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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

however many NZ based businesses also share unease about the rise of crony capitalism we are seeing in NZ which favours certain big firms or mates over an open market, who value Te Tiriti & also feel uneasy.This basic NZ ethic of fairness gives me some hope journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-cont...

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Frankly this case, alongside the disenfranchisement of over 130,000 voters by the govt in a move to block voter enrolment in the 3 weeks leading up to the election, underscores a power struggle that is at the heart of the 2026 NZ election between business vs public over the direction of NZ politics

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

corruption allegation facing NZ 2 NZ firms draft a law to stop a Māori leader challenging their climate inaction. A senior staffer to NZ PM received it in undisclosed, private email Govt defence? they’d have drafted a law anyway OECD: NZ lacks lobby regulation www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

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Anti‑Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2026: New Zealand

This country-specific factsheet draws from Public Integrity Indicators data on key aspects of countries’ integrity systems, including lobbying, conflict of interest and judicial integrity.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The gbm and I are discussing the RNZ article about being a neurodivergent mother and how it’s hard and how we need to rebuild the village and then the gbm comes out with this banger: “The whole point of capitalism is to break the villages.” THE WHOLE POINT OF CAPITALISM IS TO BREAK THE VILLAGES 🫢

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Heit @heitmusic.com · 07/06/2026

Question: So why is it horrible thing if immigrants take our jobs but it's a good thing if AI takes our jobs? Can someone explain that?

Answer: Racism

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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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/06/2026

Welcome to FIFA World Cup Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad ‌early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.

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maree0321.bsky.social @maree0321.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We should not be hosting the World Cup or the Olympics. The US is not safe for anyone, especially international travelers with brown skin.

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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 28/05/2026

Making this site & app accessible would make it a great place to connect. More people would migrate over here if they could use it.

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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

If a budget doesn't move these things dramatically, it's a human rights violation.

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This lollyscramble narrative is so sick and twisted. Every year since I’ve been an adult it’s a talking point when we know healthcare has gotten worse, higher education is expensive, poor families are struggling, disabled people are screwed over, elder care is a shitshow. Like where is lolly?

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Mojo Mathers 🇵🇸 @mojomathers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Anyone else find it really patronising of the government to talk to us about the budget like we are kids? ‘Lolly scramble’, ‘tough love’, ‘adult’ budget.. there’s nothing childish about wanting a responsible budget where we care for our poorest and everyone has a secure home.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Companies are extracting vast troves of online data through unlawful web scraping to build their generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in a way that is enabling a mass invasion of privacy, making these systems unlawful by design ~ Amnesty International www.amnesty.org.au/enormous-dat...

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Enormous data pipelines powering major generative AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of privacy by design

Companies are extracting vast troves of online data through unlawful web scraping to build their generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in a way

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Well, budget data is a proper mix-up! A highlights 🧵 What a magical presentation! Govt have the press gallery focused on the feted return to surplus, but the data presented excludes borrowing for capital. Include that, and the 2027 borrowing requirement is higher than the average over covid! 🤣 [1/n]

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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

All I have to say is 3 more years of this will be the end of Aotearoa New Zealand as we've known it. That is all. #nzpol

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Properly funded healthcare isn't a "lolly scramble" Decent mental health services isn't a "treat' Fully functional community and support services aren't just a "nice to have" Pretty revolted by this govt treating basic services like some kind of fancy expensive treat #nzpol #BudgetDay2026

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Government borrowing to pay for services is not the same as putting it on Afterpay or the Credit Card, Nicola Willis and her ilk just use terms like this to make it sound like increasing spending is a bad financial move when in fact investment in the right kind of spending is good governance #NZPol

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Willis says there’s no “sugar hit” for voters but this govt are far from responsible parents. #Budget2026 is cutting out the healthy balanced meals needed for a growing country & feeding us lollies for breakfast so they can put their mate the Tooth Fairy in charge of dental. #nzpol

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Russell in the Wops @matuajacob.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you erode disabled people's autonomy, then nobody is safe from their humanity being invalidated. #nzpol

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It has been a tough few weeks for disabled communities in NZ, with an onslaught of announcements & policies that threaten to roll back our rights & which go against #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs & #UNCRPD It’s been incredibly deflating but I have been energised by this awesome kaupapa. Please share!

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Absolutely vile. I remember a lot of problems in the years I was living in the Auckland CBD and this was absolutely not one of them. The only time I saw things escalate were when cops or asshole passers by antagonised homeless people who are just trying to get by.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/02/2026

Yesterday with your help, we paid the rent for five Minneapolis immigrant families in need. Rent’s coming up, donations are down, and there’s still so much need here. Let’s help as many as we can today! V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you!

