So far in the 2026 votoff we have 💤No roads and minimal solar 💭Basic CGT and moderate solar 🍀Fully planned economy and drinkable water 🚬Less democracy 🐈Some of everything for whoever wins #nzpol

Clocking in for another shift at the ‘Tamatha Paul was Right’ factory. I talk more about this over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/another-sh...

Drink. Swim. Fish. Beyond just a good weekend in the Coromandel, it's the latest Green Party policy to look after all the water in the country. Because water is life, for all of us. 🥤 🏊 🐟 https://www.greens.org.nz/waterforlife #VoteGreen #nzpol #drinkswimfish

@nzgreensglobal.bsky.social This is excellent!

jeesh can we get Chloe and Marama out to the next rugby game, field days tractor wank event, and have them do something similar. please. #nzpol

It was literally their entire manifesto, destroy PT, EVs, ferries, jobs, health, everything 'Burn it all down so we can make roads' They even failed on that #nzpol

What illustrious company! #NZ and #USA are the only 'Global West' countries to sit outside the highest scores for climate action and biodiversity in the annual Yale Environmental Performance Index. #nzpol epi.yale.edu/downloads/20...

Zines used as evidence to convict in Prairieland case The possession of zines appear to have been used as evidence in the recently concluded Prairieland case, chilling free speech.

NZFirst firming up its position as Aotearoa’s answer to Reform UK - where disgraced Tories find a new home. Wonder if Winston has any $5M donations from crypto billionaires to declare? #NZPol

#nzpol ‘The report registered the Greens' ongoing strong opposition. "This bill enables over-surveillance of ordinary people by allowing the police to shirk privacy rights and common law regarding collecting photographs, audio, and biometric data of civilians."’ I know who I trust in power ✊🏼

buried in this MBIE Q&A, the govt states they intend to shut down the Health Research Council (NZ's sole health funder). this will require parliament's OK incredibly, shutting down the Marsden Fund (NZ's sole basic-science funder) did not require any parliamentary input, so it's just gone #nzpol

... that's before we consider homeless being told to "Move On" alongside the queues at the foodbank💔. Guess the accelerator must be revving fast past😠. And, of course, don't ask who is the country ranking below our Aussie cuzzies🤔. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

“National Party ministers are telling Wellingtonians that they’ve got shovels in the ground when it’s abundantly clear they don’t. To be honest, they appear to be building ghost roads with ghost shovels.”

#binforthewin @countbinface.bsky.social

“The Eternal City proved that a community can be asked to carry something and say yes. But a crowdfunding campaign shouldn’t be how a country funds dignity, and goodwill shouldn’t be how disabled people get onto stages, into buildings, or out of floodwater.” ENTANGLED CURIOSITIES JUL 8 #nzpol

A reminder for a New Zealand context, as the usual suspects try to demonise the term here too, despite having policies that have aspects of it. #nzpol

I’m sorry Finance Minister, but none of this is relevant. We know from your own words last election that you’re still to blame for external pressures causing domestic harm. #nzpol

How it started / how it's going. #nzpol

Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just ... completely lost their marbles! Peter Thiel lectures & the AntiChrist: #nzpol #AtlasNetwork #Zionists #Billionaires #Genocide #Eugenics #PeterThiel #Israel #US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?

"Class warfare doesn't get more unhinged than this" Peter Thiel: ""I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.'" Tim Noah dissects the tech oligarchs in the New Republic: #Billionaires #Fascism #TaxTheRich #Palantir newrepublic.com/article/2088...

Just a reminder that if you want lower gas prices, you should encourage more people to buy electric vehicles. More EVs = lower demand for gasoline = lower gas prices. e360.yale.edu/digest/evs-g...

👏 @maramadavidson.bsky.social masterclass in Saying What She Said & ignoring the bs NZH editorial/owners have gotta be mulling. their most liked/shared IG posts are ones in which Bridgey told Tamaki to FO + he zipped it with the disrespectful interruptions of Greens. we've waited LONG time for that.

'She'll be right attitude to #RocketLab putting #NuclearFree NZ at risk, experts say: NZ govt has deliberately limited public understanding of Rocket Lab's US #military connections in order to support American security interests, documents show #nzpol #US #Israel thespinoff.co.nz/business/17-...

Devastating. “Briar Parfitt, 40, died on Saturday afternoon in a car next to her teenage daughter while the pair were heading to Hawke's Bay Hospital. Parfitt's family say she chose to leave Palmerston North Hospital after she was told she faced a 25-hour wait.” #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

Sound the New Zealand Mentioned Klaxon! "...only New Zealanders have suffered a steeper fall in their after-inflation wages [in the OECD]" Oh...

