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Jo McFadden

@jojoaotearoa.bsky.social
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Just a kiwi geek trying to find her way in the world. She/Her Cis Pākehā Tāmaki Makaurau 🇳🇿🤓🐱 instagram.com/jomcfadden @jojohmc on Twitter

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Health targets. My #cartoon today #Health #NZpol
Cartoon. Title: “Health Targets” Simeon Brown pushing a patient in a wheelchair, in an Emergency Department. He’s wheeling her towards a cupboard that is stuffed full of people, and saying, “Technically, this isn’t the ED. Our targets are working!”
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A beautiful 1974 Sesame Street moment between a monster and his little human friend. 💕⚡😍 More than 50 years later, this little moment still says so much about how children learn. Credit: Sesame Street / Sesame Workshop 1974 feat. John "John-John" Williams III and Herry Monster #learning
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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#nzpol @bodycartoon.bsky.social on the mark in today's Herald
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll never forgive journalists' complicity in Israel's genocide. Honoured to be interviewed about my new book The Fall of the West: How They Really Lost It by the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's Oli Dugmore
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Didn't National try to get other supermarket players into our market but the way it's setup at the moment didn't make for a good investment? Or is that not the investment that the NZ Initiative wanted?
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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provision is there for a reason! I chat more about Supermarket Sweat week over at my Substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/the-week-t...
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@trinaa.bsky.social 😆 we should all name our vacuums
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Half way thru the first one and really liking it. Favourite character so far is of course - Princess Donut
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🥹so adorable 🦖
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really worth listening to this guy because he raises some good points and suggests a tool for communities to mitigate some data centre risk. substack.com/@justindesch...
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Justin Deschamps (@justindeschamps)
I haven’t heard this take before about data centers. It’s spot on.
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Decision-making after the RMA reform. (And might I say that Minister Bishop has the perfect profile to grace a coin) My #cartoon today #NZpol #RMA #Environment #NaturalEnvironmentsAndPlanning
Cartoon. Title: “Decision-Making After the RMA Reform” Image shows two sides of the one coin. The first, labelled “Heads” shows MP Chris Bishops in profile, with “The Natural Environments And Planning” and also “I win” and the reverse, labelled “Tails” shows a bare bottom, the words, “The Natural Environments And Planning” and “You Lose” below, as a speech bubble issuing from Bishop, “I, the Minister, will have the power of final say on any planning decision in the country”
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wished that this site existed, so I spent the last week building it. Track which way an MP votes on various issues across their whole time in Parliament: hotair.nz
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Hot Air
Hot Air links every New Zealand MP to what they've actually said and how they've actually voted in Parliament — built from the official Hansard record, so you can look past the press release and see the voting history for yourself.
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From the archives: Cartoon from April ‘24
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Audition polaroids taken by Hollywood Casting Director Mali Finn, in the 1980's
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In today’s HeraldOnSunday
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cutting JobSeeker Support for 18- and 19-year-olds who can’t find work, and whose parents earn as little as $67,225, during a cost of living crisis and high youth unemployment. My #cartoon today #NZpol #JobSeeker #YouthUnemployment
Cartoon. Title: “The Carry” Two frames. 1st frame, A rugby player running with the ball. Caption: “An All Black carrying an air-filled ball over the try line. Hooray!!!” Frame 2: a woman running with a small child tied to her front, and a teenager tied to her back, with a box tied on, that is labelled, “Hopes and dreams of a jobless teenager” The woman is looking at her watch and carrying a shopping bag with “Cost of Living” written on it. The caption says, “A low-wage parent carrying the weight of the world over a moving try line…”
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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Free to share www.davidslack.net/borrow-story/
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Trainwreck debt quiz
Christopher Luxon is forever talking about the colossal economic train wreck the last government left and this gets repeated as certain fact. But what are the actual numbers?
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CoCo ✌🏼💛🕊️ @coco.sheshed.rocks · 27/08/2026
#Canada trolling #Trump on his wanting to rename #LakeOntario 🇨🇦 #SheShed
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly definitely would approve 💕
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chirping bird @chrpngbrd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
from 2023 www.billboard.com/culture/prid...
When looking at the issue of anti-trans legislation, Parton said that "I try to get into the human element of it." Pointing out that she has people in her life who identify as queer and trans, the 77-year-old star said it was important to hear what they're saying.
"I know and love them all, and I do not judge. And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are," she said. "I know how important this is to them. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there's something to be judged, that is God's business. But we are all God's children and how we are is who we are."
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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350 Aotearoa @350nz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 #BREAKING: Bathurst Resources has just submitted the biggest coal mining application NZ has ever seen, right in the heart of the Denniston Plateau. They’re hoping it will slip under the radar amid a global fuel crisis. But New Zealanders are furious at the war-profiteering fossil fuel barons ...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My husband is obsessed with World War Two so his idea of sexting usually involves WW2 somehow- his most recent one; 'I can't wait to send my panzers through your Ardennes.' I love him but his flirting is terrible. IT'S A DAILY OCCURRENCE.
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
And then there's the video of a family showing how depending on the income, where they live, what they already buy, etc then the pricing is wildly different. The mum got a hotel quote that was US$150 and her son got US$80 for the same room spec on the same day
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Saw video of a woman getting cheap shoes for her kid. Was in the store, grabbed shoes for US$7. Went to front to pay & the price shot up to US$18. After lots of talking with staff, she had to be in the app, scan the code to get the discount. Even worse there were a couple of prices in the app for it
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@trinaa.bsky.social
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My dad convinced my sister he went to school with Ernest Shackleton and she told her teacher 😑 Fun fact we do have a Shackleton in our family tree
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As Everlee said, she paid taxes, was a contributing member of their society. And they did this to her and she could have been left there like all the others. Stuck in a hellhole not of their making. Winston doesn't care what will happen to those immigrants he's ready to throw to the wolves for power
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I went from happy (hearing from her and her family), sad (hearing her speak about the others still in there) and angry (Winston 😡and the injustice of it all for her and others) all in the space of 5 minutes reading it
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 06/08/2026
there's a thing that happens in the news cycle, that when a horrific story is over, the subject often drops off the radar. i didn't want that to be the case with everlee wihongi, the kiwi kidnapped by ICE for 73 days. so i went to visit, to check in. please RT: www.webworm.co/wisconsin/
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Life After ICE
David Farrier visits Everlee Wihongi in Wisconsin, to find out what life is like after 73 days in ICE detention.
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In today’s NZ Herald
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Did Camilla have her Ladies in Waiting for a Seat with her?
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Absolute Queens👸
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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My final cartoon for Stuff www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... It's been an honour & a pleasure to create as many cartoons as I have for Aotearoa. - - today's toon is the cult of NZ First and the blind obedience of its MP's & members... And the ridiculousness of Jones! #NzPol #PoliticalCartoon
Cartoon. Title: THE DIVIDER

Shane Jones stands on stage behind a lectern. Speaking to his obsessed fans/supporters. 

"IM CALLING ON OTHER POLITICIANS TO TAKE OFF YOUR KNEE PADS...

(ITS A COMMON EXPRESSION TO ILLUSTRATE A RIDICULOUS LEVEL OF OBSEQUIOUSNESS!)

A woman in the crowd turns round to someone and asks, "WHAT THE HELL IS HE TALKING ABOUT?".

A very old man with stars in his eyes says, "I DONT KNOW! I'm just soaking up the vibes!"
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Such a talented family 💕
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I work in a mainly male industry. It is getting better but OMG the butt hurt that all the males had when a female CEO was appointed. One left because as he said to me "what's between your legs is going to determine if you get that role". We'd had that for years as all the jobs went to the boys
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Counts here in AoNZ too
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre
The Very Hungry Data Centre
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Extra points if you have a cat and a little podium for them
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Jo McFadden @jojoaotearoa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@trinaa.bsky.social
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
In today’s HeraldOnSunday
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austin @aparker.io · 17/06/2026
this is the best video i've seen today
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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... Elon's now a trillionaire... and what does he do with that wealth? A lot of damage. #ElonMusk #Caricature #LifeOfBrian #Cartoon #Grok
Standing at the window Elon Musk wears his infamous leather pilot jacket. Looking pleased with himself. The people behind shout, "He's not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy" whilst holding two newspapers. 

One says, 'TIME FOR IT TO DIE' HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILD DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO USAID CUTS

And the other paper says, MUSK'S GROK Ai
CREATED 1.8M SEXUALLY EXPLICİT IMAGES DE WOMEN + CHiLDREN iN O DAYS LAST YEAR.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
'But belt-tightening, as it turns out, is for poorer people and public servants. It’s not for the esteemed and often politically-connected candidates they want to install in plum roles on Crown boards.' @haydendonnell.bsky.social #NzPol
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Austerity is for poor people, not politicians
Belt-tightening, as it turns out, is location-specific. It affects you if you’re in a state house. It doesn't if you’re in the house of representatives.
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