For context, four Aussie banks took approximately $6.5 billion out of the Aotearoa economy in the last year or so The majority of which was gleaned from mortgages on family homes The economy is improving? Sweety, it's tanking, sinking, shitting itself sideways, and you're a big part of the reason

this is literally never not accurate

Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.

While Juggernaut 2: The Story of the Fourth National Government is an incredible podcast - having lived through it & in present circumstances it is a fucking tough listen. thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/jug...

🎄 Christmas is only 50 days away, consider giving the gift of anti-fascist journalism this holiday season Linking to fishpond as they currently have the best price (under $30) www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Fear-B...

The question of asset sales seens to arise three or four years after tax cuts. 2010: tax cuts 2014: partial asset sale of powercos & AirNZ 2024: tax cuts 2026/27: asset sales? (If Nats win next year) The reason is blindingly obvious: tax cuts means less tax revenue.Nats have to make up shortfall.

The vote capitulation was all about protecting Black Friday and the stock portfolios of people with money.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Winston Peters 'if the govt would stop mismanaging the economy they wouldn't need these asset sales'. SIR YOU ARE THE GOVT.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Essay: DJCS, State of the Arts - COMMODE. I really recommend this essay. commode.co.nz/essay-djcs-s...

Good news everybody! ANZ has posted a record $2.53Billion profit, just when we thought everything was dire and no one had any money we find out that ANZ is absolutely coining it!!! #NZPol

Three CFPB probes into companies backed by billionaire Marc Andreessen have been halted as bureau investigations have ground to a halt, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

DPA is proud to be a living wage employer. Employers who pay the Living Wage want to make sure their workers get enough money to live with dignity. The Living Wage considers basic expenses, and gives breathing room for rest, activities, or saving for a rainy day.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

I know nothing is official yet, but I feel like I could throw up. Hi, this is me. 70% of my reliable teaching income next year will be eaten up by my health insurance, which I need because I'm chronically ill. I hope those 8 dems who voted yes never have a moment's peace.

In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.

One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.

This right here.

what’s remarkable about this is that there are zero winners at all, one of the biggest lose-lose deals I can remember the Dem cavers will catch incandescent shit for it the rest of the Dems will catch collateral fury the big R win is… jacking everyone’s health care costs ahead of midterms

Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that. It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

I, for one, welcome the carnivorous death ball

Musk is personally responsible for impoverishing and killing millions upon millions of people. He needs to be tried for his many crimes.

Every once in a while I have to remind myself this is entirely normal.

An absolute thrill to publish this.

Did you know that a number of our libraries have sewing machines you can use? my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/sewing-overl... ^MT

even though i knew this decision was coming up - word of it made me physically ill. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

It's the states response to abuse in care in a nutshell: do nothing and just wait for people to die www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

E te whānau, GiveOUT Day has just kicked off and this year we’re fundraising for something extra close to my heart: to open a Rainbow Hub for Ōtautahi, as a drop-in space for our communities and a coworking space for our kaimahi to share. This weekend, your donation is doubled! #kikorangi

Lifeline goes without funding but the Govt squanders $6m so they can eat at a place with a Michelin star. Ffs. #nzpol

Boy if you think our health system is stretched now, just wait til Serco “known for abusing prisoners” get their hands on it

An AI company and one-time NZX contender is refusing to settle unpaid wages owed to a former worker, 18 months after IRD applied for it to be liquidated.

MY FAMILY CAN'T EAT FOUNDATIONS NICOLA

I keep thinking about how a policy like this would move people away from places like Homeground set up by Te Tāpui Atawhai one of the few places you can get food & healthcare. 💔 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

This government is so fucking grim. Cut funding to every possible way out then 'disappear' the people whose situation you make far worse on a daily basis. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

“2.58 million fewer hours worked than 2 years ago” This is such a lucid way of framing how bad National are for the country. Back on track? bsky.app/profile/clre...

I believe that's the term even the specialist NGOs use for the subset of unhoused people who sleep outdoors?

The attempted bid to turn Kelston Boys College into a charter school should send shivers up everyone's spine. Libertarian dogma attempting to undermine the school with a nearly 100% Māori and Pacific Island roll is classic Act party racism in action. #nzpol

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Definitively, the anti trans position is a losing one

I'm grossed out by today's RNZ headline "A night at a booming homeless shelter". An economy should be booming. A restaurant should be booming. Employment should be booming. Kākāpō should be literally and figuratively booming. A homeless shelter shouldn't be made to sound like a popular nightclub.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

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