💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

Performative public apologies with no actual redress or behaviour change are shit at the best of times. When it's about crimes and harm of this magnitude, done to people this vulnerable, by a government so dedicated to committing the same harm and violence all over again ... there aren't words

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These are all valid points, but none of them matter as much as the fact that McSkimming was a cop. And a senior cop. It doesn't matter who his victim was, because no matter who they were He Was A Police Officer aka one of the most powerful people in everyday society.

If you see this post a bird

Riffing of this, I've mentioned in the past that we too often have Ministers of Police who think they are Ministers for Police

Fully support the universities in this. But if they are genuinely committed to ensuring "free public access to the research...taxes had funded" maybe those that limit access to electronic copies of theses to current staff or students could open them up to the public. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Just gonna keep saying it: There is no point growing the pie if the wealthy keep eating all of it.

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.

"Questions to the IPCA at the time noted that it was understood the officer had been stood down pending an investigation into his alleged inappropriate behaviour with female officers." NOTE: female officerS, plural Yet the investigation has gone nowhere after THREE YEARS!!!

In today’s Weekend Herald

There's lots you can and should criticise the BBC for. But it's our BBC - and it's important. Great to speak to CNN - Donald Trump shouldn't have his hands anywhere near our public services.

The Govt's rationing speclialist (aka MSD) is overheating trying to constrain benefit spending, but the number of people on a working-age benefit continues to sail way above forecasts. We are watching a permanently scarring event here. Grim.

Remember this is the guy who tugged on a young woman's pony tail at the cafe she was working at because 'he found it alluring', with his wife beside him. That's sexual assault Fcuk off pervert

"the official response has been to treat what happened with the Police as being highly atypical. Yes, the politicians say, bad stuff did happen and this has been duly noted and lamented – we are shocked! appalled! etc – but only as a lapse and departure from usual professional standard"

It is worth noting that this is a pattern amongst the likes of media, who inevitably paint a woman who has laid harassment, assault, rape, etc allegations against men as somehow less than pure & innocent, thus casting aspersions on her validity, with whatever denials that this is what they're doing.

This whole thread goes a long way to explain a) why NZ is a cesspit of white male mediocrity, and b) why the mediocre white males DESPISED Ardern It's disgusting, abusive, misogyny as a cultural mindset.

No country should have a 'population problem' when there are 123.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 40% of whom are children www.nzherald.co.nz/business/how...

You know what’s so fucking unremarkable about this whole sordid situation with the cops is that there are so many of us women in NZ who can speak to similar kinds of stories in our workplaces, who get gaslit & lied to along the way & without specialised legal help, we’d be completely fucked

I have been polled by Curia a couple of times and this wording isn't far off the mark #nzpol

I feel like one of the problems with telling people to “believe women” is that it assumes the folks in need of telling already possess a baseline belief that women are people

Hello #nzpol !

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

Ignoring 98% of submissions?! Abhorrent, racist fucks.

As New Zealand Minister Hon. Simon Watts heads to #COP30, here's some remarkable new information from an Official Information Act response I received today. 1/-

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

Billions of lives are at risk. It looks ever more likely that we will all die on a burning planet, thanks to the lies of big oil and their politician enablers

The Minister (a former police officer) and Police Cmsnr's refusal to admit systemic failures is simply a continuation of the culture of 'groupthink' and 'tolerance of unethical behaviour' identified in the IPCC report.

Thanks JohnKey

Please read this thread ⬇️ #nzpol

A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy. www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...

Every time I read an email from the Epstein leak I am reminded once again of this regrettable truth The great and the mighty are, by and large, fuckin’ stupid

Well, we *might* stop losing jobs year-on-year in the next few months (Feb 26 is my guess). But, if you're expecting a phoenix rising from the ashes kinda economy, forget it. There is nothing to suggest 2026 will be anything more than mucho meh. [2/n]

“More than 200 schools had written to the Education Minister Erica Stanford or confirmed they would continue to uphold the treaty and the number was growing.” Thank you to every leader standing up and saying “not on my watch” - it makes a difference in all the injustices wrought by this government.

Labour will repeal the Regulatory Standards bill.

98% of us said an unequivocal no to the RSB, yet it has passed its 3rd reading today. This government do not serve Kiwis. They serve the lobbyists & overseas big businesses. F*** the lot of them! #nzpol

Yay!

100% Pure NZ 💩 from Minister Reti. Nothing could be further from the truth. Early career researchers are not well looked after. Nor are their career prospects here good. Very early career researchers (ms and phd scholars) are highly skilled and often paid less than minimum wage. Exploited as. #NZPOL

I mean come on! Pre-aurora playing with sunset light on waves (gets a bonus water Kiwi). *I have 60gb from 1001 files from last night's Aurora & I'm still stuck on the waves at the start of the night - ho boy #Aurora #Otago #NZ #Nikon #Photography

It's funny how many evil people randomly crop up in these. Bob Kerrey is remembered as a footnote in political history now, but he should be remembered as one of America's most prolific Vietnam war criminals:

A very interesting wrinkle: Labour currently need TPM to win a seat. On these numbers if TPM win just a single seat then Labour wins Govt thanks to coat-tailing. If they win back more seats Labour wins again. But if TPM lose all their seats the coalition is returned.

bsky elder achievement unlocked: skeets quoted in parliament

As we approach the two year anniversary of the formation of the Luxon Led Govt, I have updated my timeline of their aggressive War on Nature. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Figment wants the chair that husband is sitting in, so he has got up on the back and started pushing

The last New Zealand tobacco farm closed 30 years ago. There are no commercial tobacco growers in New Zealand. So this isn't even protecting our own farmers/producers. It's 100% offshore interests harming New Zealanders. And our laser focused government? They decided to make it easier for them.

The NZ School Boards Association has launched a petition calling on the Minister of Education Erica Stanford to reverse her ill-informed, hostile decision to remove the obligations of boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in NZ education. Boost pls our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/pr...

Stories on BBC News - a street brawl which helpfully tells us those involved were “of Turkish origin” and another about a sex offender “Sudanese” but an extremely prolific sex offender responsible for 343 offences is not described as “white British” why is that

Fingers crossed the tests come back with something treatable

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed