Righto, we had 50 years of state sanctioned child abuse, we had a former Minster of Immigration under investigation for sexual abuse of children, we have the former Act party pres. convicted of sexual abuse, we had a collection of top police men covering for sex offenders, we had cops making false

Luxon, Mitchell, and Hipkins all failed to apologise in the House to Tamatha Paul today for their derogatory comments about her stating that police on the streets doesn't make people feel safe, and Tamatha has too much grace and class to demand it. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Amy Edmondson found that the best hospital teams made MORE mistakes than average teams. Except they didn't. They just felt safe enough to report them. If your staff aren't flagging problems, it's not because everything's fine. It's because they don't feel safe speaking up. #EduSky

Opting out? Is that a euphemism for there being no jobs for them? #nzpol

Absolutely horror IPCA report on how the Police handled complaints against McSkimming. A woman, who said she had a sexual relationship with him when she was 21 and he was 40, made complaints about him and instead of taking it seriously they prosecuted her under the HDCA.

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

I watched a clip of Brian Tamaki speaking at the Free Speech Unin AGM, some of the audience appaulded when he called for banning the burka, banning halal, and banning foreign religions. At the Free Speech meeting. The meeting for people who support Free Speech.

#nzpol Exactly. 🎯💯 Asset sales come up because National's ideologies are not affordable so they can't and won't keep to a budget.

The 8 Dems who voted against ACA are embracing eugenics. This decision will disproportionately harm disabled people. Many Disabled people have pre existing conditions & won’t be able to afford insurance. Many live in legislated poverty. Guess we aren’t dying fast enough for them

Primary every Dem Senator that just caved to Trump.

The North of England's beer jacket takes on a new meaning

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

No mention of Brownlee constantly failing to hold Winston Peters & David Seymour & Nicola Willis to account for their out of order answers & supplementary questions & their constant disorderly behaviour RIGHT AFTER BROWNLEE HAS THEM WARNED ABOUT IT! #UselessSackOfSkin #WorstSpeakerEver #nzpol

Who Benefits: Seymour directs officials to consult the free speech lobby In the final part of this instalment in our lobbying series, Act leader David Seymour makes an intervention – but says he wasn’t working in concert with the Free Speech Union #nzpol

Sounds like a lot of racism there #nzpol

The thing she runs she only gives 7/10 for performance? What does she think she's not doing well then? Not enough Atlas Network policy enacted? #nzpol

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer https://theonion.com/zohran-mamdani-refuses-to-share-plan-for-making-rich-richer/

How Atlas Network amassed a global network of free market think tanks and reached into Australia and New Zealand www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

Oh no the rich are going to leave and take their Energy Companies, Water Companies, Supermarkets, Landlord Empires and mansions with them. Yeah lets see them try.

ChatGPT is doing everything 80s parents thought heavy metal and D&D did and I wish this was hyperbole

Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed

Hi, I’m God. Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Thanks, God

Time to get Labour to pass an Orakei Tax to do the same thing back home

It really doesn’t. Plato had a great answer to this problem more than two millennia ago. In the Theaetetus, he describes memory not as a storehouse or filing cabinet, but as a birdcage. Imagine, he says, that each of us has a cage in our minds filled with birds. 1/

This is mild but it's also the political equivalent of saying "fuck that motherfucker" People in our side are fed up with civility politics

Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall—your struggle is ours too

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

— This is not “classical” state capture but state capture 2.0. […] bending laws, institutions and policies to align with a foreign power’s interests here in Aotearoa the foreign power is Atlas Network, a trans-national organisation #nzpol

“Donald Trump. I have four words for you. Turn the volume up.” Goddamn Mamdani just told this dude COME AT ME

"Knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing." Freire calls this the 'banking system of education' This is what Stanford/Seymour are doing to our children

Erica Stanford to NZ History teachers: Kia wareware tātou #nzpol

According to Forbes magazine, Jeff Bezos is $24 Billion richer. If I could give away 23 Billion and still be a billionaire, I would. That's a lot of people's healthcare bills, eh.

Feels good. #LFC

Lucky bastards.

Now we know how National would have handled the Covid pandemic. The 20,000 we saved would be dead.

I keep coming back to this. Just such a fundamental failure of everything that has been claimed about a "knowledge rich" curriculum. Teachers are demanded to have higher standards but this slop is what they put out as their big rewrite.

A fitting enough epitaph for the human project.

Change one letter, ruin a candy Wine bums Thanks to the missus

Honestly? Dump it.

Double thumbs up for fascism ! #nzpol

pretty much every piece of legislation the coalition government has inflicted on us thus far #nzpol

Thanks to the NZ health system being an absolute arse when it comes to dental care, Beckie needs our help to fund remedial dentures after a couple of years of really shitty health that has impacted her ability to work givealittle.co.nz/cause/beckie...

'Absolutely breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi': UN-bound report warns racial discrimination is worsening in NZ

They wanna teach our children racist lies