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💣 Recommendation of "immediate halt" to advancement of the Regulatory Standards Bill #ToitūTeTiriti ❤️🤍🖤 ✊ Waitangi Tribunal Report released at 5pm, 16 May 2025 🙏 Download here: forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Docum...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Video by Dr Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social on current debates around misogyny in the context of drastic changes to pay equity legislation. V. useful frame of ref. in study of commentary targeting journalist Andrea Vance, & also MP Willis. 1k+ views on Instagram. Worth posting here.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 19 days ago • 764 comments

A few things to note about the PR spin currently happening: The term "sex-based discrimination" is a rhetorical shield. It positions pay equity changes as being rooted in moral clarity - “we’re against discrimination in principle” while steadfastly ignoring the reality of equality in practice. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

“We defeated a well-funded, bad-faith attempt to turn our country against our founding agreement.” — Kassie Hartendorp.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Posts like this often come across as helpful advice, but they miss the deeper issue. They shift responsibility away from those operating the deadliest machines on the road. Safety shouldn't depend on someone's fashion choices. It should start with those behind the wheel.

submitted 56 days ago • 15 comments

New horrific footage shows that Israel lied through its teeth about its massacre of paramedics and rescue workers. But still Western media outlets will keep treating Israeli lies as credible. Accessories to genocide 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lie...

submitted 56 days ago • 21 comments

Heartbreaking speeches at the Palestinian Children’s Day rally in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland this afternoon. #StopTheInfanticide #FreePalestine

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Paywall now lifted: Five years on from the first lockdown, Newsroom reads the entire 716-page report of the Royal Commission into the Covid-19 response and examines the findings. newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/24/w...

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

Tomorrow it will be 21 months since Aotearoa New Zealand introduced Sex Self ID for birth certificates. Not a single bad thing has happened because of it. The anti-trans extremists were wrong in every single way. Nobody should listen to their bullshit ever again.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Right wingers: universities should be places where free speech allows controversial ideas to be discussed free from restrictions University: we're delivering a Te Tiriti unit for all students Right wingers: no, not like that

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I hope academics (and the TEU) in NZ are ready for a big fight this year. The attacks started last year, but I expect the treatment of students and research in the USA has emboldened our own fragile little weasels

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I keep seeing the same common theme: the impossible standards placed on anyone advocating changes to our transport system. Question car dependency and you're expected to address every inequality and injustice at the same time; but support car dependency and you'll never be challenged on these issues

submitted 85 days ago • 22 comments

SHUT IT DOWN NOW

submitted 86 days ago • 10 comments

Racist motherfucker being racist shocker #nzpol

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who believe hungry children should be fed, and sociopaths.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Up the Wahs!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

submitted 91 days ago • 100 comments

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

submitted 92 days ago • 180 comments

At Albert Park supporting the LGBTQIA+ community

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

The vibe was so wonderful & affirming Huge shoutout to @papa.org.nz, not just for taking a stand but for turning around an amazing, well organised event with an incredible line up of speakers in LESS THAN A WEEK This is the blueprint for how multiple orgs can take action. Let's see more of it!

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Defying Destiny was a great time. Nothing like spending a few hours in the park filled with hundreds of lovely queer folks on a perfect sunny day I'm kind of amazed at how well the organisers did putting this together in such a short time. The speakers were empowering We're going to win

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Tomorrow! If you want to let Destiny know they're outnumbered by people who love and support our queer community, please come. We'll see you there.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

While every politician is battling to have the most scathing reckon about an incident in which teenage girls were assaulted by groups of grown men storming a library, it would be fantastic for ANYONE - especially politicians - to focus on the actual guardrails we have and why they weren't used.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Absolute fuckwits assaulting my local community. I hope the police throw the book at these patched-up thugs. www.reddit.com/r/auckland/s...

submitted 105 days ago • 6 comments

This is the future of AoNZ if we allow privatisation of our healthcare system.

submitted 125 days ago • 3 comments

what's happening in NZ right now is that our far-right populist party is trying to rewrite one of our core constitutional documents to fuck over Māori, and it's been over an hour of every Māori leader in the country making them look like complete fools www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl...

submitted 125 days ago • 8 comments

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...

submitted 134 days ago • 2 comments

Semi-regular reminder that this logical fallacy talking point is going to be the one used to promote/justify a referendum, and that media don’t have to report Seymour’s words verbatim without context or critique - you can say he’s using false equivalence very deliberately here.

submitted 134 days ago • 3 comments

Obviously lots of things that could be said about Zuck, and Musk, and Bezos, and most of the rest of the literal richest people in the world all lining up to fellate Trump and his fanbase of reactionary pathetic bigots but the thing that strikes me is how fucking embarrassing it is.

submitted 141 days ago • 2 comments

Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin

submitted 141 days ago • 19 comments

Both before and after the election Luxon swore up and down that he would not allow abortion access to be reduced. And yet here we are, with a daft proposal to move abortion care to ... the child and youth team??? wtaf #nzpol

submitted 141 days ago • 2 comments

Another submission done (Social Security Amendment Bill). Definitely getting more cynical - but I think still quite restrained for a Friday night. 🙄

submitted 141 days ago • 3 comments

Welcome to more "vibes based analysis" on 90 day trials from the EMA. Zero hard data provided within this oped supports the use of 90 day trials, nor is their any mention of their potential misuse. What does the real evidence say? A 🧵 www.nzherald.co.nz/business/hav...

submitted 141 days ago • 6 comments