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Counterpoint - Seymour hijacked a public health issue that his party’s policies will make manifestly worse in order to promote himself and blunt accusations of heartlessness, but you’ve really got to hand it to him that he gets political messaging. Apparently.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Winston Peters overt racism-barometer has been rising lately. Saying that Xu-Han & Our Fran are "here on the very refuge that we give to them" (uh they are not refugees) "have come here with their ideas, foreign to our country, native to theirs, and they wish to impose them upon our Parliament."

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

oh the irony of David "we gotta cut wasteful spending" Seymour's bill requiring the Justice Dept to spend hundreds of thousands on consultants to analyse submissions on a bill THAT WON'T GET BEYOND A SECOND READING #nzpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/28/e...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

“Everyone expects it to happen all at once. That one day we will wake up to swastikas and kids in cages and unmarked vans disappearing people off the street. But those all happened on different days.” From “The South Bank of the Rubicon” by @innuendostudios.bsky.social #nzpol

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

David Seymour's school lunches reposted from reddit #nzpol

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Seymour ignores the fact that anything urgent or life-threatening has to be dealt with by the public system. Also private bounces anything too complex back to the public system. $6000 won’t even touch the sides

submitted 32 days ago • 19 comments

I am so disgusted. Here is part of my official complaint to The Post on their treatment of Golriz. #nzpol

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

greens and TPM need to hammer hard that ACT will absolutely destroy your healthcare and drive the costs through the roof. All you need to do is loudly compare our system to how much Americans pay. He simply cannot refute that.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Private investment in infrastructure still ends up being paid for by us. Just with an extra profit margin attached. It’s not free money from China.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

#nzpol Today the government is asking for private investments. The PM wants more (and more) growth, but when will that growth be enough to put people before profits? (It will never be enough)

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

For news media who can't bear to say he did a Nazi salute (and full credit to the Herald here for reporting their own eyes), perhaps you'd be willing to report "Musk, an ardent supporter of the German far right AfD party, repeated did a salute commonly recognised since the 1940s as a Nazi salute".

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Pet peeve that's been grinding my gears for a while: Heavy ketamine use doesn't turn you into a nazi either, he's just a misogynist white supremacist arsehole raised by a guy slightly to the right of Eugene Terreblanche.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Me: I wonder if RNZ have reported on Musk's Nazi salute at the inauguration yet. RNZ:

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Hello Gazan accounts! You may be reading this post because I sent it to you in DMs- welcome to Bluesky friends ❤️ I want to give you a little information about here and then also let you know about how I can help share your account.

submitted 139 days ago • 3 comments

Threads for: FAQ in English and Arabic for accounts from Gaza General information about Gazan Fundraising and GoFundMes List of Gazans you can support More general information for people from Gaza

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

I am sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Saeed. Saeed is only 19 years old and is working to take care of his whole family. He should be in school and starting his life instead he is just trying to survive. He hopes to evacuate to a safer place.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Hell yea

submitted 36 days ago • 426 comments

Jake Tapper: "It's important to point out that the Trump/Vance campaign in 2024 was a very disciplined campaign ... [it] was within the realm of normalcy." (They lied about Haitian migrants eating pets.)

submitted 35 days ago • 1274 comments

Well, Elon Musk went full metal Strangelove faster than I expected - and to be honest, my expectations were not high to begin with.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Not ideal. Gotta say. Not ideal.

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

Years ago, I was comfortable almost always defending the press. I can’t anymore.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

About as bad as it could be: Trump's executive orders on climate & energy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

submitted 35 days ago • 69 comments

Owners’ box

submitted 35 days ago • 308 comments

History has consistently demonstrated that direct support for authoritarianism is relatively narrow. It thrives through surrender and acquiescence by elite institutions.

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submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

"The people of Gaza need more than words of solidarity. We need meaningful global action to support reconstruction and ensure accountability" electronicintifada.net/content/will...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to the new year everyone. The National government's interference with healthcare is going to be a shitshow. #nzpol

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Post your favourite #DoctorWho. Wrong answers only.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

It's amateur hour on NZ news when coverage of the LA fires focuses on celebrity homes, looting, and "who/what started the fire" with no mention of prisoner fire fighters, and the briefest mentions of the climate-elephant in the room.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

PSA: could the new zealand media please think twice before reporting anything anna wilding says? she has been making things up for decades, and i wrote a 5-part series about it: www.webworm.co/p/the-wild-s...

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler's Warning

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

New requests from the library

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Zuckerberg Goes "Full MAGA" as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. & Paves Way for More Hate Speech

submitted 47 days ago • 44 comments

Man. I'm glad we're not officially part of AUKUS right now. #nzpol

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Mark Zuckerberg’s new look is like: “I’m not an evil billionaire! I’m merely the guy your parents are always trying to convince your sister to break up with!”

submitted 48 days ago • 17 comments

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

submitted 48 days ago • 679 comments

It's really bad. Sharing some bullet points, and rough notes informing an article I've been asked to pen on the impact the new policy changes will have on Global South. Applies, I'd argue, to everyone using Facebook's apps, anywhere in the world. @davidkaye.bsky.social @amanthap.bsky.social

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

The checklist of Scary and Important Government Things Needing Your Input has been updated. There is so much that there wasn't room for it to stay cutely askew like yesterday. Please make sure you share.

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

For people moving on to their regulatory standards bill submission, I found this @etangata.bsky.social article by Melanie Nelson useful when writing my own stream of consciousness submission. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment