First it was Labour then council rates then Fontera. Who or what next will Willis try to pin her financial mismanagement on?

It's not sci-fi, it's a new electric truck from Deepway which lands in New Zealand this weekend. No word on range yet, but it has a 600kWh CATL battery with an 8 year or 1.5 million km warranty. Etrucks NZ are saying it'll be "NZ's most affordable BEV semi-tractor".

It's rather shocking how the media took at face value the rationale provided by the government for ending same-day enrolment and other restrictive practices. I don't remember seeing any views contrary to the government rationale in this item.

Over 600 gigatons of glacier mass lost in a single year, the largest ice loss in five decades. 📊 Source: WMO State of Global Water Resources 2023 🔗 bit.ly/3EQt2j8 #Glaciers2025

Electrification could now reach 75% of all energy demand, as the road-transport and heating sectors rapidly electrify 🔥🚗 These two sectors account for 50% of global energy use and are now ready to switch from fossil molecules to clean electrons. ember-energy.org/latest-insight…

"Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s boss ... is poaching researchers with nine-figure salaries and building a data centre the size of Manhattan, dubbed Hyperion, which will consume the same amount of power in a year as New Zealand." economist.com/briefing/2025/…

Russia ‘sending kidnapped Ukrainian children to front line’ - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/ADofAtaDyTPm9x…

🚨 Russian fascists send kidnapped Ukrainian children turning 18 to the front line in Ukraine. Estimated to be in the thousands. Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields. These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.

A weather station in Storforshei, Norway, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, has now hit 30°C (86°F) or greater for 12 consecutive days. Let that sink in.

Israel's Depravity Will Always Find New Ways To Shock You. Israeli snipers are shooting starving civilians in different body parts on different days. There’s a head day, a leg day, a genitals day, etc. substack.com/app-link/post?…

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires. Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life. theconversationus.cmail19.com/t/r-l-tklluhuk…

Mer de Glace has lost 4.5 m in thickness at the level of the ice cave (1750 m) since the 1st May 2025! 😲😱 On 5th July it has been recorded 5 cm of ablation in 5 hours... 🔥 Ablation rates are truly absurd now in the Alps! 🥵 Source/pics: Pierre Jeanneret / IG

"In all of that darkness this is a ray of sunshine, this is a beacon, it gives us hope that we can leverage these decisions and effect change" - Mike Smith on the ICJ climate ruling rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

The anger around butter prices and Fonteera's trashing their social contract with Kiwis is deeper and more righteous than mere inflation | The Daily Blog buff.ly/ehwFYaa #nzpol

BREAKING: ALL communications with #Handala's crew have been JAMMED. We are losing contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel. Keep your eyes on the #FreedomFlotilla tracker. Tag & message your governments & elected officials! freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

From this day, forward, in 2025 we're running on a Planetary Deficit. Those of you who get riled about deficit spending, pay heed. At this rate, we'll be leaving a massive deficit to our grandchildren.

Petty, pathetic, unnecessary,expensive

Russian Pacific Fleet launches exercise "July Storm" • 150 warships + support vessels • 15,000+ troops from all 4 major fleets • 120 aircraft; 10 coastal missile systems • Pacific, Arctic, Baltic, + Caspian regions The series of major naval drills from 23-27 July is aimed

Conflict of interest: 101 newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/25/who…

That easy huh newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/25/who…