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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 14h

I guess they'll just hire a sexual predator as President and nominate an entire production line of violent abusive pākehā males as candidates, then they'll become completely unquestioned by the media.

That's how this works, right?
(Jago, Uffindell, Ross, Walker, Falloon, Barclay etc etc)
#nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 16h

Where to next for Te Pāti Māori after ructions

A former co-leader says if the party holds the balance of power next year, potential coalition partners will come knocking no matter what.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 15h

I can only assume that the chat threads of the Young Nats and Young ACT look somewhat similar? After all, YA were coached by convicted sexual offender Tim Jago, for example...
#nzpol

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 15h

This article seems an excellent explanation of the who, and the why of allowing blatant misinformation to circulate via social media since mid-2010s. Who benefits? Look to who is embedded in power now around the world...
#nzpol

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 1d

Gerry Brownlee says: No, not like that
...but in te reo, because fuck 'em.

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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 1d

This feels like a challenge to compile every instance recorded in Hansard when Winston Peters or David Seymour have been deliberately out of order and/or disorderly and received no rebuke or disciplinary action from the Speaker.💩😡
Every. Question. Time.
#nzpol

Brownlee plans crackdown on Parliament's standards after Oriini Kaipara maiden speech, haka

The Speaker suspended Parliament briefly last week after Oriini Kaipara's speech was followed by a waiata, then haka.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 1d

Retrospective #25: Almost forgot this one from 2018:

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you know the horrendously threatened native freshwater fish?
Yeah?
Let's allow people to fish for them - without licences or controls...
- NZ apparently...

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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 2d

This boils my blood.

New World selling whitebait for $169 per kilo.

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2d

"i made a x" "new x or old thing?" meme from donnie darko

donnie darko: i made a new VEGETABLE

mother: new vegetable or brassica oleracea?

donnie: rassica oleracea again

(inset with a graphic showing cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, broccoli and cauliflower are all brassica oleracea)

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Josie, do you know about Brassica oleracea??

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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 2d

My analysis: The Government’s methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus and international efforts to tackle the crisis.

The headline effect of a new, weaker climate target is a warmer, more dangerous world.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

newsroom.co.nz

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 2d

Popes just continuing to be out there Poping with their reasonable demands:

Pope John XXIII, in Pacem In Terris (1963) clearly stating: "Man has the right to be accurately informed about public events"

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Oli - ultracrepidarian @olimnz.bsky.social · 2d

I love how the Guardian headlined this article, firmly tounge in cheek.

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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... "You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned".

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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KoBettyAhau ♥️🤍🖤 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kobettyahau.bsky.social · 2d

#NZPol so relevant

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 2d

Fair enough. How do we change to make a difference?

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kiwionyourleft.bsky.social @kiwionyourleft.bsky.social · 2d

Politicians don't represent us to power, they represent power to us. They hide, then every 3 years they suddenly show up on billboards, and we pick 'em based on the background colour.

To find what they actually personally stand for (if anything) is a chore.

No wonder people are disengaged.

#nzpol

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 2d

True dat. I think there's a void somewhere in AoNZ with recording political decisions vs the facts. I note with some glum humour that a re-elected Mayor now claims he'll "focus on reducing debt". Great! The same debt he voted consistently to increase by subsidising wealthy developers? Yep! That debt

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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 2d

I gotta say, I woke up today feeling fabulously free. Even teeing up a hot pot lunch with friends later felt like a huge win. Something I haven’t been able to do in a long time. 💕

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Julie Blommaert @drjulieb.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine running a country and thinking unions and workers are different things

What a fucking ignoramus

Luxon told Morning Report the disruption is a shame and he believes workers want to reach a pay deal.
"It's a shame, really. I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients, or kids in education and parents being mucked around," he said.

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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like I misunderstood what they meant by back on track

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James W @jamesw228.bsky.social · 2d

I vote, I believe everyone should

Having said that I can understand why people, particularly young people would be disengaged from a political system and parties which they can rightfully feel is not set up to help them

And there's not really a logistical solution for that

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 2d

Yes - democracies need to move away from 19th Century solutions to 21st Century problems...

Disengagement is a social input from the US, which single-handedly created an environment where facts don't matter. Democracies need to turn their backs on anything the US is doing to remain healthy. #nzpol

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 2d

Fucken autocorrect!

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 2d

NZ Journalists getting spicy now..
*rubs hands in glee*
#nzpol

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