Top notch work from Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social

The verdict in the first Prairieland trial is due any day now. The prosecution aims to lay the groundwork to criminalize all forms of confrontational protest. To share information about this case and the broader patterns of repression, print and distribute this zine: crimethinc.com/zines/the-ro...

During the last Oil Shock in 1979 NZ Railways was touted as the 'Great NZ Energy Saver' being far more fuel efficient in carrying freight compared to road freight. While still true, we've lost the sidings & the small to medium goods freight service we had in 1979. Time to look to the past for ideas?

I had a look at Brian Tamaki's Facebook page and sure enough people are making the conection with the pandemic and tying this into existing conspiracy theories about 15 minutes cities, UN Agenda 2030, the World Economic Forum, and so on. It's all become very predictable

I love the fuel-emergency dark humour, comrades, but the real joke is imagining this government would last five minutes if Luxon were forced to do *one-tenth* the public-facing work Ardern did in 2020

The right openly positioning itself in orientation with the semblance of knowledge and the semblance of skill like this - and in opposition to actual knowledge and actual skill - tells you everything you need to know about the modern right.

Ouch! Awkward for Luxon. Former Marsden Point boss says NZ has lined up with MAGA states on oil first stance. Expert says government needs to secure country’s energy future with renewable energy and electrification www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

One of the economic failures of missing out on the 10,000 EV chargers is the ability for drivers to stop, charge the EV and wander around and shop in the area. So the small rural towns are missing out. Thanks Luxon for being a twat #nzpol

can this be a solution?

Watching the media casually talking about fuel rationing & the possibilites of carless days or other radical reaction, calmly & yeah I get it, don't spook the horses but by god I am outraged because I know if this happened under a Labour government there would be "Waily, waily, waily!" #NZPol

See Bernard Hickey's ( @bernardchickey.bsky.social ) Interview of Chlöe Swarbrick ( @greens.org.nz )

Opinion from Auckland University: A bill passed under urgency that allows the Govt to claw back a wider range of welfare payments from ACC backpay makes a mockery of due process, writes Susan St John.

#NZpol From a few days ago: New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas - doubts the logic of “imposing a levy on electricity to fund an LNG terminal”, “because New Zealand also has a goal to achieve 100% renewable electricity generation by 2030,”

I wish I believed it was only ego and insecurity but I suspect there's a shit-ton of corruption in there too. Somebody has been promised something #nzpol

We are now well into the "absolute made up nonsense" stage of smearing Zack Polanski. It's weird when you grow up on films of journalists being incorruptible truth seekers to see multiple papers just lying through their teeth.

Where is our rail network? Oh, thats right, we dont have one anymore... www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Fuel prices are on the Up. People will probably ditch cars for urban rail to save $$$. Now watch Kiwirail engage in some wanton price gouging and raising fares on urban rail for commuters,even though rail is ELECTRIFIED AND DOESNT RELY ON O'SEAS FUEL! Why? 'Cos Willis will demand a share...(1)

Solar panels as standard are on their way. www.businessgreen.com/news/4526775...

(Guardian) — Iran has spurned two messages from Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, seeking a ceasefire as its leaders sense it is not losing the war and the US president is at the minimum feeling the political pressure. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Dems just scored an upset win in a New Hampshire special election: Democrat Bobbi Boudman won the special election for Carroll County District 7, defeating Republican Dale Fincher 51-47% in a district that voted Republican by more than 13 points just 16 months ago.

This kind of crap is why we need to get donations out of politics. Money is not speech. The rich do not merit more influence than the rest of us. #nzpol

Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials. *They did not do this

So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India. Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand

This International Women’s Day/Week, my wish is simple: no creeps in the workplace and women actually being safe at work 😡🤬

Finally! I'm free of Covid and slowly getting my mojo back. Today's cartoon www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609... Calm down folks he's not going anywhere... well, not just yet anyway 😃 #NzPol #Luxon #Cartoon

Alt-text "Behind him hiding by a Greek La column an angry Erica Stanford can be seen brandishing a knife. To the right of Little Luxon three sad MP's stand - tiny Simeon, Nicola Willis and Chris Bishop. Those two are holding their stabby stab stabs very sadly whilst consoling each other." #nzpol

If the health services are underfunded, how are they going to pay for the private sector to "ease the woes"? Oh, that's right: we pay for them. Why not tax us a little bit more and fund health services properly? #nzpol

How weird because giving the private sector “more scope” in the UK did not work out well - see below headline. Studies consistently show that private sector involvement in public health leads to poorer health outcomes - RNZ noted this last year: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is just straight neolib ACT policy dressed up as a Westpac report. We don't want the Americanisation of our health system. Any public sector woes would be dwarfed by the poverty and poor health privatisation would bring to many AoNZers. Westpac and Seymour can just fuck off with this. #nzpol

Personally, I think this is more about trying to save his job in his newly-drawn district than some sort of moral awakening.

We should all be saying this; this is #Trump 's illegal war to distract Fox News viewers from the #Epstein files, this is not our war. Never mind "No War for Oil!" It's now "No War for Paedophiles!" #auspol #ukpol #nzpol #cdnpol

Teaching Windsor & Obergefell tmw & it's nausea-inducing to read Scalia/Alito/Roberts/Thomas's overwrought handwringing about judicial despotism when it's stunningly obvious they have & happily do wield the iron scepter of judicial supremacy when they have the votes. Just hypocrisy all the way down.

Both @bellingcat.com and BBC Verify have shown that it was a US Tomahawk that hit the girls' school Trump's response, as with most of what he says, a lie "We think it was done by Iran because they're very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever,"

When petrol gets ridiculous expensive tomorrow, just remember that the stuff you're buying was purchased at the lower prices. And when/if it goes down, they'll wait till the station tanks get filled with cheaper stuff before lowering prices again. They're crooks all

A new national poll from NBC News finds that threats to democracy have surged to the top of voters’ priorities — matching inflation as the country’s most important issue ahead of the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hey thanks NZ Greens for being the only party on International Women’s Day who made a serious, detailed, informed post about the inequity faced by NZ women and committed to doing something about it. 💚

I'm a bad person I imagine the editors and owners at NZH crying over their Remingtons: “Most of Hawke’s Bay imaging is now delivered within the public system, helping create a more sustainable service. “The programme is on track to save around $7 million each year due to reduced outsourcing.”

Dirty Politics showed what the Nats would do to win. They haven’t got a chance on a level playing field or a contest of ideas because theirs always benefit a minority and destitute a majority. They care about winning whether it’s a headline or a bill and they don’t care how they get there. #nzpol

Thanks to Chris Bishop #nzpol

open.substack.com/pub/nickrock... #nzpol

Absolutely this. White suburbs were created to shield white populations from the realities of the system they prop up. This is why, among many other things, if you adopt a position anywhere to the left of Bill Clinton in suburbia you are automatically labeled a radical.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Another reminder that billionaires are not billionaires because they are smart. They are rich because they are broken in a way that allows them to completely ignore morality in order to gather more wealth in a doomed attempt to fill the unfillable hole inside them.