The seemingly moronic decisions this lot make are in fact a concerted effort to privatise absolutely everything. Unless of course they are just morons. I guess both can be true.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Mike Smith "This is not just about climate change anymore. This is about whether billion-dollar corporations can use their political access to shut down legal challenges they do not want to answer." #nzpol

Perhaps someone should tell Nicola Willis.

Awesome - NZ jumping on the Michelin bandwagon by chucking OUR money at them, right when they ditch an award that might have highlighted some of our unique points of difference

Political apathy is the right's greatest weapon. Not voting in this year's general election is a vote for National, ACT, and NZ First back into power. A better future in Aotearoa can be achieved. But the mahi still needs to be done. Don't be complacent. Party Vote Green. #nzpol

A reminder that this year is an election year. - Public service cuts are NOT inevitable. - Depriving the Public Sector to get "efficiencies" and "savings" is NOT inevitable. - Privatisation of our public resources is NOT inevitable. Register to Vote. Get your whānau to Vote. #nzpol

cuts don't = savings. They're either no-longer-provided services or privatised services. The former = loss of service or a new cost to communities and society. The latter = more costly, less quality services. Austerity! wrecking societies and expanding the wealth gap globally since the 80s

Now in my third year of posting this little doom loop graphic.

Nicola Willis unleashing further austerity on Aotearoa New Zealand today. Whether Nats are dominated by ACT/TPU or using coalition agreements as an excuse for a handy Trojan horse, fact remains - austerity spectacularly fails income taxpayers everywhere, every time. Mamdani calls it - 💯

RNZ pretty relaxed every time our government of the day overrules/undermines our courts. Even though doing so is inarguably authoritarian. Really, #nzpol , do we just not give a fuck any more? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

“Cities across Europe saw a boom in cycling & bike-friendly infrastructure during the Covid-19 pandemic but have suffered setbacks amid a political shift to the right and the emergence of conspiracy theories that have unexpectedly taken aim at ideas such as having amenities within walking distance.”

The extent to which the governing coalition wants and needs people in Auckland to be angry about three months of Level 3 Covid restrictions five years ago is remarkable. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

A decision on Auckland’s next Waitematā Harbour crossing is expected (maybe) next month. Worth remembering: bridge traffic still hasn’t returned to its 2018 peak, and 50% of commuters now cross the harbour by bus. So why is the current process focused on more road capacity? Move people, not cars.

Who is causing social instability, immigrants or global far right networked disinformation campaigns and the breakdown of the information environment?

The fleeing millions is such a crock! And we should be pleased to be rid of sociopathic parasites anyway www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

How very sociopathic it is to want to squander your billions on the very worst politicians & useful idiots rather than regular folk just trying to live a nice, healthy life.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

FFS it’s 1st May not 1st April so these ghouls are actually not kidding www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather...

This and always this. Universality is efficient and cost-effective and economical if you claw back from the “undeserving rich” through taxation.

THERE IS NO MANDATE TO STRIP TREATY PRINCIPLES Not even ACT's voters supported the Bill. It is clear beyond doubt that the ACT Party, enabled by National and NZ First, holds no democratic mandate to strip Treaty principles from public life.

Weird how what Michel Mulipola said was “bad and violent” but Act accepting donations from someone wanting to blow up mosques, telling people to blow up the ministry of Pacific peoples, calling people deranged for disagreeing with you, and protecting pedos, is fine. God, they’re the worst 🙄

'Where does your tax money come from?' is the question to start with. If Govt spend an extra $10bn, we have an extra $10bn to pay taxes with.

Bendigo #FastTrack "There's no part of nature Luxon's Government won't destroy forever to make a quick buck. The Greens won't let that happen. 💪💚" NZ @greens.org.nz 29 April #nzpol #auspol

The sooner we stop burning fossil fuels, the better it is for everyone.

ICYMI - Researchers found that 1) Two thirds of utes trips in NZ take place in urban areas, and most are short trips not for work purposes. 2) they are up to 7 times as dangerous if you are hit by one 3) they contribute significantly more to air pollution. newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/20/f...

So their costs didn’t actually increase, they were just price gouging. Legalized robbery.

