$1500 for babies? Remember when we all used to get $1000 and another $1000+ a year? I remember. This govt kills our cows and says here’s some free shoes from the leather. I fucking hate them. I don’t care how much money I make I’ll never vote for these economic vandals.

The maximum housing allowance is $305pw for a sole parent with 2 or more dependant children. That's $15 860 a year. A backbench MP gets $19 300 a year for basic expenses on top of salary, accommodation allowance etc.

Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]

‘We refused to be weaponised’: The rise of Asians backing tino rangatiratanga thespinoff.co.nz/atea/13-04-2...

National orcishness continues, with a bill to disestablish MfE bills.parliament.nz/v/6/27caed65...

Does it have a "buy now!" button for Shame Jones?

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

On NRT: A rubberstamp for Shane Jones' bulldozer - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-ru...

Minister Shame Jones issued a statement: "The Matua wasn't sure how to respond to this fact but when he got a phonecall from his mate who manufactures tyres, and has cash in a brown paper bag, he realised that the solution is to defund the research." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Look, I'm a sucker for the occasional moment when Hooton lands a well-crafted blow on a National govt, but his latest paywalled Herald column (and Prebble's which he cites) lean on Argentina's juked poverty stats to argue that the problem with our current govt is that it's not right wing enough.

Someone should be taking a good hard look at every cop who has ever worked closely with McSkimming, just to see how far the rot goes. And every case he's ever worked involving sexual predators.

@rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy Could we hear about other marginal parties too please? This is from the RNZ homepage this morning.

What I also want to know is why proper reporting like this is behind a paywall while the lies these harmful arseholes spread get splashed everywhere. Well, we know why. It’s horrific that the media companies are so complicit in this.

Stop saying 'once in a hundred year', stop blaming a mythical creature 'mother nature' - climate change is here and we need to face up to it and actually do something, everything #NZPol

Emily Writes is such a treasure. Everything's shit and awful but it can still also be funny. The National Party Toxic Boyfriend excuse generator open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

Another vital, searing listen. @garypayinda.bsky.social on Public Health docs: "They have a legally defined role to DO this work. They are specifically trained & have devoted their entire careers to looking after the preventative healthcare needs of communities" #BHN www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKTr...

*taps the sign* "liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight"

Reminder that Spartans tended to surrender/withdraw, then claim they won because opponents didn't fight them correctly. Like internet men.

A disappointing (but not surprising) amount of men are inserting themselves into my Gisele Pelicot content to tell me it’s “not all men.” Almost every one has called me some variation of sweetie or babe - and demanded I acknowledge how much “men like women.” Guys - you’re proving my point 🧵

"oh noez," sez the government insincerely. "now we have to privatise in ways that directly benefit one of the private medical companies owned by our MPs. It really is tragic that our hand was forced in this way." "People died? Yeah sure, tragic, like we said." #nzpol

That time when someone who actually enforces perjury laws called you a liar. Who to believe, Winston Raymond Peters, who has made an entire career out of racism & lies, or a judge? Geez, I don't know, that's a toughie. I know, let's ask Judith 'Dirty Politics' Collins. 🤔

Such a moment of hope. South Korea, Syria. Reminding myself that optimists are always wrong, but still...