You know, if we taxed high wealth, a lot of hoarders would have to sell their portfolios in a buyers market… #nzpol www.interest.co.nz/public-polic...

So a while back Owen Savage reached out and offered to design a new website for us--and we said YES! So we are extremely pleased to announce that we have a new website! Thanks so much to Owen for his work on this--we love the new look!

In AotearoaNZ we’ve already witnessed 5 of these RW political tactics. ~Using Psychological abuse ~Using Isolation ~Using Minimisation ~Using Children ~Using Privilege Let’s not gamble with the rest… #nzpol #Aotearoa #NewZealand #CultureWars #HumanityFirst #Kotahitanga #OneTermGovernment

Here’s my daily newsletter, podcast and email. Why didn’t the Government look at a solar and battery option instead of LNG? It would have been much faster and cheaper and the new Ruakaka battery shows it can soften wholesale price inflation. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/thursdays-...

Animal agriculture is wrecking the planet and the media is helping by saying nothing. Silence is complicity.

Feeling stressed? Here are some otters enchanted by a butterfly.

Affordable city! How about it - who do you think might try this for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland? #nzpol

GOLDBERG: One of the things I've heard you talk about is making the city affordable and that you're gonna put a tax on people who make over a million bucks MAMDANI: With an exception for Joy

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

Jane Goodall on Donald Trump: “I see the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he’s competing for dominance with another

Price check: how a public grocery chain would disrupt NZ’s supermarket duopoly

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

Comment from Auckland University: Students starting to learn with AI is the difference between using a calculator after understanding math versus never learning math because calculators exist.

How it started.... How it's going .... 💪⚖️🗳️👻

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Alas my pots found no love at the local arts centre gift shop . . . so they are back on Felt! Give a peek and get ahead of your holiday gift shopping! felt.co.nz/shop/tilbury...

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (40s?) is chilling with friends. She casually says: "You can totally spank a wombat." Her friend says: "What do you mean?! Have YOU spanked a wombat" She laughs: "I have spanked a wombat. With permission. They've got a really hard butt." (1)

#nzpol Stanford fails schools again

#nzpol Stanford fails schools again

The point when RNZ comes into it's own is crisis There is a reason that RNZ last peaked during Covid, when everyone needed to know what was going on and also had the time to tune in and listen for long periods The dream of a youth audience? Are you kidding? It's 2025

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

Wayne Brown flip-flopping over whether he will last the full term if re-elected. Aucklanders, we deserve a mayor who is committed to the job for the entire term. Don’t vote for this flake. #nzpolitics www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#NZpol "Some of the vessels will be sunk at sea" says to me, given the actions of the Israeli government over the other flotillas, the method of how to actually carry that out may be VERY loosely interpreted. This *isn't* the "most moral army in the world" after all, despite their BS propaganda.

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time? BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

⚡️🇿🇦🇫🇷JUST IN: South Africa’s Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, died after “falling” from the 22nd floor of a Paris hotel today. Prosecutors say his room’s sealed window had been forced open. Footage of him speaking at a student event for Palestine.

Trae Crowder 😎💙👏 Here’s my cliff notes summary of Pete Hegseth’s big military address today

For a NZ politician to claim NZ can't rely on sun, wind, rivers, tides, and geothermal for power is gaslighting on a majestic scale

Luxon was the boy who stole your homework and blamed the dog for eating his. “Forty-one days before the Prime Minister sent Labour a letter pleading for a “credible, bipartisan approach” to solving the gas shortage, Labour had sent one to his energy minister asking for the same.’” #nzpol

Hegseth basically forced more than 800 top military commanders to sit for a MAGA pep rally.

S.N.A.F.U. "FENZ spent millions of dollars and five years shipping the 28 medium-sized fire trucks - called a Type 3, the fleet workhorse - to Britain to get them fitted out. They have now returned to New Zealand, with stations with old trucks that keep breaking down expecting them." #nzpol

Like Trump, the Luxon Govt wants to tax us to pay for subsidies for fossil fuel cos: Oil/gas exploration subsidies; LNG import facility subsidies; new coal generation subsidies. Meanwhile it cancelled the Gas Transition Plan; NZ Battery Project; Offshore Wind; Govt Investment to Decarbonise Industry

How much did this report cost us? Absolutely worth reading to the last well-deserved, scathing last paragraph. #nzpol "There is no grand vision behind the reform package announced Wednesday, beyond perhaps a commitment by the Government to double down on fossil fuels..."

"Building a short section of cycleway, or proposing to take away a car park, gets more column inches in the media – and more scrutiny from both local and central government politicians – than any multi-billion-dollar mega-project ever experiences. All of this is the opposite of how it should be."

A public service announcement about why you shouldn’t defame a lawyer

Wonder where our current Mayor and leading candidate Wayne Brown sits in the out-of-touch scale… #nzpol

Global Peace Index Determined by 25 indicators including societal safety, extent of ongoing domestic & international conflict, degree of militarization, absence of violence, stable political environments, minimal corruption, high societal trust, and harmonious external relations

Ten days to drop your votes back to a library or a Woolworths! (7 days for a post box). Nice chatting to Birkenhead residents getting on the ferry on this beautiful morning. Look I know voting isn’t always the sexiest thing to, but it’s super important.

Wonder where our current Mayor and leading candidate Wayne Brown sits in the out-of-touch scale… #nzpol

The simple answer is obscene wealth. TAX THE FUCK OUT OF THE TOP 2%!!!! #nzpol #Kikorangi

Birdle 🇳🇿 01/10/2025 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 birdle.nz Wow for me!

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Wayne Brown is not a serious candidate for the biggest city in Aotearoa NZ #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Wayne Brown is not a serious candidate for the biggest city in Aotearoa NZ #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Defense officials were shocked at the cost and danger of assembling the military’s top officers to listen to meandering tirades.

Payment surcharge ban will raise prices www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/payment-s... Payment surcharge ban will raise prices, reduce competition between big and small businesses, officials warned We warned you. Hiding the problem doesn’t fix the problem.

Also being utterly hopeless at bowling despite claiming to be 'great'.

as reported in webworm today, the nz media council has ruled against RNZ, saying it lacked balance and fairness in its reporting over the death of trans teen alex. hopefully this encourages RNZ to look at all their reporting on trans issues - they need to (www.webworm.co/trainhopping/)