Brown and Meager poncing round proudly announcing opening of new Chch Cardiac Cath lab commissioned under Labour. Media gives them all the glory. Same with Tauranga Cath lab that opened in July. #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

From denying Somalia had a president to making up a story, President Trump is a lying buffoon. No one should take this embarrassing fool seriously

Protect New Zealanders on the Sumud Flotilla – Act Now! #Nzpol Email Coalition leaders today to demand urgent action for the safety of Kiwis onboard 🔵 click on the link below using your phone. It will open your mail app with all the recipient details and the email body. 👉 cbty.short.gy/KDasH5

If the answer is increasing GST in any way, then once again it's neo-liberalism ensuring money continues to flow from the bottom to the top. GST should be cut, not increased.

i think this picture, from a public promo stream for a video games starring one of the most popular comic book characters of all time owned by the disney corporation, should be used on every single story about storefronts taking down lgbt content

In today’s NZ Herald

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Someone is going to have to pay to keep the country's finances in order, says Treasury, and since it obviously can't be landlords or tobacco companies or the wealthy, we're afraid it's going to have to be you.

I hope anyone who still thinks Peters has principles calls him out for this bs. What disgusts me the most is that Peters is very much using this moment (like with everything he does) to soak up attention. "Will he or not?" is a game he loves to play, it's just now he's playing with genocide, ffs.

"Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors." -Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Shout-out Pacific Film Festival NYC who screened Picking Crew as part of their collection of shorts last week. Appreciate the inclusion without breaching the terms of our US premier. Especially knowing it was received by our Polynesian community abroad. This makes me so happy.

Proud to announce my short film Picking Crew will have its American premier at Hawai'i International Film Festival (HIFF) next month. If you're in the region please go and check it out. Thanks to my producers working tirelessly to get this film in front of global audiences hiff.org/events/picki...

STFU Luxon.

Last night on TDS, John Stewart had former NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern as a guest. A wonderfully smart & empathetic woman. She said: “Acknowledging your history isn’t an unpatriotic act. It’s a way of saying ‘I love my country & I can do better.” Let’s not cancel history. Let’s do better.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

We used to be the country that punched way above its weight internationally, e.g. being anti nuclear weapons, anti-apartheid, Covid response etc. Now, we wait like cowards looking to see if the bully gets beaten by someone else. Our govt is useless. #nzpol

How could such an experienced journalist get it so wrong? frankmacskasy.substack.com/p/the-hair-b...

everything changed, everything destroyed, everything gone

Just going to have this as a daily affirmation stuck on my mirror.

A reminder that the brutal occupation of #WestPapua and the ongoing persecution of Indigenous Papuans is a horror that is largely undocumented & invisibilised. Like so much black suffering, furthest away in proximity to Whiteness, their revolution has NOT been televised. #FREEWESTPAPUA #Oceania

If thats how he's made America great again, his Trump steaks must have been made of sawdust and tasted like shit. Trump sux.

RSE workers win landmark case over unlawful wage deductions by their employer - Pick Hawkes Bay. #nzpol Brave workers. 5 years of their lives on this case for justice Pick Hawke’s Bay is a ‘not for profit’ profiteering off RSE workers by being really despicable greedy humans & employers imo.

The right hand column is annual gdp growth per annum. The left is quarterly… I don’t think they know what they’re doing 💭🤨 #nzpol #ResignNicola #OneTermGovernment #Election2026

An illustration for our times

Israel’s recent strike in Yemen reportedly killed 31 journalists – one of the deadliest attacks on the press in over a decade. As we fight to protect the freedom of the press at home, we must also do so abroad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/19/yemen-journalists-strike-israel-houthis/

Dutch late night TV has its take

Creative New Zealand gets $16.8 million a year from government

new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

At what point are we allowed to, formally, call the government's lies what they are?

Watching folks' faces as they register the fact that no one tries to claim that the Coliseum or the Parthenon were built by aliens and why might that be?

Great news for kiwis needing to see a doctor: you can now see something *other than a doctor*

My entire operating theatre (surgeon, anaesthetist, nurses, techs, registrars) stayed late today so that a patient could get her procedure done instead of having to sit around waiting for a slot next week. And not that this sniveling weasel will care, but the SMOs involved did it for free.

Bad bet. #nzpol Listener cartoon from early 2024

Still can’t believe, after the absolute carnage, socially, environmentally & economically, that 30% of voters remain so blindly tribal in their political views, regardless of how chaotic & destructive their own persuasion has proven to be. No pandemic, no GFC, just total fuckery 🙄🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #Aotearoa

Sir Brian Roche saying that teachers should have held their strike in the school holidays to cause less disruption My dude, the whole point of striking is to cause disruption, this is the power the workers hold - withholding labour! #NZPol

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Nurses have no other course than to strike, with this government continuously lying to them. Again Simeon lacks a spine in being upfront with us about the cost of privatisation, the dishonest figures. Thank you @mountaintui.bsky.social for a great write up! open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

Is it even a love song if there's not a random spoken word section in a different language from the rest of the song? I would argue not. Happy #tewikiotereomāori you fullas www.youtube.com/watch?v=5trF...

BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

Every Dem official and centrist who has compared Kirk to MLK or his death to 9/11, or said his work should continue, or otherwise whitewashed his legacy of hate, dehumanization, and harassment has had a hand in enabling this administration's weaponization of Kirk's death against critics & opponents.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

'Protesters'? Well yes. They were PRIESTS - both in Wgtn and Akl. So weird that it's in the actual headline of the story and the lede, but not anywhere visible in the social feed.

RNZ really is going to extraordinary lengths to avoid attention being given to the fact that the protest is by clergy demanding NZ impose sanctions on Israel. It's also avoiding saying that clergy also protested outside Nicola Willis's office. And then there's protest rights... #nzpol

If you’re not from NZ, saw viral videos of that haka at London’s Nazi rally yesterday, and were very confused by what you saw, check this out so I don’t have to explain a million times over the next few days how Brian Tamaki and his cult aren’t representative of all Māori. Kei te tino ngenge ahau.

Brain Tamaki was there along with a Destiny Church kapa haka group, he at one point led a chant of "Tommy! Tommy! Tommy!" It was strange to watch as Tommy Robinson's fans in New Zealand detest anything to do with te ao Māori www.cnn.com/2025/09/13/e...

Sundays with Xena. She's eleven years old now and all she cares about is getting sun, ear scratches and my wife. Occasionally I make the cut but I have resigned myself to being the spare human. #dog #solarcharged

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem