The abuse Julie Fairey copped after being HIT BY A CAR is exactly what happens when we treat online harm as background noise. Women in politics bear the brunt, especially women of colour. Until NZ actually regulates platforms properly, this will keep happening #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National. Don't believe National on Kiwisaver. #nzpol

‘Shockingly inappropriate overreach of politics’: Doctors slam puberty blocker pause www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

#taxtherich #nzpol

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me

Hey peeps! It's been 2 weeks since I launched my crowdfunding campaign, and your support and generosity have blown me away. You folks rock! But with 3 research grant rejections this month & 2 weeks left to go I’ve decided to set a new stretch goal & pivot… 1/8

Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti

& yet they are still polling +/- within their election night zone. I swear there ought to be a test before voting 1: Is trickle down real 2: Is neoliberalism good 3: Is Winston Peters relevant Answer yes to any of the three & you are not eligible to vote.

This clip will be forever burned into my brain. When @sanders.senate.gov told them they would be killing 51,000 people with their vote and they did it anyway. It was like watching him beg for mercy at a public execution.

Mother in Africa speaking to her children at dinner: “You must eat all of your food, there are hungry children starving in America” Oh smack - how many times did I hear that as a child?! Anybody else?

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

what. the. hell. maybe help reduce the number of people who don't have a goddamn roof over their heads instead of hiding them away.

1/6 Hurricane Melissa didn’t just devastate homes -- it’s testing Jamaica’s entire health system. The latest PAHO/WHO Situation Report (Nov 1) shows what a climate-fueled disaster looks like through a public-health lens. 🌀💊

Pass it on.

Honestly that end is the real kicker, where they explicitly make it all seem like a regular breakfast orders that’s simply comped rather than a whole process meant to show everyone you’re in need. It really shows they care and are empathetic to the stigma around welfare programs

AoNZ - do you use your local public library? Let Public Libraries NZ know! www.surveymonkey.com/r/9YRW5C7

This is deep sea trawling. The last NZ government led the world in an international agreement to restrict the damage. One of the first things this government did was tear it up. The US, Pacific islands, and Australia criticised NZ for doing so. Shane Jones doesn't care #nzpol

New from me: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground. The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/23/5...

Chris Hipkins won't commit to build National's RoNS costing $50b, or the tolls to pay for them, but Chris Bishop ploughs ahead anyway to spend $1.2b on designs & land without a bipartisan plan or tolls consultation. Open for all. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/wednesdays...

What was actually in the fine print of yesterday's roading announcement: a $40-to-$50 billion bill that we could not pay without bankrupting ourselves. This has been implicit for a long time and should be in the damn headlines. greaterauckland.substack.com/p/reality-bi...

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Stopped school builds, hospital builds, water infrastructure builds but plenty of $ for roads #nzpol "The government will spend more than half a billion dollars buying up properties & $1.2 billion has also been allocated for new roads"

When you think about it, it's kind of funny how the best things we could *actually* do for roads and travel times in AoNZ is rebuild our rail network and massively increase funding for public transport, walking and cycling

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Latest🚨research from many well-known & highly respected doctors & professors: COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? (Oct 13, 2025) www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277... [ FREE PDF available ]

Good advice. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NoPlanetB #ClimateCrisisNZ #Aotearoa #NewZealand

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...

I am dark. I am furious. But still kind enough to let this one be free, so you get a slice of what you get if you sign on. www.patreon.com/posts/is-cru...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

Dog & pūriri flower…spring is springing 🌸

So Winston Peters doctored the Palestine statehood Cabinet paper to remove 3 of the 5 MFAT options. #nzpol #kiwi www.reddit.com/r/nzpolitics...

In today’s HeraldOnSunday

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice

Pūriri (vitex lucens) blossoms #spring #flowers #aotearoa

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

Gaza West Bank Lebanon Yemen Syria Iran Iraq Tunisia Qatar All attacked and bombed by Israel in the past year. Insane. Rogue state.

Read my shirt. 😷

Beijing

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Fascinating. NZ well past peak car. So why are we spending so much more on new roads?

For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your current TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 20/20 Kataraina, by Becky Manawatu #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky

Covid has killed upwards of 20 million people. 400 million suffer from Long COVID. It’s not over and is still causing serious harm. RFK Jr and Trump plan to ban the Covid vaccine in the US. Get your boosters now. Stock up on N95 masks & hepa filters. Protect each other!

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

#20TBRbookchallenge 💙📚 Choose 20 books on your TBR list. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 19/20 Five Past Midnight In Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky