this is what needs to be brought up, every time. this isn't about nice-to-haves. this is about life and death. when people say that parking must be retained at the expense of cycle infrastructure, what they're saying is they're happy for people to die if it means more carparks.

a driver just tried to hit me with their car do @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social & @ponekeben.bsky.social recognise that separated cycle infrastructure is essential for keeping ppl safe, & that capitulating to the anti-cycle crowd feeds into an environment where ppl feel empowered to try kill cyclists?

Incidentally, I'd tag his deputy mayor too, but the thin-skinned weasel blocked me after I called him out for breaking his campaign promise regarding climate change and obfuscating about wanting to cut cycleway funding.

Once again, Courtenay Place was buzzing on a nice evening. Cities thrive when they have spaces for people, not cars. Time for @andrewlittlenz.bsky.social to finish the Golden Mile. Ignore the complaints: Every city that's pedestrianized a major street has seen benefits for people AND businesses.

nick leggett's legacy coming brutally and destructively to the fore now with NZ's immense reliance on roads and truck freight very few people who can so singularly be held responsible for the failures of policy, and especially without having any real public accountability whatsoever

Love that among all the misery and awfulness dominating current events we've got Whangārei out here staking a claim as the amateur horror capital of New Zealand. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Thousands of visitors from the UK, Germany, Israel, and 57 other nations can visit New Zealand without a visa yet Pacific Islanders still pay hundreds of dollars just to see their family. We're calling on the Government to extend visa-waiver access for visitors from our Pacific neighbours.

"we're different than the usual politics" —a party receiving right-wing donor money, that refuses to have principles because it's too hard

And yet Labour’s leadership says we must wait until after the budget to hear their policies. Without being able to talk about policies there’s little they can say to indicate they have any fire in their bellies to tackle this inhumanity.

We all know who the real leaders on council are 💪💪💪

The new donor to TOP is very much aligned to the Trump/Musk view of the world. Here he is on X celebrating Trump's EO that dismantles the Dept of Education. #NZpol

"Hard for us to turn down the donation" Which shows the principles they stand for. Integrity is what you do when you think no-one is watching.

Who could have predicted that Ray Chung defending buffoon of a Mayor Andrew Little wouldn't get support for his three year plan from Ray Chung? 🤡🤡🤡 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

There are approximately ten thousand unsurprised Wellingtonians saying told you so right about now.

"Donations policy for thee, but not for me" says The Opportunities for Pedos Party after accepting massive donation from millionaire American grifter with Epstein links. What a classy bunch.

TOP tries to say that the neo nazi who gave them $100,000 gives '$ to just about every party' NO - he ONLY gave it to right wing parties - LIKE TOP - NOTHING to Labour, Greens or TPM PLEASE repost this so EVERYONE knows exactly who they really are - just a lying pack of shunts #nzpol

I guess now we find out whether the current govt actually wants to do the hard yards of preparing the country for the next pandemic or it just wanted something to score political points with

Now imagine if we had electrified the inter-city rail we used to have all over this nation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Are we back on track yet?

One thing right-wing governments have in common around the world is the inability to think through the consequences of snap decisions involving straits.

The amount of businesses in this country who are like, "I blame my struggle on [very specific pet peeve]" I'll never forget that Pandoro Wellington shut down because of cycleways even though their business was nowhere near cycleways. But it's a pet peeve, and pet peeves are the causes of all ills.

I'm glad we went through all that pain from austerity and cost-cutting for fucking nothing. Just like every other time it's been tried by every other government. At some point we're going to need a government that is going to invest in the people that live here.

Is it because of the misogyny embedded in the system?

The sheer number of Americans who are making comments entirely focused on the cost of these things and what that's taking away from *America* and not the fact that's 20 missiles fired by Americans to murder people of other countries.

Remind me again... which nation was busy building the ferries that Nicola Willis cancelled?🤔🤬 We won't be getting any favours when we have to beg for fuel, and none of it will be discounted. Thanks Nicola.💩💩 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

From Kassie, Nadia and the team at ActionStation #nzpol 🧵 Over the past week, the leadership of Christopher Luxon has been called into question in the polls and the media.  Aotearoa is no longer buying what his government is trying to sell us, and here’s 99 reasons why:

Are we back on track yet?

David Seymour on Aotearoa’s colonial legacy: “Māori should shut up about it.” David Seymour on the legacy of the COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates: “Look, people need to be heard.”

If you take money from fascists, you’re a fascist party.

why is it that when it's some cryptofascist white dude doing the most heinous shit he's an expat, and when it's a poor brown person literally just trying to not die they're an immigrant. #nzpol

Guess I'll be referring to TOP as 'The Opportunities for Pedos' party from here on out. Gotta say, these entitled losers playing six degrees of separation with Epstein sure doesn't come as a surprise.

Bro bro just one more inquiry bro I promise one more inquiry will show that the cookers are right please bro I promise one more just one more

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Who, other than literally everyone, could have predicted this? And yet Labour would still rather sneer at the Greens than rule out a coalition with NZ First 🙄 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Starting to get the feeling that having carparks directly in front of businesses may in fact be bad for both businesses and people. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

say what you will about Gacha games but Hoyo makes that shit run on a potato

Why does the NZ media and government run the country down so much? Both national inquiries and international evaluations consider our response to be among the best in the world and yet here are these clowns constantly belittling the effort and the outcome.

Just noting the NZ Greens have been consistently clear that changes that will impact how much sick leave people get will disproportionately impact women. Following on from this, in a Covid wave scenario this disproportionately increases health risk to women. Yet another clear reason to vote Green.

Stop party donations. We’re a rich enough country that this shouldn’t be necessary or allowed.

Remember on top of this the Coalition is removing voting rights from tens of thousands of people and making it much harder to vote for hundreds of thousands more #nzpol

Shane Jones accidentally breaking diplomatic relations with the United States by loudly coming out in favour of mining the Straits of Hormuz.

"Have you ever decluttered and realised just how much the mess had boxed you in? And when you come home to that more open, brighter space, you feel like you can finally breathe? "Wellington is our home, and it's cluttered–with abandoned buildings, with out-of-date ideas, and especially with cars."

I'm a *little* bit wary of making laws specificly about nationalities, but what if we made a law that says rich americans don't get to make political donations, and instead are summarily executed the moment they try?

The level of lying on Facebook from National over the Covid report is extreme and frightening and I hope some in the media have the guts to write about it. It's absolutely not normal and is a MASSIVE red flag for the state of democracy and political norms in the country #nzpol

That answers the question about who's been bankrolling TOP's recent unwarranted media blitz. I wouldn't trust TOP as far as I could throw them. Any party willing to cozy up to right wing grifters who've got wealthy via incredibly dodgy grifts deserves to die an ignominious death on election day.

I sincerely don't give a fuck what state Nicola Willis leaves the books in. There is a significant problem with homelessness that needs to be addressed. It is not unreasonable to expect Labour to make some damn commitments to support existing housing programmes that can take action from day one.

Women's movement? You mean 'gestures broadly'?

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

The comparison of how long the gallery hounded Luxon compared to say Metiria Turei, Golriz Gharaman, Kiri Allen or an INCREDIBLE LIST of non-white non-dudes seems... interesting. Let's go with 'interesting.' #nzpol

let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons

*takes long drag on a spaceman cigarette* I'm not like the other monks I'm a cool monk