@secondzeit

Almost the last NZ journalist on Twitter. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. These opinions are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.

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FT’s report on Lula’s comeback says Flávio Bolsonaro’s “nine fingers” jab in the final debate, mocking the finger Lula lost in a factory accident at 17 while working nights, became a turning point. The attack let Lula draw a sharp contrast between his own working-class history and Bolsonaro’s background, helping shift momentum in the runoff.
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How Lula turned his election fortunes around in 3 weeks ft.trib.al/XwYLjjG

How Lula turned his election fortunes around in three weeks

With an energetic online push and social giveaways, Brazil’s president reignited his campaign between the first and second rounds

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Winston Peters
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Warm congratulations to President Lula da Silva on securing a renewed mandate from the Brazilian people in today’s election. Building on our visit to Brasilia in March, New Zealand looks forward to expanding our cooperation with Brazil in the months and years ahead. -WP @LulaOficial 📸 Visit to Brazil, March 2026
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Linda Mamoun
@mamoun_lindaOct 25
Ezra Klein: “Most Israeli Jews now see the world the way Netanyahu has long seen it. That is Netanyahu’s great victory. But it is matched by his great loss: Much of the world now sees Israel the way Gazans see it.” nytimes.com/2026/10/25/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | Netanyahu Won the Middle East and Lost the World

Both Israelis and Palestinians are trapped in the Netanyahu paradigm.

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Dov Waxman
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It's clearer than ever why it's so dangerous that Israel has a leader who is on trial for corruption: Netanyahu's future freedom depends on his political survival, and with his political survival currently in jeopardy, he is willing to provoke a resumption of war with Iran, and risk igniting a third Intifada in the West Bank.
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The way the constant imminent threat of a war with Iran that cld derail election coming from Iran or Israel or the US is being thrown around haphazardly is just sick- and the bottom line, Netanyahu and Trump have made it impossible to discern genuine threat from political spin
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The IDF chief of staff has effectively told/confirmed to the Israeli public that Netanyahu is trying to provoke a war with Iran for political survival.
Yaron Avraham ירון אברהם
@yaronavrahamOct 25
חשיפה עכשיו במהדורה | עימות חסר תקדים בין הרמטכל לבין ראש הממשלה שהגיע לשיא או לשפל ביממה האחרונה הנושא ברקע: הסוגיה האיראנית וחשש של זמיר שנתניהו והדרג המדיני עלולים להוביל לתרחיש של מיסקלקולציה מול איראן רגע לפני הבחירות גורם ביטחוני: מדובר בפעולה שעלולה להוביל לעימות בזק מול איראן בעיתוי רגיש ודרמטי, ולייצר מיסקלקולציה גורמים בקיאים בפרטים: חשש של הדרג הצבאי מניסיון לנצל את הסוגיה האיראנית לתנופה פוליטית , טענה שגורמים מדיניים מכחישים וטוענים שמדובר בשקר של ממש כך או כך, 2 מקורות מספרים לי שזה הגיע לרמה שהיום בביקור בפלמחים האווירה בדיון הייתה עכורה עד מאוד בימים האחרונים זמיר קיבל איזושהי הנחיה מהדרג המדיני אבל ביקש דיון מעמיק לפני ביצוע הוא גם ביקש אסמכתאות חוקיות וחתומות של הדרג המדיני על המהלך בכיר ביטחוני: ההיסטוריה לא תשכח את התפקיד שמילא פה זמיר בימים האחרונים ובשורה התחתונה: עימות יוצא דופן בחריגות שלו בין זמיר לנתניהו, סביב הסוגיה באיראן, רגע לפני מועד הבחירות. נדגיש: כל הפרטים בידיעה הזו עברו את אישורה של הצנזורה הצבאית
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Simon Wilson@simonbwilsonOct 23
So much noise and so much confusion, and yet what a time for hope this is. Hope and hard work, that is, because despite appearances this election is not be about gangs and race. New Hopetown post on Substack today #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
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Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 24
“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama
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George D. Henderson@puddlegOct 24
R.I.P. Pauline Parker thepuddle.bandcamp.com/track…

Exiles, by The Puddle

from the album Songs For Emily Valentine

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Justin Chang@JustinCChangOct 24
A delight to partner with @tnyfrontrow on a few capsule film reviews this week (link below). And I rarely say this, but here's one to skip!
“Klara and the Sun” The film’s director and co-writer, Taika Waititi, who milked the Holocaust for laughs and tears in “Jojo Rabbit,” has now slipped a whoopee cushion beneath Kazuo Ishiguro’s melancholic science-fiction novel from 2021. In this staggeringly inane adaptation, Jenna Ortega plays Klara, a solar-powered android who stands on one leg, worships the sun, and takes in her surroundings with glitchy, wide-eyed naïveté. Purchased as an artificial companion for an ailing teen-ager (Mia Tharia), Klara becomes our uncomprehending guide to a post-Third World War rural dystopia whose class disparities have been exacerbated by élite genetic enhancements and high-tech toys. Ishiguro’s delicately interior prose asked what makes us human; Waititi’s stultifying pseudo-comedy makes everyone, human or humanoid, sound snarkily pre-programmed. It’s “Jojo Robot.”—J.C.