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Abolish ICE is the floor, not the ceiling. You can't reform something which is completely broken and corrupt. You need to tear it down. Democrats not on board with this aren't your allies. They will betray you and your communities in the future.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

AI generated content is horrible & I often wonder how these companies are so resourced & enabled by govts to develop esp off the back of copyrighted materials. It occurred to me that it’s a lot easier to get away with fascism if people are accustomed to having to ask if an outrageous video is AI 🫤

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💜TheeAfroLesbian💜 @zisshit.com · 09/01/2026

I’m so scared. I’ve been wanting to leave the US for years as I’m BLACK, DISABLED, and a LESBIAN! I just want to be safe and heal. Please if you can donate to my GoFundMe. I have friends in a few places that can help me get settled. I still have medical needs as well like acupuncture & my tooth.

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Donate to Help Zenzi & Carrot Heal in Safety, organized by Zenzi Zeme

I am working on updating this but until then the reason I have a GoFundMe is because I a… Zenzi Zeme needs your support for Help Zenzi & Carrot Heal in Safety

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Come work with me! 🎉 If you’re a DPA member and have thought about joining the National Executive Committee please get your nominations lined up as it closes this weekend! If you have been thinking about it but need a nominee please let me know ☺️

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Great vibe in the room as the Belém Gender Action Plan is gavelled through with no objections! Woohoo! #COP30 #GAP #BelémGAP

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It’s been a shit few days here at #COP30 so when I got the pānui that my iwi are taking the Crown to Court to protect our taiao and future generations it was pretty special. A real demonstration of everything we’re preaching here - Indigenous Peoples are holding the line where states are failing!

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 20/11/2025

Your wellness routine should include taking precautions to avoid multiple covid infections that damage your immune system, hope that helps. 🌟💕

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Andrew Jull NZRN (he/him) @andrewjull.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Note the invitation to complain to the HRC about "discrimination on the ground of sex, including gender identity, gender expression and innate variations of sex characteristics" at the end. I will certainly be doing so.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

One of the things cis women have long fought for bodily autonomy with are cries such as "get your laws off my body" & "my body, my choice" ... trans folks are no different. This is why the ban on puberty blockers for trans folks is so incredibly stupid and ideological. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Halt to puberty blockers curses 'young transgender women to stigma'

That's the reaction of a model who used puberty blockers as a teen to rules halting new prescriptions for young people.

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

COP21 Paris, France COP22 Morocco COP23 Germany (Fiji Presidency) COP24 Poland COP25 Spain (Chile Presidency) COP26 Scotland COP27 Egypt COP28 UAE COP29 Azerbaijan COP30 Brazil All but 2 COPs since the Paris Agreement have been Europe or Middle East and now COP31 will be Türkiye, not Aus-Pacific

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It would be great if COP hosts really demonstrate they will have plenty of accommodation available...So when you get locked out of your apartment at 1am it’s not impossible to get an emergency hotel! Saved by the grace of the Indigenous grapevine tonight! 🙏🏼 Will finish my rant tomorrow 😴

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It’s too early yet to know what to make of tonight’s news that Türkiye will physically host #COP31, with Australia as President & some partnership with the Pacific. But at least for my community, this is a really tough blow at a critical time & it will reduce our participation.

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work. Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

In the last chapter of Alice’s memoir, “Year of the Tiger,” she wrote her own future obituary. The wonderful “oracle, storyteller, cyborg, trouble-maker, activist, night owl” we loved so much closed it with: “Enjoy all of Alice’s good shit, and may you create some good shit as well.”

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 15/11/2025

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

Woman with dark hair and bright red lipstick, wearing a royal blue cardigan over a black shirt and shiny black puffer pants, seated in a motorized wheelchair with tubing from medical equipment visible, holds up a copy of "Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life" by Alice Wong.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.

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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This is genuinely so devastating. I'm so grateful to Alice for her sharing of wisdom and support and insight all while fighting for and with us all. It's an incalculable loss to the world. Love and solidarity to those also grappling with this. 💜

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

In Zohran Mamadani text, the words "Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down—Alice Wong" in orange font over a blue background

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upulie.bsky.social @upulie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Rest in power, Ms Wong. What a privilege it was to have even your virtual presence in our lives.

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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I am so unbelievably gutted. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social I hope you knew how much you influenced & enabled so many of us in our disability justice journeys and how much we appreciated you. A true disabled oracle! Will fuck up the ableist bastards with extra gusto for you e hoa ✊🏼 #AbleismIsTrash

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Losing Tinu last year and now Alice. I am heartbroken. There's been way too much loss in the disability community. So many people are now gone. Too many to list. Both Tinu and Alice both helped shape the person I am today. I wouldn't be alive without their help & support.

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