The report’s rather simplistic suggestion that better information will somehow suffice (suggesting authors never spoke to or learnt from disinfo experts) doesn't counter what was then, & still is a strategic, sustained, sophisticated, industrial-scale, coordinated assault on the national psyche.

I had the increasingly rare experience of feeling better informed after reading this.

Please can you guys share this piece or if not the piece, the information in it, on social media. #nzpol NZCPR Author on Tamatha Paul Cycleways vs Water Piece Doesn't Exist. Minutes from the meeting and those there, on the left & right of council, have confirmed the vote never happened as described

Once again the Speaker beclowns the dignity of Parliament by treating a factual reflection on an outright lie by a senior minister as a greater crime than the outright lie that he lets stand Brownlee is a disgrace in the one job he might have excelled www.1news.co.nz/2026/02/19/l...

I'm going back to church tonight Just like back when I was eight But I don't mean to pray I'm gonna nick the collection plate I've got nothing against church Only people who go there and show they're Plain ignorant and don't understand a congregation at weekends won't change their behaviour

Well said, Susan #NZpol

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Compare and contrast: A statement from an NZ First spokesman 6 months ago about the actions of a party member and supporter, and a statement today from that same party’s leader.

Jesus FC! No one read that before release and thought hmmm, that phrase looks familiar.

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state. For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

The space between them is called the perineum

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Saw her live in Auckland in 2005 when she was a mere lass of 77. What a voice. What a pro. What a life. RIP ma'am.

So excited by this find and looking forward to hearing more as the project progresses. Throw money at it. It's a unique opportunity.

It's so important to point out that the systematic harassment (by not only other politicians, but the gallopingly obvious disproportionate media witchhunts) of brown women politicians but lack of consequences for it - is killing our democracy.

Although a wonderful artist, Josh is charmingly naive when it comes to the true nature of cats. Rather than comrades they are actually the worst kind of libertarians. All are neofeudalists who believe that we are a underclass, here to serve them.

Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread.

“Does she know Pōmare walked those halls with a limp, due to an injury he suffered when he was one of the children who welcomed the troops who invaded Parihaka with singing, only to be trampled by horses?” #nzpol Paywalled - accessible article in the comments.

High profile politician and music fan mewling about his discovery that music is often political

Elon Musk wakes up, bleary and disoriented. "Grimes, I just had the weirdest dream..." he mutters as he rolls over to her. "Tell me all about it, Space Daddy," replies Stephen Miller's wife in bed beside him. "Yeah, tell her," comes Stephen's bitter voice from a chair in the semi-darkness.

Father to Son, Doing All Right, or pretty much any of their preposterous early stuff

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

It was always going to be as stupid and facile as this

Is that going to leave a stain?

Christian Cullen highlights are the best highlights

Didn't one of the ACT party am dram organisations fly this prick over to impart his wisdom recently?

I have been banned from helping with GCSE Chemistry homework after I was asked what happens when you add base to acid and I said, "Jungle?"

And you may find yourself live in a signal chat And you may find yourself bombing part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheelhouse of a large autogolpe And you may find yourself privy to the whitehouse, while planning strife, And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Captain America jerseys? Fucks sake Hurricanes, read the room!

Sometimes it feels like the economy would die if half of it wasn’t just fixing the dumb shit we did last week

Now Greg Foran has resigned from Air NZ. Maybe taking up a full time role on RNZ?

My Tasmans? Able.

Shit, if I was a Murican thinking about escaping the shit storm I would definitely consider driving across the border to catch my escape flight.

“The suspect also regularly played a game about birds who are angry, according to a friend. Police are investigating whether the birds’ anger is related to the health insurance industry.”

incase this is of use - I condensed the Q&A interview this morning down to the 'What I'd say to you... ' The tone & frequency is revealing of how it went... ie like all things NACT, progressively worse! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUhx...