If taught well, the kids will succeed but yesterday’s PR stunt by Minister Stanford was just that. She wouldn’t know a grapheme from a phoneme. And by the way, what they’re calling “structured literacy” was started under Labour by Minister Tinnetti who actually has expertise in this area #nzpol

Shout out to @laura-kiwi-birb.bsky.social for sending me this! @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @detectiverogers.bsky.social ffs a member of the Atlas Network won the Nobel Peace prize.... Where aren't they at this point 👀 #AtlasNetwork #nzpol

The next time someone says the Atlas Network is just a figment of our left wing paranoid imagination show them this X post:

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 How genocide happened

Ruba is friends with @itsmeio.bsky.social whom I’ve shared, has social media in Gaza that predates the war and sent me a photo of her Palestinian ID. Ruba has been volunteering at medical clinics while also trying to complete her studies. She wants to continue studying and help her family.

I’m sick of RW govts trying to separate “the unions” from their members. “The unions” can’t take strike actions without balloting members. “The unions” aren’t forcing members to strike; they can’t. Members are voting to strike, because of shite offers from this govt. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed. And they took this funding from real worksafe work WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

Agree wholeheartedly and wishing it wasn’t the case for videos and pictures as well 😞

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright: "I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you." This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

Meanwhile Israeli media doesn't deny it's a genocide Damien Grant the criminal is a fraudster and genocide denier in every way #nzpol

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like: "We need to make people work for more years" "We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way" "We have to cut benefits for young people" never: "We need to tax the rich"

If you want a reminder of why there was a referendum on Māori Wards and why not all councils had them, this article from last year is helpful www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Mind blowing. The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial. #nzpol

“Te Tiriti is already written into law. It’s already promised. It should not fall to individual kaiako and kura to hold the line while government policy undermines it.” — Rongopai Kira, tumu whenua (deputy principal) of Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga. #nzpol

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

**PREPRINT** from Harvard & Massachusetts General - children with Long COVID show markedly increased levels of fibrinaloid microclots in their blood. The highest levels appear in those with persistent SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in circulation. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Well, that didn’t go how I hoped it would. To say I’m a little disappointed in the NZ voting public’s decision on Māori wards is an understatement. Here’s a thought about aspiring to the bare minimum (& given our #nitrate problem even that might be too much) My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol

It's really disheartening to try to talk to colleagues about boycotting a conference that removed all its records of abstracts pertaining to DEI, only for the response to largely be "I don't want to go, but..." But what??? Each of us has agency! You can choose not to go!

To ask a pakeha majority to remove representation of an indigenous minority is ongoing white supremacist colonisation. #nzpol

Stop pushing those damn Sora A.I. videos regardless of if you were the one who created them or not. Stop normalizing it!

This article is paywalled so don't worry if you're not a sub, but the point I want to make here is it's a real wake up call to the state of the country & why speaking to our own echo chamber won't help us. BTW I'm pretty devastated by the Maori wards results here - about 54% so far reject #nzpol

With 98.7% of submissions OPPOSING this bill, it is beyond belief that this wanker heavy coalition are forcing it through anyway. 🤨 Yes Labour absolutely needs to commit to repealing it on day one! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

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“Bring back bullying” “Bring back slurs” You can’t bring back the children who aren’t here anymore because of it.

Last few hours to get your vote in for local elections, Aotearoa!

Voting closes today - drop your ballot off before midday!

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

Some rich person please run this on prime time television. #nzpol

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

“The committee reported back on Friday, recommending “by majority” that it be passed.” As Emeritus professor Jane Kelsey says, “this has the potential to be our ideologically driven version of the Trump administration.” The progression of the RSB needs more scrutiny than a Friday night news dump.

“what happens when a society turns away from reality, when people convince themselves that #politics is someone else’s problem. #Fascism does not arrive with a crash, it creeps in slowly, gaining ground while individuals look away, distracted by…the hope that things will resolve themselves” 👀

The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says. Instead the data show that… “it was also protective in those without risk factors,” she says. So get your kids vaxxed!!!

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Israel has killed the third son of Gaza journalist Motasem Dalloul.

Launch: Protect Protest Aotearoa. We're joined up with other groups to resist attacks on the right to protest. protectprotest.nz Join the launch event with a screening of Operation 8 at 4:30pm October 15th in Wellington. More details: nzccl.org.nz/launch-prote...

The United States gives approximately 6.6 million doses of MMR per year. Each single dose vial contains 1.76 grams of glass, rubber, and aluminum. Add another 3 grams each for the syringe and needle. This one change will add 62.8 metric tons of SHARPS BIOHAZARD WASTE per year.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"The Partnership to End HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis is concerned by reports that 22 CDC webpages have been deleted, many of which focus on LGBTQ+ health, HIV and [STI] prevention, and access to care."

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

"Rangatahi are going to be even more vulnerable to being put on the streets by their parents when they're already in precarious, vulnerable situations at home.” Reflecting on how the NZ govt consistently chooses to make someone’s vulnerable situation worse - then justifies it as a normal behaviour.

The iron law of climate politics: everyone is "in favour of climate action" [as long as it means zero change to existing lifestyles]

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Anyone that can join this strike absolutely should www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.

“We were frog-marched out, heads down, on our knees… for basically a giant photo op for [Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir.” Freed Gaza Flotilla Activist David Adler shares the horrors he witnessed in Israeli detention with @premthakker.bsky.social. Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...