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Law schools say "fuck the government"

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

"The racist dog policeman must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of Black people, or face the wrath of the armed people." Black Panther Party for Self Defense, 1970. Ref E.755-2004, V & A Museum.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Embattled US Ruler Deploys Armed Troops Against Citizens Amid Mass Protests Over Regime’s Kidnapping Spree — One Day After Oligarch Ally Alleges Links to Epstein Scandal

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

submitted 8 hours ago • 98 comments

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid? Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms. Wanna know another fun fact? If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

submitted 9 hours ago • 67 comments

To paraphrase the late, great Sir David Lange “A system of defence serves its purpose if it guarantees the security of those it protects. A system of [militarised domestic law enforcement] guarantees only insecurity. The means of defence terrorise as much as the threat of attack.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Imagine if President Biden, from the White House, had publicly threatened to level “very serious consequences” against the richest man alive if he dared to give any money to the Republican Party. It would be a scandal that would last years. That is what Trump just did with respect to Elon Musk.

submitted 15 hours ago • 63 comments

A very rare case of potentially “good” emissions. A Russian climate destruction facility goes up in flames thanks to the latest low cost Ukrainian electric battery drones.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Reminder that tear gas is a chemical weapon that is illegal to deploy in warfare, yet cops are allowed to blanket civilians in clouds of the stuff.

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

In case we need a reminder about the inappropriately euphemistic "Less than Lethal" weapons... www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Isn't preventing things like this why we have a radiospectrum licensing regime? www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It'd be great if any political reporter could ask the government why it is so important for "Hard working Kiwis" that the country get into surplus. What would that look like for your average family. What programs would get funded that can't be while there's a deficit.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

How to mitigate very fast Proper air filtration in all residential, commercial, office and civic buildings But NZ authorities and leaders too lazy as it "costs too much" despite returning a BCR of over 50:1

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Do you think that when elves remember their long gone party members that died of old age they feel similarly to how we remember our beloved childhood pets...😪

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Read @pdjeliclark.bsky.social 's "Dead Cat-tail Assassins" last night. It is glorious stabby fun

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Unmentioned: those jobs are built on blood phosphate stolen from Western Sahara. We shouldn't be sad to see them go www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ballance-...

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This is just blatantly illegal #OIA behaviour by RBNZ. An agency can only extend once. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

btw the regulatory standards bill will make it so corporations can sue the NZ govt for making environmental protections that hurt company profits.

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Oh FFS it shouldn't be this easy to take out our internet services. All that money NZ taxpayers spend on 'cyber-security' and we get this. Who needs enemies? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You'd think with what's happening in the PM's office, and now Seymour is Deputy, that there should be some serious consideration among media that they pick this story back up.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Chris Bishop is emailing his constituents to "explain" his drunken racism at the Aotearoa Music Awards.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

The thing I keep coming back to is that our Parliament doesn't NEED to be an institution hostile to te ao Māori. MPs have a huge amount of control over the tikanga of the House, and at any time they could just make it... Better. The only ones who can stop that are MPs themselves.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

once again I must tap my own sign

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

New Zealand's Open Government Partnership self-assessment has been published, now over on the Public Service Commission's website for budget cutback reasons: - www.publicservice.govt.nz/system/open-... - www.publicservice.govt.nz/assets/OGP/N...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment