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“Our number one priority is keeping team and customers safe, and we believe that FRT can play an important role in helping to protect people from violence, abuse and intimidation,”… Yeah right.

This is nuts…

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

The Guardian: here’s how Substack makes money hosting Nazi newsletters. These newsletters weren’t even hard to find or subtle: swastikas and in-app recommendations from one antisemitic newsletter to a bunch of others. [theguardian.com]

In the lawsuit, plaintiffs allege “that Meta and WhatsApp ‘store, analyze, and can access virtually all of WhatsApp users’ purportedly ‘private’ communications’ — and accuse the companies and their leaders of defrauding WhatsApp’s billions of users worldwide.”

#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

This week the country was again battered by summer storms with tragic outcomes. It’s emergencies like these that our state media is really important for keeping people informed. But how am I to trust RNZ if they’re putting laundered astroturf content in with that coverage? youtu.be/RqSeS_04bfQ

JD Vance Claims Renée Good Had No Authority To Be Alive In First Place

Dear @theguardian.com I think the word you are looking for is ‘lies’

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (August)

#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.

Sad to learn of Asad Haider’s passing. Brian Cooke’s interview with him on Philosophy Can Ruin Your Life a few years back gives some insight into what a generous and insightful thinker he was. Such a loss www.philosophycanruinyourlife.com/e/s02e04-asa...

Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

our govt wants to spend 327 times more on a single road ($18b) than they are currently spending yearly on all of basic science in new zealand ($55m) #nzpol

People who revel in cruelty are often engaging in reactive abuse as a result of trauma… but in this instance I just think we are dealing with inherently cruel bastards: #nzpol

'Please help make parents hate teachers so I can get back to arms dealing..... sorry I mean aerospace.' #nzpol

“New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets” - The Guardian My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #ClimateChange #Methane #NetZero

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Generative AI is literally destroying knowledge

Contact Energy prices are rising AGAIN. This feels particularly despicable when so many people barely got through winter this year with astronomical electricity bills - and because it was recently reported their full year net profit is up 41% to more than $331 million, & underlying profit is $774m.

In case you missed this, the coalition Government is utterly without shame…

“Stanford has been claiming a national “transformation” based in large part on the results over time of only 0.007% of the current Year 1 school population.”

If you’re not already reading Mountain Tui’s excellent Substack, you should. Easily one of the best sources for insight on #nzpol

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in. 📝166,000 submissions. ❌98.7% opposed. Yet National are going to continue supporting it. 🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Just when your think this government can’t possibly plumb new depths of stupidity: #nzpol

There has been so much shit flying around about Luxon these last few days it's taken me this long to find out Luxon accidentally referred to Chris Hipkins as "The prime minister" in the House. Fuckin' lol #NZPol

Pretty bleak seeing people celebrate the awarding of the Nobel 'peace' prize to someone who not only fully supports Trump (and US attacks & interference in Venezuela), but who is also fully pro-Israel, pro-privatisation, and has sought alliances with far right leaders in Europe like Orban & Le Pen.

In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands. This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol

Nats clutch their pearls and sanction Chloe in the house then call everyone a snowflake when they spout shit #nzpol

#nzpol The government has announced that 18/19 year olds, who live in a household where the parents earn $65,529 or more, can't claim jobseekers support. If both parents work 27 hours on the minimum wage - $634 a week - they will be expected to now financially support their adult offspring. A 🧵

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

#nzpol Monthly employment data - and there are 4,814 more jobs than this time last month! Whoop. Only 42,746 to go to get us to where we were at the last election. 62 jobs lost every single day of this government, one roughly every 23 minutes. A 🧵

Aotearoa has been governed by some awful people in the past; grifters, racists, drunks and economic vandals. But never ever have we had such a spineless coward for a prime minister. Chris Luxon is an utterly craven husk of a person. #nzpol #freepalestine

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Is it Fascism yet?

New Zealand still part of the coalition of cowardice. To have still not recognised Palestine despite the horrific situation there is now an historically craven position.

“whether or not you were infected” 😬

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve." www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...

It’s time for the Government to realise its economic plan isn’t working. There are 23,000 more people on Jobseekers. 48% of workers in NZ got a pay cut in real terms last year. Business & consumer confidence are at levels associated with recessions.

These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in. Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau. You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them. #HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori #NZPol

WTAF they are a death cult www.choosecleanwater.org.nz/in-the-media...