Greg Jackson NZ
@realgregjack.bsky.social
Poet, parent, partner, grandparent.Multiple careers including advertising copywriter, award winning journalist, political reporter, campaign manager, speechwriter, strategic advisor.Now writing and on perpetual garden leave.
Wading through all the "friendly fire" around Labour's conference I will observe for free that outside the bubble the public mind will be fixed on Christmas and maybe even holidays.There's no rush.
November 30, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Wading through all the "friendly fire" around Labour's conference I will observe for free that outside the bubble the public mind will be fixed on Christmas and maybe even holidays.There's no rush.
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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Oh the irony. A National MP wants e scooters in bikelanes (fair enough) but her government has stopped all funding to building bikelanes! National MP Catherine Wedd leads e-scooter rules revamp www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
National MP Catherine Wedd leads e-scooter rules revamp
E-scooter injuries have reportedly cost ACC almost $14 million in 2025.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Oh the irony. A National MP wants e scooters in bikelanes (fair enough) but her government has stopped all funding to building bikelanes! National MP Catherine Wedd leads e-scooter rules revamp www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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After decades of abandoned business cases, but much yearning, long distance passenger rail is returning to the South Island.
The Mainlander passenger train returns in January
After decades of abandoned business cases, but much yearning, long distance passenger rail is returning to the South Island.
dlvr.it
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
After decades of abandoned business cases, but much yearning, long distance passenger rail is returning to the South Island.
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Weapon Added To Each Thanksgiving Place Setting In Preparation For Blowout Family Argument
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Weapon Added To Each Thanksgiving Place Setting In Preparation For Blowout Family Argument
Seeing far too many people walking their dogs on these really hot days.Don't do it! Put your hand on the footpath and feel the heat they have to walk on.
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Seeing far too many people walking their dogs on these really hot days.Don't do it! Put your hand on the footpath and feel the heat they have to walk on.
Thanksgiving will be more like Shanksgiving in the White House as the Trump regime collapses under it's own incompetence.stupidity, scandal and greed.
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Thanksgiving will be more like Shanksgiving in the White House as the Trump regime collapses under it's own incompetence.stupidity, scandal and greed.
There are enough emergent economic "green shoots" that Opposition parties need to realise now that running a "We're not Them" campaign won't be enough next year.
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
There are enough emergent economic "green shoots" that Opposition parties need to realise now that running a "We're not Them" campaign won't be enough next year.
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Serious discussion about transport infrastructure yes but also this is kinda funny. Like you just have to open one big store to grind Auckland’s motorway to a halt. We are so lame.
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
Expect 40-minute queues just to exit motorway, an hour to find a park when Ikea opens
Aucklanders won’t know what’s hit them when Ikea opens its doors for the first time on December 4, and we’re not talking about the Swedish meatballs.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Serious discussion about transport infrastructure yes but also this is kinda funny. Like you just have to open one big store to grind Auckland’s motorway to a halt. We are so lame.
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
www.stuff.co.nz/home-propert...
Not good.Neither the uptake nor the general awareness that the fantasists in the Coalition think that consequences are for others to face.
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Not good.Neither the uptake nor the general awareness that the fantasists in the Coalition think that consequences are for others to face.
Donald Trump Is a Lame Duck Now newrepublic.com/article/2034... via @newrepublic.com (Before the Mamdani love fest but even so...)
Donald Trump Is a Lame Duck Now
November has been the cruelest month for the president. The future doesn’t look much brighter.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Donald Trump Is a Lame Duck Now newrepublic.com/article/2034... via @newrepublic.com (Before the Mamdani love fest but even so...)
Savouring the desperate Govt spin of this being the first full on 3 way coalition as if arcane shit like that is going to save their worthless asses.
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Savouring the desperate Govt spin of this being the first full on 3 way coalition as if arcane shit like that is going to save their worthless asses.
Started involuntary skanking in Piko when "Buffalo Soldiers" popped up on the PA.The staff were amused, the tourists slightly less so at a real tie dye hippy going with the groove.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Started involuntary skanking in Piko when "Buffalo Soldiers" popped up on the PA.The staff were amused, the tourists slightly less so at a real tie dye hippy going with the groove.
Going to the shop today I beheld the rarest of wonders, a book boy, walking and reading and totally gone wherever the book was taking him.He was quite heartening.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Going to the shop today I beheld the rarest of wonders, a book boy, walking and reading and totally gone wherever the book was taking him.He was quite heartening.
Can't top this for contempt.
NZ has had two major reforms of subnational government so far: 1876 and 1989
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
As the guy who literally wrote a book on the demise of that first system, *and* as someone who generally supports more unitary authorities, my considered opinion is that this proposal is completely insane
No more regional councils - major shake-up of local government announced
The government says it is not a power grab, but about "making local government fit for purpose".
www.rnz.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Can't top this for contempt.
Having travelled inside the arcane workings of the Winston Petter's mind in the 90's I never thought there was any chance he would take the Regulatory Standards repeal bait from Labour.
It would be deemed a variant of breach of contract, as will any attempt to dump Luxon pre election.
It would be deemed a variant of breach of contract, as will any attempt to dump Luxon pre election.
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Having travelled inside the arcane workings of the Winston Petter's mind in the 90's I never thought there was any chance he would take the Regulatory Standards repeal bait from Labour.
It would be deemed a variant of breach of contract, as will any attempt to dump Luxon pre election.
It would be deemed a variant of breach of contract, as will any attempt to dump Luxon pre election.
Noting the nervy lip licking from slithery Simeon.
The thinner his lips get, the madder he is
“Prime Minister are you going to be rolled?” Tova’s back and Christopher Luxon hates it 👏👏👏🙌 #nzpol
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Noting the nervy lip licking from slithery Simeon.
Why is this Ukraine surrender even being called a peace plan.Next Trump will waddle out with Putin to claim "Peace in our Crimes".
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Why is this Ukraine surrender even being called a peace plan.Next Trump will waddle out with Putin to claim "Peace in our Crimes".
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Hoo boy. We are all in such trouble.
It's also vastly easier and cheaper for media outlets to produce culture war content than policy stuff.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
With policy, you have to find actual experts that are available and willing, then pray they're good entertaining communicators.
On culture shit, you start with a talking head and work backwards.
This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
November 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hoo boy. We are all in such trouble.
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A real President ……….
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A real President ……….
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
Any day I know Stephen Miller is not having a good day is automatically a good day.
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Any day I know Stephen Miller is not having a good day is automatically a good day.
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Zohran could end this nightmare right now by pointing at Stephen Miller and telling Trump "we don't like him"
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Zohran could end this nightmare right now by pointing at Stephen Miller and telling Trump "we don't like him"
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no reason this couldn’t work in NZ!
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
no reason this couldn’t work in NZ!
A global market meltdown is not a good prospect for our pre battered economy.Things could get very rough.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
A global market meltdown is not a good prospect for our pre battered economy.Things could get very rough.
Something bittersweet watching people with their babies at the beach to which you've taken your babies and then their babies after that.We need more babies.
November 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Something bittersweet watching people with their babies at the beach to which you've taken your babies and then their babies after that.We need more babies.