I'm...at a loss honestly I know it's an administrative stay and will in all likelihood be dissolved in a few days, & I assume she had a procedural strategy reason But we're talking about *food funding* and an implicit promise of procedural reasons seems like a poor substitute for basic human needs

This is the liberal-who-believes-in-the-courts defense of Jackson, for what it's worth. I think the value of strategic tricks like this ran became zero when Barrett became the 6th R vote, and you're much better off publicly saying "fuck you I won't vote to starve people, do it yourself"

judges keep doing these administrative stays because they’re procedurally correct without recognizing the material harm this BAU approach is causing Americans

Our unelected law wizards love Trump and would rather him be a king than see children fed apnews.com/article/snap...

I don't really care whether this is "routine" or "typical." If you care about starving people at all, you don't put your name on this. It speaks extremely poorly of Jackson's character that she issued this in her name. She values procedures more than hungry kids...

Hmm I wonder if he still thinks "the New Zealand public have huge confidence in the New Zealand police and they should have" He should send Tamatha Paul a gold-plated apology for baselessly attacking her when she was absolutely correct about issues with the police and public trust...

Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.

I've been banging this drum for years. was true during the Biden admin too! while elites hemmed and hawed and delayed for years, juries and grand juries had absolutely no trouble holding trump accountable

At every turn, the Government has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Government’s other priorities. The long retreat: newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

I'll go even further. Name suppression needs to be removed completely. We can bring back some extremely limited exceptions (juvenile crimes, etc), but the current system is just "stay anonymous while doing crimes" for rich white people.

Apparently we should be hearing more about Labour’s election platform soon and I really hope it’s more Mamdani than three Starmers hiding in a Mamdani trench coat 🤞

Every policy of this government shows us their worldview: other people, including children, have no value but economic value. Drive everywhere. Eat slop. Pay more for everything. Learn the right words, not how to think. Don't worry about your health or your neighbours, that doesn't generate revenue

Hey remember when Tamatha Paul said that there were good reasons a lot of people don't trust the police, and then the dipshit Labour Party leader attacked her for daring to impugn the honor of New Zealand cops?

This guy and his rural mates should practice some of the self-sufficiency they're always going on about, rather than asking city dwellers to bail him out...

The levels of rage I’m feeling as a goddam parent & Tangata Tiriti. This gov & everyone in it are a bunch of vandals. Every curriculum change takes a mountain of work but this one’s a travesty. #NZPol Is this a done deal? Is this reversible? The poor teachers, the students, our young people 😔

From Auckland University - Opinion: How much did the Govt pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools? And how else might we have spent that money?

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

Aotearoa , new Zealand - MMR vaccine is free for anyone aged under 18, and for people over 18 eligible for free healthcare. please visit your local chemist that offers vaccinations & see if you had 2 doses. If not please get vaccinated. Protect yourself and people who can’t get vaccinated #nz

Either this ends with some sort of truth and reconciliation process where a very large number of people go to prison for a very long time or we will take a short pause and then start doing it again, but worse.

The country is just evil, rotten through to its core. The latest in a long line of vile imperial powers built on human suffering.

This is similar to how RNZ and Stuff have endless coverage of Liam Lawson. There's no way that many kiwis care about F1...

Nelson Hospital's generator failed this week for an hour. Simeon Brown labelled it "unacceptable". This is the same Simeon who instructed authorities to do "absolute minimum" in works - even though he knows risks incl. equipment failure #nzpol

Can't blame a mayor for advocating for his town, but this is yet another example of rural regions demanding endless subsidies from cities. All while most of their residents pretend to be self-sufficient and scorn city-dwellers.

This is also true in NZ, where woodburners and gas stoves/heat are extremely common, even in urban areas. Any kind of residential combustion generates horrible pollution for surrounding communities, and open fireplaces and gas stoves inside houses are worst of all.

I think about this every time Mike Johnson does anything offensive or outrageous as Speaker. Dems affirmatively wanted him in the job and helped him keep it! Everyone ignored this at the time and pretends it never happened...

James Meager is a real piece of shit. He was mendacious about TPB submissions (as chair of that Select Committee he tried to dump hundreds of thousands of submissions and then lied about it). Now he wants to dump one of the only ways for the public to weigh in.

More on Brian Roche - apparently he's on a part time $650,000 contract and keeps 4 private directorships including a property investment/development company and forestry. No wonder he has no problem politicising the PSC for his benefit #nzpol #kiw

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Damn, I read Judith's letter! I'll leave the politics to others, but, lord, the Govt spending stuff is REALLY BAD! I'll try and keep this short. First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]

literally no need for this the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems. I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.

Yet again, it's a deliberate choice for @jbpritzker.bsky.social to send ISP to Broadview. He could easily order them to stay away, and this is clearly what he wants. Tells you all you need to know about what his goals are, and whether his "resistance" talk means anything at all...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Like, sorry to folks who believe you should never criticize a politician you think does some good sometimes, but if they're in charge of the guys wearing brown shirts clubbing people with giant wooden bats and they're not putting a stop to it, they're doing something wrong.

Allowing fascists to control the narrative and continually shift the Overton window by saying "no we want to fund the cops MORE than you, we'll give ICE even MORE money, etc" to appease them and try to win them over helped land us here. They enjoy watching people get brutalized on the news.

@jbpritzker.bsky.social could easily order ISP to just stay away from DHS/ICE facilities. It's a deliberate choice for ISP to be there providing crowd control for federal goons. He's talked a good game but talk is cheap, and his actions are just as bad as every other elected Dem leader.

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

I am an immigrant from the US and could not agree more. I’ve lived on stolen land for my entire life, but acknowledgement of this fact is far more a part of public life here. For the sake of justice and vibrancy, Aotearoa should be MORE visibly Māori and Polynesian, not less.

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

The media should follow up on this, given their recent interest in Peters' window. But it's also incumbent on the Green Party leaders to hammer Peters on this. He incited a hate mob against one of their members, and they should constantly be pointing to this whenever he mouths off.

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Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If Nicola Willis thinks we “shouldnt be so precious that we can’t use metaphorical speech” can we go back to why Chlöe Swarbrick was punished so heavily for her comments on the government’s spinelessness?

Surprised that the Stuff poll respondents* are this widely opposed to the government's benefit changes for 18/19yos Probably explains why the government is all in on Peters' bullshit * not representative, but they are generally centrist and older, and they usually eat up this kind of youth-bashing

I am so done with this bullshit. NZ First mingled with a crowd who set fire to the grounds of parliament. The Greens marched with a hīkoi that did not leave a scrap of litter on those same grounds.

Actual journalism being done to contradict stupid vibes-based dickhead www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

Luxon: crashes economy and raises unemployment, then says "If you want a job you go where the jobs are" Kiwis: *move to Australia in record numbers because the jobs are there* What a clown show...

Some quotes from New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon: • “The world doesn’t owe you a living” • “I'm wealthy, I'm ‒ you know ‒ sorted.” • “just make a marmite sandwich” • “I don’t care.” (said multiple times since becoming PM) Guy is a stone cold psycho.