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Tim McKinnel
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Investigator. Crime and human rights. Lead investigator on Teina Pora, Alan Hall, Terri Friesen, Gail Maney, Stephen Stone and Mark Henriksen miscarriage cases.
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
In the year to March 539 #children - some younger than 12 months - were harmed in state care (the highest number in 5 yrs). Meanwhile the coalition govt introduces legislation to further shield itself from responsibility.
My Stuff #cartoon today #OrangaTamariki #StateCare
Cartoon. Two panels. Left panel shows a sleeping baby cupped in a hand against a night sky. The title is “State of Should care” The right hand panel shows a baby being held by the skin on its back against a background of flames. The title is “State of Don’t Care”
November 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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The Truth about Grassroots Football - Welcome To Wharf
YouTube video by Glide Media
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September 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
timmckinnel.bsky.social
With total editorial control of the documentary being made by an embedded team, I don’t suppose many of the issues Kirsty raises will feature in that exposé…
September 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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The Guardian view on the ‘war on drugs’: Donald Trump is turning a failed metaphor into a more dangerous reality | Editorial
Editorial: The strike on a speedboat allegedly containing Venezuelan drug traffickers may be performative, but sets a frightening precedent
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September 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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publicaddress.bsky.social
A thread from someone who has studied the drug war for a long time.
sanho.bsky.social Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Sep 3
This was not in self defense and drug smuggling is not a capital offense. These are extrajudicial killings — mass murder on the high seas illegally ordered by the President of the United States. US service personnel do not get to play judge, jury, and executioner.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Sep 2
Rubio video of strike on Venezuelan ship:
September 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
timmckinnel.bsky.social
The Ministry of Impunity newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/18/t...
The Ministry of Impunity
The government faces legal action over compensation for torturing children at Lake Alice. But Crown Law, running legal interference for decades, is again pulling strings.
newsroom.co.nz
August 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
timmckinnel.bsky.social
It would be fascinating to compare financial stress indicators and rates of meth consumption

www.nzherald.co.nz/business/cen...
June 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
timmckinnel.bsky.social
Is time to accept that methamphetamine use is 'skyrocketing' for reasons beyond organised crime groups 'targeting' us.

Is it possible that demand (rather than supply), driven by dire social conditions in parts of Aotearoa, is behind the worrying trend?

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Minister warned of gangs ‘corrupting’ officials
Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says New Zealand has been “complacent” about the risk of corruption.
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June 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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adamweinstein.bsky.social
Another dumb gross irony here is Harvey Milk served in the Navy and Donald Trump's Navy secretary didn't www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show.
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June 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I, personally, would not go into business with a man who had one of my employees murdered, but I am not a billionaire
rmac.bsky.social Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · May 14
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.

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AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
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May 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
Happy Mother’s Day from the Coalition Government
My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #WomensPay #Fairpay #Equity #KissMyFatArseMyDarling
Cartoon. It says, “Happy Mother’s Day to all you women, mothers and child-free alike! Thank you for selflessly giving up fair pay and for sacrificing your families, your welfare, your security, and your retirement, to save our budget. YOU ARE THE BEST!” In the lower right corner are Finance Minister Nicola Willis and PM Christopher Luxon applauding. Luxon is looking a little anxiously at MP Brooke van Velden, who has gone into robot mode and sending signals to the mother ship.
May 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
timmckinnel.bsky.social
The lack of political will to improve the flaws in our justice system should trouble us all.

www.1news.co.nz/2025/05/09/p...
'Privileged people don't tend to get wrongfully convicted' – Tim McKinnel
Stephen Stone's acquittal for rape and murder is the latest case to highlight a need for changes to our justice system, says advocate Tim McKinnel.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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The court should no be the Crown’s soapbox

www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
Family of ‘gone fishing’ accused angry at Crown claims before charges dismissed
Stephen Stone’s son has complained to the Law Society, and a top KC is calling for a public apology after statements by Auckland Crown Solicitor Alysha McClintock.
www.thepost.co.nz
May 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The police manufactured a murder case against people they didn’t like. Decades in jail for something they never did: Stephen Stone acquitted after 25 years in jail for murder of Deane Fuller-Sandys www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Stephen Stone acquitted after 25 years in jail for murder of Deane Fuller-Sandys
An investigator who helped free Stephen Stone after decades in jail for the murder of Deane Fuller-Sandys, says the case was a 'disgraceful miscarriage of justice'.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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gavinhuet.bsky.social
But I thought we were all equal?
radionz.nzcow.com RNZ News (Unofficial) @radionz.nzcow.com · Apr 29
📢 Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says Cabinet has agreed to reinstate a total ban.
Prisoner voting ban to be brought back - Paul Goldmsith
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April 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
timmckinnel.bsky.social
Mr Luxon (and to be fair most of his Prime Ministerial predecessors) are seduced but the war in drugs approach because it wins votes.

