This is an important, essential read which explains what we've all suspected about America (and Trump and the US oligarchs)

Ōtautahi fam if you are doing a bit of Marie Kondo and have anything spare that would suit a very tall young man, a mate of my teens could do with a change or two in good nick while life gets a bit sorted in the next few days ❤️

Global oil emissions are 1.5 tonnes CO2 per person. New Zealand is 3.6 tonnes domestic, 1.3 tonnes international aviation and shipping, total 4.9 tonnes – three times the world average. The past two years numerous Government decisions have acted to increase oil consumption. Reverse them all.

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The top 'article' thumbnail on the Stuff Politics homepage what 'brand' you wonder? oh, just the NZ National Party We are now past the point where corporate media commentary and embedded advertising are justifiable. This is going to get MUCH worse over 2026 unless there are consequences

This is a pollinator appreciation post

… any condemnation of US actions in Venezuela (or Palestine, Iran & elsewhere) that doesn’t also call for decoupling NZ from its military alliance with the US, is still missing what’s needed the most. The US has always been a killing and destabilisation machine and NZ should have no part of it.

The poster reads: New Zealanders say no! to forever wars Join your local comrades in opposing the empire Monday 5 January 5pm, Bridge of Remembrance Freedom for the working class at home means solidarity with working class movements abroad Oppose class violence everywhere

Venezuela #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nzpol

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

you don’t actually have to tow the line on foreign policy out of some immensely misguided respect for ‘national unity’ or whatever. this is a coalition government that is actively supporting genocide and US state terrorism. give people a fucking alternative asap please

you can’t go on and on about the incompetence of this coalition while continually failing to show leadership and LEAD on the big issues like this. wtf is the entire Labour team up to? Opportunities abound to force themselves into the limelight but they basically fail to take a single one!

There has been for many thousands of years. And there will be long after the dust settles.

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genuinely at what point do otherwise well meaning people begin to understand that maybe the US, their western allies and their propaganda apparatus have been lying about their enemies since forever in order to justify rampant imperialism and death in those countries?

Thinking a lot about today's Doonesbury re-run, originally printed in 2004.

If/when they do emigrate, they must be welcomed and safe in their new countries The alternative to Zionism is doi'kayt, as formulated by the Jewish Labour Bund in the early 20th century, the principle that the place Jewish people 'belong' is where they live www.timesofisrael.com/some-1-in-4-...

Meanwhile, western countries have maintained their alliance with the US for decades as it carries out global mass violence & upheaval (supporting strikes on Yemen as just one recent example shown below). So, sadly, that doesn't seem likely to change.

Started running 10 weeks ago after not running at all since maaaaybe field hockey in high school and this morning I smashed out my first ever 5k and feel absolutely great about it tbh

We need to reflect more on what it means that New Zealand allowed a standalone FBI office to operate in July 2025 with little concern or critique, and is engaging with people like Kristi Noem, Sebastian Gorka, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel etc with very little visibility of that engagement.

any organ that construes its job as relaying press releases has ceased to play a role in maintaining democracy

“In New Zealand, additional support is available. Where deepfake content targets someone in New Zealand or causes serious emotional distress, reports can be made to Netsafe. You can contact them via their website, text “Netsafe” to 4282 or call them on 0508 638 723.” #nzpol How to Spot a Deepfake

What the actual fuck even by the standards of the Trump regime claiming to have kidnapped the sitting president of a sovereign nation is the most absolutely batshit thing so far. Hideous crime Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

***Timeline cleanse*** Findley the 3 month old kitten has been battling this stainless steel cup for almost 20 minutes now. Who will win? It’s a tough call.

let’s see NZ msm actually start reporting on this stuff in 2026

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Can’t say he’s wrong - a few astroturfs in Aotearoa and their political party connections come to mind.

The moral panic behind age verification is inherently the same as the one behind anti-trans legislation.

other people should do this too. if wedd wants the internet to be safer for kids, she has to explain what she plans to do about *companies* producing and disseminating child pornography and nonconsensual deepfakes *while her party leaders enthusiastically use that platform*.

Something we have to remember, and it sucks, but it's still a factor, is that it's not just the right. Metiria Turei was driven out of politics 9 years ago not just for admitting historic welfare fraud - to illustrate the failures of the system - but because even people on "her side" turned on her

If Wes wants people to listen to the evidence on medical care, perhaps he should start with the puberty blockers that he denies to trans youth against all medical evidence.

Just got to show a visiting aunty our new whare and get her thoughts on paint colours, had a lovely call with a new friend earlier, and now I’m watching my love potter around looking after her plants while I’ve got a pot of pasta sauce on the stove. 2026 is good actually

“our Mamdani” would also get immediately stochastic terrorism’d out of politics, very likely egged on by leaders of the current coalition parties, and have it framed as a personal failure so maybe we should fix that issue before looking for a figurehead we can slot in

And if you want a Mamdani, you need to volunteer with a ground campaign. You need to talk to people irl about the policies your candidate is fronting and why they're a good thing. It's not just charisma, it's support. Support against bad actors and support to rally wider political momentum.

not just Māori either, institutionally NZ is a VERY racist country. People looking for Mamdani, but how do you think NZ media would react to most muslim candidates?

When Aotearoa's lockdown period ended (once we gave up our elimination strategy) a lot of the normies who joined antivax Telegram groups started drifting away, and the group owners (who were bigoted extremists) tried highlighting new enemies to see if they could encourage these people to stay angry.

Sweeny makes a really insightful suggestion here that I haven't previously considered: that anti-trans stories were a bone being thrown to right wingers that wouldn't scare off most liberals. I saw local far right fascists do the same thing in the antivax groups they ran during the pandemic.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Huh, so it turned out the entire newspaper was being geared towards attacking a minority group and no amount of extremely limited differing opinion would compensate for that decision? Sounds like a place you shouldn't work for if you have any ethical integrity.

Surely an ex-staffer openly and clearly explaining that the transphobia is intentional is enough to finally get people to stop playing wordle, right? Right?!

We haven’t planned much for tonight and i was thinking about what I’d like to do when I realised that actually just being home with my love and heaaaps of food is my dream 100% of the time, so I’m surprising her with a roast and a charcuterie for when she gets back from work 🥰

I'm not a single issue voter by any means but if I was the governments lackluster response to the genocide in Gaza would be enough reason for me to vote against them next year www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In practice arguing for gender as a construct while not fully pushing sex as changeable has led to cis people, conservative and liberal, seeing sex as set in stone truth and gender as either fake gay shit to hate or fake gay shit to be polite about that doesn't actually change one's preconceptions

it might actually be fun to talk about sex and gender on the internet if everyone wasn't so stupid

This dude is such a relentless stain on @newsroom.co.nz's reputation tbh. If I were them my resolution would be to drop him - his "diary" on Doyle alone would be worthy, and this quote shows he hasn't learnt a single thing.

hey braunias, that wasn't satire, you know it wasn't satire, quit fucking pretending it was.

I didn't go for a run this morning so now I'm stuck with the unenviable decision of running in the midday heat or waiting to see how bad this storm they keep saying we'll get will be