🍃🌹🌿Yes-I totally agree-& to be fair, China is the least of our worries-AND our biggest trade partner It’s Israel & the US’ genocide-the proliferation of lethal weapons & war spending-& our Independent foreign policy I worry about! #nzpol #Pacific #Peace #NuclearFree www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

#nzpol Expecting commentariat focus on: "Growth is expected to resume in the September quarter as these effects fade and confidence improves." 🤔Curious about homeless being 'moved on' and/or lining up for foodbank assistance. Perhaps 'someone' should ask whether their confidence will improve😠?

#nzpol Interesting piece. In the comments there’s a bit of ‘why’s he in National?’ Turns out he’s anti abortion and gay people make him feel icky. So. Very. Close.

All the business Daddies getting all worked up about how National are saving KiwiSaver and other parties should support it! Well maybe they would if they weren't racist, sexist, environment destroying billionaire worshipping wannabe facist dipshits who don't deserve anything #nzpol

Shitty policy. If your economic dogma requires impoverishing people to keep rich people wealthy, you end up having to be punitive in other ways too. The fact this benefits mates who get prison construction contracts is completely coincidental. /straightface #nzpol

NIWA-led research estimates more than 750,000 #NZers now live in areas exposed to extreme rainfall flooding, rising to more than 900,000 with another 3°C of warming -yet National Coalition have cancelled all climate initiatives #PartyVoteGreens ✅ +💚❤️🖤 #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/bryanbru...

of course they did #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

On my way, Clacton.

Āe. Tautoko🙏🏾. Yeah, I know, the world is not perfect and sometimes we "have to engage" with others who do not share our values💔. But, we must say out loud ... while we "have to do business😢" with some, we are not comfortable being in the same room as Modi. Or, ideally, much stronger words🤔.

National - We still dont know who will pay for the 2.7bn LNG terminal Labour - Here is a $160m home solar policy I wonder who gets questions on how its funded? #nzpol

There's only 5 days left to submit on the Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Bill. This Bill would prevent lawsuits against companies for climate-changing emissions like the Mike Smith case. Submission link in the comments. #nzpol

This abstract should be hanging in every #NZPOL newsroom, to both accurately name the radical-right politics of the current government and to heighten awareness of how everyday acts of journalistic naming and framing are part of the story

Look. What Iwould say to you is this. #nzpol

This interview with Q was an eye opener to me, ka pai to the #BHN lads I've been very critical of Opportunistic Party, this is why #nzpol

This is the cop who told me rape and death threats were "public criticism" that journalists should expect and weren't intended to harm me because they weren't directly sent to me.

Fancy putting this paragraph/lie from Luxon in an article without context/facts of the coalition doing the extreme opposite. “We're not mandating it from Wgtn. We believe in localism. We believe in devolution. You make your decisions. That's a conversation you & your community need to have. #nzpol

This is so cooked. Hard right ideology dictates that those on the waiting list for a state house can't move into the state houses that were built for them because they are state houses. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A policy dear to my heart! 💚 Drink. 🥤 Swim. 🏊 Fish. 🐟 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhc_qHCi29k #nzpol #VoteGreen #ProtectTheOcean #water

Paid parental leave, comparison: Sweden: 480 days (16 months). Norway: 49 weeks at full pay. Estonia: 62 weeks. NZ: 26 weeks. Evidence for longer leave: better child development, higher female labour participation, lower postnatal depression. Every peer country we compare to is well ahead. #nzpol

"Climate change isn't real" "Stop declaring emergencies so often" Meanwhile Kaikoura gets 2 months of rain in 2 days & Hanmer is cut off due to bridge damage. We can't ignore this stuff any more. Climate change is happening right now. #nzpol

Taxpayer citizenship narrows democratic belonging in Aotearoa, but critique alone isn't enough. In our final video, we argue for an alternative: a model of citizenship grounded in universal rights, collective responsibility, and the constitutional promises of Te Tiriti

Good job our government aren't looking into LNG🤦🏻‍♂️ #nzpol

Voting is our right in a democratic society. We best use this right to vote out those who are hampering on those rights ✌️ Enrol by October 25th. For Māori roll August 6th. vote.nz/enrolling/en... #nzpol #bhn #onetermgovernment thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-... thespinoff.co.nz/politics/08-...