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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 19h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Eric Rowe @kiwieric.bsky.social · 12h

4 spots in our local ward. The only one who didn't get in is the ACT candidate.....

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 17h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Eric Rowe @kiwieric.bsky.social · 12h

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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 1d

Step one: engineer a recession and cancel infrastructure projects. Step two: get mad at people for not having a job

thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-...

The Spinoff: In other words, we did it, folks. Joblessness is up. Inflation is down. Mince is admittedly four trillion dollars. But overall, success! Surely our government should be pulling a George W Bush and unfurling a mission accomplished banner above the rusted deck of the HMNZS Canterbury.

Instead, it called a press conference to say, in essence, wtf. Luxon and social development minister Louise Upston gathered reporters on Sunday to announce too many 18- and 19-year-olds were claiming the benefit, and they’ll be cutting them off if their parents earn more than the princely sum of $65,529 combined. Asked where young people should get a job in a recession, which, again, we deliberately engineered, Luxon pointed to kūmara harvesting in Dargaville or seasonal work in orchards. Orchardists promptly responded that they didn’t need more staff right now.

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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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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 3d

The Govt wants to cut Health NZ staff working on alcohol harm & end its research & social marketing campaigns. Sixty five organisations have signed an open letter to the PM, calling for alcohol industry to be excluded from policy making.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #alcohol #Health #PublicHealth

Cartoon. Title: “Sponsored by the Alcohol Lobby”. Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and Assoc Justice Minister Nicole McKee, drinking together. McKee hands her beer to Doocey and says, “Hold my beer” “I’m going to sort out these Public Health boffins. Lower right it says, “Govt ignores expert advice on alcohol”

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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 3d

Where's the $170m gone?
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/24/1...

$170m promised for EV chargers yet to materialise

The National Party promised to "supercharge" electric vehicle infrastructure but critics say it’s more of a trickle.

newsroom.co.nz

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Kieran @nug.monster · 3d

No you're not. That's not true. Because we don't have a sickness benefit anymore. Swarbrick should've called him a liar.

Christopher Luxon replied: "When you go on a Jobseeker benefit, you're deemed able and capable of working."

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 4d

I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face.

Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker.

I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday.

I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 4d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 4d

Actually no, I blame the media here. If the standard is 'The left have to be 100% perfect or it means right wing politicians can blame us for everything' then we're never going to meet it. Media should be shutting this down, whether or not the individual act was silly #nzpol

Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4d

Undisciplined munter with crowbar opens door for right-wing politicians to attack the left. #NzPol

Nicola Willis urges Greens to 'call off' protesters outside Winston Peters' home

Senior government ministers are accusing the Greens of condoning "indecency" after a window at the Foreign Minister's house was smashed.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Eric Rowe @kiwieric.bsky.social · 4d

Where is the champion of free speech David Seymour to stop this nonsense?

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 4d

The hypocrisy is making my head spin. 🤦‍♂️

And where is the balance in the reporting here? Why no mention of the targeted campaign instigated by the co-Deputy Prime Minister that put a former Green Party MP and their whanau in danger, ultimately prompting them to step away from politics? #nzpol

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 4d

Actual cancel culture in action #nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

One NZ cuts actor from ads over protest at Winston Peters' house

The activist, who gave out the home address of Foreign Minister Winston Peters and encouraged other pro-Palestine protesters to join, is also one of the faces of One NZ’s advertising campaigns.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 4d

So the @nzgreenparty.bsky.social is this government’s boogeyman and is responsible for all political dissent towards them for torching the NZ economy and/or refusing to act on Palestine.
One rando throwing a brick through the foreign ministers window is our “Portland is burning.”

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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 4d

"Data shows in almost all parts of the country, there were more people unemployed than there were jobs available."

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

How many job hunters are there for each job ad?

Finding work may not be as easy as "getting off the PlayStation", data on jobs and job hunters shows.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 4d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah nah.

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers

The Prime Minister is urging young people to look for work in the sector amid changes to the Jobseeker benefit.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 6d

Authoritarian revision of history.

This is bad. The GBD was dangerous and unfounded. To claim this just before mass vaccination was terrible. And "proven right" is a revisionist lie. Many, very many would have been gravely ill and died. It was and remains wrong

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Dodgyfoo @dodgyfoo.bsky.social · 7d

Ash Sarkar! What a reply!!!! 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Eric Rowe @kiwieric.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder what Job Luxon had at 18?

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 5d

Nicola Willis's RNZ & Stuff opinion piece writer Wesselbaum, an Atlas Network NZ Initiative fellow, has updated his disclosure statement this arvo.

Of note, Willis was a Director with NZ Initiative, making this conflict of interest even starker

How could both Stuff & RNZ ignore this? #nzpol #kiwi

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 5d

Hello from the top of the South Island where literally 100s of people in primary industries and manufacturing are soon to lose their jobs from Carter holt Harvey, sealord, and proper crisps

PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 5d

Luxon told Morning Report

"If you go outside of Wellington, to Hawke's Bay or go to the South Island... The primary industries are crying out for young people to come and join those sectors and those jobs," Luxon said

What happens if you don't want to work in the primary sector Einstein?🤦🏻‍♂️
#nzpol

Jobseeker changes: 'Punished for economic crisis they didn't create'

"We love these young people," the prime minister says, but a youth advocate says they're being "punished for an economic crisis they didn't create".

www.rnz.co.nz

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Hungrymama @hungrymama.bsky.social · 5d

So an 18 year old has only been allowed to use social media for two years and needs their parents to support them financially, but is also completely equipped to move across the country on their own to do manual labour.

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