The UK by-election results with the Greens emphatically winning against both the deeply unpopular incumbent AND the "unstoppable" local fascist sympathisers show that it has always been a lie that a vote for a minor party is wasted. Reject the false dichotomy. Vote with your heart. #nzpol

OK, what does our government have to do for us to rise up and overthrow them? I get the feeling we're getting there at pace. Can we survive another 9 months of this? This crowd is treating 38% of the vote as a mandate for fucking the entire country and even planet. #nzpol

Two years. If we re-elect nact1 we're two years behind the US on this. They've got a taste of the ease at which they can ram things through "under urgency", and they will be leaning on that for everything. #nzpol

Vote Green, Aotearoa, if for no other reason than to see what happens when the Herald’s worst nightmare comes to pass.

Remember a few years ago when people from all over the world were asking to borrow Jacinda Ardern for a while? She's over in the US now, I believe. So can we borrow Zohran Mamdani? 👉👈 The crowd we have at the moment are not up to the job. By a looooong shot. #nzpol

Aotearoa 2020: "Be kind" Aotearoa 2026: "It's OK to jail a 14 year old for 3 months if it means cruise ship visitors won't have to see homeless ppl on Queen St"

I wrote it since I couldn't find a similar article NZCPR, founded by former ACT Party MP Muriel Newman published an article in Scoop putting the Moa Plant sewage disaster at the feet of Tamatha Paul. But they omitted critical context. Please share #nzpol

Private profits are soaring while our communities struggle. Through taxing corporations what they owe, we can protect people, not polluters.

Don't let these ghouls forget when they come begging for your vote later this year. nact1 all want you to suffer for big corporate's profits, and then they want you to roll over for a $4 tax cut and let them screw you over for another 3 years. #nzpol

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Uh yes Stuff I do actually have a question, why did you start something called 'The Forever Project' in 2019 where you promised much more coverage of an issue that you yourselves labelled as 'existential' and now you don't give a shit and just rag on cycleways while the world burns? #nzpol

Victoria Embankment this morning. Why should hard working cyclists taxes go on these wide car lanes when motorists don't bother using them?

They're not just trying to pretend spicy autocomplete is sentient, they're saying it's more important and worthy than the vast majority of actual real proven-sentient human beings.

Great thread about the lies we were told about #COVID , and that in many cases, we're still being told. Why the lies? Simple; the economy can handle you dying. It can't handle you not working. We're no longer people, we're just fragments of economy that need to be managed.

Let’s have a little bit of a chat about an economic concept known as the learning rate, and why it makes an LNG terminal a batshit insane idea 🧵 #nzpol

Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Oh Luxon, you're the one who should apologise, to us. Trump is a racist (among other things). He's always been one. You don't get to act aggrieved. We should never be involved with his type of hatemonger in the first place, and that's entirely your fault. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Remember this and every similar example next time national lies about the costs of its proposals. It's expecting you to forget so it can repeat those same lies every election cycle. #onetermgovt #nzpol

Action Alert ‼️ Luxon is doing secret deals with Trump to give US access to critical minerals in Aotearoa. Think out-of-control mining of the seabed, conservation land, mountains and beaches. Would anywhere be safe? Sign the petition and pass it on👇 action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/no-...

This goes hand in hand with rampant un- and under-employment. Desperate people will take underpaying jobs despite horrible conditions and a terrible contract, and if you complain, you're gone, and some other desperate person will step in. All part of the nact1 "destroy all workers" plan. #nzpol

Why are the media still pussyfooting around? RNZ news this morning referred to "Former prince andrew, disgraced due to his ties to epstein" NO! He's disgraced 'cos he fucks children! Say it!!! 🤬 #nzpol #rnz

Radical: Selling income-earning assets for a song. Destroying work towards a knowledge economy. Lowering healthcare standards to cause exponential cost increases later in life. Incentivising companies poisoning our air and water and food sources. It's not us who are radical, it's the right. #nzpol

So the police think they can just say "nah" to the rare IPCA report that goes against them now? Wonder how long it'll be before someone here gets shot by a cop on a power-bender for something like a thumbs-down gesture... www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol

Even the Annoying Orange picked a side. Saying "I don't do politics" in 2026 is either saying "I'm OK with fascism" or *at best* "I don't want to get my hands dirty, someone else should fix this.". Fascism relies on an apathetic majority. Do not give them that.

Today on NewstalkZB, Mike Hosking said it's a "reality check" for the Government to not have a proper response for climate hit areas. Some examples of his previous work that may point to how we got here.

This Saturday in Tāmaki Makaurau, join the call to unite and stand up for Māori, Transgender, Palestinian, Sikh communities and more who have faced attacks from govts and far right groups. Rally begins at Te Kōmititanga Britomart at 11am then march to Te Waihorotiu Myers Park. #nzpol

Quick #nzpol we'd better build a special terminal so we can import expensive (and getting more so) LNG from an unstable and untrustable America, before solar gets too popular! So angry. 🤬

If you have to go, going in such a way that Bruce Springsteen writes a song memorialising you is a hell of a testament.

Here we go again, name suppression for a "former political figure". A blanket ban from all bars in the Octagon. Must be pretty serious. Anyone taking bets on whether suppression gets lifted after? I bet no, even if found guilty, 'cos that's just how we roll. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol

This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.

If this doesn't seem significant now, remember that this is exactly the kind of structural weakening of norms, standards, and processes that has let trump bring American democracy to the brink of destruction. Do not be fooled, nact1 would absolutely love to be allowed to do that here. #nzpol

Remember when payment processors 'stood up' to the gaming industry? They caved for grok's CSAM www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This annoys me more. I'm here because no algorithms. Do not algorithm at me. I've even got all the trending trash turned off in settings. GO AWAY!

Cuts to things we need. Spending on things we don't. Subsidising and accelerating climate change. Undermining clean energy initiatives. Everything they do is the worst possible option, and always against expert advice. They are destroying our country, for their mates' short term gain. #nzpol

Lest we forget: “Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations” “The move comes despite the Commission warning the effects of climate change are hitting New Zealand sooner and more severely than expected, and that NZ can and should be doing more.” #nzpol

NZ Election day Nov 7 2026. With national's new trumpist voter suppression in place, you HAVE TO be enrolled by October 24th to be eligible to vote. Make sure you check your enrolment at vote.nz We MUST get a government that distances us from the US. #nzpol #DitchThePricksIn26

The most frustrating thing is that it was always going to happen. A vote for national is a vote to defund and destroy public services, forcing privatisation, and funnelling the profits to the 1%. People sold us out for a $20 tax cut that disappeared instantly on user-pays-everything. #nzpol

Caught RNZ news on the radio on my way to work. Item 1: Massive bushfires in NE Australia. Item 2: Scorching temps across the motu (a boon for icecream sales, yay!). Just random news, of course. Completely unrelated. Wish someone there would have the guts to say climate change just once. #nzpol

Took a lot of effort to avoid using expletives in my feedback, but I figure there's a pretty good chance they'd discard it without reading if there's any foul language in there.

Rules for thee, not for me.

This would probably be the one thing worse than letting hackers steal our medical records. #nzpol #mmh

Hey NZ news outlets, would you like to demonstrate some journalistic intentions? How about an article headlined "Where is the Prime Minister?" with the byline "The world is on fire and nobody in government is answering the phone." Or do we only dig into parties on the left? #nzpol

Updated for 2026. 🎵 You can't always get what you need. You can't always get what you need. You can't always get what you need. But if you try sometimes, you might just get called a dropkick bottomfeeder by someone who's rich and sorted. OK I'm still working on the lyrics... 🤔 #nzpol

The deceit in calling AI a "cognitive amplifier" when it's best considered a cognitive parasite, in that it degrades your own hard-won skills even as it steals your intellectual property. They've bet the farm on this and they know they're on the precipice of losing it. #popthatbubble

On the 15th of December this year, Aotearoa New Zealand passed the 2.5 year mark for Self-ID. As we always said, there have been zero issues arising from this. Not a single incident recorded formally or informally, not a whisper of a problem. The anti-trans activists lied to everyone.

I'm still fuming about this so I figured I'd see if any other providers are taking enrolments. Fairfield medical are... But their prices for enrolled patients are even higher than Tui's (though at least they're open)... At least ED is properly funded and staffed, right? Oh wait... #nzpol

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The absolute state of our primary care system... Tui Medical, who run 7 GP clinics in Hamilton, are closing 5 of them for 3 weeks. The only option for registered patients during that time is to go to one of their urgent care clinics for $150. Waikato ED is gonna get completely slammed. #nzpol