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NZ museums and heritage aficionado, shoe fancier, curator baiter, demure chocoholic, and all-round-caffeine fiend. Personal views; Not those of my employer.
An important reminder if using our waterways: Invasive clam larvae are exceptionally small, just 0.2 mm – they’re basically invisible. They can be carried on boats or other gear, even togs, and accidentally transported to an uncontaminated site.
Check. Clean. Dry.

www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests...
Invasive clams
Invasive clams are a species of freshwater clam native to eastern Asia, which have become an unwanted and destructive pest around the world. They are also known as gold clams.
www.doc.govt.nz
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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America...what are you doooooinnnnnnng?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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My friend @governorwalz.mn.gov has been a dedicated public servant from his time in the National Guard to Governor of Minnesota.

Everywhere he goes he carries with him his Midwestern values of kindness and standing up for working families.

Thankful for his service and sacrifice.
January 5, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Minnesota has to come first - always.

Today, I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make Minnesota the best place to live and raise kids.

I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.
January 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Article (in French) highlighting some of the damage and destruction to Sudan's cultural heritage during the cities occupation by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
« On a voulu effacer notre histoire » : le patrimoine soudanais, un trésor menacé par la guerre
« Guerre au Soudan, une nation prise au piège » (5/6). Détruites, pillées, vendues… Aux mains des Forces de soutien rapide (FSR), les pièces des musées du pays constituent une véritable arme au servic...
www.lemonde.fr
January 5, 2026 at 10:59 AM
This is a really worth listening to. It's about the situation in America's politics. But its also really relevant to every country where the political left are on the opposition benches. I highly recommend #nzpol listens to this. Recognise whats already happening

www.instagram.com/reel/DTFph8T...
Tad Stoermer on Instagram: "When I start invoking Patrick Henry, you know I'm starting to lose it. #resistance #resistancehistory #howrevolutionary #publichistory #democrats"
14K likes, 827 comments - tad.stoermer on January 4, 2026: "When I start invoking Patrick Henry, you know I'm starting to lose it. #resistance #resistancehistory #howrevolutionary #publichistory #demo...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Lawmakers must confront enormous questions of authority and oversight over the US military after President Donald Trump seized and deposed Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro without telling them. https://cnn.it/4q8wKah
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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A fentanyl detection device is designed to screen illicit drugs for the presence of that highly potent — and potentially fatal — substance.
Outreach workers pass out free fentanyl detection devices to help screen drugs, reduce risk of overdose
A young man approached a card table set up under the Green Line tracks on the city’s West Side and asked the woman behind it if she had any clean needles or naloxone, a medication that can re…
trib.al
January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... if you’re interested in this morning’s emergency security council meeting on Venezuela, it’ll start here at 10am. It was called by Colombia, and can help us get a sense of the public lines coming from a diverse group of countries
Threats to international peace and security - Security Council, 10085th meeting
The situation in Venezuela.
webtv.un.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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Maximum monthly State Pension, guess which is unaffordable?

Luxembourg £5,426
Norway £1,839
Switzerland £1,657
Denmark £1,486
Sweden £1,373
Belgium £1,338
Netherlands £1,322
France £1,254
Spain £1,238
UK £997
January 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’
Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’
Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’
www.independent.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Why is no one taking Israel to task on this?

Why aren't western leaders pushing Israel aside, slapping its leaders in the face and saying enough!!!?

Why aren't they using their collective might to flood Gaza with the aid it desperately needs?

They're all complicit cowards... that's why.
🚨 Breaking 🇵🇸 | Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israeli forces blocked around 6,000 aid trucks from entering Gaza, cutting off food, medicine, relief supplies, and fuel—pushing hospitals and vital services toward collapse.
January 5, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Breaking news: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will formally censure Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) and launch administrative proceedings against him to consider whether to reduce his Navy rank.
Hegseth announces censure and potential demotion of Sen. Mark Kelly
The Trump administration has targeted the Arizona Democrat, a retired Navy officer, over a video reminding U.S. troops they can disobey illegal orders.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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17 days since Trump blew his Epstein Files Transparency Act deadline.

13 days since the last Epstein document release.

12 days since DOJ confessed to withholding “over a million more” Epstein documents.

A fifth consecutive day of zero “Epstein” headlines at @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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What is Seymour doing in Argentina? Who is he selling off our conservation land (full of gold) to? Why is the Nazi porn site X now somehow considered an appropriate place to make official diplomatic comments? They vast majority of citizens are not on it. Where is our fucking media? #NZPol
January 5, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Some good news to start 2026: the new NHS chickenpox vaccination programme has officially begun. Eligible children will receive the vaccine during routine GP appointments. An important step forward – no child should needlessly suffer from a preventable illness.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
UK children to get chickenpox vaccine with measles, mumps and rubella jab
NHS to administer combined immunisation in move in line with approach in US, Canada, Australia and Germany
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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We're now £138 away from completing what our family needs.😓

Your kindness and support have carried us this far & we are deeply grateful.
If you’re able to help, it truly means everything to us🫶

Thank you for standing with our family and for not leaving us alone in this journey❤️
gofund.me/0a1a936d9
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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A Demented King and His Mad Imperial Agenda

A weak and dying Donald Trump accelerates Project 2025 and the broligarchy's imperialist agenda to gain more wealth for his billionaire friends and family and distract from the Epstein Scandal.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Hhhmm 🤔⬇️
A very long and important THREAD -

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I pushed myself a little too hard today. I am negative³ spoons... if you know, you know. #CFS/ME/LongCOVID
a man in a suit with a headset on says that 's a negative jim
ALT: a man in a suit with a headset on says that 's a negative jim
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Designation of Terrorgram, and Order of Nine Angles in New Zealand

www.linkedin.com/pulse/design... (LinkedIn)

sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/d... (WordPress)

#nzpol
January 5, 2026 at 6:10 AM