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Kera O’Regan

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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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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 28/05/2026
Genuinely really touched by the 10,000(!) women who have signed this petition already. It means a lot to see how fast that number is growing 🥹 our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/e-...
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E Tū E Kī: They Don’t Speak for Us - Block the Definition of Woman Bill
The Government is progressing a Bill through Parliament that aims to limit the rights of transgender, non-binary, and intersex New Zealanders in the name of cis women, by defining “man” and “woman” (a...
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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
And it’s all upside! If they don’t get back in after the election, much of the damage will be done and the new govt will bear the brunt of the system collapse.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Because that’s when they can sell off our assets, contract big companies to deliver subpar services with no accountability back to the people, and leave their seats in Parliament to a cushy exec chair at those big companies who will reward them handsomely for doing so.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
They WANT the public sector stretched to breaking point. They WANT the health system to collapse. They WANT us to be struggling with inaccessible and unaffordable homes. THEY’RE rich enough to avoid feeling the consequences, but they’re counting on US to notice. And to get despondent.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
They are introducing some of the most dangerous legislation possible for disabled people like the DSS Bill, Man & Woman Bill, and Jobseeker Support & Accommodation Supplement Bill & saying “just trust us” while they are cutting Total Mobility and 16.4% of the already tiny Ministry of Disabled People
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
But they deliberately choose to cut initiatives and agencies that do that and save us money overall, knowing full well that replacing those jobs with AI will enshittify the experience so much that kiwis will stop looking to the govt & be forced to resort into private companies.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
They KNOW that investment in a strong public service, public health and harm prevention, equity in education, housing, and justice all might cost money up front but that it improves our wellbeing, productivity, and economy as a whole country.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
And they don’t mind bankrupting the country and harming our communities to do it.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It’s time we called it what it is. They are being intentionally irresponsible with OUR money so that we get frustrated at the failing public system and they can justify privatising everything with big contracts (handouts) to their rich corporate mates.
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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 · 27/05/2026
We’ve aimed to integrate a human rights approach throughout our draft strategic plan (which is now with members for input) & definitely have included in the thinking and groundwork for this campaign. But we haven’t put together a separate paper specifically on HR approach-is that what you mean?
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Sorry Sacha was about to reply yesterday when I got a bit derailed by flight cancellation! Yes such a privilege to work with such smart cookies on this!
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Kā mihi nui!! 🙏🏼
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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
No, I was there during the peak of Covid.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Being uncomfortable seeing other people struggle doesn’t give you a right to criminalise and harm them, and to threaten their safety. Maybe if you don’t like the look of homelessness in our country you should stop gutting the supports for people to live well. Jerks.
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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
I’m sure much more educated people than me have already thought about these things so I will have to read up on it but something in that video just connected dots in my brain and now I’m even more terrified. Thoughts sparked by: vt.tiktok.com/ZS5T2xYHS/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And if in just a few years we’ve gone from being able to more or less trust video evidence (even if not the cutting & framing around it) to having to ask “Is that cute cat video actually AI?” then how easy will it be for people to believe that fascist violence is again too unbelievable to be true?
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
So in conjunction with trying to control social media platforms and the algorithm, it also makes sense for fascist regimes to support technology that makes people think twice about what they see online.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
But it struck me when she asked them about the camps and they said that people believed they were just false rumours because it was so horrifically inhumane it was hard to believe. We’ve been seeing genocide live-streamed for years now and this has mobilised millions of people around the world.
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I just watched a TikTok of a German woman in the US who had the opportunity to talk to her great grand parents and ask why people voted for AH. They responded with a lot of the same reasons people say they voted for DT. The playbook is undeniably the same.
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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 · 20/12/2025
www.iipfcc.org/blog/2025/12...
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IIPFCC calls for the immediate release of imprisoned Co-Chair, Daria Egereva — INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S FORUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE
19th December 2025 The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) condemns the wrongful arrest of IIPFCC Co-Chair, Daria Egereva, and demands her immediate release. Daria Egerev...
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Kera O’Regan @keraoregan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Yay! Glad you are in the clear!
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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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