I'm ashamed of our government. Today supporting an illegal war is a nail in the coffin. This is not the NZ of nuclear free, of anti apartheid, of the Treaty of Waitangi Act. This is neo-liberals and populists run amok. Not the country I want nor that I'm willing to excuse #nzpol

So our NZ government is blaming Iran for getting attacked. #nzpol

There will be more wars.

2026 is the year of the horse The horse

2026 is the year of the horse The horse

Ok. So... where are they meant to move on to? #nzpol

When government ministers dismiss deadly storm events as "just weather", as Mark Mitchell did on RNZ just now, they reveal themselves to be unfit for government. It's thinly veiled climate denial.

It is almost as though the very climate itself is changing

Oh, the review about monetary policy when Labour were last in government is now coming out in September, in the run up to the election? That's not suspicious at all.

What's the song?! Burning down the house?

What's wrong with this picture, #NZPOL ?

Teanau Tuiono just announced at Waitangi the launch of the Te Oranga Tohorā Bill, giving legal personhood to whales, honouring a request from Kiingi Tuheitia. Fantastic response!

Once again, Government acts in the interests of their wealthy and sorted donors, rather than ordinary citizens and a future for life on Earth www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is an up-close photo of Saturn's rings, but it also shows so much more. Those two little dots are actually the Earth and Moon as seen from over 1.4 billion kilometers away by the Cassini spacecraft. Everything you know and love is on that dot. #Astronomy ⚛️🧪

Fixed the headline: Councillor skips planning session at Marae because he is racist

The current rāhui at Mauao prohibits people from climbing the maunga or swimming near it. There is an ongoing risk of further landslides. Secondly, there is a search still under way for those missing. Members of the public should not be near ongoing rescue efforts.

"We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate risk reduction, incl. binding emissions cuts, adaptation plans, and a national programme to stabilise vulnerable landscapes using science-informed, Indigenous-led land stewardship." manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... #nzpol

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Perfectly noted.

If Greenland, Denmark, or the EU blink even once, Trump will move in on Greenland. They need to be lockstep on this. The USA is a gloves off imperialist & fascist state now

All Greenland political parties have come out together against US colonisation. If it was NZ that Trump demanded, the Act Party would be actively working to sell us to the US.

Hold on, I thought we were all meant to get back to the office

1939 headline: What Germany military action in Poland could mean for NZ lamb prices

Our absent PM everybody:

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Has anybody tried turning 2026 off and on again. Maybe giving it a little thump if that doesn't improve anything.

Yep and first NY prediction already ticked off on 4 Jan

Maduro was a dictator & a danger to the Venezuelan people, & it is good if he is gone Countries arbitrarily kidnapping other countries' heads of state is illegal & a dangerous precedent Both of these things are true today

So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to the FIFA Peace Prize. 😑

The "backbone of the NZ economy" is stolen Maaori land.

Now here’s a New Year. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Level of trust I'm bringing into 2026

To be clear, this year will likely be worse than last year. Happy New Year.

No great revelation, but the Epstein files releases really hammers home that men with money and influence think they're bulletproof and don't think of other people as humans, just objects

Literally.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I guess people can live under Bishop's bridge that he spent $27M of Kāinga Ora funding on. So in some ways it is social housing. #nzpol

This is basically our government's plan to help people get into their first home

Umm, this seems problematic. Any views you might want to tell us about, Breakers?

Former National MP Simon O'Conner celebrating the launch of Elon Musks far-right alternative to Wikipedia

Bye the Fitz. I have some good and bad memories.

Eww, don't invite Trump to NZ, Luxon. We don't want that tosser here #nzpol

The fundamentals of our government, no workers on WorkSafe board They are a death cult that cares nothing about kiwis. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Unsurprisingly it turns out there are no trustworthy billionaires. Bill Gates can get in the ocean like the rest of them