We're on lettuce watch now.

Smith's interview on Nine to Noon: "If Parliament can cancel a live court case then no legal claim is secure ... once it becomes politically inconvenient." #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

"It's an affront to democracy," he said. "If Parliament can cancel a live court case, then no legal claim is secure at all, once it becomes politically inconvenient."" ( Add yet another Trumpist circumvention of legal restraints on excutive power to [ tinyurl.com/NZHTrump ]) #nzpol

Winston Peters lying to the public is bad. But his lies are supported by media that not only doesn't challenge his lies, it *boosts them instead.* And grants them the legitimacy of being published 'in the news,' unchallenged. Lying MPs with media machinery behind them is SUPER TERRIFYING #nzpol

#nzpol There is nowhere more comforting and warm for this coalition to reside than in the upper parts of Trump’s corrupted arsehole

newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/12/a... We're facing many climate issues, increased flooding risks, a law change stopping lawsuits and a recent decision allowing even more enchroachment of farm animals into wetlands. positive changes need to happen at speed. #nzpol

The New Zealand government’s Policing Amendment Bill gives the police such broad powers of surveillance — without a warrant — that people in Aotearoa may infrastructure like this before too long. Join @nzccl.org.nz to support their work resisting this dystopia. #nzpol

When a Government tells you they can find money for landlords and tobacco companies but not for our rangatahi, they’re telling you where their values lie. #nzpol

Every damned day is fresh hell for anyone who cares about life, human and non human alike #nzpol Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

I can only conclude that most of our media don't understand what climate change is going to do to their kids' lives because our government are ABSOLUTE TRUMPIST CLIMATE DENIERS and it's mostly just been shrugs #nzpol

The bill doesn't seem to have been introduced yet, but it sure would fit with the first two items on today's Order Paper. #NZPOL

Our donor loving govt has: Systematically destroyed emissions reducing policies. Crashed the carbon price. Subsidised high emitters. Put up $200 cash for fossil fuel exploration. Will tax billions for LNG. And is now outlawing climate litigation. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

I know I shouldn’t read the comments section but people saying “oh she didn’t declare a conviction” are unhinged. How in your brain do you think that entitles any entity to detain you in prison without contact with family or lawyer WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK EVEN MASS MURDERERS ARE ALLOWED LAWYERS.

That Nicola Willis thinks she knows better than the OECD shows how captured by special interests she is #nzpol

In this week’s edition of ‘why is Paul Goldsmith a cunt’ #nzpol Government changes climate law to prevent lawsuits www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Young people: we feel betrayed by the government NZ Labour: we will absolutely not fix this for you Why would young people vote for a party that treats them with contempt?

Fuckin' hell. This one guy. I bet he's already got a book deal sorted for his memoir. #NZPol

In his latest, @connorsharp.bsky.social looks at another cost of the government's RoNS mania: deaths and serious injuries that could have been avoided with low-cost safety improvements that were sidelined by "a myopic focus on over-scoped highways". www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/05/12/t...

RUCs need to be tied to the weight of the vehicle Drive a small EV then sweet cheap RUCs Drive a wankpanzer Dodge Ram? You will be RUC'd out of existence Drive a KEI, sweet you might actually get a RUC subsidy Drive a 54 tonne H Class truck, yeah some stiff RUCs for you mate

Hard no to see that Hipkins is being led into traps he probably can’t avoid. The govt knows he’s unlikely to commit to restoring stuff until he sees the books. So they axe stuff knowing Hipkins, trying to be responsible, will look weak by not committing to restore policies.

Since his groundbreaking address to the Brazilian congress in 1987, the 72-year-old Indigenous leader has challenged assumptions and championed rights, urging us to ‘have the courage to change’

"Former Prime Minister Helen Clark wrote that at a party in the Minister of Finance's office, ... "The aftermath - one was later hounded from her job. The other wasn't. All in the context of public media being undermined. Shameful."" #NZPol

We see this play out week in week in across NZ, it’s racism in action & it’s swept under the carpet. “Wāhine Māori are often expected to operate at exceptionally high standards while simultaneously navigating hostility, undermining behaviour, reputational attacks and procedural harassment,” #nzpol

From Josh Drummond in 2023, pertinent and chilling. Worth a reread or a first read. “Turei was young, brown, a woman. She had the trifecta, and consequently, she was held to a different standard.” #nzpol 1/n

“That’s the Turei test in action. New Zealand’s political media, in their slavish, semiconsious devotion to the status quo, will make damn sure that other young, brown, female politicians are subjected to it too.” 2/2 #nzpol www.tworuru.com/bad-newslett...

The NZ Govt charges the same Road User Charge to a small electric car as it charges a giant 3.5 tonne diesel SUV. Giant cars cause more road damage, more injuries and deaths to pedestrians, cyclists and children, more climate and air pollution. It is a bizarre subsidy and it needs to change.

8 in 10 countries have named the United States the world’s number-one threat. allianceofdemocracies.org/democracy-pe...

NZ: hi-viz, hard hat and goggle to go within even half a mile of a defunct refinery Singapore, active refinery: PPE? lmao, the potential hazard is a 5 kilometre wide fireball.

In which the apparently woke and Marxist OECD knows more than National in regards to gas newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/11/o...

“Did it understand the extra grind that Māori operators endure to do the same job as their peers? Did it understand the taonga it had in Maiki, and how to protect her and her mahi? And how will it address the vacuum her departure has left?“ Miriama Kamo, as always, with important questions: (🎁 link)

Goldsmith interfering in Judiciary independence because National donors keep having their arses handed to them in court

The important thing for Kiwis to remember is that Winston Peters is backing the Trump administration in its treatment of Wihongi #nzpol

My cartoon on today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... A lot of people are feeling despondent & rightfully angry. The opposition needs to get its shit together as many don't believe they're doing anything to push back on the destruction of our motu. #NzPol #Cartoon #WheresWally

“I stand today acknowledging the legacy of wahine Māori leadership that stretches across generations,” Houpapa told the Tribunal. #nzpol 1/n

“The issues that confronted wahine Māori then, the exclusion from governance and leadership, institutional racism and sexism, cultural bias and the questioning of Māori women’s authority, sadly continue today.” #nzpol

If that's the speech Starmer needed to save his premiership, he is sunk. Equating the Greens with Reform will infuriate voters who abandoned Labour. The man who kicked pensioners and disabled people says: "We got the big political decisions right". Incoherent and dull.

"A.l. represents...a vision of a near-total takeover of the country's economic, social and cognitive lives by tools engineered by just five companies, run by five particular people, several of whom are widely described as sociopaths" #AI #DataCentre #Billionaires www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...

Policing Am't Bill 45C (1) A Police employee lawfully on private property may record, by any means, anything that they (a) can see or hear there; 45D police EMPLOYEES can record info they consider WILL OR MAY support #NZpolice in performing a function or police activity. Not just cops #NZpol

Last to speak NZ Policing Amendment Bill is Mana Mokopuna Children's Commissioner, Dr Claire Achmad reminding Justice Select Committee of duty to children + need for NZ law that complies with treaties like #UNCROC + Te Tiriti. Bill as is likely to lead to abuse. #NZpol vimeo.com/showcase/107...

There you have it. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NZ

Highly relevant to the NZ situation too, given the similar constitutional issues. How would the NZ public service respond to a populist government that decided to rip up things we might assume are politically untouchable?

“ I think we really have to break away from that mindset that this is social support, this is a handout for poor families, and actually look at how much this would benefit all of our kids.” #nzpol

Does NZ PM Luxon understand and approve of Internal Affairs Minister Brooke Van Velden undermining Critical Infrastructure that Rural Aotearoa New Zealand rely on before, during, and after natural disasters? Does he know what #Marae are? #MaraeFunding cut! #NZpol www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/05/06/d...

‘Outrageous’: Hipkins calls out David Seymour’s comments about RNZ and Maiki Sherman #nzpol

#NZPol Imagine if political pundits reported the facts on how well the govt is doing instead of just regurgitating press releases.

“Emergency services, hospitals, banks, transport operators and electricity generators were among those who would have prioritised access to fuel if the ongoing crisis worsened” also the ‘wealthy & sorted’ who want to get to holiday homes because being rich is stressful & holidays essential. #nzpol

Media please note that “Consular officials are in regular contact with the individual and their family” is a blatant lie because it was reported today that no one can locate the individual. This is a NZ citizen who has been kidnapped by the US - it’s untenable. Media must get much louder. #nzpol

It’s so good to see an authoritative figure on media explaining what the science says. I read the same literature. It’s easy to find online. #hunta #andes #nzpol youtu.be/rO4Xd5PfIo0?...

#NZpol “This is not random abuse” ⏫ Please absorb ⏫ "She said the abuse included racist and misogynistic slurs spread across social media and amplified through political and media discourse. “It reflects a broader pattern of systemic racism and misogyny directed at wāhine Māori in public life.”

Ive met some extremely wealthy people who are, for want of a better term, thick as pig shit, and i know plenty of very very smart people who are not wealthy. There is no connection between the two.