On this Jan 6, 1941, the Four Freedoms were introduced. The Four Freedoms (2026 version): - Freedom from speech - Freedom from worship - Freedom of want - Freedom of fear Just some minor changes from the original 😉

Maybe ECan could try not being corrupt and incompetent, bending over backwards to issue licences to pollute to all and sundry? Just an idea. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Depressingly, the NZ Labour Party has a lower % of Māori MPs than ACT, only outdone in their lack by National.

State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization https://theonion.com/state-department-designates-wnba-as-terrorist-organization/

Clearest example of governments being more interested in regulating individuals rather than institutions/organisations. We do not have lobby groups and donations, just the one vote. Make sure YOU separate glass and plastic but we aren’t gonna a do a damn thing about data centers or Big oil.

What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...

Lebensraum *and* “The Greater North West Atlantic Co-Prosperity Sphere” are now official US policies. Let that sink in… www.bbc.com/news/article...

True fact, I am now 57 years old & I have never seen Mt Taranaki on the west coast of Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, not by land nor air. Flying back to Ōtepoti Dunedin earlier in the week I almost got excited, yeah the whole mountain was draped in cloud. Boooo

So, today I'm wrapping up People Watching. Massive thanks to everyone who has supported it & all the cool people I've met and drawn. I wrote an article in the Sunday Magazine today talking about the lessons I've learned doing it - and there were so many. www.thepost.co.nz/culture/3609...

Me when I sit down and think for longer than two minutes:

Tell you when NZ suffered from mass uncontrolled immigration: it was 1850-1960 approx. #nzpol

An effect of the changes to the Electoral Act is that a well off, likely right wing voting criminal who was part of the system who gets a home detention sentence for, say, possessing child porn will get to vote next year. A less well connected offender sent to prison for the same crimes won’t #nzpol

Silver Jandals ... To Barbara Edmonds for saying, well, it’s here, actually, in response to the perennial show me the money challenge on capital gains tax #nzpol

Absolutely fuck all the way off with this shit. What a ghoulish thing to say.

You know it. Aotearoa is on the list where this isn't happening. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just saying

Govt cancels Flu Tracker. Nek minnit: #nzpol www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ummmm… how are we this stupid? How are 2000 people and builders and developers this stupid in this country? Why are we still allowing this? Insane. #nzpol

So the supermarkets have breached Golriz’s privacy and were called out by the Privacy Commissioner. 1) Where’s the public apology and cost of damages to Golriz 2) When are these weird men going to stop obsessing over her and other women of colour in politics? #nzpol

I'm shocked that the inaugural recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize would be preparing to wage war on another country to seize its resources. It's almost like that prize was a cynical and meaningless gesture.

You're not meant to SAY the "we have to keep the lowest paid poor so everyone else knows they're better than them"

Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'. Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!) We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

More good news. Top of the South Iwi have been awarded 3000 hectares of land in the 'Nelson' Tenths case, including the Abel Tasman great walk and $420 million. This is not a treaty issue, its a separate case of fraudulent land grabbing by the crown.

govt spends $750 per road cone to appease people who think $5 per road cone is excessive just normal everyday NZ shit now.

Happy Beethoven's birthday to all who celebrate.

Domestic honeybees for mānuka production disrupt native insect behaviour and reduce species richness. Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) were noticeably less abundant at apiary sites, and mānuka flower visits by other insects were also lower. 🌏 www.scimex.org/newsfeed/man...

#nzpol For consideration…

Narrator - She did not resign #nzpol

seems bad www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

YES the new mega-ministry is patently absurd YES National never campaigned on anything like it YES it won't work YES we all know it won't work BUT have you considered how Chris Bishop's dream of being Steven Joyce has come true today???? and that's surely worth all the chaos and redundancies

Hyefu 2025: Economic recovery? I barely knew ye

“With fresh air in its lungs, the economy is picking up,” Pretty sure that air contains the Black Plague

Damn. Something stinks. And it’s the classic rort of “govt trying to make money off addicts while pretending to protect people…but we also have to protect businesses who make even more money off addicts!” See also: tobacco and alcohol. #nzpol

This issue of Who Benefits looks at the billion-dollar buyout of NZ’s gambling market by international wagering giant Entain. Newsroom takes stock of who netted the biggest wins and losses in the monopoly deal.

“it’s beneath you” - lol. Lmao.

Do not let your infrastructure go past it's Use By date... #nzpol

"64% of ACT voters want more state homes"... WHAT? LOL Classic libertarians and RW.

Sorry…what? Surely this is a misprint. How delusional do you have to be to support the party that is absolutely all about getting the State out of *literally everything in the world*, but also think there should be “more state houses?” WHO is that stupid? #nzpol

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Worst kept secret ever #nzpol

How could I not love this 🤭

NZ racism hits different: ‘I’m not even going to try to pronounce the next name’

The Whakatipu #takahe breeding season is off to a good start, with approx 6 nests in the Greenstone and several from the new population in the Rees. www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r... Great pic by takahē ranger Lisa van Beek. #conservation #rails #birds

The top 1% don’t really earn income that’s taxed as effectively as wages/salaries. Their wealth allows them to generate more wealth that is, again, essentially untaxed. But the 1% do have *very* strong opinions on how the country should be run…and taxation spent… #nzpol