3/ 🧵 And today Chris Bishop has tried to intimidate the head of Forest and Bird, who stands up for the environment

We can hope. But gutting the media is their forward planning move

They're smug, venal, punitive and sadistic. Radical collective action should be the response.

China has been hit by widespread hail for seven consecutive days, and it will continue to be the case for the next five days, which is likely to set a historical record.

Dehumanization

Advance copy Te Herenga Waka University Press

Cool news. A MISTAKE directed by Christine Jeffs and feat. Elizabeth Banks ❄️, Mickey Sumner and Simon McBurney will premiere this June in New York City Tribeca Film Festival.
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As the public sector cuts occur, it's worth knowing that the term 'frontline' is a spin. Jobs being cut include speech therapy for children with learning difficulties, people supporting children with disabilities etc. It's not all spin-doctors and middle management.

'The reader I hope for is someone who will meet the book with an open heart and mind,' says Pip Adam, referring to her Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel Ambition. Te Herenga Waka University Press #theockhams

'I want more medical doctors, not spin doctors' says man who employs seven full-time social media staff.

ASH is a powerful, searing first novel from Louise Wallace. But don't just take our word for it... ketebooks.co.nz/all-book-revie…

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The many entitlements Chris Luxon is entitled to apparently includes seven full-time social media staff members.

Surely not a great look when there are hundreds of public service roles being cut right now...

The guy who wants to spend billions on a road tunnel to get him from the Beehive to the airport faster, is one of the three ministers who will have Ministerial decree powers over every project in the proposed Fast Track process. This is banana republic stuff.

5 reasons why the Fast-track Approvals Bill threatens NZ’s already fragile ecosystems theconversation.com/5-reasons-why-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

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This is what it looks like. I also have to have an inspiring file name like the one in this image. Bahaaha.

The level of influence and media time David Seymour gets is massively disproportionate to the % of votes he got.

He’s a nasty little twerp blinded by a cruel ideology. Please stop enabling him.

So cancelling #OurFlagMeansDeath lost a ton of jobs for people in AoNZ, pulling the rug out from filming at the 11th hour, and now Warner Bros. Discovery is costing them even MORE jobs? Disgraceful #DontStreamOnMax #FireDavidZaslav