What an un-American asshole.

If you had mocked up this Truth Social post in late 2024 as "the future under a Trump 2.0 administration" it would have been ridiculed by media and fact checkers. "There is no position called 'Secretary of War'" they would have said and, "the military can't be deployed for domestic law enforcement"

Sometimes I think how it's a straight line (a single dot?) from "how come Americans didn't realise who the bad guys in Starship Troopers were" to the year 2025.

We want both states to have peace and security… well apart from the one state which we today confirmed we are not sure when we want to or if we want to recognise. But both states… I mean this is incoherent.

FOOKIN EMBARRASSING THE LOT OF YAS

The last time it was this embarrassing to be a New Zealander was when Foreshore and Seabed legislation passed and Cannabis referendum failed. But this takes cake on national humiliation because there’s really no other reason than Luxon being so afraid of Seymour he can’t stand against a genocide.

It is really not an exciting graph, though that in itself is interesting for those who expected otherwise.

Morning walk

She came into her job widely accused of being a foreign asset. She now responds to those credible allegations by doing the first thing any foreign asset would do in her role: bury all intelligence on pending foreign threats to the United States. It's almost like America doesn't *want* to survive.

Drug dealers: "drug dens are far more than places for crime: they are community hubs, economic drivers and a vital part of your town centre's future"

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

Ahem...😏 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

cannot wait to watch Labour spend the next year carefully and gently stepping around the perfectly laid domino trail of infrastructure, wage, welfare, and tax reform that would secure NZ‘s future.

Against all odds, looks like we’re announcing this tomorrow morning. (No, it’s not Infowars… yet?)

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

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

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this is flying under the radar because, well, *gestures broadly at everything else* but I think it may end up being a real liability if there's one thing seared into the brains of those of us who lived through 2008 it's that people fucking HATE bailouts - and this isn't even bailing out Americans

I had my issues with PM Ardern, not least the failure on CGT, but I miss her intelligence, ability to communicate, and genuine concern for the people of AoNZ.

I just sent a hot tip to the NYT that the president of the United States publicly called for the Attorney General to persecute his political opposition, the most blatant such corruption in U.S. history, and an obviously impeachable offense. Let’s see if they decide to cover it! www.nytimes.com/tips

This essay is so damn good. I love to see @edwardongwesojr.com digging in the crates to find sharp, prescient critiques of technological political economy from Victorian literature that could / should be written today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...

So thoughtful of #Google to take my YouTube Premium subscription from $9.99 to $17.99 in March 2025 and now to $22.99 in October 2025. A 230% increase in ~6 months seems pretty steep even in this economy...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Hey Senator, have you seen this? Imagine what a functional opposition party could do with this: file articles of impeachment against Homan, demand hearings, deny unanimous consent and grind all other business to a halt until this bribery is addressed. Oh well. Good post though...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

But the good news is, RFK Jr is in charge of public health.

Recent emmy-winning Andor writer Dan Gilroy just penned a column about the current Trumpian assault on free speech: deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

this shit is a religious belief for certain centrist Dems. you can't argue with them about it. they think the answer is ALWAYS told to the right.

Isn’t it the Pentagon’s responsibility to secure its own information

The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.

I seriously wonder why Microsoft thinks anyone wants these Copilot buttons everywhere in Windows www.theverge.com/news/782194/...

I have no doubt in my mind that this govt engineered this recession but no one ever questions why the average person always has to suffer to “fix the economy”. We have systemic issues and focusing on a few numbers from 1 quarter to next is useless imo.

Far be it for me to hand it to John Key but I haven’t stopped being salty at the reserve bank since this stupidery dropped in 2022

There’s also a STARK difference in the levels of vitriol from the people unhappy with Luxon v Ardern

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#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-...

Ever since we bought our house in 2022 we have kept a detailed spreadsheet of housing/grocery/transport costs. We love a semi lockdown life and rotate through the same meals. We can see our paycheck and the cost going up of everything. It’s insanity.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

We need to call it what it is: a president using government coercion to silence voices he doesn't agree with is authoritarianism, plain and simple. It's the Orbán playbook, the Putin playbook, and now the Trump playbook. And it should alarm every American.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

If only we had journalists who would incessantly ask the people in charge "why are you defunding NZ science?" The arithmetic is easy guys you just gotta ask every politician, again and again, to defend their choices