Dennis Maga, Workers First General Secretary, on Aotearoa's ambulance emergency.

63,000 dollars for a trip to a mining conference. I still find this hard to comprehend Was he flying to each mine around the world Is Shame Jones taking the piss out of the NZ taxpayer #nzpol

InternetNZ: the Free Speech Union and Hobson’s Pledge are once again attempting to take over. They will be running candidates in the election and bringing motions forward to remove Māori representation from InternetNZ's constitution. Join or renew to vote - AGM August. #nzpol

Exhibit #853 proving the current #nzpol administration is anti-poor, anti-worker, anti-kiwi and pro-techbro: NZ votes with tiny minority against ILO global standards for gig workers www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

The age of impunity is a proper description for Musk being able to incite pogroms the same week he becomes a trillionaire. Musk is an existential threat to democracy worldwide and countries need to act like the threat that it is. www.axios.com/2026/06/11/e...

🥱https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/597793/government-announces-primary-sector-growth-fund-projects

This is the kind of response to the current energy crisis: spend money where it can reduce financial stress, change behaviour and cut emissions. A no brainer #nzpol

NZ's Finance & Expenditure Committee has recommended the Regulatory Standards Bill proceed to 2nd reading despite 159,000 submissions 98.7% of which opposed the #RSB. Democracy=dead under RW Govt themodernregulator.com/regulatory-s...,

Neoliberalism’s attempt to make self-interest into a governing philosophy has proven to be a disaster but alternatives do exist. newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/06/a...

"Austerity is painless for those insulated by wealth and devastating for those who are not. When you are sorted, it is easy to lay the blame on those who are not." open.substack.com/pub/anuncomm...

corruption allegation facing NZ 2 NZ firms draft a law to stop a Māori leader challenging their climate inaction. A senior staffer to NZ PM received it in undisclosed, private email Govt defence? they’d have drafted a law anyway OECD: NZ lacks lobby regulation www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

How our monetary policy is designed to work

BIG NEWS! Our new city-wide Plan for Langford, BC is a FINALIST for the Canadian Institute of Planners AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE! I love the message this recognition sends— you don’t need a big city & a big budget to create cutting-edge planning for a better city. We showed a better way in a small city.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

As @gregpak.net pointed out, this man is one of the most destructive in this admin with worldwide & longterm ramifications. I also want people to stop acting like he's just "stupid" or doing things for no reason. His reason is eugenics & wellness grifts.

"Drysdale said it was not clear what problem the law change was trying to solve." There wasn't a problem, just a racist itch to be scratched in the hope of some votes. And these pricks don't care what kind of chaos they cause in the process. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Debt arrears by region, renters struggling the most & mortgages over $1m has tripled since 2019 and 4-5 times higher than 2017. “Some communities swimmingly, others drowning” - John Campbell, @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy www.rnz.co.nz/news/persona... Full report: www.centrix.co.nz/wp-content/u...

#National just announced the theme song for their 2026 #nzpol election campaign.

www.politico.eu/article/poll... #nzpol needs to progress this kind of legislation sooner than later.

1/15 🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA'S QUIET HOME BATTERY REVOLUTION 🇦🇺 The nation is pioneering a radical shift in renewables. Massive home battery adoption is slashing power bills and reshaping the grid. Source: The Guardian #EnergySky #ClimateSky #Renewables #Grid #Solar

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope. 📽️: David Rogers

Seems like a global phenomenon… maybe the #EU & #ozpol are exempt, for now.

They literally care more about shielding themselves from accountability than preventing the awful outcomes that the rational guardrails they’re blocking would prevent. #AI

What, no #nzpol outcry from #fedfarmers and the faux outraged right about this new #utetax? #doublestandards www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

“I have for some time now been haunted by the Saami vision of the underland as a perfect inversion of the human realm, with the ground always the mirror-line, such that 'the feet of the dead, who must walk upside down, touch those of the living, who stand upright’.” - Robert Macfarlane, ‘Underland’

I’ll vote for a party that gets big $$$ out of #nzpol elections.

Billionaires don’t just use their money to buy planes & property - they use it to buy political influence and societal power - the owner of @nzherald.nzcow.com & @newstalkzb.bsky.social is one of the real bottom-feeders. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... Well played @sanjanah.bsky.social #nzpol

A few days left to sign the petition asking for Crown Solicitors to be brought into the OIA. Would be great to reach 300 signatures before it closes. petitions.parliament.nz/b6459024-f98...

My grandparents had a framed photo of Michael Joseph Savage on top of their television. The only other public figure they had a photo of was The Pope, and he didn't get the prime "top of TV" spot. Hard to imagine now but there was a time when politicians were people you actually looked up to.

Paying MPs who don't live in Wellington to live in Wellington so they can do their job properly: yes. Paying MPs who live in Wellington to pretend not to live there so they can get a publicly-funded holiday home and campaign for election: fuck that.

So NZ’s biggest climate polluter, Fonterra, gave a paper to the PM’s Policy Guy, who used to be at the far right NZ Initiative, asking Luxon to block a specific common law case currently b4 court. And then PM’s office illegally kept the document secret. NZ Govt is a corporate protection racket

How China’s Housing Crisis Has Global Consequences www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Is it a balloon or a location icon? 😉 But seriously, could be Te Kooti and/or Rua Kenana inspired iconography?

If I was a journalist I would have also mentioned how funding for wilding pine control was cut by two thirds by the same government in 2023/24. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The thing about “Bluesky is a bubble” takes is that they start with the false assumption that social media is our job or some sort of responsibility. This isn’t my job. It’s probably not yours, either. It’s not our responsibility to ruin our days on a Nazi hellsite or to talk to dummies here.

Samnic directors have likely spent over a million on lawyers fighting the court orders to clean up the mess they are responsible for on the property. It could’ve been done by now if they’d just funded a competent contractor like the landowner has done by himself. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

“Regular people don’t get to give secret documents and have backroom meetings with the Prime Minister and then have the law changed in their favour” - Chloe Swarbrick. #NzPol

I guess “Strong for Labour and Victory” wasn’t really appropriate.

I've prepared a short section for the upcoming #NZ #BIOFIN Assessment on #Māori #investment and involvement in #biodiversity restoration efforts. Of course there are hundreds, probably thousands more #Māori-led #taiao initiatives across #Aotearoa. manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/maori-inve...

newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/20/b... “We’re supposed to be transitioning away from fossil fuels but the direction of travel keeps swinging backwards and forwards. It makes it very difficult for investors to be committed to the New Zealand market.” - BusinessNZ

Politicians should deliver their policies in person for week. Goldsmith on the streets moving on 14 year old homeless kids, Lousie Upston door to door cutting peoples accommodation supplements, and Nicola Willis walking Lambton Quay sacking public servants. Face to face with those affected. #nzpol

You couldn't make this shit up. #nzpol

No more billionaires. ZERO. Once you hit $999 million, every cent more goes to schools and healthcare. The End.

I hope some kaihaka go for this piupiu hairstyle at #TeMatatini - congratulations #Dara from #Bulgaria at @eurovision.tv

Hopefully local leaders everywhere can make growth compatible with ecological protection and net restoration, as well as looking after future generations of residents instead of setting them up for an unfolding disaster like the Western Bay of Plenty. manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/the-wester...

Aotearoa has a great constitutional opportunity here, a chance to score one win against the most corrupt vandals the country has had running itself for at least 100 years: open.substack.com/pub/manucadd... I hope other iwi leaders are thinking about this. #KoAotearoaTēnei #localgovernment #nzpol

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