A partnership between the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and Te Māori Manaaki Taonga Trust will create curatorial residences for Māori at the famous museum later this year. #nzpol

Looks like I'll be running in the Regional Council by election as the Wairarapa rep. Need $200, a team of volunteers and some money to make billboards and pamphlets.

A huge part of my experience as a disabled person, other than "being disabled", is reminding people that you can be disabled - even if you don't look it, even if you don't want to disclose private medical details, even if you don't wanna talk about that all day every day.

Did you know that Conservation Action Network has an official YouTube channel? Here, you can learn more about their vital work and follow the journey of the adorable #orangutans at Long Sam Wildlife Rescue Center! 🧡 Subscribe here: youtube.com/@canborneo.o...

Yesterday it came in in the mail: our book Rightless Resistance is out! The book is about the struggles of rural Indonesians against palm oil companies. We wrote it after documenting 150 such conflicts across Indonesia. Good news: the book is open access, via uplopen.com/books/m/10.1...

While I think this sux and I feel for the ratepayers, esp any pensioner who may potentially lose their whare, I do wonder how many raged and voted against 3waters. Waitaki District ratepayers facing up to 45 percent increase call for probe into council's finances www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Wellington harbourmaster pleads for emergency tug boat | RNZ News share.google/3MAjQvCDx3TW...

Sleeping with the devil doesn't equate to being treated well NZ lamb exporters at risk of President Trump imposing new tariffs - Trade Minister www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

What in the butter chicken tsunami could have brought this on?

this cannot be correct. endorsed by our worst existing councilors (lund and vandervis), gave an answer to a interview question so racist she panicked and freaked out over it getting out, this is a really backward step for Dunedin. www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

truth matters!!

Every time Nicola Willis talks shit in ‘tax and spend’ I’m like, that’s what governments do thats your job. It’s like going for a job interview as a cleaner and saying all the other candidates will wipe and vacuum but I won’t.

That Nicola Willis thinks she knows better than the OECD shows how captured by special interests she is #nzpol

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

Amen To That

The NZ Govt charges the same Road User Charge to a small electric car as it charges a giant 3.5 tonne diesel SUV. Giant cars cause more road damage, more injuries and deaths to pedestrians, cyclists and children, more climate and air pollution. It is a bizarre subsidy and it needs to change.

Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?

Every damned day is fresh hell for anyone who cares about life, human and non human alike #nzpol Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Once more for those in the back: THERE IS NO LEGAL REQUIREMENT OR EVEN A FORM AT THE BORDER FOR GREEN CARD HOLDERS RE-ENTERING THE US TO DECLARE A PREVIOUS CONVICTION, WINSTON IS LYING & SPREADING DISINFO ON PURPOSE

Dear fragile MAGA males,

How can the stock market be rising to record levels while jobs and wages are going nowhere, most Americans are paying higher prices for just about everything, and consumer sentiment is in the dumps? Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-can-the-stock-market-be-soaring

Cork City FC (Ireland) have posted this, the replies justify their stance. The replies are mind boggling hateful. I forgot how bad that site is. Heartbreaking God I wish more clubs would get it & come over here. @leagueofireland.bsky.social

Intelligent presentation by Greens Party MP candidate @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social What's also true is that Te Tiriti protects from rampant foreign corporatisation & privatisation - and that it's why it is a must take down for the current Government, something Seymour previously admitted

When criticising genocide is seen as antisemitic you know there's a problem.

Stop looking at what Discount Mr Potato Head is saying and start looking at the pattern of actions. What goal is actually being signalled by "I'm going to be focusing on outcomes"? To my view, it seems the intent is to gear society toward a highly individualised, stack-ranked system of privilege.

The cancelling of the free fees scheme is 100% explained by the complete mess National has made of the economy and their NeoLib beliefs. They’re bleeding money on benefits and the tax take is falling. Their answer is not build capability, it’s MORE AUSTERITY (except for Roads 🙄) Morons

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Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

Regular PSA Wellington. It’s still not properly light if you’re driving use your headlights. And if you’re on a bike wearing all black with no reflective strips turn the lights on your bike too. You’re all invisible just watched a very near miss in Newtown

#NZPol #AoNZ You might have seen some misleading headlines today. So a reporter ran with comments that were not Oriini Kaipara’s, without speaking to Oriini Kaipara. Accuracy matters. Dropping this here whānau to clear the matter up, ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Everlee Wihongi jailed by ICE for a month now moved to another prison unable to communicate with family or lawyer. Labour is calling on Foreign Affairs Minister to advocate with US govt for her release or at least she should be told why she is being held and able to communicate with family & lawyer.

While I definitely find Labour's centrism frustrating, I think the actual progressive left need to focus on the positive ideas from the left rather than bathing in negativity that the party you're probably not going to vote for anyway isn't as LW as you'd like. #nzpol

In his latest, @connorsharp.bsky.social looks at another cost of the government's RoNS mania: deaths and serious injuries that could have been avoided with low-cost safety improvements that were sidelined by "a myopic focus on over-scoped highways". www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/05/12/t...

#nzpol "The conflict in the Middle East underlines that introducing reliance on LNG would exacerbate New Zealand’s already high vulnerability to imported liquid fuels shortages." The Radical Far Left of *checks notes* the OECD

Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

I know I shouldn’t read the comments section but people saying “oh she didn’t declare a conviction” are unhinged. How in your brain do you think that entitles any entity to detain you in prison without contact with family or lawyer WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK EVEN MASS MURDERERS ARE ALLOWED LAWYERS.

Sigh businessdesk.co.nz/article/ener...

“From 2023 to the end of my term, there was sustained and highly sexualised disinformation campaigns about me,” www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/05/11/t...

We see this play out week in week in across NZ, it’s racism in action & it’s swept under the carpet. “Wāhine Māori are often expected to operate at exceptionally high standards while simultaneously navigating hostility, undermining behaviour, reputational attacks and procedural harassment,” #nzpol

‘Not normal’: On one April day, all of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities were in a single country www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

UPDATE from Oriini Kaipara @oriini_kaipara IG, 9:40pm "Tena koutou, I want to correct the narrative that is being reported about me this evening by media. I confirm that the comments claiming to be mine are not. I did not and have not spoken with any reporter on this matter." #nzpol

William Shenstone said this in the 1700s. Fits our times rather well.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Te Pāti Māori splits as MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi announces new Te Tai Tokerau Party www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This 👇 - They have failed both the Judicial Oath and the Constitutional Oath. They are not impartial, neutral arbiters of the law and don't even try to hide that they are influenced by their own personal political preferences.

a response to the Crown scrapping the 15% accessible housing , condeming homeless for disabled. open.substack.com/pub/huhana62...

Not just on the BSA, that aside this is a must read. #nzpol “What is needed from Labour, and from the Greens and Te Pāti Māori, is not the language of regret. It is the language of policy. A commitment to legislate, on day one of any future government, for a digital-era successor body to the BSA.”

Good morning good people ☀️

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things