Mamdani angers certain journalists and their bosses because he's a well-educated child of privilege like they are, but he's the way he is and they're the way they are and it shames them and they can't deal with it. It's not hard to figure out

"Gang numbers are up since the ban." That's it. That's all you had to insert into your story, Stuff. But instead, you allowed the PM to lie in your paper, even though he did it on a competitor's radio show.

Always useful to remember that Wellington is actually a transit/active mobility city (by Anglosphere standards). Only half of the journeys here are by car, even though car drivers get far more funding than pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users combined.

Voyager 1 is currently more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth and getting 17km farther every second and hilariously it is not as out of touch with New Zealand as our Prime Minister

Come on Labour, you cannot get a more out-of-touch dipshit to campaign against. Between this and "wealthy and sorted," no shortage of attack material...

again, the person you're defending was *retweeting an outspoken racist.* Presumably she was not doing so because she is herself a racist! This is rather direct evidence that staying on X *results in promoting racists even accidentally.*

1. this is not fun 2. this isn't even interesting 3. we need FAR better than this kind of technocratic sleight of hand 4. the entire article is saturated with neoliberal ideology 5. it just outright IGNORES that people are leaving because there are no jobs, this doesn't change that

Always good to know which reporters and writers love the Nazi bar so much that they're willing to overlook the slurs and kiddie porn.

The Press framing this as a puff piece and not "crooked developer tries to bribe MPs" says everything about the absolute state of mainstream political journalism in this country.

There are many explanations for this, but it's something that unengaged normies notice. And Democrats need to address it, since people are (rightly) going to sour on someone constantly saying "wish I could, but I can't." Especially when Trump showed that the president actually can just do things.

"I don't take advice". Well, there's a great big surprise. Perhaps if luxon did take a little real advice, his tenure as PM wouldn't be the disastrous rock show it has been...? #nzpol #MostMockedPM #OneTermGovernment #Election26

On Move On orders - I've been in some of the meetings with Ministers about city centre safety issues in AK; it has repeatedly been discussed that the people doing the anti-social behaviour and the people who are visibly homeless on our streets are usually NOT the same people.

The other core Magna Carta right is the protection against arbitrary detention and punishment: "No free man shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised of his freehold... or in any other way destroyed... but by lawful judgment of his peers" Wild that Trump is violating both of these simultaneously

Lol I hope he didn't though - would be so funny for him to get taken down by the man he made immune from consequences

Kieran was ejected because he told the truth: "Failing to require Winston Peters to withdraw and apologise for something that was quite clearly an offensive comment, when you have required that of other members — indeed, other party leaders — runs the risk of you applying different standards"

Brownlee is particularly bad, but the Speaker being a member of the majority party is a huge structural flaw that will always cause problems. Should instead be a respected outsider agreed to by a supermajority of MPs (former judge or law prof would be ideal)

Winston Peters is a reprehensible blot on our parliament. Gerry Brownlee did his best to cover for him, but Peters wouldn‘t even take the out offered to him. I’m glad Chris Hipkins stood up to denounce Peters and tell Brownlee to do his job. #nzpol

Really nice to see this from Hipkins. Winston's vile racism has gotten a pass from his colleagues and the media for way too long, and it's really important that a major party leader calls it out forcefully. If Chilly keeps this fire through November, he just might turn things around...

This may be the first time I've agreed with Shane Jones, but he's right. People should be held responsible if their dogs attack people, same as if they committed the attack themselves. And certain types of dogs are disproportionately dangerous and should be banned (pit bulls...)

At the same Texas concentration camp: “There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“ Extreme child abuse as state policy. www.propublica.org/article/life...

The obvious answer is that they're collaborators who want to be Trump's junior coalition partner rather than an opposition party. Dem voters really don't want to believe this, so you get all kinds of savvy-sounding excuses

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The anti-cycleways talking points and spittle-flecked Facebook rants are putting cyclists at risk from aggressive car drivers. They get so angry and feel entitled to take revenge, cutting bike riders off at roundabouts, parking in bike lanes, close passing, yelling "get off the road". It's bullying.

It's especially deranged in Wellington, which is easily the least car-dependent city in Australasia. Still pathetic by European standards, but miles ahead of any other city in NZ (Auckland and Christchurch both have >80% journeys by car) Source in alt-text

Health NZ fired a bunch of IT staff and now there are constant IT failures making it impossible to do our jobs. It should be really easy for Labour to keep hammering the incompetent health minister on the incredibly predictable consequences of his actions.

Your regular reminder that the vast majority of Democratic elites are rabidly anti-immigrant. They don't like the aesthetics of Trump's crackdown, but they are mostly okay with the policies. In fact, when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and brag about it!

That terrible place that had Liam in it and still has a ton of kids? The one where the lights don't go out, the food has worms in it, where there isn't enough quality medical care? Obama opened it and kept it full. We can't let that happen again.

The answer is that the public just doesn't like Hipkins. It's not because Luxon is popular -- he's consistently gotten very poor ratings and his party isn't polling well. But people have decisively rejected Hipkins since 2023. If Labour keep him, they will lose again.

This is a big factor in why people's vibes about the US economy since 2020 are so bad despite economic indicators looking good. It's obvious that the gains are all being sucked up by the ultra-rich, while day-to-day affordability for most people isn't really improving

This is a perfect example of how Democratic leaders just fundamentally dislike immigrants. They may dislike thr aesthetics of what Trump is doing, but they don't actually object to the substance: when they are in power, they ramp up deportations and then brag about it.

This wind is so loud that it keeps triggering the audio monitor in my toddler's room. But I don't want to turn it off because he will definitely be scared of the howling storm if he wakes up...

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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...

This woman should go to jail for the rest of her life. You shouldn't get away with mass murder just because a car is involved. Also CA has judicial recalls - this judge would be a great target for one.

ICE conducts daylight executions of civilians and uses children as bait, they are decades beyond reformable.

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

These evil fuckers are torturing children for sport. Everyone whose work is even tangentially related to this should rot in jail for the rest of their lives.

This article is basically just a government press release with absolutely no context provided. Stuff is helping the government parrot a big-sounding number. But only 1 billion even exists as of now, and the money can just be put into managed funds investing in large equities and bonds!

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

So many dolphins in Wellington Harbour this evening! Came through Oriental Bay and right up to Clyde Quay

Yes this. Every time one of these local neighbor disputes ends up on the front page, it turns out there's something egregious going on, because normal people don't do that. It's also a real indictment of our major media that they keep running these stories.

This LNG terminal is such a bad idea that the government literally don't want their own Bad Idea Speeding Up system to look at it www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

All the more reason for the Labour and (especially) Greens to loudly promise they'll cancel it and tear up the contracts, especially if it goes through a rushed process

Luxon is in the running for the dumbest National Party Think Big Project, with his LNG import terminal. He is competing with Muldoon's Motunui synthetic petrol plant which was obsolete before it was completed. But I reckon a $2.7 billion attempt to lock NZ into fossil fuels is in the running.

It's deeply funny that this is happening at the same time people are scolding us for being AI-hostile. Like maybe people are actually right that this stuff is far less useful and far more dangerous than the hype indicates??

Despite the self-sufficiency that rural folks claim, they continue to be a net drain, taking significantly more in benefits than they pay in tax. The cities are the economic drivers of every modern country. Would be nice if politicians acted accordingly instead of fetishizing farmers.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

my political goals include things like abolishing ICE, crushing american fascism, and jailing these corrupt and evil people who have caused so much pain and suffering. i only care about supporting democrats to the extent i believe their rhetoric or candidates will bring those goals closer.