A.J. Ponder
@ponderbooks.com
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Poet. Builder of worlds. Player of games. He, she, they.
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Mandy Hager
7 days ago
Please consider signing:
#nzpol
c.org/5WprvWrhHZ
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Sign the Petition
Invercargill City Council: Keep ratepayer money out of war crimes in occupied Palestine
https://c.org/5WprvWrhHZ
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Tim Jones
6 days ago
I'm very pleased to have been placed third in the 2026 adult National Flash Fiction Day competition among such strong stories - congratulations to the winners & placegetters, and thanks to judges & organisers, especially to Constance Phua for all her great mahi.
@nzsauthorswgtn.bsky.social
#fiction
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tanya
about 4 hours ago
The rich threatened to leave New York and take their business elsewhere if Zohran Mamdani became mayor, but the Manhattan office market just recorded its best first quarter in a decade. "Yes doing things takes tax revenue, but IT RETURNS." For everyone.
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social
#nzpol
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Rob🎸
about 6 hours ago
We have 87% renewable power in NZ why are we paying so much and increasingly more for our electricity ? Also,unrelated news, gentailer record profits..
#nzpol
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Are you searching for dragons?
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉
3 days ago
You just gotta let scientists be weird little nerds in their weird little niche interest areas and accept that the benefits to the wider community, and thus to The Economy, will flow naturally from that
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Are you searching for dragons?
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Bylines Network
2 days ago
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/as-britain-bakes-ministers-quietly-park-plans-for-solar-carports/
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Huia Sue
2 days ago
🍃🌹🌿There are so many reasons to vote for
#Greens
- their
#wealth
#tax
& policies are amazing, instantly fixing a lot of social problems & misery. 96% of NZers will be better off! & the leaders & candidates are very special people - who care.
#nzpol
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Contributing to Society
The Greens' tax system for all of us.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickrockel/p/contributing-to-society
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GeekeryNZ
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷
2 days ago
I keep going back to when I was teaching in Wgtn & I took my 4th form / Year 10 kids to a sitting of Parliament "Mr L C if we behaved this poorly in class we'd be in detention all day long" Out of the mouths of babes
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Simon O'Neill
2 days ago
Closes 30 June
petitions.parliament.nz/0e32836b-625...
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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷
3 days ago
I took election pamphlets to Foodbank to check everyone was on the roll. It was easy & they were receptive & thankful. They didn’t realise election day enrolment wont happen this year. 1 woman was taken off the roll so appreciated the reminder. Cld you do this somewhere?
#nzpol
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It was so windy today my beanie blew right off my head. One second it was there, and the next it was flying across Wellington.
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Prisonculture
3 days ago
this cannot stand.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
3 days ago
We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines
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Kyle Griffin
3 days ago
BREAKING NYT: A New York City panel just voted to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments — fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises and handing the mayor a major policy win six months into his tenure.
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Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Is Approved by New York City Board
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/nyregion/nyc-rent-freeze-vote-mamdani.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Anneleise
4 days ago
Ferries, lunches, EVs, housing: trashing common sense policies, good for NZ, that made good economic long term sense out of spite, ideology and venality
#NZPol
#DemolitionCoalition
destroying NZ one policy at a time while they funnel your money to their donors.
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Nick Young
4 days ago
BOOM! The public outcry in NZ over the Luxon govt’s plan to sell off conservation land has been huge. We’ve made it clear that conservation land is too precious to mine and Luxon’s lot are BACKING DOWN! But it’s not over. Shane Jones and others will fight for the miners and loggers.
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Climate Dad
4 days ago
“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”
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Kapiti-Kenepuru Greens
4 days ago
New Zealanders are being ripped off. While you’re paying through the roof, the super-rich make record profits. The
@greens.org.nz
tax plan will mean: 🟢The super-rich & big corporations pay their share, 🟢 Reduced tax on nearly all salaried workers, 🟢 Fund the critical services that we all rely on.
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Louise Hutt
4 days ago
This could be you! 💚😎 Come learn about our campaign and all the different ways you can be involved!
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Nick Young
4 days ago
Potaka announcement not enough, scrap Conservation Bill says Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
#nzpol
#oursnotmine
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Potaka announcement not enough, scrap Conservation Bill says Greenpeace - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace Aotearoa says the Conservation Amendment Bill is rotten and must be scrapped entirely, as public outcry over the proposal forces the Conservation Minister to take his proposal to make it ea...
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/potaka-announcement-not-enough-scrap-conservation-bill-says-greenpeace/?utm_medium=nickofnz&utm_content=postid-77785&utm_source=bluesky
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
4 days ago
Not to mention that there were so many things that were already in place for the electric transition that were broken and/or rolled back by this government. As individual policy this may be a good idea, but yeah, not in the context of what this government did over the past term.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes
5 days ago
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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David Farrier
5 days ago
little PSA about my webworm project! feeling proud of what it's doin recently, but it's an odd time and wanted to get some thoughts down!
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Melanie Nelson
5 days ago
I've mapped the "bits and bobs" of public conservation land the govt wants to sell. And to achieve that, they just happen to be changing the law to make 60% of the conservation estate more vulnerable to disposal.
melanienelson.substack.com
for more articles & interviews dropping this week
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Lan Pham
5 days ago
24,000 voices got their submission in on the Conservation (Exploitation) Amendment Bill over the last weekend alone! And our petition is at over 48,000 signatures and counting 😱👏👏🌏🌳🐧 Keep the pressure on. Force this Government to sink this bill, just like their harmful Fisheries bill ✊️ Links below!
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KidOf60sTeens; The right wing is not your ally.
6 days ago
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tanya
6 days ago
Green MPs and candidates are fielding some OTG responses on FB & IG. on the plus side, many NZers are finally learning how progressive tax rates work 👍 🤦 @tamathapaul
@greens.org.nz
#nzpol
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Rob🎸
6 days ago
Turns out, no
#nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/areyousuperr...
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Rory
6 days ago
Record numbers of young people are leaving this country because they feel like they don't have a future here. Wealth inequality is near universally understood as a bad thing, except by the very rich. The status quo, or minor adjustments won't work to fix these issues. Ask Michael Savage.
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Idiokratie
6 days ago
Social media bans are a great way to keep up appearances while avoiding to ACTUALLY regulate tech billionares so they can keep destroying humanity in the name of greed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRB...
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Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRB5qWphJE
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Sarah
6 days ago
"Thank you for writing to the Leader of the Opposition, Chris Hipkins. I will pass on your message." He needs more messages. Flood his inbox!
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tanya
6 days ago
Greens Tax Policy & Māori Economy
#Aotearoa
#nzpol
"To the people saying the super rich will leave if we tax them - kei te pai. You know who won't? Every iwi that has Treaty settlement & does business sustainably by default. Ka kiteeeee 👋😎" 🔥💯
#Kakeets
@taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social
@greens.org.nz
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Sarah Chambers
7 days ago
Hey, Hey its Monday that wonderful day where we celebrate everything that is good with all the small to big wins with everything in between. Mine is that Ash and I spent a good weekend together as she had a trial in Auckland, it was just really nice after a fraught month. What's yours?
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The Theft of Conservation Land Bill: People, it's time to stand up and be counted in your opposition to this awful landgrab at the heart and soul of our country. If you need some help, or just want to cover the main points fast go to
yeahnahbills.org
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Alice Tawhai
8 days ago
Petition to save NZ conservation land from the new government proposed amendments Source:
action.greens.org.nz
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https://action.greens.org.nz
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Mountain Tui
7 days ago
Chris Bishop has already sold nearly 800 state homes in less than 2.5 years on the cheap. Beneficiaries to this lolly scramble include US venture capitalists, vape store kingpins, mystery investors, and a deal under the real estate regulator’s scrutiny
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US tech titan, vape kingpins and deal under scrutiny: See who is buying our state homes
$8m pensioner flats, US owner of NZ's most valuable state house and a deal under scrutiny.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kainga-ora-sell-off-the-herald-lifts-the-lid-on-the-buyers-behind-the-most-expensive-state-house-sales/premium/CD7XWXFIEBEYRMVR6DFK6OVOY4/
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PERFECTLY NORMAL
8 days ago
Looking forward to seeing this later today Party vote Green💚
#nzpol
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Greens' new tax plan: How Swarbrick wants to tackle ‘cost of greed crisis’
The party wants to focus on actions most people will see as 'common sense'.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/election-2026-greens-new-tax-plan-how-chloe-swarbrick-wants-to-tackle-cost-of-greed-crisis/TTDAVGGRCZHEPAACKFQ3WJVK5Q/
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MeatMechSuit
8 days ago
This looks good. Bumping the limits up beyond the old $2mil mark for super-rich tax will make the middle class (including those nowhere near having $2mil net worth) feel like they are not being targeted.
#nzpol
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Huia Sue
9 days ago
Proposed merger of
#TSB
& Heartland Group takes it out of 100% NZ ownership & community responsibility
#nzpol
open.substack.com/pub/bryanbru...
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Proposed Merger of TSB with Heartland Group
8 June 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/bryanbruce/p/proposed-merger-of-tsb-with-heartland?r=8o1ui&utm_medium=ios
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Akl City Centre Residents' Group
9 days ago
Today is
#ShowYourStripes
day. The stripe graphics are visual representations of the change in temp measured in each country, region or city over the past 100+ years. Each stripe or bar represents the temperature averaged over a year. Here’s Akl
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Greenpeace Aotearoa
10 days ago
Mike Smith is taking action against corporate lobbying and Government interference! Cloak and dagger lobbying by Fonterra persuaded the Government to attempt to shut down Mike Smith's court case, which attempts to hold companies like Fonterra accountable for their climate pollution.
#nzpol
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Veranoa Hetet
11 days ago
Honoured to have done this
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Sacha
11 days ago
Back to universal zero-charge prescriptions, which bring noticeable health improvements and reduce admin.
#NzPol
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Labour vows to bring back universal free prescriptions if elected
Labour is promising to reinstate universal free prescriptions if it wins the November election, adding it to the list of promises to be funded by a Capital Gains Tax.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/598587/labour-vows-to-bring-back-universal-free-prescriptions-if-elected
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Char
13 days ago
The Prime Minister of AotearoaNZ was caught red handed committing a fraudulent act 2 weeks ago, and nobody on MSM apparently cares at all.🙄🤷♀️
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#NZ
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Char
13 days ago
If the billionaires have been building their nuclear refuge (bunkers) in AotearoaNZ, why aren’t we charging THEM MORE to hide here?
#nzpol
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Huia Sue
13 days ago
🍃🌹🌿 New Report shows free dental service would cost less than current system
#FreeDentist
#PartyVoteGreen
for Good Change! Then choose from 💚❤️🖤 to
#ChangeTheGovt
#nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/new_report_s...
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Huia Sue
14 days ago
Luxon wants to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands National say they will "unleash growth" That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with "high ecological value" - representing 2|3 of the entire estate.
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Luxon wants to sell or exchange up to 67% of NZ's conservation lands
National say they will "unleash growth". That may be by selling / exchanging 5 million hectares of conservation land, much of it with "high ecological value" - representing 2/3 of the entire estate.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mountaintui/p/luxon-wants-to-sell-or-exchange-up?r=8o1ui&utm_medium=ios
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