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This bill is not designed to pass, it is purely to drum up hate against trans people.
Utter fuckers. #nzpol

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Anyone shocked that Winston Peters is leaning hard into transphobic attention/vote-seeking bullshit, keep in mind that he's the only MP who's been around long enough to vote against Homosexual Law Reform in 1986, the Human Rights Amendment Act in 1993 and marriage equality in 2013, #nzpol

Have you noticed that the government are more concerned with not looking like Labour handling a crisis than handling the crisis? #nzpol

"misinformation" is giving a little bit of a benefit of the doubt these days

NZ media are actively engaging in *disinformation* on multiple fronts, no reason to think that they aren't actively doing that with covid as well - especially given the amplification of coalition lies about the review

Bring back Tiriti-based, inclusive Relationships & Sexuality Education in schools The importance of effective violence prevention cannot be overstated: for example, around a third of women in Aotearoa NZ have experienced sexual violence [8] and many more experience non-sexual relat...

This cause is important for all young New Zealanders- please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/br...

SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Reported COVID- 19 Case Numbers - National, last 6 months, on linear scale (NZ)

SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Reported COVID- 19 Case Numbers Auckland, last 6 months, on linear scale (NZ)

This was last updated 26 Feb because lack of government funding doesn’t allow for more frequent reporting, but you can see we’re in a new Covid wave.
Anecdotally, three separate people today mentioned they were WFH because they had it, or knew someone with it.
Politicians/NZ media, please push:
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Be interesting to see similar maths for Auckland - Wellington (or Picton - Christchurch)

This is amazing.

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Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron.

10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.

Kia ora folks - a slight correction to my earlier post about the Social Security Bill supported by Labour which claws back grants already made to welfare claimants. There is a select cttee process. Submissions were called for on Wed 18 Feb & close Fri 20 Feb. Democracy anyone? #nzpol

NZ Parliament announces it will no longer post on X Clerk of the House David Wilson made the decision as he could no longer support the platform.

Great news. Well done to the Clerk of the House. #nzpol

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Name them
shame them

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Here in Auckland, can we just stop calling this summer and start calling it monsoon season instead

Are we allowed to call it a civil war yet or what

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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I don't think anyone except newspaper editors and podcasters actually cares about the Beckhams thing.

My god Labour better be radical, or the rise of a Farage in NZ is very very real.

Reporters must ask Luxon if this is the Government's position. Seems very important to know, with an election coming up. #nzpol

My worries about NZ's current govt and Trump are as follows:
1. Seymour and ACT are 100% ideologically invested
2. The new authoritarianism is like Viagra to Peters and NZF
3. Luxon and National may only be 90% ideologically invested but they will always follow the money
#NZpol

Kia ora @metservice.com

Please stop using X. 🙏🏼
I’m pretty sure you don’t really want to be supporting such an entity anymore.

#nzpol

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

“He concluded that if “politicians decide what is culturally appropriate … it leads us to a future in which politicians can directly stifle events that are themselves predicated on freedom of speech … it’s a path that leads us into the territory of Putin’s Russia”.

Must read from Louise Adler.

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Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

Education and Training Act (System Reform) Bill Submission Guide Minister Stanford Makes a Grab for Even More Power It's been a long year and you could be forgiven for wanting to switch off and hide from the pace of political change we've been subject to in the ye...

Submissions for this awful bill close tomorrow night. This is a good summary of what Stanford and Seymour are trying to push through. Your submission can just be a statement of opposition #nzpol