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#NZPOL He is a clear and present danger to the public health system

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We’re short of 500 hospital beds and 200,000 are waiting for specialist appointments, yet the Government is dialling back on new public investment and betting on slower, more expensive public-private-partnerships. 1/2

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They can always find money for war toys #nzpol NZlistener www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

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Anti-genocide US students held a protest against Yale University's reception of war criminal and fascist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. The genocidaire has cut his visit to the US short due to the protests. #3E #EndImpunity Gvir endorses the full genocide of Palestine.

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Did the "minister rejecting advice" happen as often during Ardern's tenure? #NZPol

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Or, in Luxon's case, like a door to door salesman down on his luck

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Good on Greyhound! #goodtrouble

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MSD workloads behind partial scrapping of programme to prevent people ending up in emergency housing, documents show

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Happy Moehanga Day

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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

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Wild to live in the same age as perhaps THE most personally repellent person this nation has ever produced.

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Winston Peters and women’s toilets. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol

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Conservative Christian Simeon Brown ( #AtlasNetwork acolyte like Seymour, Roger Douglas, Ruth Richardson, Willis, & others) doesn’t consider #abortion part of #health care: #nzpol #womensrights #humanrights #DEI #Trump #Vance #Religion in Politics #Koch open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

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A good read from @jamesnokise.bsky.social in @thepost-nz.bsky.social today #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/a/nz-news/36...

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So if we’re scared that rich people will leave if we make them pay tax, how is this a problem if they’re not paying tax? 0-0=0 last time I checked. #rhetoric

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NEW: FBI releases photo showing the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan at the Milwaukee County Courthouse this morning

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At this point, I think MFAT has a clear duty of care to update its advisory for travel to the US. The risk – even for travellers who have done everything right – is clearly real.

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Just a theory: Has anyone considered that Pete Hegseth’s wife, brother, and attorney might be propping him up because of his substance abuse? It would explain why he needs them looped into everything. If you know anything about addiction, it tracks.

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What UK Labour, and other British colonial Labour parties don't seem to comprehend, is that people don't want Economic Growth, they want Economic Security, and that has been whittled away by successive govts on both sides by policies such as these.

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The Venn diagram between US and NZ politics is rapidly becoming a circle. Wealth is absolutely passed off as merit and used to justify dehumanising policy that increases inequity. NZ’s upcoming election will be critical for those not born to privilege. organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...

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Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...

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Someone on Twitter fossicked around and found a picture of Trump wearing a polo with his name and President on it. Luxon is taking sartorial pointers from the best. #nzpol

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Carrie N. Baker explains that the main reasons for the expansion of abortion access in the U.S. despite state bans are the advent of telehealth abortion, and the development of community support networks that provide free abortion pills to individuals living in restrictive states.

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John Campbell on Destiny Church: ‘I’ve never encountered so much fear’ www.1news.co.nz/2025/04/24/j...

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It's shit like this that actually reads as "weak" to voters. The obsession with too-cute slogans crafted after endless focus groups screams "too spineless to take a stand until it's been poll-tested into oblivion."

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When Petty Ideology from Simeon Brown and Chris Bishop trump decades of evidence, best practice, and even policy in regards to safety on our roads vs speed. Remember, incidents on our roads cost us $9.4b/year and that was reducing until now newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/24/d...

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Australia's public broadcaster asks the questions our local media are too afraid to ask. A very very odd state of affairs - but here we are. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

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Labour introduced 'Working for families' vs National's 'Working for 50 families' #nzpol

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Say. This.

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In case you hadn't noticed:

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“We’ve already seen David Seymour butcher the school lunches programme, I’d hate to see the same done to our Early Childhood Education sector,” Jan Tinetti NZ’ers need to see the overall plan. Not chipping away at the minutiae so suddenly we find that there is nothing of substance left. #nzpol

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Malignant narcissists mimic what they believe are appropriate responses because they do not experience empathy. Sometimes their mimicry is worse than others.

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#nzpol #renewables

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Trump tariffs: US forecast to be hit hardest of major economies

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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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The essential mistake in the UK judgement — and in Winston's proposed bill — is to treat biology as the bedrock of human rights. Rights are about how people live, how they are treated, and what they face. It is gender that must underpin our protections. My thoughts⬇️ thespinoff.co.nz/politics/23-...

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The District Court Act 2014 establishes mandatory retirement for District Court judges at the age of 70. The Senior Courts Act 2016 does the same for High Court judges (including Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judges). If so ageist why not a members bill for MP mandatory retirement at 70? #nzpol

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The NZ Herald is rife with far right terfs - there is no other reason to headline this in a way that is so sympathetic to NZ First's messaging It's also useful to note when our MSM gives sufficient, if any, space to opposing views - in this case, there's none

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The situation today... eXtremely rocky ground. “When you don’t have facts, you don’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without these three we have no shared reality, we can’t solve any problems & you can’t have democracy ~ Maria Ressa.

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could not possibly agree more

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The Papacy as an organisation is responsible for untold amounts of misery for women and people who can get pregnant, so one pretty nice pope doesn't really make it OK (and even he was hardcore anti-abortion, remember)

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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

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This is so real lmaoooo "She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂

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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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FMK: JD Vance edition.

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