I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

"Suppose we're invited to a yacht party by drug dealers"

The #nzpol and #kikorangi feeds often follow similar themes, and I have often thought about the fact that a lot of what people want it already being offered, by the @greens.org.nz 🧵

Happy New Year: I put a new piece of flash fiction up on my site. I hope you enjoy this brief horror story of hangovers & tentacles: rupert-brackenbury.squarespace.com/blog/the-catch #mywriting #writing

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

I would really like to see NZ's Prime Minister say something fairly unequivocal about this. He can avoid being directly confrontational if he wants, and just assert that the international rule of law is important or something, but he better say something that at least implies this isn't okay.

Thanks for listening! Our Christmas episode is out tomorrow- in which we discuss our favourite Leyline High Christmas specials. 🎄

If you charge young people with being homeless and they end up in jail, is anyone on the right going to wonder if it was worth cutting off the $16k a year benefit and putting them in $150K a year jail - Anyone? Bueller? #NZPol

I just finished the podcast @leylinehighrewind.bsky.social and im desperate for more episodes. The cast are amazing and I need to see where this is going.

BREAKING: The High Court of New Zealand has granted PATHA’s application for interim relief, declaring that the Crown should not take any steps to enforce the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to transgender children and young people. More to come:

Narrator - She did not resign #nzpol

Meet Smeena, your helpful AI assistant! From Crowley Time Episode 40 with special guest Paul F. Tompkins. crowleytime.com @pftompkins.bsky.social

Bishop's Bridge Of Broken Dreams #NZpol #cartoon #Listener ( tweaked version )

[Getting fired for poisoning a customer] "My boss is a 'frequent flyer' with HR, complaining about quite a range of my behaviours, they have the right to do, but I think people need that context."

I suppose you might want 8 toilets if you have no external doors?

As I drove through Lower Hutt, on the way to a hospital appointment I'd waited 2 years for, I saw the huge queue at the food bank & billboard for Chris Bishop gloating about more roads. It seems like its all connected. #nzpol

I'm sure this is a sign of a well managed economy. #nzpol

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Boy if you think our health system is stretched now, just wait til Serco “known for abusing prisoners” get their hands on it

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

Between you and me, if I were a freshly elected mayor who had just called out the toxic behaviour towards my predecessor, I wouldn't then go and reward one of the central figures in creating that toxicity by making them chair of an influential subcommittee... 🤦‍♂️ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I hate to lose my leftist street-cred, but from what I've seen, voters seem quite positive about Labour's CGT, so maybe it's not total failure? #nzpol

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

In Philip K Dick's short story "Faith of our fathers" an illegal anti-hallucinogen allows you to see the country's leader is actually horrifying biomechanical monstrosity & this is a pretty good metaphor for living in Lower Hutt & hearing people fawn over Chris Bishop. #nzpol

Judith Collins calling open fascist Kristi Noem a friend and posing for photo ops with her would have her hounded out of politics in any reasonable democracy - and a functioning, non-propagandistic media would lead that charge Unfortunately we have neither of those things in NZ

Sad to hear about Jane Goodall, I heard her speak at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington once and her stories about chimps and humans were so moving, I started to tear up. She will be greatly missed

My friend left her phone in an #uber last night. It is ABSURD that you need your phone to organise retrieving the phone you lost. Surely cellphones are the #1 thing left behind? Just absolutely terrible design

Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed

In 1976, African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympics because New Zealand stood with apartheid South Africa. Nearly 50 years on, that echo lingers and the stain remains far longer than we care to admit to ourselves.

The address to write to is: [insert MP name] Freepost Parliament Private Bag 18 888 Parliament Buildings Wellington 6160

That Canada, Australia & The UK all recognized Palestine but NZ is still scared of offending Trump (who couldn't find us on a map) is such an embarrassment

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

I just found out that in Lethal Weapon, when Danny Glover says, "I'm too old for this shit" he was, in fact, younger than I am now. And you know what? He was right.

So Ruth Richardson & Roger Douglas want Nicola Willis to adopt the Liz Truss libertarian playbook, even though its failed. everywhere And Douglas wants David Seymour to take her place. What could go wrong with the Atlas Network (NZI/TPU) formula? A lot - as every country they touch knows #nzpol

Look I don't know how deep the psychosis in the cult that follows National goes, but you literally can not have a growing economy for 6 months when the stats show it's been declining. They wear sunscreen at night & moan they can't hear the TV when they've hit the mute button don't they.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

The Aotearoa Gender Attitudes Survey results are out and they are... revealing. Nothing surprising though, if you've been paying attention to trends overseas. genderequal.nz/ga-survey/

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

FINALLY. You wouldn't believe the trouble I've had rotating my horse manually.

Looking forward to strong commentary from David Seymour and Winston Peters on the difference between free speech & violence and the need to protect democracy regarding the resignation of an MP who received death threats following politically motivated targeting amplified by members of the NZ Govt.🦗

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Please, please listen to me: MAGA world has a lot of money to pay "researchers" to trawl niche social media sites like this one, and take posts that will provoke enormous outrage and plaster them across multiple platforms. Please think about what you're posting before you hit "Post"

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpol

Roman roof tile circa 1st century CE Italian Manuscript circa 15th century CE My fucking driveway circa this morning. #cats #nz

Saw the new Superman. Loved it. The politics are hardly subtle though, to watch it & think "Lex Luthor's misunderstood & Superman's woke" is such a departure from accepted morality, I'm not sure there's any coming back for those people