Ah yes. Silica. The substance that famously causes lung disease in people who breathe in tiny specks thereof. Yes let’s blast that into our atmosphere.

So ... The curriculum had to be rewritten because achievement wasn't high enough, but NCEA has be replaced because achievement is too high?

How is it that the people who are always complaining about "declining birth rates" are also always big supporters of the exact economic policies that have destroyed the financial hopes of so many people? These things aren't unrelated. But they're always weird creeps, and usually very racist.

Once again cis people who regularly report about trans people's health-care like it's the hight of deranged pornography are reporting on a literal kink thing like it's a new health supplement.

Pass it on. #nzpol

Research shows that if a political left party tries to win votes by adopting versions of radical right policies, they lose votes to the right. It doesn’t work. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

French prosecutors are summoning Elon Musk to the French capital again—this time to face preliminary criminal charges in a sprawling investigation into his social-media platform, X. on.wsj.com/4wgu0Lf

I can find the NZF coalition agreement but it's hardly a robust policy discussion. The 1 News article talks about Min of Justice staff criticising it, but where is that? "The fact that the Government tried to do this without telling anyone speaks volumes. They know this is wrong." - Tamatha Paul

What is it with Stuff publishing fascist-simping articles by the truckload? Today they pushed Act’s migrant-bashing policy without any challenge or deep thought. Like, c’mon, apart from the warped idea of a test in the first place, “what it means to be a NZer” is not a thing, it’s a con. 🧵 #nzpol

Golden visa holders dont need english proficiency tests because, as we all know, money talks. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I thought this might be more obvious to most people, but clearly not. www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Weird how what Michel Mulipola said was “bad and violent” but Act accepting donations from someone wanting to blow up mosques, telling people to blow up the ministry of Pacific peoples, calling people deranged for disagreeing with you, and protecting pedos, is fine. God, they’re the worst 🙄

We desperately need a great 'de-uteification' of the NZ economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

One of these is 'Political Violence' & one is 'just jokes' Free Speech. Fuck I am sick to death of this pissant crybaby hypocritical cunt. #NZPol

Truly an absolutely fucking thrilling time to be a minority in the UK right now. These are all from just the past few weeks.

So the NZ Govt helped two rich white men who had assaulted a policemen in Thailand to come home. A virtual get out of jail free card, but Winston Peters - The Minister In charge - is MIA for a NZ woman (not rich) detained in an ICE facility despite committing zero crime. #nzpol

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Because employees might have intellectual disabilities or difficulty with speech or motor skills, instead of providing reasonable accommodations, employers get tax breaks and to pay subhuman wages, and disabled people are meant to be grateful about it.

love the way NZ @greens.org.nz MPs use SM to communicate to young & old, #nzpol geeks & *non-voters* alike. complex issues are demystified, distilled. motivation, focus & hope are offered. 🟢 MPs take what truly matters, seriously. (they can also be very funny & sassy af. have to go to IG for that 🤣)

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

📺 NZ Green Party #nzpol 📢 We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally. 👉more news/weather bots

And the money paid in basic income *stays* in the society as people buy what they need

It’s getting harder and harder to stay in NZ as things get more expensive and shitty. If I’m finding it hard, my heart goes out to those on low incomes, with insecure housing or with health conditions. Is it so radical to want people to be housed, fed and employed (for those than can and want work)?

Party vote Green💚 #nzpol

It is absolutely essential you make sure you’re enrolled to vote and the people you know are, too. Winston riding high right now is a dangerous time - having a new PM, someone he’ll likely hate, will make his snap election trigger finger very itchy.

ENROL YOUR TEENS PEOPLE! You can pre-enrol a 17 yo too. Just do it! Go to vote.nz

Just observing that parties who consistently say they back vulnerable communities now have an opportunity to actually back that up in practice by loudly committing to policy to support those impacted by Long Covid, if elected - this is what aligning to the values you say you have actually means 💡🤔

This right-wing coalition government laser-focussed on growing the the economy have created stagflation in NZ. A period of: • high unemployment • low growth • increasing inflation And they did this for ideological reasons by taking away public services that every Kiwi relies on. #nzpol

'Don Braid told Morning Report moving freight via rail was more efficient than by truck, "yet we haven't seen KiwiRail stand up to offer additional services".'

UK peeps: there's less than a month before the EHRC guidance on trans rights comes back to parliament; write to your MP NOW to ask them to write to the minister and tell them to get it right this time and not be bigots! goodlaw.social/de78a7

More than 100 writers have quit the historic French publishing house Grasset in protest at its conservative billionaire owner, Vincent Bolloré, whose media empire has been accused of promoting reactionary and far-right ideas. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

People willing calling people by their chosen names of Clavicular or Sneako but complain about trans people pronouns. Get fucked

Anthony Ellison's cartoon in the March 28-April 3 Listener. #nzpol

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Steve Banon, Trump and the misogynist gang did just that to New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for shaming them with the best COVID response in the world. It could have been even better if current PM misogynist Christopher Luxon hadn't insisted we open our borders too early. #NZPol

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

Election results: One week after Festus leaders approved a deeply controversial $6 billion data center plan in Jefferson County, voters removed all four incumbent city council members up for re-election.

The Luxon Govt chose to turn their backs on international law and action on climate; instead they chose to embrace Trump, fossil fuels, and war. They seem to be having buyers regret.

Funny (not funny) how he's all for the Independent Remuneration Authority benchmarking MPs' wages against comparators in the public and private sectors making similar demands in terms of skills, responsibility etc., and yet when it comes to thousands of women's jobs .....

We have an all-of-government contract for diesel procurement? Why not have an all-of-government for procuring school solar installations? ☀️ That would certainly help reduce fuel use. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

But thank god the Maori don’t have co-governance eh. FFS

we all understand why this tone of reporting in NZ papers is *evil* right?

Sure seems like the moment to conserve fuel and immediately implement things like free public transport if we have less than a month of petrol actually in the country and only a month of petrol on the way 🤔🫠 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The government is cutting the Total Mobility subsidy — transport for disabled people with no other options. Down from 75% to 65%. From July 1, card holders pay 35% out of pocket. One councillor voted no: “This is not efficiency. It is isolation, a missed appointment, and lost independence.” #nzpol

If we can’t afford decent public transport, how can we afford to import 1000s of top-end sports cars every year? If we can’t afford decent quality healthcare, how can we afford cosmetic surgery, luxury cruises, and helipads for the name-suppressed, op-shop, Epstein class? You get the drift. [Ends]

So, when you hear the ‘how will we afford it’ question, counter like this – and remember that the ‘we’ here is NZ *as a whole*: If we can’t afford enough people to teach and support in schools, how can we afford to pay the Aussie banks $10bn a year? [cont...] [11/n]