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Rachel Morris

@rachelmorris.bsky.social
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Editor and writer. Formerly: editor of North & South, exec editor at Huffpost Highline and The New Republic.

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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What’s really happening inside our brains when we laugh at robots? I discover a powerful psychological phenomenon called the “Pratfall Effect” and talk to the founder of a robot fight club, for Slate: slate.com/technology/2...
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I Loved Watching These Robots Fall on Their Faces. Then I Realized What Was Actually Happening to Me.
The World Humanoid Games were actually a social experiment in the making.
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Anna Fifield @annafifield.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
China - which views the Iran conflict as another example of US-caused chaos, as the Global Times cartoon shows - is stepping in to broker an end to the debacle. Oh, and to bolster its diplomatic credentials and its push for a multipolar world order. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/annafifi...
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Can China broker an end to the Iran conflict?
And why this would be good for New Zealand — but also complicated.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...
More than 75,000 Post readers cancelled their subscriptions after the recent cuts. An even larger number bailed after Bezos killed the endorsement of Harris, but now the decline feels terminal. Bezos does not want a great paper with a conservative opinion page (like the Wall Street Journal). He seemingly barely wants a paper at all, treating one of the most important American media institutions like an embarrassing child from a previous marriage that no longer fits his lifestyle.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If this were Russia, everyone from the New York Times on down would be calling him a “regime-linked oligarch”
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/01/2026
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/01/2026
This is the reporting from @apmreports.org the doctor is citing. Renee Good had a pulse for at least 8 minutes and 34 seconds. www.apmreports.org/story/2026/0...
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ICE agents are trained in CPR. They didn’t use it on Renee Macklin Good
Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Age...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
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Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Good piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social about the liberal faculty lounge chin-stroking origins of what became a politically potent nativist argument about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. (Aside: I am sorry to hear that Peter Schuck, whose torts class I took 23 years ago, is ailing.)
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The Coffeepot @thecoffeepot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Rogers Smith was my thesis advisor in college. A kind and decent man without a xenophobic bone in his body. But the story of how his work became fodder for White supremacists is an object lesson in how galaxy brain thinking has consequences. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship
The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.
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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Fascinating piece by @rachelmorris.bsky.social on the long, strange path of a clause in the 14th amendment and the contested nature of citizenship www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship
The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Forty years ago, two liberal professors published a "provocative" book about immigration that sold poorly and got terrible reviews. It also inadvertently handed Trump the legal argument he's using to attack birthright citizenship. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Liberal Scholars Who Influenced Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship
The President’s executive order took inspiration from an esoteric legal argument from 1985, by two Yale professors. They have some regrets.
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"A real-estate lobbyist told me that he does not know anyone who is leaving the city because of Mamdani, though he does know 'several who may pied-à-terre.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power
The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 12/08/2025
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff says his office has documented more than 500 cases of abuse in immigrant detention centers, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.
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Investigation by Sen. Jon Ossoff alleges abuse of children, pregnant women in ICE custody
An investigation by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff alleges more than 500 counts of human rights abuses in immigration detention, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances. It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.
The flight manifests for three legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned. The additional people on the flight manifest have not been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government in any way, and immigration experts who have been closely monitoring Trump’s deportation campaign say they have no idea where these people are or what happened to them. 404 Media is now publishing the names of these people.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New data show that ICE is pulling record numbers of people off the streets who have no criminal convictions of any kind. This is not just a change from the Biden admin. This is a radical tactical shift compared to Trump 1.0. These arrests are up over 1,000% from 2017. www.cato.org/blog/ice-arr...
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I wrote about Jacinda Ardern’s new memoir and New Zealand’s strange transformation during the pandemic for the New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
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Why Did New Zealand Turn on Jacinda Ardern?
A new memoir by the former Prime Minister revisits her time in office but doesn’t explain the confounding transformation the country underwent during COVID.
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This sentence could have used some work.
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shardcore @shardcore.org · 05/05/2025
“The AI jobs crisis is not the sudden displacement of millions of workers in one fell swoop—instead, it’s evident in the attrition in creative industries, the declining income of freelance artists, writers, and illustrators, and in corporations’ inclination to simply hire fewer human workers.”
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We’re only 100 days in.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
One mother was allowed less than 2 minutes on the phone w/her husband to figure out what would become of her 2-year-old US citizen son. Another wasn’t allowed to speak w/attorneys or family members before she was deported, accompanied by her US-born kids, even though ICE knew one had Stage 4 cancer.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...
“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex.

