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Baxtermack🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @baxtermack.bsky.social · 3h
Given the Product Placement in that photo it's not too hard to work out where the surge in funding is coming from.
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 20h
This is not how democracy should be. Wealth hoarders with their thumbs on the scales, paying for access
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 22h
Prime Minister 'walks back' the lies he repeated by Todd 'habitual liar' McLay. You mean you thought you could get away maligning the media & Greens & the truth outed. You slimy little wanker www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Luxon walks back bizarre claims about the greens
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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/10/2026
It genuinely looks like the fucking idiot political reporter class considers Winston the winner because he doesn't shut the fuck up. Politics is literally just a sports match to them.
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing.
David Peez @RebelEkonomista

"The truck driver in Pakuranga helps pay off a lawyer's loan." No, Simeon. He doesn't. Not a cent.

When the government lends a student money, it creates the dollars and credits their account. No tradie's tax was collected and posted to a law degree. When the graduate repays, those dollars are deleted, drained back out like tax. They don't land in the truck driver's pocket either.

So nobody foots the bill. The worker and the graduate aren't on opposite sides of a ledger. Setting them against each other is the trick, and it runs on the same myth as "add it to the tab", that the government is a household counting coins. It issues the currency. The real limits are real resources and inflation, not a truck driver's tax bill.

"Someone always pays." Sure. Just never the person you keep pointing at.

Read more: http://therebeleconomist.substack.com
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN POLITICAL DONATIONS TO RUIN OUR LIVES INSTEAD OF PAYING TAXES TO FIX HOSPITALS. LIQUIDATE BILLIONAIRES.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At this point, the whole right wing (and some of the “left”) of politics is made up of abusive, lying, cookers who take advice from abusive, lying incels. All funded by abusive, lying millionaires and billionaires. Fuck. #nzpol
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Vacation Szar: Swimming in Raw Sewage
Alt: Vacation Szar: Swimming in Raw Sewage
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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/09/2026
To those who might be surprised that Stuff is giving airtime mainly to the denials of the stars of Dirty Work, remember that they’ve worked with the TPU for years and hired Matthew Hooton as an editor. Individual journos have a range of views but the establishment is dyed-in-the-wool neoliberal
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Vote for hope in November! Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 @mrjeffhowell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Please please please Mr Seymour, please don't make me drop policy X as a condition of our coalition agreement!"
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OnThePaepae @peteraranyi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So it's theatre for the gullible. They don't mean to be sincere, not even SEEN to be sincere. Goingf through the motions, and counting their 'donations'. #nzpol
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026
Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.
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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#nzpol Fully endorse what Andrew says here. Chlöe has clearly paid attention not only to Thomas Piketty but also @musicalchairs.bsky.social. And yet, it's not that radical, it only seems so because of the (failed) orthodoxy we've followed since 1984.
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dunnersmads.bsky.social @dunnersmads.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When you think about it, in a parallel universe, Nicky Noboats this week, could have been swinging a bottle of champagne onto the bow of a new rail ferry, basking in the glory of a new piece of infrastructure she didnt order, because she didnt order.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Luxon’s thrusts:
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Christopher Luxon Chrisluxon
Alt: Christopher Luxon is a wanker
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SpecsChic: Show me cats! I love real specs, not perve glasses! @specschic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This post has the same effect as Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle vid. If you see this absolute legend of a gif, you repost it.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Still pretty mindblowing that NZ Luxon Govt tried to remove ALL references to climate change from the year 1 to 10 school curriculum. Forced to backdown under pressure but now it's a mess. www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...
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Handling of climate change in updated school curriculums 'incomprehensible', expert says
A science education expert says updated science and social sciences curriculums will not give students the skills they need to grapple with climate change.
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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MANUS Make Aotearoa NOT the US #nzpol
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reo Māori IS our uniquely indigenous ORIGINAL language. The more we embrace that fact, the sooner we can be proud to be Tangata Tiriti. Without that, we are doomed to live in division & fear of each other, and that is not a winning formula for any prosperous & united society anywhere, ever. #nzpol
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Jim Marr @jimmarr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New Zealand education being captured by political ideology, professor says newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/08/l...
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School curriculum reforms a political capture of education, professor warns
'We are heartbroken': Educators say top-down changes roll back decades of progress, disregard Waitangi Tribunal recommendations and strip teachers of professional agency. Hanna McCallum reports.
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Tania Roxborogh @taniaroxborogh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Someone tell Winston
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the many reasons you shouldn't base your opinions and moral judgements about the world on electoral strategy is that it leads to people reverse-engineering theories of electoral strategy entirely to backfill justifications for their moral beliefs.
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Kieran @nugmonster.cryptoanarchy.network · 12/09/2026
There cannot be too many mufflers stores in Palmerston North that export mufflers to the world. Why hasn't the media asked Paul which store he was visiting the (he specifically said it was "the other day", so within the past 2 weeks, and maybe asking them why they're paying engineers poverty wages
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Smashshitupika @shambolika.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My anti racism strategy is to choose xenophobia instead, so when someone is quoted on the radio saying people are abusing NZs immigration system I hope they're talking about bloody poms and fucking yarpies
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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Too late, Winston has already applied for the job...
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
what a wonderful night to get arrested. Paul henry is in fact, not up to a debate. Dunedin police on a hair trigger, and very keen to escalate over next to nothing
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Paul Henry is a liar www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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Podcast host says he was arrested after challenging Paul Henry at ACT event
A podcast host says he was arrested after challenging ACT candidate Paul Henry during a public meeting in Dunedin.
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It remains fascinating how idiots like Henry happily go on record revealing themselves to be brain wormed, bigoted, genuinely stupid people, but they remain convinced they’re the smartest, deepest thinker in any room. www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-t...
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'They're barely people': Paul Henry takes pot shot at Greens during country pub visit
Henry spoke to 60 supporters beneath Confederate flag in a pub that burned Ardern's book.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem, Researcher Who Discovered Existence Of Women, Dead At 92
Gloria Steinem, Researcher Who Discovered Existence Of Women, Dead At 92
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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Its my wifes house"
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Father Ted: That Money Was Just Resting In My Account
Alt: Father Ted: That Money Was Just Resting In My Account
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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Try-hard piss baby.
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Craig Renney: "We're not a poor country, but we make poor choices." NZ govt subsidises Rio Tinto's aluminium smelter thru free carbon credits worth abt $75m pa. Rio Tinto's worth $167-176b. Don't forget $2.9b for landlords tax break + $2b accom allwce, $200m to oil companies, $300m to HTPs.
Craig explaining how boot camps are an overpriced waste & we cld send the boys overseas to a pvte school for a sim amt
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
First sentence is why I lost my mind an hour ago and started this too long 🧵. What kind of swivel-eyed fuckwit adds up all the gross debt of all the different NZ sectors? The vast majority of this debt is what we all owe to each other Liam! Cancel it all out and you get $200bn. Why? [18/n]
Starting tomorrow, the Business Herald will launch its annual Nation of Debt series, tallying a grand total of New Zealand gross debt.
That’s all the mortgage debt, farming debt, business debt, consumer debt, student, central and local government debt.
It’s a big, scary number, closing in on a trillion dollars.
But in the end, don’t think it is the specific debt number that should drive debate as much as what we are doing with the money we borrow.
That’s where we should be putting the acid on politicians.
Of course, our debt has to be serviceable. We have to be sure we can keep paying it back at a pace the international credit rating agencies are happy with.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Weenik, Reti … both GPs and sold their soul to tobacco lobbyists and worsening outcomes for the population.
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dr Brown makes a medical breakthrough. My #cartoon today #NZpol #HealthSystem #HealthCare
Cartoon. Title: “Medical Breakthrough”  A caption says, “In an audacious innovation Dr Brown transfused $95million from hospitals to GPs” Image shows Health Minister Simeon Brown putting a line into the arm of a skeletal Health System to remove blood and transfer it over to the other arm, overseen by PM Christopher Luxon. Luxon is saying, “Your audacity knows no bounds, Dr Brown!”
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth." Greta Thunberg in UN Speech, 2019
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"Nepal flood
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Laurie Fleming @laurief.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Why did no-one say to him that he’s full of shit‽
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’s kind of amazing that while social media has been a very girl-coded or at least gender-neutral bullying medium, everyone immediately sees visual media as the male gaze.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Gosh I hope @haydendonnell.bsky.social is working up a piece about Cycleway Derangement Syndrome… Just so bizarre to act all publicly miffed about a bike lane that *didn’t even exist* at the time one is claiming to have been inconvenienced by it?! Most peculiar indeed. 🚲👻🥴 bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Luxon’s apartment is across the street and premier house is like a 10 min walk to parliament. If dude can’t handle it maybe he shouldn’t be in charge of running the whole fucking country.
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Will Ferrell: I'm Taking Crazy Pills
ALT: Will Ferrell: I'm Taking Crazy Pills
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Luxon didn't live in Wellington in the 1980s. He moved there to work for Unilever in 1993, the year after he left the University of Canterbury. The car racing relied on ratepayer funding, which was withdrawn in 1995, the year he moved to Sydney.
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Charlie Mitchell @comingupcharlie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The fact that a couple just out of university, one of them a teacher, could just straight up buy a house in Ngaio might explain why Wellington seemed better
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Reform New Zealand @paulhudder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
He does realize the only way to avoid being called "woke" is to become a far-right psycho?
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Sophie these days @spiderandme.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yes. Yes it is. More white guys, more fundies and wingnuts 👍
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Scotty - I’m the CEO - NZ @scotty-nz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I can smell the desperation in amongst the stench of condescension
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Robin Capper @robincapper.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The OED defines woke as follows: woke, adjective: Originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice. Pricks define it differently
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“The most important thing is we’ve got incredibly creative, talented, innovative, aspirational, ambitious people. I’ve lived all over the world for 16 years, and I can tell you, no one beats a Kiwi.” 1. You didn't live all over the world. You lived in Chicago and Canada 2. You don't like us at all
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Horus @guynermie62.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Todd McLay , Corporate Tool. Get stuffed. Go talk to the people wiped out by slash #nzpol #corruption #ditchthepricksin26 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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You’re scaring off forestry investors, Minister tells Gisborne council
Over the past three years the council has started taking a harder line on forestry companies that failed to comply with resource consent conditions.
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