Don't mean to be rude but TVNZ constantly uses top stories / slots to cover Donald Trump, Russia etc Those are important global stories but there are significant local stories that they ignore. I'm guessing it's a cost issue but the decline of media is also the decline of society #nzpol #kiwi

Or question why Collins is sharing the agenda of a meeting she was not party to, one that was specifically arranged to discuss non-bargaining items, and also never happened because Stanford was too busy. That seems like the bigger lede to me but I dunno.

YOU NEED TO START OFF POSTS LIKE THIS BY SAYING THE PERSON IS ALIVE AND OK

For Adam Pearse's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Went to the fortnightly market in a Waitara church hall because there are always older women selling freshly made pickles, chutney, jams and jellies for between $3 and $5 a jar. It doesn't seem worth making my own.

Threatening doctors, nurses and medical professionals just doesn’t seem like a smart move or something that leads to a solution. Health minister needs to rethink his approach, the public are statistically very much on side with health professionals and very much not politicians.

The No Kings Map looks PACKED. No wonder Mike Johnson is shaking in his boots! There are even 20 protests in other countries!!! ##nokings #protest

Normal human beings don't talk this way. It's a fucking cult psychosis

While agribusiness lobbyists celebrate Luxon's decision to never do anything to cut their climate pollution, the skies open. Climate change means more flooding - ordinary rural and urban people will cop it while agribusiness take their money and run for higher ground www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ta...

Elon's cars are already dangerous, now he'll let people use a "self-driving" mode that ignores the speed limit. What could go wrong? #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall electrek.co/2025/10/16/t...

New Zealand - Aotearoa folks and otherwise interested folks: The Auckland Council has an opening for a Climate Analyst careers.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/job/Central-...

Kiss co-founder Ace Frehley dies at 74

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I support the strikes 💚💚💚

#JohnLennon would definitely approve of frogs. Read this . . .

Me Me Me vs We? 💭 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

...hey, y'all wanna see a dead body?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

People know this isn’t magic, right?

You know who did get up at 4am to milk cows? My daughter, did it for a few years and she has no say in selling Frontera or received any wealth from them other than her wage. She was a laborer. Does he think the people doing the actual milking are the ones getting rich at Frontera?

Many years ago I talked with a relatively senior Italian WW2 officer who flipped monarchist. Asked him why, as he then and still was, more than a wee bit Fash. His answer: "I liked the Germans but they started arresting my men. They were stupid. Paranoid. I asked then what stopped them taking me."

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

murder was the case, etc

Heggsy transmitted classified info to a Signal group chat and we all just kind of forgot about that.

How to make medical professionals leave NZ in four easy steps 1) underfund the health system so it’s super stressful 2) offer a shit pay rise - and then make an even worse offer 3) tell medical professionals off like a total asshat 4) change the law so they can’t take industrial action

She also doesn't mention Bolger had distanced himself from her budget/s more recently

She doesn't mention Bolger sacked her. Congratulates herself for doing the hard thing, when they actually left the hard thing - taxing rich people - alone. --- "Decades on, the period is remembered by some as the establishment of a stratified society where inequality remained persistent." Some?

Don't let them rewrite history on Ruth Richardson's Mothe of All Budgets, it's remembered as "Ruthanasia" for a reason! #NZpol Link in thread 1/2

Are glass food containers better than plastic?

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats. This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

Our university has decided to pander to racists rather than living by its stated values. The new Waipapa Taumata Rau course, which was designed as a core foundation for Tiriti-based learning, will now be optional for most students. This is a shameful and spineless decision.

The tricky business of erasing moral hazard. Watts quietly ends Crown funding of buyouts of red-zoned residential land after big floods in future, but is still vague about the current policy; NZ First's popularity surge depends on Luxon staying #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/fridays-ch...

Watch them resettle white South Africans in Florida and develop the scariest white people who ever lived

The REAL test for whether the mayor/others in his camp believe that the election process was "irregular" is if they will now lodge a petition for an inquiry into the election with the District Court ... and so become potentially liable for associated costs. Skin in the game, or STFU.

In my opinion, this is nothing more than political theatre designed to pre-emptively sow doubt about an election result that a majority of the incumbent council do not like ... it is legally meaningless and asks for action that is not available.

Former national security adviser John Bolton responded to his indictment today by saying he's become the "latest target" in President Trump's "weaponizing" of the DOJ "to charge those he deems to be his enemies."

STOP THE STOP THE COUNT!

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives' a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not' so the funding disappeared?? and people are dying??

Well, Gosh J.D. Couchfucker.. I can only think of one thing that would blow this out of the news cycle.. Release the Epstein Files?

Marine and Coastal rights law change worse than Foreshore and Seabed, says Māori rights activist

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

I want this on a tshirt. And a tote bag. And a big ass sign I can carry around.

I don't think we give Putin enough credit for his absolute genius at destabilising the west.

📢 There were audible cries of disbelief when he said the action — while their legal right — had "crossed an ethical line".

They are truly magnificent birds #NZKea