John Campbell returns to RNZ on Mon 13 April & Aotearoa has the chance to hear coalition MPs & CEOs be interviewed by someone aware of their own Pākehā privilege & who demonstrably gives a shit Potential for reality-checked lens being applied to homelessness, fuel crisis, cost of living & 🏳️‍⚧️ kōrero 🤞

Just a reminder before DOOMS DAY that if any of Marvel's Avengers existed in the real world, they'd all be working for your orange president.

Boosting this a bit (hard to do with my very curated list of interactions here!) along with an invitation to come to my book launch if you can - there's still space. It's free & there will be wine 😜. I'd appreciate it if you would share with your networks of anyone who might be interested!

or, the LW men of Aotearoa BSky could get together & put something meaningful into action. one example: there's 7 of you? take 1-2 hour daily shifts on FB on the public pages of wāhine Māori local candidates. TAUTOKO THEM. 14 of you? do morning & evening shifts. posting to BSky changes nothing IRL.

"Waiata mō Paremata" @tinangata.bsky.social 🤣

The turnout for Palestine on a wet Sunday in Sydney #auspol #Sydney #marchforhumanity

This powerful message to our representatives in Canberra and the rest of the world: This drone footage of the march for Palestine over the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday. 🎥 ahmed.bassal.official #Australia #auspol #Palestine

NZers without a place to sleep or be safe from violence, to shower, cook or store kai, to do laundry or raise their tamariki --> increased of 89% in Auckland 🚨 24% in Wellington 🚨 73% in Christchurch 🚨 🟢 NZ Greens 🟢 just launched a petition to Luxon #CoC #nzpol action.greens.org.nz/stop_homeles...

I’m not planning on travelling anywhere, but I thought it was as good a time as any to get my first NZ passport. Māori on the top line, ngā mihi! I applied online last Tuesday, it was sent just three days later (!!!) on Friday. And that was the standard service!

💯 "It's time to call out the abuse that women in leadership are facing. We need to push for change and accountability." @misswhanau.bsky.social ✊

there is no feeling like it. seeing pūtea you donated from Aotearoa NZ arrive in Gaza & be distributed to whanau as life-sustaining wai. each truck of clean water costs 500 Euros. thx to EmilyWrites & NZers, @moamenalmadhoun was able to get 2 today 🙏 be part of it ➡️ www.gofundme.com/f/mutual-aid...

Today marks the beginning of ‘Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki 'Airani – Cook Islands Māori Language Week.⁠ Annie Crummer's mother was Tahitian, and her father – renowned musician Will Crummer – is from the Cook Islands. In 2010 Crummer released 'Ocean Moon'... audioculture.co.nz/profile/anni...

This feels like the place to hunt out New Zealanders that randomly pop into my mind: does anyone know a Lisa and Bruce from Hamilton - this is going back to 2001-2 - Lisa worked at Waikato university I think in anthropology. Anti war activists - we did some actions targeting Helen Clark

I see you Dunedin and raise you Hamilton East - 26 candidates for 6 seats

Bluesky rookie jumping on here to briefly share about this year's election, where progressive candidates are working together to get the best possible outcomes for Ōtepoti Dunedin, faced with bleak alternatives🧵

spirit lifted, heart full, day made 💚 Chlöe Swarbrick on her life, depression, being a woman politician, social media, criminal justice & VISION beyond this coalition govt ✊ Chlöe has gotta become Prime Minister of NZ one day, we gotta ensure that happens. Spotify, YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NRF...

cousin of NZ Greens MP 💚 Huhana Lyndon just discovered she was removed from Māori Roll & placed on General Roll. Without her permission. Back in *Nov 2023* 🤨 No explanation provided by vote.nz so now its OIA request time. This is what #CoC are doing to tangata whenua, to Aotearoa, to #Election2026 💀

Emmy @cannibality.bsky.social and @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social just kicked ass on Marae 🔥 Voter supression, ejecting people from the Māori Roll and ❌ NO FBI ❌ in Aotearoa. Watch here tvnz.co.nz/shows/marae

Many years ago I worked at a fish & chip shop that a senior National MP frequented - my first job as a teenager. I got their order wrong once & they rang the owner to harangue them about it, so loudly I could hear them across the room. The owner had tears in their eyes as they put the phone down.🧵

Best door knocking weather in Karori and the man who ran down the street to ask if I was the housing lady, and to thank me for the cycleways and for standing again - you made my day sir!

⬇️ Good read. "Aotearoa is not asleep. Many see this for what it is, imperial overreach dressed in bureaucratic clothing. Protests, online & offline, speak to a population that still values sovereignty, autonomy & transparency." & worldwide media are covering our WTAF reaction awsm.nz/empire-in-th...

Oriini Kaipara @tepaatimaori.bsky.social 2 August 2025 ❌ NO FBI ❌ in Aotearoa New Zealand #Sovereignty #nzpol They boarded up the entry doors 👀

❌ NO FBI ❌ in Aotearoa New Zealand ❌ @tepaatimaori.bsky.social launched this petition at 1pm, August 2 👏 have never signed anything so fast in my life. #Aotearoa #Sovereignty #NZ #nzpol www.maoriparty.org.nz/say_no_to_the_fbi_in_aotearoa

The American spy base opening in Wellington is a backdoor to American imperialism controlling our country. We must reject our comprador government's attempts to tie us into the American empire. Join us tomorrow at 1pm outside the US consulate and show we want these spies out!

