Mary Kathleen

Mary Kathleen

@cioccolata.bsky.social

Pākehā. Tangata Tiriti. Aotearoa New Zealand. Toitū te Tiriti. Retired teacher of health professionals. Fuelled by anger about injustice & climate crisis. I don't reply to direct personal messages. I block bots & Zionists.

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Replying to @koraunuipakeha.bsky.social

Mum told me that TPM suggested strategic voting in the Māori Electorates, to ensure a normal government. They have asked us, according to Mum, to vote G/L for party vote. TPM is effectively guaranteed their seats via electorate seats and the party vote doesn't help them. ☮️❤️🍀

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Replying to @cioccolata.bsky.social

My wife had to pay as well. Both her mother and grandmother had it. She rightly felt she needed protection.

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Replying to @oldmatecans.bsky.social

It is, however, a Verian poll (graph from the presentation on polling I gave 2 hours ago, so before this poll, showing Verian's National house effects vs aggregate of all pollsters)

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It’s gonna be tight as a tiger and if you wanna get rid of this fuckin’ mob of cunts you better be voting Greens or Labour, no fucking about! #NZPol

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300,000 #Kiwis disenfranchised by National's “voter suppression” law 1 in 3 young adults aren’t enrolled, as #ChrisBishop admits the law is expected to help National secure 1-2 extra electorate seats, undermining Democracy #PartyVoteGreen✅ #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

open.substack.com300,000 Kiwis disenfranchised by National’s voter suppression law1 in 3 young adults are not enrolled, as Chris Bishop admits the law is expected to help National secure 1-2 extra electorate seats in November

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Vote, because men like Bob McCoskrie, who claims to 'love them both' re pregnant ppl & foetus', he's all too quiet 🤐 about the fact that he platforms & associates w/VFL & other puritanical wannabes who openly discuss jailing women for abortion access. #nzpol #prolife #prolifemyass #abortion #VFL

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Please can this happen. Please, please 🙏 💚 #nzpol

pöst-scött@buzzandhum.bsky.social

You know what would seriously "disrupt" our political landscape? No, not TOP, or whatever their financiers call themselves these days. No it'd be Green becoming the second biggest party in Parliament. That genuinely seems a realistic goal. Vote. And Vote Green.

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Replying to @mountaintui.bsky.social

I’m… nah they have gone very quiet on asset sales in the campaign. People hate it.

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Replying to @mountaintui.bsky.social

I voted today & it wasn’t for the bald guy and his party.

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I see why they got rid of Maiki Sherman, she actually gave context. Luxon and National said a 2026 election win was a mandate for privatisation but they've gone all quiet on the topic this year #NZPOL

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Profits stopped sliding once mortgagors got a few dollars back to spend. It was a bump up in profits that pushed GDP up last quarter (wages were flat). Now, anyone got any reckons on how we might reduce the cost of living by a few thousand dollars per kiwi per year?

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These guys have made some great videos in the past, but surely, this is the all-time planet-applicable GOAT.

the Juice Media@thejuicemedia.com

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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Replying to @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy

Definitely Greens. TPM don’t want party votes in the hope of engineering an overhand (a tactic that probably needs to be addressed somehow).

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“But for all that, it’s the #Greens, not Labour, who embody the progressive movement. The Greens will drive what progress we make. It’s the Greens, in cost of living, climate, housing and health, who embody hope.” #nzpol Couldn’t agree more #PartyVoteGreen✅+🖤❤️💚 open.substack.com/pub/simonwil...

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Ferphuxache… Debt has a reason. I could be debt-free tomorrow if I sold my house. But then I’d be homeless. Debt houses me. Debt keeps the nation running. Austerity only “works” if you’re wealthy enough not to need debt. #nzpol #votenz #DontVoteForThisWeasel www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

stuff.co.nzACT’s election trade-off: Shrink the state to fund healthACT says its election plan would cut debt, shrink government and redirect savings into healthcare, crime policy and KiwiSaver changes.

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Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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Aaron Smale - the only journalist who soeaks truth-to-power. Not political power Media power. This is perhaps the hardest-hitting critique/indictment of his profession I've ever read. You won't read or hear it anywhere else. Share as widely as you can,folks. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/25/a...

newsroom.co.nzAaron Smale: The Silencing ContinuesInvestigative journalist Aaron Smale says the political posturing over photos with gangs is ignorant, hypocritical, and amounts to gangster chic for Instagram