This kind of rhetoric from Luxon is basically indistinguishable in intent from Trump in 2016. NZ needs to accept we're also on the path away from functioning democratic institutions, with the added pressure of a fascist hegemon accelerating everything

Lol. The worst bloke at his job in NZ has the cheek to criticise the ethical meticulous work of people ensuring our votes are accurately counted that he probably underfunds. Do it fast and rubbish says Luxon, thats how we pass laws. #nzpol

'If they can count faster we'll have a justification for the voter suppression' fuuuuuuuuuck

It took baldy 6 weeks to form a coalition of the hateful, 6 fucking weeks after the election. Vote counting is a distraction & NOT the issue. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The government literally can direct Fonterra to lower domestic dairy prices via an order in council if they want. They do not want

Fonterra stated we make up only 5% of their market. I'm yet to hear a compelling reason why local prices can't be decoupled from the global price. If the government is worried about farmer backlash, they could introduce a fund to help grow the global market to offset the miniscule drop in profit.

holy sh!t it just keeps going. people are not happy lol

Willis is callous & ignorant. Firstly, Fonterra despite all their money is not a Living Wage Employer. Secondly, it’s not positive if more than 1/4 of NZ kids are struggling for food & we grow enough for 40 million & govt inaction and corp greed means a steadily growing number go hungry. #nzpol

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A double helping of You Were Warned Again And Again here. Nobody can say there were no telltale signs, for either story.

just drop all the emails, fuck anyone who ever associated with him

If Stanford wants to talk about conflicts of interest, maybe we can talk about the fact she had input into the maths textbook procurement criteria and didn’t disclose her longstanding relationship with Prime Maths.

This shit is beyond desperate. There is zero indication that the job situation in NZ is improving. Pure hopium.

They’re literally giving prosecutors the names of people and organizations, and telling them to go find crimes. It’s clear from the NYT that the directive came from Trump. This is a direct consequence of Roberts explicitly immunizing weaponization of DOJ in Trump v. US.

Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state. Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Israel Premier Tech Pro Cycling team has 2 Kiwis. Its presence disrupted the Spanish cycling race & now wants to drop Israel from name. Israel manufactures spyware & arms worth $12b pa. It's supplied arms to many dubious wars. 'The Palestine Laboratory' desc how arms were tested in Gaza.

The “baggage of geopolitics”. YEAH, YEAH that’s what it is. FFS

How the actual fuck is Business Desk publishing a piece framing the genocide of Palestinians as a 'challenge' for Israeli start ups AND trying to PR Israeli entry into the NZ market on that basis???? This is fucking atrocious businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...

Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei farewelled Grant Hawke, a key figure in Māori land rights, known for his environmental advocacy and role in the Treaty settlement process.

Pencil art Wonder Woman ⭐ #art #illustration #WonderWoman #cartoon #margueritesauvage #cute #comics #heroine

Every paragraph hit me with more psychic damage

#nzpol with @NZHerald's Mood of the Boardroom showing that even NZ’s executive suite prefer Barbara Edmonds over Nicola Willis, we ask why is the New Zealand economy so bad, and what needs to change to improve it? Watch Locked Out ep:23 now youtu.be/5HnB64l16co?...

Dystopian. "We for one welcome our *cough* OK, genocidal (but, more importantly, potentially profitable!) start-up overlords" Revise that: sociopathic neoliberalism.

Smith once again going where other mainstream journalists fear to tread - holding powerful people to account

I'd expect the Guardian to do better than to describe antifa as an organisation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Still reckon Greens could get a significant bump off running on this

Gosh I hope the Green Party gets their act together and capitalises on this. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Labour is a bit of a lost cause atm

I’ve made this one freely available and shareable for all the public. A fuller text version went out earlier to paid subscribers. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/daily-chor...

Ray has accused @ponekeben.bsky.social, @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social and Labour for leaking this email and giving it to media. Let me make this very clear, they had no part in this. Ray wrote the defamatory email, it was passed to me, and I very willingly gave it to media. End of story. #nzpol

trying to operation paperclip NZ This is insanely foul, genocidal zionists rife in NZ media again

'The world's most dynamic tech hotbed' . . . yup, that's everyone's first thought about the state of Israel these days.

How do people actually work alongside people like this? I'm all for different politics in the newsroom, but this is SO egregious, so openly genocidal, that you'd think it should preclude a working relationship

Sooo… we’re to be the Cayman Islands of corporate social responsibility policy. Gross

It's so embarrassing to take the whole "startup country" branding at its word without any further interrogation. And to glaze over "defense tech." Grim.

I'm not super surprised this kind of trash is coming from the start-up scene, a little moreso that no one nixed it But some of the nastiest pro-genocide voices in NZ, particularly in late 2023, were people like Ben Kepes, who regularly lied on record. He's significantly entrenched in this sector

I'm so worried about a repeat of the 1990s and the influx of awful migrants it brought to NZ fleeing the end of their beloved apartheid system. As long as our racist immigration system ignores Te Tiriti, we're leaving ourselves open to that.

New Zealand media is shamelessly in the tank for Israel, and they embarrass themselves more with every article.

So so gross and wrong! Sanctions Now!

How the actual fuck is Business Desk publishing a piece framing the genocide of Palestinians as a 'challenge' for Israeli start ups AND trying to PR Israeli entry into the NZ market on that basis???? This is fucking atrocious businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...

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Spain is also sending ships to assist the flotilla to Gaza www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Holy shit. Italy has sent a naval frigate to a flotilla of boats attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

I recall that saying this stuff in 2018, saying that members of the Labour party were actively working to smash everything to bits and deliberately lose the election, would mark you out as a deranged conspiracist unworthy of even speaking to. Will mea culpas be forthcoming?

It’s worth noting that all of the MPs and lobby journos who repeatedly told the public that there were no shenanigans; that it was all legit and above board, and that anyone who said there was anything fishy going on was hate-crazed and insane: all of those people knew it was true at the time.

Much of ai is a reflection of its training and meta is about to have one of the most racist and conspiratorial ai agents imaginable.

French Member of the European Parliament Emma Fourreau says her assistant’s sailboat was struck by an explosion during ongoing drone attacks on the flotilla, destroying the jib. Drones continue their assault on the mission.

Erica Stanford misses annual teachers' conference in Christchurch at last minute: She was scheduled to give this conference's keynote address, an appointment in her diary since April, Abercrombie told the crowd, before an abrupt change of heart in recent days. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Q: Do you support defund the police A: No Q: Do you support defunding the police A: Yes

RNZ newsreader still referring to genocide against Palestinians as an 'offensive against Hamas,' in the very same report that featured a doctor's descriptions of horrific wounds suffered by Gazans. Where is their critical literacy and their humanity? #nzpol