spokesman 6 months ago about the actions of a party member and supporter, and a statement today from that same party’s leader.

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Andrew Jull NZRN @andrewjull.bsky.social · 2d

The party of ‘free speech’ wants to limit speech. Just another normal day for ACT.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

ACT MP asks Parliament to limit use of ‘genocide’ when describing Gaza war

Despite being in a party committed to freedom of speech, Simon Court asked Parliament’s Speaker to consider restricting the use of the word ‘genocide’ to describe what’s happening in Gaza.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 3d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 3d

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear.

Watch:

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3d

Power struggle: why fixing NZ’s ‘broken’ electricity market is such a formidable challenge www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Power struggle: why fixing NZ’s ‘broken’ electricity market is such a formidable challenge - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The growing view that New Zealand’s energy market is “broken” has brought with it a stream of suggestions for piecemeal changes that nibble at the edges of the problem, without…

www.greenpeace.org

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 4d

RNZ almost never publishes "political opinions" but today they & Stuff/The Post published one defending Nicola Willis's handling of the economy.

The author is Dennis Wesselbaum - from lobby group NZ Initiative, where Luxon/Willis reportedly get economic policies from

RNZ is shot #nzpol #kiwi

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4d

“That the ‘law’ was illegal also made little difference in a Germany where the former Austrian corporal had now become the law itself.”

Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 178

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 4d

Sacramento Bee - President Trump sends 300 California National Guard troops to Oregon, defying a court order blocking him from deploying Oregon's own National Guard to patrol Portland. www.sacbee.com/news/politics-...

Defying court order, Trump sends California National Guard troops to Oregon

California Gov. Gavin Newsom called it a “breathtaking abuse of the law and power.”

www.sacbee.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4d

“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’”

- Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 5d

Oh shit we got a boil water notice! Attn Kirikiriroa Hamilton pals #kikorangi

hamilton.govt.nz/boil-water-n...

Boil water notice for Rototuna after single E. coli test result | Hamilton City Council

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 6d

Fonterra caused the nitrate emergency in Canterbury by pushing too many cows. And now @Fonterra’s Govt is weakening freshwater rules to force even more cows, forcing Cantabrians to drink more of their sh$t. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The Press

www.thepress.co.nz

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 6d

The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies.
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?

Annabel Reid
Unemployed school leavers need to “get off the couch, stop playing PlayStation and go find a job”, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has told Rotorua business leaders.

The audience applauded his “tough-love” message yesterday, linking the city’s high unemployment rate to poor school attendance.

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deb te kawa nō aotearoa @debtekawa-ao.bsky.social · 7d

A reminder about the failure of libertarianism.

Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · 8d

Argentina’s libertarian government is such a failure and has created such a mess trying to artificially prop up the peso that not even the promise of a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout is stabilizing the country’s markets. A house of cards.

Argentine assets hit by fresh selling amid worries over US bailout

Peso, stocks and bonds all fall as investors fret over lack of details from Washington on rescue plan

www.ft.com

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 6d

Spain’s rapid wind and solar growth has CUT the link between gas and electricity prices 🌪️☀️

🇪🇸’s decoupling of gas and electricity prices happened faster than in other European countries, making it one of the cheapest power markets in Europe.

https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 8d

There must be NO dairy expansion in a nitrate emergency.

More than 100,000 New Zealanders could be exposed to harmful levels of nitrate. This article reports that Canterbury is the worst.

We’re calling on Environment Canterbury to end dairy expansion NOW.

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