Catherine Arrow

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million. This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

Internal documents show multiple tiers of staff at MSD are being assessed on whether they keep emergency housing grants below the government's targets, and threatened with performance management if they don't. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=kD3vzL…

Significant that this company paused its #fasttrack application when asked questions it couldn’t answer: “fast-track panel assessing plans for vast gold mine in Central Otago wants to know if applicant would foot the bill following a catastrophic failure”: rnz.co.nz/news/environme…

Not porn this time. Seems @mangonui08 has a limo on standby for a trip that would have taken him 3 minutes to walk. & while defending his need bc of blizzard conditions, seems there’s an internal access between his hotel & the conference centre next door. stuff.co.nz/politics/36099…

Io e l’Italia non imploriamo mai.

Brilliant speech. Brilliant speaker. Brilliant man.

All pretence cast aside. A vicious attack on the Anti-Zionist movement by the British state acting for the Zionist regime in defence of genocide. Shameful. #FreeTheFilton4

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

Produced by the Dicastery for Integral Human Development and EWTN a video reflection on Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, opened the historic launch event on May 25, 2026 in the Vatican.

Whether it is Winston calling the media “Fake News” and picking fights with journalists, David Seymour manipulating our public broadcasters to suit his interests, or Luxon refusing to appear, the coalition’s approach to the media is anti-democratic. Link ⬇️

The climate law the Government introduced to stop people suing large emitters is near-identical to a written suggestion from two large emitters. But the Government says it has no record of any such note.

3. Without full transparency around the extractives sector from permits to disclosure of beneficial ownership, contracts, revenues, payments (including political donations), and social & environmental safeguards, NZers should be very concerned about the current govt approach.

A pleasure to meet with Māori Queen Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po today at Windsor Castle.

BREAKING The NZ government is changing the law to protect big polluters from both current and future climate litigation. It’s an unprecedented overreach of executive power and a constitutional aberration that reveals the extent to which the coalition government prioritises profits over people.

Trumpian template indeed - spot on from @mjdutt

Ani O’Brien is a key node in a far-right disinformation network magnifying Trumpian techniques and verified foreign interference accounts. Her attacks on media, academics, civil society, politicians from the margins is part of the blueprint. Blog post below⬇️

💯@mjdutt: “at stake is…whose voices occupy the most powerful interpretive positions in a state-owned broadcaster before a general election in which the governing coalition is increasingly relying on the techniques of the international far right to manage public discourse”

@MaikiSherman @etangata Sorry to see this. Hope you are ok.

A statement from me…