Gangs rarely drive drug use and abuse, they just meet a community demand.

Until voters change their approach, politicians won’t.

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Justice, Police Ministers asked for solutions to tackle near doubling of meth use in past year
A drugs in wastewater report shows a 96 percent increase in methamphetamine consumption.
www.nzherald.co.nz
April 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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cristyclark.bsky.social
This is chilling.

‘Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN’
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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acgeddis.bsky.social
It's a pretty sad indictment of our politics when an elected representative says "the people I represent tell me that the sharp end of state power is oppressive to them" and the overwhelming response isn't "shit - that's terrible ... we should fix that!" but rather "shut up, stupid person!"
Is Tamatha Paul in ‘la-la land’? Here’s what the evidence says
A history of negative experiences of policing will affect how some communities view the police – and it's crucial that the opinions of these communities are heard.
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March 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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lewsos.bsky.social
Read Mahmoud Khalil's letter from a Louisiana jail www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in LouisianaDictated over the phone from ICE DetentionMarch 18, 2025My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility inLouisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injusticesunderway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t theSenegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and hisfamily an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine,only to be deported without so much as a hearing.Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and meas we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew whatwas happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concernwas for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest herfor not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of myarrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the earlymorning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on theground and was refused a blanket despite my request.My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a freePalestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’sceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forcedto weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist… I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their landsince the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But beingPalestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s useof administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights.I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returnedhome from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who wastaken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. ForPalestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberatemy oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racismthat both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. hascontinued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. Fordecades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used toviolently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am beingtargeted.While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabledmy targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and DeanYarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily discipliningpro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns — based on racism and disinformation —to go unchecked. Columbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass dueprocess and silence students criticizing Israel. Columbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosingstudent records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration's latest threats. My arrest, theexpulsion or suspension of at least 22 Columbia students — some stripped of their B.A. degrees justweeks before graduation — and the expulsion of SWC President Grant Miner on the eve of contractnegotiations, are clear examples.If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opiniontoward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change — leading the chargeagainst the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, and driving the struggleagainst apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students whosteer us toward truth and justice.The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders,green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead,students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stakeare not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free towitness the birth of my first-born child.
March 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Let them eat Marmite sandwiches

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Let them eat Marmite sandwiches | E-Tangata
“Despite producing enough food to feed 40 million people annually, Aotearoa allows its most vulnerable tamariki to go hungry. Food insecurity here is one of the worst in the OECD, and disproportionate...
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March 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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John Bennett had resigned as an MBI Health director but was in business with its cofounder in two other companies when it was awarded a $2m Health NZ contract that wasn’t advertised. He was advising Health NZ at the time.
The $2m contract to senior govt advisor’s business partner
Health NZ awarded an unadvertised $2m contract to a company co-founded by a senior adviser.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Donor to Shane Jones, Westfleet fishing company, dragged up coral when bottom trawling. Greenpeace asked for the coordinates to look at the impact with research team. But Jones refused to release them. So we had to get them elsewhere . www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Australia releases coordinates to Greenpeace after New Zealand government refuses
Greenpeace had offered to survey the site for free, using deep sea cameras during an already planned expedition to survey seamounts and other underwater mountains, but the New Zealand government refus...
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March 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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ninalakhani.bsky.social
Energy Transfer’s $300m trial against Greenpeace begins on Monday - a classic SLAPP suit by a major Trump donor which seeks to rewrite the Indigenous-led Standing Rock protests and could have a chilling effect on free speech

By me & @rachelleingang.bsky.social

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Fossil fuel firm’s $300m trial against Greenpeace to begin: ‘Weaponizing the judicial system’
Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech
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February 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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domesticanimal.bsky.social
Question: Who would you rather read a story to your children? My #cartoon today #RainbowCrossings. With an inept attempt at alt text with prompting from @meshedlight.bsky.social
Two drag queens on a rainbow crossing carrying books and handbags, followed by a man dressed in black, wearing sunglasses and carrying a cross and a can of white paint. The caption says "Question: Who would you rather read a book to your children? A. The people with books. B. The guy with white paint and leather trousers"
March 31, 2024 at 4:40 AM
timmckinnel.bsky.social
An interesting attempt to arrest our way out of social deprivation

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Te Pāti Māori MP ‘appalled’ by police operation in Rotorua
The MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi, condemned Operation Trolley, saying the act demonstrates “that it is cheaper to criminalise than to care.”
www.stuff.co.nz
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM