At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 22h agoOlder Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
Just thinkin' about the best film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_M...
Sesame Street: Making Crayons
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Hey NZ parents, what can we do to get your young adult kids enrolled to vote? I know it's the responsibility of the young adults, but is there something we can do to help things along?
Might be hard to measure, but would be interesting to find out as I’m seeing so many photos on social / ODT of cars just crashing.
Opportunity for the Greens to play 4D chess by offering Luxon Confidence & Supply in the election run-up in return for sacking Peters as FM.
henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 2d agoNicola Willis and Mark Mitchell suggested this morning that firing Winston Peters would bring down the Government. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
Oh wut, they throw Chloe out of parliament but Peters can still be openly racist and that's alright? Says it all.
Vote for Tamatha Paul, who immediately put out a call for support for organisations who are on the frontlines of an increase in “people in our communities sleeping out in the open in sub zero conditions through freezing southerlies, hail, rain and flooding”. 👇 Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DbmeuHu...
Finally… a representative of this country with an actual spine #nzpol
𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™@dallasbarnett.com · 2d agogood lads
Example #13498 of articles from US media analysing the “mistakes” Trump is making and how he’s “alienating his voters” that completely misses the point that Trump can and will get away with anything because the American voters fundamentally support everything he does. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/8...
As he wrestles with the monumental and the absurd, Trump forgets what voters want
Donald Trump's risks leaving a legacy dominated by a US strategic stalemate in Iran, unaddressed economic anxieties, and Republican Party schisms caused by his personal obsessions.
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*goes outside* “…that’s a nice southerly you’ve got there Pōneke!”
Winston Peters described him as a “member of the public” the party had no responsibility for. He is in fact an executive committee member of Young NZF (at least he was described as such in 2024) and spoke on behalf of the group at the party convention last month.
Second part: a senior figure in Young New Zealand First has ties to a neo-Nazi group and online accounts that praised Adolf Hitler www.thepress.co.nz/politics/361...
NZ First youth leader linked to neo-Nazi network
A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.
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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 5d agoPart one of my investigation into a group of young men trying to import “remigration” into New Zealand politics www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
Here we go, an amended bingo card with the Australian references localised to Aotearoa references, which does double duty for all your NZ First and ACT candidate needs!
Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 2d agoWild how you could use this card this side of the Tasman for NZ First candidates and barely have to change a thing
#nzpol Tamatha knows exactly what she’s talking about.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d agoAt least 10 police staff face criminal charges after anti-corruption investigation
Meanwhile, over on the Book of Faces, the Eftpostle is spinning out so hard that even McCoskrie 's got his doubts!
Mr Liu is in the running for either Most Optimistic NZer 2026, or Mr Unaware 2026… Dude, we’ve ALL been hoping that same thing continuously since 1993. #nzpol
Green party doing a fundraiser 500m fast film me, including a market. I'm just like... Ah ok, so we don't ask other Greens if they'd like to do a stall? Might leave the party. Will still vote etc, but i joined in the hope to participate, and literally all i get is "come doorknocking" (= no)
No. Absolutely not. The government represents all our *citizens*. The government is responsible to the *citizens*. Businesses do not feature. They are not a partner. They do not have rights. They are not “equal” to the government. They do not have a voice. They do not have a say. #nzpol
I would like to propose a members bill banning male politicians telling us to have babies.
