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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Remember: The fundamental issue isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.”

It’s who our government is for.

Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires — or for the rest of us?

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 5d

In case you weren’t feeling enough disgust about the conduct of Israel, Google and Amazon already.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show

www.theguardian.com

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 7d

Last Thursday, one of the biggest strikes in the country took place. Learning support staff and teacher aides were joined by nurses, social workers, firefighters and doctors.

'More fair pay for our cares': The mega strike in photos

Learning support staff and teacher aides were joined by nurses, social workers, firefighters and doctors.

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 13d

NZSL Info about Fires here: nzsl.getready.govt.nz/emergency/wi...

Wildfires

In New Zealand, people cause 98% of wildfires. They can happen any time of year, so your actions make all the difference. Find out what to do before, during and after wildfires.

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 13d

We’re thinking about those affected by wildfires today.

You can find emergency preparedness information in Easy Read, audio and large print formats at the following link. getready.govt.nz/alternate-fo...

Alternate formats

Find emergency preparedness information in Easy Read, audio and large print formats.

getready.govt.nz

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 13d

Dan Shepherd, General Manager of Community and Inclusion at Blind Low Vision NZ, shares his lived experience, including the barriers he’s faced and his access requirements.

Captions available on the YouTube video!

Blind and low vision Kiwis shut out of work | The Front Page

YouTube video by nzherald.co.nz

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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 18d

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Disabled Persons Assembly NZ @dpanz.bsky.social · 22d

With only approximately 2% of housing stock in Aotearoa deemed accessible, some young disabled people are being forced to live in rest homes and inaccessible emergency accommodation. Henrietta Bollinger argues that we should not accept this as the status quo.

‘Is this a special facility?’: From rest homes to real homes for all disabled people

Living with other disabled people should be a choice not a last resort, says Henrietta Bollinger.

thedlist.co.nz

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 23d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 23d

Ok after an afternoon of results, texts, calls, messages on other apps and emails, I have some thoughts on today’s Local Election results

1) Voter turnout is depressing. 32%ish on average across AoNZ is pathetic.
2) The Māori Wards referendum should never have happened - it was a racebaiting farce…

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 25d

The govt’s plans to means test benefits for 18 & 19 yos will put disabled, queer, Māori & other marginalised young adults at risk.

While I’m glad the disability rights angle of this issue has got traction (and was glad to speak to TVNZ) the Minister’s response was appalling. #nzpol

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 25d

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 26d

Fun fact: when you have Long Covid but can’t work you have to go on the Jobseeker benefit because GPs can’t say whether you’ll still have Long Covid in two years - so teens with chronic conditions are now conceivably navigating absolutely debilitating symptoms while also getting zero govt support 👍🫠

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 26d

Perhaps a journalist could do a little deep dive into the NZ Salmon industry. Not everyone is aware, but the slight increase in water temperature has already fucked the industry real hard. Currently attempting to relocate everywhere because existing salmon farms are no longer viable.
#nzpol

PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 26d

PERFECTLY NORMAL

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 26d

“Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop long Covid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found.”

Great we’ve just confirmed that any NZ teenagers with chronic conditions trying to access government support are out of luck 🫠

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28d

When they signalled this in the budget we @dpanz.bsky.social raised concern because of the dangerous & detrimental position this also puts disabled, queer, and young adults experiencing abuse in.

Absolutely wild that young *adults* are now forced to be financially tied to parents at 18 & 19yo.

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 29d

#nzpol The government has announced that 18/19 year olds, who live in a household where the parents earn $65,529 or more, can't claim jobseekers support. If both parents work 27 hours on the minimum wage - $634 a week - they will be expected to now financially support their adult offspring. A 🧵

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 26d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit

The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27d

Joe Biden said without Israel, Jewish people wouldn't be safe.
Israeli officials just dragged an American Jewish man to his knees, made him take a photo op with the Israeli flag, and yelled in his face and called him a terrorist

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27d

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27d

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict

Orly Nor

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 27d

I actually agree that MPs should feel safe in their homes*. Benjamin should feel safe in their home. They should feel like their child is safe. Hana should feel safe in her home. Winston *directly caused* AND downplayed the harm those two people faced. It's the hypocrisy for me.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · Oct 4

OECD comparison of changes in unemployment relative to 2019 average. Second image shows all oecd countries. I remain baffled by the media not asking the obvious questions here: 'How have we fked up so badly? Who is accountable?'

Image shows NZ unemployment climbing relative to other countries and groups of countries.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 29d

4300 teens will be thrown off jobseekers as youth jobs disappear across the country.

More stress, more homelessness, more domestic violence, more poverty, more crime, more prisoners, more profit for PPPs - National Party's back on track is right on track #nzpol

David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 29d

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · Oct 4

I'm so hung up on Christopher Luxon saying "oh well the government has advised people not to go to Gaza for many years" as though Rana, Youssef and Samuel were on an ill-advised ski trip and not, you know, deliberately engaged in humanitarian efforts to deliver aid to victims of genocide

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Mojo Mathers 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @mojomathers.bsky.social · Oct 4

Not surprised but awful all the same.

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Aliya Danzeisen @alinasu33.bsky.social · Oct 4

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 4

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...

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