In today’s NZ Herald ~

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Our government welcomes IDF soldiers coming here to take a break from carrying out their genocide #NZPol www.psna.nz/press-releas...

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

#nzpol Pay attention, Aotearoa New Zealand, because this awful National/NZ First/ACT coalition government considers you and your loved ones expendable. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

In today’s HeraldonSunday - Gloriavale…

Today’s ODT

I really hope Golriz gets left alone in 2026. She suffered more than enough. #nzpol

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/peter-brooke...

Families fight to put food on the table. Meanwhile the ACT Party and Coalition Government spent $150,000 on a 'Road Cone hotline'. Closing after 6 months & 200 cones removed, costing Kiwis ~$750 per cone (and they gutted Worksafe - putting real lives at risk!) We too wish this was satire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A man who heroically tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has been unmasked. The hero has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Sydney local who owns a fruit shop in Sutherland. www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers. Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.

Stuck In The Middle open.substack.com/pub/nickrock...

Why we need to tax the super rich more. Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's. And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.

While the govt pushes through urgency to erode your voting rights (via the Electoral Amendment Bill) this week, they don't want you knowing that their "drill baby drill" utopia is already falling apart. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol

Was just in University Bookshop in Dunedin and someone was asking for Dame Jacinda's book "A Different Kind of Power" and guess what - it's SOLD OUT! So take that haters. Can't see that happening to anyone from the CoC

It’s actually more than shit tonne, it’s a never ending fire hose of hoofwanking shitfuckery… #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

and this

When are we going to wake the fuck up people? This is not, repeat NOT, just shit governance Once is happenstance Twice is coincidence We are WELL past 3 times This country is under assault in an undeclared war There's been a coup Or will we not notice till a live round takes out one of our kids?

Their assault on Te Tiriti 1000+ schools reject their racist curriculum & school food outrages 97% against the RSB Electricians in arms about lethal rule changes Abandon emission stds Abandon climate mitigation and adaption Bootcamps Nicotine laws Puberty blockers Relentless rejection of rationality

Nearly every submission i manage has a comment somewhere about the danger of delegitimising our democracy through bith the process and intent of changes #nzpol

MUST READ: "The real story isn't about the ads you see but the power you don't. It's about the candidates who never run, the policies that never get debated, and the slow, systemic drift of our democracy away from the will of the majority." 💯

Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”

Damned internet/video recordings, evidence, how dare the universe contradict the powers that think they are?

The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and life-saving treatment option”

Trump’s mental decline is getting worse. He is not well. Please pray for him.

#nzpol 🤔🧐⬇️⬇️⬇️🧐🤔

It was a great privilege to live here and I am grateful

#BHN We're inviting David Seymour to eat his own words about Te Rārangi Rangatira when at the start there were under 200 schools as now it's over 1500 heading to 2000 out of 2500 schools, should be delivered tomorrow #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social

Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.

The Govt wants to gut environmental protection. It also doesn't want strong councils. If it did it would create unitaries. It wants weak supplicant bodies and central control. This is authoritarian AF.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

With the asbestos laced play sand debacle, NZ is getting a case study of what a low/no level of regulation means for pushing cost onto consumers and tax payers … in realtime. User pays. www.1news.co.nz/2025/11/17/m... #nzpol

And the Salesman of the Year is…. My #Stuff Cartoon today #Infrastructure #ferries #NZpol

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

Picture the New Zealand Herald's senior Press Gallery reporter dismissing as a "C-grade scandalette" the chair of a Māori entity *cough* taking $27 MILLION of public money and putting it in a project in his own patch. #nzpol

I know there's a lot to keep up with but in case y'all have forgotten, Chris Bishop misappropriated $27m from KO earmarked for stormwater, to build a cycling bridge his own govt's policies killed off. He needs to be sacked. #nzpol

Why the government and normal people are going broke (on Sky News just now)

Tax wealth not work

We can boycott the fsck out of companies that donated to the current lot. There may be more since this was posted: bsky.app/profile/kuma...

Does he even own a suit?

Shameful www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

So much this…. #nzpol #fuming

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608... Simeon's dream of being a top ranking gladiator is realised here in cartoon form... The reality is, people are being hurt unnecessarily for profit. #NzPol #Cartoon #Caricature #SimeonBrown #Government

“We have a government willing to reshape constitutional understandings without genuine consultation, careful process, or respect for long-standing norms.” — Mark Feary.

In today’s Weekend Herald

Well what do ya know, Aotearoa New Zealand? 🤮 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

To the surprise of literally nobody, it is once again privileged and powerful cis men engaging in prolonged and frequent sexual abuses against women, as well as other cis men helping them by hiding the complaints of sexual abuse from those abused women. Not drag queens. Not trans women.