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Erica Stanford’s end of year report, written by 500 NZ teachers, is a good read. In other news, her office is refusing to process an OIA where I ask for numbers of educators who support her, since she keeps referring to them. Having quite a good back and forth about it!

We are going to have to do something about *waves hands* all this shit

Lifeline has been trying to get a meeting with the Minister for the past year to no avail. There's money for landlords, tobacco companies, and dodgy guys like Mike King, but when it comes to saving lives this government doesn't give a fuck #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

"Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left." Hey, @governor.ca.gov are you listening?

Since 2019, researchers have selected about 1,200 college and high school students to receive $400 no-strings “contributions” to use “to pursue what matters most” to them — something that benefits their community, family or even themselves. 6-8 weeks after... (1/2) No paywall: archive.ph/6xBRY

He's desperate to give off the Illusion of leadership by making his problems and people disappear!

I’d also like to take the opportunity to wish Duncan Grieve a very happy “reflect on how wrong you were about trans politics”, looking forward to your long piece discussing how you got duped by the disinfo machine jenniferkshields.nz/newsletter/i...

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

And today they are trying to work out how to make homeless people become invisible people instead, while they flog off state housing to their private developer mates. Bitter living everyone! #OneTermGovernment #nzpol #NZpolitics #Aotearoa #NewZealand

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If Labour are making a particular health screening free for everyone then there's no reason it needs to be linked to any sort of identity card. People already have a NHI screening records will be linked to. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#meme #memes #capitalism #anticapitalism #eattherich #destroytherich #politics #activism

#freepalestine #antiimperialism #antifascism #anticapitalism #nowarbutclasswar

Luxon promises homeless people won't be moved on without somewhere to go. For instance, a park bench in Onehunga, or maybe a nice rocky outcropping in the Tararuas. #nzpol

***three doctor's visits that are free not free doctor's visits, full stop. If only there was a party who has the guts to promise AND deliver universal basic services. #nzpol

McSkimming pleads guilty! We can officially call him a convicted child pornographer! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

She is a minor. He raped her. Don’t dress it up as ‘services’.

I thought FENZ had a bigger budget tbh. Only $800 million and they're looking to save $50m/year?? Surely their income should go *up* with inflation?

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

It's almost like... like maybe the fascism *never* actually arose from working class "economic anxiety"... like maybe the working class *weren't* actually the ones radicalised by bourgeois resentment of "cancel culture" and "wokeness"... like maybe the working class have... more pragmatic priorities

Wouldn’t be so many homeless if Bishop hadn’t paid Bill English $500k to lie about The state house build and they stopped THOUSANDS of houses scheduled to be built, and handed billions to landlords. They made homelessness exponentially worse on fucking purpose. To make their mates richer.

I'm gonna stop you there Finance Minister. More hours worked does NOT mean higher productivity & NZ is always hovering around some of the worst productivity levels in the OECD. So fundamentally flawed is her economics, even my ECON101 analysis knows this is messed up. How did we get here? #NZPol

Apparently we should be hearing more about Labour’s election platform soon and I really hope it’s more Mamdani than three Starmers hiding in a Mamdani trench coat 🤞

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

and you MUST turn out the people to vote! The recent local elections are a warning to the left - especially in Auckland. Voters are being ignored and disenfranchised. If you don't give them something to vote for then the left will lose almost by default.

I say this with no due respect, go fuck yourself you heartless faux Christian pro fear & loathing smug entitled mother fucker Chris Luxon. We do not sweep away our most vulnerable, we do not hide them. They are us.

Have they considered low unemployment, a liveable wage, affordable housing and breaking overpriced supermarket duopolies?

It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

we must begin having better conversations about global right wing trends in NZ and adjusting organising and electoral politics accordingly from the left. NZ exceptionalism does not exist in any way that matters as far as these issues go. We can analyse, predict and prepare based on overseas events.

Our next government needs to be ready to reverse a whole lot of harm immediately. No pissing around. #NzPol

Proof of NZ Govt racist agenda? Teachers see it in removal of Te Tiriti o Waitangi from schools. Teachers shocked by government decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Luxon has become the default face for toxic landlords on left-wing pages across the world. This one's from Germany 😆😂

Shame Jones now calling the opposition invasive Portuguese millipedes; Hoggard says they are looking to give BiosecurityNZ flamethrowers to remove it. So threats of violence across the house are apparently OK #nzqt

Using AI for research is a trip. Ex: Gemini gives me 5 sources, the first 3 don't exist. I Google the titles (to double check they don't exist) & the Google AI summary gives me a complete explanation of the articles that don't exist including "their" key arguments & findings. Crazy-making.

3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power. There will be a lot more records like this to come.

Māori academic warns draft curriculum erases children's rights to local histories www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

#nzpol DO NOT LET ANYONE PRIVATISE OUR WATER EVER

If you, or someone you know has come into contact with Seymour, please isolate for 7 days. Read more here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-other-...

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608... I don't think "uncomfortable" covers it in this case. Or "both sides".

The attempted bid to turn Kelston Boys College into a charter school should send shivers up everyone's spine. Libertarian dogma attempting to undermine the school with a nearly 100% Māori and Pacific Island roll is classic Act party racism in action. #nzpol

We've been watching John Cambell's series on Destiny Church. We were inspired to donate to Rainbow Reading's Givealittle page to fund their lawsuit after Destiny ruined their business. You can help too. Here is the link: givealittle.co.nz/cause/drag-q... #nz #nzpol

The $2.9 billion tax cuts to landlords over 4 years would have funded 7,250 annual doses of Trikafta for cystic fibrosis patients. These decisions are a choice in values. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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1000 dollars a day sounds like daylight robbery.. yet another coverup by the gov. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...