In today’s NZ Herald

"Luxon's Govt keeps saying there's 'no magic money tree' for basic public services and child poverty - but there is one for landlord tax cuts and new military spending?" - Chlöe Swarbrick @greens.org.nz 27 May #nzpol

Stuffing themselves with $15 ($15!!! FFS!!!) pies while happy to force slop onto our kids, and let food costs for everyone else spiral out of control... There's well over a mil in annual income at that trough and guaranteed the taxpayer is picking up the tab... #Election26 #DitchThePricks

Guillotine time!

Willis again claiming envy from private renters against social renters as her rationale for shifting funding between them. #MorningReport #NzPol

Behold, a woman!

"How splendid his Majesty looks in his new clothes, and how well they fit!"

U.S. Navy is quietly assisting commercial vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz, including a Greek supertanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude en route to India.

Excellent substack post by @pkrugman.bsky.social asking important questions: "How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?"

Great cover image, highlighting a critical issue #ZaporizhzhiaNPS ☢️ youtu.be/MWkuPDmS6Gs

There was this incident where a Chinese influencer hadn’t know what June 4th was, got in trouble for showing a cake shaped like a tank around the sensitive day and got shut down. Which then made all the young people who also did not know about Tiananmen find out for themselves exactly what happened

@petersgoodman.bsky.social I’m watching you on with Christiane Amanpour about the famine in Somalia and how doge and the regime are closing more USAID accts in billion$$$ and KEEPING the $$$ OUR TAX DOLLAR$$$ instead of distributing it despite Congress. Meanwhile all the good xtians of America are

Jo Cribb, the former head of the Ministry for Women, says the ministries most at risk in the public sector restructure are those that exist precisely because mainstream agencies failed to deliver for the people they represent.

It really is infuriating that *half of the population* are still widely considered a minority, or different and special group.

WELCOME BACK EMOTIONAL JUNIOR STAFFER

OH COME THE FUCK ON.

Very trumpian of NACT1st

If you are new to this - Z energy and Fonterra handed the gov legislation to protect themselves from legal action *already under way* and the PMs office hid the fact this had happened We should not allow private industry to secretly write law to protect them from US holding them liable #nzpol

As of today, firms linked to donations to National/NZ First parties are four times more likely to have received approval under the fast track process than firms not linked. Currently 7% of all 300 FT applications are linked to donations, but 30% of the 23 FT approvals are linked to donations.

Happy Memorial Day, Bluesky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOj...

#BusNews: Celebrated essayist David Hill catches a regional bus and learns a few things on the journey. Via The Spinoff: thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-0...

"I'd be careful saying that John." The irony here is no one remembers what John said. We all remember the threat Chris gave though. I wonder which one has to be careful they don't spend the next six months with their foot in their mouth... #nzpol

Not the way I type!

The wholesome equivalent of patriotism

Well done to all who took part in the cheese rolling, only 78 deaths this year, your sacrifices will be recorded in the ledger and ensure a great cheese harvest for 2026. 🧀

Ingrid Hipkiss loves saying "Nicola Willis is a duck-faced horse" 😅

@adrianchills.bsky.social has taken up the challenge of writing a horror short story based on each one of Adrian Chiles columns. They never fail to crack me up.

From the creators of “Kyiv in 3 Days”, the Kremlin proudly presents: The HOORAY of a Collapsing Empire.

Nice radio gig you've got here. Shame if something were to happen to it under the new board my ministers are about to appoint www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

I guess the tvnz Breakfast team did not know this either, because surely when they interviewed Seymour this morning they would have politely asked him 'why the reversal' rather than let him go on about how the govt cares. #nzpol

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

Kieran Macca giving a great answer.

White dog vs freshly mown lawn

Anyway, currently listening to: www.radioactive.fm/rootsandcult...

The difference between having a cat and having a dog is staggering. Having a dog is like having child who’s disgusting. Having a cat is like having a painting that’s mad at you.

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Translated: NZ First wants to Syphon more of our money away to foreign owned petrochemical companies rather than protect the environment and invest in renewables, like, idk, CHINA have! #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If this ends up being the deal, I'm fucking THRILLED. No more bombing a country that posed no threat to us AND Trump humiliates himself on the world stage? I mean, baby, unfurl the "Mission Accomplished" banner STAT!

if he fired 20-30 shots that sounds more like twitter or facebook to me

well done william

"Suspect taken to hospital" – how you know they're white.

This week's comic: The dangers of solar panels

ABC White House Correspondent Selina Wang was recording at the White House when she heard gunshots and took cover.

Stealing your idea for a French bakery called Du'Paindalorian en Grogu

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

what you in for? #HURvHIG 🏉

Furiously voting 'NO' as many times as I can… #HURvHIGb #SuperRugbyPacific 🏉

Gagh! They threw the Michelin Man on a tyre fire!