Nexus Breaks the News – Issue 21

AUCKLAND’S CRL… CHRIS REALLY LIKES IT! 
 
The people of Auckland were in absolute heat for the opening of the City Rail Link, as evidenced by a fire breaking out on the morning of it’s big day. Nexus can neither confirm nor deny that the fire was a diversion for Chris Bishop to cruise in the public toilets.  
 
 
 
THEY HAD IT RIGHT IN 1792  

 
The Science Media Center reached out to multiple experts now that it’s basically guaranteed that we’re doing the thing that we all got together and promised not to do: Surpass 1.5°C of global warming. The SMC asked these experts what our best remaining strategy might be to mitigate the effects of this change, and the remaining pages of the press release are full of various JPEGs and PNGs of guillotines.  
 
 

 
SEYMOUR, SEYMOUR, ON THE WALL… WHO’S THE NONCIEST OF THEM ALL? 
 
In the debut episode of Anna Thomas’ ‘candid’ road trip podcast, Power Steering, David Seymour got in the passenger seat to answer questions about his childhood, aspirations, and his wedding plans. When asked what he would do with a magic wand, David said he would ‘remove the will to fight’, further proving my theory that ACT has a  
‘What’s the rapey-ist thing one of our MPs can say this month?’ quota.  
 
 
 
HAMILTON’S HAMILTON SIGN DEFACED 
 
National MP for Hamilton East, seeking reelection this year, Ryan Hamilton, took to social media to stand in front of one of his promotional signs which had been defaced with “CUNT” and “FASICST” and denounce the act as vandalism of Private Property. Hamilton bemoaned the anonymous vandal as cowardly – he did not, however, say that they were wrong.