Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵

NEW: Chris Bishop used housing money to fund a bridge in his electorate his own Govt had killed off. Officials were against the move and Labour say he shouldn’t have been anywhere near the decision. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

no escape

“let’s make our first public foray into political prosecution of our enemies a clown show against one of the truly great prosecutors of the last several decades” though, tbf, a beleaguered public defender would probably also take them to the cleaners here

you definitely cannot do this

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn't full of clowns

Geoffrey Palmer: The McSkimming scandal shows we need a whole new Policing Act “Democracy requires a trusted system to uphold the rule of law. In this instance, the rule of law has been polluted at its source, argues former prime minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer KC.” #nzpol

The opportunity for change starts diminishing when the wagons begin to circle. Circling the wagons begins at the top too 1/n www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/16/m...

"It was ironic to see Chris Bishop and the Prime Minister complaining that there aren't enough electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles on the used car market. "That's because they collapsed the importation of electric vehicles when they canceled the Clean Car Discount.” #nzpol

I know someone treated like a perp by NZPolice Fam Violence teams when she reported DV by an ex. Senior cops wrote in police files she was abuser cos she was angry at her ex for what he did to her & kids. Cops sympathized with her ex. Her ex is now in JAIL for SA against women BEFORE & AFTER her.

NZ Police ignored a woman's sexual assault allegations against the deputy police commissioner. Instead, they arrested and charged HER under the Harmful Digital Communications Act. Until they found child abuse and bestiality material on his work laptop which resulted in him pleading GUILTY.

Why don’t more victims come forward to report abuse, they ask www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs... Jevon McSkimming: Police ignored sex allegations against former top cop, prosecuted woman for ‘revenge’ emails instead

Katherine Rich claiming the Uber decision destroys the gig economy is bullshit. I work under a 'gig economy' arrangement and I'm happy with it. What has been destroyed is the ability of foreign corps paying no tax in AoNZ to exploit workers who have no power to negotiate their work conditions #nzpol

The Employers 👀 and Manufacturers 👀 Group [of which Uber clearly does not fit the criteria to belong] comes out in support of Uber 🤔 curious

The #Uber loss in the Supreme Court “highlights a grey area in the law”, says Brooke Van Velden. It’s been through 3 courts. The judges were unanimous. There’s nothing grey about it. The law is black & white. WORKERS HAVE RIGHTS! That’s the real “problem” this anti-worker govt wants to “fix” #nzpol

Whangamatā Community Board member Mark Drury and Deputy Chair Neil Evans are obviously sensitive snowflakes who couldn't handle their colonisation guilt during a karakia. HT @paulapenfold.bsky.social #NZpol

Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED

This Coalition of 🤡🤡🤡 are environmental and conservation terrorists. Vote them out! Have to agree with the Green Party that it is foolish to be getting rid of something this effective, increasing the number of low-emissions vehicles & EVs in particular that were coming into AoNZ. #nzpol

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!

Willis cancelled IREX because the final cost was going to be $3bn Ferries that are critical for goods transport. $4bn for a tunnel so politicians can get to the airport faster? And that’s before the costs escalate as they always do. Sounds pretty dumb to me.

Our forthcoming Lands of #RuneQuest: Sartar book has a section on Creating Duck Adventurers, with art by Ossi Hiekkala @ossihiekkala.bsky.social. There's also more Duck art coming by Mark Smiley. Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks.

Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Being re-watching the @hbomberguy.bsky.social vaccine video in bits and pieces this week and every time I get to the section about the medical procedures that corrupt hack Wakefield put *autistic kids* through just makes me want to cry

The fucking National Party sent me a flyer about how great they are. I'm not sure whether to burn it or flush it down the loo (Interesting that they've started this so early tho) #nzpol

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.

Hey, Simon Watts! The world wants a word with you. #nzpol

Reading a post on another platform from a woman sharing how vulnerable she now feels about approaching police and the comments are 90% men telling her it’s one bad apple and she has nothing to worry about and the other 10% are telling her to stop making it a gendered issue - NZ’s misogyny in action.

My grand theory is that political journalism suffers from a refusal to acknowledge it is a *part* of the power structure, and so doesn't believe it should exercise agency (it's "the ref"), while totally exercising agency based on conventions, vibes, clicks and only occasionally real corruption...

#nzpol Nowhere near far enough, and the denial that the problem with the Police is systemic means it may not move at all despite the horrendous behaviour/revelations. The Police are still prosecuting the victim ffs, imo that’s a signal they don’t want change.

And still, far too many folk surveyed don't seem to understand that crime is the result of doing all the other things badly, thus National aren't better at maintaining law and order but they are better at creating the circumstances for increased desperation, exploitation, and crime.

Israel is advancing a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

important reminder that, while we appreciate her sticking a knife in Trump at this present moment, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a committed antisemite and is not and will never be your friend

🎶How low can you go?!👏 🎶How low can you go?!👏 🎶How low can you go?!👏 #nzpol

The thing about elon going to epstein island in 2014 is that Epstein very publicly became a registered convicted sex offender in 2008, 6 years earlier. Note: Epstein set up Elon's brother Kimbal with a girlfriend in 2011, 3 years after Epstein became a registered convicted sex offender.

A teenage boarder was beaten unconscious at Auckland Grammar, yet the school treated it as a play fight, lost potentially key evidence, disciplined the teen, and allegedly pressured him out.

Fight for power to, not power over.

On One News tonight there was a story on a Rotorua tourism company that talked about fewer visitors but a higher value. That's quite a fancy way to say we've put our prices up and are pricing locals out.

The thing she didn't do was business legally

When has Auckland Grammar never been a breeding ground for social Darwinism?

too real lol

Lucia has made an entire stereo this year in carpentry. Kids these days, etc.

***Please repost and share widely*** "The Tool Isn't Broken – The Wielders Are Corrupt Why the Ms Z case demands accountability, not the repeal of the Harmful Digital Communications Act" My defence of the HDCA. www.rightsaotearoa.nz/the-tool-isn...

A ‘show of defiance’? This is an example of terrorism and of how the media covers up for it.

Interviews on "it's not typical, this type of behaviour" with John Clarke as Senator Bob Collins in 1991 is more credible than Mark Mitchell in 2025 on risks of ongoing problems. Front falling off a boat vs police misbehaving and using powers to cover up abuse. #NZpol youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?...