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Hey, I’m sorry about that outburst I had last week. It’s okay if you don’t care about the news and only care about yourself. There’s plenty of things going on out there in the world - some good, some not so good - but that shouldn’t matter to you, right? It’s all about you, baby. You vs. the world. Fuck everyone else, right? Don’t forget to charge your crystals this week, too.

A rare leaked document from the US Supreme Court revealed their desire to overturn women’s rights to safe abortions in America.

Roe v. Wades’ ruling protected women's rights to choose under US law, but a draft document leaked by Politico last week saw the courts claiming that the original decision wasn’t constitutional, and ‘must be overruled.’ Despite their desire to control what women do with their bodies, research shows that outlawing abortions doesn’t reduce the amount of abortions sought - in fact, it actually increases pregnancy-related deaths by up to 21%, as women seek out unsafe abortions elsewhere. Protests have been happening across the US over the last week, as women in the Land Of The FreeTM grapple with the new reality of having less rights than a gun. Abortion remains legal in Aotearoa, and women’s rights were protected further after a new law passed in March to prevent sick, sad freaks from protesting directly outside abortion clinics. Scallops are off the menu in the Coromandel, as the tipa population falls to critical levels.

The total population of scallops in the Hauraki Gulf has dropped by 93% over the last decade, with a 2020 Auckland Council report lamenting ‘mass mortality’ events among the shellfish caused by ‘adverse environmental conditions’ and ‘toxic algae blooms’. Local iwi have placed a rāhui on collecting shellfish to allow for numbers to recover, and several fisheries across Te Ika-a-Māui have followed suit. While everyone agrees that the decline in tipa numbers is due to human activity, the fisheries industry believe climate change is to blame, while others suspect ‘dredging’ (fisheries ‘obliterating the sea floor’ by dragging a giant claw across it) might have something to do with it. ‘This is the beginning of the end for dredging in the gulf,’ Auckland Councillor Pippa Coom told NZ Herald. ‘[We] will continue to advocate for a completely dredge-free future.’