Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial. www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...

This is the product of a sick mind. But then, Joyce belongs to a cult that doesn’t see trans people as human, and who would go out of their way to wilfully degrade them at every opportunity. Even if they are dead. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

My daughter has been referred to a large number of specialists recently. In the referrals that mentioned that she is transgender, they were all declined. I requested that be removed and re-referrals done, and they are now being accepted. Imagine how bad things are going to be, basically eugenics.

I’ve already had a journalist reach out looking for comment in response to Helen Joyce to “give balance”. To be clear: when one side is openly calling for fewer trans people and saying “every trans person is a massive problem”, there is no balance. It’s genocidal intent.

We tried this end of 19th century and it was not a good idea, yeah

FSU: "How DARE they apply the rules and bar our anti-trans activist guest from the media gallery of the LAVA v Wellington Pride tribunal. Don't they know she was editor of The Economist?" The Economist: "Perhaps employers should be allowed to use eugenics to inform hiring decisions?"

It's like Parliament, but backward. A judge punishes you for lying when their court is in session, while the Speaker of the House punishes you for calling out a liar during a session of the House. And then we ask why people don't have more faith in political process.

Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.

I've just remembered that the Trump administration made a big show of their intent to visit Fort Knox to make sure the gold was still there ... and, well... yeah. 😬

If this is how badly he's ruined in the place in a year, I worry that by the time he's evicted he'll have cladded the Washington Monument in a fools gold scale model of his tiny p... errrr... hands.

Remember how Trump fears being seen with "losers", as though it somehow would make him look weak... even to the point disparaging fallen soldiers? Well, a generous take suggests that's what just happed with RFK Jr. Basically, he feels merely being around a sick person makes him look less healthy.

Yup, casey costello met the Irish terf doing a hate speech tour sponsored by the FSU. ACT hosted them all at the Grand Hall in Parliament yesterday in for her speech tour. A fucking affront to the memory of Georgina Beyer. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

I feel like Salad Fingers basically served the same purpose for us Millenials as Skibidi Toilet has for Gen Alpha... We just never managed to incorporate it into our youthful dialects. Technically, that means Gen Alpha did better than us, and that's one egg and spoon race I'm happy to celebrate.

Lifeline has been trying to get a meeting with the Minister for the past year to no avail. There's money for landlords, tobacco companies, and dodgy guys like Mike King, but when it comes to saving lives this government doesn't give a fuck #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Rumor is they tried to bribe some Cardinals to elect their guy pope. Theil is Opus Dei too, right?

Pope Leo’s dissolving Opus Dei, the wealthy Catholic cult of Leonard Leo, Sam Alito, Kevin Roberts, JD Vance and others. Leo & Harlan Crow bought 2/3rds of SCOTUS & got Roe v Wade overturned. They want a theocracy where women are powerless. OD was indicted for human trafficking & abuse in Argentina.

“But what if I’m a left-wing politician and need X to reach audiences who wouldn’t otherwise see my message?” Then at least post exclusively on a different platform FIRST several hours before posting on X! It will encourage journalists to prioritise other platforms. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I do remember this, and I very much wish that he hadn't. Apart from it making no sense to be dressing down your potential coalition partners in public before even getting that far, it "polices" what real issues are/aren't permissible to talk about... or even to notice. That's when rot thrives.

*IF* you are wondering how this is going in #NewZealand

This seems to describe the difference between Schumer and Mamdani quite well. Plus, there's a limit to how far right you can tack until you tack so far to the right that the whole left/right thing is only so much absurd nonsense, and everyone that used to vote for you has been sold down the river.

WOULD JAMES CARVILLE AND GAVIN NEWSOM LIKE TO COME FORWARD AND EAT SHIT

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Running a campaign on solid moral values and offering solutions to combat inequality that piss off the rich - wildly popular in spite of rich donors funneling cash to undermine the campaign.

Had to share this from twitter just because

Okay now nz labour stop looking at uk labour and look at Mamdani instead of

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Oh dear! Mamdani won by standing for something real! Now the GOP will try to tie Mamdani to every Dem in the US. That means that they're all going to actually have to stand for something instead of thinking "maybe we should just be more right wing" whenever the right wins. Up your campaigns, guys!

