I just signed this; let’s get this one going! Petition of Bevan O’Connor: Withdraw the Regulatory Standards Bill petitions.parliament.nz/212f27b2-98f...

this should surprise absolutely no one at all. But will be said regardless. At volume.

🚨🔥📃TAHUNA TE PIRE | Te Pāti Māori does not support the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) (Customary Marine Title) Amendment Bill 1. "No govt in history has ever had the right or authority to extinguish the Tiriti-based rights of Māori. This is literally why treaty settlements exist.” #NZPol

Umm, Te Wai Pounamu, maybe just stay home on Thursday??! 😬😬😬 I can’t recall seeing such a grim forecast chart; look at the pressure gradient inland from Kaikōura! 😱

Miriam Webster’s daily crossword “The Missing Letter” hilariously mixed up the spelling in one of their clues and answers today. 😂 It made me doubt myself, so I had to go google it. I was right and they were wrong!

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring. Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

Join us in calling on the government to immediately halt all progress on the amendments to the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act. our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/op...

Here’s my response to the NZ government shakeup of science funding today, on top of their reductions in bluesky funding and lack of accountability for climate issues. 🧪 We need urgent action on what the SSAG report describes as a fragile and chronically underfunded research system.

My life has been improved considerably since I started reading Google AI summaries as if they were being spoken by Philomena Cunk.

It’s deeply encouraging to see footage of hostages reuniting with their families and to see Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza. There are obviously many more steps to achieving a lasting peace but today’s developments should give us all a profound sense of hope.

Another haka and another display of Gerry's wonderful understanding of tīkanga.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

We live in a Māori nation. Our Parliament should reflect that more. The haka from the public gallery is an appropriate response to a maiden speech. Suspended Parliament only reminds Māori that they are not welcome to be authentically themselves there. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If Winston truly believes Chlöe is responsible for his broken window then logically it follows that he must be accepting personal responsibility for every single death threat made to Benjamin Doyle and their whanau.

#breakingnews Tonight, for one night only, you won’t need a telescope to see the moon! 😮 NZHerald: “You won’t need a telescope to catch a glimpse [of tonight’s supermoon]”

Age yourself with a film you saw as a kid

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." - Desmond Tutu

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

"And for me, as a Pākehā, the only question was how anyone could have a problem with this and what it represents. How could anyone want less of it? Why would you feel threatened?"

Holy shit, this shameless boot licking!

As tangata Tiriti I’m very pleased that TPM seems ascendant over the Pākehā-dominant Labour Party. No offense to Labour, but what’s good for Māori is good for all of us, and seeing @tepaatimaori.bsky.social on the rise brings me hope for the future of Aotearoa

1/3 The way my heart needed to hear that from our beautiful young Queen ❤️❤️❤️ Taku Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po 🥹 For those who are still learning te reo, or from other cultures, our Queen who has grown up steeped in our language and culture just took time to say that Māoritanga is not only

The fight for te reo Māori has entered a new phase says Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori /Māori Language Commission chair Professor Rawinia Higgins. This (anti te reo action) is a glitch in the Matrix. Te reo will grow with the Kōhanga Reo generation. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Few things as special as being on the packed marae aatea at Tuurangawaewae as a rousing rendition of “Toia Mai” is sung. ♥️🤍🖤 #kikorangi

🤣🤣 A+ response

Before transitioning I was a respectability-politics lesbian. Even post-transition my career, my manner of dress, and my work is very palatable to the mainstream. Because of that I think it's particularly important to talk about why I reject respectability politics and you should too. Short 🧵

Hey #NZ #Kikorangi, if you haven’t already checked my art out, I would love new friends and appreciators of my work rn (and maybe some sales). I hate to ask so directly but things are Not Fun for small businesses at the moment.

Great work here from Tina Ngata - a website where you can look up Tiriti positive local body candidates 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 #Aotearoa www.votefortetiriti.com

The National Government's handling of iRex should be treated as one of New Zealand's greatest political scandals. An impulsive Government got power and immediately made an ideological decision to cancel an existing project, ultimately costing hundreds of millions and creating worse infrastructure!

Slightly diminish a band: Knives ‘N’ Pansies

If Trump gives Alaska to Russia, does Puerto Rico get to become a state so they (the US) can keep all their flags with 50 stars on them? 🤔

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

BREAKING NEWS:

This is awesome #nzpol

Drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future

Response to Hobson's Pledge attack on mana of Rotorua kuia and proud wahine Māori Ellen Tamati ❤️ #NZpol

At some level it’s hilarious that David Seymour is essentially the thing he hates the most - the bureaucrat stereotype of his imagination. He obsesses over petty things, setting up an entire wasteful ministry in pursuit of imagined waste, creates busy work, pushes his ideology into law …

We live in a strange world where stories about vehicles banging into cycle lane kerbing is framed as a pain in the ass for motorists, rather than a full-on vindication of efforts to protect cyclists from bad drivers.

I’ve certainly got my hikoi shoes ready to go!

The actions we’ve seen so far from ICE must be mostly from staff hired before January ‘25, so surely there are some more moderate people in there to calm things down. But these 10,000 new recruits will be self selected to be the worst possible sadists. 😬😞 www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

Love the new billboards, Don.

Fascism is expensive.

🧐 Quite the brain teaser, this one. Thanks Stuff! 🤨

It's not political to think people shouldn't be starved to death.

Top quality joke here

It’s time we dropped the bastardised Dutch name “New Zealand” and called this country by its legitimate name: Aotearoa. #nzpol

Wait… did David Seymour have a strong Canadian accent just 17 years ago? Was he putting it on then, or is he putting a kiwi accent on now, or…? Just saw some footage of when he worked for the Atlas Network in Canada.