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“Police Minister Mark Mitchell is avoiding accountability by refusing to answer key questions in the House as his Govt faces criticism over their dangerous citizen’s arrest policy, firearm reform, broken promise to recruit more police.” And record Meth levels. #nzpol

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

My letter to the PM today.

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

THREE HUNDRED MILLION FOR NO FERRIES. THREE HUNDRED MILLION FOR ZERO FERRIES. THREE HUNDRED MILLION TO GET NONE OF TWO FERRIES. ITS GOING TO COST MORE THAN A SINGLE LARGE RAIL ENABLED FERRY TO GET ZERO LARGE RAIL ENABLED FERRIES. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Deeply in love with these 1/16th speed versions of 80s songs from some "Chipmunks Sing the Hits" record

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Perhaps it's time to start emailing Erica Stanford and pointing out that this mess is her responsibility because she's nominally the Minister of Education. She's hiding behind Seymour at the moment, but if a lot of people say 'we see you' to her, she might get spooked into taking action. #nzpol

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Health NZ providing a $285m uplift for general practice over three years There are 1000 practices in NZ Thats $95k each a year, which is 1 Practice nurse #nzpol

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Mr Luxon says that he trusts Mr Trump. How is trusting a pathological liar part of "running NZ like a business"?

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A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...

submitted 3 days ago • 873 comments

I think this is my favourite stupid joke I've made online that was ignored.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

While eugenics is generally attributed to Galton, it is in the US that it really took off, and indeed went on to shape Hitler’s views. The US has never really got over its love affair with eugenics and it has remained a clear driver beneath both the religious and tech extremism now shaping America

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Our talent in Aotearoa is elite

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Submissions close tonight. The summer of submissions has not finished yet. If you don't know what to say, but want to oppose this bill, you can add your name here. #nzpol

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

So, two key reasons I'm against extending government terms to 4 years. One: it's manifestly unjust to adult NZers to extend the term without lowering the voting age from 18. Some people could be nearly 22 before they get to vote! (We all know why National won't lower the voting age, right?)

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

A timely and terrifying map of all the Auckland streets upon which Simeon Brown is unilaterally imposing blanket higher speeds. Includes heaps of short streets and cul de sacs around schools that will all revert to 50kmh zones. By decree, and against all logic and evidence. For “productivity”.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

You all should read this book to understand the diverse nexus of right wing players and funders that are actively committed to undoing our democracy for sake of power, money and ideology.

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

Felt hot take, might delete later

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I've met Gandalf. He is a kindly man who's spent his life helping people. They've known about him for years, destroying his life now is not ok. Protest: Whangarei Courthouse, Monday 3 March, 9am. Peacefully but noisily letting the authorities know what you think. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

While the idea of a four-year parliamentary term might seem appealing, it comes with risks.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Have you seen the sign?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

There are some very good principals in New Zealand and then there are ones like Neil here who are incapable of recognising that they're being played for fools by NZ's nastiest politician who'll happily use Neil as an example of why school lunches aren't needed at all. Hold the damn line Neil.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I cannot think of a single actual thing the National Party have done in nearly two years of Government that is actually their idea. Their whole programme is undoing Labour stuff and letting ACT and NZF and lobby groups treat them like a ventriloquist ls dummy.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

The minister who put a TERF in charge of the human rights commission against all advice and in breach of the normal process responds to terrorist attacks against queer people by making use of force by anyone who announces that they're trying to stop crimes legal with no criminal or civil liability.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I saw the below and thought that's a heck of a claim. So let's examine how National got here. A 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

URGENT: Public consultation on the Arms Act rewrite closes THIS FRIDAY at midnight Feb 28. The Islamic Women’s Council of NZ & I personally oppose these changes. We fought hard for strong firearm regulations after 15 March Terrorist Attacks. We must speak up now. 🧵1/7 #GunControlSoNeeded

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

i approached new zealand's biggest pentecostal and evangelical churches to see if they'd publicly condemn the behaviour of destiny church punching their way into a library, concussing a 16 year old kid. none of them did. please read and RT: www.webworm.co/p/therot

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

This problem should have be fixed 20 years ago. It's not a technicall barrier. It should be mandatory for everything here cf the Non breaking spce in Te names and etc . I here that still doesn't work in kmar ffs

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My completely undeveloped reckon is the outsized cultural salience of standardised tests in the US compared to the rest of the anglosphere says something about their approach to 'merit' that is quite odd. A complex concept distilled to the output of an extreme time pressured multi choice test.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

#nzpol

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Reeks of a high risk of corruption. Esp by politicians www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/23/g...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Paul's right - the way this is being reported is deeply inappropriate, and at the same time, the targeting of Ghahraman has exposed a huge, troubling, and ongoing invasion of the privacy of all of us. Firing a few security guards doesn't even begin to address the issues it raises. #nzpol

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

with destiny church's abhorrent views in the press again, i think it's important not to forget all the white megachurches that hold identical views in new zealand: life church, city impact, arise etc. they are more discreet, but they all hang out and support each other: www.webworm.co/p/holyhell

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

This is digital humanities

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

No single person did more to end democracy and roll back civil rights in America than this white supremacist right here. Now and forever, that is how he should be remembered—the 21st century white supremacist who returned the United States to Jim Crow America.

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

#nzpol we must stand strong against the union bashing and make points like this, amongst others #sortedpostmenopausalcrushercollins

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Essential workers deserve a Living Wage. The Living Wage means thriving not just surviving. The 2024/25 Living Wage rate is $27.80, read more about the current rate here: www.livingwage.org.nz

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Happy International Mother Language Day! Here's a map showing the minority languages of eastern Tibet. About half of these are spoken by Tibetans, half by other ethnic groups.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

submitted 12 days ago • 94 comments

James Cameron seems to have fallen into the trap that because he didn’t have it his way there was no consultation. The fact is that there was mass consultation (1800+ submissions), and we made a significant number of changes to respond to it. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Mac n cheese with ham in latest school lunch programme halal blunder.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

"We really need to be able to back to when we could smash peoples wheelchairs with no consequence" is definitely a choice. Sociopaths. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 13 days ago • 1219 comments

We were talking about the risks of RocketLab being militarized years ago (shout out to Oliver Neas ) & routinely got told by people that it was a silly belief & to back kiwi science. NZ politicians & media were similarly uninterested Now they're openly making us a military target

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments