Expertise matters. I strongly believe that one of the problems with the media has been the tendency to treat everything as just a branch of politics, and to (wrongly) assume that fundamentally politics-focused reporters can 'get across' any topic. It's not just wrong - it's enormously damaging.

It's a death trap but it was still safe to raise the speed limit from 80kph to 100kph 🤦‍♂️

Makes you wonder how the pandemic would have panned out if it were just health journalists penning the headlines rather than political journalists.

Nicola Willis's $8.5 billion hole means that the National Party is on track to borrow $120 billion without taking from pay equity claims. That's almost double what Labour borrowed over 6 years - all while Labour managed a global pandemic & economic depression risks #nzpol #Kiwi

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The vineyard prospers in the district of Edfu; it flourishes in your favorite place. It sprouts with leaves, burdens with grapes, bends down loaded for you. One offers in front of you with produce from it. May your mouth be opened with wine. (WWO)

People will blame anything for their kid's autism before they admit they fucked a nerd

Māori and Pasifika make up about a quarter of the population as a whole but about a third of those under 45.

Some of us are old enough to remember what happened right after this graph ends, in 2000. The Nasdaq tipped into decline and spent the following decade losing about 5% in value every year. By 2002, Netscape was owned by AOL and its market share had slumped from 80% in 1996 to 10%. It dead.

Further pondering. We don't have an equivalent to this documentary, because the NZ Government acted swiftly and effectively, while the UK government was slow, corrupt and incompetent www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"It's just pictures and colouring in, innit?"

I'm not opposed to deficits at all, but it feels like if the deficit is getting 39% worse we should have something to show for it that isn't misery and a pm in high viz?

At this point, if you do not see what is going on here, you are dumber than a Nazi

If you think these 'new' school projects sound familiar..

I don't know why a parliamentary staffer leaving their job is news worthy and I really can't stomach media outlets leaving the comments open for abuse and wholly unsubstantiated speculation on the articles about them leaving for health reasons. Leave her the fuck alone you ghouls.

IT IS I FUCKEN KNEW IT www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Is it really "fast-tracking" or "accelerating" when it's basically restarting some of the 100-odd projects you iced a year ago, putting the construction sector into a nosedive? www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Anthony Ellison's latest

It's weird seeing the media treat Ruth Richardson as some sort of sage. She presided over one of the worst periods of economic performance in NZs history. She was so widely dispised by the NZ public that she was sacked by her PM. Why would anyone care what she thinks?

This hasn’t aged well in the last 13 months.

It just occurred to me that Luke Malpass might genuinely believe Nicola Willis is "capable" and Thomas Coughlan genuinely thought Luxon/Willis were going to show us a rock star economy encore. #scary #nzpol

The decision of the Luxon Govt to cancel the NZ Battery Project, which would have underpinned security of the nz electricity network, sure looks short sited as we watch the wave of industrial closures driven, in part, by security of supply and high prices of electricity.

Scenes from the confluence of an AI bubble and crony capitalism: xAI is currently raising $10 billion at a valuation of $200 billion while the data annotation team is run by a college kid. Much prudent investment. Very wisdom of the market. futurism.com/elon-musk-co...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

We have a plan - more of the same... www.tickaroo.com/e/GbggbErFvC...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I do hope the Minister of Finance doesn't take it personally if she does lose her job.

it's actually really funny to get emails from the deputy prime minister getting real mad that you pointed out he loves pedophiles.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

*Luxon sobbing, snot running down his face* "It's Jacinda's fault, she made the economy too big, it would have killed us all! We had to do it, don't you understand? If we hadn't set fire to all that money and goodwill, if we hadn't driven the debt sky high, we'd be dead from quality of life!"

OH MY FUCK GAWD, is this the funniest thing ever to happen? #NZPol

Nicola Willis is literally still getting puff pieces after making multiple generational mistakes, openly lying to the public, and arguably being directly involved in corrupt policy implementation Media could've destroyed her career with ease, should they have wanted to

Another waste of time and money www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

People ... people ... in the spirit of Ezra Klein, can't we all come together and agree that it is, in fact, all John Key's fault for saying he'd vote for Trump because he'd make the magic money tree grow faster?

Interesting that a third of National and ACT voters support a CGT that excludes the family home. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Willis should be laughed out of office as one of the worst Finance Ministers we've ever had

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Fixed it #NZPol

American Religion. My Stuff #cartoon today #Guns #USA #Religion

I wonder if Chris Bishop wishes he just left the MDRS alone right about now?

"There is nothing worse for our society than the belief that the rich can break the laws which are binding on the poor." Dame Rebecca West wrote those words almost fifty years ago. They're true as they ever were, and will always be.

Take to yourself wine, in order to please your heart. May the mouth of your ka be opened with the Green Horus Eye. (WWO)

Luxon needs to do a 'Better Living' tiktok on his $60 weekly shop .. #nzpol

New Zealand media institutions have been running stories on the murder of an obscure US podcaster for the better part of a week, and I'm not sure I like what that says about the editorial judgment of those organisations.