Because there is nothing they can't make much worse #nzpol

It's gonna be a chocca night! The Green Party Chief of Staff has resigned only days after Benjamin Doyles Valedictory speech. On the DL Jim Grenon has acquired even more of NZME shares... Luxon and Erica talk all things construction #nzpol youtube.com/live/sLqbu_W...

"I can't represent their views, so I just become one individual expressing my opinion. That's not consultation. That's a sham process that allows the ministry to claim they've consulted with the sector when they haven't," she said. #nzpol

"If something isn’t getting a return, the government should sell it so we can afford to buy something that does." I give money to the government so that we can all have a better life, not so that the government can "get a return". #NZPol

Franks reposting Charles Murray. Murray wrote The Bell Curve. The Bell Curve is a discredited promotion of eugenics in thinly veiled pseudoscientific IQ drivel. Stephen Franks is endorsing a eugenicist. #nzpol

Seriously, why do people who (correctly) don't tolerate shenanigans from their children keep swallowing the most rank piles of equine manure from politicians? #nzpol

Is your bucket list up to date?📜 The way politicians and corporations and billionaires are mistreating our planet's environment, humanity may not have much time left to enjoy Earth's Golden Days 🌏 🏞️ 🌞 😎 🔥 ⚱️ #NZpol Plans for coal, gas + oil mining risk climate 💥 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's not just office workers who are overwhelmed by too many competing priorities and technology delivered information overloads! Think of NZ health sector and demands on doctors and nurses! Simeon Says "Work Harder" but he hasn't given them a Time Machine! ⌚ #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...

US Republicans are hypocrites. Was Charlie Kirk a snowflake? Not ❄️, right? Did he argue for #FreeSpeech or for Silencing Critics? #USpol #USpolitics www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

I encourage you all to read this article. It sets out very clearly how intentional and concerning comments like Mooney’s are. NO sitting MP should be calling for the sacking of an academic in this way. #nzpol

My Picks ’n Mixes & Chorus today: Christchurch ED doctors plead for help over staffing, funding & space shortages; 'Patients leaving EDs after many hours & dropping dead in carpark'; Underfunding chosen to keep mortgage rates low #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/choosing-m...

We do not gotta hand it to Key but it illustrates just how far this current government have swung to the right in terms of not even remotely trying to build a tent and do anything long-term. They're only governing on spite and destruction; definitely fash-lite stuff. #nzpol

NZ PM Luxon refusing to meet NZCTU isn't just rude and unproductive, it also breaches international treaty ILO C144 signed by NZ in 1987. #NZpol Trade unionist says John Key met with him regularly but Luxon has refused archive.ph/bRdMN C144 Tripartite Consultation normlex.ilo.org/dyn/nrmlx_en...

How should Republicans show respect for Charlie Kirk? 🙏 For a start, they shouldn't seek to ban his critics, Charlie didn't. 🤔 Silencing Kimmel or any other critics is the greatest disrespect people can show Charlie Kirk! 🤐❌ #USpol #USpolitics www.bbc.com/news/article...

Have you heard of the weird attacks on #Freedom in parts of UK? Like swimming in open water? Or shouting? Seen as anti social behaviour in some rural council areas in England and banned! FYI @nzccl.org.nz www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Regulatory Systems (Transport) Amendment Bill empowers Parking Wardens to collect full name, address, electronic address, date of birth, mobile phone number of driver or person in charge of a vehicle. Fines will be texted or emailed even to old emails ... 🤔 #NZpol www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

#nzpol Do we have to do this all the time? beehive.govt.nz/release/20-mil… It’s not new funding. “the initiative will be funded from Health New Zealand’s baseline”. So it’s actually being cut from somewhere else. We already underfunded the health system at the Budget. This is a further cut

🥚: "Hey Nicola, you look after the fort while I go to a $1500/ plate dinner, OK? Ta." 🏛️ 👋 👩‍💼: 😒 #NZpol NZ PM Luxon left Parliament early to attend a $1500-a-head National Party donor dinner, hours after Stats NZ shared data NZ economy had shrunk. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Hobson's Pledge has resumed its repulsive pattern of stealing photos and lying about political positions, this time with a photo of campaigner for retaining Māori wards, New Plymouth District councillor Dinnie Moeahu. 😒 He wants voters to KEEP Māori wards! 🗳️ #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

#NZpol how easily has Tracy Watkins forgotten history, even of stories NZ Stuff has published! HT @fmacskasy.bsky.social

Free online jigsaw puzzle to complete for #PeaceDay #PeaceDay2025. Many more puzzles on their website for gentle relaxation. 🖼️ 🧩 😊 www.jigsawexplorer.com/puzzles/wish...

Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

If you search the FBI's website for "transgender" you see a list of crimes committed against transgender victims, many being described as Hate Crimes. Before Trump trans people weren't seen as threats. Violence by all type of people has risen in USA #USpol #USpolitics www.fbi.gov/@@search?Sea...

"a relentless campaign of threats, break-ins, threats on their child, assaults, and police interventions that turned their life, and their child’s, into what they call “a tsunami” of fear." www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/09/21/a...

Note for NZ lawmakers including MPs, an "Explanatory Note" on a Bill has little to no legal weight. A Judge may pay attention to it if a case gets to Court but in general implementation of an Act relates only to what is in clauses not how an official reads them. #NZpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Two red flag candidates running for Hutt City Council. #psa #LowerHutt

Alarming US FBI falling for "Transgender violence hoax". US Heritage Foundation asked FBI to label “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism” #TIVE as domestic terrorism. 🙄 Trans folk more likely victims than attackers. 😢 98% mass shootings by cis men. 😒 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transge...

Cyclist conflict with Pedestrian have become more common as a result of both species habitats being taken over by the invasive species Automotive.

If you give a cyclist a cookie...

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Week in Review: Comment: As pressures mount from climate change, urban growth and pollution, nature-based solutions offer a way to protect our waterways.

I was once invited to debate Charlie Kirk too. I said no, because fuck him. I don't debate people's rights to exist and I don't debate fascists. The end.

David Bowie read constantly. Here are his favorites, as of 2013 when he posted this list. (According to the NYPL.) I find it interesting that I have read some of these authors but not necessarily the book Bowie liked best. www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01...

Second link: www.erininthemorning.com/p/republican...

Yet another indictment of the current government’s decision to host an FBI base in New Zealand - this is disgusting and anti-trans extremism has absolutely no place here. 🏳️‍⚧️

There's a lot of good reasons to mask up whenever you leave the house/office. Just sayin. #nzpol

A sad and yet hopeful story. We see the whānau's love and wish for the best care for their kaumātua, despite not agreeing on where he should live. I respect the judge's careful deliberation and respect shown in focusing on how koro's wairua will be best sustained.❤️ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/family-co...

Ray Chung's campaign manager Rhonda Fitzpatrick (of "Independent Together") alleges she was intimidated by Andrew Little during The Post’s Mayoral debate. Journos, photos and Diane Calvert say Not so. Article links Alt Right fringe groups to Chung. 🦇💩🤪 #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

2/2 Share this. Because Herald wrote something on it but paywalled it. #nzpol Also, I don’t understand how this kind of wreckless behaviour isn’t an immediately no-confidence type offence. They’ve thrown away our money to corporates then blamed Labour for the current austerity.

1/2 A Treasury document was released showing that this government has created more debt in 2 years than the last government did in 6 years. It has given away so much money to landlords, tobacco companies, oil & gas corporations, and the wealthy, that there isn’t much left to run the country. #nzpol

Interesting to see Luke Malpass in The Post criticise Luxon for overpromising and underdelivering. Malpass is right that Luxon's praise for Willis - best finance minister NZ’s ever going to have, outstanding, exceptional” - sounds like US-style enthusiasm. #NZpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

#nzpol #PayEquity

IMHO Nicola Willis is a skilled political operator. Regardless of her ability as Finance Minister, she has shown she can play a role to get a "father figure" to support her. 🙄 🥚 👨‍👧 #NZpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

A Strawpoll to swing on a boring Saturday afternoon if you celebrate www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... #NZPol

#nzpol “I think this government needs to stop and really take a look at the people, and work for the people that they're representing, because they're working for their big buddies with big money, they're not working for society.” www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#nzpol “[CTU Secretary Mellissa] Ansell-Bridges said this was "more than a protest — it is a celebration of the women who nurture, lead, and resist". "It honours the suffrage legacy and amplifies our collective power to shape the future." www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/20/p...