Louise Upston pushing down hard on state housing while claiming $1000/week to stay in her own apartment: #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

THEY'RE TAKING $390 MILLION AWAY FROM SOCIAL HOUSING TENANTS AND GIVING IT TO PRIVATE LANDLORDS WHO HAVE TENANTS RECEIVING THE ACCOMMODATION SUPPLEMENT - IT WONT GO TO THE TENANTS, IT GOES TO THE LANDLORDS NATIONAL ARE GIVING MORE PUBLIC MONEY TO LANDLORDS, INSTEAD OF SOCIAL HOUSING PROVIDERS

In over 30 years as a tech & business journo I've had hundreds of conversations with start-up aspirants, scale-up boosters and tech industry moguls here and overseas about Australian innovation prerequisites & funding. Not one ever mentioned #CGT subsidy. #auspol

Means testing is inefficient and people rich enough to afford accountants will slip through the net. Just give it to everyone, and claw it back from the wealthy via the existing tax system

AirBnB has appeared in front of the Wellington Council to lobby against the proposed rates increase for people who use their houses as small hotels and said the stupidest thing. (from this story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/595...)

Labour really should go hard on "Luxon is Trump's lapdog." It worked to win elections for bland center-left parties in Australia and Canada, and it would work here too. Really don't know why they're silent on this

OPINION: The hoiho, also known as takaraka or yellow-eyed penguin, holds a special place in Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural identity. Read more ⬇️

With all due Roy Morgan caveats, the demographics here are striking. National is polling 14% with women under 50 and 18.5% with men under 50. We're heading towards being a retirement village. www.roymorgan.com/findings/102...

Petrol and diesel cars fought for their lives in Norway but, as you can see, that smelly old Victorian technology ultimately lost the battle to EVs forever. I'm all for it and I love that's happening here too now. I also love how this is frightening some pretty evil businesses. Good.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Open mindedness would naturally lead toward less ‘diversity of thought’ because people would over time when exposed to information be more likely to think something which is well evidenced as true and less likely to think that there are Jewish space lasers or what have you

The problem with minarchist libertarianism is it relies on everyone just being rational and nice and honest and helpful and not dumping sewage in rivers, and the problem with that is...

PM says scheme was a failure but … um … fails to say how, why or what the goals were that it didn’t achieve. In short gives absolutely no information to justify the decision to axe the scheme. But then we’re not surprised by this failure to answer the fucking question. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

#NZ Greens “Green Budget” is fully costed & fantastic. Free GPs, Dentists & childcare. Less tax for 91%+ NZers, #climatechange action, conservation; $395/wk income guarantee; & the wealth tax is v similar to Australia’s! 💚❤️🖤#nzpol #PartyvoteGreen #TaxTheRichest www.greens.org.nz/green_budget...

@paulbarlownz.bsky.social makes some very good points in this 5 minute video around the dismantling of the BSA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkaq... #nzpol

It's wearying.

Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #UrbanTruth

This is starting to become a "throw everything we can into the shredder before we are thrown out" government.

Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online

What sort of weirdo salutes the flag? Not doing that bullshit is a fundamental kiwi value!

Hey remember when National campaigned on ditching regional councils and the BSA. Me neither.

CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

No government since at least 1987 has passed 30 or more laws without a select committee vet – until the coalition last month. newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/16/g...

My respect to the three women who spoke out to my colleague Alice Peacock at @newsroom.co.nz about their experiences working with Amisfield chef Vaughan Mabee. Many male chefs agreed his behaviour was "revolting" but did nothing. "Well, leave it to the girls then." newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/03/t...

this dude looks like the memories of Ted Faro you uncover in Horizon Zero Dawn

Meanwhile Jack Tame is out here doing a two minute segment on how much Luxo has failed to show up on Q+A www.youtube.com/shorts/VKlXb... #nzpol

Don't call it a capital gains tax. Call it an excess capital gains tax. See, politics is easy.

Finally good to have a journalist who is actually starting to grapple with the issues at stake and not parrot the Minister's PR.

We are now living the early libertarian jokes from circa 2008 like “Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, and Paul Ryan walk into a bar. They have a few drinks and then die from methanol poisoning due to a lack of government regulation.”

Hillary was right about everything.

Jones blames The Green Party. 🥳Heck yeah, thats an endorsement imo. That’s why I’m voting for them Jonesy, and not men like you that’d sell our environment down the toilet for donors and dollars. #nzpol Party vote Greens for a greener NZ 🎉🎉 #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is quite the graph (from newsroom.co.nz/2026/04/30/t...)

Yep.

EV share of new car sales in Singapore: 2021: 3.8% 2022: 11.7% 2023: 18.1% 2024: 34% 2025: 45% 2026 (1st 3 months): 60% Game over: 150 years of petrol dominance wiped out in 6 years

Unbelievable. The Luxon government has now granted a prospecting permit within Te Wāhipounamu, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

C/- SpiderHoof on the other site This is farking funny

Look. What I say to you is this. Utes kill at a rate seven times that of other light vehicles. It's their size, weight, 50 kph urban limits and diesel fumes. That's why we've done so much to promote them, destroy clean car sales and dump safer speeds. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It wasn't Treasury that made you announce $50 billion worth of trophy roads we can't pay for, and the Infrastructure Commission has already told you what a bad idea that is. I don't think either of them are the problem here. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Listening to @hotgpod.bsky.social last episode and summary of the life and reign of Maximilian I.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

The expensive and professionally printed protest signs tells me there is some significant funding for these people. Actual grassroots protests have handmade signs and a solid variety of slogans. Someone is funding this and feeding these ppl lies. Its shameful, whoever it is.