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This is your home poster, Forresters Lane, Wellington, 29 Mar 2019, New Zealand, by Michael O'Neill [photograph], Ruby Jones [artwork] [and Phantom Billstickers, poster]. Field Collection, 2019. © Te Papa. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (CA001228/001/0008)

Remembrance and hope this March 15.

Govt is replacing a key violence-prevention tool with a racist, transphobic & homophobic curriculum - please sign our petition to show current (& future) decision-makers we care about rights, respect & joy our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

The report’s rather simplistic suggestion that better information will somehow suffice (suggesting authors never spoke to or learnt from disinfo experts) doesn't counter what was then, & still is a strategic, sustained, sophisticated, industrial-scale, coordinated assault on the national psyche.

When people say National are good at managing "the economy" but trust Labour more on environment, housing, safety, taxes, education, inflation, poverty and health...exactly what part of "the economy" do they think National are good at managing?

Lot of misspeaking going on for a government that had to pass an "english is an official language" bill

"I misspoke" is no more an apology than "I'm sorry you were offended."

Erica Stanford is a LIAR who LIED in an election campaign stunt to whip up hostility towards non-white immigrants.

Anyone in the media who can't, or won't, say that straight up is also LYING. #nzpol

IT IS NOT THE JOB OF A PUBLIC BROADCASTER IN A DEMOCRACY TO REPORT THE NEWS IN A WAY THE GOVERNMENT LIKES. IT IS ESPECIALLY NOT OKAY FOR MINISTERS AND POLITICALLY-APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS TO DICATE INDIVIDUAL EDITORIAL DECISIONS. THIS SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

i know we tend to “keep religion out of it” in nzpol, but think it’s actually an ideological & *corruption* issue to have a PM that is a member of a richlister prosperity gospel church & a *moral* issue that there are both National & ACT MPs with connection to a group known for sex crimes (2 by 2s)

The reason why we can afford to put homeless people in prison but not housing is because if you house them the homeless person benefits but if you put them in prison we can funnel public funds to a private prison corporation. It’s always about funneling public funds to the wealthy. Always.

This is really interesting history and so worth the read.

Winston Peters has 'no doubt' he could've stopped contractors law if unions went to him earlier The Green's Teanau Tuiono says New Zealand First doesn't "give a damn" about workers.

1/4 In September last year we sought a meeting with Winston Peters and New Zealand First to talk about the Employment Relations Amendment Bill and what could be done to protect workers in New Zealand. We met with them in October and again shortly before the Bill was passed. #nzpol

2/4 Like similar political figures across the world, Winston Peters is cosplaying as a defender of working people. The reality is that he had a chance to stop this anti-worker Bill, and didn’t take it.

It's useful - including for @internetnz.bsky.social, public officials, & policymakers et al who follow me here - to locate just how explicit promotion of ChCh killer's violent extremism through this podcast really is when what the hosts note is studied against what's in the killer's 'manifesto'.

Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.

When the prime minister, Christopher Luxon, spoke at Waitangi last week, he set out a terribly distorted view of the country’s founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Happy flying dildo anniversary to those who celebrate it.

Marilyn Waring: Librarians’ work is essential – and still treated as expendable After hearing their testimony to the People's Select Committee, I'm outraged at how brutally librarians' right to equal pay was legislated away....

Marilyn Waring: Librarians’ work is essential – and still treated as expendable

Since Pinker has been brought to NZ by the FSU, local reporters could ask what the "Great Fun" he was having with Epstein on April 4 2014, as mentioned in an Epstein email to Bill Gates (2014 isn't a "This person and their crimes is a mystery to me" time, as it is many years after the 2007 case)

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Every time Luxon talks about Labour needing the terrible radical Greens this should be put to him for response.

I could tell you how good this is but I wouldn't be able to do it justice. This is dildo-filled poetry that will resonate with Kiwis especially.
#DildoBaggins

Demanding that we stop talking about climate change while climate disasters are killing people is the actual politicization, actually

This would be the same Federated Farmers that argued that agriculture should be entirely removed from the ETS 🤔🧐 and which fully supports The Land Transport (Revenue) Amendment Bill 🧐🤔

Since it’s an election year I hope we can talk about how this government is responsible for deliberate withholding of healthcare to make some numbers on a piece of paper look good for their donors

Our man on the spot reporting human rights atrocities in Minneapolis — it’s raw and real and, yes, fuck ICE. Aroha nui @davidfarrier.com

I'm in the long shot territory now, a cat by the name of Arthur went awol almost 2 weeks ago. We have searched the neighbourhood. In the Ravensbourne area of Dunedin. He is a friendly wee fella and loves the food so if you think he might be raiding the food bowl let me know

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Hey the voter suppression laws mean you can only vote up to twelve days before November 7 and have to be registered thirteen days before that. Twelve days before Nov 7 is 26 October. THAT IS LABOUR DAY. THE ELECTION VOTING STARTS ON LABOUR DAY.

The sketch is targeted to the UK, but applies pretty broadly I think...