That's how it's done. www.mass.gov/snap-benefit...

It would be nice if the media could stop applauding Erica Stanford for 'being decisive' and 'getting things done.' Then the government might stop feeling the need to announce a new, hastily rushed through and deeply flawed education re-set every 3 months.

One could certainly argue that $20 billion in tax breaks to landlords is an attack on all kiwis, but—

Its almost like they were... a TAX 🤯 #tariffs #taxes

With all the milestones, how extraordinary this is can get lost! Last Sunday on the BBC I announced we overtook the Tories at 124k members. That's +26,000 members in the last week. Hope is feeling normal again....

Important context: this was for native ads only, does not include spend for events, or traditional ad placements (e.g. the ubiquitous oil ads in The Daily).

Crowing about removing the concept that "Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories has been shaped by the use of power", I guess means Act subscribes to the 'no thoughts, head empty' theory of history as a series of random events that include 'Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece' where no power was exercised.

Look at this graph, Reform almost all of them went to Private School. If you are Working Class and you vote for Reform, you are a traitor, to yourself. Or as we call them, a bloody fool.

This will lead to more homeless people. And potentially suicides :( These people with chronic illnesses and injuries have very hard lives, why are we punching down to make them harder.

I am sure NZME will be already working tirelessly to clear up any misconceptions and confusion around the scope of the propsed Capital Gains Tax for tomorrow's edition

“A message built on fairness, community and national purpose resonated with voters, and a comfortable majority voted for it. That matters not just for us in Wales, but for progressives everywhere. The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future.” #nzpol

A friend of mine has been recruited to this new task force. It's lovely that she has a job after 9 months of unemployment, and I don't want to burst her regular income bubble, but as soon as she told me what the role was I cringed. Bloody awful.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

I've been critical of the Daily Mail in the past, but I think the honesty displayed here is admirable.

That is a lot of money, even for one of the richest countries in the world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looks like rewriting the maths curriculum twice in one year, is going about as well as expected... "The letter [from maths education experts] said the rewrite contained multiple errors, and wasted the time and money already spent implementing the [new] curriculum." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Next we're just going to teach history without the people in it Makes everything so much simpler

One of the things I find worst about this is that it paints the existing curriculum as some kind of politically-slanted brainwashing exercise. But I know the man who drove the new curriculum - he just wanted NZ kids to know their own history

This is the protest march that an Australian court just ruled 'inoffensive' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I understand that the Capital Gains Tax policy was leaked, taking Labour by surprise. But this post does seem horribly prescient... Right now most New Zealanders sensibly think a capital gains tax is a good idea, but after 18 months of concerted messaging from landlords with no defense...

Your high power bills are a political choice. "We’re Digging Deeper to Make Your Power Bill Steeper!" is a literal description of how the Luxon Government and the Big Four power companies are colluding to keep you paying more.

Holly heck-a-loo-la, look at this storm for Thursday NZ. 150km/hr+ winds! C/- @weatherwatchnz.bsky.social (essential viewing) youtu.be/d1JP_qTXZbs?...

In relation to Ministers criticizing unions for striking instead of 'negotiating'. If you claim that you are open to negotiating (i.e., you book a meeting) but then simply say 'This is our final offer, we will not make any changes.' That is not a true negotiation. That's a lie to undermine workers.

Genuinely horrifying malevolence. NZ is being pulled into violence and complicity in Trump administration crimes. We didn’t ask for this and it’s not in our name.

Simeon Brown is forcing Health NZ to sign 10 year contracts with private hospitals - meaning it will be very difficult for a future government to back out of the contracts. But the evidence is clear, privatised healthcare costs more and delivers worse outcomes: www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

This is pretty damning - Te Whatu / Health NZ - publicly said that budget increases were due to 'over-recruiting nurses' while also refusing to release staffing numbers. The data actually showed more than a third of all nursing shifts were under staffed. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Woah! Never mind the apology (actually, do) what about this? "more than half of all day shifts and more than a third of evening shifts between January and November last year were understaffed." No wonder nurses are on strike. More power to them! Get more of them ASAP.

