Marc Daalder
Senior Political Reporter at newsroom.co.nz covering climate change, health, energy and violent extremism | He/him ✡️
- A week of reporting from Waitangi for @newsroom.co.nz. Started with the question: After skipping Waitangi last year, how would Luxon be received at the start of election year? newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/03/h...
- Reposted by Marc Daaldereven if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him
- Reposted by Marc DaalderHighlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
- Rarely a good sign when your country is mentioned in @ed-king.bsky.social's monthly climate newsletter... #nzpol
- #Climate Diplo Brief: February 2026 As global tensions and emissions spiral, is the White House running a pro-climate PSYOPs? climatediplobrief.su...
- Reposted by Marc Daalder1) we are going to win, etc 2) this is a dangerous point where regimes like this decide they can’t rely on the legitimate courts and start setting up some parallel system of tribunals, etc.
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- Reposted by Marc DaalderWhen the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
- Reposted by Marc DaalderTake his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
- Reposted by Marc DaalderPersonally I think this is too much money to give to Donald trumps poorly trained but heavily armed Militia
- Sir Geoffrey Palmer, a former Labour PM, Attorney-General and Law Commission President, said Judith Collins is well-suited to head up the commission. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/l...
- Reposted by Marc Daalderevery time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
- Reposted by Marc DaalderLast week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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- Reposted by Marc DaalderAfter being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
- Reposted by Marc DaalderMAGA is defined by its total lack of a theory of mind for its enemies, and the fact that DHS and ICE still haven't wrapped their brains around the fact that their opponents also are able to highly effectively use the Internet to message, organize, and communicate really highlights that.
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- Reposted by Marc DaalderThe killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
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- Reposted by Marc DaalderExactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.
- Paywall now lifted: One in 27 homes now has rooftop solar, with more than 73,000 registered systems in the latest data from the Electricity Authority, which runs to the end of 2025. The top five solar adopting regions are not necessarily the five sunniest. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/26/w...
- Reposted by Marc Daaldersticks and stones may break my bones but names will make me shoot you
- Reposted by Marc DaalderI got fooled by someone who is famous for being a conman until it was too late. Here’s why that’s actually smarter than seeing it coming:
- One in 27 homes now has rooftop solar, with more than 73,000 registered systems in the latest data from the Electricity Authority, which runs to the end of 2025. More 🔢 and 📊 within: newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/26/w...
- A couple reports from Rātana on Friday. First, a wrap of the political news from the day: Weather, inflation, a $10 million koha, the race for Te Tai Hauāuru and entrenching the Māori seats. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/24/s...
- Reposted by Marc DaalderThis is, quite literally, our collective duty.
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- Reposted by Marc Daalder"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.
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- My New Year's Resolution for 2026 was to draw one bird a day. So far I've kept it up almost every day - and I think I've gotten a lot better in just a month! Cue my excitement, then, when I learned this week is @cornellbirds.bsky.social's #BirdArtWeek2026! Day 4 is #SpectatularSeabirds.
- Reposted by Marc DaalderLet tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.
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- Reposted by Marc Daalder"“Whatever you think it is, it’s worse,” Brandi Reilly, a neighbor who witnessed Thao’s detainment, told me by phone on Monday about what it’s been like in the Twin Cities of late. " www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-pau...
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- Great read from @kaseymcdonnell.co.nz @threesixtysix.news on the history of Wellington's tram network: threesixtysix.news/the-tr/
- Reposted by Marc DaalderMinneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
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- IRL data visualisation - have gone through our remaining salsas, jams and other preserves and organised them from oldest (right hand side, Jan 2019) to newest (left, May 2025).
- Reposted by Marc Daalderpretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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- New Zealand’s land and sea temperatures in 2025 were the highest in 151 years of records, prompting a new campaign from @climateclubnz.bsky.social to swap one car trip a week to walking, cycling or public transport. newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/2...
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- Reposted by Marc DaalderBREAKING: TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record." "Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."
- Reposted by Marc DaalderThere is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
- Reposted by Marc DaalderMurphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America
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- Reposted by Marc DaalderICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
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- Reposted by Marc Daalderhi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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- Reposted by Marc DaalderFOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
- Reposted by Marc DaalderPhiladelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask…No law enforcement professional shoots at a moving vehicle. “What Trump’s private army is doing…is not only against legal law, but moral law.” Vows to arrest agents on site who commit crimes.
- I was the first journalist to tour the new building for Parliament, as part of a feature on green construction and all the complications and benefits that accompany it. Read more: newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/10/h...
- Had an amazing time on Tiritiri Matangi last week - we saw kōkako, a sleepy ruru mum with her fledgling and (not pictured) a mātātā/fernbird fledgling, which was a lifer for me! 🪶 #birds www.instagram.com/reel/DTPF9Lo...
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- Reposted by Marc Daalderwhat this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me" you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
- Reposted by Marc DaalderWalz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
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