Soz, we gave all the money to Mike King. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

If you, or someone you know has come into contact with Seymour, please isolate for 7 days. Read more here: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-other-...

N95s can prevent more than just Covid! They stop colds, flus and other airborne illness. They’re also highly effective against pollen, pollution, wildfire smoke and environmental triggers. Many maskers haven’t been sick in years. Respirators are pretty amazing.

"didn't our generation have measles parties? NO. THAT WAS CHICKEN POX AND THAT WAS DUMB TOO! BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE A MURDEROUS EVIL PIECE OF SHIT TO THROW A MEASLES PARTY BECUASE PEOPLE LITERALLY DIE. Why are people so horny for infectious disease? Vaccination and isolation saves lives!

The Minister of Health wants dead kids:

Dr Wiles is an inspiration to so many, but behind it all, a person. Please send some spare puutea her way. I look up to her and Toby for their comms work. As someone who’s still taking precautions, I’ve held on to it tightly.

Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

It is pretty funny that he and Seymour both thought the were good enough, and also correct enough, to try this.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Also. I still remember when Dirty Politics came out and all sorts of people, many with deep Nat party connections, were saying Collins was finished, that the Nats wouldn't want to give Hager an immediate scalp, but that they were disgusted, and angry, and she was done.

Your evergreen reminder that measles is spread via the air. So opening windows and doors, cleaning the air, masking up, and hosting events outdoors will make a massive difference! Stay safe out there e hoa maa

It's not easy being a disabled person who is getting more disabled every day it seems. It's not easy being a queer person who has to talk about misogyny all the time. It's not easy just being a person under the age of 35 in this country. I think I did my communities proud.

It's official. 100 votes off being re-elected.

HAPPY FRIDAY! While this is hilariously apt, I also feel like it is a good summation of how we all feel at the end of the workweek.

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Perfectly okay to not be elected, if I'm honest ✌️

This time, I'm just bored. I spent three years in this rigid routine of agendas, briefings, meetings, and decision making. Give me an agenda to read or I'm going to re-organise the fridge, AGAIN If I'm not elected, that's fine. I'll go get a job where I don't get death threats. I win either way

I just voted in the #birdoftheyear — Kaarearea all the way folks!! (I’m an endemic flora & fauna girlie) www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Reminder When emailing MPs - be polite. NEVER make threats, of any sort. A template email is easy to be automatically sorted into a folder which will be ignored. Probably. Same goes for cc emails. Email your MP and say ‘I am a constituent’. Postcards (& letters) can be sent free to Parly.

Reposting this in the wake of today's embarrassing news thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

What do you do when the man who said you should have "the living shit beaten out of you" keeps sitting in the front row of candidate events? You make him meet your eye. You make him listen to the gasps of outrage when you say his words outloud. You make him listen to the applause you get.

I want to emphasise the importance of anyone with a progressive or even a fair-minded bone in their body in the Wharangi Onslow-Western ward giving me their first preference. Please hit up friends in Karori, Ngaio, Wilton, Northland, Wadestown, Khandallah etc to check they voted

first actual skeet lol, i made you a lil strategic voting guide combining all the best people’s resources rimu.substack.com/the-status-quo-is-voting-are-you

The 2025 edition of Newsroom's local government survey has reached more than a third of all candidates for council or mayor of a district/city/unitary council. Today, I report it shows strong support for Māori wards and co-governance among the cohort of respondents. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/16/s...

The rumours are true - @cityvision.bsky.social is endorsing Tara Iti, the Fairy Tern, for @forestandbird.bsky.social’s Bird of the Year! Vote Fairy Tern AND Fair(e)y Turn(er)! Thanks to the very talented @emmamcinnes.bsky.social for this great graphic 😍💚❤️

If you're sick of this government and this absolute race baiting bullshit and attacks on Māori across the board - vote in your local election and vote to keep Māori wards. Your council is ONLY having a referendum because this government is forcing them to. How embarrassing if they all get kept.

"How's the election going" It's definitely the most violent and aggressive election I've been in, and it's my third "so you don't think you'll be re-elected???" I can be running a great campaign, having great conversations, have lot of support, and even be re-elected - and still face violence

Labour aren’t the life raft they think they are. I talk more about this over at my substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/labours-fe...

TRAFFIC EVAPOURATION! We all know about INDUCED DEMAND, that is one more general lane never fixes traffic congestion (it makes it worse) Well, here is the opposite: traffic evaporation. By reallocating general lanes to transit or active modes, private traffic movement well evaporates!

Not all heroes wear capes, sometimes, like Jenny here, they just use puns and homophones.

Can predictive text suffer? That’s one of several ridiculous questions I’ll be ignoring this morning.

I’m so annoyed that I called this before the election. Y’all just want chaos and destruction for the sake of it. Y’all being Nat voters.

We're on like Donkey Kong 😎🧶✨

When I get told to spend my money by the Minister of Finance who wasted $600m on nothing

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Shame Hipkins didn't make healthier school and work environments, clean air etc, mandatory whilst he was Health Minister/PM, maybe even making covid and flu vaccines available to our kids too? Sickness, reliever shortage forces schools across country to close www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

🌿 Public Service Amendment Bill This Bill erases values of equity, inclusion, and participation from our public service. Disabled whānau and marginalised communities end up sidelined. Your voice matters. Make a submission before 31 Aug. ✍️ 📖 Read more: drbex.substack.com/p/submission...

Digital equity exists when everyone can access and effectively use digital technologies so as to participate in our society, democracy, and economy. tomorrow is #NoTechDay, an important cause to use people power to help bring awareness to the digital inequity in New Zealand: www.notechday.nz

So, I went away to look at why the A-G thought that. Because, rights advice given to the A-G by their officials gets put up on the Ministry of Justice website (so we can see why any rights limits are considered to be "justified"). Except ... that's weird ... there's no advice listed for this Bill!!!

Reading the BBC News front page you'd think that the biggest crisis facing this country were some people living in hotels for a bit.

Yesterday, New Zealand Police revealed they didn't start investigating the espionage soldier until after March 15. Several anti-fascist researchers reported his online activity to the New Zealand Defence Force prior to the Christchurch massacre. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/marc...

Remember when David Seymour & the NZ Media lost their collective shit when Marama Davidson dared say how good it was to have te reo on chocolate labels. David 'the rules are not for me' Seymour doesn't like the Cabinet Manual "No Minister should endorse in any media any product or service

The Labour Party in 2025 - and it's looking like it's Your Party too

The announcement of this came last week -- but couldn't find the proposed text until now. And hmmm. www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

‘My father thought all politicians should be watched hawkishly, confronted truthfully (whatever the price) and kicked out when they put their interests before those of their country,’ writes Richard Blair. For more on Eileen Orwell’s contribution to Orwell’s work, read Anna Funder’s book Wifedom.

“DID YOU MASK BEFORE COVID” no bitch I was a dumbass before like don’t you people ever learn anything new and do things differently wtf.

A Universal Basic Income that help the poor and generate economic growth from the ground up? We’ve no way of knowing that’ll work! Better we invest in artificial intelligence that is currently consuming all our power to create a John Cena lookalike that tells pornographic stories to children.

Worth also noting these are former ministers who have had serious threats to their safety, to their families, from some of those involved in this inquiry and their fellow travellers. They are still participating and cooperating, in a way that keeps them safe and doesn't escalate conflict.