You'd think that, with this many weather warnings across the country, there might be some kind of useful govt advice about whether we ought to be sending our kids out to school in the morning, but that would require a govt that values human life and limb

Tragically I think 11 people have already died in Aotearoa this year because of extreme weather. We need to reduce our emissions and invest in climate adaptation with urgency. But naturally, this government is instead pursuing coal mines and an LNG terminal. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/weather-l...

So, we've a boil-water notice in Christchurch. Sewerage being blown inland from the South Wellington coastline, and deadly floods in the King Country? These must be the three waters they warned us about.

They have replaced three waters with three poos: in our streets, in our water and in the air that we breathe. Just like racists have always made everything shit. #nzpol

Huge cheer at the Big Gay Out main stage when it's announced that ACT and NZ First aren't in attendance for the politicians event.

It was only when Luxon poked his shiny round head inside the Moa Point pipe to see for himself that everyone realised: Why yes! There was, in fact, one single thing the gormless prick could do to make himself useful.

This is not a ‘game not the stakes’ post, these are some out-there stakes man

Somewhat astonished that National have redacted some of the official advice they received about the trade deal with India but still expect Labour to support it. "Just trust us" really doesn't cut it with this government. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is a really good analysis of Luxon’s Waitangi speech. This Government is going out of its way to reshape public opinion on Te Tiriti #nzpol

This ⬇️ from Kim Workman is particularly apposite in election year. In the 1990s, Finland went from having one of the highest prison rates in Europe to one of the lowest, without any increase in crime rates. The Nats prefer the US prison system #nzpol e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/...

“Equity in healthcare doesn’t mean treating everyone the same. It means recognising when people are carrying more medical, social, and economic burdens, and responding with more care, not less.” #nzpol e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

NACT: We need to cut services and have austerity for you bottomfeeders to SAVE money. We also need to SPEND billions giving tax breaks to landlords, buying military toys and building a LPG boondoggle for my rich mates that will be outdated and too expensive to run before it’s even built. ??? #nzpol

I found the NZ fairy tern / tara-iti! There are only about 50 adult fairy terns in New Zealand, making them the rarest bird that breeds here by far. It took a lot of trial and error (and some dumb luck) but yesterday, I succeeded! 🪶 www.instagram.com/reel/DUeIROk...

Masterful understatement from Waikato man. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“When the prime minister, Christopher Luxon, spoke at Waitangi last week, he set out a terribly distorted view of the country’s founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Here are some of the things he got wrong.” #nzpol e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

It’s a good thing we cancelled Three Waters isn’t it

Often when I read about US politics today I think back with nostalgia to that scene where the Blues Brothers drive the Nazis off the bridge.

Zelenskyy: “Putin hopes to repeat Munich — not Munich 2007, when they only spoke about dividing Europe, but Munich 1938, when the previous Putin began dividing Europe in reality.”

The deliberate purging of institutional memory from the public service via managerialism has been incredibly destructive.

The thread in response to this post by @alexip718.com is excellent

If we can’t afford to have the expertise in our councils to operate critical infrastructure, how can we pay someone else to do it? www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

NZ has normalised inequality. As the cost of living rises, Govt has to expand into every corner of life so people don't starve and end up homeless. We need to reduce inequality and rampant rentierism so that people and communities have the resources they need to look after themselves.

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder why so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system. AOC is right.

"Nothing like this has existed before, and we don't quite know what it does to people." @carlbergstrom.com spoke to Mihingarangi Forbes about living with AI on Saturday Morning this morning → www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #cccss26 🧪

A physics professor -- namely me -- on the new launch cap. The biggest question is whether we trust the New Zealand Space Agency to do their job when no-one can see... www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

wow we’re just saying the quiet part out loud now huh

May every academic professor who genuflected in front of Epstein and his band of sickos for paltry sums of money, may everyone who turned their eyes away from the exploitation and suffering of young girls be fired into the sun and suffer a thousand deaths.

Cost pressures from *who*, motherfucker?

My thoughts are that my basic political requests were always 1) less deliberately horrible, cruel and vicious political/media culture 2) more and better public services and 3) far less complicity in America’s horrifying wars. I note this has been regarded as insanely extreme ideological lunacy.

I love Arundhati Roy's courage, integrity, intelligence, and her artistry as a writer of fiction & nonfiction. Wim Wenders, the jury chair, on being questioned about Gaza, said filmmakers have to stay out of politics. Roy said a genocide demands a response from everyone, artists included. I agree.

I hope David Seymour is renaming school lunches to SLOP so it’s completely clear exactly what we are giving to the kids.

You don't need to be a party member to volunteer with phone banking and/or leaflet delivery, data entry/admin. We win when we work together: Green Party: www.greens.org.nz/volunteer Labour Party : www.labour.org.nz/volunteer/ Te Pati Maaori: www.maoriparty.org.nz/volunteer #nzpol

100+ more Google employees have signed since yesterday

Someone shld tell Luxon et al #nzpol

I am used to seeing Pōhutukawa growing out of the side of cliffs but this was the first one I have seen growing out of a stone wall

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...

National cancels: 3 Waters Ferries Smokefree Wage equality EV incentives etc, etc National "For the good of the country we need more bipartisan policies....."

This is bathrobe girl. She is outside in the frigid AF midwestern winter sporting nothing but a comfy robe, fuzzy slippers and a thirst for justice. Be like bathrobe girl.

The only reason there's an 'affordability' issue as the population ages is because the government refuses to tax rich people. The richest 350 families only pay 8% tax, and if Nicola Willis changed that, then the affordability problem goes away #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

trying to think of a reason to do this that isn't a personal desire to be in kissing distance of a toilet seat

Paywall now lifted: Big industrials are slated to close or switch off gas whether the proposed LNG terminal goes ahead or not, new modelling has found. newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/12/m...

Astonishing how Costello recalls events from an evening nearly 15 months ago (www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...), yet still can't recall the source of the tobacco industry friendly "mystery document" she passed on to the MOH to inform tobacco policy.

$50b is necessary for roads, but an extra $300m for ferries was just too fukn much. #nzpol #punchablefacebishop

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️ Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Parents just send me this link. Headline is something else lol 😂 “A fat parrot that can’t fly is laying an egg live on camera and is making New Zealanders super excited”

Luxon's taxpayer subsidised LNG import terminal expected to increase NZ domestic gas prices. businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...

As someone who straddles the US and Korea and studies their relationship, this is my attempt to make sense of what is happening in the US right now and draw attention to the fact that a changed America necessarily means rethinking the US-South Korea alliance 1/ m.koreaherald.com/article/1067...

Simple solution to poor Gerry's memory issues. Forfeit the property (ies) he can't remember which are turned into state housing.

“Wellington's sewage spill is just one of many examples of public service and infrastructure enshittification, begun by Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson, and continued by neoliberal factions across government, business, media, finance, and the public.” - Josh Drummond A must read folks #nzpol

If the Labour Party had tried to do anything even remotely like this every news editor would be labeling it as undemocratic and demanding an early election #nzpol