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I’m a makipai, so don’t tell ngā ngeru. #NZPol #History #Culture #Museums #Leadership #Co-governance #Movies #Fashion #Climate and anything else that takes my fancy.

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · Nov 19

Astonishing turnout

Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · Nov 19

This timelapse of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti in Pōneke today is awe inspiring.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlu7...

Hīkoi mō te Tiriti - A Time-lapse of the Hikoi Protest rolling down Manners St Wellington

YouTube video by The Traffic Fox / Traffic Updates HKW

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Rebecca Matthews @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social · 1h

I have a theory that Wellington city has hit 48% voter turnout (with specials still to come) because our people wanted to vote against nastiness and division and for nice and normal candidates. And for the Māori ward!

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Robert McLachlan @robertmclachlan.bsky.social · 6m

""Our trading partners are unlikely to smile on this reduction in ambition," [Renwick] said." – perhaps we'll hear from the EU High Commission in Wellington about this soon

Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 3h

I thought I’d have a go at answering the question: what’s the flow on effect on emissions budgets from the methane cuts?

The answer was worse than I had anticipated

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Scientists fear weaker methane target signals wider retreat from climate action

After cutting methane targets, New Zealand has a choice: shoulder the burden at huge cost - or cause more warming to the planet.

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A.J. Ponder @ponderbooks.com · 4m

Labour MUST put an end to the corruption that appears to have fuelled this and other bills.
Corruption laws must have real consequences and be policed by independent bodies. We cannot afford to have governments in the pockets of tobacco & other lobbyists.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 4m

Nature is resilient. 🌍

🌲 Forests reduce the impact of wildfires, storms, droughts, and landslides.
🌊 Mangroves shield coastlines from erosion and storm surges.
🌱 Wetlands retain water during droughts mitigate floods.

Protecting ecosystems = building resilience. 🏡

#DRRDay #ResiliencePays 🧪

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1h

Pushing for a cease fire so you can look good in a genocide you specifically enabled, at the same time as you’re assaulting your own democracy & waging war on your own cities, is never going to get you a prize for peace. If there’s a prize for hypocrisy and narcissism though, you’ve got a real shot.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21m

And this morning the Shed is a house in a tree, all lined with dry leaves and thistledown...

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 11m

"They missed the whole point - there's something fundamentally wrong with this behaviour, we actually felt it was no longer safe to send her to the school."

When this kind of deeply unsafe & toxic behaviour is normalised at the highest political levels it’s absolutely no wonder this is the culture.

Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 1h

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

13 year old girl changes schools due to misogynistic bullying in class | RNZ News

The teen says the behaviour of some of the boys at school was racist, homophobic and sometimes explicitly sexual.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 7h

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29m

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 23m

I would be very very careful if I was President Trump. The Israelis(Mossad) have a decades-long habit of false-flag-eliminating anyone who forces them into a ceasefire situation.

MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 33m

Is it too much to hope that he will fall down the stairs of that plane? It's making me feel sick watching all this. This is an over. Everyone knows that. Israel is a liar.

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SpecsChic - Toitū te Tiriti @specschic.bsky.social · 18m

A drawing of a small grey rabbit. It is standing up. It is wearing a green-grey knight's helmet with raised visor, a short scale mail cape and it is holding a brown coloured book under its left arm. It's right ahead is holding a spear upright.

The accompanying text says "Born to dilly dally, forced to fight fascists".

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1h

'Thousands of Canterbury kids'

Wasn't Christchurch Luxon's poster child city supposedly doing well.... if you discount the thousands of hungry kids.. #nzpol

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Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social · 1h

And still tonight on One News all Hipkins could do was womble on about their policy ‘coming’ at some unstated future date. Visionless and uninspiring, desperate not to offend a political ‘centre’ that barely exists, it’s time for him to go. #nzpol

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 1h

Voters approval for leaders of National and Labour dropping significantly - poll

The latest 1News Verian poll has Christopher Luxon with an overall approval rating of -14, down from -7 in March. Meanwhile, Chris Hipkins scored +1, still in the positives, but a 15 point drop from a result earlier this year.

www.rnz.co.nz

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ardrigh @ardrigh.bsky.social · 1h

Yes we should replace postal voting in local government elections.

No it should not be online anything.

Yes it can be voter increase can get better with some direct engagement.

No doing anything online is not direct engagement #nzpol

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ardrigh @ardrigh.bsky.social · 1h

"Replace postal voting because people move houses a lot"

"I forgot which one of the multiple free email accounts I setup I used to register online, or the password" #nzpol

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

The whole poll is a nothingburger because hardly anything has changed EXCEPT THIS

Because we hate him

We really really hate him #nzpol

Eligible voters were asked whether they approved or disapproved of how National leader Luxon has been handling his job as Prime Minister.

The proportion who approved was 38%, while 52% disapproved and 10% didn't know or preferred not to say. This gives the National Party leader an overall score of -14, his lowest approval rating as Prime Minister.

Since he took the top job, 1News has surveyed voters on this question three times. In June 2024 Luxon scored -5, in March/April of this year he scored -7.

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cryoutloud26 @cryoutloud26.bsky.social · 1h

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29m

Relatedly, was reading Naomi Beinart's piece in the Guardian this morning, & thinking about how (increasingly) true it must be for NZ too. | As boys shift to the right, we are seeing the rise of the ‘new chill girl’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Bevan Holloway @bevanholloway.com · 58m

Yeah, Erica Stanford is full of it.

When Phonics Isn’t Reading: Why Today’s ‘Literacy Breakthrough’ Doesn’t Add Up

This afternoon, the Minister of Education announced what she called a “transformational boost” in reading achievement, crediting the government’s mandated structured literacy programme and newly intro...

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 28m

Oh I’m feeling for you so much ❤️

The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 30m

#nzpol 😂😂😂

Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 31m

It is government by interpretive dance.

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Kaz @serenity22.bsky.social · 31m

It’s 100% performative bs. Netanyahu could have put a stop to this a long time ago. Pretty sure T didn’t want him to do that until it could be seen as a win for T.

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 48m

NZ world leaders: votes for women, nuclear free and the first country to legislate to weaken its climate targets.

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The Cat's Whiskers @thecatswhiskers.bsky.social · 35m

#nzpol another dick move revealed from the worst PM in our modern history

Magpie Said @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 1h

In 2019, as Ceo, Luxon sold Air NZ's landing rights at Heathrow for $27m terminating the London route after 40 yrs even tho Heathrow is one of the busiest airports & landing slots are amng the most valuable now selling for up to $73m. So no, Luxon's not capable. The ppl who chose him have ?s to ans.