Painfully aware

All the corporate lobby groups got so sick of dealing with Luxon that they bought their own political party… Opportunity. #nzpol

🍃🌹🌿The case for voting #Green I'm not a member of the Green Party, but they're getting my vote. Here's why-SIMON WILSON #nzpol #WealthTax #PartyVoteGreen 💚✅+💚❤️🖤 open.substack.com/pub/simonwil...?

This is what they WANT!!! It drives parents into charter schools and furthers the privatisation and enshitification of our education system… leading to more ignorant, pliable, gullible people who believe our government is a household with a mortgage and a fucking credit card!!! Arrrrgggg!! #nzpol

Is Nicky Hager’s next book going to be about how the Opportunity Party was used as a cynical dirty politics strategy to keep National and ACT in power this election? #nzpol

🍃🌹🌿 It clearly came as a total shock to the press when #Greens’ Chlöe Swarbrick gave Nicola Willis a minor beating in a poll that asked New Zealanders who they trusted more to 'manage the economy'-it didn’t shock me at all” #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/andrewdi...

🍃🌹🌿#Greens announce paid placements for #nurses, #teachers, & #socialworkers & students will get $380 universal weekly payment while they complete practical training to become nurses, teachers & other essential health & social support workers #nzpol #jobs www.greens.org.nz/greens_annou...

10 knitted squares ago I did this. Thanks Anna and RNZ for taking it back to my Otara roots :) www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...

Marama is a national Taonga!!! 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 #nzpol

why is it always on critics and activists not to "rock the boat" or "impact the election" when it should be on political parties and institutions not to fuck up in the first place? simply be more ethical, transparent and engaged - this is the *least* that can be asked of people representing us

Opportunity is more right wing than NZ First. They really are just a political psyop to stop the left from getting any real power. #nzpol

bryce edwards has never seen racist bait that he doesn't want gobble down singularly destructive to leftwing analysis of politics in this country - there's a reason he was ever able to hold down a long term commentary spot, and it isn't talent

This makes me furious. The state abuses kids, steals land, fucks up peoples jobs, makes people poor, bashes beneficiaries, imprisons people and then has the nerve to suggest they can make people talk… how? Going to torture people again? Fuck off Paul Goldsmith. I hope I never see you again #nzpol

People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

General Election 2026 Deadlines Days left to enrol for the first time: 8 days Switching rolls has closed, new enrollments can still choose rolls Enrol or update here: https://vote.nz/enrolling/enrol-or-update/enrol-or-update-online Remind your Friends & Whanau #nzpol

It’s not a "cost of living crisis" - it’s a cost of billionaires crisis. They're bleeding us dry, degrading democracy and propping up the dictators and autocrats. #TaxTheRich

It's become painfully clear that structuring our whole society around maximising profit instead of the wellbeing of people and planet was a really BAD idea.

Racist labour stands against… Itself??? Standing against something you have power to change is just fucking infuriating. Being anti-racist involves so much more than standing, ESSPECIALLY when your hands are on THE POLICY LEVER!!! Foreshore and seabed anybody? 🙄🙄🙄 #nzpol

I think someone needs to take a deeper look into how Q got the leadership role at Opportunity. Q is obviously an amazing communicator, but this bullshit story of applying via a Seek Ad looks more and more suspect…. Nepotism, it’s always fucking nepotism. 🙄🙄🙄 @paulapenfold.bsky.social #nzpol

#VoteGreenPartyAotearoa26 The only party that seems to care about us ALL. #EnrolToVoteAotearoa #DitchThePricksIn26 #nzpol

The system is rigged! This is not an accident! Qiulae Wong’s MOTHER was Judith Collins’ senior adviser. If shit pans out for the right it would be a fundamental detonation of our democracy. #nzpol

This feels very 1984. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"

imagine if a professional newsroom was able to undertake even an iota of this pushback on ACT or NZF candidates instead of constantly sighing about how charismatic they are

These humans do not look crazy or criminal to me. 👀🤷‍♀️🕊️ #nzpol

Hope for coral? If healthy coral with the same clonal type touches bleached coral, a tissue bridge can form allowing symbionts (microalgae) to transfer, and the bleached coral can recover. Two different research groups found this. Both research papers are open access and linked in the article.

Well well.

A rōpū from Te Tai Rāwhiti have traveled to Germany to return their ancestral pou, Tāwhaki, back home. The pou has gone from his Manutūkē home for more than a century.

Should New Zealand lower the voting age to 16? - YES! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Contrary to the #NZMSMedia's opinion: Gang members are humans too. #VoteGreenPartyAotearoa26 #nzpol

I think we should ban Labour MPs from hospital wards cause it really distresses me to share a space with them, how am i gonna explain to my nan or my child that soulless husks walk among us