Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 16h ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

While Bishop was chair of the Nats Campaign Cttee, $100,000s in Nat political donations were linked to companies that needed Bishops approval to access the fast track process

This is weird, right? We're into day three of eulogies for Chris Penk. A man who's pro conversion therapy, anti bodily autonomy for women, and anti covid vaccines and mandates. He's an extremist whose views are well out of the mainstream. So what are we doing here? #nzpol

Henry Cooke: Chris Penk shouldn’t have to leave politics altogether

OPINION: Far too many of our MPs now see politics as a mid-career pit-stop, not a calling.

thepost.co.nz

The lynch mob are horrified that anyone would ascribe political significance to the recent lynching

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h ago

Watch them circle the wagons, again.

EVERYTHING IS FINE STOP COMPLAINING

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most people do not bother giving constructive, reasoned criticism to those they want to lose.

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · yesterday

i really wish people could understand that criticism doesn't mean you're not on the same side - in fact it can often mean someone's a stronger ally than people who are incapable of being critical

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.

Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships

Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service

meidasnews.com

Everyone who was getting exercised abut FSU motions & directors at the InternetNZ AGM last night should be paying attention to this. Their sister Atlas org, PILLAR, has had a bill regulating international NGOs adopted by a National MP with government backing: www.nzpillar.com/news/pillars... #nzpol

PILLAR’S FIT BILL ENTERS NZ PARLIAMENT — PILLAR.

MEDIA RELEASE | 04 August 2026 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PILLAR's Foreign Influence Transparency Bill Enters the "Biscuit Tin" PILLAR is proud to announce that the Foreign Influence Transparency (FIT...

nzpillar.com

Idiot/Savant@norightturnnz.bsky.social · 2d ago

national: not going to regulate lobbying, but will require people to register contact with "foreign political organisations" (incl human rights and environmental NGOs). They're getting very Russian bills.parliament.nz/v/1/8834df57...

being wrong is a skill that all of us should practice

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · yesterday

i really wish people could understand that criticism doesn't mean you're not on the same side - in fact it can often mean someone's a stronger ally than people who are incapable of being critical

MSD rationing machine might have underestimated the impact of the recent changes to accommodation supplement eligibility. I make that about $2.3m less money *per week* in the pockets of people on low incomes. I guess the Government will call that 'winning'.

Yup, as well as being unwilling to question propaganda from NZ's intel service, media in NZ worryingly used it as an opportunity to encourage citizens to become spies for the Trump-aligned NZ govt as though that’s a perfectly fine thing to do 💀

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · yesterday

nzsis releasing overtly anti china rhetoric, including a SPY AD in news, followed by sec-state connected Fifield piece basically regurgitating the "report" AND a fascist org PillarNZ press release / planted members bill all within a couple days should have everyone worried about how thats networked

it's funny seeing the chinese embassy going "yeah the report itself is foreign interference" because i don't think they're wholly wrong, the NZSIS doesn’t consider the things five eyes partners do, including passing along selective reporting to manipulate our institutions, foreign interference.

kyle@kyledchurch.bsky.social · yesterday

nzsis releasing overtly anti china rhetoric, including a SPY AD in news, followed by sec-state connected Fifield piece basically regurgitating the "report" AND a fascist org PillarNZ press release / planted members bill all within a couple days should have everyone worried about how thats networked

nzsis releasing overtly anti china rhetoric, including a SPY AD in news, followed by sec-state connected Fifield piece basically regurgitating the "report" AND a fascist org PillarNZ press release / planted members bill all within a couple days should have everyone worried about how thats networked

Guess this is partly why National are doing targeted advertising at men, and only men, to the extent that they rejected having any information about the single advert on record that was meant to target women

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · 2d ago

This isn't me reposting what she said on Wednesday. This is her saying it again on Friday. I love the National Party they're hilarious. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

This isn't me reposting what she said on Wednesday. This is her saying it again on Friday. I love the National Party they're hilarious. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

this errs poorly on the side of accepting how O'Brien operates, especially by taking claims about her role at face value and this claim of using the HDCA "now" - I'm fairly certain this isn't the first time she has used, or threatened its use. She just usually goes after people who can't fight back

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 2d ago

Great reporting by @paulapenfold.bsky.social allowing the sheer hypocrisy of the FSU as institution, and this individual, to surface. | She champions free speech – then went to court over what a blogger said about her www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610... #nzpol

Just underlines how important it was to Peters and NZF polling fortunes that RNZ, as well as almost every other outlet, consistently amplified outright lies by NZF about their policy and values. Multiple puff pieces for extremists like Eliot Ikilei, even by Newsroom. The media are the king maker.

