Essential read on this govt’s reckless gaslighting:
“It’s election year, I get it. But implying science & health advice was routinely being ignored fuels the distrust that erodes social cohesion—something the report is at pains to emphasise must be restored.” #nzpol
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Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol
National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.
Labour saved 20,000 lives.
National are saving landlords and tobacco
Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt.
Take the damn money and leave me alone.
text reading "The average New Zealand woman* loses $25.36 per week... ...just because this Govt. has not acted on pay gap reporting." small text reading "*earning the median wage" There is a graphic of a person with wavy hair holding a tax invoice for prime minister christopher luxon with the total of 7.8 billion, with overdue stamped on it.
text reading "It's this simple: If the Government made gender pay gap reporting compulsory for large businesses, the gender pay gap would shrink by 20–40 percent.* That's an extra $25.36 per week for women earning the median wage; an extra $58.40 for wahine Māori and $76.40 for Pacific women." small text reading "*based on international evidence."
text reading "What can we do to help close the pay gap? It only takes a minute. Visit the STILL Minding the Gap web site now to invoice the Prime Minister and let him know that closing the gender pay gap is STILL a priority for Kiwis: stillmindingthegap.nz"
If the Government enacted pay gap reporting, women in New Zealand who earn the median wage would get an 'extra' (or rather, not miss out on...) $25.36 per week. For wahine Māori it's $58.40 and $76.40 for Pacific women.
It's that simple. Let Luxon know it's OVERDUE: www.stillmindingthegap.nz
International (working) Women's Day seemed to be an occasion for the great and the good only this year, because #disabled #women are not seen as workers, and are frequently excluded from women's events, intentionally or not. Our lives are worth celebrating, & we work as hard as other women.
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
Screenshot from linked article that notes bother Ryan Hamilton and tama potaka could lose their seats in the upcoming election
Hamilton could swing red this election...
#nzpol
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"The only thing I am considering is the future of our children & grandchildren." #nzpol And let’s be clear, that’s only his children & grandchildren. He’s made the lives of 10s of 1000s of children & grandchildren infinitely worse.
Luxon believes he has skills.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
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Right-wing commentators were *obsessed* with what they fancied was the former Labour govt's control of the media. Yet now we have what looks like direct political interference with reporting that ministers didn't like. Far out. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...
99.4% of disabled learners now attend local mainstream schools. Back in Andrew's day they were shunted off to special schools and excluded. Funding for this has not kept up with need. On top of that, families are facing far worse material deprivation, drug use stress etc than 30+ years ago.
In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
Image 1: reasons given for withholding the information I requested on solar from MBIE
Image 2: the reason given in the House today by energy minister Simon Watts today
These two things are not the same
Disestablishment of the Ministry for the Environment is another terrible bill emblematic of this government’s continual attack on our environment - it is now open for submissions - until 4.30 on 11th March.
Sticker on lamp post "Luxon supports bombing schoolgirls "
Seen in Ōtepoti today
NZ Herald, Audrey Young: "Christopher Luxon's Clare Curran moment - can he recover?"
I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions.
Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018.
Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.
My strongly held belief is that the rapture isn’t real and people should stop trying to make it happen.
30 seconds is all it took me to write an eloquent (remarkably clean by my standards) email telling him this decision is disgusting.
P.Goldsmith@ministers.govt.nz
Fill yet boots peeps.
New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.
Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, “Our dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.” Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.
Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased
He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life
Perhaps. Altho I do think faith is a bit more complex than that. For those who are part of a faith belief/practice it can certainly seem so. Those who hold a faith speak to meaning, purpose, community, connection, and of course to spiritual experiences.
Oof. And yes, ive heard that too. Its terrible theology and a poor interpretation of what it means to be caretakers of what has been to us to nourish and look after.
Its hard, because then you're falling into the No True Scotsman fallacy. Plus many of the underlying beliefs are orthodox - its the practice thereof that is bonkers
