Stanford is lying to NZ, again, telling parents that Labour wants to "scrap assessments for your children". Not true. At issue is the SMART assessment tool, best described as Erica's "specific, rushed, overseas-built, AI-powered, teacher-rejected, Treasury-warned-against tool" @iambrieelliott 7 July

Police are re-investigating 54 sexual assault and child abuse cases after concerns about one case triggered a review of almost 1,000 files. The senior officer who managed those files told me the scale of it was “news to me”. He remains under an employment investigation.

what the fuck. this is a systemic fault of policing in new zealand and I have to say it again; the reaction that Tamatha Paul was on the receiving end of for daring to suggest that not everyone trusts the cops is why this systemic fault can persist

what the fuck

Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins

Another 2 years wasted without any action to stop supermarket gouging.

No but really… Money = choices. Money = paying bills that you’re stressing about, therefore easing stress Money = a little treat you’d never normally contemplate. Money = Access to better resources. We need to better financially care for the Disabled & Chronically Ill. #nzpol #Kikorangi

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

Time is a flat fucking circle. #nzpol #transrights thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-...

New Zealand's swift moral decline into cruelty: And what Kiwis are doing about it #nzpol #PartyVoteGreen ✅+💚❤️🖤 open.substack.com/pub/susantem...

The apartments are in Napier, and Chris Bishop can be as "frustrated" as he wants. The only reason they are empty is because he decided to nobble Kāinga Ora and sell them to a community housing provider without making sure that such a buyer really exists. Ideological folly all the way down.

Someone should ask Christopher why it’s worth having a conversation about the pay gap when the only thing he’s personally done about the pay gap is oversee the cancellation of pay equity claims

Springfield is even now launching its monorail, we are at risk of being left behind

They are pushing this line so hard. If Lab were in govt it would be wall to wall cost of living crisis and wrecked economy. #nzpol

At this point it’s probably fair to ask, who is actually running NZ right now? When the Minister if Energy, The Commisioner for the Environment & Transpower all opposed Meridian energy drawing down up to 5m more water But it was approved anyway by a Fast-track panel? This isn’t good governance

Well also AIs that know your gender are often deliberately talk-downy and that's shit annoying to me when services force me to use AI because they have the AI expect me to be dumb and over-emotional just because I'm female. Seriously fuck them.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

“Seymour ‘implores’ Gisborne council to go easy on forestry companies” Seymour is not working for New Zealanders. The receipts 1/3 #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/business/15-...

The corruption will never stop until they and their conspiracy donors are booted out of government and parliament. #nzpol

$50m handout for 2 companies to mine #NewZealand yet we cant afford to feed kids in school

This is awesome mahi! Thanks @averysmith.bsky.social and the team 🫡 @kyledchurch.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social #nzpol

I am begging everyone responsible to not screw this up. Any development of the Avondale racecourse land must include community spaces. The same old commercial developer model will not do. Yes, I'm talking about Avondale Markets, but not only that. www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Liz Truss set up CPAC Great Britain with a lawyer who used to work with sanctioned pro-Russian oligarch Firtash Many of guests at Truss’s gathering have also parroted Kremlin talking points New by me on Democracy for Sale open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Compelled speech is not free speech. Story: buff.ly/RusuUOq

I published a book on American democracy almost a year ago now. This is the conclusion.

Looks like Mayor Z's pied a terre tax is not collapsing the real estate market or causing the wealthy to flee Manhattan after all. Indeed, the opposite. Who could have possibly imagined this scenario? www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

The message is simple: Families should attend professional displays instead of lighting fireworks in their own yards.

Grateful to @katemanne.bsky.social for putting words to “bristling” feelings I’ve had my entire life. Feelings that became acute when I became a wife/mother, when expectations for me to “give” and “care” and sideline myself escalated. And I’ve always detested “The Giving Tree”! #booksky

Health Minister Simeon Brown on health imperatives. My #cartoon today #HealthCare #NZpol

New Zealand needs fair lobbying rules but to have a say you must be registered to vote by 13 days before voting (that itself, an unfair change)

This is amazing! 😻 $750,000 in the FY2027 budget, specifically to help pet owners who can't afford food for their animals. Another $750,000 goes toward affordable spay/neuter services. $1.5 million total, aimed at keeping people and their pets together"

"NO FLAG IS LARGE ENOUGH TO COVER THE SHAME OF KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE." Howard Zinn

It was pointed out today by one of the scientists who developed the cooling cap for babies that's used worldwide that their research wouldn't be funded today bc it arose from blue sky research and wasn't commercialised! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Similar to the US and most other countries, about two-thirds of Irish women having abortions are already mothers. The anti-choice myth that most abortions are by teenagers or women who don't understand what a pregnancy is, dies again.

Worth a read! A Milwaukee-area clinic volunteer shares what it’s like to guide abortion patients through vocal protesters, absorb patients’ stories, and keep showing up week after week.

When Fake Fox News Continues to Purposely Lying Without Legal Penalties 🙄 Hmmm Lawsuit.

Cruel ACT - New Zealand gutting workplace health and safety #nzpol www.publicinterest.nz/fifteen-year...

Every time I see "strong floor" I think I'm about to see medical advice about the pelvis

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

It’s in this moment that we need to remember the Adamsian virtue of being intransigent moralists www.liberalcurrents.com/now-is-not-t...

This is how you do it. This is what we should be talking about rather than “no one’s doing anything,”

But BUT BUUTTT!!!, he didn't campaign on these COOL thingies, how dare he respond, in real time, in ENOUGH time to make the lives of the citizens he represents a fraction less desperate? No Really How very DARE he? Oh, wait, maybe he had a Jacinda moment eh?

Brilliant. How real trolling is done.

And it took an incredibly strong woman deciding to have a public trial to bring this to light. A single, powerful survivor, but not one man who knew of this ever spoke up. Not one.