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This is a barn-stormer. The part about Keir Starmer is boggling.

The game’s up for trickle-down economics, because nothing ever trickled down... it was siphoned up. Today’s Budget will tell us whether Andy Burnham is serious about his promise to end neoliberalism, or whether it’s more of the same siphon-up economics.

The barbarians are at the gates.

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

Hasan Piker filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN commentator Scott Jennings in federal court and wants more than $72 million in damages

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

This is hilarious, but it must be said that flirting with centrism only increases the threat of fascism.

I do love political photoshoots that inexplicably deploy the grammar of slashfic.

The alt text is 👩‍🍳💋

Walter Koenig as the terrifying psychic KGB I mean Psi-Corps spymaster Bester on Babylon 5, as a role, really did shit all over comedy 'nuclear wessels' Chekov sorry not sorry

Former Health NZ Chair Rob Campbell also warned about a manufactured crisis to excuse privatisation in Oct last year. Don't fall for their bs. The govt has deliberately underfunded health to create the 'need' to privatise core services. #NZPol

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

Orbán gone. Bolsonaro gone. Vucic gone. Luxon … you got this NZ.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

A good day. Let us pray for more days like these. #nzpol

In case anyone’s still wondering why certain parties are doing all they can to keep young people away from the ballot box…

"I burn my life to make a sunrise I know I'll never see." - Luthen Rael, ANDOR #StarWars

OMFG This should be a John Clarke sketch. I guess if you stop paying artists you have to do the bit yourself… 🤷‍♀️

I really, really want to listen to this story, but I really fucking hate Jim Mora's nasally affectations so much. Has no one told him he sounds like NZs version of Trude and Prue?

I don't understand why this isn't a bigger scandal. The govt has lied to us and covered up that they're gonna... What? Fuck up some Marlborough Sounds beaches for their dumb fuck lng project? Thank fuck for Māni and the Post. This is outrageous. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3611...

Investigative journalist Aaron Smale says the political posturing over photos with gangs is ignorant, hypocritical, and amounts to gangster chic for Instagram

Genius, #snluk

“Data centers are unavoidable in Northern Virginia. … I could even feel their influence in the street names: Cloud Plaza, Performance Circle, and, worst of all, Growth Mindset Lane. We can thank Microsoft for that one.” Read a HYPERSCALE excerpt in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

just a reminder that the nappies allegedly causing "hundreds painful infant skin reactions" (via consumerreports.org) are yet another ZURU product from the mowbray billionaires (who are currently getting involved in new zealand's upcoming election: www.webworm.co/elections)

Muslims and immigrants, despite all the lies we're told about them, have never presented a systemic threat to Western security, let alone to "Western civilisation". Instead, the threats come from our governments, especially in the US, and their grim alliances with capital and overseas dictators.

Weird

Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

'The truth is that grimly ratcheting immigration down to next to nothing has come at extraordinary fiscal and social cost, and if the aim was to destroy Reform’s raison d’etre then it hasn’t worked.'

We are so fucking awful

ICYMI "The people holding up the Internet" sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

The assault on peer review, important for those of us interested in a healthy information ecosystem.

As a favour to Mr Peter Davis, and as part of the book he has edited on contemporary issues, I have written about how the integration of iwi into capital means the race relations crisis will soon run its course www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Philosopher Tim Dean says neoliberalism is one of the most corrosive forces in society, turning people into units of labour and stripping meaning from work. The latest episode of the Cut Through podcast is live on all platforms now. #cutthroughpodcast

I feel so much sympathy and aroha for Kerrin. I can’t really form coherent thoughts. Family lives and histories are never clean. I wrote this almost 10 years ago, and it seems especially relevant today x thespinoff.co.nz/atea/12-11-2... thespinoff.co.nz/atea/12-11-2...

Attention NZ media (still no coverage??) – you'll definitely want to pop your heads out from under that #nzpol rock for this one!

"If your $100 was in response to a fundraising text or email, the single most expensive way to raise money in American politics, $65 is instantly consumed by the cost of asking you for it. " newrepublic.com/article/2163...

#nzpol Now THIS is a fiscal plan I can get behind!! Coherent, people and planet-centred, realistic, costed and workable. I deeply want this timeline to be our reality in a few weeks 💚✅✅ www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It’s okay to go on the Platform and other extremist radio stations that are homophobic, racist, misogynist and routinely abusive towards vulnerable groups/people in a way that garners violence towards women, minorities and the vulnerable but not okay to talk to gangs. #nzpol #rightwhiteway

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

I've noticed the harder this administration goes after immigrants, the more Americans seem to support immigration.⁣ ⁣ It's good to know that we care about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/admitting-im-an-immigrant-shouldnt

people need to pay far less attention to what bernie sanders says about ai and far more to what aoc says about ai. sometimes you do just need to step back from the apps and the screens.