Once a proud forerunner in progressive foreign policy, NZ now shamefully lags behind Australia, Canada and those wretched old colonisers England and France who’ve joined over 150 countries in recognising the state of Palestine. #onetermgovt #nzpol #freepalestine

I have to explain computers to both my older and younger coworkers.

Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?

Dutch late night TV has its take

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

One thing to add: anyone who shoots a baby is not doing it for a reason. There is no legitimate goal, no excuse. None. They shoot babies because they want to kill babies. Here there be monsters.

Hey Hutt folks, you may miss it when voting, but please don’t vote for Suzanne Levy! She sounds fine, but OOPS she runs the TERF organisation Speak Up For Women.

ministry of defence to left and the beehive to the right

Kinda weird thing for his *literal second son* to say?

NZ media outlets using "racism allegations" headlines to attack Te Pāti Māori while ignoring the daily racist fuckery uttered and enacted by the govt, then whining about Rawiri Waititi speaking in te reo ... is actually pretty racist [1/3] #nzpol

Protip for Members of Parliament, if a bunch of priests want to meet with you to discuss a serious issue, you DO have the option of just... meeting with them

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Look I don't know how I missed this but here's another one to add to my list of reasons to hate this guy: he truly DOES use blue Comic Sans in his official prime ministerial emails #nzpol

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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Yeah man they ain’t coming back. This is going to be one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of my lifetime, and it’s entirely possible that some guy at ICE ordered it not having any clue what he was doing. This is why we used to leave foreign affairs to sensitive nerds.

I'll take two, please.

Good morning fellow Blueskyers

that is a really good stick

It's gonna be the last one. :/

Jay, serious question, did you say this after the Hortmans were assassinated?

Would love a journalist to ask David Seymour which of Charlie Kirk's views he himself supports, and why he thinks a tribute to Charlie Kirk in NZ parliament would be appropriate.

Thanks to everyone who marched for Palestine today - I was with you in my heart and thoughts.

"It’s true that we cannot know what was in Charlie Kirk’s heart because we are not telepathic. But we can make reasonable inferences based on the things he said and did publicly because we are also not colossally stupid." 🤔 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This is called trying to please everybody, and then being surprised when it ends up leading to a situation where nobody likes or trusts you. You're mistreating the people who actually use your service and make it attractive to others -- all to try and placate bad actors who will always hate it.

Well, Wellington City Council will not die wondering if they could have done more to encourage voting in the council elections. Spotted today, massive ad on the back of a bus, photo: two very happy drag queens, slogan: "You've voted, right?" Triggering for some. Giggles for rest. Kudos #nzpol

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

The hypocrisy as an expression of power is a thing, so the contradictions don't actually matter, but if David Seymour really wants to commemorate people killed for free speech in parliament, there have been over 270 journalists killed in Gaza. But I understand David Seymour might object to that.

I'm never more autistic than when the BUT HE WAS A HUSBAND AND FATHER line comes out because the mental rolodex of absolutely horrible fucking people who were husbands and fathers just starts rolling.

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

This guy got fired from his sports reporting job for THIS post. This is easily, easily the most censorious period in my life. You can get sent to detention camps by the government for writing an op-ed or fired from your job for THIS type of post.

“These people are full of shit.” Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social, who faced multiple death threats from people who've since been convicted, calls out Trump +allies for weaponizing Charlie Kirk’s killing against the left. Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's full interview: zeteo.com/p/full-of-sh...

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Seymour: "[this] shows a difference between free speech and violence." Uh, fuck off David. Kirk advocated violence against the LGBTQI community, excused it against family members of Democratic politicians, cheered it being used against minorities. Violence was fine by him, used against opponents.

AoNZ rallies/actions for Palestine: Sep 12–14 FRIDAY Tāmaki Makaurau: 2pm Banner making @University rooms 311-319 (southern side of Alfred St); 3pm Vigil @US Consulate; 4pm Vigil @Te Komititanga Te Whanganui-a-Tara: 7:15am Flags @Hill St Ōtautahi: 4–5:30pm Flags @Bridge of Remembrance [1/5]

lol #NZPol

Whoever blocked, it good. He's NOTHING to this country, he has no relevance here, the only people sad about it would be the pedo incels in the act party. I'm actually fucking pissed that this dickhead tried to get a fucking dead nazi honoured in parliament.

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

Emperor Palpatine was a human being with a family, and it would be rude to celebrate his demise. Shame on the rebellion.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

This is only an escalation of political violence if you dismiss the imprisonment, force deportation, overseas internment, brutalisation, erasure and other politically violent acts towards immigrant and minority communities and that whole genocide that's being supported as somehow not important.

I am generally in favour of serious documentary treatment of events like this, because the alternative is ghoulish true crime podcasts But getting the creators of Celebrity Treasure Island in and giving police veto over their portrayal, without family consent? Hell no www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens...

I presume Tabby Wilson is going to update the BBC story to show the video clip of the explosion clearly not originating from inside the vessel.... you know, for clarity?

The insured costs of climate change are now 12 times higher than 20 years ago, while local government revenue is only three times higher, a new report from the Australia Institute shows. “Big gas, coal and oil companies make a killing from climate change, and it’s time they started paying for it."

According to Willis, following Australia - the country where unemployment is lower, wages are higher, and to which Kiwis are moving in droves - would be economically illiterate.

Māori ward candidate profiles left out of information booklet in Whanganui, faaaar canal.

I realize I post a lot about public health even though my professional expertise is in physics and I definitely don’t want to misrepresent my expertise! It’s just that I am experiencing the world from INSIDE A HUMAN BODY and so are ALL OF MY FRIENDS which is, honestly, more than a little concerning.