"We are doing everything we can." - Christopher Luxon 29th October, 2024 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Responding with "I said tit as ACT leader so I don't have to answer", to an OIA about a statement you've made as "David Seymour, MP for Epsom and ACT Leader" alongside your parliamentary contact details? Yeah, that shouldn't fly. Not least because he's the DPM and a relevant associate minister 24/7

"The researchers suspect that the hormone treatment transgender women receive has a protective effect on the heart and blood vessels." www.news-medical.net/news/2025110...

Just saw this flash up on the breaking news ticker and... Waaaaaaiiiiit a darn minute. This means ... *does maths* ... ... that the last time unemployment was this high was ALSO towards the end of a failing National Government. Anyone else beginning to spot a pattern here?

Tommy Robinson / Stephen Yaxley-Lennon using the same argument as Maya Forstater? How closely intertwined are transphobia and the far right going to get?

Wow :( “You knifed this person to death because [spurious reason about protected belief]. Case dismissed” Yes, that’s extreme but he used belief to step round Terrorism Law. That’s going to come back to bite everyone at some point

Wow, look what the Forstater case has unlocked… The racist is found to be unlawfully stopped by the police because of his protected characteristics of political belief. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Sometimes I find myself dumbfounded at what looks, to me, like the sheer abstract brilliance of ancient mathematicians. Like, how do you even sit there in 500CE India, before 0 is even defined as an integer value, and say "I think I'll write a verse describing an algorithm for finding square roots"

Tomorrow is the Fifth of November – but let’s forget Guy Fawkes and his actions against an arrogant Protestant king and instead look to our own history: the unlawful attack on Parihaka and, by extension, Māori sovereignty. 🧵 #kikorangi

Hey anyone at #mpi or #biosecuritynz. We do wasp genomics. I reckon I could tell you in about 24 hours if these invasive yellow legged #hornets you have found in Auckland are sisters, or a larger invasion. For free. Hit me up now!

In a few short years, we've apparently gone from a society espousing values like "a fair go for all, and lets treat each other decently", to ... *checks notes* ... both-sidesing the Waffen SS. I'm starting to understand why the bigger salaries in Aus have finally started attracting so many of us.

This government is ~astoundingly~ good at cost blow-outs on transport projects that fit its ideological agenda. Almost as good as they are at pissing money up against a wall for absolutely nothing, just to create a stink about their opposition and claim undue credit for themselves.

Behind the anti-gender movement is a religious ideology that holds that human sexuality only exists for (white Christian) procreation & propagation. Once you understand that it all makes sense why they attack: - trans ppl - LGBT - Abortion - Contraception - Dignity in dying - Surrogacy - Sex work

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

$300 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the Benefit Cost Ratio of Bike lanes supporting bikes in urban areas. $0.33 of benefits to every $1 spent. That is the BCR of 15 of the 17 Roads of National Significance Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport archive.ph/bs1Qj

Pledge here, from anywhere in the world. www.pledgeme.co.nz/proje cts/8521-support-dr-siouxsie-after-she-supported-us #nzpol

Just managed to brave the Borderlands movie in fit of curiosity, and... WTF?! First observation - Jack Black as Claptrap SOUNDED like a good idea, but it REALLY doesn't work. The voice if all wrong. Completely wrong. Like, it completely shatters suspension of disbelief levels of wrong.

"Historian William Dalrymple: British politicians bear responsibility for the destruction of Palestinian lives. In this country, no one is taught anything about Palestine” “History is erased, crimes are whitewashed, and the victims are forgotten." #NZPol

Somehow, we have arrived at a place in time in AoNZ where there is an attempt at a corporate hostile takeover of a fucking public school.

“The campaign for intersex people’s human rights has come a long way in the past two decades… Unfortunately, as this research shows, it is still dangerous to be born this way.” Politics aimed at enforcing binary sex result in harmful interventions on intersex people. We must resist such politics.

Trump just fired the whole of the federal "Commission of Fine Arts" (which reviews monuments, Government buildings, etc), because they were supposed to review his Ballroom and triumphal arch (and presumably would have said they were shit). Have we learned nothing about rejecting bad artists?

Change one letter, ruin a candy Bumdrops