US Energy Secretary Chris Wright is pleased NZ is committing to fossil fuels www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

The Trump Tower for the Gold Coast is officially dead. There was never a development application lodged to the council. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

I present to you the leader of our primary security ally.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind 🤣🤣🤣 Plan for Trump Tower on Gold Coast scrapped as brand labelled 'toxic' #auspol apple.news/Ah0O_bH_cTT-...

The Trump Organization has scrapped plans to put its name to a tower on Australia’s Gold Coast, about three months after announcing a deal to bring the brand’s first hotel to the country.

Update: comment from our local councillor, @juliefairey.bsky.social.

Reporting for the #PanamaPapers, Frederik Obermaier’s (@frederikobermaier.com) head was full of email threads and office memos from Mossack Fonseca, which sketched an intimate portrait of the Panamanian law firm. He spoke with ICIJ about his visit to the offices:

"It's the economy, stupid." Cc: @chrishipkins.bsky.social @barbedmonds.bsky.social @nzlabour.nzcow.com @maramadavidson.bsky.social @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social

brutal meme via the official Democratic Party X account

In the run up to the 10th anniversary of Brexit I think we need to remember what was promised by the Brexiters and what threats they made about what would happen if we didn't leave. Here's Farage 10 years ago this month. www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...

The end of the UK is nigh. The Celtic nations will ally to finish the union The old-style politics of Tory and Labour is over, and with it the union they defend. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will not stick around to see Farage become Prime Minister My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Me, 3 years ago: “This election year seems set to be a battle of the Chrises' personalities, with no new ideas, and just enough rhetoric to eke out an election win. Is it time the public used the full potential of MMP against the major parties?” 👁️👁️

Reform is currently trying to do to British Jews the technique used to hookwink a lot of white working class people -pretending to care about them whilst actually fostering views/policies that hold them in contempt. I’m glad so many Jewish people see through it www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

The free speech union and the alt right. An FSU council member, in targeting me, strategically manipulates my exchange with a known far right account. Full essay below 👇

I have so many thoughts about this, and there's still 20 minutes to go. Cannot recommend this enough.

RFK Jr should probably ask Russia why their population is in such steep decline. You make a government that rules on hate and fear, people stop wanting to have kids. Simple.

Hemp plastics have been an option for some time now too. Unless we FORCE manufacturing to change.. why wouid it? phys.org/news/2026-04...

Funny stunt and very pretty old school game design.

US democratic backsliding deepened as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Appeasement won't work. Fighting back (nonviolently) might. As Hungary shows, winning power in competitive authoritarianism is possible. But you have to really compete. My latest, on SCOTUS, Virginia, and more:

William Shenstone said this in the 1700s. Fits our times rather well.

This is just like the idea that Lithium is rare, no, we just hadn’t bothered to look for it before cos there was little immediate use:

“I’m a f***ing white man, this is my f***ing country. We built this s***. They just ship you c***s in because nobody else wants to do these s*** jobs.” Auckland mosque arson: White supremacist jailed for five years www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/new... #nzpol

Singapore's debt to GDP is 175%, Belgium 106%, Spain 101% NZ during Labour was ~40% - now under National heading to 48-49% Government debt means lower cost of financing Private debt in #NZ is 137% of GDP, much of that Aussie banks. More expensive, more going out of country

JD Vance please come to NZ and endorse National and Act #kissofdeath

Wonder if we can get JD Vance to come and endorse Winston 🤔 #nzpol

Studies and overseas elections and just plain old logic tell us that if conservative voters have the choice between an actual right wing party and an ersatz one, they'll choose the real right wingers. Lurching to the right *does not* win right wing voters for lefty/centrist parties. 3/

I love this.

As someone who spent a lot of time around greencard holders people with greencards basically behaved like citizens without the voting. This is so scary. If you’re visiting the US or leaving the US god help you.

This is par for the course in terms of what is happening to legal residents of the US, who have literally done everything by the book. Is the Big Fat Nothing that the NZ govt is doing to help her - other than letting Winston lie about it - par for the course for what we can expect of our own govt?

“As a girl in Afghanistan, she was denied a formal education and taught herself to read…Today, she has completed 64 college credits while in high school, works nights and weekends to support herself and her siblings, and was admitted to 11 nursing programs. She cannot afford to attend a single one.”

Bathroom bans are unworkable in practice. When pushed, supporters admit they expect trans people to break their laws. Creating laws trans people have no choice but to break isn't an accident. The intent is punishment of the ones they hate. The intent is driving trans people out of public life

This🧵 is depressing but also tragically unsurprising. I'll always stand against antisemitism. But I won't stand with Islamophobes and xenophobic racists while doing it.

The amount of work it’s going to take to heal the damage inflicted on people’s brains because of tech and social media is going to be immense. Just a full on public crusade.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Wow. This seems all kinds of wrong.

Yeah, that's 90% of the Gulf states' internet. Quite the additional bargaining chip.

"Saturday’s thumping victory for One Nation in the NSW seat of Farrer can hardly be over interpreted. It proves Pauline Hanson’s populist movement is an indiscriminate threat, and that the foundations of the two party system are growing weaker by the day." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

David vs the media: Has Seymour gone too far?

i think people are too harsh on bsky because it is actually social media itself that is dying, not any particular site

Seymour saying that he's not directing RNZ editorial choices is like saying you're not changing the menu at a restaurant by changing the entire kitchen staff so they prepare food the "right" way. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I know RNZ are never going to grow the requisite organs to do this, but if David Seymour wants to play that game its well past time to start interviewing an empty chair when he refuses to front, and when he does chop his mic when he starts lying. Saying "fuck norms" can go both ways. #nzpol

The report that Steven Price and I presented to the BSA in 2006 is still on its website. TLDR: it's complicated. www.bsa.govt.nz/assets/oldsi...

Young Kiwi photographer Tom Rae's “Night at the Remarkables” The Milky Way is arched over The Remarkables in the Southern Alps, while the lights of Queenstown glow far below. Stunning & beautiful - the Earth is worth protecting www.rnz.co.nz/life/culture...

How a coordinated far-right network — The Platform, NZ First, ACT, Free Speech Union — took down NZ's only media regulator with statutory teeth. An excellent article by Mohan Dutta, who is frequently attacked by the alt right in NZ: culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/05/how-... #nzpol #auspol