If they declare martial law in the US are we still friends with them? Do we keep the FBI office in Wellington? We’ve just undermined our elections with the passing of the Electoral Amendment Bill, following the US blueprint - the threat is real, and the next election the most consequential to date.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

I'm here to banish the darkness, if only for a moment. A vaccine for chlamydia in koalas. Developed in Canada by a global team, with help from the family of Steve Irwin. It reduces mortality, reduces disease severity, provides protection for baby koalas. Turning the tide on a deadly disease.

The Truth about Venezuela.

Take Trump literally and seriously. Banish into the sun all the hacks who told us we were being hysterical & radical. Ignore them forever. This is a white nationalist regime in service of an international broligarchy that won't stop until it drinks all our milkshakes. Venezuela was the start...

Dear USA, this is your best?

Today, I cook

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.” E B White The Points of My Compass #GlacierNstionalPark #PtarmiganTrail 📷: Montana son

Keep Peter Thiel out of New Zealand! #NZPol

We’ve all heard of “peak oil”, but few talk about ”peak capital”. It’s when capitalist real wealth extraction reaches a societal maximum and it’s all downhill to dust and ashes from there. This is when capitalists enact fascism.

Absolute truth.

Democracy is dying and most Kiwis haven't noticed. Have a good weekend anyway, folks! #nzpol #kiwi

#nzpol 🤔🧐⬇️⬇️⬇️🧐🤔

#nzpol Fuck this smarmy, nasty little prick, he obviously has a sadism fetish and shouldn’t be allowed within 500 metres of children or policies affecting children 😡 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

👏👏👏 Science, eh.... Well done team #auspol

It’s wild that the tradition of singing anthems before sports matches started with a Wales v NZ rugby match in 1905, as the Welsh wanted to drown out the haka. The haka is a longer and more established tradition than pre-game national anthems. 🤯 No more moaning that the AB’s should stop doing it.

Morning….

Restricting the availability of puberty blockers to trans kids but allowing them for cis kids is a blatant violation of NZBORA (1990) and the Human Rights Act (1993). This will undoubtedly end up in court - very quickly as the subject of a Judicial Review.

Worst NACT act of the week ? Passing the Regulatory Stds Bill into law despite 99% of 156,000 submissions opposed to a bill spearheaded by a party with just 8.64% of the people’s vote. This is not democracy and it really saddens me. #nzpol

There were 159,000 written submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill (on top of over 23,000 submissions last year) - numbers that are second only to the Treaty Principles Bill in NZ’s history. More than 98% of public submissions were opposed. There’s a word for this, but it’s not democracy.

Small pleasures in a complicated world. This piece of plastic arrived in NZ from Netherlands in six days. My second cousin will be able to open the Van tailgate for safe camping in the South Island.

She is a minor. He raped her. Don’t dress it up as ‘services’.

But even without all that... "It is possible to respect and value the place of the Mãori language and culture without artificially inserting it into every part of life." To which I ask: Are Māori students an everyday part of NZ school life/classrooms? Good. Then it's not "artificial".

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Keep these fucken ideological charlatans out of NZ education! #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

SCOOBY-DOO TAUGHT US THAT IN THE END THE MONSTERS WERE ALWAYS PEOPLE.

The NActF obsession with destroying the public health system and encouraging private health insurance is one of the best reasons to vote them out next year. #nzpol

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

I’ve never seen it like this.

What a novel idea 💡 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand #ToughOnCrime

Keep watching Till the goats

Remarkable dementia poetry by our friend Daniel C. Potts, MD #Alzheimers #dementia #poetry

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like: "We need to make people work for more years" "We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way" "We have to cut benefits for young people" never: "We need to tax the rich"

Given high likelihood of Turning Point's ideological foundations infiltrating other countries, & university campuses in particular, this guide from American Association of University Professors is helpful. I don't think NZ Uni administrations are fully aware or ready. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Just a moonrise. Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, now.

Wonder what Mister "The world doesn't owe you a living" Luxon would be doing if the Fifth Labour Government had said that to Air New Zealand in 2001 instead of writing a $900m bail-out cheque. Oh, I keep forgetting - Market Forces for Thee and Thine, Corporate Welfare for Me and Mine! #nzpol

Wright Family Foundation receives over $300 million of taxpayers' funding & posts $41.6 million op. profit. The business was converted to a "charity" & pays no tax. The Wright Family bankrolled Sean Plunkett & The Platform, which regularly attacks govt 'handouts' #nzpol 🧵👇

Dear Christopher Luxon, Ben Gvir, Israel's National Security Minister, is bragging about treating the Sumud Flotilla hostages as terrorists. 3 NZ citizens are being held hostage, what will you do? #nzpol

Luxon Govt subsidy to fossil fuel companies is 12 TIMES HIGHER per person than Trump's subsidy. Trump subsidy is US$625m to coal - NZ$1070m. Luxon subsidy is (at least) NZ$200m to oil and gas exploration. 5.2m people in NZ and 347m in US. Trump subsidy NZ$3 per person; Luxon NZ$38 per person.

In AotearoaNZ we’ve already witnessed 5 of these RW political tactics. ~Using Psychological abuse ~Using Isolation ~Using Minimisation ~Using Children ~Using Privilege Let’s not gamble with the rest… #nzpol #Aotearoa #NewZealand #CultureWars #HumanityFirst #Kotahitanga #OneTermGovernment

So you mean to tell me that the sane way forward is to go big into solar and wind for primary electricity supply, and treat hydro as battery storage for generation lulls, and the govt has instead decided to chuck more cash at incumbents and resurrect Solid Energy for gas imports

They do not need new equity capital. They just need to pay lower dividends.

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