Was always Seymour’s plan to dangle a shiny object (new attendance tool) in front of media & public to act as if he cares about attendance but crush the things that do support attendance (good kai, clean air, public transport, cycleways, sick leave, resourcing, engaging curriculum, jobs, etc) #nzpol

Just bookmark this for the next three years if one of the Interislander hulks breaks down: "I encourage them to read the detailed business case, which makes it clear that the costs of an emergency response capability are large and outweigh the benefits." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Apart from everything else that’s wrong with the govt’s continued degradation of the original school lunch programme & its range of objectives, note that David “Attendance is paramount” Seymour has now done away with the objective of ‘providing healthy lunches to promote school attendance’. #nzpol

Stuff breaks out more words in their headline than ever before to make sure Seymour's position is covered. I didn't think their CMS even allowed this many characters.

🍉🚨🚨🍉🚨🚨🍉🚨🚨🍉🚨🚨 🚨 Please help My child is critically injured and fighting for his life after Israeli drone attacks in Gaza. He urgently needs medical care outside Gaza to survive. A donation or even a share can save him. Please don’t look away — donate or share this appeal. chuffed.org/project/168482

At 11am tomorrow in Ōtautahi, the Anti-Bases Campaign, Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, & NZers for a Democratic Economy are hosting a protest against the US military transport base located at Christchurch International Airport. Assembly point: Spitfire Square, Christchurch Airport.

AoNZ rallies/actions 4 Palestine: Feb 13–15 FRIDAY Tāmaki Makaurau: 3pm Vigil @US Consul; 4pm Vigil @Te Kōmititanga Ngāmotu: 4.30pm Flags @Paynters Ave Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai: 4.30pm Flags @Charles St Te Whanganui-a-Tara: 7.15am Flags @Hill St Ōtautahi: 4pm Flags @Bridge of Remembrance [1/7]

so we’re at the National begging Labour to keep policies stage already BUT we’re also at the Hipkins refusing to commit to reversing Nat coalition policy for at least 2 years already what a gripping stand off this will be

Hmm, just wondering if RNZ can tell us where Sacrementon is located in relation to North Haverbrook, Ogdenville and Brockway?

To understand how monstrous the US blockade on Cuba is, think about the endgame. What are they trying to achieve? The goal is clearly to starve people to the point where they are too weak to resist an invasion, or so desperate they are willing to accept US control.

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...

Israel has been literally vaporising Palestinians but Aussie politicians keep telling citizens not to protest such monstrous evil & have excused police brutality in repsonse.  [1/2]

Apartheid Israel's barbarism against Palestinians in Gaza is armed and funded by the US and the EU. There must be accountability for these crimes. #GazaGenocide Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Solidarity with the people of Cuba as US imperialism begins yet another starvation siege

Te Pāti Māori propose good progressive policies but Labour label the policies extreme & shoot them down without thought because they’re probably worried racist conservatives won’t like them. Seems so typical of Labour to be more worried about what bigots think than make the case for positive change.

This media line is so fucked because it communicates to the voter that TPM policies are bad without interrogating them. They’ve done it with the Greens for decades too but TPM is the new bad guy. Framing the choice as a controversial one without giving the voter room to assess if they think that.

1200 S2E181 - Cuba and Venezuela Dr Josephine Varghese and @krkelly.bsky.social chat about her participation at the 60th anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana Cuba, during which the US strike on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president happened.

Absolutely disgusting from NSW police. #nzpol

already at the point in election campaign where EVERY SINGLE msm outlet is directly and provably lying to the public in support of the rightwing coalition (on LNG) this is similar to the late push on Nationals “tax cuts” that definitely helped them win last time, with zero consequences for media

Let Gaza live ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🍓❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🍓❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🍓❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🍓 please share & donate if you can chuffed.org/project/157281

Historically a defining feature of the fossil fuel industry is that it only survives with govt support and subsidies. We're seeing that with the ordinary NZers paying for the LNG import facility thru an electricity levy, and decommissioning costs of old oil fields www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

FFS Hipkins, just say you'll cancel the gas project no matter what. Don't use IRex to take some illusory moral high ground. Just take a strong 'we'll cancel it' position now, and no company will sign a contract until after the election. Yet again he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory #nzpol

People outside of Canada need to realize Mark Carney has cut thousands of public service jobs and fast tracking neoliberal business and energy sales over Indigenous land and LGBTQ+ rights in the country. He's paving the way for fascism but getting credit as some brave leader calling out Trump