We're entering the Trumpzone where the leader just keeps telling us that we're feeling and doing heaps better than we are..er.. feeling and doing. & once again, devastating and fatal weather events seemingly not even on his radar. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I tried to spend the equivalent of Trump’s proposed military budget. Globally, I eliminated hunger & extreme poverty; in the US, I ended homelessness, covered the uninsured, installed universal pre-K, sent another round of $600 checks, & powered 50% of households with solar. I have $77B left over.

Who’s missing from this list? Who is trying desperately to join the wrong club? The one that won’t honour its promises, no matter how much we debase ourselves?

Violence has no place in our democracy. It should be waged on journalists, politicians, medics and civilians in other countries.

It's hard to breathe under the chokehold that mining lobbyists have on this government Together, we can break the grip of the fossil fuel lobby, and elect a government that protects the air we breath, the water we drink, and the places we love.

Demand is the highest it’s been since 2020. It’s ludicrous to treat people being starving hungry and freezing cold as an unavoidable bummer, and think our collective well-being depends on keeping the super rich & selfish folk content at all costs. #taxtherich #taxislove

This isn’t incremental. It’s a signal. Battery storage just outbuilt gas at its peak. The role of “backup power” is shifting, fast. Solar generates. Batteries store. EVs consume. The system isn’t transitioning. It’s locking in. Cost + speed + scale decide. #Bettrification

“If the BSA disappeared tomorrow, Aotearoa would lose more than a complaints office. We’d lose one of the few free and accessible ways for ordinary people to challenge harmful or unfair media content.” — Pulotu Tupe Solomon-Tanoa‘i, a former BSA member.

Maybe we should have a gas transition plan? Oh that’s right the Luxon Govt cancelled it because they are big fans of fossil fuels. How’s that working out?

If austerity is/was (& continues to be) the answer, someone please tell me what question was? No interest in 'derailed' or 'delayed', have been waiting for "trickle down" for 35+ years. Time to give different a go? ... like pro-active state delivering public goods, services, & infrastructure 🤔?

"Sign up to fight the Treaty Principles Bill Version 3.0 now! 🪓✊🔥🖤🤍❤️ #NotOnOurWatch" An invitation to everyone in Aotearoa from #ToitūTeTiriti ropu @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social More detail in thread below. #nzpol Takes 30secs to add your name + email address here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

This guy! Opposite of Ardern just means opposite of imposter syndrome, opposite of charming, opposite of leading. Weird response to the question all NZers are asking every day www.instagram.com/reel/DXbHTyN...

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

Expect more social vandalism in the coming months. If current govt feels they might lose the election, they can at least inflict as much damage on social democratic institutions as they can, knowing they will not recover in time for their next chance to privatize and corporatise life in AoNZ. #NZpol

Objectively and utterly terrible people and that’s not a secret, it’s their manifesto.The kind of people our govt open to working with. God save us. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

love to know who these women are! had to track down the wahine Māori #respect order of appearance: Beti Karaitiana, 'Mrs Rabone' (only name recorded), Te Kaia Kingi (young girl), Pikau Teimana (huia feathers), Rena Punehu (also known as Reima Paroto) and the clip ends with Pare Watene Whakaarorangi.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Luxon says he's laser focused on mortgages & education; not political maneuvres. But it's the highly political, constant, ideologically-driven attacks on Te Tiriti that his govt will be remembered for. +inaction in fuel & climate crises. #nzpol 🔥PSA from Tamatha Paul @greens.org.nz Watch/Learn/Share

WHERE is it circulating RNZ? WHERE was it posted? WHERE did Jones appear? Why should that platform matter, profoundly, for any critical appreciation of what he said? What has that platform seeded, and spread with regards to what Jones noted, and how? What's he signalling, to whom, & why? #nzpol

Shane Jones is proud to get "cut-through on debates by deploying hyperbole". PM calls it oratorical flourish. Some think his big words reflect a big brain. In fact, racism, cynicism, opportunism, narcissism all mask a lack of true intelligence. Or as 1 of his idols would say (project), it’s “low IQ”

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Mainstream discourse refuses to acknowledge the basic fact of virtually every huge problem we're facing which is that white men want to keep controlling everything and they're willing to use maximum violence against the rest of us to do it