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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 5h

This is the Waikato
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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 8h

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 7h

Perfectly okay to not be elected, if I'm honest ✌️

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 5h

One final bit of good news - 234600 people across the motu voted to remove Māori wards, 245800 to keep them - 51.1% of all votes were to keep them, 48.9% not to. The majority of the country that voted were in favour so suck it coalition!

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 8h

The Olive green areas are councils where citizens voted down Māori wards (the little blue blob in the middle is Kirikiriroa, which voted by a whisker to retain theirs).
Coincidentally those Olive green areas also pretty accurately represent land confiscated by the crown after the Waikato wars.

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 5h

You should totally be proud of what you achieved, and how you conducted yourself. I'm so glad that there has been someone at the table with sense and humanity, someone who understood what the most important thing in the world is. Kia kaha Louise, arohanui.

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Robbie Nicol @robbienicol.bsky.social · 6h

One good thing about the local elections is finally getting a definitive list of how racist all the different bits of New Zealand are.

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 10h

Hamilton - the city of the past

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 11h

The results across the city are depressing, especially yours.

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 11h

Kirikiriroa Hamilton loses some good councillors including the outstanding Louise Hutt :(
Looks like we have some 'interesting' candidates elected who will get a shock when they try and turn their "commonsense" into the reality of keeping the lights on and the water running.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 16h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 15h

Closer to $800 a month for gas and power for our warm, insulated 4 bedroom home with 6 people living in it in the middle of winter.

The Waikato is damp and wet so a dryer is a must if you want dry clothes.

I definitely breathed a sigh of relief when spring came round.

Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 18h

I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 19h

I'm doing live updates on the local election results this afternoon on RNZ, if you want to be the first to know how much of a crushing victory 'did not vote' had across the country

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Mask Up Comments and Opinions @commentsandopi2.bsky.social · 23h

This is where we will end up too, if we don't start dealing with the imported culture wars of the right wing more effectively.
#nzpol
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 21h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 1d

Vote first thing tomorrow, & take it to a ballot box near you
I Voted for people to protect parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, recycling, kind & connected communities, public transport, social housing, cycle trails, green spaces, public ownership of water & services, disability action & Māori Wards

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dingsbums @binkle.bsky.social · 1d

Ōtautahi / Chch procrastinators, join me in voting in the local body elections before midday tomorrow - drop off locations listed in the link www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz/news/story/t... #kikorangi

Time running out to vote in local elections

Time is running out for the 69 per cent of eligible voters in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula who have yet to complete and return their voting papers for the local elections.

www.newsline.ccc.govt.nz

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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 2d

Good old Bryce: the exact opposite of the imposter syndrome.

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 1d

Thought so. I shall wait for all of the social media posts from various political actors clearly condemning this political violence and unacceptable behaviour against Parliament's first nonbinary MP.

#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned

Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 1d

"The National Party - putting the 'n' back in cuts"

the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 1d

The Government of New Zealand has made a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent cartoon after #SirDavidLow on #Trump #Blair #Netanyahu #IsraelGaza #Ceasefire #Gaza - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 2d

I predict 27 or 28 November that he will "graciously" step aside because that's the date he gets his lifelong PM entitlements that he's entitled to.

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 1d

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 1d

"Experimenter bias" refers to a mistake in scientific studies where the experimenter wants to see something, and so unconsciously designs protocols to prove what they want to see. RFK here provides an example, Let me explain what we might see based on this. 🧵

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 2d

I see he's been practising the actions. Maybe next time he'll be confident to join in.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 3d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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