Inside a 'cover-up': The top cops, the 'quasi investigation' and the officers who stood up 10:46 am today Sam Sherwood, National Crime Correspondent [email protected] #NZPol Interesting long read, anonymity means coded names but I gather 2 women and 1 man played integral part in exposing this

It's hard to hear and ugly to say, but there's no sugar coating for this. People are being scarred for life - even killed - by mindless deference to a deeply corrupt Police service at every level of our politics, judiciary, media and society. No "bad apples". No "lone wolves". US. ALL OF US.

#nzpol But Luxon and Willis said they could see green shoots... ?

Is anyone else feeling bombarded by Windows Updates? I've been alerted to two each week over the last month. They normally go smoothly, and I suppose I should check what 'potential problem' they're addressing, but is it all mainly about inflicting unwanted AI?

if ive ever been nice to you im sorry. please lets start over! im really mean

This interesting-looking iron implement discovered at a Celtic site in Poland may have been a trepanation tool. 🧪🏺

This is ART

So it seems like Andrew Coster and Jevon McSkimming were church buddies. How utterly predictable.

Do you think if a whole suburb that say was subject to regular power cuts, was to band together - would they give us a good price to convert the 60 or so houses in this bay to solar?

Important: The anti-vaxx movement is closely connected to white supremacy. They blame the spread of measles on immigrants, and they frequently target immigrant communities with anti-vaxx disinformation.

"favouritism and protectionism", "cliques based on loyalty", "senior positions... go to favoured people", "the subversion of process starts from the top". The IPCA told us about the rot in the police in 2021. Govt did nothing. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Wonder and curiosity will help insulate you from cynicism and despair 🩷

Wonder if there's much chance of Mark Mitchell also losing his job over this, too ? I live in hope. #nzpol

The overflow tap delivering profits from the pool of wealth was deliberately lowered by Reagan and Thatcher and Rogernomics and Ruthanasia, and now here we are.😒

Tend is phasing out cash in their medical centres. I don’t want cash phased out everywhere. It’s not actually a good outcome. #cashlesssociety #nzpol

for a while i had a white front wheel drive stationwagon always covered in mud from spinning the front wheels on farm races got regularly stopped for random checks by the same group of police officers, they knew me took to asking why i was being stopped, best answer was "your car needs washing"

NZ should be falling over itself to scoop up these minds but no, we are busy defunding and destroying too 😒 #nzpol

Media were so bloody quick to lap up the comments from older white men criticising a young non-white woman on this and yet oh look she had a totally valid point www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/lux...

I'm in the minority here, I know, but I don't think this move is the right thing to do about online safety (at least, as a first - and only - step). #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Could Trump lock NZG out of it's data? www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/t... #nzpol

“A few bad apples” is always used to deflect criticism of systemic problems in NZ. Schopenhauer’s entropy is a more realistic way to think about it: “If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.”

A year ago. Feels like our déjà vu is now experiencing some déjà vu.😒 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Would Nicola Willis sell her house to fund her household budget... TF she would #nzpol

This is not just some "bad apples" in the Police that happen to be all gone now. No. This is yet another example of systemic gendered violence and the weaponisation of the law against victims of gendered violence. Police protect power. #nzpol

Mark Mitchell on RNZ Morning Report saying "just a few bad apples, rest of the Police are all goods". But the IPCA doesn't really seem to agree with this assessment?

under this government, i'm resigned to the day that a police car pulls across the footpath in front of me and i'm arrested — for what reason, porkie — walking while trans — so, bj now, or in the station carpark you think i'm joking, don't ya no, i'm not #nzpol

fun intermingled with dire Aotearoa politics this is a new one for me got a bit drunk with some friends, while also skeeting, we have diverse sexualities, the convo's can get remarkably grubby but none of us are designed in a way to get enamoured of each other, too much [C]PTSD history everywhere

The existing leadership who may well have expelled them for expediency but against constitutional rules? I'm not inside to judge, and I definitely wouldn't start with They Want Power and the Trappings - implying they're greedy.

oops, i did a sophie rant soz, jessterraform, i should've disconnected this thread, my bad #nzpol

have used the term sophie rant occasionally when i get tot's squirrelbrained "sophie rant", impicitly Creative Commons CC-0 license, is from birdsite while i was learning to abuse the English language into half a dozen at most SMS length tweets

I love how the Nz police are trying to to pretend the problem is a couple of people. Like those men who were found innocent of assaulting louise nicholas but did jail time for assaulting other women. And the cops who covered it up. It’s a lot of individuals

"The way the complaints were handled should alarm all New Zealanders, Lack told the Herald." yeah, nah personal experience spanning sixty-odd years says it's not alarming, just par for the course i'll never flinch about ACAB, there's undoubtedly exceptions, but the odds are against them #nzpol

Forget "Defund the Police." Make "Fire everyone, make them all reapply for their jobs with industrial-grade background checks, and make the forensic accountants comfortable for the mother of all line audits" happen, you cowards. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jevon-mcs...

Labour: Let’s Do This… OK, Maybe Not Actually Do This, But Tell Everyone We Think We Might Be Able To Something in the General Vicinity. Just not catchy.

having a squabble with one of my resident feral ducks have taken to throwing a jandal at him from across the room when he walks inside ducks do not live in apartments, got it yet?

i'm TPM supporter, have my own opinions, i'm not gonna do the ructions of internal politics as a tool, just no every political party has these issues, TPM are trying to coalesce deeply generational perspectives there will be flare-ups at odds with immediate needs fence sitters not welcome #nzpol

how to win elections from that context is closer to a pitched battle at the end of a damaging war ffs, get all the can't be bothered voters on board now i don' mind if ACT NAT NZF strategists see this, we outnumber your supporters exponentially #nzpol

very risky tactical move i think there's still time to utterly trash ACT NAT NZF, but it needs a pre-election formal coalition Aotearoa has been good at leading a global political stance, except when NAT are in power get ur fucking game together GREEN LAB TPM #nzpol

Nah bro, languages are WOKE 🤪 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #TangataTiriti

Absolutely everyone who wants to push the government left should be vote Greens IMHO, there are people who will vote Labour and that's fine, we all make up a great big pool. Ideally a partnership like Labour & Alliance used to have. TPM will have their support base, and we want them at the table too

i wanted this as a visual quote in an SMS, but without having to do MMS links are just text, so i don't get charged additional MMS fees by skinny dot co dot nz so just ignore this skeet

— define self harm, you've got plenty of experience, sōf — i hand the leading role to Willie Jackson, sweetie #nzpol

"What I'm saying is that we need to have a serious conversa" I'll cut you off there Luxon. You've yet to have a serious conversation, you know, one that actually involves LISTENING TO THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CONVERSATION, since before you got handed the MP seat in Botany. #nzpol

my whānau'signal chat is getting v.obscure today youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA

Also cheaper than roof tiles. And with ROI to boot.

same in my family - a member looked into replacing an old fence and went for a solar one after comparing prices between a new wooden one and solar panels

This is what happens in technology. Remember how much PCs were initially? Few had them. I used to work in electronics. Samsung came out w/ a 24" LCD. At the time the biggest available. Just the raw panel, no controls, no power, just for manufacturing, was $8000 when it 1st came out. Now it's garbage

15 years ago today, Al Mansell set off a cannabis bong bomb inside Wellington Central police station and nobody was arrested.🥰✌ #EndProhibition #nzpol

LAB are sadly lacking in presence on bsky, still perhaps @philtwyford.bsky.social could pass this thread, and a thousand others, on to his nominal leader #nzpol