“It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.”

The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
04/11/2025
Notice of Termination of Parole
it is time for you to leave the United States.
You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paroled you into the United States for a limited period. Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A) and 8 C.F.R. § 212.5(e), DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice.
If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States - unless you have otherwise obtained a lawful basis to remain here. Any benefits you receive in the United States connected with your parole - such as work authorization — will also terminate. You will be subject to potential criminal prosecution, civil fines, and penalties, and any other lawful options available to the federal government.
DHS encourages you to leave immediately on your own.
You can use the CBP Home mobile app on your phone to make arrangements for your departure. If you are departing the United States via land, you should report your departure once outside the United States via that same app. If you are having trouble reporting your departure via land, visit https://194.cbp.dhs.gov/home for more information about voluntarily reporting your departure.
Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States - the federal government will find you. Please depart the United States immediately.
I just got this 5 minutes and I'm not even in the United States or have been for months. I'm in Canada and a Canadian resident. I fly to Vegas tomorrow morning for the weekend and a little concerned? Does this look legitSpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Has anyone checked in with John Key to see how’s he’s feeling about his prediction that Trump would be “better on the economy”? www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Tariff War Risks Sinking World Into New Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce Warns
The world economy could face a downturn similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International C...
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Some DOGE staffers are getting paid six-figure salaries from the very agencies they're slashing and burning killer scoop from @knibbs.bsky.social !!!! www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Heating food in this kind of plastic packaging (even if you don’t burn it till the plastic melts into the food, ffs) is a public health disaster waiting to happen—toxic chemicals from the plastic leach into the food when heated. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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Children eat burned plastic in ‘appalling’ school lunch
“Disgusting and dangerous”: Children who reached the bottom of their lunch discovered the plastic container had melted into their food.
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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If Trump really believed that Zelensky is a dictator, he would get along with him far better than he does now.
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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I’ve spent the last 8 years working on a book about forever chemicals, or #PFAS, and the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to cover up their dangers. What I discovered along the way is deeply disturbing, and yet the journey has left me hopeful. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554198...
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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Trump admin says ICE has custody of migrants sent to Guantanamo, but it's DOD guards in Camp 6, a war-on-terror prison. It won't say who is being held incommunicado there, but we are publishing a list of 53 men in Camp 6. w/ @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...
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Some Migrants Sent by Trump to Guantánamo Are Being Held by Military Guards
The Times has obtained a list of 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has put in a wartime prison built to hold Al Qaeda suspects.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The fact that AREN’T live shots from the press and Dem members of Congress lined up outside each of these agencies is its own indictment of their ineffectualness.
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Must-read thread describing "significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers" by Musk/Thiel proteges who will only identify themselves by first name.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Great and very informative post from @mattdpearce.com on how people used AI during the LA wildfires Spoiler: they mostly did not at all. it's still too unreliable for news and health-related info mattdpearce.substack.com/p/people-sto...
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People stopped using AI during L.A.'s wildfires
AI had a trust problem when lives and homes were on the line.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Follow verified photo accounts! People are risking their lives to take these pictures - don't reward accounts that just jack their work.
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I don’t get why airlines don’t reverse the incentives here to solve this problem. Checked bags should be free but you have to pay for carry-on.
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Great to see. www.nzgeo.com/stories/1000...
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10,000 subscriptions!
You did it! We did it! Everyone did it! 10,000 subscriptions!
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon says the ICC arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant would be enforced if either visited New Zealand.
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
To be better prepared for the next inevitable #pandemic, NZ's Covid inquiry recommends investing in public health capacity - just as Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ is set to lose 1,500 more jobs theconversation.com/the-covid-in...
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The COVID inquiry report is an excellent guide to preparing for the next pandemic – health cuts put that at risk
The major logistical barrier to implementing the recommendations of the COVID inquiry is the downsizing of key government agencies needed to do this work.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Re: the first part, as someone who has been getting a flood of media requests in the last week about mass deportations, yeah, again, it's great people are asking now, but why is it that the national non-beat media is just now paying serious attention to what was Trump's number one campaign promise?
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Rachel Morris @rachelmorris.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Cyclone Gabrielle was the costliest storm recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. It's baffling how it quickly it faded from view and how little help its survivors received. A year on, there are still people who need help getting silt out of their homes. www.nzgeo.com/stories/cycl...
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