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Kirsten

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Māmā🩷Lala | Tainui, Pākehā, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa ✂️🧵maker | 🎓📚student Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha Aotearoa #toitūtetiriti

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Jeff Thomson @jeffct.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/10/2025
It's wild that the new zealand govt sees what's going on in the states and rather than going "wow we have a huge opportunity to recruit foreign talent, let's invest" (like aus, canada, EU etc have done) instead they're like "ooh cutting science to the bone, cool idea bro" #nzpol
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/10/2025
yesterday on RNZ I talked with Kathryn Ryan about cuts to NZ science funding and the risk of losing talent www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... here's some correspondence about the opposite problem: kiwi scientists who want to return home to work, but can't, given the bleak funding environment #nzpol
Hi Sam!

I'm XXXXX a postdoctoral researcher in XXXXX.
I'm from NZ, was born and raised in Auckland, and did my PhD at the XXXXXXXXXXX.
I've never lived anywhere else other than NZ, I used to want to build my scientific career there. 
And now, I don't ever see that happening.

It feels like I have to choose between science and living in NZ. Maybe I was naive? I don't know, I thought maybe we learned lessons from the pandemic about how research was important and had benefits to humans? Let alone the fucking economy?? 

Anyway, pardon my french.

Thank you for saying what you said. I'm proof of it, and there are so many others in my shoes.
You better believe we will all be voting from wherever we are in the world.

Ngā mihi nui,

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XXXXXXXXXXX - Postdoctoral Researcher
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Government saying councils aren't focusing on core infrastructure. The truth shows a different picture though. Sounds like the tactics of misinformation are being used here. 📸; created by Dunedin City Council that shows a clear message.
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Let me be blunt - privatisation kills. Lancet confirms it increases deaths, patient care inevitably declines, private investors profit, & is increasingly expensive. I've been writing about this topic for over a year now but there is literally too much "s***" being thrown at us. #nzpol #kiwi
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Top doctors warn govt is pushing NZ healthcare to a US style system
YouTube video by Mountain Tui
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Geoff Bertram: What the Regulatory Standards Bill Reveals About the Future of Government
A Deep Dive into the Economics Behind the Regulatory Standards Bill
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Greenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 28/05/2025
ACT's Regulatory Standards Bill is a dangerous attack on nature and Te Tiriti. It aims to lock ACT’s far-right principles into law, ensuring corporate property and profits trump the public good, environmental protection and our founding document. Have your say now. #nzpol
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Regulatory Standards Bill Submission Builder
Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.
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Greville Whittle @greville.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I hate headlines like "Budget 2025: Winners and Losers" because it makes it sound balanced when it fact it's: Winners: Small group of rich pricks Losers: Rest of New Zealand, but especially women and the poors #NZPOL #NZBudget2025
Snipping of Stuff front page showing headline "Budget 2025: Winners and Losers"
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A change from the budget: 18 and 19 year olds applying for the unemployment benefit are going to have their parents incoming taken into account, many will then be ineligible. With unemployment expected to stay above 5%, parents will now be expected to support adult children who can't find work
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Daily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This should be a chilling statement from the PM, and lead to widespread condemnation from our media. Instead Hosking cheers it on, repeatedly calling it "the Māorification of the country" and my bet is no one will say a thing. Pure, unfiltered racism from our biggest media org.
NewstalkZB: "PM: 'When we see it we call it out': Luxon on the use of te reo Māori"
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.
Microsoft has disabled the ICC prosecutor’s email account.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Please consider who benefits from you becoming complacent, doing less critical thinking, less fact checking. Who benefits from devaluing yours and other people‘s labor. From your data.
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Decolonizing Love @decolonizing.love · 06/02/2025
America planned to occupy Gaza even before Trump. That’s why the US built a port in Gaza during the genocide and is constructing the world’s second-largest embassy in Beirut—an imperial outpost. Through Israel, America has always pursued colonial aims in the Middle East. merip.org/2024/04/beir...
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Beirut and the Birth of the Fortress Embassy - MERIP
At over 40 acres the new Beirut embassy, a 19-structure ziggurat that dwarfs any government facility in Lebanon, is the second largest in the world after Baghdad’s. Its billion-dollar estimated budget...
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
First you come for the people, then you come for the rivers
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”
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'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy
George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...
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🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If you don't want to live in NZ for more than a week each year you don't need residency and the right to buy property. You need a tourist visa and hotel booking. This will be Citizen Thiel corruption all over again. Hope our fine media keep a close eye on political donations.
Investors will only have to remain in New Zealand for 21 days over three years to gain residency under changes to the so-called 'golden visa' to attract wealthy investors to New Zealand, Immigration Minister Erica Stanford says.
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This amazing project presents Project 2025 in comic book form. If the OG document does your head in, try this instead. Those of us who live in Aotearoa/New Zealand will also recognise some plays being made by ACT. stopproject2025comic.org
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Stop Project 2025 Comic
Trump's Project 2025 is a detailed plan to shut you up, and shut you out. Don’t let it do either. Read on, then vote.
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weisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“It is incomprehensible that no one puts a stop to the doings of these Hitler bandits.” Diary of Friedrich Kellner September 16, 1942
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Karlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Fighting Words for Despairing Times. A free book of resistance poetry and art by Moana writers and artists released for Waitangi Day. drive.google.com/file/d/1-5RI...
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Fighting Words for Despairing Times (with 'ofa).pdf
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Rebecca @rebeccab-writes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts. Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
#nzpol For sharing with all of your people 🖤🤍❤️ youtu.be/5EOKhUuAzDE?...
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Treaty Talks | Episode 1: Overview | RNZ
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
And we are surprised? Nah babe, we told you so. We told you over & over again and were dismissed as conspiratorial. Really? #nzpol #Aotearoa #nz
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Allan @allan1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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WorseThanItSeems @worsethanitseems.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
They planned a cyber coup and they're moving as fast as possible because they know the systems to stop it are too slow to respond. The richest megalomaniac on earth thinks he should be CEO of USAinc because some radical political theorist says America needs a dictator. youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
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Watch: Rachel Maddow lays out why you should care about JD Vance's real agenda
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
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tyfletcherbluesky.bsky.social @tyfletcherbluesky.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ok, I'm asking everyone to read this. Sobering, eye-opening, and the way it's framed makes even me realize we're sleepwalking ourselves into subjugation because I think we're all under some decision that it can't really happen in America. Newsflash: it's happening now, in real time.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Oh my…What do we have here Aotearoa? 👀🙄 #AtlasNetwork #CoalitionOfCorruption #nzpol #Aotearoa #nz #ToitūTeTiriti #FuckTheOligarchy
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
You guys, we are living through a coup 2.0. Except this time it looks like it will be successful, and a puerile, right-wing billionaire, not even POTUS, is going to be in charge of the U.S. Treasury, government personnel, and basically all of our personal data.
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Another good news day! Aotearoa is full of people who value good relationships and cooperation. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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New poll shows most New Zealanders believe respectful treaty, race relations debate important
Poll taken following hīkoi, introduction of Treaty Principles Bill.
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Good news today! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Taranaki Maunga becomes a legal person as treaty settlement passes into law
Mt Taranaki will be jointly managed by iwi and the Crown and the name Mt Egmont will be consigned to history.
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I’m still finding moments of quiet and pretty, places to breathe… (even if it’s a not-quite-finished project like this teacosy!)
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite
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David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetite
Analysis - State asset sales have been a political dividing line for decades now, and it seems voters are again being asked to decide which side they're on.
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weisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
OMB is freezing student loans. No disbursements to colleges. It wasn’t enough to hamstring the research. Now he’s kneecapping the kids. The culmination of a 50-year Koch project to disembowel institutions of higher learning. What they couldn’t do intellectually, they’ll do through bankruptcy.
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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What you missed from day one of the Treaty principles bill select committee hearings
Nine hours, 50 oral submissions, half an hour for lunch.
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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Marilyn Waring is a must watch on equality. What a treasure to NZ. Now Professor Jane Kelsey.. a good chance to see her.. #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol
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Watch public meetings of the Justice Committee - New Zealand Parliament
Watch public meetings of the Justice Committee
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WomenAotearoaNZ @weavinghouse.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#NZ “Equality is never achieved through equal treatment.” ~ Marilyn Waring 💥 #SubstantiveEquality: an analytical framework to address just about everything discriminatory.
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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
What too many kiwis fail to understand is that project 2025 is a sickening blueprint adored by our current coalition government. In particular the fascist wet dreams of David Seymour & the Act Party. #nzpol #nz #nzpolitics time.com/7209901/dona...
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Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025
A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If I were Māori/Maaori I would be a tiny bit pissed at this shit. 🤷‍♀️ #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It’s just struck me! If there are foreign investments, there will be clauses in the agreements that guarantee profits for the investors. If they fail to realise the guaranteed returns, they will likely be able to sue us as a nation. We need to stand against this. Now. #nzpol
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I have been to Auschwitz, I broke down several times during my visit there, its a heavy place that crushes you down. So this is just a damning statement imho. Fuck Elon Musk
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 24/01/2025
The message is clear: the push to get workers back into the office is being incorporated into US government policy. Here’s what could be lost.
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Trump has called time on working from home. Here’s why the world shouldn’t mindlessly follow
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Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
www.ted.com/talks/marily...
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The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts
If you: do laundry, are (or have been) pregnant, tidy up, shop for your household or do similar labor, then by GDP standards, you're unproductive. In this visionary talk, economist Marilyn Waring seek...
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Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I have been invited to give an oral submission on the Treaty Principles Bill next Monday (4.30pm if you are watching the livestream).
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The biggest problem NZ tourism faces is the Luxon Govt. The constant attacks on nature protection undermine the most important asset the tourism industry has - nature.
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