Given the decision on puberty blockers, I do want to note an objective fact that I think has been lost: Eight MPs voted to keep conversion practices legal. All were National MPs. *Every single one* of the five who remained in Parliament after the 2023 election was given a Ministerial warrant.

With pests like rats you need at least two to establish a threat. With hermaphroditic freshwater gold clams, just one small clam can take over a water source and rapidly reproduce! They take calcium from water. This impairs arsenic removal harming drinking water #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Seymour: let's not make "assumptions" that a serious food safety incident is the responsibility of a company with a record of food safety incidents so bad that officials strongly warned against contracting it. Maybe it was the person who reported it! What a prick. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...

This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019, and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020. Both were later sentenced to life in prison!

Numbers are fun. 427 students at 8 charter schools is an average of 54 students per school. $10.9 million divided by 8 charter schools is $1.362 million per school. Or about $25.5k per student. State schools are 9k per student. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

PATHA are putting together some comms about donations. I don't know how much they need, but you can donate to the action here. (There is a specific dropdown box to tag the donation to the blockers action): patha.nz/donate

A TV reality show producer has zero business anywhere near this portfolio or anything of any real impact. As to the 2 questions the article poses ⬇️ the same is true of many of them: Jones, Seymour, vV, Willis, Goldfarb, Brownlee... A god-complex has replaced a service mindset of proper government.

www.engaginglearningvoices.com/post/erica-s... #nzpol #kikorangi A great, insightful read.

Hey, gonna shamelessly plug my wares: Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War is now a year old and, sadly, despite brilliant reviews, has kinda been ignored. It's a bit longer than book 1 but is very exciting Please buy my book bookhub.co.nz/p/charlie-ta...

I've read it and it would make a fantastic gift for the tamariki in your life. It's a rollicking read. Set in New Zealand and based strongly in Māori mythology. A perfect alternative to the boy wizard.

REUTERS: “Trump blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members — but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under Trump…” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

📢 Tiriti advocate and lawyer Tania Waikato has responded to comments made by Education Minister Erica Stanford this week. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

On 12 February next year, ahead of the 2026 NZ General Election, we will be releasing another book by the prolific Sir Geoffrey Palmer, following his bestselling 2025 title How to Save Democracy in Aotearoa New Zealand. teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/par...

What I'd just say to you is, who amongst us hasn't tried to hide that we own 23 houses? Anywho I've got a few words to say about the matter. #LyinLuxon #Worldsbiggesthypocrite #CoalitionOfCorruption #NZpol

This is the video. Craig Renney has the receipts and it sure should be in the news. On repeat until everyone sees what the govt. did.

As Craig Renney revealed to a shocked Dr Gary Payinda, Te Whatu Ora underspent its wages budget by $500m which has been signed off by Willis & returned to general coffers. Let that sink in. The money was there, but they deliberately underspent. On orders?

Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice. 📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber. Prosecute her and everyone involved.

#NZpol Another example of overreach 😞 Surely there should be _some_ separation of politician’s roles in managing funding and support of ministries as a whole, and the internal workings of the ministries or institutions.

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg

Absentee PM. He just doesn't do the work.

Photos from today's #TransRights rally at Te Aro Park in Te Whanganui A Tara / #Wellington NZ. Young and not so young trans and nonbinary people and friends and allies gathered as the start of a campaign to oppose NZ goverment's Ban on Puberty Blockers. Healthcare is a right! #NZpol

Going out on a limb here to suggest that the PM doesn’t understand what it is that regional councils do

Well of course Deloitte is gonna say that, who is going to end up with all the contracts to do all that work? No to outsourcing public service knowledge and capacity. #nzpol

Further proof of this governments philosophy of privatising profits and socialising costs. www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/… #NZPol

NEW: Senators have called for an investigation after a ProPublica story revealed that Kristi Noem-connected firm the Strategy Group was secretly hired as a subcontractor on a $220 million DHS ad campaign.

Everyone, I have written to Dr Verrall saying that the lack of a formal statement from the Labour Party decrying the new blockers policy is unacceptable. Please email her politely and ask her to issue a formal statement on behalf of Labour. The Greens and TPM have both issued good statements.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

theres probably entire offices in India dedicated to this as a full time business. And I bet it isnt just India

Honestly, this shit is horrific we cannot let it be imported to this country

Of course he knew. They all knew. Sexual predators belong in prison, not the White House! LOCK HIM UP and throw away the keys. #JusticeForTheVictims

lmao

Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu has taken the Crown to the High Court again, as the Government threatens its Treaty settlement with changes to the Conservation Act.

BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal. However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸

🔥 Chris Murphy: The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed, “HANG THEM” If you’re a person of influence in the country & you haven’t picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

I'm so, so SO sorry, but I'm gona have to re-up this for Crimbo 2025. Fair warning: the mooching sack will be coming out 🥹🙏

In today’s NZ Herald

Virginia Giuffre survived a trafficking machine built by the rich and powerful. Princes. Prime ministers. Politicians. Financiers. Lawyers. Her brother is making sure the world hears what they did. The psychological torture ran deeper than the physical scars 💔 Release the Epstein Files!

Covid numbers don’t go up if you don’t test for Covid …

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation. They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

#NZpol Destined to fail, cause unnecessary work for Courts (IMO there's *going* to be a backlog of quite legit med patients because there'll be doubtless quite a few snagged *but not actually impaired at all*, yet there's *no clear procedure yet* for handling this!). A VERY ill-considered policy.

Marge suddenly realizes that MAGA is a violent cult.

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#NZpol His officials it seems had entirely different perspectives to offer on the matter of Palestine. But being Winston, and gaining power yet again off the backs of hysterics from The Very Easily Outraged, *actual rights* took a back seat... and he championed inspecting peoples genitals instead.

#NZpol "Permanently scarring event" is the correct pitch. It's nothing less than that, this govt has utterly wrecked the place - and let's be honest, the scarring Ruthless Richardson undertook was *never* properly corrected, and this by the Luxon-led Govt builds on that hideously venal trajectory.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

My friend @drannieandrews.com will be Lindsey Graham's opponent. She is a pediatric surgeon who has performed spinal surgeries on children, running against a grownup with no spine. Dr. Andrews is poised to perform a full Lindsey-ectomy on the United States Senate.

Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!

Priorities.

Adelita Grijalva is FINALLY sworn in and is now officially a member of Congress