Same. #AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

My God this video is good. Listen, I have all the same concerns about TikTok that you all do. But I am telling you as a political journalist that the very best political commentary in the world right now is on TikTok. It's become what Twitter used to be, maybe better. It is no folly to use it now.

"The world doesn't owe you a living" - Christoper Luxon - who continued to claim $52,000 tax free taxpayers money for not living in his 2 official residences, saying he was "entitled to his entitlements". Luxon finally relented after Newstalk ZB listeners criticised him #nzpol

Excellent analysis of the latest government policy .

Wright Family Foundation receives over $300 million of taxpayers' funding & posts $41.6 million op. profit. The business was converted to a "charity" & pays no tax. The Wright Family bankrolled Sean Plunkett & The Platform, which regularly attacks govt 'handouts' #nzpol 🧵👇

Hey JD Vance.👋 You need to understand something. Physicians are never going to refuse emergency care to someone in an Emergency Department. No matter what you say behind that big boy podium. We’re not like you. We wake up every day to help people.

Concerns are being raised about privatisation after Health Minister Simeon Brown met representatives of a controversial multinational company that runs prisons and hospitals. “The Minister must immediately & fully disclose the nature, purpose, & content of his discussions with Serco.” #nzpol

They do not need new equity capital. They just need to pay lower dividends.

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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Late evening shot of NZ's iconic Te Kaihīnaki Moeraki Boulders. #Nikon #GreatNZRoadie

Accredited Living Wage Employers pay directly employed workers and regular contractors, like cleaners and security guards, at least a Living Wage. #LivingWageEmployers #EthicInAction #TheRealDeal You can find accredited employers on our website here: www.livingwage.org.nz/accredited_e...

"In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors." - Benjamin Franklin #1stAmendment

Charles couldn’t hide it. It’s mortifying. He reads like a 5th grader. Look how opulent dinner is.

This is what courage looks like. This is what leadership looks like.

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

#nzpol What the poster says.

Your regular reminder that the “free speech movement” isn’t about free speech. It’s about dodging the consequences of crude, hateful and venal kōrero: while trying to police what others can say. It’s not freedom, it’s control of the public square.

This is certainly a different take I can get behind

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

I recommend everyone watches this

The Overton window has certainly shifted in the USA.

Brian Tamaki speaking in London?

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

🇳🇿 NZ Bird of the Year

Does libertarian just mean bought and paid for?m More unconscionable health harming policies from ACT #nzpol #kiwi

Incompetent purveyors of misery... Regardless of T-shirt colour, this is a must read... #OneTermGovernment #FuckenKlowns

In 2023, National lost 2 seats after special votes were counted. Special votes incl. people who moved, have errors on forms, homeless, new migrants, typically younger etc. Now National is playing US voter suppression tactics. Submissions on Goldsmith's bill closes tomorrow, 11 Sep 1pm #nzpol

In my email & video today, which I’ve opened up immediately: The Govt is using 2018 data & including GST when saying health/GDP rose above OECD averages during Covid, a report finds, adding that 20-yrs of sinking-lid budgets have squashed wages & staffing. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-gasli...

Taxpayers Union Pressuring Local Council Candidates Around NZ open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

This is the most incredible & wonderful story. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Winston Peters should be ashamed of himself for putting Benjamin and their whanau at risk.

It's a little cruel that there is an 's' in 'lisp.'

Who are the parties wanting to #TAX NZers? Not Greens or Labour @NZGreens #GreenBudget means most NZers pay less tax, & get free GP, Dentists, Childcare, affordable housing & good, fair-paid jobs Why - it’s #ACT, #National & #NZFirst (now NZLast) Bernard Hickey: #nzpol

Thank you on this labor day!!

Every story should just be: Christopher Luxon Re-announces He’s Laser Focused On The Economy The Prime Minister has stated again how laser focused he is on the economy, a position he has consistently restated every time fresh economic data indicates his laser focus is having no effect.

No, no one voted him to be Lord God Emperor over the conservation estate.

while undermining #public #health at every turn, & using #HealthNZ to do it, NZGovt pushes poverty, environmental destruction, tobacco, guns, speed, toxic mining, fossilfuels, meth-making, alcohol & foreign ownership of NZ #ForProfits #AtlasNetwork #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Spoiler: IT'S THE GUNS, AMERICA.

Christopher wants higher house prices AND housing affordability. Chris wants to lower prices to make them more affordable. It’s magical thinking at best and performative gaslighting at worst. The same approach Labour took too. #nzpol

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Beware of pseudonymous accounts with AI profile pics that tell you something you want to hear with no actual sourcing

Hot off the virtual presses. Ministry of Health report finds massive inequities & calls for bipartisan approach to reducing inequality; Men's health report finds men in Tairāwhiti twice as likely to die early than men in Auckland. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/official-r...

Warn? Bollicks! They rely on it. The whole world of (cynical) investors is buying the dip + holding on for dear life, believing there is always a bailout for asset owners, but not for workers, who always pay PAYE tax & GST, & never get anywhere near (lightly or 0%) taxed income from capital gains.