🇬🇧 in NZ 🇳🇿. Random commentary on politics and econ. Mostly econ. Used to tweet about tech in the distant past.
20 episode seasons? That's not how things work anymore. There are hundreds of competing shows now. Trek is suffering from the Star Wars fan situation. Rose tinted view of the past. No old fan is going to ever think anything tops The Next Generation...ever...ever..🤦♂️
www.space.com/entertainmen...
Star Trek needs to go back to 20+ episode seasons — and there's never been a better time
It is time for Star Trek to boldly go where no streaming series has gone before: back to the 20+ episode seasons of old!
People knowing facts is not somrthing the current US administration wants.
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/05/u...
CIA terminates its World Factbook | CNN
After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on Feb...
Paralyze the legal system. By the time it catches up people are deported....despicable. The rule of law and the Constitution is meaningless to these people.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Top Minnesota prosecutor says ICE cases are sidelining ‘pressing priorities’
The office has been swamped with cases stemming from Operation Metro Surge.
That we continue to use unemployment as a "buffer stock" is bordering on barbaric. Time to have a Job Guarantee and use that as the "buffer stock".
Yes, 90,000 kiwis unemployed + another 190,000 wanting more work in 2023 was 'utterly unsustainable'. While 115,000 unemployed + another 200,000 wanting more work in 2019 'seemed overheated'. I mean, jeez, what if the plebs got any big ideas and the shitty, underpaid, precarious jobs went unfilled?
Arrived *legally* to the US FIFTY years ago and an Army Veteran.
Monsters.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Georgia army veteran faces deportation after 50 years in U.S.: "Thank you for your service...should mean something"
A Covington Army veteran facing deportation after more than 50 years in the U.S. could be removed this week.
Steve Bannon calls for immigration agents at polling sites during midterms
Ex-Trump adviser adds to elections officials’ concern about potential interference from Trump administration in voting
Wtf is wrong with these people.
Pentagon warns Scouts: Ban girls or we will pull your funding :
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...Morally bankrupt.
Oops, Luxon’s been caught with his hand on it again. 🙄
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment
This "simple" grant of a petition for habeas corpus may be one of the defining moments of America in recent times.
Must read.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE
Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
They are only pro gun rights for those on the side of tyranny and King Trump the 3rd. If they don't like your politics or that you possess some actual humanity and compassion then no...no gun rights for you. They have a strange view on rights.
It was always crazy to me that the party that so wanted to rule in an authoritarian way for the past 40 years or so was also looking to arm the citizens they wanted to beat down and dominate. I guess that chicken is coming home to roost.