ALT “Klara and the Sun” The film’s director and co-writer, Taika Waititi, who milked the Holocaust for laughs and tears in “Jojo Rabbit,” has now slipped a whoopee cushion beneath Kazuo Ishiguro’s melancholic science-fiction novel from 2021. In this staggeringly inane adaptation, Jenna Ortega plays Klara, a solar-powered android who stands on one leg, worships the sun, and takes in her surroundings with glitchy, wide-eyed naïveté. Purchased as an artificial companion for an ailing teen-ager (Mia Tharia), Klara becomes our uncomprehending guide to a post-Third World War rural dystopia whose class disparities have been exacerbated by élite genetic enhancements and high-tech toys. Ishiguro’s delicately interior prose asked what makes us human; Waititi’s stultifying pseudo-comedy makes everyone, human or humanoid, sound snarkily pre-programmed. It’s “Jojo Robot.”—J.C.

Richard Brody@tnyfrontrowOct 23
My friend and colleague @JustinCChang and I teamed up on a newsletter roundup of new releases; I have special enthusiasm for one film in the batch, Eleanor Coppola's absorbing and moving documentary Making Marie Antoinette: links.newyorker.com/e/evib?_…
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I am deeply fascinated by the modern right's insistence that "the elite" is a category that does not actually include the ultra wealthy who dominate society and dictate many of its laws, and is instead made up of socialist teachers, anti-genocide protestors, and "woke" baristas.
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Vincent Jones@JonesVincenttOct 23
Always good weather in that wonderful town at this time of the year (Hastings this photo is from, not Napier)
Philip Matthews@secondzeitOct 23
Nice day out in Napier
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henry cooke@henrycookeOct 22
Kerrin Leoni has resigned as a Labour candidate:
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VANITY FAIR
@VanityFairOct 22
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers

An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former...

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Today we're thrilled to be publishing a new B-format edition of This Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti. This is a beautifully written and deeply important book, which was the well-deserved winner of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for General Non-Fiction.
Book cover for This Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti showing a black-and-white close-up of a woman’s chest with a ta moko, teal title text and border, and a New Zealand Book Awards "Winner" badge.

ALT Book cover for This Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti showing a black-and-white close-up of a woman’s chest with a ta moko, teal title text and border, and a New Zealand Book Awards "Winner" badge.

A black tile with white writing saying Winner of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for General Non‑Fiction, and featuring a vertical black-and-white Ockham Book Awards logo with the word WINNER beneath.

ALT A black tile with white writing saying Winner of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for General Non‑Fiction, and featuring a vertical black-and-white Ockham Book Awards logo with the word WINNER beneath.

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pauline kael bot@paulinekaelbotOct 21
[CAT PEOPLE] Each shot looks like an album cover for records you don't ever want to play. (1982)
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Darren Linvill@DarrenLinvillOct 21
It appears the Russian Storm-1516 narrative laundering campaign has finally come for the U.S. midterms. Yesterday they placed a false story on X saying James Talarico sexually assaulted one of his students in 2012. This follows the Russian playbook. Let me show you how. 1/5
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Sharon Murdoch@domesticanimalOct 21
Pacifier My #cartoon today in The Post #Trump #Putin #UkrainianWar #Russia #USA
Cartoon. Title: “Pacifier” Image shows Putin cradling Trump like a baby, feeding him from a diesel bowser. The bowser has “Ukraine War” ticking over on the counter.

ALT Cartoon. Title: “Pacifier” Image shows Putin cradling Trump like a baby, feeding him from a diesel bowser. The bowser has “Ukraine War” ticking over on the counter.

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The New Statesman
@NewStatesmanOct 21
We have published an open letter against the removal of Sally Rooney’s books from sale in Britain.  Between them, the signatories to the New Statesman open letter have won every major literary prize, from the Booker to the Pulitzer. They include Nobel laureates: Anne Carson, the most recent winner of the literature award; Annie Ernaux, and JM Coetzee. These are voices from all over the world, including pre-eminent novelists: Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, George Saunders, Ben Lerner and many more. Key figures in the wider Rooneyverse are signed up: Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, Alison Oliver, Fionn O’Shea and Lenny Abrahamson. Among the award-winning actors, filmmakers, and screenwriters who have signed include: Tilda Swinton, Susan Sarandon, Jessie Buckley, Jonathan Glazer, Armando Iannucci and Sharon Horgan. In total, over 150 major figures have signed. Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist.
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