Republicans: "We want to kill all trans people." Democrats: "We talked them down to only killing half of all trans people. Now please give us your money & votes." And that, kids, is the bullshit we call "democracy"

Honestly, a really good article. It's not just Fox News and MAGA that have made it hell for trans people in recent years. It's some of the "liberal" news outlets and centrist publications that made this possible too.

Not at all surprised by any of this one. Of course the bloody Atlas network pops up...

Being disabled is a minority group you can join at any time. Everyone believes they will be the exception. That it won’t happen to them, or when it does they will “try harder” than us The truth is most people will become disabled. Health is both fragile & temporary. Engage in disability justice

There’s keeping your policy under wraps to “protect it” from Nat attacks. But I see no moral positions taken on any govt policy. No sign of where labours conscience lies.

Chris Hipkins after losing the election: "The tide comes in and the tide goes out." Waiting for the government to fall out of favour is his only plan.

Gosh I hope the Green Party gets their act together and capitalises on this. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Labour is a bit of a lost cause atm

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

Still reckon Greens could get a significant bump off running on this

How the actual fuck is Business Desk publishing a piece framing the genocide of Palestinians as a 'challenge' for Israeli start ups AND trying to PR Israeli entry into the NZ market on that basis???? This is fucking atrocious businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...

“The Labour opposition generally lacks visibility and is generally simply looking for the Government to fall out of favour.” I know the advice is that Labour have some magic plan that’s yet to make an appearance and we’re just waiting but I also hope the above is not the entirety of the magic plan.

Incredible that CEOs have the same opinion of Luxon and Hipkins as most posters.

New Zealand isn't a placeholder, a concept, a paradise or Middle Earth. Real people living lives. That mindset mirrors Thiel's idea of buying NZ land with only apocalyptic plans to live here.

Too common… bsky.app/profile/jess...

Says a lot about the mindset a lot of wealthy Americans have towards Aotearoa New Zealand tbh “It’s the country you go to build your apocalypse bunker, right?”

I watched the whole interview and I screwed up my face and said out loud “our country isn’t a fucking ‘refuge’ it’s our homes” Glad I wasn’t the only one. There were many layers of yuck to that comment from Stewart…

I saw a clip of Jon Stewart with Jacinda Ardern. One part really bugged me. Stewart saying how they (progressive Americans) view New Zealand as a refuge. Look at what happened last time a country already belonging to indigenous people 🇵🇸 was treated as a refuge for people to get away from fascism.

See? SEE??? Some folk in Aotearoa NZ have been yelling this at us since 2020, some even earlier, but they were the ones denounced as conspiracy nuts by, guess who, the Right

100% When you be more like the right to win against the right you are not winning at all, you are just normalising their behaviour. If Tories say "immigrants are causing your problems" and UK Labour start cracking down on immigrants that just tells people that "huh the Tories must have been correct"

I hope NZ Labour are watching UK Labour f'k everything up & learning how NOT to rule when they return to Office?

I am 100% behind nurses and hospitals getting funded more, but what everyone is suffering through now is what we Māori have suffered through since the beginning because of medical racism. This is why the Māori health authority is needed. Austerity is colonialism turned inward. #nzpol

Palestinian Bedouin Women with deq and Māori Women with moko kauae. (Both are cultural facial markings) #nzpol #Palestine #Māori #newzealand

Jacinda or any other prominent figure doesnt deserve praise for doing the bare minimum — calling it a genocide. Being anti-genocide is not supposed to be an exceptional thing its supposed to be the baseline and to treat it as exceptional is to admit that the system you uphold is genocidal. #nzpol

Noticed how she stopped saying 'rules based order' as soon as everyone figured out Israel/USA were not playing by the rules of international law, and never have been.

Im getting fucking sick of the endless praise and sob stories from fucking jacinda ardern in the media if im honest. This person is a RIGHT WING POLITICIAN, the empathy y'all think she has doesn't exist, i don't care about her fucking "mum guilt" either

Jacinda or any other prominent figure doesnt deserve praise for doing the bare minimum — calling it a genocide. Being anti-genocide is not supposed to be an exceptional thing its supposed to be the baseline and to treat it as exceptional is to admit that the system you uphold is genocidal. #nzpol

The New Zealand government’s underfunding of healthcare is killing people everyday & Doctors are saying it everyday and being largely ignored. Privatisation will make this situation worse. #nzpol

👀 not hyperbole.

if this comes to pass then Labour have to IMMEDIATELY jump on it, with Greens and TPM escalating the rhetoric even further - it must be a call for kicking out the ambassador and imposing sanctions It MUST be made into an election issue, anything else is a failure to represent the electorate

here's my organising 101 find a local thing that needs fixing plan how to fix it ask if anyone wants to help fix the thing repeat we need it to be this simple to start with because in NZ our civic frameworks continue to be hollowed out. Connect in your communities, bond over jobs done well

We see a lot of us white people in a lot of settler states suddenly give a shit about the state of healthcare, education, etc under fascism that has been a norm under colonisation for a couple hundred years

I am 100% behind nurses and hospitals getting funded more, but what everyone is suffering through now is what we Māori have suffered through since the beginning because of medical racism. This is why the Māori health authority is needed. Austerity is colonialism turned inward. #nzpol

Berbers too :) youtu.be/29HowgluOA0?...

The shocking thing (although less shocked every time) is that media are unable to do this job - Craig *specifically* has had to call out the numbers on multiple occasions. All the information is there, but reporters are too eager to get out "good news" that serves the National Party for some reason

Palestinian Bedouin Women with deq and Māori Women with moko kauae. (Both are cultural facial markings) #nzpol #Palestine #Māori #newzealand

Chatting to a friend here in the U.K and of course the convo turns to politics... The vibe here seems grim, an entire generation of folks disengaged because a change in party doesn't change anything in their lives, the rise of reform, and the nationistic right, FPP, and long term length...

this about 3% of what National gave to landlords in tax cuts www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

NZ media saying they can't use the term genocide out of quote marks because it hasn't had an ICJ ruling but MORE than happy to consistently do "Israel says" about hospitals, aid stations, schools, children being "terrorists" without quotes, caveats, context. Almost like the justification is bullshit

I read this and thought he was talking about the NZ Labour Party. Might as well have.

Is Chris Hipkins turning NZ Labour into NZ National-light? Don't see much vigorous opposition to so many of this government's stupid & in some cases, outright dangerous policies in health, education, environment, climate, etc, etc. #nzpol #nzplitics #NZLABOUR

Labour trying to do the least it thinks it can get away with, as usual (because they're all too rich to be representative of anyone anymore). We need to demand more. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Palestine has to be made an election issue next year in NZ because I stg Hipkins would have the same issue if he was in power. Labour has only recently come on board to a position for Palestine (singular MPs don't count), and they STILL talk about the ICJ decision and refuse to take a strong line

My family left Labour with Anderton. Jim said he didn't leave his party, his party left him! I recall my history lecturer Michael Bassett at uni desc canvassing for Lab & an old man taking his photo of MJS off the wall saying, "The closest thing to JC that lived in NZ." His policies have lasted.

youtu.be/2kJ3UiukVRQ?... Labour’s betrayals always pushes people to the extremes and away from ever trusting them again. #nzpol

The part I'm fucked off about at the moment (apart from the shameless neoliberalism) is that it's obvious to anyone with eyes that they need to be building a turnout machine and connecting with voters NOW and it's just... crickets. Wtf are they doing?

People ask why am I so hard on NZ Labour Here's my Dad. Head of the Glassblowers Union with Nat Minister of Trade and Industry Lance Adams-Schneider. His union was the first to take equal pay for women to Parliament (1969?). He was heartbroken as to what Labour had become abandoning working classes

Something for NZ Labour to read and digest, but not for too long mind. FYI @trabaq.bsky.social #nzpol

If you think we have it bad in Aotearoa, with NZ Labour drifting around in the neoliberal centre-right, just look at Oz. Their Labour party is firmly in the neoconservative right under Albanese. Just listen to his defensive comments here about the plight of refugees his country's government […]

A topic that I will be writing about in my next article on why we as Māori should not only stand with Palestinians, we are in part indebted to them. #nzpolitics #nzpol #Māori #palestine #rainbowwarrior #newzealand

Someone needs to ask Dripkins what he would do with the billions in landlord tax breaks the CoC doled out, if he plans to axe them or let them ride.. #NZPol