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For such a short video, this does a brilliant job at explaining military links within the aerospace summit and why we’re blockading. Please share widely! #nzpol #kikorangi

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

Unreal that a handful of greedy assholes hellbent on destroying Aotearoa’s humanitarian legacy are being enabled to do so by all our parliamentary processes. If an overhaul wasn’t already clearly needed, it surely is now #nzpol

Relishing the moment of seeing human rights for trans people expanding instead of contracting. Great mahi, Kenya!

Word on the street is the only thing the Aerospace Summit will be ‘innovating’ this year is ticket refunds…

Flu season is a great time to keep wearing those face masks when you grocery shop 😷

Urbanist optimism ✨ all roads of progress lead back to grassroots activism!!

Sometimes, the right book falls in your lap at the right time. @erikkennedy.com’s Sick Power Trip is that book. Need something beautifully realistic and tenderly addressing the state of the world? This’ll be your medicine too.

Materially disrupting the business of war, one blockade at a time ✊ stand with PAŌ against war criminals conducting business in #christchurch! #nzpol #peaceactivism

The Aerospace Summit is back. Why is this conference of “innovation” so concerning for peace activists? Sign up to blockade at the link in our bio! (Graphics crossposted from Instagram - alt text included) 1/2

NZ journalists could easily hound Peters for this. Instead they harassed Doyle. And 2/3s of the coverage I've seen of Doyle resigning frames the resignation up as being another scandal for the Greens NZ media is a direct platform for abuse against diversity - the evidence is clear

SWers have been speaking to the harms of “save the children” censorship forever, even more so since FOSTA-SESTA. It materially ruins people’s livelihoods with little pushback. Maybe if we took lead from those at the front line of this fight, we’d be looking at a different battle altogether.

Collaborative event across a few leftist orgs here in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Worth tagging along - have a giggle and piss off ACT at the same time! #nzpol

No singular party should be cornering this much of the public's news diet. The right wing rot in MSM *is* much worse than it used to be, and it's not "just for clicks" or because of a "lack of resources". It's an intentional decision to poison the well of public comprehension. #nzpol

No surprise it's the same evil conglomerates looking to expand their empire here, despite the dangers to our rural whānau and Papatūānuku. They know how primed NZ gvt is to roll over for corporate profits; we know how these data centres destroy quality of life for working class people. #nzpol

Started looking at my genealogy… rare ignore is bliss moment. So far I’m only finding bigger and stinkier pieces of shit, not a single interesting/artistic/not terrible person in the whole bunch. Wicked 😬

Share widely! These two young people have put themselves on the line to materially disrupt genocide and they need our support. A strong legal battle against NIOA, a genocide complicit weapons manufacturer, is a direct disruption of the war machine. Please donate if you have the means. #nzpol

i wake up in neo-prison XY 3000. pledge allegiance to a pile of money. become a human sardine and eat kibble straight from the factory line. pronoun scanners equipped with disintegration sprays. women do 500 dishes a day. all men lift until their arms break. every day we get married. in-dream ads.

We need to understand what organised solidarity with Queer and trans people materially looks like, esp with the far right pimple growing in #AoNZ, and this is it.

We’re pretty spoilt with these new releases. The horrors persist etc but damn we’re lucky

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Sunday 29th June at Wea Ōtautahi!!

In the 2026 general election every New Zealander will have to provide a 10,000 word essay explaining why they are not voting for ACT. David Seymour will be the Minister for voting and will also define the Principles for voting integrity. Inadequate essays will have their vote default to ACT. #NZPol

Manawatia a Matariki ✨ thankful for a beautiful new year to remind me how grateful I am for my creative practices and my whānau. Gotta revel in moments of art to keep up the good fight. I love you, Aotearoa 💋

Incredibly important reporting on Alex’s story - Farrier has linked actions points for complaints here. Hoping plenty of cis folks will be loudly complaining. #nzpol

1954 NZ Labour party poster, showing how National has always worsened the cost of living. #nzpol

This happened with my TPB submission and doubled the amount of time it took to submit - tautoko writing in a separate doc! #nzpol

Slashing roles at Manatū Taonga. Gutting Te Ara. Axing digital history for schools. This isn’t just cost cutting. It’s this govt austerity version of burning books. A government that cares about the future wouldn’t erase the past. #HistoryMatters #TePātiMāori #NZPol

This content hugely contributes to our understanding of our social history. Defunding this mahi (while handing out tax cuts) is an attempt to manufacture consent by obscuring reality and history - you don't fight what you don't understand. #nzpol

Grateful there are journalists like David Farrier that hold the line and call out transphobic media slop in #AoNZ. There's not enough people in positions of relative power who use it to directly challenge this filth, and as our rights & material conditions worsen, it's more important than ever.

Given that Marco Rubio is condemning NZ's decision to sanction Israeli ministers, and demanding we change our stance, perhaps we need to seriously reconsider military entanglement with the US. They're actively attempting to undermine our sovereignty in regards to foreign policy

Getting real hard to stop looking like someone standing in front of a corkboard covered in red string when we keep being proven right about it aye

It's reassuring to finally see this getting media coverage. We still have not received a response from the Minister. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

The racism blatantly paraded around in parl right now is disgusting. The double standards are the point, because the aim is to enforce colonial censorship to the highest feasible degree. Incredibly grateful to TPM for being principled & dignified where the rest of govt largely refuses to. #nzpol

Almost $25 AUD minimum wage… NZ would neverrrr.

I've got my gripes with Engels, but the concept of Social Murder is so incredibly useful for understanding the enforcement of gender; society does not have to explicitly put a gun to your head in order for it to kill you, it just has to put you in conditions which you cannot reasonably survive.

Sometimes, motivation for finishing the semester has to be a *gift to self* that you can’t use till you submit everything. I finished Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” last week, so this seemed like a fitting choice. Plus, a new fancy journal never hurts the poetic process…

Labour has proven they can’t - or won’t - rise to any of the challenges of our times. Those deeply seated within the party are well ingratiated into the private industries that need to be regulated. They won’t offer any real political alternatives because they’re National (red edition). #nzpol

Leftist movements should be vigilant about this. #Queer people very quickly become pawns in ideological chess. Not only does this dehumanise us, but it others Queer identity not as an innate part of our personhood but as a fluid political position.

The aim is to make us too scared and vulnerable to exist in public places. That means conformity or structural isolation. Both of those mean immense suffering, if not death. *This* is what ‘defining a woman’ bills and other transphobic bs in gvt results in; it leads to direct violence. #nzpol

ATTENTION ŌTAUTAHI: SJP🇵🇸 calls on students at the University of Canterbury to rally ‼️TODAY‼️ at 12pm to protest UC’s institutional complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. Say NO to >$330,000 invested in armaments! #nzpol

the average cis person would have to be admitted into a psych ward if they suddenly had to manage the regular stress of day-to-day that we all face with the added pressure of being a tranny and having the Entire World focus on trying to kill you almost every day

“they are *withheld* from us because we’re trans” is unfortunately succinct and correct.

Very good article from Simon Wilson in NZH this morning

Israel announces evacuation orders knowing Palestinians can’t evacuate because it knows there is no punishment waiting for them. They loudly announce their active genocide to gloat about how much the world will let them get away with.

Why does “learning to live with covid” mean accepting repeat infections as inevitable? Why does it mean throwing the vulnerable to the wayside, unsafe healthcare & mass disability? That’s not “living with it”. That’s giving up We need to adapt. Clean air, paid time off, masks in healthcare.

The point of this punishment is to ice out the strongest ideological alternative from hearing, questioning, and critiquing Budget 2025 & RSB. It is a desperate attempt to stop TPM’s credible politic - it shows they’re scared and can’t control the narrative using traditional gvt tools. #nzpol #AoNZ