Quick, dirty and expensive. The govt is going to build a $1 billion liquid natural gas (LNG) import terminal, instead of investing in clean energy. And as for the levy…if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… My #cartoon today #NZpol #FossilFuels #Climate

Holy fuck, TOP's tax policy is wild One tax to rule them all Who the fuck takes these pricks seriously?🤦🏻‍♂️ #nzpol

Obviously there is an awful lot going on in the world. But not far from NZ a dubious legal occupation has been going on for more than 60 years resulting in what is felt to be a slow-rolling genocide. The rebels are getting more brazen but the occupying power now has a war criminal as it's president.

The Epstein files make it impossible to believe that ANY wealthy powerful people are NOT nonces and abusers and filthy liars. If anyone knows any wealthy powerful people who claim they are NOT nonces and abusers and filthy liars, we all need to hear about it so we can verify if it's true. #AllGuilty

Really good to have things summed up so succinctly. Imagine if we actually had a "media" capable of this. #nzpol

Back on track!

In which Peter Bale owns David Farrar: 1:00:03 which is that No, Peter, shut up. You do not say what my motivations are. That is not fair. #nzpol

Flying past the Tasman Glacier the other day. Made me reminisce about the days of flying past Puncak Jaya Glacier. That was at 2°S latitude vs 43°S here. In any case they're both receeding faster than my hairline.

I'm f**king livid at the sheer stupidity of rejecting this plan put forward by Gisborne District Council. I hate it here. #nzpol

Actually fair.

ACT: The party of modern slavery. How does anyone vote for these numpties? 🤦‍♂️ #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The truth comes out abt Stanford’s role in changing the curriculum. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Absolute must read. Incredible work by the ABC! #ozpol #nzpol

Well this is great. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

I also emailed the PM about my disappointment at the lack of leadership

I've emailed the PM a link to the RNZ live feed. I don't think he's aware... Baffling #nzpol

Great to see Luxon condemn Trump's stance on Greenland and call in the US ambassador. My mistake, he's still on holiday 15 days after he promised he would be back at work.

The forestry industry doesn't actually have to be this evil. It's a choice

Foreign Minister Winston Peters pulls over NZ Reserve Bank governor Anna Breman after she signed a letter of support for US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #USpol #JeromePowell

Fuck these people. #NZPol #NZ www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

This brand-new documentary, Sky King, explores the life of Richard "Beebo" Russell, a ground service agent who took his own life in 2018 after taking control of an empty Horizon Air Dash-8 airplane from Sea-Tac Airport. Film created to raise awareness of mental health issues & suicide prevention.

Should have probably included this comparison of the wage share of the pie in previous 🧵 A stark reminder of just how much Roger and Ruth destroyed the bargaining power of workers as they set about creating a high profit / low wage, private debt fuelled, ecocidal, directionless economy.

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Luxon's absence is bizarre. Jacinda Ardern? Would have communicated clearly and swiftly. I think it's a coin-flip if WHAT she communicated was 1) An actually useful comment that could maybe go further but had the right idea, or 2) The usual govt blandness But she'd have been On It. #nzpol

This could be a win-win situation if the reason Luxon is not answering his phone is because he's interviewing for Air India 😂

Shameful, albeit unsurprising from the awful government

This is the future health system that David Seymour, Chris Luxon and Simeon Brown seem to want and are working towards for AoNZ #nzpol

Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'. Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!) We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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The Nicola Willis Economy™️

When the Ministry cannot explain how a foreign company won a national contract to hold the learning data of every child in Aotearoa, it is not an administrative inconvenience. It is a breach of trust.

The brain is a powerful organ. It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First. #nzpol

History will remember we banned Palestine Action for putting graffiti on planes. But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.

Hipkins jumped on bluesky after a 2month break to support Winston Peters here Has so far refused to do the same to support the trans community in the face of destructive and, frankly, fatal policy that NZF and National delivered this week Really showing his, and Labour's, priorities

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening and sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty in public. #nzpol

Nope, nope, nope. My dudes you are still not getting it

So not the same church but separate evangelical ones

With the current NZ Police self-immolation and the revelation that Coster and McSkimming went to the same church very interested to see the @davidfarrier.com take when he gets the chance. #nzpol

How are we in this timeline where you scratch the surface and find out it's sex pests and often peodophiles all the way down? I hate it #nzpol

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Chris Hipkins misrepresented what Tamatha Paul said. She knew exactly what she was talking about. Hipkins crossed a major line when he did that. He should have made it right earlier. Now he NEEDS to make it right.

Senior cabinet minister Winston Peters on his own government: they've managed the economy poorly #nzpol

remember when the former president of the act party got more child rape charges and the story just kinda... disappeared again?

Firefighter verifies that Seymour is lying to the public and media, again. Journalists must be sick of being used as tools.

Given the close links between the FSU and the ACT Party, any parent who would willingly send their children to a school run by the associates of pedophiles should lose custody. Why exactly does the FSU want to be directly involved with and in control of minors? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

I'm reading the new Social Sciences curriculum content and I wasn't prepared for how sad I would feel. We spent thousands of hours working with the previous iteration and the NZ history content and all that enthusiasm and excitement was just killed for something so bad.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"