Hipkins and Labour electoral strategy now seems to be to feed voters DIRECTLY to NZF, given the latest means testing of super discourse we all see how FUCKING GARBAGE Labour strategy is yet?

Our buddy Jay was kidnapped by the IOF thousands of miles away from Palestine. He's in the hospital now with a concussion and a possible broken rib. The abduction was condemned by Spain, Türkiye and Brazil, but the NZ government has been silent. #GlobalSumudFlotilla

1200 S2E196 - The USA and Imperial Decline We discuss the differences between the US, the Empire & the ways seemingly disastrous failures have tended to consolidate power for those at the top, rather than lead to significant decline w @krkelly.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social & Josephine

Luxon said last week, “Kiwis expect the media to ask us the tough questions about our policies, to hold us to account on our pledges to NZers, & to interrogate us about the things that matter to them.” But he then bailed on a regular interview slot & is now refusing to answer questions.🧵 #nzpol

“We don’t support means testing the super because we’re more interesting in ensuring all New Zealanders get the help that they need. Universality is a benefit, that why we’re pushing for a UBI - and you can fund by making sure a select few actually pay the tax they owe” I’m begging you it’s easy

The DNC has the names/emails/phone numbers of all their supporters, but they don't even send 1 informational pamphlet on countering GOP fascism, protecting immigrants during ICE raids, surviving a recession, helping people with disabilities during hard times, ways to counter wartime propaganda, etc.

Please can anyone donate even a little to Jamal's chuffed fundraiser . Dont forget about the people of Gaza under seige & with few supplies. chuffed.org/project/1781...

Anniversary thread of some genre-defining punk/hardcore/metal releases. No exact release dates in 1986 for these three classics, but they were first reviewed in the May ’86 issue of MRR, so happy 40th all-round. Music in replies. ● Heresy (UK) ● Lip Cream (Japan) ● Septic Death (USA)

🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒🗝️🪁🫒 Don’t forget Gaza - please share & donate if you can 👇 gofund.me/bee000d3a

End the war now then, you bastard

Treaty law expert Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown unpacks Goldsmith's sneaky skulduggery. #NzPol

ohhhh that high water mark for NZF certainly goes some way to answering why media this year have moved in lockstep to create tacit support for Peters Foul

AoNZ rallies/actions 4 Palestine: May 1–3 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 Rememb. [1/5]

Tomorrow at a range of locations around Aotearoa 👇 #nzpol

Emergency protest at MFAT 4:30pm today, 55 Molesworth St

SXSW used an AI-powered trademark tool to systematically and automatically censor negative posts about it on Instagram. Very wild that this is possible. And great to have a @kitoconnell.com article on 404 Media www.404media.co/sxsw-used-ai...

EXTREMELY NORMAL GUY COMING UP WITH THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW YOU COULD USE HIS NEW TECHNOLOGY: you could watch yourself fuck a dead woman

A decade ago, the John Key-led govt took the country through a year-long process to look at changing NZ’s flag, so who bloody cares if Michel Mulipola ripped the flag once. I got a rip in my pants yesterday, and frankly, in this economy, that’s what’s really concerning. #nzpol

Oh FFS. Once again for those at the back - and sorry, must SHOUT 'cos obviously didn't hear last ... few hundred times ... it has been said ... THE GOVT DOES NOT HAVE HIGH DEBT. WE DON'T NEED TO SELL ASSETS. IS FICTION USED TO NARROW ARGUMENT TOWARDS "GOVT IS BAD, SO SMALLER GOVT IS BETTER".

Submissions close tonight, Wed 29th April 11:59pm

Five rapid interventions could reduce household fuel costs and improve energy security in Aotearoa New Zealand, while delivering health, environmental, and resilience co-benefits. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/rap...

still don't know why the policy lead I suggested in 2023 - massive cash injection into Fire and Rescue services to build up crisis resiliency - hasn't been picked up by Labour or the Greens this incredibly necessary and would be a huge vote winner with the electorate

Te Pāti Māori is proposing to establish a Parliamentary Commissioner for Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Supporting this kaupapa is the very least that other parties can do to honour Te Tiriti. Any party that doesn't can get in the sea, I say. Full proposal text is in the reply. #nzpol

the sanctions on NK, following the genocide enacted upon them by the US, are fucking horrific, and that NZ is all the way up there playing vassal cop on behalf of a fascist US regime makes me fucking sick

if you see it, no you didnt

the main target for capture by this insanity was ALWAYS decision makers, both legislative and in business, so that they could brute force this trash on the rest of us following love bombing by AI of the most yes-menned humans to ever exist it shouldn’t be this easy, yet here we are

