How about idiot Nicola Willis and all the other donor sucking ministers stop wasting money, Mr Treasury. That could be a great start.🤦 #nzpol

Err BUT... ❌️Potaka made it harder to access emergency housing ❌️Upston made it harder for teens to access Jobseeker ❌️Bishop cancelled thousands of planned social housing builds AND sold off existing social housing ❌️Chhour slashed OT investment into youth employment programs

Panorama made a stupid editing mistake. But compare this to the deliberate and systemic attempt, sustained across years, to ensure that BBC output aligns ever more closely to the demands of economic power. Against your straw of bias, I raise you a haystack.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Found this website via Kurt Elling's post on Facebook. Hopefully useful for people in Chicago who need food. Please share. www.sistasinthevillage.com

“This was a very very bad vote”

With both of the expelled MPs intending to challenge the decision and an open question on the support of the rest of their caucus, I don't think the TPM co-leaders attempt to end the story this morning will work. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Line goes up! #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender

This asshole campaigned on their policies being good for the economy &thanks to every single one of the promises (including resignations) being broken, they now want to flog off our stuff. Not fix it, not address the cost of living via assets, sell them. To overseas interests, no doubt. What a prick

Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown

Remember when Luxon performatively played Lunchmoney Lewis "Bills" on his phone to media? Song about a guy who can't earn enough to feed his family, have a running car, not get his card declined at the supermarket & pay bills? Luxon is one of the only people that is not happening to in '25 😭 #NZPol

At any rate, I wish more folk were deeply suspicious of productivity reports on public health by privately-funded lobby groups and stopped taking them at their work and treating them like they are objective or unbiased. Gah. Grump.

I am digging into the cost of nonattendance at health specialist appointments, and it turns out that the most widely cited figure (o$29M/year) is actually a TPU hit job - based off OIA requests and with VERY opaque workings out #NZpol #UrbanMyths #healthcare

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Todd is smart and principled and funny. He was key to the We’re History project. Definitely worth a follow.

After everything, Senate Democrats still haven’t figured out that surrendering to Trump Republicans will end badly? Unbelievable.

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” —Frederick Douglass, speaking to Senate Democrats

Clearly Luxon’s idea of a “mature conversation” is one in which we all reach a point of agreeing with him and his govt - his govt being the paragon of maturity Luxon, we can be mature and still vigorously oppose the sale of state assets, as you will soon see cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...

It’s tough being the oldest president in history. Low energy! Sad!

This, from OUSA's President, is very good and warrants reading: "For decades, governments of every stripe have treated universities as businesses to be managed rather than institutions of learning and curiosity. ... Students are rebranded as customers, research, degrees and graduates as outputs."

Ukraine is hitting the Tuapse seaport with naval drones. #explodey

Oh boy ... the whole TPM expulsion issue looks messy (legally wise, let alone politically ... let alone in terms of party kawa). The Party constitution has a whole section on "Resolution of Differences and Disputes" requiring complaints to be sent to different bodies, etc ...

So Senate Democrats are going to trust these Republicans’ “promise” they’ll vote on healthcare subsidies in the future after they’ve voted to end the shutdown? Really?

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Posting on US politics from AoNZ is a mugs game, but can't help read this and be reminded of the old "fool me once, shame on you ... fool me twice, call me a centrist Democrat" line.

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

Aircraft queued at Newark Liberty International Airport. Average delay: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Things are fine.

Share a TV series from the 1960s you love. 📺 The Prisoner.

Davie and Turness resign from the BBC, ironically after the Right whip up confected outrage about a Trump documentary. Now there’s a chance to get someone sympathetic to the BBC into the top job.

Sharing this wonderful live version with the amazing Terry Callier (RIP). www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LPU...

Had to fly across the US today, changing planes, and found pleasant camaraderie...everyone wishing one another luck making their flights

Donald Trump and @jd-vance-1.bsky.social's refusal to provide SNAP benefits to Americans in need isn't just illegal — it's immoral.

Donald Trump said he'd make Americans healthier and wealthier. 10 months in, we're poorer and sicker.

This New Yorker story on how America's AI-driven boom in data centres began, how they're used and the implications of their proliferation is a very useful read. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Uncontrolled wildfires in Aotearoa and it's not even REMOTELY summer yet. I'm sure that's a good sign. #nzpol

Saw something horrid I’ve never seen before in a Chch CBD crowd: late teen/early 20s going through a Colombo St rubbish bin, assessing food scraps in takeaway boxes, then selecting an opened can of Coke and drinking it. Shame, shame, shame on all this fucking government coalition.

Aotearoa: disaster occurs --> local marae opens its doors to the victims. Every. Single. Time.

Dr Catherine Dyer on The Hoon tonight was amazing: fluent and precise in her analysis. Am most relieved by her anger at the government trying to gut New Zealand’s climate change commitments and kick the costs on to our children and grandchildren. I am furious.

We're grandparents old now but utterly outraged by the massive youth unemployment the Government of Landlords has created.PI and Maori kids bearing the brunt -racism at it's most blatant.

@sjponeill.bsky.social Seeing the effects of the fire over on this side of the motu — Te Matau-a-Māui 😕

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

You are now the subject of a hip-hop song. Congratulations youtu.be/eHWWmMtVtQ0?...

November 8, 2025

Pluribus, the new series from Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan, is phenomenal. Best to go in without knowing too much about it, but it has a lot to say about the world today. And Rhea Seehorn is on course for that Emmy.

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.