I assumed Winston named them after people from his childhood. 😄

1. Nigel Farage wasn’t elected leader of his party 2. His party had 7 MPs 3. He’s not even an MP because he quit to stop an investigation in to dodgy dealings. Maybe sort this before claiming anything.

Winston screwed up naming his missing boats - boats in AoNZ have to be registered with unique names - in the Maritime NZ online register "Kupe" and "Cook" are not available because presumably they are already taken

Good morning from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Beautiful morning, beautiful frames - russia is burning again🔥🔥

If you're arresting people at the airport on their way OUT of the country, your goal.was never border security. It's filling for-profit concentration camps.

Cause and effect #NZPol

Banks’ telephone lines *always* experience heavier-than-usual call volumes. It’s such a phoney excuse for hiring too few human operators and actively discouraging phone calls.

Even if the term 'globalist' is not what you want to call out as a journalist, how about the deputy leader citing the Great Replacement? You just let him shrug and say 'look over there'? Is a synonym really enough to stop you?

Fuck me, even I didn't think NZF were this openly cooked. We're watching the rise of an open white supremacist conspiracy party, it would help if the news called it what it was. #nzpol

We are well past the point where people in the media can shrug their shoulders and go “We’re not sure what these terms mean so we’ll reproduce them without comment.”

18 July 1904 | A Polish Jew, Icek Szczekociński, was born in Pińczów. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 30 January 1942. No. 26189 He perished in the camp on 16 February 1942. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

On a double, Pages' throw fades on Mookie, who goes to get it and make a great relay. Rushing redeems himself by making a great tag on a throw that's way behind him. Dodgers still lead. Wow.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

"Behold! our genius FAST-TRACK THAT FOUR-LANE EXPRESSWAY TO WHANGAREI SO WE CAN TRUCK OUT SHIT UP THERE model for economic growth and prosperity"

“Not for us to be hobbled, stared down, cowed by the vested interest.." - blatant grifter Shane Jones. #NzPol

Relevant to NZ: Stop trying to use evidence & facts to move NACT. They don’t care. They use lies & urgency to avoid all that. This is purely an exercise in pay-offs, gov capture by the rich, & Power They have power They are using it Appeal to PEOPLE instead… & get rid of them for good. #nzpol

No hope here. #nzpol Winston Peters says law change will result in deaths, but party won't block it.

Hope. Yeah nah. #nzpol NZF Casey Costello breached rules for handling Ministerial information by giving a tobacco industry-friendly document to health officials for policy development - pretending not to know about its author or origin.

Nationalistic, Patriotic, Socially Conservative, Common Sense. The mantra of the pakeha wannabes appealing to their silver haired, European centric followers who fear what people of other ethnicity may do to 'their' country. Vote these Nactzis 🤡s out. #nzpol

Winston is building hope, is he? He's gonna make us all hopeful that he finally retires from politics by the end of this year? #nzpol

David Rudder: “The great man has left the round table with blade, flannels & ball.” “So on this fine day, with collar up, arrogant stride, the man we call THE GOAT, has joined the ancestors. Farewell.” Garry Sobers 🏏 for Nottinghamshire, Glamorgan’s St Helen’s, Swansea, 1968.

Wut now?

strong argument to be made on this basis that there are VERY few political journalists left in NZ's establishment media outlets

Incompetent, callous fools 🤡 Vote these Nactzi 💩s out. #nzpol

Don't want to sound alarmist but this is the kind of shit I was hearing in the US 20 years ago. This is fascism & it needs to be stopped now, or it won't be stopped. #nzpol

Say what you will re Ardern but once we had a PM who bothered to go above and beyond, who personally answered questions from the public, who remembered detail across all portfolios. The contrast between this level of comms and now is night and day in such a bad way - mediocrity looks terrible on us.

Cole convinced Boone to face Muncy after he walked Betts to lead off the 7th, and Muncy hit a no-doubter to flip the game.

NZME with "demographic engineering" which is obviously a "great replacement" trope AGAIN, NZ media are happy to platform fascist, racist & extremist conspiracy without any challenge, critique or explanation entire msm outing themselves with this kind of coverage this is the deputy pol editor btw

Aroooooo 💣🔥

When Solitaire Miles was 18, she had a stroke. When she got to the hospital, doctors and nurses accused her of being on drugs. Then, her unsung hero arrived and ensured she got the care she needed.

NZF are engaging in parallel campaigning to vacuum up extremist & conspiracy groups & NZ media are outright acting as a platform & apparatus for that this stuff is not MEANT to be palatable for a wider audience - but instead of critiquing, NZ media are NORMALISING it! WTAF are newsrooms up to??

⚡️Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Russia's Tambov Oblast, online retailer's warehouse set ablaze. Ukrainian drones targeted the town of Kotovsk in Russia's Tambov Oblast overnight on July 18, resulting in a fire at a Russian online retailer's warehouse, monitoring channels reported.

NZ media have gotten away with using quote marks to give themselves (increasingly narrow) plausible deniability for YEARS. But SURELY this is passing the limit of that. This isn't even "coded language" or "dog whistling" in the current environment. It is a well understood antisemitic trope in media.

okay, this is now just obscene second time this year media - RNZ here - are platforming overt antisemitism from NZ First without explaining what "globalist" means to an audience that might not be aware this is beyond the pale and should have people across multiple outlets thrown out

The Heart of the Galaxy above the backyard last night. After some middle of the night swirling fog, just before dawn Matariki (aka The Pleiades) rises (circled) above the horizon. Dark sky New Zealand East Coast.

RIP Garry Sobers, greatest bat and ball athlete to ever live.

Orel Hershiser saying you really have to trust your catcher now and then Dalton Rushing with a pass ball immediately for the game's first run.

There's no need to untangle anything. He is a serial liar. If the NYT doesn't know that yet, it is irredeemable.

Sadly, in my experience, this happens FAR too often. Even good political leaders (and @wutrain.bsky.social IS good), when faced with opportunist/lying opposition supported by click-obsessed media, are aggressively counselled by advisors to “back off” or they risk losing the election. MANY to blame.

This is just brutal. “Mayor Wu’s administration had already identified the Mission Hill intersection where Louisa Gag was killed last week as a threat to public safety & had spent over a hundred thousand dollars to develop plans to make the area safer.” Then they didn’t do it. Killed by politics.

Michael Tracey has been a big ol shithead for as long as I can remember I don't think he counts as "the left"

“Regulations” are protections. We should call them that.

NEW: Polymarket's Panama-based spin-off was created to adhere to the 2022 settlement it made w/ the government that banned it from the US. Weirdly, though, this Panamanian spin-off had employees in the US: www.wired.com/story/whats-...

Please Metro board, stop all this freeway widening. You see there's this climate emergency thing that's baking much of the world these days. Don't keep making it worse.

That area in Northern California can be a lot like Idaho and their militias. 😳 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

So the Russians interfered in the 2020 election against Biden for Trump, and Trump went on National TV to prove it. Thanks Idiot

In my professional judgment, the Tourism NZ business case for Michelin falls well short of the standard. It’s not a clear-eyed assessment of options with a range of outcomes, they’ve just written a self-licking ice cream cone #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/17/s...

The death toll from the Venezuelan earthquakes is now more than 5000.

He’s going for it. And we know ahead of time. So….there’s time to prepare. It probably won’t work. But that doesn’t meant we shouldn’t prepare in advance.