Im so fucking angry at this complete waste of money Literally setting on fire millions of dollars to then burn our planet more 🙃🙃🙃

You want better health outcomes, lower suicide and improve mental health it's not rocket science.Enough studies have been done showing affordable housing/rent and a basic income would change the game. But governments are in with the oligarchs and corporations.Revolution time is drawing close 👊

Hell yes, Mark.

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

Good morning!

The government really are dicks. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

According to this website Wellington’s average February rainfall is 55 mm. (1/2) figure.nz/chart/5IuPMt...

Excellent article that shouldn’t be needed in a country with such dynamic natural systems and associated high risk of crises. Shame none of the numpties in government will read it, or care about it.

You know what I still miss? Adult Education at the local high school, shut down by John Key. Wood carving, Italian, te reo Māori, Sign language, Jazz aerobics, kete basket weaving. Sure, some of it is privately accessible, but not the same. #kikorangi

Fact: Climate change is making the weather more extreme. My #cartoon today #NZpol #ClimateChange #Floods #ClimateInaction

Actually fair.

The whole way Parliament works needs to modernise. Not being allowed to point out someone’s lying in the house is a joke. Having a partisan speaker is wrong. The system just allows shitheads like Seymour et al to behave hideously. This government have really shown how crap the system is.

Demanding that we stop talking about climate change while climate disasters are killing people is the actual politicization, actually

Nobody tell them that this season will be remembered as some of the best weather this century. (Because they refused to listen to the science). No, no, not all farmers... but why do they have this reputation?

NZ taxpayers spent $6M to bring Michelin stars here and only paid $3M to the WHO. Contributing to world health seems like a much better spend to me. #nzpol

This won the Netherlands top cartoon award

The head of a party in our governing coalition called for us to leave the WHO yesterday and as far as I can see today, there's been absolutely zero critique of that by the press. Fucking fuckity fuck #nzpol

1/3 It's climate change, stupid ODT editorial 24 January 2026 Text in alt over 3 posts.

This kind of rhetoric was once the domain of fringe groups like Voices for Freedom, but NZ First now represents those fringe groups in parliament

All I want is for the gallery and commentariat to grill Luxon and Hipkins about this dogshit with HALF the energy they give any time the Greens announce a reasonable, costed, popular policy

#nzpol Data released by Stats NZ today shows that the cost of living rose at its fastest rate for 18 months. Prices rose for 80% of items in the CPI basket, meaning growth in prices was broad-based. Minimum wage workers are now facing a 3rd year of real terms cuts in wages. A thread

Good.

Tax cuts for the wealthy was the luxon led government priority raiding the climate change emergency fund of 6 billion.

This regime are basically murderers

We have entered the period of #water bankruptcy. www.circleofblue.org/2026/supply/...

The tragic loss of lives in NZ flooding events this week are climate change deaths. Media and govt are avoiding the topic. Leaders and commentators must acknowledge the emerging reality of ordinary summer rainstorms carrying volumes of water akin to tropical cyclones of previous decades.

I wonder if RNZ can run an entire news cycle on extreme weather without mentioning climate change? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Morning.

Crikey, did @naomiaklein.bsky.social have to be this prescient in 2007?

Mining Industry CEO says that their business interests and profits are more important than the environment, and that if we simply agree to the environment being annihilated for their benefit somehow that will stop supermarkets price-gouging. Yeah, nah. Fuck off.

This.

Hannah Arendt was in Germany during the start of the Nazi terror in the 1920s and 30s. She knew it was just the start. We need to stand up now to ICE and to Fascism before its too late.

Greetings from Greenland.......

Chung being dodgy and probably breaking the rules. Who would’ve thought it. Andrew Little must be so proud of his decision to give Chung a committee chair post.

Why are corporate political donations legal? What possible outcome, other than corruption, could they produce? People get to vote. Corporations don't. This is for a very good fucking reason. Every corporate donation precedes a crime against people and a subversion of democracy. Every single one.

Universal Basic Income now

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

I don't think you should have to be back at work in early January. Unless you're some fucking loser who said the country should only have three days off at Christmas and there's some kind of international crisis going on

I hope at least everyone can clearly see why the struggle to end fossil fuels is the struggle for democracy and self determination is the struggle against inequality is the struggle against Imperialism is the struggle for a liveable planet is the struggle against fascism etc

The world is truly fucked.

This is a cogent, detailed and passionate demolition of generative and LLM AI in writing and publishing. It applies to other creative endeavours and industries, like design. I urge you to share it and start real conversations about AI, instead of blindly using it “because everyone else is.”

It’s amazing indoor smoking ever got banned. Not like you light a cigarette and drop dead the next day which seems to be the standard for action these days.

This.

Ray Chung being dodgy again. What a surprise. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingto...

Dude your plan is not complicated. People understand your plan. They also understand it hasn’t worked because, stay with me here, it was a bad plan. If we’re talking about understanding here I don’t think ‘people’ are the ones suffering from a lack of it. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

People who don't "do regrets" are the same kind of entitled bellends that "never say sorry". He's such a prick.

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.