Trump is a con artist & he’s representing a legion of oligarchs & criminals. They’ll maintain power long after he’s gone. It’s a sleight of hand strategy; Trump rambles or passes some EO that is going to be shut down by the courts. In the background massive embezzlement & fleecing is taking place.

"When someone argues that fewer trans people should exist, when they liken... healthcare to child abuse, when they advocate criminal penalties for doctors following...best practice —That is .... eliminationist rhetoric dressed up in the language of concern." www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...

A short notice protest was called in Ōtautahi Christchurch today when Israel intercepted civilian ships in international waters detaining those aboard, including Aotearoa New Zealand citizens. Columbia has expelled Israeli diplomats. Aotearoa should do the same

Remember the lead up to the single use plastic grocery bag ban? #NZPOL

In my opinion openness to being wrong and correcting it when good faith interventions come in from actual experts or people with direct knowledge of facts INCREASES trust. RNZ seems to see such interventions as attacks, and in my opinion this decreases listener & reader trust in their reporting.

Media council said RNZ should have recognised the story was pushed by a group with an anti-trans agenda and been more careful about balance as a result. Rnz have basically just said “no, we refute that entirely” in a way that shows an absolute misunderstanding of the context we currently operate in

Even his own PR team must hate him, there’s no way his office wouldn’t have known about this, and yet they encouraged him to make a public dick of himself anyway 🤣🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

i don't care how many interviews Christopher Luxon gets to bang on about how good and great he thinks he is. his actual actions as Prime Minister show he's inept, entitled, ignorant, racist, lazy and spineless. it's ridiculous he's paid as much as he is to know and do as little as he does. #nzpol

Reminder that measles is a dangerous virus & one of the most infectious diseases there is... Measles outbreak: Two new cases in Northland www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Buried in the detail about reducing earthquake strengthening is the removal of requirements for disabled access and fire safety. You know who does that? Sociopaths.

Luxon and meaningful leadership #NZPol

Can now add earthquake safety and fire safety to this list 👇

Elvis is the rare celebrity of yesteryear that if anything would fit in even more today because he was super into self defense and being high on drugs and talking to a crooked President and dating a teenager, he’d 100000% have a crypto thing going on

The sun will rise in #Wellington #NewZealand tomorrow at 6:58, 103 seconds earlier than the day before. It will set at 19:23, 61 seconds later than the day before.

Postcards from Wellington, Aotearoa NZ, near Cuba St.

I'm on RNZ this morning talking about the Government's decision to continue enabling genocide. Safe to say I'm pretty furious about it.

Personally think we should consider making this not just the way it is

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

Before 15 March we worked hard to flag risks to our community. Since then, I’ve sacrificed health, wealth, and wellbeing, working 100x harder, even alongside officials who failed us in 2019 (and yes, they failed). Yet here we are again with NZ govt ignoring facts and its population. FREE PALESTINE!

Christopher Luxon knows his government is a fucking disaster so he's desperately trying to distract us and rile up his base by casting shade on the election process. how very trumpian. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

i'm hating the talk around autism being a terrible disease that must be cured. what i'd like is to feel i can unmask, even a bit, at work so i don't burn out by year end. also some low cost, accessible, autism-focused mental health support. instead it's this eugenics shit again. #ActuallyAutistic

Two countries (Italy and Spain) have deployed warships today to protect their own citizens from another country (Israel). It is time Israel was treated the same way Apartheid South Africa was, and boycotted by everybody.

372) Monsterbot. An intrepid robot that checks under children's beds for monsters. #SmallRobotsRemastered

i joined Team Takahe this year. round bois ftw. please add your vote; it's long overdue for these rare and endangered blue bois to claim the #1 spot and become our new overlords. they deserve it and we deserve to see them succeed. #BOTY #TeamTakahe

This is Trumpian climate denial by the NZ government. The Luxon govt has reopened applications for oil and gas exploration across the whole of New Zealand for the first time since the 2018 ban imposed by Jacinda Ardern, with a new faster route for awarding permits. #nzpol

Absolutely wild that, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five, there's a new research article that calls women "females" but calls men "men"

Telling pregnant folks not to take fever reducers during pregnancy will absolutely increase the KNOWN risk of adverse outcomes due to delayed treatment (or failure to treat) a dangerously high fever during pregnancy.

❤️ Portishead reunited for a moving performance of ‘Roads’ for the ‘Together For Palestine’ fundraiser at Wembley. Every penny donated goes to frontline Palestinian-led organisations such as Taawon, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Palestinian Medical Relief Society. #T4P 🇵🇸

This is why it’s good to have specialist reporters, a practice that is basically dying outside of huge outlets like the NYT.

IT WOULD BE FUCKEN GREAT IF THE SCEPTICISM THAT THE NZ MEDIA HAS SHOWN TO "TYLENOL CAUSES AUTISM" COULD BE APPLIED TO "GENDER AFFIRMING HEALTHCARE IS BAD" BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH FUCKING LIES SPREAD BY THE FAR RIGHT

This is heartbreaking. Our beaches and rivers should be safe to swim in. It’s appalling that there has been no improvement over several years.

Jacinda or any other prominent figure doesnt deserve praise for doing the bare minimum — calling it a genocide. Being anti-genocide is not supposed to be an exceptional thing its supposed to be the baseline and to treat it as exceptional is to admit that the system you uphold is genocidal. #nzpol

Love that the Senior Doctors are correcting Simeon Brown and taking back the narrative. Tautoko. Striking senior doctors hit back at Health Minister Simeon Brown's message. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A Year 12 student at Rosmini College, Patrick Lemeki's 2 pieces titled Sei o Fafine and Together We Stand are wonderful. ❤️ They show he's very observant, thoughtful, talented and skilled. I look forward to watching out for him as he cuts his path through this world. 👏🫶💪 pmn.co.nz/read/arts/to...

Māori wards “Aren’t Māori wards undemocratic?” No. Māori wards strengthen democracy For over 150 years, Māori have been under-represented in local government Māori wards make sure tangata whenua voices, promised under Te Tiriti o Waitangi, are heard #pōti #toitūtetiriti #māoriwards #referendum

Capitalism makes us powerless and pushes the idea that consumerism is powerful. This is not a new or original thought. But it means the only actual power we have is to NOT consume. So Disney already being $4bn down following the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel feels really fucking great tbh.

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

"[P]olice have charged more than 10 people" - in a very marginally better world, this would include Winston Peters for incitement to violence.

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

stressful work day. hard therapy session. everything in the news is terrible. my autistic brain is prickly & my body's tired. consoling myself with Depeche Mode, flower photos, Rosalie & Monroe's arc in Grimm, and pacing. dunno how we're supposed to act like all is fine when really it's a shitshow.

What an incredibly fucking powerful valedictory speech from @benjamin-doyle.greens.org.nz this evening and what an absolute fucking shame none of those responsible for the abuse had enough of a spine to be present for it.

Limited or partial access for disabled people is not access. It is exclusion.

Trans rights are human rights.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

The NZ govt are putting huge funding into AI not because AI will be good for the country and its public institutions but because it presents itself as another way to ‘legitimately‘ move public money to the private sector.

If only we had journalists who would incessantly ask the people in charge "why are you defunding NZ science?" The arithmetic is easy guys you just gotta ask every politician, again and again, to defend their choices