Ms Hooper
@mshooper.bsky.social
Aging, hermit-prone, art inclined, left wing, climate panicked,animal lover 😊😮💨🌳🙏 #Kikorangi #ToitūTeTiriti
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What an achievement!
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 AM
What an achievement!
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Great story from Matt Nippert - www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com... The dark fleet hiding in our own backyard: How the Cook Islands sold its flag to Moscow and Tehran
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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"Truckers waiting for hours due to storm damage or while fatal road crashes are investigated are asking if there is a better way."
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Storms, accidents, road closures hurt trucking industry
Police insist they have a responsibility to victims and their families to thoroughly investigate road crashes.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"Truckers waiting for hours due to storm damage or while fatal road crashes are investigated are asking if there is a better way."
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Yeah there is, trains 🙄
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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I wouldn't put too much stock in what Luke "I love Luxon" Malpass has to say. He's worked for the pro-Atlas Initiative; his political coverage is known for being very anti-left.
He's v good at his job and some of you are falling far too easily for his hook and are playing right into his spin.
He's v good at his job and some of you are falling far too easily for his hook and are playing right into his spin.
OPINION: Labour’s finance spokesperson set the tone for 2026 with a message of restraint and fiscal responsibility — while avoiding the details voters will eventually demand.
Edmonds renews Labour’s script: Discipline first, promises later
OPINION: Labour’s finance spokesperson set the tone for 2026 with a message of restraint and fiscal responsibility — while avoiding the details voters will eventually demand.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I wouldn't put too much stock in what Luke "I love Luxon" Malpass has to say. He's worked for the pro-Atlas Initiative; his political coverage is known for being very anti-left.
He's v good at his job and some of you are falling far too easily for his hook and are playing right into his spin.
He's v good at his job and some of you are falling far too easily for his hook and are playing right into his spin.
Amid pressure to retract his research, a Brown University professor says it’s important to ‘be brave’ -
Amid pressure to retract his research, a Brown University professor says it’s important to ‘be brave’ - TPR: The Public's Radio
An environmental studies professor at Brown University is at the center of a fight that he says underscores the politics of wind energy. J. Timmons Roberts and the Climate and Development Lab at Brow...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Amid pressure to retract his research, a Brown University professor says it’s important to ‘be brave’ -
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BREAKING
The UK Government has received a National Emergency Briefing warning that the UK faces severe climate-related risks to its economy, public health, food systems and national security.
#ClimateCrisis
The UK Government has received a National Emergency Briefing warning that the UK faces severe climate-related risks to its economy, public health, food systems and national security.
#ClimateCrisis
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
BREAKING
The UK Government has received a National Emergency Briefing warning that the UK faces severe climate-related risks to its economy, public health, food systems and national security.
#ClimateCrisis
The UK Government has received a National Emergency Briefing warning that the UK faces severe climate-related risks to its economy, public health, food systems and national security.
#ClimateCrisis
Seven ways Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes
#nzpol
Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes
#nzpol
Seven ways Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Seven ways Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens
Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes
#nzpol
Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes
#nzpol
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Incoherent misstep about sums up this government’s entire term.
#nzpol
#nzpol
Excellent article by Cathrine Dyer. Worth a read
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/28/clean-car-standard-tinkering-an-incoherent-misstep/
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/28/clean-car-standard-tinkering-an-incoherent-misstep/
Clean car standard tinkering an incoherent misstep
Opinion: The evisceration of the clean car standard is the latest move in a hollowing out of our climate policy architecture.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Incoherent misstep about sums up this government’s entire term.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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More war crimes by Israeli soldiers; what will Winston Peters and Chris Luxon do? BAU is to do nothing, of course. #nzpol
www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Moment Israeli forces shoot dead surrendered Palestinians – video report
Video of an Israeli military raid in the West Bank shows soldiers summarily executing two Palestinians they had detained seconds earlier. Julian Borger, the Guardian's senior international corresponde...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
More war crimes by Israeli soldiers; what will Winston Peters and Chris Luxon do? BAU is to do nothing, of course. #nzpol
www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
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Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every right-wing “grassroots”organisation in New Zealand is just Jordan Williams, David Farrar, and one randomly-selected Atlas Network apparatchik in a trenchcoat
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what the fuck is wrong with this guy
in *opening remarks*????
in *opening remarks*????
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
what the fuck is wrong with this guy
in *opening remarks*????
in *opening remarks*????
