A.J. Ponder
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Poet. Builder of worlds. Player of games. He, she, they.
Okay, I thought this might be interesting for
#auspol
Around 9 minutes in Amy is talking about East Timor and mentions the Australian government's complicity in the execution of 6 Australian Journalists --- because of oil
youtu.be/pQ8qGfF3Wnw?...
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The Queen Is Here | Amy Goodman | TMR
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
https://youtu.be/pQ8qGfF3Wnw?si=hgwIsWJ5J_hr48Qp
36 minutes ago
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Good C**t
about 5 hours ago
After a while you run out of words to describe how much of shithole government we currently have.....🖕🏾🖕🏾🖕🏾
#nzpol
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Committee recommends disestablishing Environment Ministry despite public opposition
The Environment Select Committee received 588 written submissions in relation to a bill to axe the ministry. All but five submissions opposed it.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594775/committee-recommends-disestablishing-environment-ministry-despite-public-opposition
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Char
about 9 hours ago
Please consider joining Aotearoa 🙏
#nzpol
#Aotearoa
#NZ
#InternetNZ
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tanya
2 days ago
YES❗Mandatory Lobby Register for Aotearoa
#nzpol
"... voluntary codes are insufficient, and a statutory framework is required to ensure consistent, mandatory accountability and transparency across the industry." 💯 from @lobbyreformnz on IG and FB ✍️ Petititon:
petitions.parliament.nz/22de6272-7c9...
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Mohan J Dutta
2 days ago
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/05/from...
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From Wellington to Washington: how Ani O'Brien's commentary tracks the global far-right culture war into Aotearoa
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
https://culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/05/from-wellington-to-washington-how-ani.html
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Watershitdown
2 days ago
This is Pike River level gross negligence by gov.
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/regiona...
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Wellington harbourmaster pleads for emergency tug boat
Grant Nalder says the lack of an emergency tug for the Cook Strait is still a risk which needs to be addressed, and he wants the government to consider reinstating one.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regional/594589/wellington-harbourmaster-pleads-for-emergency-tug-boat
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Char
2 days ago
“…roles could be axed within harm prevention, investigations, legal, policy and finance teams and said losing such roles could turn Maritime NZ into "the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff" Nek minit… Not even an ambulance at all, just sink or swim suckers!
#nzpol
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tanya
3 days ago
i love everything about Tamatha
@greens.org.nz
she runs it straight & Aotearoa needs that. "Govt too useless to bring food costs down and sort out the supermarket cartel so we made our own supermarket in Wellington ✊🏽 go to
kaioracollective.nz
!!! Brought to you by Wesley Community Action ❤️🔥❤️🔥"
#nzpol
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3 days ago
"The thing is, as a Green Card holder there was no form for Everlee to fill out at immigration. It’s sort of impossible to complete the form accurately when the form does not exist. Webworm spoke to a US immigration attorney about this, who also indicated Peters was full of shit".
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Binkenstein
3 days ago
The biggest legacy of the National/ACT/NZFirst government will be all the things it decided to scrap without much thought, only to find that we need to restore what was scrapped or the replacements are worse/more expensive. Cook Strait ferries, pay equity, resource management act, BSA, etc.
#nzpol
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Musical Chairs
4 days ago
This is a total disaster for the country and it is not an accident - it is policy. We have knowingly created a 'buffer stock' of unemployed people desperate for work because ghouls think that this is the best way to stop wages/prices going up. Who suffers? The young and the marginalised. Disgusting.
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Cait, Jarl of the Bread Makers 🏳️⚧️
5 days ago
They're trying to rush their vandalism of local power so that even if Labour/Greens/TPM try, they can not fully reverse it. Announcing something like this 6 months before the election is telling.
#nzpol
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Theta Salmon
6 days ago
Worth a watch if you’re wondering what Farmers in the US (and by ext. here in NZ) know about their vote, and the consequences… and who farmers are in terms of voting bloc. Also contains a warning to farmers that riding your self-interest to self-destruction perhaps isn’t the smartest move.
#nzpol
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Tony from Welly
6 days ago
STOP POLITICAL DONORS NOW
#nzpol
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Lan Pham
6 days ago
What would an Aotearoa look like that put the health of our people and te taiao environment first? A Green-led Government is what your Green MP team are here for, and this year, together, we can make a better life possible for every body and every critter. Get amongst. Join. Enrol. Donate. Vote 💚
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Pat Brittenden
7 days ago
#PWTP
Tonight at 7pm Patai with the Pollies Ep03 Tania Waikato with Marama Davidson: Radical Hope and Resilient Futures. LIVE in 20 mins
#nzpol
#nzpolitics
youtube.com/live/EejGxGJ...
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Ep03 Marama Davidson: Radical Hope and Resilient Futures
YouTube video by Big Hairy Network
https://youtube.com/live/EejGxGJK8lU
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tanya
8 days ago
the Waitangi Tribunal Claim we added our names to? it was accepted! now we wait to hear if an Urgent Inquiry will be granted. then, lawyers go hard 🙏 Tania talks here abt party donations & why adding your name to the Claim matters - eg. do you want a Smoke Free NZ? 📝
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Kate
9 days ago
It’s May Day so I’m allowed to tap the sign: universal benefits are fiscally responsible because they’re way way less expensive to implement. Public Policy 101, the money that’s wasted on policing targeted benefits is wasted.
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Sassy Little Hobbit
8 days ago
We are now living the early libertarian jokes from circa 2008 like “Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, and Paul Ryan walk into a bar. They have a few drinks and then die from methanol poisoning due to a lack of government regulation.”
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Jane
about 1 year ago
Petition started by the awesome
@taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social
. I know we all support this, so pease sign & share. Enough is enough!
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All through this is the disaster of the current government, all the way through to its corruption, but without pointing fingers.
youtu.be/Q-u4nosppRw?...
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The Kiwi dream of ‘work hard, live well’ is falling to pieces | Stuff.co.nz
YouTube video by Stuff
https://youtu.be/Q-u4nosppRw?si=XFNXWYj5uYrR9Hp0
9 days ago
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The Tennessee Holler
9 days ago
🗣️
@warnock.senate.gov
: “The conservative Trump majority is trying to squeeze the voices of people out of their democracy. They’re trying to take your voice so you won’t be able to hold them accountable.”
#VotingRightsAct
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Mandy Hager
11 days ago
Tell Amazon to cut ties with the Israeli military
action.eko.org/a/amazon-cut...
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https://action.eko.org/a/amazon-cut-your-contract-with-the-israeli-military
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PSNA - Ōtautahi Chapter
10 days ago
The Israeli Occupation Forces have ABDUCTED New Zealand citizen Jerome (Jay) O’Connor aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. (see alt) MFAT Emergency Line 0800 30 10 30 MFAT Office +64 4 439 8000 Call Winston Peters at Parliament +64 4 817 9999 0800 7273 6282
#NZPol
#kikorangi
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Tax Wealth not Wages
10 days ago
The entire gallery should walk out in solidarity against this fascist suspension.
#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
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TVNZ’s political editor faces five-day ban from Parliament
Speaker Gerry Brownlee is reportedly set to announce the decision on Thursday afternoon, with the ban taking effect from Friday.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360972324/tvnz-reporters-face-possible-ban-parliament
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David Mohring
10 days ago
"Accelerate NZ Go-All-Electric vehicles/solar+wind+batteries ASAP"
#nzpol
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David Mohring
11 days ago
Umm
#ukpol
#nzpol
#aupol
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tanya
11 days ago
this is really serious
#nzpol
'Vote Them Out' has ~no~ impact on the Treaty Clauses Review in progress. it'll b implemented btwn Aug-Oct, a done deal before NZ votes. Te Tiriti, our protection, will be removed from 23 laws. what will help, now? adding your name to
#ToituTeTiriti
claim. see next post
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Ms Hooper
11 days ago
What an indictment …
#nzpol
Experts warn malnutrition causing Kiwi children to go blind
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Experts warn malnutrition causing Kiwi children to go blind
The cases include a boy who ate only hot chips, crisps and the occasional Nutella sandwich.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/593773/experts-warn-malnutrition-causing-kiwi-children-to-go-blind
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿
11 days ago
#NZpol
Days off in lieu for public holidays could be scrapped (MP3 audio – I haven’t listened to it, I prefer text. Sharing as it may affect many people.)
