UK, Canada, Australia & 26 other countries have signed a joint statement calling for unimpeded humanitarian aid access to #Gaza. NZ has not signed it. This is beyond embarrassing. It’s utterly disgraceful. People are starving. Where is our govt’s moral compass?

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Did anyone else notice that the reason given that Luxoff wasn't at the UN to announce our position on Palestine was "scheduling"? The scheduling🤬 #nzpol

Ordinary citizens are filling the roles our elected leaders dont have the guts to do. Thank you Spain and Italy for your support.

GST proportionately hits the poorest the hardest, unemployed people and employees can't claim it back. It doesn't affect corporations nor business owners as much, as they can claim it against their expenses. TAX THE RICH www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

"We tend to think of misinformation as a universal problem, with all sides of the political spectrum equally guilty of bending the truth or spreading falsehoods. A new study shows otherwise." Misinformation isn’t just a problem — it’s a political strategy.

I’m so fucking tired of hearing about tax cuts man. Tax me at 50% if it means I get free healthcare, free public transportation with high speed rail, free universal pre k and school lunches, and free college tuition. I want to live in an actual society. Not hoard money like a selfish cunt.

Simeon Brown is funding private equity telehealth companies up to ~4.5 times ($65/appt) more than community GPs. These same companies e.g. Tend Health are then charging Kiwis $80-100 for a call. #kiwi

I think NZ also needs a “People’s Charter” - a wealth tax, strong anticorruption laws for lobbying, arms embargo for all countries in violation of international law, long term decommodification of housing, a Future Generations Act to protect those not yet born. #nzpol bylinetimes.com/2025/07/25/h...

Norway has been the EV leader for more than a decade. Recently, I posted that well over 90% of passenger vehicles sold in Norway are EVs. Now, #CleanTechnica is reporting that the count of #EV #chargers in #Norway very likely exceeds the number of gas pumps. cleantechnica.com/2025/09/15/n...

Has anyone done the numbers for Aotearoa NZ? How much have shareholders received from our public infrastructure companies since partial/full privitisation? These are critical services that people cannot live without

The abuse comes from men who can't handle strong women in leadership roles. It's time to protect these women from this abuse, and to sanction these trolls. It again boils down to the need to enforce civilised discourse online. Councils need to step up their www role thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin...

Bird of the Year in New Zealand www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

We have a global collapse of the information /news environment right now, because no one knows what the truth is anymore - your truth is defined by your news outlet. So much 'you do you' that all that's left is chaos and incitement #nzpol #news

When the most well known disinformation group in the country says your council is one they think is one of the most successful for their goals, you may want to rethink who you vote for. Paul's Far Right Red Flags - Whangarei District Council youtu.be/KAjL8PQyeRU

Culturally, there’s an assumption that air is naturally “clean” unless there’s smell or smoke. In reality, viruses, bacteria, and pollutants are silently circulating indoors. This invisibility makes indoor air quality easy to overlook. Check your ventilation peeps!

The shooter was not: Not Black. Not Trans. Not Muslim. Not an Immigrant. Not a Democrat. Meet Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. A white Christian, Conservative, Republican male with a gun... again.

I have just counted 24 stories about Charlie Kirk on Stuff. This radical right wing rabble rouser is getting more mainstream media coverage than anything I've ever seen. WTF is going on? He was a nit wit!

Aotearoa New Zealand could use some of this energy!

If the left loses the next election, there will be little left to defend. While we all focus on outrage, the real work and damage the government is doing is in the legislative agenda. And have no doubt - they are succeeding. Odds are not great at the moment #nzpol #kiwi

Trump is a liar. He lies about everything. He’s always lied—an easily established fact How hard is this?

