Nothing says “USA! USA!“ like packing food pantry items for panicked neighbors who don’t know what the fuck is going on with SNAP benefits into 🎆 AMERICA 250! 🎆 branded grocery bags.

Some of me stripes #ShowMeYourKnits #Stripes

I'm not a huge football fan, but I always watch the World Cup when it comes round. Not this time though, fuck that shit.

I hate to use this word but this is a scoop: parents are being fined and chased by schools for having unwell, dying, and disabled children. Some have been fined of threatened for - among other things - keeping kids home when a parent has died. www.emilywrites.co.nz/parents-fine...

are you JOKING as an *internal comms advisor* in the public service I had to jump MULTIPLE disclosure and risk mitigation hoops to run for the Greens and this guy just, like, didn't mention it? To the COPS??? And gets 13th on Labour's list? could election year please leave my mental health alone

Kristen Welker may have committed a journalism. 😶

Has anyone called for international observers for US elections?

I think only women reporters should interview Trump. & they should get in his face every damn time and ask him “where is the evidence?” In no time all of his crash out’s will be the end of him.

NZ Greens announce plan to end homelessness & fix housing crisis: Greens new campaign  -“A Home for Everybody”, calling to end homelessness, fix renter’s rights, and end the housing crisis once and for all. #PartyVoteGreen 💚❤️🖤 www.greens.org.nz/greens_annou...

Same applies to Luxon #nzpol

How far this is - from what Trump & GOP leaders do: Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth (etc) (Corinthians 13) #USpol

TL;DR: A warning that the NZ government is stealthily shifting the nation's "DNA" from collectivism to right-libertarian individualism. The hollowing out makes the state strictly transactional. blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz/2026/06/this... #NZPol #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Many people won't bother voting at all when all that's on offer is "we won't be quite as bad as the current lot" #nzpol

Love how absolutely everything is through the lens of 'But most importantly what is the story with this one specific older white dude?' God forbid I want to first and foremost hear about non-white or interesting young candidates or something #nzpol

There sure have been a lot of businesses closing up shop under the "leadership" of the party of business .... #nzpol

Hey RNZ, why is there is a story about Marama Davidson apologising for speeding on the front page of your web site, but the blatantly corrupt corporate lobbying inside the PM's Beehive office has completely fallen off your front page AND the Politics front page?😡 WTF??? #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

What you said Ben. Which lines up with this 👇 #NZPOL

I feel like @bernardchickey.bsky.social needs to have @pboyle.bsky.social on The Hoon podcast to discuss the NZ economy as “a housing market with bits tacked on” which is well covered here in terms of the lack of actual substantive value creation: youtu.be/qROG2uXPChY?...

I've updated my database with the new Labour Party list, so you can use my MMP and Labour Caucus calculators to see who could make it into Parliament. #nzpol theprogressreport.co.nz/mmp-calculat...

Kick in the guts to demote Arena Williams from 24 to 41 - she's an effective and hardworking communicator www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

"China replaced an entire bus network — 16,000 diesel buses in one city — with electric ones in under three years. Shenzhen, China's technology manufacturing hub across the border from Hong Kong, completed the world's first fully electric public bus fleet in 2018. #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

Feeling proud for my #opera singer daughter Emily Mwila who is finally getting breakthroughs in her career - this is her hitting the high notes in #CarminaBurana's #Dulcissime - it's a hell of thing doing Olympic-level breathing training for years so you can sing like this youtu.be/NuVlYoYHowc?...

Welcome to FIFA World Cup Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven ​hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad ‌early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.

ALERT: 11th-hour legal challenge asks court to HALT the UFC fight at White House, arguing event is "deeply corrupt" Page 15 of the suit includes language I've never seen in a lawsuit open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

One suggestion in The Fix is a strong Congress to check an abusive president. Ranked-choice voting, independent redistricting commissions, and proportional representation would help. Until then, support candidates who reflect the will of the people, not just the billionaires. www.barbaramcquade.com

#NZpol "New Zealand has begun testing Elon Musk's Starshield military satellite communications system... the NZ Defence Force said it was testing Starshield to see what use it could be." Never far away from the clutches of *the* worst techbros are we, whether that's Citizen Thiel or This F'n Guy™️

What it looks like watching the Dems try to save America.

A nearly $1 billion contract. ONE full-time doctor for 800 detainees. Funny how there's always enough money for executive bonuses, shareholders, and political donations, but never enough for basic medical care. Human suffering is apparently just another line item in the budget. Disgraceful.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Behind the scenes policy #cartoon #NZpol (after John Heartfield)

if it's safe for you to work in the USA then the Uni of Oklahoma is looking for a potential senior hire in #histSTM with a specialisation in women & science 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70051/u...

No to te reo, yes to touristreo; NZ government reduces the value of anything Māori to entertainment for rich white visitors #nzpol

Are we genuinely going to see empty World Cup games because of FIFA? It will be a bloody disgrace if so, the greatest tournament in the world completely diminished by stupid greedy old men. What a disgrace

It’s time that we admit that Billionaires have ZERO interest in creating JOBS. JOBS involve EMPLOYEES, and employees are “OVERHEAD.” As we are clearly seeing, whenever and however a corporation can reduce “overhead,” it will. It’s what we teach in business schools across the land.

The more he's fuming and has toxic levels of cortisol surging through his veins... the better...

You Tell Trump,Bernie.......

I see Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are now locked in a fierce battle for the previously uncontested title of who can unite the most people across the world in joy at the explosion of a spaceship.

With respect to how we are treating human beings in ICE detention, I wish people would stop saying "this is not who we are as a country". This is exactly who we are as a country.

Sweeping homelessness under the carpet - govt DRIVES UP home rental prices with "accommodation supplements" paid to LANDLORDS, without ever questioning the rentals charged. So landlords SET WINZ RENTS FAR BEYOND WHAT ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN AFFORD. - THEN govt puts up state housing rents. #NZpol

I love Tami Neilson. We are so lucky she came to live in Aotearoa. Great musician, great person

This is good policy — Govt, queer and sex worker communities, health services and others have come together over last few years, and contribute to work together to eliminate HIV in our state. And they’re close to achieving this. Over 90% (estimates near 99%) on treatment with virus suppressed.

How come there is always money for landlords? #NZPol

$1.77b: 16km of motorway extension. $1.075b: KiwiRail, four years, whole country. The Budget spends 65% more on one road than on the entire national rail network. #nzpol

Ahem. #nzpol 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

I want tough love for landlords charging unaffordable "market" rents - they're the one these who got a multi-million $ lolly scramble of taxpayer $ via the increased accommodation supplement #nzpol

All of this! It’s not only infantilising, it’s also entirely divorced from the reality of the extreme economic pressure being endured by every day kiwi families. There’s nothing “grown-up” about financial (abuse) punishment, in fact it’s quite the opposite and devoid of basic morality. #nzpol #NZ

Properly funded healthcare isn't a "lolly scramble" Decent mental health services isn't a "treat' Fully functional community and support services aren't just a "nice to have" Pretty revolted by this govt treating basic services like some kind of fancy expensive treat #nzpol #BudgetDay2026

This lollyscramble narrative is so sick and twisted. Every year since I’ve been an adult it’s a talking point when we know healthcare has gotten worse, higher education is expensive, poor families are struggling, disabled people are screwed over, elder care is a shitshow. Like where is lolly?