Weird how we have all kinds of laws against practicing therapy without a license but it's apparently fine if it's done by a billionaire's lake-poisoning proxy robot

#NotTheOnion #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Another low for NZ's appalling name suppression system. We might as well just hang up a "do crimes anonymously" sign for rich and well-connected white guys. It's a real indictment of the NZ political and legal system that there's no movement to change this uniquely-bad-across-the-globe shambles.

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

Why are our Government, banks, media companies et al still doing business with this company?

Yet again, this Government proves it has no respect or care for localism. #nzpol

Roadside drug testing 'nearly worthless', expert says

This monster also promoted the invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and created mass child malnutrition.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

I am really losing patience with Americans who treat their elected officials like celebrities they have to defend, instead of representatives they have to hold responsible. Grow the fuck up. Millions of lives are at stake.

You Don't Hate The Mass Media Enough The western press see the killing of Palestinians as such a baseline norm that Israel can massacre dozens of people in Gaza and they’ll go, “Gosh I sure hope this doesn’t lead to any violations of the ceasefire!” www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/you-dont-h...

Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

NEW: Larry Summers wrecked millions of lives & was rewarded with riches & status - teaching him there'd be no consequences to befriending Epstein. Dick Cheney lied America into a war & is now valorized as a hero. America's hidden system of elite impunity is now out in the open for all to see.

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

Price gouging

NEWS: Airlines raked in $157 BILLION of "ancillary" revenue last year off fees for bags, seat selection and other junk fees. Trump's Transportation Department - which is headed by former airline lobbyist Sean Duffy - is repealing consumer protection rules for airline customers.

Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz doesn't deny Israel’s abuses or framing its genocidal atrocities as the problem, but people obtaining information & moral clarity about those abuses is The atrocities aren’t wrong, what’s wrong is people seeing those atrocities & calling them what they are

Pssst! VPNs are the last bastions of privacy online and vital for people resisting authoritarian regimes. Pass it on! - @liaholland.bsky.social

Tax income and gains from wealth more. It's not complicated, guaranteed to work, and reduces inequality - unlike a wealth tax. Wealth tax proponents want people to have the wealth in the first place and then attempt to take a small bit back which is difficult. It's supporting wealth inequality.

"There's no such thing as a free lunch unless your a corporation"

Not guaranteeing people liveable incomes leaves people trapped in abuse unable to afford to leave. It's all very well for MSD to claim they assist in setting up a new tenancy, but people have to be able to maintain rents that exceed affordability. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Uber loses Supreme Court appeal over drivers' employment status

Whether you’re in favour of stricter immigration rules or not, literally stealing from asylum seekers is a deeply inhuman policy. "Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

In Capitalism They Tell You To Become The Hammer If You Don’t Like Being The Nail Saying “If those low-wage workers want better wages they should stop being low-wage workers” is telling a man to stop drowning while you are holding him underwater. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-capital...

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

too real lol

In a crowded field of evil corporates, Elsevier is unethical and antisocial enough to really stand out. Fully support unis across our part of the world refusing to bow to them. Elsevier should be made to eat it at every opportunity. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

If anyone wants to help out the street dogs of Thailand Niall is currently running the marathon for them and it is being streamed life on yt Happy Doggo channel, you can donate there. Some former graduates now living around the world wishing him well.

Remember cost of living is a thing bc capitalists don’t think poor people deserve to live

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

The Empire Only De-Escalates In One Area So It Can Escalate In Another As things cool down a bit in the middle east, the US has relocated the USS Gerald Ford from the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean while the Trump admin discusses plans to bomb Venezuela. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire...

Heavy winter storms flooded Gaza’s tent camps on Friday, collapsing shelters and soaking families already displaced by Israel’s war. Streets in Gaza City turned into rivers of mud and rubble as rain poured into... The full report by @AbdSabbah91 (X) in Gaza and @sharifkouddous (X) is linked below.

There's an election in NZ next year. Make the living wage the bare minimum employers can pay an election issue. Workers shouldn't have to fight their employers for a life of dignity. Many can't and many lose. End electing people who believe in slave wages. #nzpol

The alienation of young people can be blamed on Covid, phones and much else. But those are exacerbations. The real cause is rent exploitation in all its forms. It is neoliberalism that is destroying the lives of young people. And that is why it has to go. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...

Whoa boy ‘controversial’ doing a lot of heavy lifting there. ‘Almost universally unpopular and condemned by legal and constitutional experts’ was obviously too long for the headline. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

24 hours after the Israeli army announced it would reopen the Zikim crossing, it remains closed, with no trucks entering Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports. The shutdown leaves all of northern Gaza without a functioning entry point for humanitarian or commercial supplies... Image: Anera

There were 159,000 written submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill (on top of over 23,000 submissions last year) - numbers that are second only to the Treaty Principles Bill in NZ’s history. More than 98% of public submissions were opposed. There’s a word for this, but it’s not democracy.

"One day, everyone will have always been against this" was a condemnation. Not a one-step guide for revitalizing your career.

NEWS: Airlines whose profits were threatened by Trump’s flight reductions funneled huge cash to the Senate Democrats who voted to help the GOP end the shutdown without preventing huge cuts to Americans’ health care.

As well they should! The US is preparing for an illegal coup out in the open!

At what point do we publicly accept that NZ is deeply corrupt and the only reason why we don’t have a culture of direct payoffs and bribery (that we cite as the evidence for us not being corrupt) is because it’s not needed? The boys club gets what it wants through people playing their social roles.

‘The BBC is punished for the wrong things. It loses its leaders over an editing error, while escaping accountability for its editorial failures on Gaza.’

Honestly, the IPCA report into the police (mis)handling of the McSkimming case makes for jaw-dropping reading. But it’s 135 pages long so I’ve read it for you. Here’s my report on one of the most serious failures of integrity in modern policing history⬇️⬇️

This moment’s health care emergency was created a generation ago. Ignoring this history now dooms us to repeat it in the future.

“They are willing to genocide others but I’m safe probably” It’s the same shit they make fun of republicans for. Leopards and Faces