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Tory Whanau @misswhanau.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
These comments by the PM are once again a blatant punching down on Wellington, where groundbreaking, transformative projects are already underway. Perhaps he should look at his own policy choices – like the recent decision to slash pay for women on low incomes. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Stuff covered our current scores for Aotearoa here, with comments and context from a range of experts: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3503... The budget doesn’t seem to address any of these longstanding concerns. Sadly, it looks like we'll be publishing bad scores for NZ for years to come.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New Zealand COVID weekly update: 19 May to 25 May 2025 🔹New cases: 962 (+197.8%) 🔹Reinfections: 665 (69.1%) 🔹Deaths: 2 (+100.0%) 🔹Total deaths: 4,651 (+2) 🔹Hospital: 48 (+60.0%) 🔹ICU: n/a 🔸69.1% were reinfections #COVID19NZ Source: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/for-health-p...
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Cyn @cyncharron.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Over the last two weeks I’ve noticed an increase of people out in public hacking up their lungs, sniffling and sneezing. I DON’T WANT WHATEVER YOU’VE GOT. Not to mention loads of my kids’ classmates and teachers sick at the moment. We’ve learned nothing.
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Cyn @cyncharron.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New Zealand, look at the number of new reported cases THIS WEEK. Wear a fricken respirator.
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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Also remember, look out of your window, go look at the damage a major storm does... And our current gov has cancelled every climate related policy we had, and now has just $300m in contingency money in their budget
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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New Zealand Family Violence and Economic Harm Statistics - Good Shepherd NZ
Good Shepherd NZ - New Zealand Family Violence and Economic Harm Statistics
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Janet Greig @janetgreig.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/fa...
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Fairness for the Hospitalised: Stop Benefit Cuts After 13 Weeks
We envision a compassionate and equitable society where individuals who are hospitalised can recover without financial hardship or fear of losing their benefits. In this future, we prioritise the dign...
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Suzi and Rose @suzirose.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Near and dear to my heart as well. Please sign.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: 
If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter
Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste
By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m.

caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
They aren’t even collecting data. A grievous dereliction of duty. #COVID19 #Healthcare www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Too many catching Covid-19 in hospital, experts say - but precautions being rolled back
Hospital-acquired infections are a billion-dollar burden and cause more disability than road crashes. Why aren't we doing more to prevent them?
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AmandaJaneWD @amandajanewd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Good Morrow
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Incompetence - repeatedly!! Jacqui Siou suffered severe complications after a routine injection, ending up in intensive care. Health NZ apologised for her ‘considerable distress’ and is conducting an internal review of the case. Siou plans to complain to the Health &Disability Commissioner. #nzpol
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‘Incompetence’: How a simple injection led to infection, blood clots and 17 days in hospital
Health NZ has apologised to the single mother as it conducts an internal review.
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davidconklin.bsky.social @davidconklin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Go to Canada.
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 19/03/2025
Why it works: 🔹 The public is swayed by perceived consensus 🔹 Politicians respond to visible “public demand” 🔹 Media often fails to distinguish real grassroots from astroturf 👉 We trust crowds — even fake ones
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 19/03/2025
Astroturfing is the creation of fake grassroots movements that appear to be organic public opinion but are actually orchestrated by governments, corporations, or interest groups. #Astroturfing #FightDisinformation
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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 18/03/2025
📢 The ability to track and predict potentially deadly cyclones is just one of the capabilities scientists fear we could lose as the Trump administration guts “woke” scientific research.
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Trump’s attacks on science are a massive blow to Australia. These numbers show why
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
The American Medical Association has a youtube page; they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other outbreaks since the CDC isn't allowed to.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Making economic growth the overriding purpose, to which all else must be sacrificed, not only trashes ecological and social values. It's also spectacularly bad politics. Governments can't control growth, but when it dips, this government, by its own criteria, fails. A rod for its own back.
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Concerned Citizen @bearonwings.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
? We don’t do autumn here like other places. Maybe somewhere in Arrowtown…
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One thing that the general public is not that aware of re: Tesla is that *they do not manufacture their own battery cells* They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic. A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This language is absolutely designed to stigmatise empathy alongside making it easier to dehumanise other people to the point that inequitable policies are much easier to progress because those with privilege have been inculcated to believe equity feels like oppression. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Christopher Luxon open to adopting some of NZ First's 'anti-woke' proposals
New Zealand First has proposed legislation it says will end "woke left-wing social engineering and diversity targets" in the public sector.
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Tom @kiwiteej.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
By a very strange coincidence, this is also what Judith Collins has done #nzpol
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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 11/03/2025
Listening to this AM’s Nine to Noon feature on outsourcing elective surgery to private providers and the ASMS rep pointed out that every equivalent surgery in the private sector is more expensive than public - every single one - and it just sort of sat there, unremarked upon for rest of the segment.
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“If a person spends more than 13 weeks in hospital, their benefit is automatically cut to $55 a week. Some patients and advocates say it’s not enough to survive on and the automatic process further punishes people who are too unwell to fight it.” #nzpol
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Can’t afford to be sick: Woman’s benefit cut to $55 because she’s in hospital
If a person spends more than 13 weeks in hospital, their benefit is automatically cut to $55 a week. Some patients and advocates say it’s not enough to survive on and the automatic process further pun...
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Long Covid UK @longcoviduk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🔥1/3. Next in the Fireside Chat series from The #LongCovid Clinic - What You CAN Do! ‘Covid & the Immune System’ 🗓️ Wednesday 12th March 2025 at 6pm GMT @binitakane.bsky.social & @helenoakleigh.bsky.social are joined by Consultant Immunologist @petterbrodin.bsky.social! Link ⬇️
Image with Dr Binita Kane on the left and Dr Petter Brodin on the right. Text reads COVID AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. Dr. Binita Kane talks with Dr. Petter Brodin Garfield Weston Chair and Professor of Paediatric Immunology at Imperial College London
LIVE Wednesday 12th March 2025 18:00 GMT. THE LONG COVID CLINIC - WHAT YOU CAN DO You Tube @LCCWYCD. Also shown is the Long Covid Support logo.
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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 08/03/2025
Doctors are having to beg parents to care enough about their children to get them vaccinated and save their lives.
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Doctors push back as parents embrace Kennedy and vitamin A in Texas measles outbreak
Dr. Ana Montanez working overtime in Lubbock to contact vaccine-hesitant parents, explaining the grave risks posed by a disease that most American families have never seen, and one that can be prevented through immunization.
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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Wow this is is weird and unexpected, Erica Stanford promised us again and again that the guidelines weren't being removed, just replaced 🙄
nzherald.co.nz
‘Designed to provoke anger’: Ministry's sex education disinformation warning
It has seen an 'intensification of misinformation and disinformation around sex education.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Abysmal. And unacceptable from the NZ Government. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
The Mental Health Foundation is deeply concerned to hear the Government has simply removed current Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) guidelines in schools and kura, without a clear replacement.
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Public Service Association @nzpsa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Privacy expert and one of PSA’s in-house solicitors Catherine McNamara on why we’ve asked the privacy commissioner to review the proposed cutting of the Digital and Data workforce at Te Whatu Ora. #NZPol #kikorangi
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/03/2025
Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.
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30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Hard not to imagine that one day we will look back at our plastic addiction in the same way we look back at the 18th century use of arsenic, mercury and lead.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE. (President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
For International Women's Day, I give you Lise Meitner, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission, the first to formulate and understand it. Never won the Nobel Prize despite being nominated 49 times, though she does have the element Meitnerium named after her. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Me...
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Lise Meitner - Wikipedia
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"Switching from a gas stove to an electric induction stove can reduce indoor nitrogen dioxide air pollution, a known health hazard, by more than 50%" "participants using the new stoves unanimously reported being pleased with the transition. None of the participants opted to switch back to gas"
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Study Finds Switching From Gas to Electric Stoves Cuts Indoor Air Pollution | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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AmandaJaneWD @amandajanewd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Call it by its name: Trumpcession.
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
OK but why stop here? If you want to get medical care at an emergency room, learn first aid. If you want to cross the Cook Strait, buy a dinghy
Chris Luxon tells parents to make a Marmite sandwich if they don't like Compass's school lunches
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Netherlands: Growing number of long COVID patients declared unfit for work. "The number of people in the Netherlands receiving disability benefits due to long COVID has surged. Over 12,000 people have been granted benefits after being ill for more than 2 years, up from 3,000 just 2 years ago"
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Growing number of long covid patients declared unfit for work
The number of people in the Netherlands declared partially or fully unfit for work due to long Covid has risen sharply in recent years. According to figures from the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV), m...
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Neurodivergent07 @neurodivergent07.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
100% correct
Image of a group of five cartoon kids, all different. Text reads,
"Inclusion isn't something we should have to make a case for. We shouldn't have to convince other people of the value of belonging."
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AmandaJaneWD @amandajanewd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It’s by design. Rich people get richer in A depression. They can afford to buy up houses and shares at bargain basement prices, hold on to them, then cash up when market recovers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2025
Trudeau: "Every country is very aware that if the American government is willing to do this to their own closest ally, neighbor, and friend, everyone is vulnerable to a trade war."
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We need to tax them until they bleed
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Juanita Jackson 🇨🇦 @westcoastbclife.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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