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Days off in lieu for public holidays could be scrapped
Getting a day off in lieu for working any part of a public holiday could be a thing of the past if a new law goes ahead. The PSA said the government's Employment Leave Bill will reduce the pay of hund...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019032916/days-off-in-lieu-for-public-holidays-could-be-scrapped
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Kārikiōrangi
13 days ago
Spread this far and wide
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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al.
15 days ago
The
#Hubble
space telescope turned 36 today! Happy birthday! 🥳 Three and a half decades of cosmic beauty, including a certain Pillars of Creation that may or may not have been photoshopped 👀 🔭🐡🧪🎨
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Raider
14 days ago
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Huia Sue
14 days ago
That’s why we need to
#PartyVoteGreen
this election! NZ Greens Budget is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs, Dentists & childcare. Less tax for 91% NZers,
#climatechange
, conservation; $395/wk income guarantee; & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia! 💚❤️🖤#nzpol
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...
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Green Budget 2025
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
https://www.greens.org.nz/green_budget_2025
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Mask Up Comments and Opinions
14 days ago
Fully costed. It's possible. People just have to break the conditioning of MSM, history, major parties' scaremongering, and their own lack of interest in politics. We can have nice things
#nzpol
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the_ignored 𝙲𝙰
5 months ago
I like the
wck.org
that one person pointed out here:
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World Central Kitchen | WCK
Founded by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit organization that provides fresh meals in response to crises. Founded by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen is a nonprofit or...
https://wck.org/
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Terry Bellamak
15 days ago
This is how it's done. If New York City can do it, so can New Zealand.
#nzpol
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Theta Salmon
15 days ago
Who does this serve???? Shafting early childhood teachers for NOTHING. I swear every NACT cabinet meeting must start with: “Ok… who can we randomly screw over for the rich next? Bonus if it’s also racist, or hurts poor people!”
#nzpol
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷
15 days ago
Reading Forrest and Bird is simply too depressing for words. “Years of work & substantial council and public investment gone” Worst govt in living memory.
#NZPol
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Anyone want to eat Delicious Deserts?
#amwriting
16 days ago
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17 days ago
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tanya
16 days ago
oh Lorde this is good NZ
@greens.org.nz
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#nzpol
Time to end the enshittenment here.
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16 days ago
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beckydubs 🇳🇿
17 days ago
Here we go fam. Time to beat this oppressive, nasty, racist, divisive, Tiriti bashing bullshit AGAIN 😡 Sign up as a claimant supporting.
#nzpol
#ToituTeTiriti
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=QLcB9ztVL0Clf5dLgRp6SJ2idRPrQ-hGnSwaeORcJPFUQlBIV1dGV05EVlRDUkpIWTVIQlBWU1IxVy4u&route=shorturl
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Jjengar
17 days ago
I’ve signed Please boost
campaigns.consumer.org.nz/retirement-v...
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Petition: Fair repayment for retirement village residents
No one should be left waiting for their own money. Join our fight for fast and fair repayment within three months.
https://campaigns.consumer.org.nz/retirement-villages?mkt_tok=MDM3LU5OUi0zMTcAAAGhVh9qoSnU6jbOMcuZ3BUIpTGvtOlXzCLGr_e0O4jlvIoPmD4WzjIXPz9OLbUUg-2pZ8850tOysMhHt5aJHeQjtr8i-foW2qLqondtvZfh#help-protect-our-elders
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Anneleise
17 days ago
Exactly the same playbook Aotearoa
#NZPol
, abusing power to let corporates loot everything, make as much mess as they want and give them 'freedom' from regulations forever. Their 'freedom' is not about freedom for the public, ist's 'freedom to do whatever they want with no consequences'.
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Mountain Tui
17 days ago
What a contrast Ardern's Labour borrowed ~$80b including for Covid, John Key $50b, but National tracking to $120b for landlords & smoke companies - and that's before fuel crisis & their pay equity theft
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tanya
18 days ago
🚨 URGENT 🚨 The
#ToitūTeTiriti
ropu invite everyone to join in a new (tonite) Waitangi Claim*. It's simple, just enter your name + email. URGENT because every day counts - we're running agst the clock with plans
#CoC
/ Goldsmith have in play. More detail on the form, can read before you sign.
#nzpol
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Coffeeslut
18 days ago
FACTS
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Hades is pretty powerful and very capable of defending himself. But he also has minions and patsies. Because of course he does. Most famously Persephone, who after all these years might just have managed to figure out that he's a toxic POS
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