#NZpol We had a "check-in", happened in 2011, as pointed out. Sure, I'd prefer a form of STV myself, and yep, a lot of NZers prob *do* need to get their heads around how to navigate it (even though it's been here for some 30 years now, sigh), but FUCK, are you softening us up for some FPP move?!

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 1h ago

Christopher Luxon will call referendum on MMP voting system if elected back into power

#NZpol If they were actually serious about any of this they would t have spent 3 years allowing training to fuck out in (now often gone under) schools that did handle that, wouldn't have crushed apprentice pipelines and would insist employers couldn't undervalue *and* underpay *EXISTING WORKERS*.

Binkenstein@binkenstein.bsky.social · 4h ago

Ah yes, under National schools are teaching important subjects, like.... "Hospitality Food and Beverage" and "Tourism"...? What sort of stupidity is this? #nzpol

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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#NZpol This Govt can get absolutely fucked. What's improved in this situation? NOTHING. What are they actually doing about it? NOTHING BUT BLAME. Is this going to keep going if we re-elect this lot? COUNT ON IT. Can we change it? YES. GTF TO THE POLLS ON NOV 7, AND TAKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN WITH YOU.

Here is a better view. Sadly, since we've killed education & science, too many people have no idea how bad this is.

Massive Iceberg Collapses and Flips Over in Ilulissat, Greenland | Full Event in 4K! (July 25, 2026)

YouTube video by afarTV

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#NZpol The RBNZ decided, when jobs were already fucked, unemployment simply "has to" go up or inflation won't come down. We had a main governing Party joining in with their coalition partner in sacking 1000's of workers. They plan MORE too. Connect. The. Fucking. Dots. Vote. This. Ideology. Out.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Unemployment expected to push up to near 11-year high, economists warn

#NZpol They were running a govt?!? I thought a bunch of $2 Shop Mobsters just had the run of the place, not aware of much they've actually built, done or achieved apart from taking a legislative flamethrower to the place? They've got what, a few months till they go into "caretaker" mode anyway?!

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

#NZpol NZF, like many US/UK pol party counterparts and those that populate the space, are just *pro-birth*. What happens for *MANY years AFTER*. It's all very well to give $5K per kid but how far will that stretch in an increasingly expensive, privatised NZ — ALL OF WHICH IS HELPED ALONG BY NZF?!

Lululamarmiteontoast@lalamarmiteontoast.bsky.social · 3d ago

Why Winston when people can't afford the children they have? Why Winston when the government won't protect the vulnerable children that are already here? Why Winston when you signed up to put children in boot camps? Winston is it another way that you can minimise immigration & be racist? #nzpol

#NZpol So what you're saying is, National is run by a fmr soap salesman whose popularity at his *highest point* barely made it over the *lowest* point of the previous govt, his partners are Nazis and... Nazi pedo protectors? And some people *still* find it hard to step away from these guys still?

Where the NZ National Party are getting their policy "ideas" from for the election this year (as if it wasn't blatantly obvious already). And that's a lot better than what ACT and NZF have planned, so maybe start working into election-could-be-tomorrow sense of urgency and ensure it cannot happen.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4d ago

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

#NZpol Back to when "people were just better behaved"? In my schooling through the 80s and TF only a year of the 90's: Primary AND Secondary: 1. Caning: they'd drip lemon on it, hold kids head under desk, and get a "2-for-1": head snaps back and hits desk when caned. 2. Strapping: *heavy* use.

Victoria 💚 🧡 ❤️@vebate.bsky.social · 4d ago

F***. Growing up in the 80s and seeing the unreasonable teachers do things like hit kids with enormous dictionaries, we know there are always those that need these laws in place so they don't cross the line to "unreasonable".

#NZpol Either NZF and Peters is shut out of governance from Nov onward, or... Just start ticking down when we lose the country *permanently* to this horseshit. Yes, it's that relentless. This will only get way, WAY worse — and he fully intends to *keep stirring* this up ALL THE WAY UNTIL THEN.

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿@notjustdna.bsky.social · 4d ago

#NZpol Geoffrey Palmer: Be careful what you wish for – MAGA “is not a good formula to be copied in New Zealand.” – “It treats institutions built to check power, such as the courts, the press, the public service, as suspects rather than safeguards.” newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/01/g...

#NZpol And it will draw that comparison because that is what it fucking IS. Because as he's jousting with the media journos, he's having far more conversations with an *international audience* building *very intentional*, *reciprocal links* BACK to our cooker community* on LITERAL F'N FR CHANNELS.

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4d ago

Winston Peters wants to pay people up to $45k, tax free, to have three kids. It’s a policy with a very nativist bent that will naturally draw comparisons to the “great replacement theory” conspiracy. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

#NZpol Well, their policies have failed children since inception, and Seymour saw nothing that wrong with a pedo as Party Pres until politically inconvenient (clearly a LOT of earlier complaints failed to move him, his / ACTs politics solely focus on *erasing* empathy, morals, ethics from society).

Andrew Frame@napierinframe.bsky.social · 4d ago

So ACT is the party of... Child Abuse??!! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

#NZpol We are all going to have to reach family and friends and whatnot. The most divisive Govt in many decades can always launder their rep through the MSM - they'll joke, it's all very matey, they retract a few things, and it quietly "goes away" in a few news cycles. But the actual audience? ⏬

#NZpol This Election is People with Money BUYING THE PUBLIC OFF. ACT already way outstrip National and NZF put together, but are now close to eclipsing the Labour Party even if *that* was added in! Can people with fuck all money stop voting for RWers to "save them" from imaginary communism FFS?!?

