#NZpol There's people from all walks of life and backgrounds who do understand the multiple threats posed by, particularly, the Far Right and those sympathetic to them *globally*. That very much includes *here too*. So if you can make it, to show unity *against* such divisive tactics, get there 👍✊

“Melania,” the new documentary about the first lady, has been pulled from theaters in South Africa after the film’s local distributor said on Wednesday that it would no longer release it.

The current Government could not care less about the lives of New Zealanders #nzpol The cuts made by the Government have decimated online, frontline and back room services. A pox on all their houses. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Nicky Hager says Judith Collins is “clearly and demonstrably not” fit for the Law Commission role www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

How frustrating. I've been locked out of bluesky.app on my laptop Firefox browser. I've done everything possible to clear history cache, adblockers etc. Everything FF suggests. I've created new password. Still no access. On my phone, firefox no problem and Chrome and Edge on laptop no problem Help!

Australia's grid just hit record Q4 demand, but renewables supplied MORE power than fossil fuels for the first time ever! Rooftop solar smashed records at 61% share. Batteries tripled output. Coal & gas? Down low. Who said clean energy can't handle it? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"Flying in on helicopters and expressing sympathy for stricken families and communities is pointless if your policies are failing to address climate change, and making matters worse. New Zealanders who want a different kind of world, and a different kind of politics have choices to make this year."

Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science

Sleep Mask by Adolph Gottlieb (1945)

Under pressure from outraged students, faculty, staff, and civil society organizations, the University of Pennsylvania has rejected Trump’s demands for a list of Jews. Jewish Voice for Peace applauds this decision.

NZ First pulled support for India FTA before it was secured, Todd McClay reveals www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is the democratic opposition party in Italy protesting against ICE involvement in the Winter Olympics in Milan

Fix your human rights ACT and while your at it SANCTION ISRAEL More than 120 countries made almost 350 recommendations to Australia, including repeated calls for the adoption of a national Human Rights Act nit.com.au/28-01-2026/2...

YES AND: over 50% of voters think the level of Treaty of Waitangi influence on government decisions is about right *or could be even stronger* - same poll (Support is closer to 60% if you set aside the “don’t knows”, and just look at those who have particular feelings one way or the other) #nzpol

Two weeks ago, forestry sector lobbyists were saying they shouldn’t be held responsible for the damage caused by their activities. What a bunch of assholes #nzpol

So actually, 50% think it's about right or too little and 10% don't know but sure let's headline it this way. FUCK SO FAR OFF RNZ YOU ABSOLUTE REGIME MOUTHPIECE. I'll be emailing about this tomorrow. You should TOO. #nzpol

Let me fix the headline for you: "Nearly 60% of voters don't think the treaty has too much influence on government decisions" Good to know. Sounds like a clear majority to me. Racist baiting bullshit from NZ media as we head towards an election later this year. FFS. #nzpol

Let's remember Judith Collins for that time Danyl performed the Voight-Kampff test on her to prove it was actually her running her Twitter account.

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

This thread that you started @mehr.nz hits the nail on the head. Not sure if you know about Nicky Hager's book 'Dirty Politics', but it is a good read. Collins is a dastardly feature in it. Hager won every defamation suit brought against what he wrote in that book.

good riddance to Minister Judith Collins, who orchestrated the present gutting of New Zealand's science funding establishment I've not seen or heard any coverage today that mentions this tiny detail, affecting 100s of millions of public dollars and endangering NZ's entire intellectual community

collins is stepping down, but that doesn't mean she's done. she's positioned herself to remain a crucial node (and likely lobbyist) in the nascent NZ mil-tech industry she's helped build up over this term. read her speech notes from a 2024 NZ Defence Industry Assocation meeting below

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau

In today’s NZ Herald

A reputation for toughness? If there's dirt, she's rolling in it. National's Judith Collins retires from politics, appointed Law Commission president www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Europe hit a historic milestone as EV sales surpassed gas cars for the first time, despite geopolitical headwinds. insideevs.com/news/785541/...

New images show bushfire devastation in Victoria as offshore gas drilling in the Otway Basin continues www.greenpeace.org.au/news/new-ima...

A wee reminder that they handed out $6M for the Michelin Man #nzpol

The Times: UK government ministers suppressed ‘negative’ climate report from British intelligence chiefs warning of mass migration and nuclear war www.thetimes.com/article/4a1c...

Those that were laughing with Donald Trump when he said he could kill people in the middle of the street, what now? Dead Americans are starting to pile up? Murdered. Still think it's funny? #FreezeICE

Do you remember when John Key spent 26 million dollars trying to change the New Zealand flag. Then we have Winnie saying the $222M breakage fee was "reasonable" when breaking the iREX Ferry contract. And it costs $3M PA for WHO🤦 Please vote these loonies out #nzpol

Tim Cook went to the White House last night for a screening of the Melania documentary. Just hours after someone was murdered by ICE. Remember that the next time you go to buy an Apple service or device.

The executions of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are the latest atrocities by ICE. Dozens of people have died in ICE custody under Trump. 2025 was the agency’s deadliest year in decades. You cannot reform this level of cruelty and lawlessness. Abolish ICE

Climate change sucks. The astounding truth is that the NZ Govt plans to make it worse with more cows more coal more cars and more oil

This would be the same Federated Farmers that argued that agriculture should be entirely removed from the ETS 🤔🧐 and which fully supports The Land Transport (Revenue) Amendment Bill 🧐🤔

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

On the whole I prefer it when Luxon is “WFH” on Waiheke Island. Watching him treat a disaster as political theatre is not good for my blood pressure. Or my equanimity. I’m ragey. #nzpoll

Coming from the guy that's cut gov funding for Māori initiatives every budget.. #nzpol

Former Foreign Minister says NZ must stand up to Trump, defends WHO work

📢 Three of five members on the Ministerial Advisory Group for victims of retail crime have resigned in recent weeks with one saying she could no longer work with the chairperson Sunny Kaushal.

Two extremely racist politicians blaming everyone else for being racist? Pot/Kettle/Black. You started a lot more racism than this and you know it #ChristopherLuxon & #MarkMitchell. Practice what you preach E hoa. #hypocrites #nzpol #landslidemtmaunganui www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

This is so yuck. Every part of his involvement in an event where actual people have actually died is about him. The arrival by helicopter and now this are all about creating photo ops for social media and about burnishing his image as a compassionate man. #nzpol

Former Men at Work frontman Colin Hay has disavowed the use of the band’s 80s anthem Down Under by Australian anti-immigration protesters, saying the song “does not belong to those who attempt to sow xenophobia”.

"We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate risk reduction, incl. binding emissions cuts, adaptation plans, and a national programme to stabilise vulnerable landscapes using science-informed, Indigenous-led land stewardship." manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... #nzpol

i've been out in minneapolis all day, talking to locals and trying to wrap my head around the murder of alex pretti. it's 11.23pm, and this is what i've arrived at. please RT, it's free to read: www.webworm.co/alexpretti/