Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

What Israel does so often w/ the organs of Palestinians is so unbelievably crazy that you sound insane just repeating it. It’s actually quite the cover for bad acts, make them so horrific nobody can believe they’re even possible. This teacher got fired for repeating what Palestinian doctors say...

It seems the billionaire funded, paedo-friends of genocide haven't just gone away ... "Morgan McSweeney’s ‘inner circle’ is still trying to control Labour" www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

These mining fast-track applicants don't appear to genuinely benefit New Zealand. Removing limited resources, returning 2-5% royalties, and paying no tax. Then we get lugged with clean up costs (like Tui oilfields that cost $500m for taxpayers to clean up) #nzpol #Kiwi #NZ

NZ Inc fire sale, this is going to get VERY nasty. I imagine we’re about to see worse electoral donations/kickbacks corruption than almost any other time in NZ history - certainly more out in the open

RNZ earlier reported her saying the investments to date had gone into areas such as health and aged care, so I'm guessing that's more private hospitals and private retirement villages which are notorious cash cows....

Just bookmark this for the next three years if one of the Interislander hulks breaks down: "I encourage them to read the detailed business case, which makes it clear that the costs of an emergency response capability are large and outweigh the benefits." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

probably good that we structured the health and well-being of humanity around profitability. oops!

Three NZME senior managers left abruptly in Nov/Dec: ZM radio boss Ross Flahive after allegations of inappropriate conduct, OneRoof’s head of national sales Nicholas Hammond after allegations of inappropriate conduct, and OneRoof head Greg Hornblow after... oh. We can't talk about that one.

Stuff breaks out more words in their headline than ever before to make sure Seymour's position is covered. I didn't think their CMS even allowed this many characters.

The fate of the 2,787 people arrested for terrorism offences for peacefully holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” in silent vigils will be decided this Friday. The long-awaited Judicial Review ruling will be read out at 10am in the Royal Courts of Justice.

I wish I was a smarter person & could work out the elements of the strategy both Pam Bondi & Nicola Willis are using - it's wild. The whole, 'Riddle me that,' line from Willis yesterday is the epitome of it but I can't work out what they are both doing. Is it simply shout lies & belittle?

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Gordon Campbell-On The Not Good, Very Bad, Terrible Unemployment Figures: #nzpol #NZGovtFail #unemployment werewolf.co.nz/2026/02/gord...

NZers (specifically Auckland): What are the options for a 16YO who is adamant they are running away from home? I don't know this world at all. Youth shelters? Can they offer a same-day intake? I'm Googling my butt off, but if you have firsthand knowledge please reply or DM me.

More reasons why the government's LPG plans are strategically stupid: #nzpol theconversation.com/importing-ga...

So good that we restored normal politics after Corbyn with a party more concerned with legislating trans people out of existence than thinking about taxes. Incredibly normal party. Well done everybody.

Yeah, cause the name of the school lunch program is the biggest issue with the program. "people need to know what they are" says David Seymour, great, so we're going with "Inedible Slop" as the new name then? #nzpol

ahahaha not a zuru exec complaining in public that they know people in the epstein files but it’s unfair because they’re not “guilty” and reputations are being “unduly affected”

🤮🤮 The lengths the uber rich will go to protect the reputations of their fellow wealthy. I remember wealthy people in the arts extolling us to remember how much James Wallace had donated to the arts to minimise and dismiss his conviction for drugging and raping of young men.

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

More generally I think sometimes our obsession with 'foreign interference' blinds to all the domestic interference If we don't think foreign oligarchs should be able to buy British politics, why do we think it's ok that domestic oligarch can?

Yesterday: we exposed the terrifying extent of corporate capture in British politics Three Labour select committee chairs came out calling for urgent action in response Today: Labour government's Elections Bill lands. Does almost *nothing* to tackle any of the issues we exposed. 🤦

@sassypolitico.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social If you guys know any independent reporters that want to do a story of the surveillance in Kainga ora housing I'd really appreciate it. Please read the thread

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.” “That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.” Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

This is a pogrom

Why are western states so clearly thirsty to deploy staggering violence against any who protest the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? I can only conclude that racial supremacy is a deep seated value our national leadership(s) hold, that for decades the destruction of Gaza, and Gazans, has been a goal.

haven’t seen it considered too much, but i think part of the reason we haven’t seen too many nz names in the files yet is because there’s a local pedophile network, connected to powerful people, thats been here independently for decades and perhaps there just isn’t much overlap

Mayor shows whose backs he has got.

There's also screeds of terrible stuff in there - like the 'Oh climate change will be a cleansing fire, we should let it rip' talk- that's equally heinous without being pedophilia. The only exception I'll make is the people who immediately told him to fuck off

Oh I think it's pretty fuckin duly actually

I lay down with all these dogs and somehow I have got fleas?

ahahaha not a zuru exec complaining in public that they know people in the epstein files but it’s unfair because they’re not “guilty” and reputations are being “unduly affected”

1200 S2E181 - Cuba and Venezuela Dr Josephine Varghese and @krkelly.bsky.social chat about her participation at the 60th anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana Cuba, during which the US strike on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president happened.

Mmmmm. Interesting to note what gets written down in Costello's diary and what doesn't.

When Van Velden says the employment law change has nothing to do with the Uber drivers case, can a journo spell out: If you change the law to prevent workers being recognized correctly and gaining their full rights by drawing a before/after line, because workers won a case - that is TO DO WITH IT.

NZ First is campaigning for a referendum on the future of the Māori seats, seeking their abolition. Winston Peters argues the seats are no longer relevant

So the Covid inquiry Willis is running specifies its scope as "coordination of monetary and fiscal policy" "Fiscal" is the angle by which they will attack Labour This is despite them agreeing to almost every single measure & asking Labour to borrow more for businesses #nzpol

Donald Trump wants to make it illegal for Republicans to lose elections.

i am not hiding anything, just "made multiple repeated mistakes for 20 years" on something that's pretty damn hard to be mistaken about. i mean when you own as many properties as these poor fuckers do it must be hard remembering all of them when it comes time to declare and register them. #nzpol

tbf this was partly because Hipkins saw him as a threat and knifed him haha

Michael Wood had to resign for a lot less. Just saying. 🙄

the AI crash is going to be so bad every major liberal is going to take their turn trying to cushion the blow, because that's what they actually care about. take your lumps Chris, it's for The Country! That's why they pay you the big bucks!

Right Labour - NOW is the moment you put all possible contractors on notice that the project will be cancelled & contracts ripped up. Not tomorrow, not next week NOW.

Can't afford electric ferries and new ferry terminals though

"China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink" www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

A landmark ocean protection treaty is now in force, but delays in ratification mean New Zealand will not have voting rights at its first major decision-making meeting this April.