New statement from AG James:

"This is nothing more than a continuation of the president's desperate weaponization of our justice system.

"I am not fearful — I am fearless."

Radio bros gon hate

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

With every new variant
with every new wave
there are warnings
of which new symptoms
you need to watch for,
and yet
with every new variant
with every new wave
the main symptom
you need to watch for
is everyone around you
insisting that they
just have a weird cold.

Essential services are not suited to "the market" — the objectives of private capital are too misaligned with the nature of the inelastic demand for the services.

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

If you’d like to hear my final council speech (with some sass), feel free to come to council tomorrow morning. DM for more details.

refusing to recognise Palestine statehood wasn't enough for Simon Court; now he wants to stop MPs from using the word genocide to describe...GENOCIDE. fuck this guy and fuck the 'Free Speech (except when we don't like what you're saying)' ACT party.

#nzpol

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Let's stop pretending New Zealand isn't in bed with the Americans and Israelis

Winston Peters strolled around and anti-vax picnic and spoke with people who had chanted and written threats of hanging on gallows of Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and so on, but this was all OK as it was just harmless opportunistic politicking #NZPol

One broken window (which is not great) at the home of one govt politician and people have entirely lost their minds, as if nothing like this has ever happened before.

Do we not remember the violence and threats and abuse directed at left leaning politicians and public figures?
#nzpol

So school leavers with no resources are supposed to just move away from home and instantly get work, a place to live etc etc? How do they do that?

Does he realise that you have to have a job BEFORE you can rent somewhere, buy food, pay bills etc?

Just a reminder that a policy to reduce the number of people on benefits isn’t the same as ensuring they have jobs.

The language and metrics used in policy decisions can create perverse outcomes.

You weren’t “aloof”.

You were protecting your nervous system.

You weren’t “uninterested”.

You were overstimulated.

You weren’t “self-isolating”.

You were seeking safety.

They called it avoidance.

But it was preservation.

This is the life of the autistic human.

this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol

What the ever loving fuck are they doing to new zealand

Trump is a con artist & he’s representing a legion of oligarchs & criminals. They’ll maintain power long after he’s gone. It’s a sleight of hand strategy; Trump rambles or passes some EO that is going to be shut down by the courts. In the background massive embezzlement & fleecing is taking place.

"When someone argues that fewer trans people should exist, when they liken... healthcare to child abuse, when they advocate criminal penalties for doctors following...best practice —That is .... eliminationist rhetoric dressed up in the language of concern."
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A short notice protest was called in Ōtautahi Christchurch today when Israel intercepted civilian ships in international waters detaining those aboard, including Aotearoa New Zealand citizens.

Columbia has expelled Israeli diplomats. Aotearoa should do the same

Remember the lead up to the single use plastic grocery bag ban? #NZPOL

Media council said RNZ should have recognised the story was pushed by a group with an anti-trans agenda and been more careful about balance as a result. Rnz have basically just said “no, we refute that entirely” in a way that shows an absolute misunderstanding of the context we currently operate in

Even his own PR team must hate him, there’s no way his office wouldn’t have known about this, and yet they encouraged him to make a public dick of himself anyway 🤣🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #NewZealand

i don't care how many interviews Christopher Luxon gets to bang on about how good and great he thinks he is. his actual actions as Prime Minister show he's inept, entitled, ignorant, racist, lazy and spineless. it's ridiculous he's paid as much as he is to know and do as little as he does.

#nzpol

Reminder that measles is a dangerous virus & one of the most infectious diseases there is...

Measles outbreak: Two new cases in Northland www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...