For anyone not paying attention #NZPol political influencers who have been recently convicted for pedophilia include Seymour’s bestie and former #ACT Party president Tim Jago and Brian Tamaki’s Destiny Church youth leader Kiwa Hamiora-Te Hira yet apparently a non binary Green MP’s social media account has been presented as a national crisis by our government and its Trumpian sycophants.
Universe’s First Light Has Just Been Revealed in Stunning Detail : ScienceAlert…
After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope #ACT has compiled the most detailed map we've ever seen of the cosmic microwave background – the faint light that permeates the #Universe from just 380,000 years after the #BigBang...
Universe’s First Light Has Just Been Revealed in Stunning Detail : ScienceAlert…
After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope #ACT has compiled the most detailed map we've ever seen of the cosmic microwave background – the faint light that permeates the #Universe from just 380,000 years after the #BigBang...
Hungary's use of facial recognition violates EU AI Act
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/hungarys-use-of-facial-recognition-violates-eu-ai-act/
Repealing the CHIPS Act risks US national security
https://www.ft.com/content/c6e7bc46-ab8f-49b6-8973-8c2906cc3604
Composite image from #AutomatedMothTrap operated in #Aranda, #ACT, #Australia over night of 13 to 14 Mar 2025.
High-resolution (7740 × 4760) copy at: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54384355027_82793a0b7b_o.jpg
https://amt.hobern.net/ @dhobern@scicomm.xyz #Lepidoptera #entomology
We can’t hope to prevent all the harm #Trump is doing or indeed our own government in the #UK . We can all help make things better, #Volunteer , get #Political or #Donate (there are many organisations doing good work - I have donated to UNICEF and the WHO Foundation today). Do what you can - #Act . #FuckTrump
Words are powerful.
But we #Europeans need to wake up to the fact that words alone do not shield us from military attacks from violent, ruthless enemies.
When hard power is used brutally to try to destroy us, subjugate us, and destroy our culture, history and identity, we need to act to generate hard power fast, and words can be used to mobilise us into #action
But words will never replace action.
We must realise this now.
Immediately.
Let's use words to mobilise and unite, and #ACT
The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee,
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.,
told ProPublica she didn’t believe DOGE had the legal authority for the actions it’s taken.
She called it a
“made-up federal department” that’s wasting taxpayer dollars.
“This unlawful effort is stealing federal funds from American families and businesses,” DeLauro said
Most of DOGE’s money, records show, has come in the form of payments from other federal agencies
made possible by a nearly century-old law called the
#Economy #Act.
To steer those funds to the new department, the Trump administration has treated DOGE as if it were a federal agency.
And by dispatching members of its staff to other agencies and having those staffers issue edicts about policy and personnel, DOGE has also behaved as if it has agency-level authority.
https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-trump-musk-funding-foia-congress-transparency
Seymour has just received another public whack from National. I don't think they like him.
Seymour has ministerial responsibility for school attendance. Last year he claimed schools were "setting a bad example" by holding “teacher only days” and promised to cut back the practise.
But today Erica Stanford said Seymour did not have the ministerial authority or support to make decrees or promises about teacher only days.
Touché, Mr 8% blowhard.
These days Guy Williams has to doorstep at a Waitangi press standup to get an appearance from David Seymour, who claims he's not even a proper comedian.
How the worm turns. Back in 2017, as the only ACT MP, Rimmer was so desperate for publicity he was happy to appear on a budget TV show presented by Guy Williams (and his Dad?);
Curiously I see #Luxon was also asked at his presser what he thought of Seymour and #ACT advising Tim Jago's sexual assault survivors to seek assistance from an employment lawyer they recommended rather than going to the #Police. The party of Law & order appear to have been accomplices to preventing justice being sort. Luxon had nothing of importance to say about that, other than it's not my problem.
ABOUT TIME TOO
Convicted former #ACT President has lost his right to name supression and Tim Jago has been named for his conviction of sexual offending against boys.
This is the man who had his trial delayed until after the 2023 #NZPol election after complaints from #ACT and #Seymour that public knowledge of this mans sexual offending could affect the election result. #CoalitionOfCorruption
Sen. #Adam #Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday blasted President Donald Trump for his decision to fire 18 inspectors general late Friday night and accused the president of breaking the law.
“To write off this clear violation of law by saying, ‘Well,’ that ‘technically, he broke law.’
-- Yeah, he broke the law,” Schiff told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
His comment was responding to Sen. #Lindsey #Graham, R-S.C., who earlier in the program told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that
-- “technically, yeah,” Trump had violated the #Inspector #General #Act, which Congress amended to strengthen protections from undue termination for inspectors general.
“I’m not, you know, losing a whole lot of sleep that he wants to change the personnel out. I just want to make sure that he gets off to a good start,” Graham added
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/adam-schiff-trump-broke-law-firing-inspectors-general-rcna189327
Bryan Bruce breaks down Seymour's "State of the Nation" nonsense, with a hammer. There's even a dash of Atlas Network for good measure. Worth a read.
Every Friday morning from ten to eleven, we enjoy an "Old Farts of the Stone Arch Players'" Zoom Call. We all became active in our local community theater during the 1980s. #zoomcall #zoomcalls #communitytheater #communitytheatre #communitytheaters #communitytheatres #act
I'm struggling to find the energy for yet another summer holiday #NZPol submission opposing Regulatory Standards Bill being introduced to parliament. This #AtlasNetwork political interference has far reaching ramifications for everyday #NewZealand citizens. A perfect example of how this #ACT Party bill threatens the rights we take for granted was on full display with firefighters unable to access enough water to fight the #LAFires due to corporate control of LA's water.
