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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦

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Retired teacher. The future, if there is to be one, is Green. Tax wealth not work.

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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Because of gender and ethnic pay gaps in Aotearoa, Pacific women are now working for free until the end of the year. This election year, we need to vote for pay equity. It’s the only way to make sure that all working people are respected, valued, and paid what they’re owed. #nzpol
Tile showing a rally march with people carrying signs and flags. Text reads: “From today until the end of the year Pacific women are working for free because of gender and ethnic pay gaps. Working for Free Calendar.' Flower logo reads “Respect Us, Value Us, Pay Us.” Footer text: “*Stats NZ Household Labour Force Survey 2026.”
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely fantastic. As Chlöe says, politics is just a game to some politicians. A way to exert power and line themselves up for comfortable well paid jobs in the future. They can’t fathom that not everyone is like them. This shouldn’t come as a shock but I’m voting ✅✅ @greens.org.nz
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 01/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is it just me?
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And this is before the dividends.
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI madness and Trump's war are creating inflation & gvts are inc interest rates even tho this won't work. Power & money are shaping economic policy & ordinary ppl will pay. Our politicians, bankers & economists are failing to think.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The TPU were upset bc Nicky didn't ask for feedback before he published Dirty Work. Of course he didn't. You don't show your opponents your hand. But they have both the money & the researchers/writers to fund their own riposte. Of course they won't! ✒️📚💩🤣
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amazon’s plastic packaging waste alone could encircle the globe 500 times: buff.ly/AREVW3M. We need to do better. Use less, buy less, waste less. #ActOnClimate #climate
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Thalia @thaliathalia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please share this update on sewing machine donations! We're up to 783 and aiming for 800 by the end of the year. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Hundreds of donated sewing machines and counting
The Sewing Machine Drive aims to reach 800 sewing machines by the end of the years.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here are just SOME of the reasons that Luxon's war on the climate means NZ now risks losing access to the lucrative European trade market. A Dutch group has lodged a complaint through the European Commission over NZ breaking its climate change promises made in the free trade agreement with the EU.
greenpeace.org
Luxon’s War on the Climate - a deliberate effort to increase emissions - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The Luxon Government claims they are serious about climate change. They say they are simply taking a different approach to cutting emissions, such as using price signals rather than regulations. 
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GeorgiaBlue @georgiablue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The NZ Govt travels the world telling people how they take their climate commitments seriously. But at home they dismantle every policy that constrains emissions and subsidise more emissions. So we've joined international efforts to hold them to account. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
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Greenpeace joins complaint to EU over NZ climate policy reversal - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The complaint addresses Government reversal of climate policies, which Greenpeace has labelled a 'race to the bottom on environmental regulation'.
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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🌍⚠️ A UK intelligence report links climate and nature loss directly to national security. It warns that collapsing ecosystems could increase risks of food shortages, migration, conflict and economic disruption. Showing how climate change is starting to be treated as a security and resilience issue.
theguardian.com
Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️ @memycoffeenbonsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#NZpol From NZCTU Nearly 188,000 young people aged 18-24 are still not enrolled to vote. With so much at stake for rangatahi ...... ....NZCTU's under-35 network, is hosting a free evening of comedy, connection and voter enrolment in Auckland this Sunday. www.together.org.nz/stand_up_and...
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Stand Up (and VOTE!)
Join us in building a better world
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The chickens are coming home to roost. The gvt blocked Mike Smith's court case agst polluters like Fonterra & Z Energy. Now a group in the Netherlands is objecting bc we're not foll the EU trade deal conditions. newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/30/f...
newsroom.co.nz
Formal complaint that NZ climate backsliding breaches Europe trade deal
The Government's top law officer warned that if ministers blocked Mike Smith's Fonterra lawsuit, the next case would target the Crown directly. She's been proven right, reports Jonathan Milne.
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve walked the fields at dawn for years. The air used to hum with bees. Now it’s quieter every season. What most people never see is the scale: over 3.7 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients poured onto the planet every year — more than double what we used in 1990.
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve opened this up for all. Includes video, analysis, charts, tables and lots of fun chat about accrual accounting and cranes. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/fiscal-dra...
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‘Fiscal drag’ + ‘sinking lid’ = early(er) surpluses
Treasury forecasts lower Government deficits & borrowing in PREFU because inflation pumped up nominal incomes & spending, which boosted taxes; Sinking lid on investment & spending ‘improve’ books too
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 29/09/2026
Pesticides: Scientific community warns of 'dangerous step backward' in European laws
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Pesticides: Scientific community warns of 'dangerous step backward' in European laws
In a bid to simplify regulations and boost economic competitiveness, the European Commission is proposing numerous relaxations in the Omnibus X legislative package.
