This International Womenβs Day/Week, my wish is simple: no creeps in the workplace and women actually being safe at work π‘π€¬
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This International Womenβs Day/Week, my wish is simple: no creeps in the workplace and women actually being safe at work π‘π€¬
The Government has a responsibility to ensure that technologies launched from New Zealand soil are not being used to help other countries wage war.
If Rocket Lab launches from Aotearoa are supporting the illegal war on Iran then the Government must be transparent about this.
This quote has been with me every day since I first heard it and I love her so much for saying it.
FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city
can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase βaccused him without evidenceβ no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory βhasnβt been formally charged.β www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...
Maybe they relied on AI to pick targets. But they bombed the school twice, hitting it again 40 minutes after the initial strike, in order to kill survivors and first responders. The mere *existence* of AI means no one has to be held responsible for this crime against humanity
"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals."
Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.Β On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.Β Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.Β "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTokβthe video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
A filthy ute covered in dirt with the words scribbled Bye bye Luxon
Meanwhile
THAT PICTURE from this morning
Bye Bye Luxon
Talk about leaving things to the last minute...
Spainβs ability to defy Trump is in part do to their shift toward βrenewablesβ and away from
fossil fuels, but it is also from
the distinct way that Spain remembers how and why it became targeted by terrorist attacks and them not wanting to be made vulnerable again by joining with the US
Almost 90 people being cut.
Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada:
βI donβt know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."
βSaudi Arabia has started reducing oil production as the near-blockage of the critical Strait of Hormuz starts filling up storage tanks, according to a person familiar with the matter.β β www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
weβve had two truly enormous crises under Trump and the first one was covid which everyone apparently gave him a pass for despite the fact that he made it worse
but this one is completely, obviously, unquestionably his fault and would not have happened without him
Attacks leave dead vs killed
Hey. You know how the AI grift has been teetering on the brink of financial collapse and taking the whole economy with it?
Well.
Guess what all those AI slop data centers run on.
Diesel generators.
"Unsure" polling higher than the actual leader #nzpol
Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the craneβs cab
βFrom the height of the port craneβ Rudolf Baranov, 1974
They're going to poison a city with 17 million people
This is the man Senators who present themselves as serious human beings are going to rubber stamp into the office of Director of Homeland Security. Show some self-respect and some love of country and vote no.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
oh people donβt want to be out in the streets? the streets that are being bombed? those streets?
Remember when the IDF had a squad dress up as medical personnel to enter a hospital and execute an injured man in his hospital bed
A picture of all-time badass Stagecoach Mary Fields, holding her rifle.
Happy International Women's Day!
Remember, when in doubt, do as Stagecoach Mary Fields did, and either headbutt, shoot it, set it on fire, or let your horses trample it.
"She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana."
The House: MPs agree infrastructure debate should be politics free
Except this is impossible when three parties in Government are politically and ideologically opposed to delivering sustainable infrastructure with value for money and addressing the requirements for the future. Billions on roads ain't doing the job. It's political.
Sad to hear of the death of Herbs founding member Dilworth Karaka today. Of all the members of the band, the big man was the best communicator, and I had some good chats with him back in the day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqaH...
I built my first ever website aged 10 in self-taught HTML. Safe to say things are a bit different now, 31 years later, but I really enjoyed pulling together the website for Predator Free KΔpiti Coast recently and am pleased to set it loose into the world.
www.predatorfreekapiticoast.org