@bsky.app #Metlink runs a frustrating, annoying bus service in.Wellington. Absolutely sick of running for a bus which then sits still for several mins while express services drive past, then parks up again for a period, never revealed to customers, while more buses drive by #WellingtonNZ

Trump hits back at Catholic charity www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

New Zealand's looming freshwater crisis #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/16/w...

Bishop's middle finger for basic democratic processes #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/16/g...

Bunnings have uttered the magical incantation of 'open sesame', and now they're going to use facial recognition on New Zealanders wanting to do a bit of DIY. Hopefully there's a Mitre 10 nearby that people can go to instead.

“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.” Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir. www.ft.com/content/ff70...

Marina Hyde absolutely on point as usual...

My Listener column this week looks at an undeniable and dramatic swing back to charging minor drug offenders, especially for cannabis possession. Police are claiming that reflects increased use, but that's simply not plausible when you look at the numbers. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Weird how apparently we still believe in trickle down theory when it’s farmers.

Top-level US interference in Hungarian election backfires spectacularly www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Radio NZ's Morning Report going hard to sugar-coat the reality of huge tax free handouts to dairy farmers who have their hands in Kiwi consumers' pockets for years - just reiterating, Fonterra payouts averaging $400,000 a head - Aotearoa urgently needs to tax capital/wealth as well as wages #nzpol

Privatisation of the health system, pure and simple #nzpol Where's that Hipkins bloke?

It's hard to explain to the non-Wellingtonian how *loud* and heavy the silence of no wind can be. There's always some breeze here, but not today. It's dead quiet and dead calm.

Workers at LA stadium threaten World Cup strike amid anger over ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is incredible journalism, detailing Trump's warmongering and illegal war on Iran. Must read. (NYTimes article republished by Japan Times) www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04...

"This belief is usually known as American exceptionalism. It holds that white protestant settlers had a God-given licence to kill native Americans, enslave black Africans, make peons of Latinos and burn witches." Jack Waterford's form guide for The Pope v The Donald johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...

Meanwhile, Simeon Brown is privatising New Zealand's once universal healthcare, at pace thedeepdive.ca/mexicos-pres... Also, where is that bloke Hipkins? #nzpol

About time. Can we do the same in AoNZ please? #nzpol

Nailed it #EOS

Latest state of enviro report on freshwater again shows dire state of polluted water, caused by agriculture. In last 2 years NZ Govt has weakened water protection rules and dairy cow numbers are surging. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Reports of a meeting between a Vatican representative and the Pentagon went viral, with allegations that the church had been warned to cease its criticism.

Organisations call on government to ditch LNG import terminal

Unbelievable. Billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spent $45m in fight against California’s efforts to get billionaires to pay their fair share. #TaxTheRich

Uruguay generates nearly 43% of its electricity from wind and solar. In 2010, the share was less than 1%. Most of the rest if hydro. Today, Uruguay produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources. More here www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

The Luxon Govt has systematically undermined NZ efforts to cut climate pollution and reduce fossil fuel use. We now face an energy shock due to high dependence on fossil fuels and a cyclone (made worse by climate change). Time to change course.

'Damaging, potentially life-threatening' Cyclone Vaianu increasingly likely to hit NZ www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

So much this. Absolutely sickened by governments allowing these so-called 'AI' products to flood the market with no limits.

Nearly 100 NSW service stations in #Australia fined $1,100 each over misleading petrol prices In #NZ, the government stopped MBIE from reporting on fuel profit margins, allowing this behaviour to go undetected & unpunished Who is looking out for Kiwis? #auspol #nzpol

Finance ministers of Germany, Spain, Portugal, Austria & Italy are calling on the EU to introduce a windfall profits tax on energy companies. This is a no brainer and should be implemented swiftly. Our democracies can’t take another redistribution shock. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/h...

Iran and the business of war johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...

Millionaires controlling the media. How did we get here. We saw it happen in America and we didn’t stop it happening here. He’s the Rupert Murdoch of NZ

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Good article. This case doesn't just reinforce why journalism matters but why public service journalism is crucial at a time when shadowy, apparently-manipulative figures, like Jim Grenon, are taking increased control over mainstream media #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/27/o...

Another great day at The Basin, yesterday, courtesy of Maddy Green & Brooke Halliday's outstanding, measured, intelligent partnership - and the rest of the #WhiteFerns Some thoughts ... #cricket

I guess we don't want to upset the USA.

This is pretty funny @nytimes

newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/04/f... Democracies especially right now need strengthening not loosening. #nzpol

Scomo's power-hungry public service boss Mike Pezzullo - "indiscreet .. ill-advised .. engaged in gossip and disrespectful". A @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social exclusive - obtains Briggs Report #auspol michaelwest.com.au/mike-pezzull...

More ideologically-driven incompetence from Seymour-Luxon-Peters Coalition #CoC thekaka.substack.com/p/proposed-t...

“A growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work on Palantir’s health data platform over ethical concerns about the controversial US tech company” Good www.ft.com/content/dbb6...

The countries hardest hit by the energy crisis are low in income and high in import dependency for fossil fuels, for example Morocco and the Philippines. They have nothing to do with this illegal war, yet their economies and livelihoods are being destroyed.

“A world first” she cries, well actually a callous disregard for children’s lives, process, ethics & a missing moral compass so that a private company can make a profit isn’t a world first at all. The doco should be canned and heads should roll #nzpol @netflix.com

Peter Thiel's Palantir had a central role in killing hundreds of schoolgirls - the guts of this is that AI, itself, is not the problem - the threat to humanity lies in who owns it and, whether or not, we regulate it in the public interest www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Electrostates v Petrostates adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Melie Kerr produces one of New Zealand cricket's greatest innings to demand national attention for the women's game #cricket Pleased we already have ticket's for Saturday's decider at the same venue. Fingers crossed on the Wellington weather #WhiteFerns

Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton. His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs. They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.

In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

Trump threatens war crimes if he doesn't get his way in Iran nz.news.yahoo.com/trump-ramps-...

Profiteering is not a bug but a feature of wars. TotalEnergies took “advantage of the wartime disruption to make a bumper profit” of more than USD 1 billion. The right response to this war is to end the war, cut off windfall profit opportunities and stabilize prices. www.ft.com/content/eba8...