this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Folks, wishing everyone a restful & restorative Labour weekend, wherein we give thanks to Sam Parnell & the Labour movement & unions for the 8 hr day:

Can’t explain it really,God. I just like awful people

Paywall now lifted: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground. The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...

Be mindful today @nzlabour facilitated historic Pay Equity w/ nurses & set money aside for future PE claims for non-dhb ie aged care etc & money aside for claims from other workforces like teaching. It is this piggybank National, Act & a complicit NZFirst raided for Nicole's budget #NZPol

Be mindful today @nzlabour facilitated historic Pay Equity w/ nurses & set money aside for future PE claims for non-dhb ie aged care etc & money aside for claims from other workforces like teaching. It is this piggybank National, Act & a complicit NZFirst raided for Nicole's budget #NZPol

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

Heather Orsborn renewing white road markings. Wellington, 21st May 1960. Ref 1/2-045139-F, National Library of New Zealand.

If the government doesn't have enough money to pay for things like schools and hospitals, maybe they should follow Simeon Brown's advice and get a paper round?

Young Republicans refer to themselves as "alpha males" and "irresistible men." But when they get caught posting something offensive, JD Vance defends them as "young boys" and "kids" making "jokes". (They're 24-35yo.) Which is it?! #USPolitics

#nzpol Me aro koe ki te hā o Hine-ahu-one. Respect us. Value us. Pay us. This was the message that came from thousands of New Zealanders today, as we gathered across the motu to celebrate wāhine and fight back against the Government’s horrendous attacks on pay equity.

#nzpol #PayEquity

rimmer and the fsu strangely quiet on this. #nzpol

“While I do not accept that change is impossible from the inside, I have come to learn that it comes with a price, of violence and hate towards my people. This is a price I am no longer willing to pay.”

Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?

#nzpol “[CTU Secretary Mellissa] Ansell-Bridges said this was "more than a protest — it is a celebration of the women who nurture, lead, and resist". "It honours the suffrage legacy and amplifies our collective power to shape the future." www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/p...

Great to be out on the streets today with many others protesting our rightwing govt's sudden overturning of decades of struggle for pay equity. But - will the Labour folks out on the marches today actually ensure any future Lab-led govt will fully reinstate/improve access? #nzpol #PayEquity

Following months of death threats & public safety concerns for themselves & family, Green MP Benjamin Doyle leaves NZ parliament. Sadly for Doyle many voices, already primed to hate differences, brayed as one, when Free Speech Union's Ani O'Brien amplified false accusations 🧵

Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden should be executed. When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.

#nzpol Big turnout for the Women’s Day of Action for pay equity. Billions of dollars have been stolen from low-paid female dominated workforces. This government can find huge tax cuts for tobacco companies, landlords, and big businesses - but not fair pay. That must change.

Reform UK’s conference earlier this month revealed a party entranced by conspiracy theories and riven by internal division – with one of its own employees calling Reform’s Kent councillors “wankers” who “hate” and “fight with each other”. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/18/r...

Proud of this kaupapa. Iwi and unions uniting for the first time is a historic moment and gives me hope for the future.

Candidate from the purported party of free speech weirdly triggered by me exercising my free speech to call my blog Local Aotearoa.

chat is this good

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Absolutely!

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

One story in this chapter is from 1967, when Australian neo-Nazi Eric Wenberg attacked in court the man who shot dead George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell’s killer was a former member of the National Socialist White People’s Party. Wenberg was eventually deported.

For those interested in the history of the far right in Australia, @drjpersian.bsky.social, Vashti Jane Fox and I provide an overview in the introduction to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'. www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

If you’re not from NZ, saw viral videos of that haka at London’s Nazi rally yesterday, and were very confused by what you saw, check this out so I don’t have to explain a million times over the next few days how Brian Tamaki and his cult aren’t representative of all Māori. Kei te tino ngenge ahau.

God, I miss @sassycrass.bsky.social so damn much.

We are not immune to the social fragmentation that is currently ushering in a new age of global fascist resurgence, but this is caused by a completely collapsed information environment & increasing oligarchical control over the nation-state- not the existence of immigrants, however many there are.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

A worthy reminder of how big players in NZ politics have dragged political discourse into an ethically bereft sandpit of their own making. We don't have to play in it #NZPol

If you’re in the media and don’t understand that ‘unite the kingdom’ is just the British equivalent of the ‘unite the right’ rally you’re not well-equipped to cover this.

I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t trust terrible people not to follow the terrible things happening elsewhere when their behaviour and actions consistently show how capable they are of it. Anyone with equity on their minds might want to sign up for the NZ Women’s Day of Action next weekend👇

Funded by billionaires. www.instagram.com/reel/DOe3SfJ...

Also, it was his Business.

The truth about Charlie Kirk is he was an old fashioned KKKer. His life was not worth celebrating, flying flags at half staff & all of the warped coverage of this event just shows how far America has lost its way. We need to teach who the real Charlie Kirk was: www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Who could possibly care enough about Charlie Kirk's bizarre fascist views enough to wish death upon him? Other than your typical 22 year old white supremacist MAGA groyper with a Bible in one hand, a sniper rifle in the other hand, and a tin foil hat on his head.l? Radical "left"? Give me a break!

The murder of Charlie Kirk is terrible for our country. Violence is not the answer. To learn from this, let's not fictionalize who Kirk was. A day before his death, he said: "Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America." That's not respectful speech. That's violent rhetoric.

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

Would love a journalist to ask David Seymour which of Charlie Kirk's views he himself supports, and why he thinks a tribute to Charlie Kirk in NZ parliament would be appropriate.