The question of asset sales seens to arise three or four years after tax cuts. 2010: tax cuts 2014: partial asset sale of powercos & AirNZ 2024: tax cuts 2026/27: asset sales? (If Nats win next year) The reason is blindingly obvious: tax cuts means less tax revenue.Nats have to make up shortfall.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Between Sliwa and Brad Lander probably the best thing you can do as a public figure right now (even if you’re odious! like Curtis!) is lose gracefully being exactly who you are. People are desperate for dignity to make a comeback and they’ll reward you later.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, NBC News projects

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Three hours left. zohranfornyc.com/vote

Woke up to news that a church in my town was vandalized with a swastika. Please get out and vote in your state and local elections today. The presidential elections aren’t the only ones that matter.

Well have you? If not, here's where: zohranfornyc.com/vote

Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour. Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori. Without consultation too like yesterday. Depressing.

It's getting worse, Google it!

😶👀 #SecretSantaAoNZ

President Orange Julius Caesar and his ilk claim that guns are a God given right but don’t feel that food is a God given right. They claim to care about babies but don’t care if they go hungry when they become children.

Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social

Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...

Sunrise, Wednesday, 29 October from Makorori Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

WorkSafe board no longer has any worker representative - CTU

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Over 5500 properties still without power in lower South Island after wild weather

Measles case confirmed at Wellington Girl's College

As Labour finance minister Grant Robertson borrowed about $140Billion between 2017 & 2023 including paying for the economic shock of Covid-19 As National finance minister Nicola Willis has borrowed >$140Billion between 2023 & 2025 what crisis has she had? Borrowing to pay for tax cuts #NZPol

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

A The Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank behind Project 2025, are also enthusiastic supporters of Hirsch’s work and are informing many of the authoritarian and anti-democratic measures being introduced into policy across America. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... #nzpol

#NoKingsProtest #ReleaseAllTheTrumpEpsteinFiles

Nelson Hospital's generator failed this week for an hour. Simeon Brown labelled it "unacceptable". This is the same Simeon who instructed authorities to do "absolute minimum" in works - even though he knows risks incl. equipment failure #nzpol

You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

How are you struggling with your rates bill? Well don't you worry, Christopher Luxon is sorted! #NZPol

#nzpol 💪👏❤️ #Oct23Strike #NZMegaStrike I support everyone striking today! Kia kaha! Aotearoa Steadfast.

CompassNZ/David Seymour/ACT will leave this legacy to our kids and NZ. "It doesn't feel like they are made with love, it feels like they are made with hate," says one high school student about the government's revamped school lunches scheme, run by the School Lunch Collective. #nzpol

Same fucking day a Civil Defence Emergency is preemptively declared for Canterbury because anthropic caused climate change has intensified our spring storms, the absolute climate criminals in Govt pull this stunt They should never be forgiven for destroying the planet www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

“The strikers I've spoken to are striking because they are being put into situations that are against their moral code. Unsafe situations from classrooms to emergency departments. They're understaffed and under-resourced, which means they cannot do what they chose their professions to do.”

School lunch scheme 'far from fixed' after eight months

Why won’t Speaker Johnson swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva? Because she is the last signature needed to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein files. This is an active coverup meant to protect powerful people from accountability.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Every teacher I've ever met was worked to the bone and usually going above and beyond to make things happen for their kids. I literally would not describe a single teach I know as either cashed up or well rested like???

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

It's #Strike week in NZ - Thursday is going to be LIT! Had a word to the boss & it's ok I'm downing tools in solidarity with them, brothers & sisters. Biggest strike in NZ history coming up! #NoTwats #GeneralStrike #NZPol

Not to mention $12bn on "Defence" www.defence.govt.nz/news/defence...

#nzpol. We don't have the money, we gave you $12 a week tax break, and me an extra $340 a week. Ohh, yea, we also gave $2.9 billion to landlords (hey, that is me also, woohoo), and $300 million tax break for tobacco companies. But we just don't have the money for teachers and medical staff, sorry.

Govt says it can't afford to fund health and education properly but found $200m to subsidise fossil fuel cos, $200m for tobacco cos, $2 billion for five new US war helicopters, $3 billion for landlord tax cuts; $1 billion subsidies to dairy cos via ETS etc

In which @musicalchairs.bsky.social responds to Judith Collins’ open letter with some facts and charts.

So lemme get this right, we burned 50k jobs, lost 90k citizens, fucked the energy, retail, hospo, manufacturing businesses, murdered worker rights and equal pay, set fire to public services and threw the entire health service in the dumpster And we didnt fix inflation? #Nzpol

Dang. They need to retroactively address that 2-2.4% increase that slipped through then, for, uh, MPs? newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/13/c...

Bernard Hickey wielding a Monday morning flamethrower.

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The current Government wilfully spreads misinfo about unions despite being well aware unions are the collective voice of workers that rebalance the scales so that people in work are protected from exploitation and harm. It’s a good time to join one. #nzpol I’m retired but I’m a solidarity member.

Your regular reminder that unions represent PEOPLE. They are simply the voice of the PEOPLE they represent. Nothing more. Nothing less. Attack them and you’re attacking the people they represent. It’s pretty simple. #nzpol