I can already imagine Trump’s next post…

love to hear family members being like "can you believe they give $50,000 to refugees for doing nothing i read it on facebook" homie you were forwarding me chain emails about mars inverting the earth's gravity in 2003 you should not be allowed access to the internet

From the archives April 2019

A great explanation of the difference between equality and equity. If we all start from different places, then 'the same for all' solutions are inherently more beneficial to a well placed few www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/06/15/e...

David Farrier's Webworm: "Someone tell that to New Zealand's minister of foreign affairs Winston Peters, who has given exactly zero shits this entire time – never apologising for throwing Everlee under the bus by telling the media she'd lied on a form at LAX."

everlee is free - please RT, all the details here: www.webworm.co/everleeisfree/

Austerity for thee BUT never for me is clearly the mantra. #nzpol “Stuff can reveal Jones spent $63,000 on the trip, despite Cabinet only approving a spend of $33,000.” Such is the laxness of Luxon’s leadership it just got approved retrospectively.

A) Vote this government out B) Build lots of social housing

A syndrome of the greasiest kind.

Please AoNZ labour people, give us some policies, give us some fire, give us some fucking hope. Its time now. You promised after the budget. Not wishy washy more of the same ism, be bold, get people excited, grow a fucking spine. Because if you lose this one by doing nothing, we are truly fucked.

In other news, a large number of security experts were among the thousands laid off by #Meta last month.

The Right is attacking free press everywhere. Israeli Govt murdering journalists; Trump using licensing laws to silence; Act Deputy PM threatening RNZ and then RNZ CEO resigning; Nats cutting RNZ budget etc. No free people without a free press.

Given the National Party has very close ties to the Board and senior staff at NZ Herald, the cuts to RNZ are really an attempt to weaken a competitor and reduce media diversity.

TUES 2 June Karakia 9am 📢 Philip Joseph KC 9:30, Kibblewhite & Greaney, MoJ 🔥 cross examine, 90mins 🔥 WT Panel qstns, 40mins 12:30pm, Witness #1 @ahikaroa.bsky.social (that's us!) ✊ 2pm: Aaron Taikato, Hone Harawira, Shane Bradbrook, Hope Tupara 3:50pm, 👑 Margaret Mutu, Charles Rahiri, Andre Baker

I heard a thrush singing yesterday, thanks to my new hearing aids. I'd forgotten - the range, variation and thought put into it; the absolute joy, his whole body tense, focused, poised; the time and expertise invested in a half hour oratory flourish performed at sunset. His joy went home with me

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

This government doesn’t push things through ‘under urgency’. It pushes things through without warning, without scrutiny, without justification. It’s not about urgency. It’s about saying a hearty fuck you to everyone else.

Beautiful documentary - so glad it won www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

So, apparently you can alter history. At least you can try.

If we put climate into the background - here’s the real cost we are not facing: 90,000 young NZers not in work, or training and education That’s the size of Palmerston Nth: lost We gasp about the UK’s 1 M young unemployed or 13.7% But NZ’s almost 15% We need a political focus on the future

Journalists, please ask Mr I’m a Feminist and co. why they’re using combating sexual violence as an election ploy rather than passing now. NZ Herald, please note your headline is misleading - they’re only banning this if they get elected, so let’s not give them credit for doing absolutely nothing.

New Zealand should move NOW to freeze the prices of basic necessities, like the Singaporean government has done, in order to shield the poorest members of our society from price increases during the coming months #nzpol

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

"Meet me in the middle," said the unjust man. I take three steps forward, he takes three steps back. "Meet me in the middle," said the unjust man.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Read this article. The takedown of the BSA followed a trumpian template to destroy professional and neutral regulators who work against or contain disinformation. The Free Speech Union is targeting other pillars of democracy and truth too. The institutional target shifts; the script does not. #nzpol

Conclusions from this research: Cardiovascular Slow Flow prevalence is significantly higher in patients with a history of COVID-19, suggesting persistent microvascular impairment.

Abusive relationships have many forms. Listen up whanau, see what is in front of your eyes in your homes, your schools, your clubs... youtube.com/shorts/tQjpV...

Voyager turned to shit under his 'leadership', with huge price hikes for users. He's a useless and a racist www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

"The thing is, as a Green Card holder there was no form for Everlee to fill out at immigration. It’s sort of impossible to complete the form accurately when the form does not exist. Webworm spoke to a US immigration attorney about this, who also indicated Peters was full of shit".

I've always said is that we don't actually live in some freedom of speech utopia. The absence of regulation in online spaces has resulted in misinformation, racist and misogynist hate speech, and online violence. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Governments, public health, medical institutions, & the media dislike acknowledging airborne transmission. That’s because curbing airborne transmission requires necessary funding, a coordinated response, & a new mindset & processes. So in the short term, it’s easier to just not mention it. #COVID

'Come up with a plan within 3 months or the govt will do it for you.' Extraordinary. There is no way communities can have a meaningful conversation about the future shape of local govt in 3 months. They're being set up to fail, at which time they'll have the decision taken out of their hands.

I am trying to get in touch with the whānau of Dave Terangi, a Ngāpuhi fella who lived in Margaret St, Papakura. We did some research with Dave, and we know he has since died, but we would like to return a taonga. If anyone knows his whānau, pls DM me. Also Pls retweet (so to speak).

Hello? Could the capitalists running NZ please actually listen for a change?

No wonder the govt wants to avoid any comparisons between the fuel crisis and Covid pandemic. If the then govt had taken as long to develop their plan as the current govt is taking to develop this plan, many of us would be dead already.

This graph shows how corporations know they can drive policy within specific political parties. Influence and corruption visibly displayed. It's time to cap or scrap donations in NZ, and fund campaigning through a joint kitty.

American petrochemical companies are making a killing because of the high price of oil. They are now the biggest global exporters. There's nothing like blockading your competition, hiking prices and controlling the global market to reap massive windfall profits. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Trump's Iranian war, and the resulting subsequent break of the UAE from OPEC, has strengthened the clout of the USA in energy markets. It is now the world's biggest producer and exporter of petrochemicals. With Trump, you always have to follow the money trail. He will do anything for money.

This piece from @emilywrites.co.nz is really worth reading, on the human impact of this weather and exactly how much this government has not just refused to act, but instead consistently acted against the interests of us all. www.emilywrites.co.nz/i-dont-want-...

I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

If the BSA disappeared tomorrow, Aotearoa would lose more than a complaints office. We’d lose one of the few free and accessible ways for ordinary people to challenge harmful or unfair media content.” — Pulotu Tupe Solomon-Tanoa‘i, a former BSA member. #nzpol e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Prince Harry delivered a perfect message of support to Ukraine. Ukraine only agreed to give up its nuclear weapons because the USA and Moscow pledged to protect Ukraine’s borders and its sovereignty. It's time that promise was remembered youtube.com/watch?v=LUfd...

New rule if you're polled by one of the major companies (sit down Curia) you have to say Sam Neill for preferred Prime Minister

🏆 @luxury_marmite_sandwich_ #nzpol

#RapeAcademy #WeSeeYou #TooManyMen #CallItOut #StopMVAF

Not only is there active misinformation and misinformation flooding social media, now we also have staged violent attacks on innocents designed to generate clicks. All because billionaire owners of social media sites refuse to spend the $ to control their content #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

Oi Shane, Damien and The Mining Bros. you come for Sam Neill? you take on the rest of us 😤 #nzpol @samneilltheprop 21 April "From threats to me of PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, to MINI-TRUMP WANNABE Shane Jones yapping at my rear, to convicted FRAUDSTER writing articles… it has been an interesting few weeks."