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New climate litigation: With our friends, Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc, we are taking legal action against the Minister of Climate Change over ‘glaring holes’ in the Government’s climate plan. Learn all about the case here: eli.org.nz/cases/erp2 #climate #climatelitigation #emissions

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Guardian story here on the new @eli-aotearoa.bsky.social and Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc legal challenge to NZ's Emissions Reduction Plan: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Got a response to my complaint to the Speaker about F&E's use of AI to hallucinate summaries of RSB subs. Syas they'll be looking at the issue in the next review of standing orders. So that'll be something else to submit on.

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Do all these people hand wringing about the Mexican flags at the protest think Ireland is invading the U.S. every St Patrick’s day?

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The thing is, when there is no penalty for lying to Congress, serial liars are going to lie to Congress.

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Just think how much clean energy and home insulation £14.2 billion* could buy a country. * US$19.2 billion * NZ$31.8 billion

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📣A VICTORY FOR PERSONAL PRIVACY!📣 In our case against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and DOGE, A NY federal district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction. (1/6)

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Whether you’re concerned with public health or retribution for your political opinions, you should not be punished or criminalized for wearing a mask at a protest.

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Iwi across Taranaki gear up to fight Bill that won’t die - https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/06/08/iwi-across-taranaki-gear-up-to-fight-bill-that-wont-die/ - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news

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What a great day for the UK govt to announce it is spending hundreds of millions of pounds on AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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A message from Barcelona

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Such deployments of the #surveillance state are similar to Iran’s heavy-handed tactics to crush dissent, as @azadehakbari.bsky.social‬ has written about. Glad to see @mguariglia.bsky.social‬’s incisive critique in this piece.

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This will likely kill more Americans than any other foreseeable move by the Trump regime

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UPDATE: withdrawal of suspension & lockout of disability workers at Te Roopu Taurimu! 🗞Article as seen in the NZ Herald this morning📰 #AotearoaUnions #NZPSA #MarangaAke #TradeUnions #NZUnions

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The government of property rights restricts people from exercising those rights to tackle the climate crisis.

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Less than 3 months ago the outgoing Ombudsman said he had detected no corruption, and every year praised NZ’s position on the @anticorruption.bsky.social Index. But govts have failed to develop the National Counter Fraud & Corruption Strategy promised in our Open Govt plan, so consequences obvious.

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My oped in today's @theglobeandmail.com about the need for annual Canada Summits www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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talking with non-politics-obsessed friends across the U.S. over the last few weeks & they all feel like they don’t know what to do because nothing in their daily routine has changed & would activate under a more imminent threat cue sending them: www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

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🗣️ "When lobbyists... fund politicians... the public has every right to question whether those politicians are serving public interests or corporate profits.” @rosewhiff.bsky.social spoke to @theipaper.com about risks from MPs accepting money from corporate lobbyists. inews.co.uk/news/reeves-...

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To what extent do rules in defamation carry over to data protection claims about publication of personal data? There’s some interesting analysis in a recent judgment, striking out a claim by Dale Vince against Associated Newspapers. On my personal blog: informationrightsandwrongs.com/2025/06/09/d...

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This 🧵 is really to the point. 'German guilt' is a lazy explanation for the moral panic politics in Germany. What ayoub.bsky.social details here (and what I describe in this piece as Germany's 'solipsistic sense of moral superiority', see pomeps.org/on-academic-...) is a much better explanation!

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If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵

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Bravo, Glendale. Bravo. More, please. And it's time for Democrats to loudly say, "Abolish ICE." Someone please stand up and have a spine.

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Every person aboard the Madleen is a hero. The genocidal Israeli state's attack on unarmed activists aboard a UK-flagged vessel delivering aid to Gaza is a flagrant breach of international law. The UK must sanction Israel, end all arms & surveillance, & expel its ambassador.

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Mass protests are an implicit threat of potential violence even when they are entirely peaceful. They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.” The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.

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The Data Standards Authority, established within GDS in April 2020, has initiated a "pilot domain group" across UK government focused on core attributes of a person – though it's only met once so far. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gove... DSIT #FOI response HT David Durant #govtech #datastandards

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Last week, we took a major step forward in establishing a public, independent inquiry into the UK's complicity in the Gaza genocide. I have written to the Prime Minister to ask for assurance that this inquiry will be established.

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YouTube declares open season on disinformation, slurs, and pseudoscience:

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Thinking about when Gary Lineker said that the BBC is completely obsessed with people who hate the BBC and does very little for its natural supporters and defenders

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Mandatory viewings (of violence) as punishment for trying to feed starving people....are absolutely deranged. What a disgusting thing to do.

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These questions never get asked at the debates and when they do politicians blame regulations and talk about how it would be better if businesses self regulated and no one ever pulls them up on it.

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I was shocked to learn that "The rate of workplace death in New Zealand is 60 percent higher than Australia and 500 percent higher than the UK, (and) that our rate of serious injury is 35 percent and 330 percent higher respectively than those two countries."🧵

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I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

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Just no.

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Very good testimony from last week's US Congressional committee hearing on the UK IPA TCN issued to Apple vis-a-vis the CLOUD Act.

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