This government is killing our whenua. The fast-track bill, repealing the oil and gas ban, replacing the Resource Management Act, scaling back freshwater protections and marine protections. It has shut off govt funding to environmental NGOs, and wants to mine and sell off conservation land 😥 #nzpol

The whole Tom Phillips scenario has been a window into the high background-levels of misogyny and sexism Aotearoa tolerates - PARTICULARLY surrounding cis pakeha dudes - like ambient radiation or toxins few are willing to talk about or challenge. #nzpol

It's good to see a full translation of this speech between our two official languages in Aotearoa NZ. This speech shows true leadership in the vacuum left by the retreat of the government from investing in our people, our land, our water, our oceans - our future #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Greta Thunberg: “You do not kill journalists unless you have something to hide. “Israel is now deliberately targeting journalists. If that is not a sign of their genocidal intent then I don’t know what is”.

Meanwhile, we don't even have trains #nzpol

National don't want their reversal of the foreign buyers ban, approved under urgency (against our democratic norms), to get public attention. So they grab the most divisive topic they know of and redirect social media attention to that...

The Tax Payers Union are strong arming local government candidates in Aotearoa NZ. Residents need to ask their candidates if they actually signed this declaration. The media should be covering this! #nzpol

“Health New Zealand has refused to reveal how much it is paying private hospitals to perform elective surgeries under a new government contract, it is difficult to assess whether taxpayers are getting value for money.” #nzpol

Bloody red tape and regulations #nzpol

What an excellent article on the dissing of expertise and glorification of ignorance that we fine online

Some people think their ignorance is more valid than the knowledge of experts - and their arrogance convinces their peers to follow them. How do we expose them to be the empty vessels they are?

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

Expecting MPs and their families to use our public health system while in office is fair. Budgeting for something they rely on vs budgeting for an abstract concept: the difference is huge chng.it/8sSWd9pPCF

Indexing MP remuneration to the median teacher pay is a very fair proposal

#nzpol And, it's not just $10 butter. I'm sick of seeing shelves of $10 yoghurts and basic 1kg cheese blocks heading toward $20. We are all being ripped off by the dairy industry. They get the subsidies and profits we get the cost of water and land pollution clean up plus $20 basic grocery items. 🤬

In retrospect it feels like Key was Trump 1.0 - do your corruption and undermining the country quietly, and swat away any murmurs. While Luxon is Trump 2.0 - strip mine the country as fast as you can in case your ham-fisted attempts at ripping away protections doesn’t hold. Meanwhile lie & deny.

The cost of living crisis is obviously a top priority for our government. Mince and milk prices. Up there as top priorities along with eggs, cheese and butter 👍

Brilliance from Kieran McAnulty. It didn't make it to media, but, well blah, blah, blah... m.youtube.com/watch?v=eedS...

This is why stopping dis and misinformation is SO critical! Without a shared reality, with accepted, shared facts, we cannot sustain democracies

As an ex-leaky home owner, my Spidey senses are tingling BIG TIME with these proposed building consent changes. We used the Weathertight Homes Resolution Service (WHRS) to get compensation to fix our leaky home. This was a scheme that was set up to be fast and cost effective. It was neither. 1/5

A reminder that NZ increase in Govt spending during 2020 - 2022 was middle of the pack by any sensible measure you choose. Treasury for *some reason* are still using a rushed together, inconsistently measured, and hopelessly out of date IMF report from 2021.

Given the Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill opens the door to privatisation in NZ, advice from the UK: “The privatisation of NHS care accelerated by Tory policies a decade ago has corresponded with a decline in quality and “significantly increased” rates of death from treatable causes.”

Protesters confront Resources Minister Shane Jones in Whangārei over fast-track projects #nzpol

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

Data released by the Salvation Army in July shows 1 in every 1000 people in New Zealand is currently without shelter, 14 in every 1000 people live in housing considered uninhabitable and 57,000 women are experiencing homelessness. How can our leaders not be ashamed of this? Shame on you.

#NZPol Any government should need a significant supermajority and to have campaigned on selling any publicly owned assets. It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.

Starvation and food insecurity are weapons of Authoritarian regimes.