Waiting for the board to announce Christopher Luxon has been promoted to Prime Minister at Large. Or possibly NZ VP, Special Projects

Hey mood of the boardroom we get that you've given up on this dud root. But we've also got an MP with 25 undeclared houses who's written books on effective governance and business success. Could you go for him?

Appalling

Mood of the Boardroom: 86% say they would replace Nicola Willis with a self-driving Corolla

Part of the problem here could be that Trump thinks the name of the guy who shot his friend Charlie is Tylenol

If "rapture" means batshit stupid President and health secretary embracing the most rabid of anti-science shit, then all credit to your deity. He/she/they totally called it.

Is it too much to ask that you just concede you were craven and wrong wrong wrong?

Big shout out to Chris for stepping aside like this, it was a gutsy call. I'm just deeply honoured to be the Prime Minister Murray always told me I could be one day.

People will tell you Myanmar and New Zealand have little in common but in fact they're two of just a few world nations that don't recognise the State of Palestine

Other unforced errors expected by Luxon today Hold press conference with his shower cap still on Recognise state of Palantir Nominate Nicola Willis for Nobel prize in economics Face rake twice

This hasn’t aged well in the last 13 months.

My kingdom for any article about "speed humps" to mention that hitting anyone or anything going 50km/hr has an 80-90% chance of killing them, but going 30km/hr is only 10%

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness

Fascinating demonstration on Morning Report right now of the sound vowels make when you put them into a vice and shut it tight as you can go

Prime Minister sacks Finance Minister, self, 90% of Tik Tok crew. Says “I had no idea how shit we were at this. Like, the worst. So sorry guys.”

Better Wellington were aggressive and abusive toward Rebecca. An audience member said many there felt unsafe. This abuse is no longer limited to the internet and why I haven't attended these events. Imagine a council dominated by BW and Independent Together. We can't let this happen. #nzpol

literally debunked from the early hours of this morning, why is nz journalism

And idk if it's 'weird' or 'extremely fitting' that the better explainers are coming from outlets with names like 'garbage day' while the BBC is just shitting its pants in public. We are where we are. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

Scanning news channels for word of Trump sending the National Guard into 4chan

Ray Chung is still polling 2nd for Mayor and likely to get elected to his Ward + Greens are being shouted down at debates. We’re fighting hard to win and need your help. If you can, give a little to my campaign to back a strong, principled voice at Council🌿#nzpol www.greens.org.nz/donatetory2025

you can condemn political violence without asking me to believe that charlie kirk was just an ordinary decent pundit who believed in the liberal project--believed in pluralism, freedom, and equality. he didn't. his whole thing was that he hated those ideas and wanted to destroy them

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

Shane Jones has blocked large scale cheap zero carbon offshore wind generation (by pushing seabed mining in the same location) and now wants everyone to panic and build expensive polluting coal generation. What a shambles.

You will never comprehend the inefficiency and lunacy of the road-first and rail-last transport policy in this country, until you sit, as I am now, in Picton and see the massive work of transferring road haulage trailers with the dinky little trucks. Just roll on/roll off with a train, ffs. #nzpol

Not wild about this Goatse remake

The lost luggage economy

Couldn't pay me to go there while those people have the keys

When an MP leaves Parliament citing abuse, threats and wellbeing, we must recognise this is not just personal. It is a systemic, patterned harm, and one that silences those already under-represented in politics. From Jan 2024: theconversation.com/golriz-ghahr...

While you're at it why not rebrand yourself 200-pound Epstein? apnews.com/article/dona...

All One Engine Has Failed, a gripping novel about the CEO who struggled to ever resemble a Prime Minister With Matthew Hooton as the National Party pope smoke And Mike Hosking as the Koolade taster

Mr Luxon said he would be laser-focused on his new career as a weekend host on RNZ

Caucus mulls putting Prime Minister into receivership

Enjoy watching vintage comedy on YouTube but Seymour has ruined Dave Allen for me

The Covid inquiry reboot is inspiring all sorts of revisionism on LinkedIn, including this little gem from Covid Plan B stalwart Ananish Chaudhuri “By October 2020, we knew that the vaccines did not prevent transmission”. This is not true, but how did he even come up with this? Thread. 1/N

Business: “OMG this govt sucks” The rest of us: “Yes. They have always sucked. They sucked from day one. Almost everything they have done has sucked. Sucking is the only thing they are good at. Nice of you to finally notice now that their suckiness effects you.”

Its a bit shit that the government is corrupted by alcohol, tobacco, fossil fuels and mining industries. I would have preferred the renewable energy and EV industries myself. #nzpol

Wonderful corporate citizen found wanting

My plan to lower my family's grocery costs is to place a handful of hay on my driveway. This could, potentially, attract a wild cow which I will then capture and either milk to produce my own butter, or butcher for meat. Either scenario will put competitive pressure on the supermarket duopoly.

How Public Service Job Cuts Work The last Prime Minister left office The new Prime Minister took over Technically we had no reduction in Prime Minister But in reality we've lost 95%

Luxon wants house prices up, Bishop wants house prices down and it's never not tragic to see two grown men make fools of themselves on a seesaw

Still not easy for AI to advance a good argument for it to supplant humanity but it’s getting solid assistance from D Grant

Liked him more on Cheers

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SO #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

One interesting thing about the concept of "virtue signalling" is that it's a perfect match for Trump's internal life: He believes that anyone with integrity is faking it, he's said this a ton of times. He thinks EVERY act is out of self-interest, aiming to humiliate or avoid humiliation... So when

Hey Cookers come and get it cries highly-principled elder statesman www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...