"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," a retired US special forces officer told the BBC when asked he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution centres. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Wasn’t the focus of the of the National Party election campaign to ease the cost of living for New Zealanders?
And this is the result?
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#nzpol Data from Stats NZ today demonstrates how far we have fallen in the labour market. Between June 2019 and June 2023, we put on 225,000 new jobs. Since then, we have lost 31,216 jobs. A filled job is lost every 34 minutes. A thread
This guy makes skits but they’re based on real things that are happening.
That little fact about the plague that Arizonan died of is sending me into spirals. People said it’s no biggie about that plague death, but I’m not so sure. A 100% mortality rate is bad, no?
The Government is proposing to remove protections for drinking water in its proposed national freshwater plan. The proposals align with the demands of polluting industries over communities. www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/gov...
Shane Jones being the over inflated Raleigh 20 tyre that he is, a hypocritical asshole with ZERO self awareness & the ego bigger than a small island in the South Pacific "We've inherited not only a set of fiscal problems, we have a cultural problem in our country where far too many Kiwis believe it is the state's obligation and their right to demand it that we meet the costs of their lifestyles. No, it is not."
The slimy little fucker got the taxpayers of NZ to pay for his hotel porn.
Literally anyone is vulnerable to Covid
David Seymour's School lunches use OFFAL MINCE.
Jeezus!
Look at the other provisions too. Councils again the bogey. What about localism?
I want my Council to support libraries, parks and cultural and heritage activities as well.
#nzpol
Local Government Amendment Bill introduced to remove council wellbeing provisions www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
This government doesn't seem to want to trust voters in local body electorate to be allowed to make their own decisions about their own communities
When it's cold these 2 forget they hate each other
#catsofbluesky
Of course, the inconsistency is that stormy Daniels didn't report $300
Does anyone think Trump carries cash around? Trump *never* pays for anything unless he absolutely has to. It's super weird behavior and *very specific*. Where did Trump form the habit that after sex with new woman you put $300 on bedside table?
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There's a detail that bugs me about the whole #Epstein #Trump thing. A consistent thread across interviews with Epstein victims, after sex $300 would be put on beside table. Karen McDougal was really perplexed and upset that after 1st sex Trump put $300 on bedside table. Questions follow
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Livestream with privacy: make Facebook group with only you in it, you can livestream to that & then download from there to another device. Or make group with one other member off site. That person can monitor the stream & download it to an offsite device if ICE requires deletion by recorder
it's not an argument if it's just ad hominem attacks (X). there's plenty of debate on bluesky. not debating people who refuse the rules of debate isn't an echo chamber. it's civility
Winnie does love to break things. he loves political advantage. and he does understand the law. I reckon Winnie will break, but luxon will LACO making David f@ck!ng Seymour choose between power and his "principles". he'll choose power every day of the week
#NZpol
Well, as I blogged over a year ago now, it's been a case of "reprehensible racism, planet-destroying arrogance and science-denialism cosplaying as Government: “That’s New Zealand today, your leaders tonight…”...'
Nothing, *nothing at all*, has improved since, it just keeps getting *worse*.
This also denies the patients and their families the opportunity to support each other. The family support of patients does a huge amount of physical as well as emotional care. I'd love to see a study of how well patients do with familial support as without.
So Libelle's problems weren't just financial: Ministry of Education officials warned about food safety failures going back to 2021 and tried to get the group it was part of excluded from the school lunch tender. They were ignored. This should be a scandal. www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Nice call!
Look. What I say to you is this.
$200m subsidy for oil and gas
EV uptake destroyed
Industry decarbonisation binned
Looking at easing ag emissions targets
Collapsed ETS
Climate scientists belittled
Comedy NDC
FTAs breached
No adaptation $
But yeah, you can trust us on climate.
#nzpol
In addition to the sheer insanity of reducing capacity in an already super busy maternity unit (can we PLEASE listen to the midwives and OBs?) we need to ask why it’s always women whose needs are considered secondary? 😡
(Spot the former midwife, eh?)
#nzpol
Image shows NZ’s deputy prime minister, David Seymour, accurately depicted as the Wicked Witch of the East (from The Wizard of Oz) telling his evil flying monkeys which are all holding mobile phones, to “Fly, my cyber-bullies, fly! Dox ‘em! Troll ‘em! Ad homin ’em!”. In the distance is a castle called “Academics”
Can’t get more accurate than that!! 😂😂😂
Superb work —again—by @slanecartoon.bsky.social 👏👏👏
Let these passive spaces actively work for our communities eg the redwoods in rotorua. If you want to convert to carbon, then you need to contribute to Aotearoa. It will cost practically nothing but hugely beneficial
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An idea for those carbon credit forests...
How about making a rule that this land that's sitting around for carbon needs to be open to the public for recreation: let the local MTB club and/or walking groups and/or horse riders build trails.
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He's talking about Pride flags. He wants to get rid of Pride flags at Parliament (in certain situations which in practice means never). That's what being "anti woke" means by the way, erasing symbols of the rainbow community. #nzpol
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NZ Govt and private mining companies are robbing national parks that belong to all NZers! 🏞️
Nothing is stopping them from killing endangered wildlife that can't be replaced. How can we know what else that lot are doing?
#NZpol
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