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November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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If we don't stand up and collectively exercise our democratic franchise to remove these scumbags from Government, we risk losing our democratic options to resist their anti-democratic authoritarian agenda.😱
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
On The Coup Against Local Government
It's democracy Jim, but not as we know it. In line with the plans that the government unveiled this week to reform local government, the recently elected regional councils will be scrapped, and their ...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If we don't stand up and collectively exercise our democratic franchise to remove these scumbags from Government, we risk losing our democratic options to resist their anti-democratic authoritarian agenda.😱
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
Their wealthy donors only want us to be customers, not voters.😡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
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This shit-show Government' behaviour has triggered flashbacks to my 1960s childhood when it was legal for parents to brutally assault their children while telling them it was good for them and claiming they would thank their parents for the beating later on in life.💩🥚🤡
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This shit-show Government' behaviour has triggered flashbacks to my 1960s childhood when it was legal for parents to brutally assault their children while telling them it was good for them and claiming they would thank their parents for the beating later on in life.💩🥚🤡
#OneTermGovernment
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#OneTermGovernment
#nzpol
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Massive false equivalence between Ardern not meeting with COVID denier protesters and Luxon / Van Velden not meeting with union officials.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
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‘We shouldn’t be naive’: Collins’ quiet signal to Luxon on union relations
OPINION: Collins met union leaders, while Luxon and van Velden have refused to do so.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Massive false equivalence between Ardern not meeting with COVID denier protesters and Luxon / Van Velden not meeting with union officials.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...
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Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
#nzpol
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
#nzpol
Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing | Ken Henry
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
#nzpol
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
#nzpol
Ex-Google Insider and AI Expert TRISTAN HARRIS reveals how ChatGPT, China, and Elon Musk are racing to build uncontrollable AI, and warns it will blackmail humans, hack democracy, and threaten jobs…by 2027.
AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
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November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ex-Google Insider and AI Expert TRISTAN HARRIS reveals how ChatGPT, China, and Elon Musk are racing to build uncontrollable AI, and warns it will blackmail humans, hack democracy, and threaten jobs…by 2027.
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DOC's new #freshwater #fish report has found 28 percent of species are facing #extinction and 32 percent are at risk of becoming threatened-including whitebait- & #climatechange is the main reason why. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Whitebait species at risk from declining state of waterways
A new freshwater fish report has found 28 percent of species are facing extinction and 32 percent are at risk of becoming threatened.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
DOC's new #freshwater #fish report has found 28 percent of species are facing #extinction and 32 percent are at risk of becoming threatened-including whitebait- & #climatechange is the main reason why. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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#National - putting #taxes on things we have already paid for, & selling them off, making kiwis doubly poorer! #privatisation #assetsales #roads #tolls are taxes! #nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#National - putting #taxes on things we have already paid for, & selling them off, making kiwis doubly poorer! #privatisation #assetsales #roads #tolls are taxes! #nzpol
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Ffs. A Senior Manager that has form for this type of behaviour?? But has had no appropriate or sufficient consequences to make them change. Then, imo, it’s by design to do further harm to the people the state believe harmed the state by speaking out. 1/2 #nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Ffs. A Senior Manager that has form for this type of behaviour?? But has had no appropriate or sufficient consequences to make them change. Then, imo, it’s by design to do further harm to the people the state believe harmed the state by speaking out. 1/2 #nzpol
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“But the evidence for its conclusions is there and it is comprehensive. MPs, high-level bureaucrats and Crown lawyers spent tens of millions of dollars across decades on strategies that the Royal Commission found amounted to a ‘cover-up’ of a system of abuse against children.” #nzpol 2/2
Crown cover-up? When the state turned on its victims
Offices of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General have been implicated in what a Royal Commission calls a 'cover-up' of torture and sexual abuse of children in the custody of the state. Who else w...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“But the evidence for its conclusions is there and it is comprehensive. MPs, high-level bureaucrats and Crown lawyers spent tens of millions of dollars across decades on strategies that the Royal Commission found amounted to a ‘cover-up’ of a system of abuse against children.” #nzpol 2/2
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Luxon reckons that people who can’t afford electricity to cook have no business complaining about the high cost of meat and essential food items and they should also desist from raining on farmers’ parade. #nzpol
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Luxon reckons that people who can’t afford electricity to cook have no business complaining about the high cost of meat and essential food items and they should also desist from raining on farmers’ parade. #nzpol
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Trickery and fuckery.
'Trickery and f...ery': Agency under fire over senior manager's 'serious' privacy breach
A senior manager at the Crown Response Office accidentally exposed the identities of more than 30 Lake Alice torture survivors in a breach former staff say was predictable
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trickery and fuckery.
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Seymour yet again finding a way to enshittify school lunches
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
Not only is this blatantly unfair, but for a Party that doesnt believe in collective responsibility,theyre holding ALL children responsible for the actions of others...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Lunch funding to be tied to attendance for hundreds more schools
Next year funding for school lunches delivered through the internal model will be tied to attendance.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Seymour yet again finding a way to enshittify school lunches
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol
"Mila described the move to tie funding to attendance as "disgusting". "To have the Government take the school lunches programme and try to make it a carrot for attendance.. it's just terrible.""
I agree, Mila, I 💯 agree
#nzpol