In case anyone would like to listen to Justin Avoth's brilliantly energetic reading of this, and wants to avoid Audible/Amazon, Libro FM is a good alternative: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Phillipson: "As someone that's worked for a long time supporting women and children..." The entire cabinet knew Mandelson had stayed at the house of a convicted paedophile when Starmer appointed him & no-one said anything publicly because it would have meant you losing your jobs

“We can’t stop people from bathing in a giant toilet we made”

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

Gonna have to update this scene.

Amazing how so little information can be imparted despite the use of so many words. New learning tools being introduced will help kids ?? Great... We'll take your word for it ! 🤡

Big Ukraine push on TV1 news. Whats going on?🤔 Are we paying too much attention to certain other topics ?

While the rest of AoNZ struggles with homelessness, redundancy, unaffordable food, crippling rates/insurance/power, isn't it great to hear farmers can pay down debt and buy $300k boats "quite comfortably"?! So happy for them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/country...

Where exactly are we going to “move-on” all the people in need of housing? Won’t be into the 3,500 cancelled new state home builds, or the 900 up for sale: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/where-exac...

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Actually, that’s exactly what I expect the Mayor to do if it’s not safe to be in the water.

Geoffrey Palmer: The McSkimming scandal shows we need a whole new Policing Act - https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-11-2025/geoffrey-palmer-the-mcskimming-scandal-shows-we-need-a-whole-new-policing-act - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news

Opinion: If The Herald's political staff wants to sneer about a "C-grade scandalette" let's go there. There's a lot of material in the archives of a newspaper, let's not forget, that waged an obsessive, and increasingly petty and bizarre, campaign to slut-shame an elected Mayor out of office.

I saw that headline and like an idiot thought the mayor was going to announce he was going to fix this issue and then tackle the long standing neglect of infrastructure so it wouldnt recur. Obviously his solution is 'let's tell people its fine and see if they believe it'

Little not very impressive to say the least. "'here are the results, this is what it shows, the risk is pretty low, you make your own decision about whether you want to go onto the beach and and have a swim in the sea'." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

"The President Must Be Removed From Office" Zeteo is calling today for Donald Trump to be democratically removed from office, via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The evidence, as laid out by Zeteo's @andrewperez.bsky.social in today's First Draft, suggests he is unfit. zeteo.com/p/time-for-t...

Following Luxon's lead another very low IQ coalition minister refuses to listen to those far more qualified than themselves.

I don't even know how he makes it in parliament. Dude famously votes, often singularly, against bills that would objectively make NZ better.

You guys wanna see what trend is going on in the only democracy in the middle east? A new trend of kicking cats and dogs, I wont share the footage cause its disgusting but it can be found on reddit or x. Also throwing them into bonfires during the jewish holiday of Lag Ba’Omer.

In recent years, a cruel phenomenon has occurred on Lag Ba'Omer eve: Street cats and dogs are thrown into bonfires alive. Many of these animals are killed; others survive, but with burns and injuries all over their bodies.

Israel Official Warning: Cats and Dogs Burned Alive During Jewish Holiday of Lag Ba’Omer Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection describes a cruel phenomenon in which, during the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba’Omer, “street cats and dogs are thrown into bonfires alive.

Cats and Dogs Burned Alive During Jewish Holiday of Lag Ba’Omer Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection describes a “cruel phenomenon” in which, during the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba’Omer, “street cats and dogs are thrown into bonfires alive. Many animals die in pain archive.md/qJB2x#select...

“Privatisation of state housing land is a bad idea,” says Vanessa Cole, spokesperson for Public Housing Futures. “ Selling off land to investors and land-bankers will only deepen the housing crisis by reducing the land that could be used to build more state housing.”

every time david seymour says anything related to sex crimes the outpouring of *legitimate* hate directed at him on social media is wild given that, & that he's one of the *most unpopular NZ politicians of all time* it is ludicrous to me that ANYONE in the media still holds water for him... and yet

Trump is insane!

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

The only solution to homeless people on our streets that has worked anywhere is providing homes for them Homes first without any conditions

“Dad, I’m sorry about the Supreme Court.” “Quiet, piggy. I’m not doing interviews.” “I’m not a journalist. I’m your son, Barron.” “Barron of which country?”

And of course the NZCPR author doesn't even exist: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Interestingly right wing Councillor Sean Rush says Paul was the one who found an innovative solution to ensure water infrastructure investment didn't fall as their LTP required them to also commit to cycleways

Veoila has paid multiple millions overseas for similar disasters but here in #NZ the conversation has been hijacked by NZPCR & others to take away focus both on the lack of wisdom of repealing 3 Waters, and the responsibility of the French multinational

3 Waters was initiated by National in 2017, saying that NZ's lifeline infrastructure was at risk, and coming to end of life. Another issue they identified is the lack of specialist expertise across Councils which is why centralisation was essential, according to National in 2017

Tamatha Paul Moa Point vote never happened as described. Not only did Councillors invest record amounts, Option 3 was risky & specialist expertise absent (3 Waters would have been useful) Cycleways also came from opex budget, not capex. Context has been removed to paint Moa Point incorrectly

I'll keep saying it, Israel is pure evil #Israel #genocide #warcrimes www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Au revoir! France's top diplomat Monday requested that US Ambassador Charles Kushner no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government after he skipped a meeting to discuss comments by the administration of US President Donald Trump over the fatal beating of a far-right activist

Our political reporter Jake Vig’ s got a scoop. What’s the administration’s new position?

We Deserve Better War Propaganda In a post-Iraq invasion world, these sorts of reports deserve nothing but a scoff and a dismissal. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-deserve...

"If I’m elected on Thursday, it will send shockwaves through the political establishment and show that the old way of doing politics is over... The establishment’s days are numbered." Thursday's stakes could not be higher. Read more from Hannah Spencer ⤵️

"There’s an uncanny, flattened nature to a lot of the manuscripts; the submission letters are becoming quite formulaic." Literary agents urge writers to avoid AI:

Reform have nothing to offer but divisive hate. Blaming migrants and communities struggling to get by. Hannah Spencer understands Manchester, she knows the value of work and will actually get things done. Thursday - it's Greens Vs Reform. Hope Vs Hate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ferrari turning his fire on Zack Polanski this morning and saying the Green Party - which is a national political party, not a pressure group - should stick to things like recycling. Coincidentally there's a by-election this week in which Greens are strong contenders. #LBC

For years we've seen an ongoing genocide. It's been backed by right wing papers, the US President and by this Labour Government.

Ethnic cleansing of the whole of 'Greater Israel' was always the Zionist aim "US ambassador Huckabee says Israel has right to take over ‘all' of Middle East" 'Mike Huckabee walked back his statement, but only because it was likely an unrealistic venture for Israel, he said' tinyurl.com/msatx4kz

If ‘Chuck & Mary’ have their once-in-a-lifetime trip overseas (for which they can afford food and shelter) ruined by a homeless person existing on the street, then they’re just as privileged and out-of-touch as Luxon is. 🧵 #nzpol

given the political environment in NZ, and the world, at the moment - i'm very comfortable saying that Matthew Horncastle is doing stochastic terrorism when he uses his platform, money and influence to make statements like this By presenting and amplifying like this The Press is taking part in that

When Seymour said there are always a small group of people that turn up and ruin it for everyone, for a brief moment I thought he'd developed self-awareness.