So many 2026 election ads are going to be clips of National MPs advocating for local choice, followed by the same MPs advocating for taking away local choice.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

This literally means that if a trans person requires GnRH blockers for cancer treatment (i.e breast or prostate), they CANNOT get cancer treatment. Insane. Absolutely insane - and deadly.

I hope all you nzers know that my mum was instrumental in food labelling changes in the 80s. me and my sister were allergic to dairy - the rule then was that if it was under 5% you didn't have to put it on the ingredients list. after 2 anaphylactic shocks and a bunch of phone calls shit got changed

Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.

lmao so the building designers have to get insurance and the consumer has to buy building insurance, but the lazy crooked tradie who half-arse builds the leaky house has to...nothing? penk still a moron too stupid to understand how insulation works

If you have a dairy that got ramraided six times by the same kids and then they turned up one day outside asking everyone to contribute to “help make the dairy good again” then you’ll know what it feels like to hear National pledge to make our super savings as good as Australia’s

Freepost it back to them!

9 ram raids in 90 minutes overnight in Christchurch. I thought National had fixed crime? #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Of all the faith based philosophies, the one that has the most evidence against it is privatization.

I’m delighted to announce I'm standing as the Labour candidate in Wellington Bays/Rongotai in 2026. I'm thrilled to fight for better jobs, housing, and health services in our community. Look in the bio to donate, volunteer, and help us deliver a better government next year.

Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National. Don't believe National on Kiwisaver. #nzpol

“BTW, corporate NZ has never given Ardern credit for the economic benefits that her style of leadership earned this country on the world stage. No flash marketing campaign could deliver anything like the positive brand recognition that NZ gained during her tenure.” #nzpol

Ah jobs, come on! We have had 18 months of negative annual job growth now. The population has grown by around 60,000 people (despite kiwis fleeing for countries that didn't opt for a deep recession). Remember we need the lines below it break above the white line (standstill). (1/2)

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

‘Shockingly inappropriate overreach of politics’: Doctors slam puberty blocker pause www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

So many people complain about how regulation strangles the economy, but on the other hand without regulation and testing we have asbestos sand sold as a toy to children for the last 10 years. #nzpol

As we talk about a CGT another relevant Youtube video essay is posted on the arguments against one. #nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXZ...

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

Van Velden is channelling her inner Lord Farquaad as Workplace Relations and Safety Minister www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #nzpol

The Minister for Children says this is a "victory for science, evidence, and the safety of children". This is like the Associate Health Minister making smoking easier. They are actively harming people because they refuse evidence and advice from experts #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Karen Chhour is quoted in this piece actively promoting conversion practices, after previously comparing gender affirming care to torture at Lake Alice. This coalition is evil. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

You got ultra religious people as Ministers and a fringe minority party full of conspiracy theorists and this is what you get. They are in a symbiotic relationship based on hating queer people.

we should feed everybody actually all the time there is no reason for anyone to be hungry and/or homeless

Important thread 🧵

Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.

It's certainly interesting to find a "Centerist" website that is essentially filled with terfs and climate change denialists.

In today’s NZ Herald

Regarding any potential "chaos" in a Labour/Green/TPM government after the next election, I prefer to be disappointed that they're not doing enough instead of exasperated at the intentional actions from National/ACT/NZ First making everything worse. #nzpol

National sets a goal & achieves it without solving the actual problem. Solve the problem of kids living in emergency housing motels by reducing the number of emergency housing motels! Technically successful, practically useless. #nzpol

Sometimes the internet does something good www.shacknews.com/article/1468...

🚨NEWS: House Republicans are advancing bank lobbyists' legislation to remove requirements that new banks hold enough money to cover losses, protect customers & prevent government bailouts. The bill comes amid warnings of impending bank failures & another financial crisis.

#nzpol In a nutshell…

Nicola Willis is upset that the Greens are going to cause "economic vandalism" by announcing plans to cancel mine fast tracks, as vandalizing the economy & making New Zealand look unreliable is her job. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #nzpol

yeah sorry you have to sleep on the streets and don't have a house for your family, some politician needed a bridge in his electorate, his own govt was against, so took your social housing money to pay for it. #nzpol

This is grimly amusing. Bishop couldn't fulfil a campaign promise because of Simeon Brown's footpath fatwa, so he had to raid a Kāinga Ora fund. Maybe running transport policy as a culture war was a stupid and destructive thing to do in the first place, eh.

Perhaps a Secret Santa gift for that special giftee? cursivecraft.co.nz/products/sey...

Willis cancelled IREX because the final cost was going to be $3bn Ferries that are critical for goods transport. $4bn for a tunnel so politicians can get to the airport faster? And that’s before the costs escalate as they always do. Sounds pretty dumb to me.

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

I've argued that the Harmful Digital Communications Act should be reviewed and improved upon. Repealing our only mechanism to tackle lots of online harm is not the answer to powerful people weaponising the law. Please dont give ACT more dumb ideas! See arguments from @pault.bsky.social 👇 #nzpol

Riding in on their hate-fueld hobbyhorse to save Princess Plunkett? What a farce.

Thunder, just before the hail started

Well that's some fun thunder rolling in.

Now that #nzpol is going on about a population crisis, this PhilosophyTube episde from last week has great timing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIDn...