Rata’s version of a knowledge-rich curriculum precludes critical thinking. Having your kids learn from a workbook designed by a corporation, not involving your children’s teachers, is a fucking nightmare. I will never teach to a textbook. They’re a tool, not a curriculum #nzpol

An incredible thread here. If only Nicola’s choices caused problems for herself alone. Sadly, she’s inflicting the damage on all of us. #nzpol

Many of the refugees arriving in NZ as part of the annual quota are displaced Rohingya. It's shameful that we set them up to fail once they get here. Like other beneficiaries, they often have to pay $500-$650 in private rent from weekly benefits/entitlements/wages of about $1100 p.w. 😞 #nzpol

"[Adjusted for inflation], hourly wages have risen 3 percent since the end of 2019. Corporate profits have risen 50 percent...Most people who depend on wages for a living are struggling, while a small minority at the top who own most shares of stock & private equity...have never had it as good."

Israel isn't “at war” with Lebanon, Israel is invading Lebanon.

Pledging policy continuity with the most destructive government in my lifetime is overwhelmingly uninspiring. Why would anyone vote for that? #nzpol bsky.app/profile/thin...

If you’d told me on January 7th 2021 that everyone in this picture would be pardoned and be paid $1 million each for reparations, I’d have said you were insane. It turns out that it’s American voters that are insane.

Wake Up!!! It is BLATANT market manipulation 🤬 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

You are paying more for electricity so Greg Abbott’s data centers can help him post AI slop

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Pay Equity 1) What I want to hear : Pay equity is a human right. The changes by the coalition are wrong & unfair and we will address that. 2) What I’ve heard : We can’t go back to how it was, we need to check the cost, repealing it is not possible. 1) gives hope. 2) is a path to despair.

The UK is getting crazier in its defense of Israel. Now it's canceling the visas of mainstream normie political pundits for criticizing the state of Israel, and investigating people for antisemitic hate crimes when they denounce Zionists who aren’t even Jewish. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-uk-is-...

And it’s not just the tech fascists. The heads of every major corporation are so repugnant and speak a language that is bloodless and revealing. People avoid listening and watching, and I get it, but my god is it revealing and if people paid attention the disgust would grow exponentially.

I know it’s a big ask, but everyone needs to watch more interviews and panels with CEOs. They are so disturbing and repellent but to really face the reality of not only the fact we’re in a class war but the nature of who it is we’re battling, and the future they are authoring, is essential.

Just watched the Taco Bell CEO talk about how excited he was “for the storytelling opportunity” around their chicken nuggets. Just insane bullshit but it’s also its own orthodoxy. The corporate class is a secular priesthood and to witness their madness is to know this is something to actively oppose

We must get money donors OUT of politics! US Tech Billionaire, Brian Cartmell, donating $100,000+ to #Nat #Act #NZF & #Opportunity party. He moved to NZ in 2010. His Internet Entertainment Group=an online pornography company #AtlasNetwork #Billionaires #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health.

I understand why towns put police in schools, but there is a really dark side to this when it’s done wrong. This expose about Texas is damning. Kids being slammed against walls for vaping. A disabled student hogtied.

How did I miss this?! Here’s Jeff Bezos blowing up a government-funded Blue Origin rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida Thursday, destroying the launch pad. I’m so sick of these billionaire welfare queens pissing away the American taxpayers’ money. #ProudBlue #JeffBesos #EatTheRich

Iran seems confident they can hold out longer than Trump can.

NATO Article 0: When Russia attacks a NATO member and injures civilians, NATO pretends it was an accident and kindly asks Russia to aim better so only Ukrainians get murdered.

When the AI bubble pops, every AI company will beg for a bailout and say AI is “too big to fail.” These companies tried to replace the artists, writers, workers, teachers, and journalists whose work they stole. They will demand you save them so they can take your job, too. Can God get a hell no?

“This is censorship...This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

OK, it seems a day later they put their post up again, but with different wording. Now the text in their accompanying photograph reads, "GOVT BORROWING $6 BILLION LESS THAN EXPECTED" – carefully not saying if they have reduced debt or not.

#NZpol Capturing this "for the record", esp. as I haven’t seen anything about it elsewhere. The National party fairly quickly deleted their post. On the face of it, deleting the post tacitly admits they made a false claim.

Gregory Bovino, Trump’s former border patrol chief, just attended a “remigration” summit alongside far-right European racists. Emigration is a white nationalist trope: non-white immigrants leave. Bovino also gave a shout out to Hitler’s lead general, Erwin Rommel. www.politico.eu/article/afd-...

Really important article to read. Essentially this defamation action funded by Grenon was a #SLAPP - a Strategic Lawsuit Against Participation - and now Grenon is trying to wriggle out of paying the costs that he knew he was on the hook for if TVNZ & @sanjanah.bsky.social were successful. #nzpol

Our government is FULLY captured by the international right … they’re just working out the timing of when they make their moves. #VoteGreen

Israel pursuing ‘scorched earth’ policy, says Lebanon PM, as more airstrikes hit country’s south

"it's difficult to find the money to be able to reverse stuff." okay... so Labour can't commit to reversing the billions in tax cuts to landlords, billions in pay equity cuts for women, billions in cuts to the public sector (and their workers), because it's difficult? bullshit #nzpol

But of course he's is past Waikato Federated Farmers president Common or garden variety Kiwi racist www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

We sat chatting about whether we had enough unemployed people to suppress workers' wages. A few of us thought more misery would be good, but the new boss made the line call... current levels of misery would be OK for a another month or so. It was a great discussion. The vibes were good.

“it's difficult to find the money to be able to reverse stuff.” ---- Well, here's a starting point. There are currently no higher tax bands for people being paid more than $180,000 per year. There could be another rate for people earning $140,000 per year. Source: www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax/i...

I'm gobsmacked. This is Priyanca Radhakrishnan's response to this qn "Does Labour have any plans when next in government to introduce any legislation that will strengthen the democratic process by countering this?" "It's not a conversation we've had" wtf?

If the right, when in power, carry out a legislative blitzkrieg that increases inequality and guts basic right and Labour only commits to not making things worse (because it would be hard/create more uncertainty to reverse the changes) then the country only ever moves in one direction.

I know it’s only been 36 hours and everything since this got posted but how is this going? Did we win and get everything we wanted yet?

Everything old is "new" again. Dog help us. #auspol #SmashTheDuopoly

🧵 of corruption #nzpol

NZME Board is chaired by former National Party minister and Campaign Chair Steven Joyce. NZME Editorial Advisory Board is chaired by former Luxon Chief Press Officer Hamish Rutherford.

Radio NZ competes with NZME (owner of NZ Herald and ZB). They compete for listeners and website readers. When the National led government cuts funding to RNZ, making it harder to deliver a better product, it benefits NZME.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

The immense economic power of the richest Americans allows them to wield immense political power, too. They can pour millions into our elections to elect politicians that will continue to rig the system in their favor. We must end this vicious cycle.

I spent two hours yesterday at Delaney Hall in Newark where 700 detainees are being held by ICE. What I saw and heard was horrific: worm-infested food and no access to medical care. Many of the detainees were lawful visa holders. This is not America. This is unacceptable, and it has to stop now.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

This carefully worded statement is consistent with subsequent reporting that Boutros is actually investigating Reid Hoffman’s charity.

Cecilia Vega, the first 60 Minutes Latina correspondent, was fired today, along with some of her colleagues, as Bari Weiss overhauls the news magazine. She has released this statement:

“Humiliation or escalation.” @nberlat.bsky.social @ @atrupar.com's PN: "Unfortunately for Trump, though, the people who won the war (that is, Iran) have little to no incentive to let him set terms to make himself look good, or even adequate. Neither do other leaders in the region." 🧾 t2m.co/v6YV3Rxf

JUST IN: U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros says any claim that his office opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll is "categorically false."

Crazy how these reforms saw mega landlords get richer at the same time as NZ reaching the highest number of homlessness in history. Its almost like the reason for the reforms was a lie 🤷