They banned plastic straws to save the turtles, and then quietly approved seven major coal mine expansions in just 90 days, locking in enough carbon to double Australia’s annual emissions. That’s like quitting heroin… and replacing it with a full-blown meth habit. #auspol #ClimateCrisis

What is a sentence from your home place that everyone would understand yet would leave foreigners baffled? I believe ours is "Always blow on the pie"

Targeting a hospital and then minutes later targeting the rescue team providing assistance to the people they just bombed is a level of evil I didn’t think was imaginable

Good submission from the Future is Rail on Te Waihanga: The National Infrastructure Plan - this is the reason we cannot have nice transport things. 1) We spend too much on roads, not enough on rail (or other modes).

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

We've reached "Batman" levels of villainy 👀👀👀 #NZPol

"All our staff got out safely. But that group probably lost more than 50 family members. Every single one of them had their house destroyed and some would appear to have been targeted strikes" AFP's Phil Chetwynd on AFP's staff journalists in Gaza reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/starved...

Why doesn't a shadowy foreign entity or eccentric billionaire ever decide to fund an army of bots / true-information accounts promoting effective and accurate solutions to the climate crisis? Surely it's in their rational interest to maintain any semblance of a stable climate/human society.

The climate advice they didn't want you to see. [finally, six days before I finish up, I get to use that headline formula 😅] www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I think it says a lot about NZ's Green Party being environment/ecosystem/science based rather than some of the cultural trends in other countries, that the Green Party had the fewest voters who had never had a covid vaccination 0.34%. 32.5% of NZ First voters say they never had a covid vaccination.

You can structure the delivery model however you want, make the model as racist as NACT have done, but the work of fixing our water infrastructure is the work, and it was always going to be expensive. Don't make promises you can't keep Simon Watts. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Great piece by Simon Wilson www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/david-sey...

Over 40 mil years old, is rated by DOC’s own scientists as one of the top 50 most ecologically valuable sites on mainland #nz. It is home to many rare and threatened species including roroa, (great spotted kiwi), and 18 plant communities. #stopthefasttrack #endcoal #climatecrisis #climatejustice

📢 A couple of days ago #BathurstResources gave up on their attempts to intimidate with bird scarers & alarms and Rach & Tāmati again got to hear the wildlife on the #DennistonPlateau. 🐌 🌳 ⛰️ This is just a small part of the wonder of the wild space that is Denniston Plateau. #climatecrisis #nz

NEW SHIRT ALERT AND IT'S EELS THIS TIME BC Y'ALL SAID YOU WANTED EELS AND I LOVE THEM EEL CYCLES depicts the beautiful and strange transformative life stages of a longfin eel, from ocean egg through to freshwater adult...and $3 from each shirt will be donated to Forest & Bird <3 pepperraccoon.com

A mighty effort by Rach and Tamati to protect nature, the #climate and our planet from the rapacious greed of coal mining company Bathurst Resources, its overseas shareholders, and its corrupt enablers in the #CoalitionOfChaos! We can all play our part to #ProtectDenniston and #KeepTheCoalInTheHole

Talk of limiting teachers’ right to strike alongside the scrapping pay equity reflects a broader pattern: undermining mechanisms that address the structural undervaluation of women-majority workforces. It's all the same misogyny. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

“Pay equity is not optional. Our livelihoods should never be on the political chopping block. 132 years and one day after women secured the right to vote in Aotearoa, we gather again in strength and solidarity.” NZ: The Women’s Day of Action is happening in September. Nationwide event details/RSVP👇

how to cause a general strike: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

This is unforgiveable incompetence: NZ has spent $671m to get no ferries, rather than $551m to get new ferries that would be arriving within months to replace clapped-out ferries. This sort of mismanagement should bring down a government; amazingly, it's not even the worst example of their failings