While people with a disability on the #NDIS “cost too much” and are “too expensive“. #Auspol

And erm I'm sorry "research"? Do you know who has the skill and knowledge to research for you? And do a 1000% better job than any of the LLMs on the market? THE PUBLIC SERVANTS YOU CUT. #nzpol

The Post asked MPs about their use of AI and I'm fucking livid. Especially the guy using Grok, a tool that famously allowed users to create nonconsensual sexualised deepfakes. You think the standing orders are "complex" and need a tool made by a neo Nazi to make sense of it? Get a grip. #nzpol

Nat govt to people in cars: ‘take as much stuff out to reduce weight and fuel use’. Nat govt to trucking companies: ‘load em up with more weight to reduce fuel use’.

Each time there’s a random shooting, leaders & former leaders like this guy come out & decry the use of violence despite being responsible for carrying out and/or supporting mass murder worldwide. For once I'd like to see them acknowledge their guilt, be remorseful & work for a better world instead.

actually shocked at how quickly this story got turned around by NZME on behalf of the most OVERTLY pro-genocide MP, Simon Court, whose own *pro-genocide* views have never even been MENTIONED, let alone had a templated hit job, in stories by our msm

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/mi...

Thinking back to when the govt, with media help, created a fake ‘overuse of road cones’ crisis including a special hotline for reporting sightings of road cones in the wild 🤪 Anyway, I wonder if road cones have come in handy during the extreme weather events affecting roads around Aotearoa? 🤔 #nzpol

when people protested against the gestapo this guy had the state police beat them up

Of course the political system IS violence, that's what states are, they're giant violence machines And there's a whole body of thought about the implications thereof, about what makes the violence states do "legitimate," why is it different from any other kind of violence, going back centuries

grotesque. they murdered and terrorized your citizens just months ago, these were international stories. and they’re still at it! but sure, go hobnob with the nazis. you’re very cool.

We'll be hosting another webinar next week, April 30, about the illegal US-Israel war on Iran This time we'll be unpacking and debunking common political and media myths about the conflict Subscribe and tune in on YT 7PM NZ www.youtube.com/live/-57p6mC...

1/200 S2E195 - The Fight Against Seabed Mining We talk to @cindybax.bsky.social from Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) about the history of seabed mining applications over the last decade, the lobbying by the extractive industry & the ways activists are fighting back w @kyledchurch.bsky.social

Isn't murdering political leaders you don't like considered to be good and normal these days? Certainly got that impression a couple of months back.

Security officials rush Mike Johnson back to dinner after the second course is announced

Oh no, some bootlicking journalists have been traumatised, you say? How about all the journalists murdered by Israel with US help and who American journalists have shown zero solidarity for by continuing to worship at the feet of American hegemony?

“The Vote for Te Tiriti question then has to be not just “How do you plan to honour Te Tiriti?”, but also “How do you plan to protect Te Tiriti?” All Treaty promises must be accompanied by a plan to change our government to one that is constitutionally centred upon Te Tiriti.” #nzpol

you can only read this level of ambiguity as *intentional* at this point the headline makes it sound like Israel is retaliating the strikes mentioned were BY Israel (breaching the ceasefire *again*) and killed 4 people NZ media continues to propagandise war criminals and genocide

THREAD. One of the most powerful forms of propaganda that receives little attention is the choice made by people in power in politics, business, and media about which things they juxtapose together and which things they treat separately.

“As usual, it’s the most vulnerable among us who are forced to pay the highest price, both at home & abroad. Albanese is apparently more inclined to create disabled ppl overseas than care for its own. It would do well to curb its one 👁️ politics, lest it become permanently disabled itself.” #Auspol

50 years ago today, Sun’s “Wanna make Love” debuted on Billboard’s Soul singles chart. Close your eyes and you'd swear it's the Commodores, but it's Sun working the mid-70s funk formula to perfection ☀️🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFaF...

The proposed immigration bill shows that the NZ government wants to copy ICE's techniques in the USA. It will allow for people, including NZ citizens, to be detained until they can prove they have a right to be here. Here's a guide for making submissions: asst.org.nz/immigration-...

#NZpol TBH I just don't trust a guy who has shown a history of liking FR posts and following such accounts regularly w/ this, and the idea he "shares Collins’ enthusiasm about the rise of drones and other uncrewed technologies" makes me puke, given WHERE much of it is "tested". Hint: IN A GENOCIDE.