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Shane Jones reminds me of the butcher from 'Delicatessen'

Is the collective noun for 500 venture capitalists Bastards? #nzpol

Climate change disasters "are becoming too complex for our current institutions to govern effectively... Our political machinery is systematically incentivised to simplify problems that actually require deliberation." Cathrine Dyer on the big MIA issue of this terminally distracted election. #nzpol

The key #Vote

‘Advanced technological tools give murder an air of scientific legitimacy. They allow the Israeli army to claim that it goes to great lengths to distinguish between combatants and civilians and to reduce the number of civilians killed.’ Eyal Weizman on 𝘕𝘈𝘡𝘈, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Children constantly returning from school or childcare with viruses should not be an inevitable part of family life, given transmission is preventable." #cleanair #covid #covidsafe #health #prevention

Have you or someone you know been turned away from voting? Newsroom wants to hear from you! newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/27/e...

The health system is a pyramid, with critical surgery at the tippity top. The foundation layer is GPs and community healthcare holding everything up with their bare hands. The foundation is buckling while we watch. #nzpol

Everyone write to the Governor General with concerns about voter suppression share.google/fP5VFvuhL6lf... #nzpol

LRB reporting better than the entirety of the German press

Australia says yes to Jacinda Ardern teaching at a university on leadership and empathy. Australia also tells Brain Tamaki to fuck off which his Nazi fundamentalist bullshit Got to love the Aussies www.nzherald.co.nz/world/jacind...

A win for national is a mandate for privatisation - Luxon

‘In other lycées, the most neglected of which are in the Paris suburbs, students have reported rats, cockroaches, leaking roofs, broken windows, no heating in winter, unusable toilets and missing toilet doors.’ Daniella Shreir on the protests in France, online early. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Here's the updated daily color stripes for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly, now based on the 1991-2020 baseline and with a color bar going past black (3.0°C) into pink and beyond.

"... France,Serbia,Spain,Greece,Albania,Brazil,Argentina, Indonesia,Belgium,Philippines,India,Ireland,Chile. A generation is rising to tell the pedocracy of billionaires and the governments that protect them to shove austerity, wars, & their techno-fudal fucktopia up their genocidal ass. ..." #nzpol

US Space Command applies gag over Auckland facility engaged in the war against Iran www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

t's funny how John Key funded the first gang rehabilitation programmes in New Zealand but because Ardern continued it, it has now become political kryptonite.

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I swear to god if I hear another person talk about “the mainstream media” while mainlining disinfo slop online all day, I’m going to lose my mind

7-day forecast 31.10.2026 WE DID IT The world will cross the +2c threshold And the N Hemisphere will cross the +2.8C mark The chart is the #Climate event of the decade #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

In the immortal words of Helen Kelly, ‘It’s by design.” #NZPol

I don’t know if you will have noticed this. In the midst of an absolute crisis in every level of our health system, the Green Party announced a policy to massively boost funding to Health with a $30Bn investment over four years.

whofundedgenocide.com This searchable database allows you to see declared donations (in the USA) from around 10,000 organisations that have helped fund the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

The real corruption we should be talking about… #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ

Green Party releases fiscal plan, promises to increase health spending by $3 billion each year

Remember back when Google's motto was "Don't be evil"? Good times.

PEOPLE ARE DYING IN THE CORRIDORS OF OUR HOSPITALS. CHILDREN AREN'T GETTING NECESSARY CANCER TREATMENT. Can we please stop talking about gangs and focus on the real issues affecting us! The media once again hijacking the narrative for the right wing.

#nzpol remind everyone you meet to register (why didn’ this get more air time earlier?- if you recall the govt’s chaos strategy was to flood the zone with changes so while everyone was focused on the Fast Track legislation & Regulatory Stds this voter suppression act passed at Xmas 19 Dec 2025 😔)

This is a great summary of state repression of protest movements such as those in France and of #palestine action. Full of gems such as 'the national media is a state actor'. @abbeyheffer.bsky.social www.instagram.com/abbeyheffer/...

Watching tonights nzh power brokers debate I'm wondering if we'll end up with a four way coalition government (green, act, opp & nzf) with perhaps labour giving the numbers for confidence and supply - after watching the two Christopher's flailing about last night it almost seems a possibility

#nzpol there's a word that explains what the Minister of Health h Is doing

#BHN Tonight at 9pm - It's our 1,000th Episode, come hang out - Voting suppression by this government a concern - Could TPM be kingmakers? #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @xkaosmagex.bsky.social youtube.com/live/kE-BlC9...

Michael de Adder:

How Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure - TLDR - we will be counting the cost of this senseless war for a long time www.reuters.com/investigatio...

#nzpol health is a human right

Free public healthcare should remain the goal. Protecting publicly funded hospital care and developing a funded pathway towards removing charges for essential primary care, dental care, and other necessary services. huhana62.substack.com/p/saving-our...

National leader Christopher Luxon laughs when accused of voter suppression www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Add: 1. a more difficult date for voters (against 2 other better options recommended) 2. plus new rules (for first time in 40 years) limiting registration vote Equals 3. vote suppression by a current government It won’t lead to faster results or govt formation but it is utterly unfair #nzpol