#Auspol - these are our "shared values" with USA. Thugs in police uniforms who like to beat people under the guise of doing their jobs. @albomp.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social

This will seriously disrupt aid getting into the county. Any country that even wants to pretend to care about Cuba and sovereignty needs to bring jet fuel to Cuba immediately

fuck this framing. love, a long covid patient who has to mask everywhere

State-ordered racist violence. Intentionally targeted. Intentionally violent. Plain thuggery. An explicit show of force from the NSW government against peaceful protests - a carry-on from the longstanding racist, Islamophobic attacks against Palestine supporters. All this just to support a genocide

Waking up to videos of horrendous police violence towards anti-genocide protesters in Australia. Yet to see any coverage from media here in Aotearoa 🦗 Solidarity to everyone out on the streets for Palestine ✊ #freepalestine 🇵🇸 #nzpol

NZ media seem to be following US media in recognising Trump’s hideous racism only when the target is a powerful member of the wealthy elite. Thus they’ll question Luxon about it, but ignore the racism coming from Luxon's govt & ignore NZ & US govt history of upholding racist power structures #nzpol

RNZ uncritically repeating regime propaganda again in their headlines, even though in their own article they say right at the end what a stupid idea it is. This is just absolutely rotten journalism #nzpol

it's not good, but we can hardly expect a bunch of click farmers and shysters to walk a higher road than the major party that's actually in government is

Huge numbers here in Melbourne protesting the state-sponsored visit of the war criminal Isaac Herzog, president of Israel. We have shut down the centre of the city 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🍉🍉🍉🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

🍊🗝️🍊🍊🗝️🍊🍊🗝️🍊🍊🗝️🍊 Do not let them deceive you The ceasefire has not brought safety to Gaza; it has only changed the method of killing The war has shifted from a loud,direct bombardment to a malicious combination of sporadic killing,a deadly siege, and a planned paralysis. gofund.me/e4edd8bbb

1/200 S2E180 - 70 Million Litres of Untreated Wastewater The coalition have heavily signaled 2026 campaign approaches NZ infrastructure is on its last legs and there’s no overt push to bring that into a national conversation. w/ @l11p.bsky.social @mythros.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social

I’m incredibly grateful to @goodlawproject.bsky.social for uncovering this - not just because the real impact of these bans needs to be known, but I think this is also an important piece of counter-gaslighting goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

Statement from Palestine Forum of New Zealand #NZPol www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK26...

@hrw.org may have blocked Omar Shakir & Milena Ansari’s report because it linked Israel’s denial of Palestinians’ right of return to a prosecutable international crime against humanity. So it should, after 77 years of enforcing genocidal mass expulsions. jewishcurrents.org/researchers-...

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Both Olsen and Edmunds will absolutely be aware they are manipulating the data here, and I imagine that means RNZ editorial also know and are okay with the regular publication of outright lies to support the current rightwing project in an election year

I’m sorry but I have to push back on this: They were designed originally to be concentration camps. They have been a hotbed for abuse and neglect since their inception. This is not unique to Trumps governance, this is the reality of the US immigration system.

A question no Democratic Party official has been able to answer: Given that Bannon says they will deploy ICE to voting locations in November (after *filming themselves* killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti), what do you want to accomplish with more body cameras?

NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: Jeffery Epstein and Lawrence Krauss’ planned (but cancelled) trip to New Zealand in 2010, Krauss’ attempts at a Epstein-funded institute at Otago Uni, and a wider discussion on Epstein, Aotearoa, and why elites keep flocking here www.exitfromaffco.com/p/epsteins-p...

NZ media: we simply won't interrogate this 🥰👍

If doomsday, armageddon, or the apocalypse (or, heaven forbid, all three at once) are about to befall us, I’d like to know. Can media please confront Beelze... sorry, I mean Winston, and ask him what in the wide, wide world of sports he’s going on about here?

AoNZ rallies/actions for Palestine: Feb 6–8 FRIDAY Waitangi: 8am onwards - Stall & flags @before the bridge to the Treaty grounds Tāmaki Makaurau: 3pm Vigil @US Consul; 4pm Vigil @Te Kōmititanga Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai: 4.30pm Flags @Charles St overbridge [1/6]

Seymour is squeamish about the truth & the media keep repeating his lies despite knowing: "Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories. #nzpol

Today, the Court of Appeal has given clarity and confidence to medical professionals in Aotearoa to continue prescribing GnRH agonists/reversible pubertal suppression. You can read PATHA’s statement at patha.nz/news