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The primary function of fiscal rules has been to justify austerity measures. By pretending that there are financial limits to what governments can do, they have provided cover for cuts in public services, social security, and investment in social infrastructure.' Vote 💚 4 hope & equity
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What I'd say to you is I'm sorted so get in behind for no new taxes.
Cartoon of Luxon and his gvt's corrupt practices.
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAGA - Make Aotearoa Great Again 🗳💚✌️
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...
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Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland
Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Saturday Morning host Susie Ferguson departs RNZ. This wasn't announced on the news. It was quietly slipped on their website. WHAT IS GOING ON AT RNZ? This shows bad faith from our public broadcaster. John was hired to lift ratings but RNZs behaviour undermines that. www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...
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Saturday Morning host Susie Ferguson departs RNZ
The veteran broadcaster leaves after 16 years.
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I share Federated Farmers and local landowners’ concerns around the sheer volume of material and that as it is human waste, elevated levels of heavy metals and E coli may be present,” Anderson says. 💩🤮😱🤬 newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/28/u...
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Up to 130 tonnes of sewage from exploding Wānaka population dumped weekly on farmland
Councils under fire from locals, furious at the risk to water quality, human health and the potential stench, reports Jill Herron.
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JC to Luxon on MRpt.. Why wld anyone listen to your pledges when you haven't delivered on Local gvt amalgamatn delayed LNG terminal delayed FTrk Residential housing dpt paused Paywave surcharge ban disappeared Fisheries policy lost at sea Reinstating animal exports not done Only 6/17 roads begun🤔🤣
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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we know because data, EV batteries last as long as the car itself. Even with this data and real world evidence. My MiEV is 17 yrs old this yr on its original battery, the stupid myth of EVs needs battery replacement (insert timeframe here) still persist. insideevs.com/news/809604/...
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These Battery Cells Were Tested After 14 Years Of Hard Work. They're Good For Another Decade
CATL supplied the cells for the world’s first large-scale battery energy storage project. Fourteen years later, not one of them has been replaced.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Be very afraid that Simeon will be following suit & further privatising our health bc as we know National tends to copy the right in the UK.
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So, while in NZ, Aus, UK etc families with mortgages get punished mercilessly by rate hikes, this simply doesn't happen to almost all the households in the US. Business investment and personal consumer borrowing are affected - but it's relatively minor. [2/n]
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So, NZ follows the Fed and hike rates to 'tame inflation', but US households are basically immunised from higher mortgage costs. In fact, richer households get more return on the Fed Treasuries they own! Anyway... rate hikes in US are probably stimulatory, in NZ they are job killers... Grand. [Ends]
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the last five years we have seen NZ bank account balances and private sector govt bond savings grow by $200bn. That's $109 million per day ffs. Where did it come from? Who are the prolific wealth creators that walk among us?
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I sit outside mainstream economics because they clearly don't work! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Hear that Nicola and Barbara...
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
American health care creates no incentive for pharma companies to cure diseases. When you cure a disease, the customers go away. There's no money in that. Curing patients is not a sustainable business model, per Goldman Sachs. news.slashdot.org/story/19/02/...
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Always remember: We Are The Polls 13% of the poll’s respondents remain undecided. There would be thousands of Kiwis who don’t know that a better future IS possible - and will be delivered by a Green Govt. So don’t remain complicit. Enrol to Vote before Oct 25 AND Party Vote Green #nzpol
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One in seven schools. (paywalled) #NzPol
thepost.co.nz
Govt’s claim of ‘transformational’ literacy gains based on data from 14% of schools
A principal who suspected the Government was hiding literacy results spent months asking for its release.
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
El Niño is an absolute monster we have now surpassed the Super El Niño of 2015-2016 with peak expected in November-December 2026. We can’t truly know how significant the 1877-1878 El Niño was in equatorial Pacific clearly very significant, but this is at least strongest event in ~150 years.
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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From what we've been allowed to see there appears to be levels of destruction as great if not greater than what happened to Berlin, Dresden, and Stalingrad in WW2.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the world’s first steel made without burning fossil fuels. Steel is a massive emitter so this is hugely important! We have so many solutions to solve the #climatecrisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction #reneables #renewableenergy
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some fairly chilling predictions about how the response to Nicky Hager’s book will play out. Worth a read. www.klaut.media/single-post/... #nzpol #hagerbook #dirtypolitics
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The Ten Ds: how the Taxpayers’ Union will answer Dirty Work
Nicky Hager’s book has been out for two days and the response is already following a script. I know the script. It was run against me. Here it is in advance, so readers can tick it off as it happens.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truth 👇
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well the NZ Govt beat Trump to this one. Bishop already gutted the (now ironically named) clean car standard
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