it's actually getting laughable how almost anything is seen as an opportunity to have a swing at China this is an insane headline given what we know about growing AI dependencies/addictions I guess the AI boosterism/sinophobia angle was always going to hit at some point... but like this?? 😅🤣

genuinely evil move by National

This is why people hate politicians. If enough parties agree, just make the law change and don’t cynically turn it into a campaign issue. Absolute PR brainrot attempt to appeal to women who are peeling away from the party en masse. Just do your job as legislators.

On Q+A this morning, Paul Henry declared that he didn’t have a racist bone in his body, and I happen to think he’s 100% correct. But that’s because his racism is stored in another part of his anatomy. #nzpol

this kind of close-focus fixation on americans while they genocide others is precisely the problem with the entire US apparatus, and why they have marched inevitably towards fascism under both Democrat and Republican regimes an appeal for the security of US children in this context is supremacist

NZME with "demographic engineering" which is obviously a "great replacement" trope AGAIN, NZ media are happy to platform fascist, racist & extremist conspiracy without any challenge, critique or explanation entire msm outing themselves with this kind of coverage this is the deputy pol editor btw

It's worrying how much this keeps happening. But honestly unsurprising, Labour has lost most of their pre 80s principles so bad faith actors from Prebble to Douglas to Jones to Nash and now Tirikatene can join and then move further right.

do nz media think it might be worth, i don't know, at least unpacking claims like this a little before promoting them? the across board treatment for NZF to falsely promote them as *anything other than extremists*, while ignoring that extremism completely, is one of the stranger data points in 2026

this looks to be the actual big announcement today, rather than the Trump speech we’re all clear that this is the next step in global coordination of US fascist acceleration right? Any government continuing to engage actively with this regime is no friend to humanity

Pritzker is a fraud who used the pretext of Trump's threat of sending National Guard troops to Chicago as cover for his precious police force's attacks on anti-ICE protesters. Liberalism fuels fascism. #AbolishICE #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness bsky.app/profile/govp...

Dear NZ Labour You introduced automatic/compulsory unionism in the 30s, it was the first time Labour actually won and became a long term major party. You completely destroyed the more moderate Liberal party and locked in Labour as a dominant political force for the next 90 years.

if this is escalation can we please, finally, see some serious critique & reflection on how MPs & journos in NZ have been part of propaganda coordination to normalise anti China sentiment? do “both sides are evil” as much as you want, but in todays context thats useful idiot behaviour at best

Just seen a clip of Seymour saying “you ask someone out, they say no, you gotta be persistent” in an interview with Ryan Bridge and boy if I were in charge of a party with multiple sexual abuse scandals I’d sure want to be pretty clear on the importance of consent huh

AoNZ rallies/actions 4 Palestine: July 17–19 FRIDAY Tāmaki Makaurau: ● 3pm Vigil @US Consul ● 4pm Vigil @Te Kōmititanga Ngāmotu: 4.30pm Flags @Paynters Ave Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai: 7.30am & 4.30pm Flags @Charles St [1/6]

lmaoooooo i do not have words for how far the boot is down the throats of NZ media at this point

This is what happens when you get rid of “red tape” #nzpol

1/200 Campaign Season E13 - Organising for Workers' Rights with Fired Up Stilettos We speak with Bianca Beebe about FUS’s campaign and organising to get workers’ rights for independent contractors via the Commerce Act Amendment Bill w/ @bootstheory.bsky.social, @kyledchurch.bsky.social

North Carolina now has an interest group running ads on TV here about why data centers are good and if you need a better sign than that that we are winning, I don’t know what it could be.

India's anti-terror law jailed an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, who died in custody. NZ is now talking intelligence cooperation with that system. Whose terrorists would we be hunting? culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/whos...

40 years ago today, John Peel first played the excellent opening track from ‘1936, The Spanish Revolution’, a double 7” released by experimental Dutch punks The Ex around a month earlier in 1986. theex.bandcamp.com/album/1936-t...

Napalm Death's ongoing campaign for musical destruction comes to the Desk. The founding fathers of grindcore speed through a sprawling catalog with manic energy. n.pr/4gFtMYT

The Deputy PM will be making an appearance in Ōtautahi tomorrow and a reception committee will be ready to ‘welcome' him. 6pm @189 Durham Street South #nzpol

It’s shameful how the govt, & media too, expect us to take this manufactured alarm about left-wing terrorism seriously, when more than once this year, and as we speak, NZ’s military has been training alongside the world’s biggest & deadliest far-right terrorist group – the US armed forces 🧵 #nzpol

When I criticize Dems in the United States who waffle on transgender issues, its because I don't want them turning into Labour UK, who pretty much has fully espoused transphobia and is enacting extreme harm on trans people in that country far worse than the conservatives had done.

Albo’s grand plan for AI? Step on the gas (literally) and make it even easier for these massive, extractive corporations to build fossil-fuelled data centres. This is unpopular and thoughtless policy. The whole system underpinning this is bankrupt.

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

These y'all democrat heroes? Ew.

I know this is divisive and unpopular with those all-important centrist white suburban voters, but don't think it makes us safer to spend half our civic budget on a murder gang.

Ya'akub Vijandre has been in ICE detention for 9 months for social media posts that were pro-Palestine & opposed torture of prisoners. His attorney said an immigration judge ruled that nothing he says can be believed because of his politics. (ruling in image👇) How long until UK judges apply this? 💀

NZ media: "Yes, we could hold Paul Henry to account for his behaviour, but his irresistible laughter makes us instantly ignore his transgressions. He's just a cheeky little scamp really." 🫠 #nzpol

Ōtepoti: solidarity with our Palestinian community Rozana are hosting a brunch this Saturday 18th July 10am - 1pm St Anne's Hall cost ranges from $20 adult to $10 child, tertiary students $15 takeaway is available if you book it ahead of time arohaloveandpeace.bigcartel.com/product/unde...

i hope that a few people are waking up about the way western chauvinism operates given the UK's shocking move to proscribe the IRGC this is a policy that the *NZ Greens* were pushing for in part in NZ - incredibly naive at best given how "allied" atrocities are treated. it only ever goes one way

The UK govt’s new law says “expressing a positive opinion” of the IRGC could punished by up to 14 years in prison & that prosecutors won’t need to establish a foreign power connection. Yet the group that actually supports foreign powers (US/Israel) as they kill & sow terror is the UK govt itself 🧵

Fascist US DHS agents on NZ-bound flights from August. Flights from the US to Auckland could carry undercover - possibly armed - US air marshals from end of Aug, with officers able to identify passengers of interest and alert NZ cops when the flight lands. More fascism coming down the gangplank...

… was credulously reported by media who did not check with her. I checked with the woman he’d attacked and no he hadn’t. Once I shared that publicly he suddenly, insincerely, did contact her and sort of apologise. For him it was all a laugh. For her and for her message it was awful. We don’t…

everyone in media and pol knows this about Paul Henry, as they know about Laws, or Ikilei or etc etc yet VERY few in media are actually willing to say anything about them, let alone put it in an article that a wider audience might see why is that?

Fonterra did this. Will they ask Luxon to block people suing them for the harm they have done? Again. www.rnz.co.nz/news/science...

Like sorry but Let JKR take Amnesty International to court. Make it a thing, thats the fight, was words all they ever intended to give? If your whole thing is exposing human rights abuses, no greater platform than actually being taken to court. Let these fascist freaks actually be scrutinised

The destruction of Libya by NATO continues to do tremendous harm internationally. In addition to the immense suffering & upheaval experienced by Libyans themselves, the country has now become host to multiple RSF terrorist training camps sponsored by the UAE. Sudan is also paying a price.

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“PATHA alleges that the Minister of Health (or other deciding parties) failed to take into account or violated the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (NZBORA) in several ways.” Very important reading, thank you @jennifilm.nz 👇

Both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden wrote posts eulogizing Lindsey Graham today. This is unsurprising, since all three politicians shared the same key goal: supporting the genocide in Gaza. When right-wing Dems tell you they respect bigots, imperialists, and war criminals, take them at their word.

i don't understand why people keep saying "if you have to do it this is how you do it" because you do not have to do it

Matua Mike Smith vs Fonterror, ie. the Climate Tort Bill. Subs due in by 🚨9am🚨 tomoro, MON 13 July. Don't think many are subbing on this one. I'm making myself do it as tangata tiriti & coz I wanna know in next few decades that I did *something*. It's constitutionally reprehensible. It's anti-Maori.

You know you're reading complete hogwash when an article contains the following: "Imagined scenario" "China-watchers in the cybersecurity world agree" And my favourite: "China has effectively strapped the digital equivalent of explosives to the backbone of American society" 🤡🤣 🧵

On the brightside, if you've hung onto investments in D-Pants stock, this could be the exact moment you've been waiting for:

Specific 'soft power' MoU was signed between ABC and RNZ back in 2024 Probably not something NZ's national broadcaster, and Paul Thompson, should have signed us up to - especially given how much more militaristic and US-centric Australia is declassifiedaus.org/2026/07/11/c...

Sorry folks, I understand the excitement but feeding thousands of submissions into an LLM wasn't suddenly a good idea just because this time it produced results that make us feel good I know submissions are public and people can do whatever they want with them, but I feel a bit violated over this

Sharing another Palestinian family, raising funds to survive in Gaza. The parents of Ziad & Mirna ask for support. chuffed.org/project/zeya...

NZ reporting continuing to claim that the only 'controversy' round Modi's visit is NZF's bigotry - but they don't even name THAT, instead claiming it's just a policy disagreement!! NZ media is SERIOUSLY failing its audience, again and again