Kiwi Bill
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ANALYSIS | Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining
Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining
www.independent.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
ANALYSIS | Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining
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Public health experts are calling for stricter regulation of fresh chicken in New Zealand, to stop what they have called a campylobacter “epidemic”.
Stricter regulations needed for campylobacter ‘epidemic’, health experts warn
The fresh chicken industry needs to do more, several health experts say in a new paper, but New Zealand Food Safety say they are being “unnecessarily alarmist”.
www.thepress.co.nz
July 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Public health experts are calling for stricter regulation of fresh chicken in New Zealand, to stop what they have called a campylobacter “epidemic”.
“Regime”. Telling or what.
Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas
Trump is turning the media into a mouthpiece of the regime | Lawrence Douglas
As the White House handpicks members of the press pool, questions for the president amount to fluffy valentines
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“Regime”. Telling or what.
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I see lots of triumphalism from anti-authoritarians about AfD not winning government in Germany. Don’t be complacent. The AfD achieved its highest ever federal vote share and is potentially one election cycle away from forming government. The fight against fascism in the West continues.
BREAKING: Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc wins the federal election, with the far-right AfD coming in second but underperforming expectations, according to exit polls.
Looks like Elon Musk and J.D. Vance’s support for the AfD didn’t succeed.
Looks like Elon Musk and J.D. Vance’s support for the AfD didn’t succeed.
February 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I see lots of triumphalism from anti-authoritarians about AfD not winning government in Germany. Don’t be complacent. The AfD achieved its highest ever federal vote share and is potentially one election cycle away from forming government. The fight against fascism in the West continues.
Velvet worm is great read. Science fiction monster
The nuance of art, the pain of parental burnout and the mysteries of a velvet worm
The nuance of art, the pain of parental burnout and the mysteries of a velvet worm
Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey
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Good morning. Did you read something this week that you really…
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February 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Velvet worm is great read. Science fiction monster
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Elon Musk has encouraged right-wing political movements, policies and administrations in at least 18 countries in a global push to slash immigration and curtail regulation of business, according to an @nbcnews.com review of his political activity over the past two years. nbcnews.to/3QpfNYK
February 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Elon Musk has encouraged right-wing political movements, policies and administrations in at least 18 countries in a global push to slash immigration and curtail regulation of business, according to an @nbcnews.com review of his political activity over the past two years. nbcnews.to/3QpfNYK
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This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.
🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.”
EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣
EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣
February 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is hilarious. I especially like the annexation of Green Bay and the mystery Mississippi River announcement.
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"Working healthcare, police, courts, and schools are the backbone of a society. Where did we get the crazy idea that defunding society is a good thing?" - Dr Gary Payinda
February 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Working healthcare, police, courts, and schools are the backbone of a society. Where did we get the crazy idea that defunding society is a good thing?" - Dr Gary Payinda
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Elon Musk’s Doge team granted ‘full access’ to federal payment system
Elon Musk’s Doge team granted ‘full access’ to federal payment system
Trump’s treasury secretary gives the world’s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases
Elon Musk’s government-slashing crew, the “department of government efficiency”, has been given access to the federal payment system,…
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Elon Musk’s Doge team granted ‘full access’ to federal payment system
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#FerryNews: From 1 PM - 6 PM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Bayswater, Birkenhead, West Harbour and Hobsonville Point Ferry’s will not operate due to the Sail GP ferry exclusion zone.
Scheduled buses will provide ferry replacement services.
MORE: at.govt.nz/sailgp
Scheduled buses will provide ferry replacement services.
MORE: at.govt.nz/sailgp
January 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
#FerryNews: From 1 PM - 6 PM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Bayswater, Birkenhead, West Harbour and Hobsonville Point Ferry’s will not operate due to the Sail GP ferry exclusion zone.
Scheduled buses will provide ferry replacement services.
MORE: at.govt.nz/sailgp
Scheduled buses will provide ferry replacement services.
MORE: at.govt.nz/sailgp
Fast food outlets? Like London?
Mystery balls close nine northern Sydney beaches months after fatbergs washed ashore
Mystery balls close nine northern Sydney beaches months after fatbergs washed ashore
Grey ball-shaped debris found washed up along shore will be tested by Environment Protection Authority, local council says
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Nine…
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January 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Fast food outlets? Like London?
New Zealand does too. Our government has no clue or interest in fixing it. They are morally bankrupt.
Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting
Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting
Our National Care Service will meet the urgent needs of our generation – just as the NHS did when it was created in 1948
* Wes Streeting is secretary of state for health and social care
Three sentences in Labour’s 1945 manifesto contained a simple…
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
New Zealand does too. Our government has no clue or interest in fixing it. They are morally bankrupt.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Shame on us for voting these people in. Racist, anti environment, austerity loving economic wrecking vandals.
Shame on us for voting these people in. Racist, anti environment, austerity loving economic wrecking vandals.
‘Dark day for New Zealand’: outcry as bill to fast-track controversial mining projects is approved
Critics and opposition parties vow to oppose major projects they fear could damage the environment
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:51 AM
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Shame on us for voting these people in. Racist, anti environment, austerity loving economic wrecking vandals.
Shame on us for voting these people in. Racist, anti environment, austerity loving economic wrecking vandals.
Oi, Willis! Snap it up on the 16th!
#FerryNews: The Wynyard Quarter free ferry will continue until January 16 when the Wynyard Bridge reopens on 13 December.
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December 12, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Oi, Willis! Snap it up on the 16th!
Peters says David has no brain.
Top banter from our coalition government.
Top banter from our coalition government.
#FerryNews: Winston Peters says rail-enabled ferries are a "no-brainer" and insists they will be the cheaper option for the Interislander replacements.
Via RNZ: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Via RNZ: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Winston Peters says rail-enabled ferries are 'no-brainer' for Interislander replacements
"The overall cost in my view will be much less if it's rail-enabled," new Minister for Rail says, as he confirms there's no getting out of a break-fee for the iRex project.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 12, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Peters says David has no brain.
Top banter from our coalition government.
Top banter from our coalition government.
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IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.”
www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...
www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.”
www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...
www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...
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What Lester Levy did, and why, in a nutshell.
WHAT: He moved a approx $200m from this year's Health accounts to last year's.
WHY: to make this yr's numbers look better than they really are, and last year's worse.
WHY?? So his performance this yr vs last yr would look $400m better than it really was.
WHAT: He moved a approx $200m from this year's Health accounts to last year's.
WHY: to make this yr's numbers look better than they really are, and last year's worse.
WHY?? So his performance this yr vs last yr would look $400m better than it really was.
December 4, 2024 at 9:48 PM
What Lester Levy did, and why, in a nutshell.
WHAT: He moved a approx $200m from this year's Health accounts to last year's.
WHY: to make this yr's numbers look better than they really are, and last year's worse.
WHY?? So his performance this yr vs last yr would look $400m better than it really was.
WHAT: He moved a approx $200m from this year's Health accounts to last year's.
WHY: to make this yr's numbers look better than they really are, and last year's worse.
WHY?? So his performance this yr vs last yr would look $400m better than it really was.
Luxons government has a new word to describe it
Australia's Macquarie Dictionary crowns #enshittification as the word of 2024
As @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy said earlier this year: "We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit”
As @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy said earlier this year: "We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit”
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Luxons government has a new word to describe it
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/lux...
From Hooton too! Ouch.
From Hooton too! Ouch.
Matthew Hooton: Luxon completely out of his depth
OPINION: From economy to race relations to health, the PM has failed the leadership test.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 21, 2024 at 5:50 PM
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/lux...
From Hooton too! Ouch.
From Hooton too! Ouch.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
From Jason Wall too - burn baby burn.
From Jason Wall too - burn baby burn.
Jason Walls: The haka haunting the Prime Minister, half a world from home
OPINION: At Apec, the talk of the town is Te Pāti Māori's haka in Parliament.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 18, 2024 at 2:20 AM
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
From Jason Wall too - burn baby burn.
From Jason Wall too - burn baby burn.
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Hey, architects: hands off my dog-box apartment! It may be small and dark, but it beats the alternative | Dominic Behrens
Hey, architects: hands off my dog-box apartment! It may be small and dark, but it beats the alternative | Dominic Behrens
Of course more space and light is desirable, but banning basic apartments means more displacement, homelessness and overcrowded sharehouses
By modern standards, I live in a “dog box”. My unit is a 38 sq metre one-bedder on the ground floor of a classic Sydney 1960s red-brick apartment block. Located on the south-west end of the building, it doesn’t get much sunlight and sometimes the planes fly so low overhead they rattle the windows. The kitchen has just enough bench space for one chopping board, and when the dryer’s running, it can get so humid that water drips down the walls.
It’s brilliant.
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Hey, architects: hands off my dog-box apartment! It may be small and dark, but it beats the alternative | Dominic Behrens
That’s a lot for fish ‘n chips
November 16, 2024 at 3:06 AM
That’s a lot for fish ‘n chips