Hey Luxon.💩🥚 If you don't have the ability or the guts to deal with both of your minor party coalition partners walking all over you every single day of the week, that's your problem.💩🥚 Stop trying to make our problem. We. Don't. Want. To. Copy. The. USA. Got it? #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

David Mohring@nzheretic.bsky.social · 7h ago

Don't fall for the Anti-MMP fuckwittery. It is pure anti-democratic bullshit. #nzpol

Graeme Hart laundering his donation through a company to make his name slightly less obvious.

NZ Election Donations@nzelectiondonation.bsky.social · 8h ago

The New Zealand National Party received a $250,000 donation from Rank Group Limited on 15 July 2026. The filing was received by the Electoral Commission on 5 August 2026. [ source | filing ]

The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful

Mother of God! He actually said this. If you're worried about yahoo or numpties around the cabinet table look in the bloody mirror mate

Newsroom NZ@newsroom.co.nz · 7h ago

"The question I keep saying is, I don't need some yahoo or numpty from some other party around that (Cabinet) table."

🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw

Yes Seymour. This is what happens when you cut Health to the bone. Privatizing the health system is going to see a lot more mental health issues go untreated and people wig out in public. "He shouldn't have been out" Your CoC put him there clownballs. #nzpol

Kia Ora #nzpol Please talk to whanau and everyone around you to encourage them to enrol to vote. We all need to use our voice! vote.nz/enrolling/en...

Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chlöe Swarbrick and NZ Greens with one of the most important messages for the public to note ahead of the upcoming election in Aotearoa.

Reminder to not pour hot water on your windshield to defrost.

“The systematic removal of rubble at this pace conceals the evidence of appalling crimes Israel committed in Gaza, especially those related to genocide, such as summary executions and killing unarmed civilians.” #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...

Israel accused of erasing evidence in Gaza

A new human rights report accuses Israeli forces and contractors of removing and crushing Gaza’s rubble before investigators can examine possible evidence of genocide, mass graves and unlawful killing...

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Is business confidence still up? With all these businesses closing down? Wtf

ACT, worried that NZ First is attracting too much attention by having horrible candidates, announces that Paul Henry is standing for them. #nzpol

Paul Henry to stand for ACT in this year's election

Veteran broadcaster Paul Henry will run as an ACT Party candidate this election, leader David Seymour announced in Auckland on Tuesday morning.

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So let me get this straight;he wants a return to First Past the Post, an extended 4 year term,all on top of voter supression by scrapping same-day enrollement-voting? At this point Luxon stops being a numpty and is more nefarious. If he succeeds,we are... (1) www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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

The Prime Minister says he will call a referendum on the country's MMP voting system if he's back in power after the November election.

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Totally agree with Chlöe. Other MPs have been censured for much lesser crimes like doing a haka or calling someone a liar. But old Uncle Winnie can blurt out some racist trope, and nothing happens. Double standards, Mr Brownlee. Why? #nzpol

D Jukic She/her@dejanajuk.bsky.social · 12h ago

“A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who challenge Peters’ conduct.” #nzpol

“A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who challenge Peters’ conduct.” #nzpol

The Speaker’s selective severity: Rules for Swarbrick, rank for Peters

A study of the Hansard supports Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick’s allegation that Speaker Gerry Brownlee gives New Zealand First’s Winston Peters a latitude he denies her, and other MPs who c…

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THAT WAS THEN: “I am sick of taxpayers being treated like a bottomless ATM, to be raided at any time, for any reason.” - Luxon,15 May 2023 www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politic...

Kiwis treated like a 'bottomless ATM': Luxon promises 'taxpayers' receipt'

National leader Christopher Luxon is promising to introduce a “taxpayers’ receipt” as one of three initiatives to promote fiscal discipline in a potential

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Free & open for all: Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up to 37% of workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas were granted & the RBNZ hiked to take 'heat' out of the economy. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Unemployment worse than forecast & real wages fall

Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up by 21,500 in a year to 37% of youth workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas granted

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>>>[Jetstar] carrier said it was part of a change in its carry-on model, which included removing its 7-kilogram carry-on weight limit.<<< No weight limit on carry-on?!? This will be diabolical. (1)

In today’s NZ Herald

Not enough data centres, obviously.

Tom Isaacson@parsley72.bsky.social · yesterday

Everybody get solar. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Still true.

How exactly is a new baby boom in Aotearoa NZ going to helpful when folk can't afford food, housing, education, health care, there's huge unemployment, wage stagnation, and general misery? You know what encourages folk to have kids? Great social investment, secure income, and fewer RW twats

Oh, this one still works...

TW - violence by teachers. I was at a UK primary school in the 70s. The headmaster used to regularly cane my classmates aged between 8 and ten. He'd threaten the whole school with it. Said we deserved it. Perhaps he thought we were little shits. 1/5 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

ACT candidate Paul Henry unveils plan to let teachers use 'reasonable force' on students

ACT wants to give teachers the legal power to remove "seriously or persistently disruptive" students from a classroom.

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“Stuff we campaigned on was the most that bypassed select committee” isn’t an excuse for lack of due process & scrutiny.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 4d ago

More laws rushed through Parliament under urgency than any term since 2008

John Campbell eviscerated Luxon on Morning Report today. Shamefully,the interview was cut short by the News pips. Hey RNZ,do better! 8 or 9 minutes to canvas matters affecting the country is insufficient!Especially as Luxon has canned appearances on TVNZ's 'Breakfast' & Q+A. @rnzrss.bsky.social

It reads as a pretty patronising lecture to me. But also, he wasn't a CEO in Chicago. He was a senior manager then. He was in Toronto when he was a CEO. At least, of his LinkedIn bio is to be believed.

henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 5d ago

The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

The full comments the PM made at the Rotorua event, which the PM's office say Labour are mischaracterising as a "patronising lecture". www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Honestly, really, i dont know whether to laugh my head off or curl up in a foetal position in abject fear... Actually, i'll do both. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/8...

OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe

OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attenti...

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