Remind me again... which nation was busy building the ferries that Nicola Willis cancelled?🤔🤬
We won't be getting any favours when we have to beg for fuel, and none of it will be discounted.
Thanks Nicola.💩💩
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
From the bad place.
Thanks @mariasherwood.bsky.social
Could not have said it better. #nzpol
‘Another poll also revealed Kiwis overwhelmingly wanted politicians to govern with future generations in mind and the economic system to be changed.’
Not-for-profit is insufficient: organisations which support our health and social care system should be not-for-dividend. The distinction is important because the latter enables all surplus to remain in the sector rather than being moved into shareholder coffers.
Related (picked up later) ⬇️
Christina Hood: “It's a huge risk for the New Zealand economy to be exposing even more of our energy system to volatile international prices,” [caused by events like those currently seen in the Middle East]
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Merchant vessel Seaway Hawk transporting decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures Ships USS Devastator, USS Dextrous, USS Gladiator and USS Sentry in the Delaware Bay to unload in Philadelphia tomorrow - March 9, 2026 SRC: FB- Delaware River Shipping / Andy Wyrick 📷
We live in a world beyond parody. The United States has had four minesweeper vessels in the Persian Gulf for 35 years. Just yesterday these ships arrived in Philadelphia to be decommissioned, a day before Iran announces that they are mining the Strait of Hormuz.
Are we any closer to "getting back on track"?
Not if rail ferries are anything to go by.
Oddly enough, that one did make it into English! Merriam Webster defines "pusillanimous" as "lacking courage and resolution; marked by contemptible timidity". So, not exactly the same meaning, but definitely the same vibe, and from the same Latin root.
A reminder that the outgoing Solicitor-General, Una Jagose, was revealed by the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care to have acted to shut down and deny claims by abused people.
But National, and Collins, allowed her to stay in office, and deal with response to the RC.
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The two new ferries will be smaller and cost more than the original ferries and be delivered three years later. The port upgrades still need to be signed off and ratepayers both sides are stumping up for the govt fucking around? And that's for less than the iRex plan. Years later. Costing more.
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says it now considers US company infrastructure legitimate targets, including belonging to:
• Microsoft
• Palantir
• Google
• Oracle
• Nvidia
• IBM
Signal boost for Jen.
My Bluesky timeline, all in a row: 58 days of petrol left in NZ, Watties closing factories, MoE unethical bargaining.
This is fine.
Jesus it’s worse than initial thoughts.
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A new whistleblower report alleges that a former DOGE engineer told co-workers at his new job that that he “previously had unrestricted ‘God-level’ access to the SSA’s systems” & that he possessed copies of SSA’s “Numident” & “Master Death” files, which he planned to use at his new job. 3/10/26…1/
The "Is This A Pigeon" meme where, original, a character gestures toward a butterfly and asks "is this a pigeon?" Here the butterfly has been replaced with a new headline screenshot reading "Heinz Wattie's plans to shut three factories, 350 jobs at risk" and the caption text reads: Is this "getting New Zealand back on track"?
“A foundational rule of computer security is to never create a ‘single point of failure,’ meaning a centralized system or node whose compromise wld cause widespread damage.” The Trump administration’s “SAVE” voter purge system—an underreported key part of the “Save America Act”—violates this rule.
The union busting that this government is trying to do is so angering!
I may be biased with the people I interact with, but everyone I’ve chatted with supports the teachers
Primary teachers' union angry over government offering individual pay rises.
This is an illegal action.
It is NOT good faith bargaining.
Stanford and Roach will have egg on their faces.
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Another one bites the dust. Luxon has destroyed our future. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
Next Govt should have a Royal Commission into the cancellation of the ferries, just to be fair and all
Well those green shoots certainly won't be snap frozen and sold in supermarkets around the country, that's for sure.
Heinz Wattie's proposes closure of three manufacturing facilities, impacting 350 jobs
Scroll down for full list of portfolios. I wish this sort of story came with diagrams. #NzPol
Absolutely insane achievement given we aren’t an island.
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“The Defense Department burned through $93 billion that month alone [September 2025 was the end of the fiscal year], signing checks left and right in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.”
