Priorities??? #nzpol Grifters in government

Boy if you think our health system is stretched now, just wait til Serco “known for abusing prisoners” get their hands on it

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.

Again a systemic story that's bigger than the individual bits: a govt which ran into power in large part based on banging the localism drum about water has accelerated the pace of centralised - and personal Ministerial - decision-making. This is a big story about this govt. Someone should tell it.

the level of wishcasting is astonishing, they really believe they have a magic fairy dust they can sprinkle over a game production and it'll make huge chunks of the workforce redundant

Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.

it's time for

It just hit me that Hakeem Jeffries looks exactly like the bald elf from DRAGON AGE

I'm sadly obsessed with new yorker cover art now. AI could never create such beauty and whimsy

Piss poor infrastructure, that we pay over the odds for. #taxtherich #nzpol

New Zealand has the highest youth suicide rate of all the 38 countries in the OECD #nzpol

I’ll just leave this here… 😂 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand #NZpolitics #CoalitionOfCorruption

You see how many of these politicians CARRIED in their election races WITHOUT throwing trans people under the bus? Exactly, exactly.

The Detail on RNZ apparently deciding it needs to only interview a guy from the NZ Initiative about the school curriculum. Fucksake #nzpol

RBNZ to the Waitangi Tribunal...

The Luxon Government's surprise move to gut the Zero Carbon Act has upended six years of cross-partisan consensus on climate change. They are unfit to govern in 2025. #nzpol

Fireworks last night couldn't be drowned out by playing loud noise in the house. Sounded like gunfire. My dogs were upset and howling. Some prick started up again at 2am. Dogs howling, everyone woken up. I could hear dogs around the neighbourhood being set off. I Really hate fireworks

It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol

Love how National proudly opposed the Treaty Principles Bill, and wore it like a badge of honour. Then basically rolled it out anyways. They’re dismantling and removing anything that honours the treaty, and undermining Māori. Without consultation too like yesterday. Depressing.

When I wrote this just two-ish months ago, the premise was that the architecture of the CCRA (zero carbon act) remained, but the policies that sustained it had been hollowed out. With the CCRA changes today, I feel like that no longer holds www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Re Nationalising public services in one of my red lines. I am not interested in voting for anyone not committed to doing so. Working class people can no longer sustain private profits for essential services.

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

This is a point the media should really be making #nzpol

What happens when a Wāhine Toa does mahi? Whaea works. #Māori

100% Not gunna lie, I was surprised when I read an insightful article from them, but it wasn't a fluke - they keep coming

Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner

Journalist friends, please, banish "scientists are baffled" from your vocabulary. In this article, the scientists clearly explain what happened. No one is baffled. It's sad but not the slighest bit baffling.

My support for the Green Party validated by this chart

Yeah, I think I’ll rely on the researchers findings and not Bishit’s reckons #nzpol

THIS is the kind of robot I want in my life. Along with a robot vacuum and a robot window cleaner. I want robots to do repetitive cleaning tasks, not replace thinking and creativity with auto complete hallucinations.

‘Experts’ on saving for retirement in New Zealand never talk about low wages or extortionate rents and childcare costs. Telling people to save, while supporting the status quo that makes it impossible really grinds my gears. #nzpol

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon in the suburbs so, of course, someone is setting off loud firecrackers and you can hear the stressed out neighbourhood dogs barking in response.

Busy, cold night at Stonehenge as we move the stones backwards an hour...

This is very very sad and very very accurate

"The curriculum is dishonest and it's regressive because it's not an honest reflection of our past" www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Is it some kind of emotional thing that makes people decide they need their workers in the office.. Not just for meetings and collab but all the time? Change is scary?

Weasel words Luxon wittering on, blaming Labour for the fall in vaccination rates. No, Klutz, the decline is due to the rise of anti-vaxxers, actively encouraged by NZFirst, your party and ACT, in your quest for power no matter the cost.

Just a reminder that the Biden regime watered down a report that confirmed that Israel had purposefully killed Shireen Abu Akleh

New Zealand, we need to talk about dairy. A few people are making a lot of money, but the rest of us are paying a very high price now and in the future for them to do that. 🧵

Israel blocks majority of Gaza aid despite ceasefire deal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-blocks-majority-gaza-aid-despite-ceasefire-deal

Back on track #nzpol

What he said: 💯 🎯

Erica Stanford to NZ History teachers: Kia wareware tātou #nzpol

RNZ article about people on super or benefit always being short money every week, saying a single person on super is short $17 - utter bullshit. Rent eats 100% of my mum’s super.

Chris Hipkins dealing pretty well with Tame's gotcha questions on CGT. Better than any other previous Labour leader has #nzpol