#nzpol The CTU has today released its report on electricity in NZ. We are calling for electricity generators to be brought back into public ownership - and to recognise electricity for what it really is - a public utility - not just a source of profit. 🧵 www.reimagineaotearoa.nz/publicly_own...

Another fantastic piece from Mick Hall, drawing the line between Peters' speech and the cabinet decision on Palestine and the government's broader extremism aligning it with the US mickhall.substack.com/p/new-zealan...

Liberals: don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good Me: yeah fair ok, show me the good Liberals: this isn't the time for fucking purity tests you little shit

Plans for 18,000 more dairy cows in Canterbury have been revealed. In a nitrate emergency, the there should be a reduction in cow numbers, not MORE dairy expansion.

Palantir's role in Israels genocide.

There are moments in a person's life where we realise the system we spend our lives upholding is morally bankrupt, and that we must strive to put sand in the gears of the machine no matter the personal cost if we wish to sleep soundly again. I like to think this is such a moment.

liberals be like "complaining about someone more powerful than you is abuse"

No labs in New Zealand should be privatised. Get foreign owned Awanui out of our public health system. They don't have anything to offer the country, they cost the health system more, and their staff are underpaid and not supported. Re-nationalise ALL health. #nzpol

Keir Starmer says he's known for 10 years that the left has got it wrong on immigration & wasn't listening to peoples concerns Really? Because 5 years ago he said the left wasn't bold enough in talking up the benefits of migration. He really is the most duplicitous politician in my lifetime

With digital IDs & digital currency… “government will know all your possessions. Any possession without a digital token would be classed as contraband. That’s the world neoliberals want to take us into, and they are getting us there, step-by-step” www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/tony-blair...

❌ The whole world is doing it tough ❌ No, we are pretty much going it alone with our crush the economy and set ourselves back a decade or two strategy. Orr started it, Robertson helped it along, and then Willis doubled-down on stupid - letting let the TPU, Act and NZI loons call the shots. [Ends]

4. Ghouls have been wailing, wrongly, about this *forever* - see the excerpt from a UK Parliament debate in 1939 below. Sound familiar? 5. The unpaid work that older people do for their families, each other, and their communities has massive value. We should feel good about their UBI! [4/n]

Looks like a good time in the news cycle to tackle three big myths 🧵 ❌ NZ pension costs are an unsustainable burden ❌ Seriously, no, for lots of reasons. 1. Our current Govt spending on pensions is low compared to most other advanced economies. And... [1/n]

there are some *very* clear moral imperatives developing in terms of how we associate with people like this

If only he had been in government at some point, having had the chance to recognize Palestine.

No. You are not a friend to Palestine. You are aligned with the oppressors of Palestine. #nzpol

Why do we have an FBI base in New Zealand, again? Aligning our politics with what is happening in the US is influencing our values in deeply troubling ways, and the utter lack of scrutiny over the FBI base is one of the signs.

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.” ― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Rest In Power ✊🏼

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

It is not enough to condemn deprivation without also defending those it has forced into acts of desperation. Read @SeanCMBell on the rise of shoplifting.

👉NEW -- Labour bars journalists from party conference by Phil Miller and John McEvoy Keir Starmer’s Labour party has refused to grant Declassified access to its annual conference, prompting condemnation from press freedom groups.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW report based on the 18K emails @business obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's personal Yahoo account: new details about the academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Burnham: MPs want me to challenge PM. The Labour right didn't spend years ruthlessly attacking & undermining their own party & ushering in Boris Johnson & hard brexit, all in order to regain control of the party, just to hand it over to Andy Burnham. #GMB

Tony Blair tried this 20 years ago. We stopped it then, and we must stop it again.

Oh Tony Blair's think tank says that, do they?

If the answer is increasing GST in any way, then once again it's neo-liberalism ensuring money continues to flow from the bottom to the top. GST should be cut, not increased.

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

As the future of NZ Superannuation becomes again hot topic in NZ media, but we know we can't trust our media to inform us correctly, please listen up. This is about the UK, but might as well be about NZ. #NZPol www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbq...

The heirs to the spoils of the boomer exploitation.

It's lovely that NZ state owned media exists to perpetuate so many lies, including that Superannuation as conditions stand today is becoming unaffordable, in service of capital interests. Heaven forbid we have a media who serves the interest of the poor old wage slaves.

Friendly reminder to any other dipshits out there that it's not Treasury's job to invent imaginary new taxes in their long-term fiscal statements. The entire idea is to project current settings into the future.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (Updated Version)

A tale of the Huntington's disease cure. Tested on volunteers who weren't paid. Using UK university facilities for which they weren't charged. Ends up in the hands of Private Healthcare who will charge $2-5m for a single round of treatment. Actual cost about $25,000.

How the actual fuck is Business Desk publishing a piece framing the genocide of Palestinians as a 'challenge' for Israeli start ups AND trying to PR Israeli entry into the NZ market on that basis???? This is fucking atrocious businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...

scientists rule www.bbc.com/news/article...

Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper wants to position the UK at the UN as opposing Israel's attacks on Gaza while announcing no change to UK military, arms, intelligence and trade support for Israel. Does the Foreign office expect the world not to notice? www.gov.uk/government/s...

David Rubenstein is the co-founder of the Carlyle Group and the principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles. he frequently broadcasts on @bloomberglp.bsky.social

Before Labour Friends of Israel removed its webpage, we found 73 of Labour’s 197 MPs were parliamentary supporters or officers of the group Dozens of MPs have been funded by LFI. But it refuses to disclose its donors. For how much longer can this go on❓ www.declassifieduk.org/who-funds-la...

🚨 BREAKING | Palestinian media: 20 people, including children, were killed in an Israeli strike on an area sheltering displaced families in central Gaza City.

Footage has captured the moment of two boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla being attacked with stun grenades, resulting in explosions. Organisers of the flotilla have reported at least nine attacks on their vessels (Middle East Eye)

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

FEDERAL RESERVE STUDY: "Investors raise rents at 60% higher rates than the average increase...and higher investor share in a neighborhood is correlated with faster rent increases for non-investor landlords." But sure...go ahead & insist investor landlords have nothing to do with the housing crisis.

Like we haven't been doing that for centuries, but OK. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

PRESS STATEMENT ISRAEL’S DEMAND TO “DOCK AND TRANSFER” AID IS PART OF ITS ONGOING BLOCKADE OF GAZA September 23rd, 2025 The Israeli Foreign Ministry’s recent call for flotilla vessels to “dock and transfer” humanitarian aid through Ashkelon Port in Israel cannot be understood as a neutral...