The only thing that grows the economy is people spending money and the only way people spend money is if they have more money and the only way to have money is spend less of it on housing, food, power (basics). Nothing in this budget will make us spend less than last year. K bye.

Praying for Gaza tonight. I'm so sorry that we've all collectively failed you.

People in Gaza are posting final messages.

There's some organised right wing lot to take out Wellington council, install a commissioner, in order to privatise Wellington Airport. It's all there in plain sight and it is cos someone powerful out there is mad they can't buy the airport.

In what's far more resonant, & poignant today than it was then, my research surfaced the virality of images of people had come out onto Gaza’s streets in solidarity with the victims of the massacre in New Zealand. A shared humanity, highlighted by Gazans, remains a valuable lesson today.

Efeso Collins gave his maiden speech just last week.
www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansar...

Extract from Efeso Collins' maiden speech where he talks about poverty and the failure of neoliberalsim.

Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 - Citizen Space Find and participate in activities run by Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19

Hi All!
Submissions are now open for the NZ Royal Commission Covid 19 Inquiry.
Winston Peters is asking all his supporters to make submissions.
They need sane people to make submissions too. So please, make a submission and share this link.
haveyoursay.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz
Thank you.

There’s a very real effort to rewrite NZs early COVID experience. Let’s make sure the enquiry don’t just hear from those who’ve fallen for disinformation!

This made me LOL IRL 😂

Doesn't seem like a guy you want leading your country...

#NZpol

the lyrics to you’re so vain by carly simon with “your scarf it was apricot” highlighted

fred from scooby doo with his orange ascot

i have THEORIES

Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie made a blockbuster feminist movie about Barbie and they nominated Ken lmao

The Rub Indigenous rights are under attack, for the same reason they always are.

A must read from Joshua Drummond. ACT and this Govt’s attack on Te Tiriti and indigenous rights are aren’t about fairness they’re about corporate colonial interests.

“Indigenous rights are under attack, for the same reason they always are.”

#AoNZpol

badnewsletter.ghost.io/the-rub/

The TV One news had another fucking story about the boat guy, maybe they should try running a story every day of summer about wearing a life jacket and swimming between the flags?

"MP and Police Minister Mark Mitchell, when asked about the mental health of MPs and Ghahraman in particular, said “exercise and a good diet goes a long way to helping with mental health”.

Honestly thought I couldn't hate that cunt Mark Mitchell more, mental health is not a choice!

There is a phrase that @coleytangerina.bsky.social and I use in our mahi, which has come from years of personal experience combined with years of observation & analysis of open source social media data: “the machine eats women”.

This is, of course, by *design*.

Spain makes facemasks mandatory in hospitals as respiratory illnesses Rules reintroduced as ‘commonsense measure’ despite opposition from some regional administrations

US healthcare is so broken. It's the second-biggest COVID wave so far, and patients have to call individual hospitals to beg them to reinstate masks.

Meanwhile, the Spanish government simply overruled right-wing anti-maskers and made masks required in all hospitals nationwide.

You know when you decide to put some money in a piggy bank for stuff you know you need ...

Well someone just smashed that piggy bank open

"The government will use $2.047b of forecast cash proceeds from the Emissions Trading Scheme as a 'climate dividend' to pay for income tax reduction"

Government to repeal Taxation Principles Reporting Act under urgency "Additional annual reports would take extra resources at a time when our focus should be on higher priority measures," the Revenue Minister says.

"We urgently need to prevent this tax system equity report from coming out! It's almost completed so we need to stop it NOW!"

Yeah nothing fucking dodgy about that at all eh?

I'm sorry, I don't normally swear much. But this government really puts me in A Fucking Mood.

#NZPol

"To suggest now that New Zealand completely overspent on saving lives leads to the question, who was not worth trying to save? Few politicians would be willing to spell out exactly who among our populace is not worth saving".

So while we all get caught up in the manufactured culture wars, ACT's policy to privatise hospitals is pushing ahead. Any healthcare workers involved in opposing this? I want to get involved. We know the end result is loss of universal healthcare for all. #nzpol

Climate Commission report makes for awkward reading Among the Government's first actions on climate, spelled out in the 100-day plan and coalition agreements, are moves that directly conflict with the Climate Change Commission's advice

At the centre of the surreality of the situation is this: the Climate Commission report was written for a government with a distinct vision of what the climate response will look like, but it has been received by a Government with no clear picture of the future.
newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/13/c...

Please make the man with the least grasp of reality in the country stop saying “the reality is”

Christchurch mosque attacks: Victim Hussein Al Umari to receive bravery reward after family's length... Since March 15 Hussein Al Umari's family have been fighting for official recognition.

I feel like I have been living under a rock, emotionally exhausted from the inquest into the Christchurch terror attack , all the preparation but finally some good news 🥳❤️🥹

The Taxpayers' "Union" we literally exposed as being backed by British American Tobacco and now our National/Act/NZ 1st government have rolled backed measures to lead to Smokefree NZ, but I am sure that is just a coincidence right? Right?! #NZPol

This

American nurse who got out of Gaza describes desperation she saw CNN's Anderson Cooper speaks with Emily Callahan, an American nurse with Doctors Without Borders, who gives a harrowing description of what she witnessed in ...

"My doctors & nurses didn't leave out of loyalty to their community.

The people that stayed behind they know they're going to die & they're choosing to stay behind anyway.

I wake up every morning & I send out a text message & I ask, are you alive?"

— Doctor Without Borders Nurse Emily Callahan

Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so | Arwa Mahdawi As the last few weeks have made abundantly clear, Palestinian lives don’t count

This is a utterly heart-breaking, but important, read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...