PERFECTLY NORMAL@nzpom.com · 6d ago

Today's chart after the Serato bloke donated another $21,000 to TOP #nzpol

#NZpol "...Confidence in Govt back to near record lows; Christchurch ED so full it may put up tents" When things get to the point of the last part ⏫ Health Minister Simeon Brown needs to be forced to front up. "Any recovery" compromised by low wage, low jobs "as inflation washes through"

National sags again on economy in Ipsos poll

YouTube video by The Kākā with Bernard Hickey

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#NZpol So Luxon wants to "brutalise" us into awesomeness somehow (not exactly the words I'd use to inspire a team, and I've led a few of those, but fuck what do I know, only helped lead some to national awards so I'm a "woke" sucker I guess?). And WCC is planning on more job cuts. bRiGhT FuTuRE 🙄

Char@kiwichar.bsky.social · 7d ago

Language of an abuser. Brutalise. Millions of kiwi citizens have been brutalised enough by Luxon & his merry band of abusers, it’s well past time we start to smack these bastards back. 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/30/l...

The EU basically warns Spain's fires etc might set Europe itself alight if things right now aren't brought under enough control, like... fucking *immediately*? And then there's Allister, who'll prob cry about migration by those who can't live in a lot of places like... the Med? COS IT'S TOO HOT!

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

#NZpol What NZ and its "Govt" is: - Bunch of DJ's spinning Winston's Greatest Shits, but louder cos "we just expect it from him, the cheeky rascal, ho ho ho!" - Allowing its Health Minister silence legit questions (in Winston's "demoacry" no less!) VS What Aotearoa *needs*: ...an *actual* govt?

Mei 🐯 🧡@tigermeifury.bsky.social · 7d ago

Christopher Luxon, you can't say National has policies to restore better public services when your ludicrously unqualified Finance Minister are slashing 9,000 public sector jobs. 🤬 It's been 3 years. Do you even know how to discharge your functions of the office of the Prime Minister??? #nzpol

Today was a day of it. A person literally disproved "What ChatGPT said..." in under 20 seconds, "BUT AI" Person persisted 🤬 Let's put it this way: discussion was then rife during break about whether That Person might benefit from a spontaneous flying lesson they didn't sign up for off the balcony.

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · last wk.

I am amazed that people walk into discussions among knowledgeable human experts and say “ChatGPT says…” It’s very insulting to do that, and it makes you look ridiculous. Everybody has seen LLMs spit out wrong information about *extremely* simple things. Don’t make a fool of yourself!

#NZpol Absolutely go F YOURSELF Simeon Brown, you, your Party, *this whole fucking govt*. ACT: actively spread disinfo, targeted Māori in particular. NATIONAL: went hysterical about non-existent bodies (Woodhouse), spread US disinfo (Collins esp), didn't even bother to turn up to key committees!

"Profits are up so the economy is doing just fine!" No, YOUR economy is. Amazon+Walmart generated $100B in profits in 2025. CEO Walmart: $29.1M '26 Employee: $30K CEO Amazon: $2.1M '21, further $2M '25 Employee: 40K BOTH deliberately underpay employees so the US taxpayer picks up the health tab.

Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees

American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

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#NZpol Well, certain people out there in the public, who have to hand over their money to pay Mr Brown, are NOT relaxed about him. Dangers to us all: Seymour 1, Peters 2, Luxon 3 for sheer craven opportunism... and Brown? Just remember this little eejit wanted *a register to track women* created.

The Press@thepress.co.nz · last wk.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he’s “completely relaxed” about a journalist’s questions to his Health Minister ending up with the Free Speech Union.

#NZpol Govt Drone response to this is often that the COL is still behind CPI so "no worries, we're keeping a responsible eye on it!" Eh? They're not really, and *certainly* not keeping one on Household CI — where impacts on those less well off is clearly *way* more screwed than they'll admit.

Rob@robdickinson.bsky.social · last wk.

Once again our 💩 gov has locked us in to fossil fuels harder and for longer than we needed to be and now we are literally paying for it They are doing this because they get money from those companies #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

So they changed... what, exactly? Burnham says "...the nation’s welfare bill has to be reduced.And he made it clear that going forward certain benefits, including mental health support, will become “conditional” on people taking work and not staying at home." New PM countdown has begun I guess?

#NZpol Was wondering when the "kiwi battler" shit was gonna surface, it just screams: NO IDEAS! Oh sure, he can go on about "I had to ride a horse to get places, it was WAY TOUGHER back then!". And? So did my Dad. But my Dad knows it's not the 50's or 60's, that TIME MOVES ON and SO DO SOLUTIONS.

DHS@drhsinghnz.bsky.social · last wk.

Actions speak much louder than polished campaign speeches. Stripping away hard-won rights, suppressing wage growth, and cutting thousands of jobs isn't "common sense" and it certainly isn't standing up for working people. #nzpol

#NZpol Gee, SURPRISE! 🙄 The most duplicitous, incompetent people you'll ever see still thinks some of *the* most over-hyped tech in decades we've seen... pushed by the richest leeches on our planet... is just fine. They're all Incredibly Awful and Should Take a Bus Home on Nov 7, Not A Govt Limo.

Michael Brown@jingajik.bsky.social · last wk.

"Pulse, legato, harmony, tone colour, rhythm, triads, tuning - each appeared in the draft curriculum with incorrect definitions" www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

#NZpol When looking at any of this I always try checking where we've got to legisl'n-wise in this space, in-train or potential. By the slimmest of margins we *just* manage to avoid the more horrendous postures taken by the UK after the US barks — but it's more luck, and crap postures simply delayed.

Andrew@openpolicy.bsky.social · 2w ago

The UK ‘Labour’ Party’s descent into a puppet of the Israeli state is both shameful and terrifying. 14 years in jail for a journalist who reports information received from a group that the Home Secretary can designate as terrorist without having MPs vote on it. Same for aid agency workers.