O H H E L L Y E S 🔥🔥🔥 Oriini Kaipara: "I'm looking forward to speaking at this kaupapa. @tepaatimaori.bsky.social says ❌️KAO❌️ to the FBI in Aotearoa ‼️ We will not be used as pawns in this Govt's plan to give away our mana motuhake and our tino rangatiratanga to America. E kore rawa e whakaaetia"

Our press spokesperson @cannibality.bsky.social will be speaking at this rally against the FBI's new office in Wellington tomorrow at 1PM at the US Consulate on how the office is part of the American capitalist imperialist regime's efforts to export their policing model to ensure Pacific domination.

Huge news! Today we're launching our biggest sale ever, to celebrate the move to a shiny new website. ✨ Smooth website experience 📚 50% off ALL books from 2022 & earlier 🗓️ For all of August, while stocks last The sale is live now at www.teherengawakapress.co.nz.

This is my mum. Jem is my niece. Jem’s book, Folk Remedy, is a work of art as well as a great story! Yes, I’m biased. You should still buy this book. (I’ve only just managed to extricate it from Mum’s firm grasp so I can have a look! 🤣)

🚨 FBI OUT OF AOTEAROA 🚨 SAT 2 Aug - 1pm - US Consulate, Tāmaki Makaurau 💯 "The FBI has no place in Aotearoa. Their presence here undermines our sovereignty, our independent foreign policy, and our democracy." Ngā mihi nui @protectputiki @papa.org.nz for this. @cannibality.bsky.social will speak ✊

Join the 4,100+ people who are part of #Election2026 Aotearoa private FB group! Especially if inspired by the way we all worked together for #InternetNZ AGM 👏 a team of BSky peeps with FB accts could join & bring FB resources over to share here? (Ask Tania obvs) www.facebook.com/share/g/19W9ToqDYC

"Update on actions to take if you've been affected by the voter registration issues" @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social ➡️ 0800 36 76 56 ⬅️ Note: people who've been in same whare for 50yrs have found they're now not on the Māori roll. It's a systemic issue, not just an auto-fill prob. #ToitūTeMāoriRoll

Sunday 3 August on Marae (TVNZ) - 10:30am #nzpol "Election year is closing in, and the Electoral Amendment Bill has had its first reading. With the govt pushing major voting changes, what could this mean for your vote?" Answer: NOTHING GOOD Features @cannibality.bsky.social @acgeddis.bsky.social

{does hurried maths} The average NZ resident has spent 83% of their life with an officially bilingual country where it has been officially fine to call NZ Aotearoa. For everyone born after 1950 it has been Aotearoa & New Zealand the majority of their lives.

Extremely #nzpol skeet

"Or when they see any evidence that their ideas suck, break international law and are undemocratic." @tinangata.bsky.social #TheyreGonnaDoItAnyway #nzpol

#CoC = no matter the human cost to Aotearoa, nor the official advice not to do The Thing, they're gonna do it anyway. "Minister responsible for emergency housing was informed his approach would increase homelessness. Now that reports and evidence have been received..." @child_poverty_action_group_nz

Yesterday I spoke at PADA's Parliamentary Breakfast for perinatal mental health. It was such a treat! To have government ministers right in front of us as we detailed gaps in service provision that risk too many of our lives after we have our babies, an absolute privilege and honour.

Is it possible to be brown and just, you know, get a job and people are normal about it.

taking a moment to thank @tuchapman.bsky.social for starting a petition (which closed on 31 July) that ensures that if that first Members Bill that Winnie loved so much ⬇️ were ever to get pulled from the biscuit tin, it'd be greeted by 10,602 NZers who signed in opposition 👏

kia ora mighty #InternetNZ members on BSky ⬇️

I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.

If there is something that NZ Bluesky has made clear in the last 12 months, it is that while it doesn't (and shouldn't) agree about everything, it will absolutely mobilise and share resources and information in defence of liberal democracy.

greeted the indian shopkeeper at the tahuna on the spot dairy with kia ora and he fires right back with kia ora kei te pēhea koe ? in perfect reo then personally escorts me to his range of curry pies in the warmer. i chose chicken vindaloo ( he was out of lamb). made my face perspire, as it should.

Well, now we know the fieldable strength of the FSU in New Zealand. They can mobilise about 350 people.

It's STEPHEN JUDD WITH THE MUTE BUTTON

We turn up next year e te whānau and each year until these racist assholes are gone. Because let's be honest they'll be homophpbic, transphobic, xenophobic and just about everything else too.

Now moving into hour 4! If I believe one thing about the Left in general--it's that we will sit through a long procedural meeting no matter how long it takes.

Whole bunch of racists that paid the FSU $50 a pop to get INZ sign-ups only to se FSU leadership absolutely screw it What a scam. What a horrible and INCOMPETENT little organisation This really should impact the way people, especially media, treat the FSU (and all the orgs with the same 5 people)

Why should I be surprised that the premier election nerds of former NZ Twitter are all having a good time tonight, we know it might be the best election we will ever have again