www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJg1... Look look... Jacinda Ardern is on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

"I don’t know about you, but paying $180 million a year for a project that delivers an annual $63 million (or $79 million) in benefits doesn’t sound like a very good deal." Today's post: Matt does the numbers on last week's report from Infrastructure NZ: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/09/22/g...

The real way to help children with autism and neurodivergence is to FUND SCHOOLS. Fund the welfare state. Create opportunities for parents to have an education and well paying jobs. More EAs in school, more doctors. Our society is anti-child, and this is why so many children are in burnout.

However, this emphatically not new, and it's very frustrating to study the inadequate acknowledgement of how Global Majority countries, and contexts were the Petri dishes for what now ails Western democracies too. Wrote more on LinkedIn lnkd.in/p/gcPfuYWx #SocialMedia #Democracy

"Under the pretext of flexibility and entrepreneurship, the global web of the platform economy and its deregulation model cements precarity as an essential feature of labour."

MP @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social reacts to the United Kingdom's recognition of Palestinian statehood.

"They have been saying Gaza's sky has been orange all night long" Hind Khoudary reporting a few minutes ago on Palestinians continuing to flee Gaza City

Gideon Levy says countries recognising the Palestinian state is lip service, & what they need to do is what they did to apartheid South Africa. Back BDS.

This is it, but people are too gullible and mindless to realize it.

Francesca Albanese speaking at Together for Palestine at Wembley Stadium

Phone message from Gaza City There’s no words for what is happening yet we keep trying to describe it for those who have the heart to listen in the hope that our inadequate words will convey something of the horror

You'll see me harp on about this 17min video till every NZ Labour Party member has watched & understood it. But you know the over arching feeling I got from the absolute doom & gloom of the people's predicament, optimism. You left this video feeling optimistic (as long as we can preserve Bernie)

News Update on the Sumud Flotilla from Juice Media #NZPol

POW! All new houses built in Tokyo after April 2025 must include solar power panels. Let's speed that up. Who's next? RT if you think more houses should get a solar powered upgrade. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

On 9 September 2025, Annalena Baerbock — who refused to enforce ICC arrest warrants for Israeli officials — assumed her post as President of the UN General Assembly. ✍️ Join the global movement to demand her resignation.

Sept 3, 2025-Dr Gideon Polya & Professor Richard Hill: Total death toll in #Gaza = 680,000+ 380,000 = infants under 5 99,000 = children over 5 63,000 = women 138,000 = men = #genocide #infanticide

100 Māori words every New Zealander should know #TeWikiOTeReoMāori

@thomaszimmer.bsky.social's analysis of the danger of the Administration seizing on this as a Reichstag fire moment (plus the discussion of the assassination of a German diplomat in 1938 leading to Kristallnacht) is a very compelling frame. Highly recommended read. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This cause is close to our heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/nz...

Perfect way to deal with Destiny Church

Harbour Bridge March postponed new route #FreePalestine

The hypocrisy as an expression of power is a thing, so the contradictions don't actually matter, but if David Seymour really wants to commemorate people killed for free speech in parliament, there have been over 270 journalists killed in Gaza. But I understand David Seymour might object to that.

What I'd just say to you is, many thanks to the media for never calling us out on this & instead platforming our oil and gas ban big lie as if it was the truth. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #StateMediaCapture #NZpol

A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.

A Palestinian couple in Tulkarem refugee camp lives in a converted bus after Israeli forces destroyed their home. Available in EN, DE, FR, IT and AR.

Anne Salmond:Climate sabotage- Last wk David Seymour called for NZ to leave the Paris agreement on climate change, while NZFirst flirted with climate denial. Yet already climate change is wrecking havoc on homes, businesses, infrastructure & our economy #nzpol #climate newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/11/a...

Add your name e te whānau - if you reckon Luxi-boy should be responding more proactively, to protect our whānau in Gaza 🇵🇸

Divide & Plunder: Understanding NZ's Right-Wing Turn: Many thought the #Coalition would tear itself apart through division & infighting but #NZGovt is united in its strategy to #divide the public & redistribute #wealth upwards #AtlasNetwork #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/elliotcr...?

Utter hypocrisy: “Putting aside the myth that government debt is always a bad thing, the fact that Nicola Willis’s incurred debt will be higher in less time, than 6 years of the Ardern Labour government combined, is another extraordinary feat of hypocrisy – and indeed, in context, incompetence.”

In my email & video today, which I’ve opened up immediately: The Govt is using 2018 data & including GST when saying health/GDP rose above OECD averages during Covid, a report finds, adding that 20-yrs of sinking-lid budgets have squashed wages & staffing. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-gasli...

🍃🌹🌿Important: #NZ: We have until Thursday 1pm to submit re voter suppression on the Electoral Amendment Bill #nzpol #Democracy #enrollments #RightToVote Submission Guide here- please make a submission-it’s easy & doesn’t have to be long: action.greens.org.nz/electoral_am...?

This is the full time series from Infoshare since 2012. comparing each quarter to 12 months prior for working out the percentage change in seasonally adjusted jobs over 12 months. Will there be a bunch of culture war distractions?

TPU's sinister but extremely adroit Facebook instrumentalisation (worryingly, for NZ'ers) matches what I've studied for decade+ in contexts/countries where far-right actors/networks have used similar content to promote harmful, divisive, corrupt, petrodollar, foreign, & party donor interests.

This long, translational experience of studying platform (& esp., Facebook) weaponisation helps contextualise Tax Payers' Union content on Facebook - showcasing the same dark patterns I studied in Sri Lanka which inexorably led to affective polarisation, economic ruin, & terrible violence. #nzpol

The global sumud flotilla, which is sailing to break Israels siege of Gaza, has been attacked while in Tunisian waters.

"Yes we need to tax wealth, but.. its not just about taxing wealth.. its also about addressing the underlying structure of our economy. Its no good just spending more public money where the money is routed straight back to the top 1%" @rmtunion.bsky.social's Eddie Dempsey at #TUC25. Spot on

“The Luxon-Willis Wrecking Ball: How Corporate Cronies Are Destroying Aotearoa's Economy” - 8 September 2025 From Air New Zealand's Boardroom to the Nation's Breakdown themaorigreenlantern.substack.com/p/the-luxon-...

OMG, Ingrid, you're asking Winston about reducing tax 2 inc Kiwisaver & u didn't ask him why he supported Willis decreasing the gvt's contribution in the budget? Winston said KS's been politicised by Nat & shd be worth more. So why is he in gvt with them? Wld this be a future bottom line? Hypocrite

Chris Bishop’s fast track law is designed so that applicant’s false information cannot be challenged by the public during the consenting process and hence a consent can be given based on fake information

Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4

Carbon bootprints: How #war is fuelling #climate catastrophe: The military-industrial complex’s vast carbon footprint is deliberately hidden from public view. Machines of destruction roll on, enriching merchants of death with every bomb manufactured, sold & detonated johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

Good summary from @bernardchickey.bsky.social on that as well youtu.be/oLIeGmcY-JI

Slovenian President slams the EU's silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza & wants to nominate Francesca Albanese & the doctors in Gaza for the Nobel Peace.👏 youtu.be/724Go5eF8VA?...

Those billions? Mostly the power bills. Dita De Boni on Amazon's datacentre re-announcement. archive.is/YBtEu www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...

(He was part of that of course, because…) Even more relevant and important: youtu.be/-fny99f8amM?...

Who are the parties wanting to #TAX NZers? Not Greens or Labour @NZGreens #GreenBudget means most NZers pay less tax, & get free GP, Dentists, Childcare, affordable housing & good, fair-paid jobs Why - it’s #ACT, #National & #NZFirst (now NZLast) Bernard Hickey: #nzpol

“No War on Venezuela!” Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International. Available in ES and EN.

This post is REALLY IMPORTANT, so please listen to Lt Col Aguilar, then share it widely. He was the GHF whistle-blower who exposed the shooting of Palestinians queuing for aid. All Government's must act very quickly. Waiting for the UN vote will be far too late. www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...