Nicola Willis's soundbite about the NZ public sector is that "we need to be more like Finland" Finland is roughly the same population and population density as NZ Willis wants to reduce our public sector employees to "under 60 000" Finland employs 74 635 in it's central gov vm.fi/en/central-g...

I can't believe the damage cycle lanes are gonna do to wellington businesses if this plan to cut 9k public sector employees goes ahead.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

How it feels to survive another week in America without getting sent to the psych ward. 🤣😭

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

fuck donald trump

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

So, what should we be doing? 1. Focus Govt spending (and bank lending) on supporting the real domestic economy. 2. Avoid investments and strategies that increase our current account deficit (energy sovereignty ffs). 3. Focus tax collection on rentiers and lazy wealth. [Ends]

How about "we", NZ included, also condemn the US and Israel for starting this conflict in the first place and justifying it with the presence of a non-existent threat. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

NEW: This new report, from BBC, is the best takedown of the insanity of Trump you will see anywhere. Calm, coherent and repeating only Trump’s own words. Devastating. Brilliant work once again from Roz Atkins. (🎥 BBC News)

Thirty minutes of engaging if not sobering discussion on our climate change challenges

I'm ashamed of our government. Today supporting an illegal war is a nail in the coffin. This is not the NZ of nuclear free, of anti apartheid, of the Treaty of Waitangi Act. This is neo-liberals and populists run amok. Not the country I want nor that I'm willing to excuse #nzpol

Watch this twice. Once for Hannah's speech and a second time for Matt Goodwin's face throughout it...

This is absolutely heroic tbh, incredible work, succinct & precise

There's been this hit job on the Green Party by ACT's NZCPR, claiming money was "stolen" from water infrastructure for cycleways. In fact, their Council invested significantly, more than others over decades. They put $2.7 billion to 3W in 2021 and 1.8% of that on cycleways #nzpol

How do you fix journalism? Fucking pay for it. Stop complaining about paywalls and subscribe. The rise of right-wing media is because the rich funded it. The fall of legacy media is because the rich funded it and then decided not to.

MSD have been delaying their December benefits data release due to data processing issues but they shared headline numbers yesterday. If the data is correct, this is a huuuge increase. We now have nearly 1 in 7 adults on a working age benefit. Link in ALT. (🧵 1/n)

Collins' legacy: Dirty Politics, the Oravida scandal, this...

Written about the US and applicable everywhere. A necessary pep talk.

Our own Green Party is a partner in the Global Greens with the Green Party of England. And this brilliant ad is just as applicable here as there

LOL. But also... I find the "urban elite" argument hilarious. How do these ppl consistently fail to grasp that a lot of cyclists get around on bikes for affordability purposes? Like sure, I'm so elite that I can't afford a car. And my "utopia" is... not getting run over by cars. I know, so radical!

A year after Trump, US science is a shadow of itself. To understand the devastation and vandalism, check out this new set of visualizations of the cuts for a bird's-eye view of the utter destruction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Ruin a band by changing one letter. Toot

It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

If the last 5 years of your social media history doesn't get ban you from Trump's USA, then we can't be friends 🙅‍♀️💁‍♀️

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false

Just want to note that the local paper in Wellington spent an entire term of council proactively and in many cases irrationally campaigning against any urbanist initiatives whatsoever and the result has been a mayor perhaps slower on it but not opposed & a council table substantially more urbanist.

The new front cover of The New World magazine. A man has been arrested in London tonight for silently holding the magazine up in the street.

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

This is equal parts pathetic and hilarious. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

#nzpol What the poster says.

So where can art history take you? thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...

Ukrainian spirit. Something I am deeply proud of.

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

Another objectively stupid decision by this narrow-minded government whose vision for progress is simply to make NZ dull again by sucking the life out of arts.

The mask has slipped from Better Wellington www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/better-we...

Completely agree with this. A Minister who believes all kids brains develop the same and that outdoor ed offers nothing worthwhile let alone for the economy when they go on to find work is ignoring evidence that proves otherwise.

I would be sooooo excited for this

26 years after Georgina Beyer became the first openly trans Member of Parliament, our first non-binary MP is forced to resign following death threats and ongoing abuse. This is such an indictment of NZ politics. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Day of Mourning in Kyiv. No music in public spaces, no concerts, no festivals. Yesterday, russia killed 23 people in Kyiv - among them four children 💔 I’m having my warcoffee in mourning silence.

Love the new billboards, Don.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607... Finally! We've all been waiting for this very serious and life changing announcement. You knows it and I knows it... #NzPol #BrookeVanVelden #Passport #Cartoon #Caricature #Politics #Announcement

Since June 2023 we have: - Cut the Minimum Wage twice in real terms - Removed the living wage from government contracts - Brought back 90 day trials - Ended Fair Pay Agreements - Cancelled 33 live Pay Equity Claims - Given $10bn tax cuts for landlords and businesses

Abuse and defamation of women and minorities online is out of control. We can change it and I’m committed to keeping the pressure on. Follow researchers @sanjanah.bsky.social and @legallyfeminist.bsky.social for their expertise if you’re interested. #nzpol

Blaming colourful toilets for council rates rises is like saying millennials can’t afford a house because of avocado toast. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/22-...