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Fact, history, opinion, and sarcasm, with an occasional side dose of sass.
Primary function of being occasionally useful in between shitposting and ranting about politics! Expect bad language
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Yep, wouldn't trust any of their assurances *at all*.
This is the same lot that made *election* promises about Dunedin hospital... oh wait, until they broke them. That their tax cuts were 'definitely costed'... oh wait, until forced to admit they weren't.
On and on their gaslighting goes.
Yep, wouldn't trust any of their assurances *at all*.
This is the same lot that made *election* promises about Dunedin hospital... oh wait, until they broke them. That their tax cuts were 'definitely costed'... oh wait, until forced to admit they weren't.
On and on their gaslighting goes.
I keep thinking about how Peters said the hīkoi was a waste of time because the bill isn't going to pass. But (a) I don't trust any of these arseholes to do what they say they will, and (b) if there was no pushback I'm sure Luxon et al would happily vote it through into law. #ToituTeTiriti #NZpol
Never trust a Tory or a Neoliberal
What we know about the coalition:
They will carry out their policies and the coalition agreement.
Everything else they say is lies.
Easy way to analyse any of their comments, media releases etc
What we know about the coalition:
They will carry out their policies and the coalition agreement.
Everything else they say is lies.
Easy way to analyse any of their comments, media releases etc
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Getting rid of regional councils is absolutely about selling off the country bit by bit.
Here's the Minister for Corporate Control, giving the game away.
https://xcancel.com/mangonui08/status/1993215256332750953#m
#nzpol #ditchthepricksin26 #getthemout
Here's the Minister for Corporate Control, giving the game away.
https://xcancel.com/mangonui08/status/1993215256332750953#m
#nzpol #ditchthepricksin26 #getthemout
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Getting rid of regional councils is absolutely about selling off the country bit by bit.
Here's the Minister for Corporate Control, giving the game away.
https://xcancel.com/mangonui08/status/1993215256332750953#m
#nzpol #ditchthepricksin26 #getthemout
Here's the Minister for Corporate Control, giving the game away.
https://xcancel.com/mangonui08/status/1993215256332750953#m
#nzpol #ditchthepricksin26 #getthemout
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#nzpol 🎯💯💯💯🤬
A choice that reduces our community power to say no to any destructive and polluting businesses being built in our shared backwards. Come on, all you NIMBIs, a multi-storeyed apartment building, to house PEOPLE, is the least of your potential problems being caused by this govt. Wake up!
A choice that reduces our community power to say no to any destructive and polluting businesses being built in our shared backwards. Come on, all you NIMBIs, a multi-storeyed apartment building, to house PEOPLE, is the least of your potential problems being caused by this govt. Wake up!
getting rid of regional councils, one of the few voices at the table when it comes to fast track applications and the bodies that are supposed to monitor any ongoing consents, is certainly a choice
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November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#nzpol 🎯💯💯💯🤬
A choice that reduces our community power to say no to any destructive and polluting businesses being built in our shared backwards. Come on, all you NIMBIs, a multi-storeyed apartment building, to house PEOPLE, is the least of your potential problems being caused by this govt. Wake up!
A choice that reduces our community power to say no to any destructive and polluting businesses being built in our shared backwards. Come on, all you NIMBIs, a multi-storeyed apartment building, to house PEOPLE, is the least of your potential problems being caused by this govt. Wake up!
What else do you call this except corruption? #nzpol
Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the oil and gas industry's wishlist.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
What else do you call this except corruption? #nzpol
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Money
Carla
Chipotle
Hmmmmmmm
Carla
Chipotle
Hmmmmmmm
the first 3 words you see will define your 2026 😭
Money
New car
Pussy
Money
New car
Pussy
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Money
Carla
Chipotle
Hmmmmmmm
Carla
Chipotle
Hmmmmmmm
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WOULDN'T WANT TO SPOOK MIDDLE NEW ZEALAND.
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
WOULDN'T WANT TO SPOOK MIDDLE NEW ZEALAND.
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It’s hard not to believe that Luxon’s move to dump regional councils isn’t just another way to remove obstacles to rampant corporate profit making at our expense.
More emissions, more pollution more contaminated drinking water, more intensive dairy, more roads and less accountability.
#nzpol
More emissions, more pollution more contaminated drinking water, more intensive dairy, more roads and less accountability.
#nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
It’s hard not to believe that Luxon’s move to dump regional councils isn’t just another way to remove obstacles to rampant corporate profit making at our expense.
More emissions, more pollution more contaminated drinking water, more intensive dairy, more roads and less accountability.
#nzpol
More emissions, more pollution more contaminated drinking water, more intensive dairy, more roads and less accountability.
#nzpol
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Petition to eliminate the term “shake-up” and replace it with “cut”, which is what it means.
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Petition to eliminate the term “shake-up” and replace it with “cut”, which is what it means.
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MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS AGREE THAT THIS GOVERNMENT IS A BUNCH OF BIG OLD SMELLY POO BUMS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
MANY GREAT LEGAL SCHOLARS AGREE THAT THIS GOVERNMENT IS A BUNCH OF BIG OLD SMELLY POO BUMS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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This is the plan that the coalition government says is "not about centralising power". Jesus wept. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This is the plan that the coalition government says is "not about centralising power". Jesus wept. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Not to mention having the resources to disentangle the verbiage, bullshit, pretzel logic, reckons, prejudices, misogyny, racism and blithering incompetence of the entire cabinet that spits out rubbish like this on some kind of demonic schedule
Because mayors have a heap of free time to successfully
"form 11 Combined Territories Boards (CTBs), which would meet regularly and - on top of handling the business of regional councils - would tasked with coming up with a "Regional Reorganisation Plan"[sic]
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
"form 11 Combined Territories Boards (CTBs), which would meet regularly and - on top of handling the business of regional councils - would tasked with coming up with a "Regional Reorganisation Plan"[sic]
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Not to mention having the resources to disentangle the verbiage, bullshit, pretzel logic, reckons, prejudices, misogyny, racism and blithering incompetence of the entire cabinet that spits out rubbish like this on some kind of demonic schedule
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What the actual fuck. No. Fuck off. Fucking dipshits. This country would not function without our regional councils. Jfc. This is the stupidest thing they've ever suggested.
Centralizing so much long term decision making power for reforms which will last decades with elected officials whose incentives are all short term doesn't seem like a great idea #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
What the actual fuck. No. Fuck off. Fucking dipshits. This country would not function without our regional councils. Jfc. This is the stupidest thing they've ever suggested.
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It is absolutely critical to democracy that communities directly own their water infrastructure but also unimportant that those same communities get to decide how they look after our environment?
If cognitive dissonance could be harnessed for fuel then we could all live happily ever after
If cognitive dissonance could be harnessed for fuel then we could all live happily ever after
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
It is absolutely critical to democracy that communities directly own their water infrastructure but also unimportant that those same communities get to decide how they look after our environment?
If cognitive dissonance could be harnessed for fuel then we could all live happily ever after
If cognitive dissonance could be harnessed for fuel then we could all live happily ever after
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Difficult to see how the s. 48 protection for information disclosed to a requester under the OIA can protect MSD when it then voluntarily published the information on its website. @drdeanknight.bsky.social @graemeedgeler.bsky.social ?
legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1...
legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1...
Ministry privacy breach sees the names of five people seeking compensation for sexual abuse published
Ministry privacy breach sees the names of five people seeking compensation for sexual abuse published
The ministry has removed documents naming five people, but internet searches were still bringing up the MSD information.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Difficult to see how the s. 48 protection for information disclosed to a requester under the OIA can protect MSD when it then voluntarily published the information on its website. @drdeanknight.bsky.social @graemeedgeler.bsky.social ?
legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1...
legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1...
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Full support for our Health Workers!
This Friday over 17,000 PSA health members are striking across the motu for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve. 📍Find your nearest 28 November picket or rally at psa.org.nz/health
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Full support for our Health Workers!
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It had to happen eventually
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
It had to happen eventually
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I wish my community had this kind of social cohesion
The cost of being: A disabled parent on the supported living allowance
'Beneficiary disabled life will never be easy, but at the moment there is a governmental attitude to deny everything, always, and see how hard you fight.'
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November 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I wish my community had this kind of social cohesion
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I wrote recently about my experience with post-exertional malaise #PEM. Last year, I tried graded exercise therapy and it put me into a #PEMCrash that lasted for months. The physical therapist that “has worked with many #LongCovid #MECFS patients” had this mindset.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I wrote recently about my experience with post-exertional malaise #PEM. Last year, I tried graded exercise therapy and it put me into a #PEMCrash that lasted for months. The physical therapist that “has worked with many #LongCovid #MECFS patients” had this mindset.
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black — has died at age 111, the mayor said. She told Congress in 2021 that she lived through the massacre 'every day' reut.rs/4pt18LJ
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black — has died at age 111, the mayor said. She told Congress in 2021 that she lived through the massacre 'every day' reut.rs/4pt18LJ
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By now
you have probably seen reports
about how H3N2 Flu
is spreading dangerously
in Japan,
but before you tell yourself
that you need not worry
as you are not in Japan,
remember:
you may not be there
but that doesn’t mean
that this virus
won’t find its way here.
you have probably seen reports
about how H3N2 Flu
is spreading dangerously
in Japan,
but before you tell yourself
that you need not worry
as you are not in Japan,
remember:
you may not be there
but that doesn’t mean
that this virus
won’t find its way here.
November 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
By now
you have probably seen reports
about how H3N2 Flu
is spreading dangerously
in Japan,
but before you tell yourself
that you need not worry
as you are not in Japan,
remember:
you may not be there
but that doesn’t mean
that this virus
won’t find its way here.
you have probably seen reports
about how H3N2 Flu
is spreading dangerously
in Japan,
but before you tell yourself
that you need not worry
as you are not in Japan,
remember:
you may not be there
but that doesn’t mean
that this virus
won’t find its way here.
Chris Bishop says he's not plotting to roll Christopher Luxon
#nzpol
Bwahahahahahahaha!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
Bwahahahahahahaha!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Chris Bishop says he's not plotting to roll Christopher Luxon
He's not the only MP who has been asked about a leadership challenge.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Chris Bishop says he's not plotting to roll Christopher Luxon
#nzpol
Bwahahahahahahaha!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
Bwahahahahahahaha!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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PRESS RELEASE: Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #toomanycows
Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Greenpeace testing on Sunday revealed that a sample of Ashburton town water supply had reached nitrate contamination levels of 9.65mg/L.
www.greenpeace.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
PRESS RELEASE: Ashburton town supply water sample nears national health limit for nitrate; almost double levels associated with reproductive risk www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... #nzpol #toomanycows
Normalise reposting for your moots' skylines!
willing at admit I repost things I don’t have anything interest in just bc I know at least one mutual somewhere has an interest in it.
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Normalise reposting for your moots' skylines!
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We can disagree on policy. But promoting someone who spreads misogynistic rumours into a key leadership role? That should be a red line for any council committed to safe and respectful politics. #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-...
Andrew Little buddies up to the right
In his first council meeting as Wellington mayor, Andrew Little opened a political rift between Labour and the Greens.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We can disagree on policy. But promoting someone who spreads misogynistic rumours into a key leadership role? That should be a red line for any council committed to safe and respectful politics. #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-...
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-...