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My daughter's daycare just sent out an email about potentially needing to layoff staff because new babies about to start withdrew because of parental job losses. So if you're wondering how government layoffs and mass contract cancellations will affect the economy, here's an example
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1. Gordon Campbell- On Why #NZ’s #GP Practices Are In Crisis: The Luxon govt stumped up with only a measly 4% rise in the “capitation” funding through which the state subsidises GP practices for the patients they treat. In real terms, this was a funding cut. #nzpol www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...?
On Why GP Practices Are In Crisis
Can we please have some context for the government’s hand-on-heart claims of caring about the health and well-being of ordinary “Kiwis”? In the real world, the rising cost of going to the doctor means...
www.scoop.co.nz
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🔴Needs Musk: Minister Pledges Crackdown on ‘Dark Money’ in British Politics

Keir Starmer’s Government looks set to close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties

bylinetimes.com/2025/03/07/g...
Needs Musk: Minister Pledges Crackdown on 'Dark Money' in British Politics
Keir Starmer's Government looks set to close loopholes that would allow foreign billionaires like Elon Musk to bankroll UK political parties
bylinetimes.com
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“All Im saying is do you really NEED your grandparents or do you just like having them around.”
Genuinely wild that Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott is able to talk about cutting Medicare & Social Security from anywhere but a prison cell
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The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
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Labour's plan:
Jobs 👷🏻‍♀️
Health 🏨
Homes 🏡
Just 603 days until the last possible election day in this term.
#OneTermGovt for the #CoalitionOfCruelty
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Yum meals as presented by the two cooks from hit show Giving The Kiddies Something To Eat
The Secret Diary of .. school lunches
newsroom.co.nz
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If Hipkins thinks that “middle NZ” will never care about climate change, the environment and Te Tiriti, then he’s essentially given upon the future.
Laura Walters on the Labour relaunch -

'Rather than spread Labour too thin, Hipkins has left the other left-wing parties to take the lead in battles on climate change, the environment and Te Tiriti, while he fights to win back middle New Zealand.'
Jobs, health, homes: Labour reshuffle shows more focused agenda
Analysis: During his 12-month navel-gazing tour, Kiwis told Chris Hipkins the last Labour Government tried to do too much. Not anymore.
newsroom.co.nz
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USA:

🔹59% of Americans believe the COVID-19 pandemic is over, while 41% think it’s not."

🔹47% of U.S. adults said their lives are fully back to pre-pandemic normal, while 40% said they think life will never get back to normal."

#COVIDisNotOVER #COVIDisAIRBORNE
Only 59% of Americans say the pandemic is over, 5 years later
A new survey reveals that about three in five Americans say the pandemic is over, and some concerns still persist.
www.livenowfox.com
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If they call you socialist or even communist for being neoliberal but slightly less right wing than National, why be timid about being an actual Labour Party? #nzpol
If Labour wants a solid chance of regaining power, it needs decisively to repudiate the neoliberal economics it introduced in the 1980s. Cf. Grant Robertson's "Budget Resp Rules". Glib talk of kindness and wellbeing doesn't cut the mustard as social democracy becomes an ever distant memory. 2/2
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Holy shit. 😳
BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight.

This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.
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Half a decade and there’s still no definitive test, treatment or cure for Long Covid. There’s still a significant stigma attached to it that leads many patients to suffer in silence. There’s still nothing being done to stop the spread of Covid, thus creating more Long Covid patients.
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If someone in the 90s had told me that Bill from Bill and Ted’s would one day organize a movement to take down the rocket tycoon who was controlling the US government…I would not have believed them
'Musk's Involvement in Politics Could Be the Downfall of Tesla'
Tesla is facing protests, arsons, and ridicule as Americans outraged by Elon Musk's actions in the Trump administration poison the brand's reputation.
www.rollingstone.com
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The Labour Party needs to drag itself out of the 1990s-2000s and recognize that competent management of the status quo is not what is needed. It will not win votes and it will not solve problems. Bold reform is what we need. Fundamental changes must be made.
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ralpheaston.wordpress.com
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For national security, Europe and UK MUST NOT buy American weapons that the US has the ability to “turn off” if they don’t agree with policy decisions. This is JOB NUMBER ONE of a government. Keep your citizens safe from belligerent nations even if they may have been benign in the past.
Game-theory this out, Europe. The F-35 cannot be operated independently. Cancel it. Now.
Cancel F-35
It cannot be operated independently.
That’s it.

Since the US is a belligerent antagonist to all European values, this is a no brainer.

Buy European
Gripen👇
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Great to meet again today with Tangi Utikere MP, Labour spokesperson on transport.
We share a vision for transport that puts people first. Transport should nurture our health, protect clean air, and move people and freight in an affordable, equitable way.
@cyclingactionnz.bsky.social
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#NZPol

Where on Earth are all the headlines calling for Willis to resign after it’s been confirmed she pissed near half a billion dollars up the wall for NOTHING!?!
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I really hope New Zealanders see what Musk is doing with Doge as a warning about Seymour's regulatory agency.