Even if NZ does recognise Palestine, it will be the same racist, colonialist bullshit the UK, Oz & Canada have pulled, full of unfair fishhooks & conditions (like requiring Hamas to have no role in govt), and ignoring the terrorist actions of Israel & the 1000s of Palestinian hostages it holds.

Incredible moving speech by 20 year old Violet Affleck at the UN today. Violet listed the harms of infection, pleaded for people to do more to protect children from COVID infections and advocated for masks and for clean filtered indoor air for everyone.

It also weirdly dismisses the objections of “a handful of unions” while ignoring the fact PSA is New Zealand’s largest trade union, and fails entirely to mention NZCTU (360,000 members) concerns that “the impacts will disproportionately fall on Māori, Pasifika, women and other vulnerable workers.” 🫠

I know I sound like an insane person half the time but any counter to Trumpism that’s just a return to 2012, or 1999, or whatever as a political equilibrium is only gonna doom us down the road, with climate change even more pressing as cataclysmic harm. We do have to start believing in radical ideas

So is Starmer going to condemn this rascist and Islamophobic attack or nah

Oh man if only me and everyone I know had been screaming for years about this exact situation happening as a consequence of law enforcement & the military being allowed to use surveillance weapons of war on domestic civilians like they kept on being allowed to do so now this is also happening too

Should have been happening for decades, but as each govt of the day in NZ always views the US as a reliable ally, I wish media would ask govt MPs if they agree with each new level of insanity that emerges from the ‘land of the free’. Get Simeon on record about Trump & RFK’s announcement today #nzpol

Stuff reporters, you don’t need to use “characterises” and “suggests” framing here when the Greens advice is demonstrably true: Women are more likely to be engaged in part-time or casual employment - this means they will bear the brunt of the sick pay changes. It’s not a suggestion, it’s a fact.

Jacinda or any other prominent figure doesnt deserve praise for doing the bare minimum — calling it a genocide. Being anti-genocide is not supposed to be an exceptional thing its supposed to be the baseline and to treat it as exceptional is to admit that the system you uphold is genocidal. #nzpol

Ōtepoti: Rally: defend our public service Stand with firefighters, teachers, nurses and all public sector workers! Date: Sat 4th October March with us: 12pm museum lawn Meet us: 1pm octagon March starts at the Otago Museum lawn and finishes at the Octagon, where our rally will be held

I am 100% behind nurses and hospitals getting funded more, but what everyone is suffering through now is what we Māori have suffered through since the beginning because of medical racism. This is why the Māori health authority is needed. Austerity is colonialism turned inward. #nzpol

1/200 S2E162 - Free Fallin' The UN has accepted that a genocide is occurring in Gaza, will this have any impact? The far right is weaponising the assassination of a far right Youtuber. The NZ economy is getting EVEN WORSE. w/ @kyledchurch.bsky.social @mythros.bsky.social @oriwa.bsky.social

Anti-pedestrian, anti-children, anti-cyclist, anti-walking-the-dog, anti-liveable-city ideology and our media is foolishly and short-sightedly marinating in it. Disgraceful lack of context and insight yet again.

Losers like Neera and Ezra only want to ‘expand the tent’ to accommodate the right. That supposed expansion will be fully negated by people leaving the tent because they’re rightfully aghast at the Dem party continuing to morph into the GOP.

30 years ago today, two gems were released  by Touch and Go records. One was the superb second album from Pittsburgh’s Don Caballero, handily titled, "2" [1/2] doncaballero.bandcamp.com/album/don-ca...

#nzpol 28th October e te whānau ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 National Iwi Chairs Forum and Council of Trade Unions announce day of solidarity www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

Me and my boss were PERSONALLY trying to get people hired at my job when they fired all the Black people at the CDC. Nobody gave a flying fuck THEN

"To applaud those making the long-foretold pivot for their moral courage is not only unnecessary but perverse; they are, at best, joining a coalition built by the people they insulted, scorned, and in some cases called for arresting when their words counted most." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Each day, Dems keep showing how they've paved the way for, and capitulated to, the present moment 💀

What an incredibly fucking powerful valedictory speech from @benjamin-doyle.greens.org.nz this evening and what an absolute fucking shame none of those responsible for the abuse had enough of a spine to be present for it.

Also on SATURDAY ... Whāingaroa: 11am @outside Raglan Library

AoNZ rallies/actions for Palestine: Sep 19–21 FRIDAY Tāmaki Makaurau: 3pm Vigil @US Consulate; 4pm Vigil @Te Komititanga; Te Whanganui-a-Tara: 7:15am Flags @Hill St; 2pm Picket @RNZ, 155 The Terrace Ōtautahi: 4–5:30pm Flags @Bridge of Remembrance [1/5]

the guy obviously lying about "the wifi" and then the crowd cheering and zucks saying "it's all good" are just a perfect encapsulation of how much of a scam this all is

Cannot stop getting it right YEARS ahead of time and in the face of mainstream commentators going in the opposite direction

Todd McClay has made a series of decisions increasing nitrate contamination in Canterbury (and elsewhere). So when he criticises the council for declaring a nitrate emergency it is like an arsonist criticising people for calling 'fire' after he sets their house alight. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Powerful essay from late actor Robert Redford on the militarization of Jeju Island in South Korea. Maybe his writing in 2012 can open more eyes to this tragedy. RIP to a great man. 🌺 "The Battle for Jeju Island: How the Arms Race is Threatening a Korean Paradise." web.archive.org/web/20120204....

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Insane to rollout your billionaire-backed "ditch the trannies and fuck the planet" think tank the same week the most influential voices on the right are calling for transgender people to be locked up and subjected to Nazi medical experiments

👇 Seymour said this yesterday when asked about recognising Palestine, and I really wish the media had followed up with: "You realise you just described Israel, right?" #nzpol

No words.

1/200 S2E161 - March for Humanity We host members of Aotearoa for Palestine and Kaiāwhina to discuss the September 13 March for Humanity.

“A special initiative, Toitū Te Reo, is being officially launched on 17 September 2025, coinciding with the midpoint of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week)” #nzpol

It all goes back to Palestine. I genuinely believe that once the media accepted that they should deny the most documented & easy to witness genocide ever, the truth in the west was destined to die as well You would think media that lived through the search for WMDs would know how dangerous lies are

Can we please stop with the "what are we a bunch of Asians/Africans?" shit please? This is a neo-confederate movement that's been part of the US since the beginning. Compare what Charlie Kirk said about Black people to this:

What Schumer is saying here, and I am not exaggerating in the slightest, is that Senate Democrats do not want Trump to pay a political price for either his destruction of the constitutional system OR the downstream effects of his bad policies. This is a pro-Trump position. bsky.app/profile/sahi...

Oh damn! He leaves behind an incredible body of work with At the Gates, Skitsystem, Disfear, and much more. Slaughter of the Soul will be turning 30 this November. I loved how he added so much venom to the vocals on the ‘Captor of Sin’ cover. R.I.P. Tompa. youtu.be/O_yqBbkwyk0

It's pretty funny when and what NZ reporters are suddenly, magically, able to seek out comment on for a longer word count... and what they can't

All this while non-Māori throughout NZ are shamefully given the chance to decide on the existence of Māori wards. Media and others might like to consider how racist that is. Bishop & Willis have declared they will vote against Māori wards, so there's a 'racism allegations' story right there! #nzpol

NZ media outlets using "racism allegations" headlines to attack Te Pāti Māori while ignoring the daily racist fuckery uttered and enacted by the govt, then whining about Rawiri Waititi speaking in te reo ... is actually pretty racist [1/3] #nzpol

Why is, checks notes, the director of the Israel Institute for NZ(??) being used as a pro-Kirk voice by NZ media and have his views be treated objectively? This guy is openly pro-genocide, actively running cover for Israel in NZ and descriptively far-right. His views on a fascist have no veracity.

The only thing about this American nonsense that's vaguely relevant to NZ audiences is the fact that Seymour has gone completely off the deep end about it. Yet there seems to no interest from RNZ's political journalists in interrogating what the hell is going on with ACT MPs 😒

RNZ publishing CNN "what we know about Charlie Kirkkk's killing" articles that consist of nothing other than far right claims is a hell of a choice. I know that we all know RNZ has gone down the shitter, but JFC they keep plumbing new depths. Do people working for RNZ have any shame?

This is true of every mainstream outlet at the moment, while it's clearly being pushed by some of the nastiest far right people in NZ. You have to ask what the level of coordination is, especially as some of these people have historically, & recently, been given columns or pride of place for comment

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New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

Today marks 40 years since Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love album was released. ‘Running Up That Hill’ was always my fave track, and as played out as it is thanks to Stranger Things, I wanna focus on it anyway in order to share Big Boi from Outkast’s enthusiasm for it (see reply post).