Reading the updates on the everlee wihongi case will make you want NZ to cut off all diplomatic relationships with the USA and expel the ambassador because what the fuck.

new zealander everlee wihongi - kidnapped by ICE 41 days ago - was meant to take the stand today in front of a wisconsin judge. but ICE had other plans. webworm has the latest on this story - please RT, and share: www.webworm.co/everleemay21/

Saw a engagement bait tweet that was asking how to create a slow life and as someone who is on that journey unfortunately the first and most important step is to STOP BUYING STUFF.

Why does it feel like Labour genuinely doesn’t know how defend their Covid era decisions and they are almost embarrassed and regret it? They literally got a majority off the back of those decisions under MMP own it man.

I’m sad about the world so I will now be eating an elite dessert which is fresh pineapple and chocolate ice cream for a momentary reprieve.

It’s bad to be in social housing cause you are poor but completely fine to charge the taxpayer $52,000 to rent the house you already own. National party MPs are disgusting people and people who vote for them are disgusting too.

Under no circumstances do you gotta hand it to ACT and NZF but their playbook on bullying the bigger coalition partner into submission must be studied. Like I know Luxon is a jabroni but even then.

Ban landlords

National thinks the definition of "woman" is someone you pay less because otherwise the economy falls down

Winston Peters, who at age 80 cannot figure what a woman is without parliament doing it for him, is not going to care about human rights of people in Israeli custody you stupid sluts.

I hate wireless headphones (don’t ask) and wires headphones get annoying during runs so I’ve just been rawdogging nature on my couch to 5k training and it’s been kind of nice tbh.

That's kinda the conservative mindset: it's not about what's good for me or my community, it's about making sure THEY don't get stuff

is it uncouth to leverage recent events to plug my surgery fund? maybe. but if i can't have trans rights i should at least be allowed some trans wrongs ko-fi.com/riversurgery...

They really fucked up with allowing the middle class to exist and are now working overtime to bring back feudalism. Middle class is basically professionals and business owners. They use large corporations to decimate small businesses and now AI to get rid of professionals. No teachers, doctors, bye.

The party that everyone thinks is all about the economy is attacking trans people again cause they apparently have nothing better to do.

This is a PSA to inform you that the tiny hobbit pronounces noodles as: Nude-nudes Thank you.

I think this is an important pov but also it shows a lot of people are motivated by jealousy and hurting people. And that’s why politicians bring out these policies. People genuinely like the idea of other people hurting - beneficiaries, disabled people, carers, immigrants, Māori.

The sad thing is even a fully hallucinating LLM would make more sense than this cabinet

The government should demonstrate how good AI is by replacing their cabinet with AI. Then we can talk. I need Nicola Willis to start giving us rebates from her salary since she is using copilot instead of her brain which is what we pay her for. Imagine being a minister and admitting you can’t spell.

Took the tiny hobbit to a cafe this morning and let him pick out something from the vast array of slices and it kinda broke my heart when he picked out the bright pink raspberry slice. He has no idea it’s “girly”so not for him, he picked it cause it’s clearly the prettiest most attractive one 😭🥹

Explaining that not all 63 657 public service employees work in Wellington, but that, as 42.6% of them do, significant job cuts will still fuck Wellington. That's the same Wellington that is already fucked by previous cuts.

Great. We have all lost our goddamned minds.

I can't believe the damage cycle lanes are gonna do to wellington businesses if this plan to cut 9k public sector employees goes ahead.

And making your capital city look bleak, poor, and scabby, really doesn't do much for investor confidence

A Labour party that's done nothing to rebut "Labour spent too much" narrative over the last three years heading into an election with an uncosted policy. Just admit you don't want to fucking win lads, just admit you'd rather National do the reforms so you can manage them!

THERE IS NO POINT GROWING THE BLOODY PIE IF THE WEALTHY KEEPS EATING ALL OF IT

It’s so embarrassing when these people are like we won’t deliver basic services like adequate healthcare and education. Like you are the government. Can’t show my face outside of NZ. So humiliating.

I'm old enough to remember when the closure of a single chain of mediocre sandwich shops was considered a damning indictment of the state of the NZ economy under Labour.

The guys who are the “good economic managers” did this

Re-upping this, penned almost exactly a year ago. | Institutional collapse: How 10,000 public sector job cuts threaten New Zealand’s national, and human security sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i... #nzpol

National govt maths

Me, when the govt cuts public sector jobs and the economy gets worse so they decide to cut more public sector jobs:

I’ve been working for a a big corporation for a decade but I’m a staunch public sector defender. My time there was short but I rate it. I would take a pay cut and go back for the right role fo sho. In fact that’s the reason I moved back.

Getting rid of public servants and contracting privately to pay for stuff cause the only thing right wingers know is moving public funds to private hands. They do what their donors want.

ooh, there are other things 'like Finland' that'd be nifty: - fines based on income - 44% top tax rate (22.5% effective income tax) - A capital income tax that applies to capital gains _and_ rental income - 2.5% mining royalties and a0.15% fee to the landowner

Fuck it, maybe it is time to leave NZ for a bit. Another round of 10k+ job losses and it's not like the other side are helping, Shitkins saying he'll find common ground with Willis on increased use of AI

They are never gonna stop punishing us for not voting National in Wellington

Getting attacked by my toddler first thing in the morning “Ma you got no penis?” We got a genitalia checking 2 year old Republican here like sir this is a gender neutral bathroom please 🥴

This is likely the work of a consulting firm. They do the same for large corporations in terms of revenue per headcount and other dumb nonsensical calculations that definitely do not apply to the public sector.

Palestine is an easy litmus test but if people are like “I don’t know enough about it” 🙄 then another easy one is how people feel about beneficiaries.

When people are talking about work in town, it's very much a "has your job survived?" kind of convo. And now a few thousand more coming?

Idk guys I don't know if I can deal with more jobs losses. Wellington was just starting to feel like maybe we were over the worst of it all and obviously, it's going to keep getting worse.

I'm so mad, this Supreme Court victory was DECADES in the making aaaaaagh

I think my toe wasn’t completely 100% when I decided to embark on this couch to 5k journey oooops 👀

Rice cooker prices really drive home what a shitshow the economy is.

I fucking hate how older boomers got to retire at 60, then changed it to 65 for the younger boomers, and now it's going to be 67 (?) for everyone else. we have to work 7 years longer than people who had free tertiary education, bought their first house for $1.99 and own 19 rentals

The viruses are getting too big for their britches like I’m sorry why are we letting these puny microscopic bitches boss us around. To what end? 🎶TOOO WHAT END🎶

I’ve coped with it being Monday by eating too much already.