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Maryann - Revealing Light @revealinglight.bsky.social · 11h

Israel’s GDP ranks only 35 in the world. The GAZA plan was always about money, giving US oligarchy a slice of ME & attracting Gulf billions. Follow the money.

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Maryann - Revealing Light @revealinglight.bsky.social · 11h

Unsurprising however deeply disturbing www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Rohan MacMahon @rohmac.bsky.social · 1d

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition.

#climate #nzpol

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 1d

This should never have been a vote, but isn't it interesting that if this was a nationwide referendum the racists would lose?

Oceania Elects @oceaniaelects.bsky.social · 1d

New Zealand, Preliminary results:

Māori ward referendums, Aggregate vote share

Keep: 53.2%
Remove: 46.8%

➤ oceaniaelects.com/new-zealand

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Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 10h

Yay!

a stuffed shark is dancing in the dark .

ALT: a stuffed shark is dancing in the dark .

media.tenor.com

Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 10h

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica

Oct. 15, 2025

T I G H T R O P E
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My Score: 2160

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

This $300,000 was clearly as useful as the $100,000 NACT threw away on the road cone hotlines & the $500,000 to Sunny Kaushal to stop talking about retail crime. #nzpol

'Extremely wasteful': Cook Strait ferry ministerial advisory group paid $300,000

$300,000 spent on the Cook Strait ferry Ministerial Advisory Group has been criticised as wasteful, as a contract for new ships is yet to be signed.

www.newstalkzb.co.nz

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 23h

No ceasefire is ever a ceasefire when you're dealing with a genocidal occupying state with the support of the world's powers.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: The death toll has risen to five after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to medical sources.

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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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Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 11h

Signed and shared.

Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 1d

Could you pls do an old ex-Art History teacher a solid, sign this petition to save the subject in our schools, and pass it on.

These philistines need to hear from you all.

Thank you

petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Edvard Munch's 'Scream' but with the text 'I can't believe they're cancelling Art History' in a speech bubble

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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 1d

Retrospective #25: Almost forgot this one from 2018:

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 1d

www.instagram.com/p/DPxKMcVEsx...
#nzpol

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

Regulatory Standards Bill will expose the SPCA to penalty if they remove abused animals; it will expose taxpayers to compensate suspected criminals for confiscated assets; farmers can do as they want; Peter Thiels can build bunkers anywhere. A terrible bill with > 98% opposed. #nzpol

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 2d

Luxon abolished the Govt fund to help industry decarbonise, as he said he didn’t want to subsidise them and carbon price signals were the answer. Then he gave $200m for more fossil fuel exploration and abolished price signals for agribusiness, the biggest polluter.

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Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social · 2d

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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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sick of RW govts trying to separate “the unions” from their members.

“The unions” can’t take strike actions without balloting members. “The unions” aren’t forcing members to strike; they can’t. Members are voting to strike, because of shite offers from this govt.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

"I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients," Christopher Luxon says.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 1d

Peace plan
For @rawstory.com

Beat the algorithms. Follow my work on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2d

New Zealand’s decision to set a less ambitious methane emissions reduction target sets a worrying precedent that other nations may follow, scientists have warned

New Zealand’s Methane Target Sets Bad Precedent, Scientists Warn

New Zealand’s decision to set a less ambitious methane emissions reduction target sets a worrying precedent that other nations may follow, scientists have warned.

bloom.bg

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 2d

50 years ago today thousands crammed into Parliament grounds in Wellington at the end of a 1100 km historic Māori land march from Te Hāpua in the far north led by Ngāpuhi leader Whina Cooper to protest against the continuing loss of Māori land. #TeRōpūOTeMatakite 🏳️

Photograph of Māori Land March demonstrators outside the Parliament Buildings in Wellington. Heinegg, Christian F, 1940- :Photographs of the Maori Land March. Ref: PA7-15-12. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 1d

They're cutting disability funding to pay for shit schemes like this. Performative politics.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

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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Cam Bennett @cambennett.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 2d

He looks more like Boris Johnson there. Mind you I would want to punch a Boris Johnson waxwork as well. Both despicable lying arsewipes.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 3d

Mind blowing.

The Luxon Government has confirmed it will rewrite NZ’s once bipartisan climate change law to dilute methane reduction targets and PERMANENTLY exclude dairy from the Emissions Trading Scheme – a move Greenpeace says amounts to full-blown climate denial.
#nzpol

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Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social · 2d

CHB's new Mayor is a farmer so I can see our water problems being kicked down the road plus he's all in on building the new earth walled dam on an earthquake fault. I wonder who's going to have to pay for that? Hmmmmm

Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 2d

New Mayors plan 2nd round of local austerity after voters punish rates hikes due to Govt's first round of austerity; Less than a third of enrolled voters voted; Methane goalposts shifted to halfway; Net interest costs barely 1% of Govt revenues. #nzpol
thekaka.substack.com/p/mondays-ch...

Monday's Chorus: A new round of austerity

New Mayors plan new round of local austerity after voters punish rates hikes caused by Govt's first round of austerity; Barely a third of enrolled voters voted; Methane goalposts shifted to halfway

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