JFC. Awful. Just fucking awful.

Honestly, fuck the Washington Post and its owner

Been a bit absent lately - busy doing our kitchen, amongst other things (will provide pictures for those who’d like to see 🤠). Those other things include running for Albert-Eden Local Board in the Maungawhau subdivision (Kingsland, Mt Eden, Epsom). Here’s me… www.instagram.com/reel/DOiIPHo...

Evidence-based. Means the Greens are ahead of the curve. Again.

The New Zealand Election Study data for the 2023 general election is now out, and available publicly at dataverse. I have remade my Treaty graph, replacing 2020 with 2023. The long term trend towards Toitū Te Tiriti is unchanged.

Of all the people who have moved south in the past few years, the @nzherald finds and features that numptie, Peter Williams,.🙄

I can’t believe that people are still not seeing what’s really happening. JC. WAKE THE FUCK UP

Weaponising social media against academics: David Seymour's problematic posts www.linkedin.com/pulse/weapon... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/w... (WordPress) #nzpol

As cities heat up in an ever-warming world, Green Infrastructure becomes ever more important to cool cities, its people, and the fauna that reside in them

I like this little story because it illustrates how Govt accounting works. There is no bank account full of cash collected. Govt issues liabilities (cash, bonds, NZUs), which become our assets, then Govt tax those assets out of the economy (destroying our assets). [Ends]

wild to me to have no agenda to grow a tanking economy other than tax cuts to landlords and businesses, make it harder to get a benefit, make active choices that punish people struggling, and then create instant $1000 fines for shoplifting. shit is vile. just say you hate the poors and be honest.

So Canadian city, Calgary, in the Redneck state of Alberta, has just voted to bring back fluoridation in its water supply because of worsening child dental health. There are people here I wish would read this article. (It’s free to read) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/w...

Safer speeds also mean better neighbourhoods in which we live - less noise, less pollution and, of course, safer for our kids and cyclists. Putting limits back up in our residential streets is retrograde and stupid. www.bikeauckland.org.nz/auckland-tra...

Door knocking in the rain again. Feels familiar…great response from Kingsland makes it worthwhile!

Ngā whetū o Matariki ✨

Next up, DDT will be allowed to be used again, and lead is being added back to petrol and paint…

You have only three days left to make a submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill. Let’s bury it together, just like we did the Treaty Principles bill. We've made it easy: greenpeace.nz/gpv4ob

History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme…

History never repeats, but it does rhyme

Driving down Pt Chev Rd this morning behind the Outer Link and we had to stop when it stopped to pick up a passenger. That’s 15 seconds of productive time we’ve lost and will never get back Simeon Brown. . Bloody @AklTransport !

Is Fletcher Building in charge of the New World Vic Park renovation?

In other news, Police are searching for the artist who painted a tunnel and the Roadrunner on the side of a bridge. One unlucky driver said "it's very realistic."

Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – why you should quit your job to make the world a better place

Brilliant story on Vienna’s approach to housing (social housing on steroids with design competitions rewarding those with Green solutions), and how local govt is leading the way in the US even as Trump pulls back. www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

As a candidate for local govt in Maungawhau subdivision of Albert-Eden - one of the oldest areas of the city - this particularly resonates with me. The “But Council Inefficiency and Waste” mantra drowns out any reasoned debate that inevitably ends with this realisation

Anti-ICE battles turning into potential massacres by police forces.

History never repeats, but it does rhyme…

See a doc, post a doc

"Wellington City Council spokesperson Richard MacLean said "it would be nice if the people involved would just grow up and stop being dicks"." PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA RESPONSE OF THE YEAR

#nzpol Senior National MP Chris Bishop - drunk, mouthy, uncouth and racist at NZ Music awards last night - 😬 what a POS -

Hey, hey it's Monday that wonderful day of the week where we celebrate all the small to big wins with everything in between. Mine is that my new boiler system was installed at the pool & we are now back up and running after a stressful 3 weeks. What's yours?

Robbing Paula to pay Peter.

Not that I'm trying to depress you, but more people need to understand what's happening...it's really not good... qr.ae/pAbEr6

Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate. Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.

“I’m here to make our laws better”, says van Velden. @NZNationalParty and @actparty are complicit. If that’s the case, why pass under urgency, so far Bill could be examined and refined. She’s rationalising betrayal of women.

Helen Mirren is delightfully evil in Mobland.

I write emails etc etc #nzpol

Dog is currently trying to figure out how to fit in the cat bed…

The good people behind the flu tracker study are searching for new participants, particularly young ones. It takes about two minutes once a week to tell them whether you've had the snuffles or COVID or anything in between. Easy as, plus you're helping SCIENCE. www.flutracking.net/Join/NZ/inv2...

Ffs.🤦‍♂️

Amazing thread on the reality of govt and private debt. Eye-opening.

As we head into the budget silly season of tenuous truths and gotchas, it is worth reflecting on why we obsess so much about the Govt bit of the NZ balance sheet. I mean, look at it, it's *tiny* (and in the black). [1/n]

I am so glad I’m not flying into Wellington this morning.

Game changing. Let's explore why a jobs guarantee is fabulous social *and* economic policy. Quick reminder that making sure kiwis have jobs is not that radical. NZ Govt thru the mid-20th century was scared witless if a few folks (well, white men) were unemployed. See image 2 (1960 Stats NZ) [🧵 1/n]

Will we ever get to this level, I wonder…

Still one of New Zealand’s greatest musical exports

It's all very well for Seymour to make claims about savings his "Department of Government Efficiency" has made, but where's the detail and what exactly have we lost as a result?

If you ran the govt like a business, you'd a) treat borrowing as a business-as-usual way of operating, rather than something to be avoided, b) you'd borrow for investments on their merits, rather than wait for cash to be available, c) you wouldn't cut core capacity in response to short-term shocks.

This is, in fact, a real tweet. If I hang have seen the tweet myself, I’d have said it was fake and satirical but this is neither. It takes embarrassing obsequiousness to a new high. Or low, depending on how far Trump’s ass hangs these days.