Who has the best take on the TPM issues? #nzpol

The new Social studies curriculum is atrocious in general, but I just want to shine a spotlight on the explicit retreading of literal Nazi propaganda that is woven through the year 10 content! Buckle up this shit is shocking!

1/2 Jack DeJohnette died Oct 26, our yesterday, probably. I came to Jack through ECM - Pat Metheny and Lester Bowie and Charlie Haden. In many ways I worked backwards from there to learn Jack shared stages with Sun Ra, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Coltrane, and - for me the greatest

An intriguing take on the libertarian philosophers who run the NZ branch of the Atlas Network www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

If you can, please donate and/or share. #nzpol Support Resene Paints Workers to Win a Living Wage All funds raised will go directly towards supporting the workers and the campaign to ensure Resene Paint pays the Living Wage. givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising. Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

Have youse caught up with this MAGANZ nonsense? www.facebook.com/share/p/17NJ... #nzpol

Gordon Campbell On New Zealand’s Willing Submission To The Pentagon’s Command And Control #nzpol

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Just to clarify my position. Ryan Bridges must be sacked. "here's a chick who..." A fucking woman you Hosking wannabe amateur misogynist hack. The whole interview was a disgrace, but even teenagers know this isn't how you speak these days if you want to be respected.

Is this is an attempt to look Strong and Dynamic by Luxon/National for their donor demographics... ......that's being squeaked out on a Sunday because they want to appeal to people through cruelty, but also don't want to get into trouble for it? #nzpol I don't think Luxon feels very safe. Good.

Shades of the ferries and Dunedin hospital and the polytechs. Scrap the existing programme without warning or planning, create an expensive muddle, then replace it with something less good and more expensive. All for the sake of ideology. #nzpol

Simeon Brown's fuckery stinks of ACT, Atlas and other neo-lib billionaire building BS. IF YOU LIVE IN OR AROUND HOWICK, HE IS OFTEN FOUND AT THE HOWICK MARKET ON SATURDAYS. LET HIM KNOW THAT HIS BS STINKS, AND WE WILL BR VOTING HIM OUT NEXT YEAR. #Auckland #nzpol #healthcare #CoC #toitutetiriti

What do you do when the man who said you should have "the living shit beaten out of you" keeps sitting in the front row of candidate events? You make him meet your eye. You make him listen to the gasps of outrage when you say his words outloud. You make him listen to the applause you get.

Ray has accused @ponekeben.bsky.social, @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social and Labour for leaking this email and giving it to media. Let me make this very clear, they had no part in this. Ray wrote the defamatory email, it was passed to me, and I very willingly gave it to media. End of story. #nzpol

Senior doctor warns Christchurch Hospital could face ‘catastrophic failure’ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christchu...

Marama Davidson described the data as "bleak" and said it showed deep wealth inequality that had left some people unable to afford the basics of a decent life, "and feeling less and less trust in the system to actually care for and represent them". #nzpol

"principals were asked to implement changes to the curriculum and deliver these changes at an unreasonable and exhausting pace - over three months instead of a more usual timeframe of about three years. "This made our workloads unsustainable and caused burnout in our profession," #nzpol

Second this: 1. Colonial theatre (Nasia is nice; I’d say ‘bloviated navel-gazing’) 2. Anti-colonial solidarity ✊🏽 3. Palestinian sovereignty beyond Western permission.

Watched "Tinā" today. Made me cry. #kikorangi

Spot the difference. (Feat. quotes from Stuart Nash, formerly Labour Min of Police, Min for Oceans and Fisheries, Min of Tourism and Hospitality, Min of Forestry, now good friend of NZ First. No intro needed for the other fellow quoted) My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #USA #Trump

I mean, if there are nazis on your march, it's a nazi march..... but it turns out.... www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

#nzpol Big turnout for the Women’s Day of Action for pay equity. Billions of dollars have been stolen from low-paid female dominated workforces. This government can find huge tax cuts for tobacco companies, landlords, and big businesses - but not fair pay. That must change.

the department of homeland security released a statement claiming “over a hundred violent rioters surrounded” the broadview ice detention center this morning. what actually happened was ice/cbp tactical teams aggressively threw, dragged, & tear-gassed protesters. one agent literally drew his gun.

It's as though Canada had three extra players on the pitch. Had the Black Ferns's number from the get go and never let up. Full credit.

Lol. Govt effectively creates new financial liabilities (bonds) and swaps them for offshore shares to add to the Super Fund. Govt pays around 3% (avg) on bonds while Super makes much larger returns (10%). So why not quadruple Govt contribution, or times it by 100?

Random taxpayer rant: This is how the reckonomists want you to view Govt... scrounging around for tax revenue, or begging rich people to lend them a few billion dollars to build a 4-lane road or pay Ed Sheeran to play at Eden Park every Saturday for the next 5 years. It's bollox... [🧵 1/n]

I thought this was a very good piece by Lyric Waiwiri-Smith, who is — for my money — one of the strongest journalists at the Spinoff right now. Clearly articulates a lot of the underlying tensions in TPM without sensationalising anything. #NZPOL

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

What are you using to replace Spotify?

Our backwater state radio broadcaster just repeated this rumour omg the embarrassment

Wild stuff in the Upper Hutt mayoral race. Bloxham is such a complete piece of shit and I feel for Peri having to deal with his crap. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...

If #NewZealandValues were modeled on NZ's current government, immigrants would be: 1. Racist 2. Anti-social 3. Self-serving 4. Dissembling 5. Greedy 6. Judgemental #NZpol

#NZpol Well, Chris *feels* it works, and Actually Quite A Lot of Ordinary Hard Working Nu Zillunders™️ he speaks to Very Frequently ©️ say things like "Good on ya Chris" and "So right!", and when he opened Facebook this morning, a commenter said "We can't let the communists back in", so there's that?

NZ Ministry breaks up international labour specialists: A specialist policy team working on NZ’s international labour commitments has been disbanded. Unions & human rights orgs are concerned we could fall further behind the rest of the world as a result #nzpol #workers newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/03/m...

Okay, so this was bad enough. But RNZ uses the phrase again today to report on a Peters speech... when Peters himself never uses it. Is this the editorial position of RNZ that this phrase is not only acceptable, but is house style? #nzpol

We are living through the single most hoofwanking bunglecunt of a timeline in all of human history. 🙄🤦‍♀️ #Geopolitics #ResistFascism #nzpol

On infectious optimism 🤍

National tries to re-invent itself as homelessness surpasses 113,000 and over 600 Kiwis live in cars #NZPol

Don't know if this is true. I'd like to see something concrete. But, a speaking tour that included Aotearoa would be very welcomed. #NZPOL

I'd love some help on this #nzpol but this is what I have so far: The overall vibe of the bill is to limit participation. They do this in a number of ways: *Enrolment closes 13 days B4 election *You cannot change your details < 13 days B4 election day *Your details need to be correct *Pto

Well worth reading Shaun's thread in full. It's not as if it was enough hassle battling the revisionism & outright lies at the time. [ twitter.com/search?q=Fro... ] #nzpol #covid

this is very well put @lastpositivist.bsky.social

The 2023 IRD wealth study found that the richest 300 people in NZ pay tax on income of 9.4%, versus 28% for someone earning $80k. Luxon Govt is removing the clauses of the tax law that allowed IRD to collect the study data. They don’t want you to know. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

“In an ideal world, people blind to social inequity should not be given the power to govern the less fortunate. Yet here we are.”… #nzpol werewolf.co.nz/2025/08/gord...

Has anyone written a decent analysis of the recent Richard Sutherland report on RNZ's on-air/target audience/etc? #nzpol