CEO Johnny Cans@oldmatecans.bsky.social · yesterday

It is nice if about two years late, that RNZ are now reporting on how fucking weird Winston is with his toilet inspector COVID injury shit compared to NZFs more traditional base and also apparently NZF is also tiring of his shit www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It is nice if about two years late, that RNZ are now reporting on how fucking weird Winston is with his toilet inspector COVID injury shit compared to NZFs more traditional base and also apparently NZF is also tiring of his shit www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Winston Peters has a choice to make

Analysis: With less than three months until the country goes to the polls Winston Peters is at a fork in the road.

rnz.co.nz

i really wish people could understand that criticism doesn't mean you're not on the same side - in fact it can often mean someone's a stronger ally than people who are incapable of being critical

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

in the last 2 days we've seen positive profiles of two arch-rightwingers (Penk & O'Brien) that just completely fail to mention quite how bad both their views and behaviour are. there isn't really a useful way to read that fact other than NZ media intentionally eliding and normalising the far right.

definitely worrying that the most prominent examples of this span across every single established media outlet's political reporting 🫠

Dr Bex@drbex.bsky.social · 2d ago

definitely giving the side eye to all the dudes suddenly showing solidarity with Penk and conveniently overlooking his voting record and actions towards anyone who wasn't a white male religious conservative 👀

There’s no reason on gods polluted earth to feel sorry for Chris fucking Penk lol you people have lost your damn minds. You are like 2014 democrats cosying up to republicans for decorum or whatever the fuck. Christ.

Penk was one of the 1st MPs to spread and legitimise the campaign against the UN Migration Compact, leading to the petition Nation scrubbed from their website after the Chch shooter had "here's your migration pact!" Written on his weaponry Glad he's going

Sassy Little Hobbit@sassypolitico.bsky.social · 2d ago

There’s no reason on gods polluted earth to feel sorry for Chris fucking Penk lol you people have lost your damn minds. You are like 2014 democrats cosying up to republicans for decorum or whatever the fuck. Christ.

They’re also reportedly removing thermodynamics and heat from the physics curriculum (or at best entangling it in an obtuse web of bitsy topics spread across Y12 and Y13). The physical mechanisms of the atmosphere not seen as shared knowledge for society. Psychosis being embedded in education.

Mickey@mickeytreadwell.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is a new level of attempted political indoctrination for Aotearoa. Add to this the context that all elected positions were removed from the teaching council and replaced with ministerial appointees. #NZPol newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/14/c...

It’s almost like the mega-ministry is both addicted to fossil fuels and has a track record of manipulating information it puts before its minister! Still, I’m sure the same thing will never happen at the new mega-ministry a National government has created, eh? #nzpol

James 🧠 🫀 👋🏼 🌿@jameslittlewood.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ministry commissions a report, conceals data from authors, dislikes the report’s findings, buries the report, gets busted, releases data, gets revised report saying the same shit, buries it again, makes crappy decision as if report never existed, gets busted again, proceeds with crappy decision.

Okay, so since the govt and Labour don't seem to have a plan for ambient surveillance in the form of smart glasses, perhaps it's time to demand they be expressly banned in certain places. I'm thinking gyms, bars, swimming pools, universities, etc. Not sure how to go about this. Thoughts? #nzpol

the RNZ piece "who is chris penk" just feels like a very odd editorial decision for someone apparently leaving politics will be very unsurprised if penk is soon fronting a new role, and imo that immediately calls into question any reportage that is eulogising him favourably or giving him an "intro"

David Seymour today has pulled ACT party participation in the #BHN debates including the one THIS SATURDAY. and it's because Todd Stephenson got boo'd a bit at the Dunedin Health debate (honestly, go watch the video, it is MILD)