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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 9h

so when's Potaka getting banned until he apologises for impugning Mcanulty's integrity?

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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 12h

Surely we also have a cut-and-dry referral of Potaka to the Privileges Committee for not only making an unparliamentary attack on a fellow Member but, more arguably, misleading the House in the process? #nzqt #nzpol

Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 13h

Tama Potaka accuses Kieran Mcanulty of lying about pregnant women being refused emergency housing. Mcanulty says he provided contact details and the Minister hasn't been in touch. So we definitely have a weaponisation of parliamentary decorum by the regime to hide deceit here #nzqt

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 4h

#NZPol So of course this political violence pearl clutching is just Atlas cunts trying to make sure the authorities protect them from sane people’s reactions to their own racist, misogynist, society and biosphere destroying ideas and the ‘free speech’ hate they use to push for this crap. Snowflakes.

Print Edition: Newspaper Front Pages @printedition.bsky.social · 4h

Tuesday's Dominion Post (New Zealand) #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Theta Salmon @thetasalmon.bsky.social · 5h

I hope Penis Head, Melted Rimmer and Dementia Peters have not dismantled our virus detection agencies…

This looks really really bad.
Infections of massive flocks with human contact is a perfect recipe for eventual human cases…& there’s a mad Pedo running the US.

If this is already loose… 💀

#nzpol

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 6h

Same data but just for September months. Completely unnecessary self flagellation. It's like all the lessons learned on the need for fiscal kick-starts are being roundly ignored. Small island, housing ponzi, rogergnomics, 8-wire, whip the poor exceptionalism. (2/2)

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 13h

Just so we’re clear…

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 9h

Temu ferries.
Un fucking believable.

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 10h

So we're getting new ferries in 2030?? Good lord #nzpol

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 11h

Re-upping this thread in light of @ben.gracewood.nz uncovering that there is no record of David Seymour ever being told (as he had claimed) that alcohol warning labels hamper craft brewers ... a non-issue that would require us to break from our international agreements to fix ...

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 9h

Also for the folks who will deny Luxon sold the route, Air NZ axed the London route in 2019 & prioritised JFK/America, which was Luxon's vision & why he bought new planes before he left. Luxon resigned in 2019 and stayed on as an advisor to the acting CEO until Foran started in early 2020 #nzpol

Prime Minister, Unions ARE Workers

Chris Luxon, Erica Stanford and Simeon Brown continue to gaslight Kiwi workers, in their latest instalment of divide and conquer

mountaintui.substack.com

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Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 10h

🍃🌹🌿 #Act’s “dangerous” #RSB or Regulatory Standards Bill could cost taxpayers up to $60 million a year upfront, according to Treasury advice released to The Post, under OIA- Mountain Tui: #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/mountain...

Regulatory Standards Bill could cost up to $60 million a year

And even the most conservative estimates of $18 million a year from Treasury misses the mark i.e. Treasury says most costs are yet to be accounted for

open.substack.com

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Paul Thistoll @pault.bsky.social · 10h

This is utterly embarrassing.

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

There’s a major climate summit in Christchurch but the minister’s party won’t let him go

Climate Minister Simon Watts had been due to deliver the closing address at the global Adaptation Futures Conference, but National Party whips refused his leave from Parliament.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 10h

#NZpol Yep, a giant waste of money and time on key national resilience infrastructure 😠

Huia Sue @huiasue.bsky.social · 12h

So-orig it was $551m for 2 top of the line Korean rail ferries delivered this year & next. It cost National $671m to cancel them. We don’t know the added price for these Chinese Ferries-hopefully they won’t be full of asbestos like the rail carriages were www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/14/g...

Govt confirms shipyard for new Cook Strait ferries

The shipbuilder was the "largest modern integrated shipbuilding enterprise in Southern China," Peters said in his media release.

www.1news.co.nz

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Neil Mcbikeface 🇳🇿 Refusing to trust AI since 1968 @usernameneil.bsky.social · 17h

Are we back on track yet? #nzpol

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets

Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’

www.theguardian.com

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

New Zealand watered down its 2050 target for methane emissions from livestock and farming activities. Read more in today's Green Daily

Why New Zealand’s Lower Methane Target Could Warm the Planet More

New Zealand, one of the world’s largest dairy exporters and a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge, this weekend watered down its 2050 target for cutting methane emissions from livestock and farming activities.

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Bean Crusty @beancrusty.bsky.social · 21h

Who are these people? Landlords and farmers?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 1d

The select committee report on the Regulatory Standards Bill is in.
📝166,000 submissions.
❌98.7% opposed.
Yet National are going to continue supporting it.
🗣New Zealand could not have been louder, but Luxon still isn’t listening.

Regulatory Standards Bill:
Select Committee Report:
166,000 submission total
0.7% supported
0.6% unclear
98.7% opposed

AUTHORISED BY DUNCAN WEBB MP, PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS WELLINGTON

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1d

"Hudson told Stuff his client wanted to be clear that he was not part of any protest activity outside Peters’ house." And he's being charged with burglary. So, er, not a deranged left-wing protester after all? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Stuff

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Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 1d

People and businesses who thought they had it bad during Covid are finding out how it is during bad times when the government actually does abandon you. The differences couldn't be more stark #NZPol

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 1d

Good job voters! #nzpol

Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Going against the tide, the final local election votes have broken left at the expense of conservative Northland leaders. Jonathan Milne reports.

Latest mayor to be ousted claims he's a victim of 'hate speech'

newsroom.co.nz

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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 1d

Winners, losers, big losers and gigantic losers from the 2025 local elections

Winner: the endless cycle of underinvestment in core infrastructure. Big loser: the pipes....

thespinoff.co.nz

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

www.stuff.co.nz

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Bean Crusty @beancrusty.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell already the lead up to the next election will be a disinformation/culture war shit show to disengage voters and divide Aotearoa with Elon Musk already sticking his putrid nose in. Buckle up #nzpol

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Bean Crusty @beancrusty.bsky.social · 1d

It is truly one of the great mysteries that Chris Lynch has a platform and anyone pays attention to him.

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