There is an insane and disturbing amount of vile Anti-Indian sentiment about and parties need to respond to it. They can respond by trying to capitalize on it like NZF, or they can reject it. Ignoring it and hoping for the best only rewards those capitalising on it. It's also moral cowardice.

Extreme weather scientists warn of impending funding drought 'Some nerd sitting in an office' doesn't seem like exciting research to fund but it's answering urgent questions about severe weather, a climate scientist says.

Just as the impacts of climate change are really starting to bite, AoNZ as a nation is busy 'deprioritising' research funding into it. You can probably tell from some of the quotes how chill I'm feeling about this.

I don't read polls. I rely on traditional ways to know if a prime minister is embattled.

Has somehow convinced people that being a sesquipedalian is the same as being competent

There’s an argument to be made that Shane Jones has been the most useless Cabinet Minister in NZ in the 21st Century

Are they eating fried shoe soles?

I think some people mistakenly read Kartik Popat as a cynical book, when it was actually an earnest book about cynical people. South Asians who cosy up to white supremacism will absolutely be eaten up by it

It continues to blow my mind that this Western wave of increasingly violent anti-Indian sentiment was all started by an intra-MAGA turf war between the tech nazi faction and the Laura Loomer nativist faction after the 2024 US presidential election. All this just to own Vivek Ramaswamy.

The Scapegoating of Trans People in Trump’s America How social media promotes a cycle of admiration and resentment in an influencer-driven world – and why the transgender community is at the centre of its violence

Some lessons for Aotearoa in here, too, in this piece by McKenzie Wark www.frieze.com/article/scap...

Evolving US view of Hormuz:
-The Strait is open.
-Iran closing the Strait is a breach of international law.
-The Strait is open if you're not a wuss.
-Please help me reopen the Strait.
-We started this war to keep the Strait open.
-We are now blockading the Strait.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

a question that should be asked of the current editorial departments and owners of every establishment media outlet in the country, because let’s be honest, Peters is certainly incapable of pitching *himself* that way without across the board narrative support - particularly due to his history

Yeah, people who say that never have to deal with the consequences of the discourse that he normalises - the poor trans people & Indians who’ll cop it from people who’ve been given permission by him (and who are given no voice by our media to respond when they breathlessly report his stupid shit)

The thing that pisses me off is that NZF / Peters gets to present himself as some outsider when Peters has been part of every single government since fucking Muldoon, bar two (the 4th Labour Gvt and the Key / English Gvt, and even then English tried to negotiate with him). He’s establishment af

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today.

My second book is officially out today! Many people helped me get it to this point and I love them all. In all good bookshops in Aus and NZ 🎉🍎💚🐦‍⬛ here’s a handy link to where you can get it from indie NZ shops bookhub.co.nz/p/the-raven-...

I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans.

For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project.

www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

a woman with glasses says that guy is the worst on peacock Alt: a woman with glasses says that guy is the worst on peacock

Anyone shocked that Winston Peters is leaning hard into transphobic attention/vote-seeking bullshit, keep in mind that he's the only MP who's been around long enough to vote against Homosexual Law Reform in 1986, the Human Rights Amendment Act in 1993 and marriage equality in 2013, #nzpol

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

I don't think it's out of year but The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat deserves a election year reissue regardless. One of Brannavan's best and most bruising satires that feels less and less satirical and more and more like reportage with every passing month

Delegate defends National Party Papakura candidate selection amid claims of unfair process The seat offers a rare opportunity of running in a safe electorate for National.

Nancy Lu should have read The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat to realise how inevitably dispensable she was going to be

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

It is good that the entire US economy comes with the same disclaimer as horoscopes

Thread.

Israel passed a law allowing the death penalty exclusively for Palestinians. It was written by the fascist Ben Gvir.

Israel is institutionalising genocide.

Red Cross Levin is looking for FIVE sewing machines for former refugees. If you're in the lower North Island, could you please put out some feelers ?

We can help with transport and checking machines, so please make any offers to us at sewingmachinedonations@gmail.com

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Ooh great, yeah I need to see more Petri

SALVATORE GIULIANO is great. CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI too.

There are also some great one-off films, like Marco Bellocchio’s FISTS IN THE POCKET, Marco Ferreri’s DILLINGER IS DEAD and OImi’s THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS. Petri’s INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION is ace.