My prime minister is Samoan, so talofa

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Mar Espinar, Spain’s PSOE deputy, on Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s support for Trump: “Take your mafioso chief of staff, go to Mar-a-Lago, and leave us here — because we are more like the brave ones from Minnesota”

Big Bad Wolf warns reinforcing brick housing could make them easier to blow down #NZPol

About time for the @greens.org.nz to start an election campaign for "Railways of National Significance" #nzpol 🚅💚

A secretive political organisation is paying influencers US$1500 per post to attack a young, female Democratic candidate in an upcoming primary in Illinois. I'd expect to see something similiar coming from Advance ahead of the Farrer byelection, and electoral laws struggle to respond.

From Facebook and on point

The obvious way for the Govt to save fuel now as the US war on Iran threatens supply is to make public transport free. Will they? #IranWar

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? | Mining | The Guardian

Every right-of-center regime in my lifetime has done politics by pandering to the two core principles of the American Rube: (1) things are bad because of Those People and (2) being Tough / Not Woke is the forbidden ritual magick that would Fix Everything if our weak leaders would just use it. (1/2)

THERE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN A U-TURN YOU INCONSIDERATE COALITION GOVERNMENT #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/589...

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

He’s so good.

#nzpol The right will stoop as low as they need to to attack the left

Epstein wanted to use Zorro Ranch as a “baby farm” to impregnate women & seed the human race w/his DNA. Elon Musk wants to boost the world’s population by breeding genetically superior offspring w/his DNA. I track the similarities between these men pushing pro-natalism. youtu.be/1j__euZrK_o?...

we have a nuclear power station in the sky and can make batteries out of salt but if 21 nm of water get closed we have a global energy crisis idk bruh, i am not a scientist, but this seems dumb as ballz

At least I’m dressed for fuel crisis

Q Anon = Mossad

It's worse than that, Meta is an Israeli intelligence front. The CIA, FBI, DHS, U.S. UN, State Dept. and Pentagon have been infiltrated by Israel. I've citations for each in my TL.

Robin Williams once said "Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them." It’s no joke though.

What exactly did Thiel give to John Key to get citizenship? How much of our data does palantir have.

I would like 2 (two) inquiries into this in five years time please. Perhaps exploring why these cookers rolled back energy independence projects like clean car discounts.

Victoria says no more gas connection to homes. All electric from 2027.

We are going to traffic light system for fuel. The Waikato Invader has decided that’s paywallable

GOOD!! It’s SO bad, not even Hoggard and the coalition of cruelty could get it back over the line.

"He is a horrible human being." .. (ex colleague Olivia Troye) .. (cartoon Rob Rogers)

By the way, see that terminal and how inadequate it is? That is all you are getting under the Winston Peters, and Nicola Willis do absolutely bloody minimum option with their Corolla ferries coming in 2029 With IREX (I was helping with terminal design) you got fully fledged terminals that

They'll use both tracks to increase productivity

As the case of Rene Rezdepi and Noma shows yet again, haute cuisine and foodie culture is full of abuses against labor masquerading behind culinary genius and refined taste. The movie Pig is a remarkable send up of this scene. I reviewed it for TNR back in 2021. newrepublic.com/article/1630...

So NZ’s governments’ failure to deal with the supermarket duopoly in NZ is not only taking food off tables because of excess profits and profiteering but also causing job losses. #nzpol

NZ First leader Winston Peters calls for another inquiry into Covid-19, this one to examine vaccine injuries. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Covid #PublicHealth

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Where's the anti vaccine idiots complaining about carless days and going into a semi lockdown due to oil shortages🤔 #nzpol

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

Although we focus on presidential races, the lower the race, the more the money matters. And billionaires are increasingly getting involved in congressional, state and local races. As stated by the Times' accurate headline: "The Scale of Billionaire's Campaign Donations is Overwhelming US Politics"

How politicians spun the Covid report. Great work @thespinoff.bsky.social #NzPol

Air New Zealand is cancelling flights faster than National doing Policy U Turns. All because of the price of oil skyrocketing straight up. If only we have an alternative ground network to move passengers that was not reliant on oil. Like electrified inter city/region passenger rail! 👇

This decision is awful and consigns the industry to years more gouging

i can't help but notice that the rich american fascist reported on yesterday for donating only to the kook lux klan and also TOP is involved in user-pays charging businesses alongside sex offender and former Nat MP Jake Bezzant.

Holy shit

Just before I left my job at CBC, I scraped more than 23,000 teacher email addresses from hundreds of Alberta school websites. The CBC's Elise Stolte then sent a questionnaire to each one. She got more than 6,000 responses! Those form the basis of a new series. The stories can be found here:

How this government can look at the cook strait, the Dunedin Hospital or anything they've fucked up because they needed to scrape cash for a landlord tax cut and tell NZ they're the infrastructure guys is shocking, their heads should explode from shame.

🐋 #whale A sighting of an #albino #bluewhale has been reported near #LoretoBay in #Mexico Rare Blue Whale with Albinism Spotted in National Park in Unprecedented Milestone share.google/x9N7PaV5x75t...

Thank you @rodemmerson.bsky.social so many of us are glad Brooke van Velden/ACT weren’t anywhere near the Government of the day too. We’d be dead, and BvV wouldn’t and couldn’t care less. #nzpol

The headline simply needs fixing: “FBI Warns Israel May Launch a False Flag Attack on the U.S. Because They’ve Lost Their War”.

Cannot cross water on ghost ships Cannot tie up ghost ships at ghost wharves Cannot spend ghost savings CAN vote out ghost government www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

This gov are toxic scum intentionally playing teachers off against each other #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...