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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Plummeting gas reserves mean the Government can no longer ignore the reality that domestic gas in NZ is dead, not just resting. My analysis, ft. Monty Python: newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/26/g...

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Govt finally acknowledges the end of gas is nigh

Analysis: Plummeting gas reserves mean the Government can no longer ignore the reality that domestic gas in NZ is dead, not just resting, writes Marc Daalder.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 17/05/2026

I'm going to collect a few reactions to this thread for comment, as it's an instructive moment in the politics of climate science (however niche). 🧵

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Exactly one year ago today:

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Reading headlines about the US massing forces to Venezuela and ”what is Trump’s aim with the troops ?” reminds me of a certain other country that massed troops at a neighbour’s border 4 years ago and headlines were wondering what Putin’s aim could possibly be

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Let's celebrate the update (finally) of Stats NZ Household Living Costs Price Index - a better measure of the cost of living than CPI. First thing to notice is that a big chunk of the increase in our cost of living was thanks to RBNZ hiking interest rates to tackle the cost of living! [🧵 1/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Damn, I read Judith's letter! I'll leave the politics to others, but, lord, the Govt spending stuff is REALLY BAD! I'll try and keep this short. First up, this bare-faced lie. The countries in the pink circle have a similar-sized economy to NZ. Govt spending is a lot higher in all but one . [🧵 1/n]

plot of Govt GDP per capita vs Govt spend per capita. Quote from Judith's letter reads: 'Only by NZ becoming wealthier can we afford to spend more'

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Every forecast has the same pattern - doom is around the corner! Cut spending, cancel all good things, make old people work in the mines, etc. Here's spending on Super - the surge is coming, anyminit! At this rate, we will match current spend in Denmark & Sweden in 150 years time 😱 [2/n]

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Justin | 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @intrlopr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

the just want to austerity harder. rip more yet money out the economy then act surprised when it slides further toward the abyss. completely broken incoherent failed economic paradigm www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Former finance minister Sir Roger Douglas calls for Finance Minister Nicola Willis to resign

Former Finance Minister Sir Roger Douglas and Auckland University's Robert MacCulloch say Willis is 'sending New Zealand bankrupt'.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

NB: This time around, Europe didn’t even demand a seat at the table because no one takes this seriously enough or thinks that this will change the game fundamentally. Also no appetite to sit next to Trump and look dumb when he gets played by Putin

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Even if you’re not into missile tech and long range capability questions, this episode of our Substack live is worth watching as our guest @frhoffmann.bsky.social had himself a special guest: a cute cat who almost stole the show ! 😼

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Latest with @jimmyrushton.bsky.social: Ukraine didn’t just humiliate Vladimir Putin with its stunning FPV drone assault on Russia’s strategic bombers—it also embarrassed Donald Trump, who repeatedly dismissed Kyiv’s ability to fight without U.S. help t.co/9SqbwxSa35

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/02/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-proof-kyiv-does-not-need-trump/

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Dear Russians, this is not a terrorist attack. This is war. Ukraine targeted your strategic bombers, not your homes. Your own armed forces are, on the other hand, constantly terrorising Ukrainian civilians.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

More predictable claims from Lux-in today... Apparently tight Govt spending has tamed inflation and enabled RBNZ to reduce interest rates and put money back in kiwis' pockets. Praise be! Let's unpack that BS... All data in 🧵 is from today's RBNZ MPS May 25 [1/n]

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Justin | 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @intrlopr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

believing equilibrium describes the real world is monumentally stupid and yet here we are, trapped in this broken paradigm

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'll have more to say on today's absolute horror show of a budget at the weekend. This is all I've got for now... another week of terrible jobs data.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The Govt have crashed the economy and kicked thousands of young people out of work. Now they're coming for their meagre benefits - to force them into selling their labour cheap to slave masters in the gig economy (or piling into debt for tertiary education). It is disgusting.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Oh, it must be Christmas - an article on money creation including quotes some from of my favourite reckonomists. What a treat! And, I kid you not, some of it is even correct! Let's get into the glorious detail... [🧵 1/n]

Article headlined 'Where does money come from?' on the RNZ website at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/561626/where-does-money-come-from-are-home-loans-actually-fake

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Maybe the alternative and obvious strategy of investing in a medium- to long-term plan that brings the economy into balance, addresses ecosystem degradation, restores full employment, and better insulates us from future global and climate shocks is just.... too woke? [Ends]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

3. Leaving the economy on its arse not only tanks tax revenue, it also pushes Govt spend up - benefit costs, rent top-ups to save leveraged landlords, etc. Inconveniently for this Govt, getting out of the hole will absolutely rely on *investment not cuts*. Bill knew this in 2008 tbf [11/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Handy guide for progressives on the 'Govt books are a mess' nonsense. The facts are readily available. Sunday 🧵 Here's NZ Central Govt net financial position. Govt financial liabilities (grey) have gone up, but the increase is easily offset by Govt having more cash in the bank & share values [1/n]

graph comparing govt financial assets (shares, equity, cash in hte banks, money owed) to govt financial liabilities (mostly govt bonds owned by the private sector). the graph shows that govt financial assets outnumber their debts by around $80bn

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Never forget: NZ Govts for 50 years have bought into an economic management model that relies on keeping a bufferstock of kiwis unemployed & desperate. Jobs are kept scarce, so that kiwis sell their labour at poverty-wage prices. If unemployment is too low, Govt's henchmen at RBNZ crash the economy.

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Wet Owl @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Agree with Frank: at least German MPs still have the guts to let Merz know that they don’t like him and some of his politics and style and therefore won’t necessarily give him an easy time. If only some GOP members ever stood up to Trump.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

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Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip

Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.

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Alice Bota @alicebota.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Ich halte diese Recherche auch deshalb für so wichtig, weil es heißt, dass die Ukraine Gebiete an 🇷🇺 abtreten muss. Das Schicksal und die Leiden, die Wiktoria Roschina erlitten hat, zeigen, was es bedeutet, unter russischer Besatzung zu leben. Denn sie ist kein Einzelfall. Die Folter hat System.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I have never seen a situation so dismal that Tony Blair couldn't make it worse.

Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy

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Justin | 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @intrlopr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

it will never not be incredible and infuriating that this is never, ever mentioned in our public discourse

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Now, back to the fiscal paper. Consider this sentence: 'higher debt reduces our capacity and choices'. Errm, how does the private sector having billions of Govt created $ and bonds reduce our capacity? Won't 'future generations' inherit those dollars & bonds? Is that a burden on them somehow? [6/n]

Higher debt reduces our capacity and choices responding to future challenges. Future generations will have to service the debt, and it reduces their resilience to tackle what life will bring.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Right, rant incoming on that Treasury fiscal policy paper. I'll start with the first paragraph of the cutesy summary version. Apparently, we have a 'public purse' that pays for services. Let's unpack that a bit - where is this public purse and how much is in it? [🧵 1/n]

Sustainable and resilient fiscal policy through economic shocks and cycles
The short version
Why does this topic matter?
New Zealanders have a shared account, a public purse. It pays for services that New Zealanders fund together and are important for our living standards. For example, spending enables children to go to schools, medical care at hospitals, and roads to connect people and move goods. Fiscal policy is about how that purse is managed.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Josef Janning wrote in a recent issue of Internationale Politik that the EU is closer to failing than ever before. I disagreed and got to write for why I think the opposite. Precisely because Europe has never had so few alternatives as it does right now, it is not going to fail.

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Necessity, the Mother of Invention

Europe has never had so few alternatives as it does today. But that is exactly why Europe will succeed.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

People were excited after Finnish President Stubb’s golf visit to Mar a Lago as Trump rambled for a bit about hitting Russia with more sanctions. Today he put tariffs on penguins and a US military base but not on Russia. It’s pretty clear that European leaders have no meaningful influence on Trump

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Featuring comment from me. Said comment being, basically, it's bad for Parliament to throw out submissions you've solicited from the public unread, whether it's the TPB w/ 300k subs, or a boring technical tax tweak with 15. Corrosive to democracy and the Committee should reconsider.

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Prime Minister doubles down on allowing exclusion of Treaty Principles Bill submissions

But legal scholars warn the move sets a worrying precedent.

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Stefan C. Aykut @stefanaykut.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

🇹🇷📢 İstanbul today. This is what hope looks like. The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls... The authoritarian wave can be stopped.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Stubb also said that now’s not the time to lift sanctions but rather to start building the next package. Europe is united and determined in an unprecedented way. He said that UK and France are taking a more formal political and military lead in the coalition of the willing, requested by Finland.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It’s sad and embarrassing how Trump and his idiots just keep laying their cards on the table. Like are they even trying. How can one be so bad at this

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So this turned out to be useful even sooner than I was expecting when I posted it on twitter this morning.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🇺🇸🇵🇱🇭🇺 *crosses "government uses private chat to coordinate something, gets exposed" off the "US rule of law and democracy crisis is just like the one in Hungary/Poland" bingo*

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

And what language are you speaking, you imbecile

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

2. The "Little Green Men" Scenario became dead for decades 3 days after it happened. When asked already back then what Estonia will do if insignialess armed men in military fatigues show up in Estonia, the Estonian CHOD said bluntly: "We shoot them" @alanderminna.bsky.social 2/3

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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The Art of the Deal

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

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