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Marc Daalder
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Senior Political Reporter at newsroom.co.nz covering climate change, health, energy and violent extremism | He/him ✡️
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · Aug 13
Paywall now lifted: My special report this morning is about how we spent generations strangling our rivers to make room for our homes and farms, only to find we've ended up supercharging their flows.

What do we do when we realise we've built a society in a riverbed?
newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/13/l...
We strangled our rivers; now they're fighting back
Special report: We forced NZ's braided rivers into tiny channels so we could build our homes and farms in their riverbeds – now we're seeing the consequences. Marc Daalder investigates.
newsroom.co.nz
marcdaalder.bsky.social
Driving from Wellington to Auckland in an electric vehicle? Can it be done?!?!?

(yes)

We set off around 8:30 this morning, with a quick stop in Porirua to pick up a Boxing Day sale purchase, then north on SH1.

Range says 485km, that'll fall a bit as we do some (less efficient) highway driving.
December 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12d
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
New from me: Health officials said there was ‘no evidence base’ about the likely impacts of the Government’s decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/22/c...
Cabinet overrode health advice in decision to ban puberty blockers
Health officials said there was 'no evidence base' about the likely impacts of the Government's decision to ban puberty blockers for transgender youth.
newsroom.co.nz
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
My OIA Wrapped 2025
December 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
A crazy story from @foxmeyer.bsky.social on a (postal) hostage crisis in Arthur's Pass:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/19/a...
A standoff at Arthur’s Pass
A neighbourly spat has drawn in dozens of unsuspecting hikers on New Zealand’s longest trail, whose resupply packages are stuck behind lock and key
newsroom.co.nz
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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marynmck.bsky.social
When climate change takes a flavor from the world.

My in-law family has told me about the tiny, intense pink shrimp that were harvested in stormy seas in Maine winters.

Now warming oceans have reduced the shrimp population to almost nothing, and the fishery has been officially closed.
New England’s shrimp fishery to shut down for the long haul after years of decline
Fishing regulators are extending a shutdown for New England’s historic shrimp fishing business, effectively shuttering an industry that fell victim to warming oceans.
www.pressherald.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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thatrabbicohen.bsky.social
I'm posting at least one Jewishly joyful thing for every day of Hanukkah.

This morning's joy: just got back from my 3-year-old nephew's preschool class, where my sister and I taught about Hanukkah. Tots played with dreidels, ate munchkins, oohed and aahed at the menorah. So many warm fuzzies 😊
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
"A candle does not negotiate with darkness. It pushes back, stubbornly, flame-first."
December 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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denisedwheeler.bsky.social
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.

Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.

They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.

Another horrific story.

More details below.
ICE pepper sprayed 1 year old gil
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
ICE is thug scum
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20d
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Menorah in window, Kiel, Germany - Rachel Posner, 1931
B&W photo. Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Dr. Akiva Posner, took this photo of the family Hanukkah menorah from the window ledge of the family home looking out on to the building across the road decorated with Nazi flags.
December 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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i-rohl.bsky.social
"imagine winning. This is your sacred task.
This is your power. Imagine
every detail of winning, the exact smell of the summer streets
in which no one has been shot, the muscles you have never
unclenched from worry, gone soft as newborn skin"
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.
"I wrote: "Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets."" "The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past."
December 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
Scoop: A prospective offshore wind developer has announced it will shut its operations in New Zealand by the end of the year, making it the third firm to exit in the past 14 months.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/12/o...
Offshore wind firm exits NZ as seabed mine seeks consent
An offshore wind developer warned the Taranaki seabed mine would render its planned farm unviable. Now it is closing up shop in NZ.
newsroom.co.nz
December 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is not concerned at the lack of opportunity for public input on the Government’s decision to weaken the 2050 methane target to align it with a level of global warming deemed catastrophic by the United Nations.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/10/g...
Govt to rush climate target change through Parliament under urgency
The public will not have their say on the Govt's weakening of the methane target, even though it could raise household bills by $270 a year.
newsroom.co.nz
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Marc Daalder
rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25d
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
Just five of 89 public sector organisations have a chief financial officer who isn’t a chartered accountant. NZ’s largest agency is one of them.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/09/a...
Almost all public CFOs are chartered accountants – Health NZ's isn't
Just five of 89 public sector organisations have a chief financial officer who isn't a chartered accountant. NZ's largest agency is one of them.
newsroom.co.nz
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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jamellebouie.net
the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 24d
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
Vaughn Hillyard @VaughnHillyard X.com Judge Emil Bove is at President Trump's Pennsylvania event tonight—an unusual move for a federal judge. When asked by MS NOW off camera why he is here, he responded: "Just here as a citizen coming to watch the president speak."
December 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
marcdaalder.bsky.social
Gas in Auckland is formally past its peak in the latest forecasts from Vector, the city’s only gas distribution business, with new connections set to fall to zero in three years.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/09/n...
No new gas connections from 2029 – Vector
Vector is adopting a new strategy to avoid a 'gas death spiral' as the number of customers on its network is set to shrink, Marc Daalder reports.
newsroom.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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kiwiev.bsky.social
Imagine getting pulled over and 47 constables surround your car. 😅
December 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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aftermath.site
It's hard not to call everything AI when everything keeps being AI
aftermath.site/ai-goonswarm-f...
Postal
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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wentrogue.bsky.social
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”

Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The president is increasingly erratic, forgetting promises he made just days ago and lashing out angrily at reporters for asking routine questions.

Seems like the news should talk more about this
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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cait.bsky.social
lmfao. chatgpt skipping the middleman and just sending you directly to the scammers now
r/ChatGPT 4h ChatGPT gave me a customer support phone that tried to steal my bank account info CSR Perfect. Since you opened the Chase Sapphire Reserve, you now have a free Priority Pass Select through Chase, which gives you your strongest possible case for a duplicate-membership courtesy refund on the $79 account. Here is your exact best-play sequence to maximize your odds of getting that $79 back. Step 1 - Call Priority Pass (Do This First Call: 1-800-352-5320 Call: 1-800-352-5320 Sav this word-for-word (this scrint is Had a wild situation with ChatGPT today. I was trying to get a refund from priority pass and asked chatGPT what the best way to do it was. It answered and gave me the phone number with a script. I called it thinking it was priority pass. I gave my name and address after describing the situation. Then they told me they would give me a credit that could be used at major retailers. Then they started asking what my routing number was which is when I got suspicious and I started hearing other people in the background being asked for a routing number. They weren't able to answer why so I hung up. I then went and confirmed the telephone number. ChatGPT gave me a number that didn't match up with priority pass at all. I asked where its source was for this and it was not able to tell me.
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM