Reposted by Kirstensamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/10/2025It'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 39230
Reposted by Kirstensamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 30/10/2025yesterday 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 109831
Reposted by KirstenJessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Government 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. 25323
Reposted by KirstenMountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Let 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 #kiwiyoutube.comTop doctors warn govt is pushing NZ healthcare to a US style systemYouTube video by Mountain Tui 1012963
Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 06/06/2025melanienelson.substack.com/p/geoff-bert...melanienelson.substack.comGeoff Bertram: What the Regulatory Standards Bill Reveals About the Future of GovernmentA Deep Dive into the Economics Behind the Regulatory Standards Bill 010
Reposted by KirstenGreenpeace Aotearoa @greenpeace.org.nz · 28/05/2025ACT'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. #nzpolgreenpeacenz.typeform.comRegulatory Standards Bill Submission BuilderTurn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE. 01410
Reposted by KirstenGreville Whittle @greville.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I 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 48225
Reposted by KirstenByron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 22/05/2025A 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 1614158
Reposted by KirstenDaily Indignation @dailyindignation.bsky.social · 19/05/2025This 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. 59533
Reposted by KirstenAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 18/05/2025This is so far over the line it’s disorienting. 22585542946
Reposted by KirstenDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Please 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. 112142
Reposted by KirstenDecolonizing Love @decolonizing.love · 06/02/2025America 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...merip.orgBeirut and the Birth of the Fortress Embassy - MERIPAt 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... 0154
Reposted by KirstenKarlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 10/02/2025First you come for the people, then you come for the rivers 021
Reposted by KirstenGeorge 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.”rawstory.com'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracyGeorge 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... 1183153515211
Reposted by Kirsten🐻Iona🐻 @bewarethefish.bsky.social · 09/02/2025If 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. 313636
Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This 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.orgstopproject2025comic.orgStop Project 2025 ComicTrump'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. 030
Reposted by Kirstenweisselberger @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 225477
Reposted by KirstenKarlo Mila @karlomila.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Fighting 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...drive.google.comFighting Words for Despairing Times (with 'ofa).pdf 0136
Reposted by KirstenRebecca @rebeccab-writes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025For 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 37590571422
Reposted by KirstenGreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 04/02/2025#nzpol For sharing with all of your people 🖤🤍❤️ youtu.be/5EOKhUuAzDE?...youtu.beTreaty Talks | Episode 1: Overview | RNZYouTube video by RNZ 0167
Reposted by KirstenChar Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025And we are surprised? Nah babe, we told you so. We told you over & over again and were dismissed as conspiratorial. Really? #nzpol #Aotearoa #nz 23812
Reposted by KirstenWorseThanItSeems @worsethanitseems.bsky.social · 02/02/2025They 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?...youtu.beWatch: Rachel Maddow lays out why you should care about JD Vance's real agendaYouTube video by MSNBC 1156
Reposted by KirstenBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I 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/xnytimes.comElon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments SystemTreasury 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. 16048122470
Reposted by Kirstentyfletcherbluesky.bsky.social @tyfletcherbluesky.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Ok, 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. 25617
Reposted by KirstenChar Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Oh my…What do we have here Aotearoa? 👀🙄 #AtlasNetwork #CoalitionOfCorruption #nzpol #Aotearoa #nz #ToitūTeTiriti #FuckTheOligarchy 13616
Reposted by KirstenAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025You 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. 981409477
Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Another good news day! Aotearoa is full of people who value good relationships and cooperation. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...nzherald.co.nzNew poll shows most New Zealanders believe respectful treaty, race relations debate importantPoll taken following hīkoi, introduction of Treaty Principles Bill. 050
Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Good news today! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...rnz.co.nzTaranaki Maunga becomes a legal person as treaty settlement passes into lawMt Taranaki will be jointly managed by iwi and the Crown and the name Mt Egmont will be consigned to history. 040
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!) 2120
Reposted by KirstenRNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 28/01/2025David Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetiternz.co.nzDavid Seymour says Kiwis are too squeamish about privatisation – history shows why they lost the appetiteAnalysis - 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. 153
Reposted by Kirstenweisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025OMB 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. 952328784
Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...thespinoff.co.nzWhat you missed from day one of the Treaty principles bill select committee hearingsNine hours, 50 oral submissions, half an hour for lunch. 010
Reposted by KirstenKo Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Marilyn Waring is a must watch on equality. What a treasure to NZ. Now Professor Jane Kelsey.. a good chance to see her.. #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpolparliament.nzWatch public meetings of the Justice Committee - New Zealand ParliamentWatch public meetings of the Justice Committee 1346
Reposted by KirstenWomenAotearoaNZ @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. 09523
Reposted by KirstenPhil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Read. 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. 548278736352
Reposted by KirstenChar Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 25/01/2025What 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...time.comTrump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025. 24716
Reposted by KirstenChar Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025If I were Māori/Maaori I would be a tiny bit pissed at this shit. 🤷♀️ #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol 98332
Reposted by KirstenGreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 24/01/2025It’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 32610
Reposted by KirstenTe wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I 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 1163
Reposted by KirstenThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 24/01/2025The 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.theconversation.comTrump has called time on working from home. Here’s why the world shouldn’t mindlessly follow 298
Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social · 23/01/2025www.ted.com/talks/marily...ted.comThe unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really countsIf 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... 000
Reposted by KirstenVincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I have been invited to give an oral submission on the Treaty Principles Bill next Monday (4.30pm if you are watching the livestream). 1329329
Reposted by KirstenRussel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The 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. 57923