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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy is putting Jamie Beaton, from John Keys Crimson ‘education’ on air. Why are they promoting a sham school that is pushing AI as a solution and is a very dodgy operation tied to a very dodgy ex-PM named in the #Panamapapers and Peter Thiel? It’s #dirtywork in Aotearoa #nzpol
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
who’s to blame?
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Sonja Mitchell @sonjamitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My main takeaways from Nicky Hager's book: (1) a small group of rich, self-interested and dishonest people did, and are doing, enormous damage to our society, democracy, and laws; (2) we must stamp out political lobbyists and their 'donations'; (3) National, Act and NZ FIRST are corrupt/bullshitters
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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 22/09/2026
Let’s not forget that one of the main reasons the Taxpayer’s Union has enjoyed such oversized influence is the news media giving them an endless platform, to the extent that Stuff partnered with them on the “Ratepayers Report”, which was a thinly veiled TPU email harvesting operation
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hey Aotearoa, your government is also stealing your money and giving it to greedy b’stards to spend on blowing things, and people, up. It won’t stop until you stop them. Check you are registered to vote, make sure your details are correct and encourage youth to get enrolled! vote.nz
vote.nz
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“In the current instance there is widespread dissatisfaction with the state of things, but there is no decisive choice of routes out. On either side of the apparent fence, including the “opportunist” option of choosing to sit on the fence” newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/14/t...
newsroom.co.nz
This election is not about democracy
Comment: Real democracy is about participation and the equitable exercise of power. The major forces shaping our lives are at the global technology level, writes Rob Campbell.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Kia ora! I got a call from Curia Research this week, and I thought the polling script would be of interest. As is customary, it appears to reflect a mix of public and private polling purposes. Some questions seem targeted for potential campaign rhetoric and one is just strange. Here we go, then ...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The whole company should have been shut down for what they did and the people who run it should be stripped of their flash homes and cars and given 50 years community service picking plastic out of the sea.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This cartoon, is NOT created by “AI”, that’s why it’s unique and completely onto it! Please stop using AI slop and putting is real creatives out of work! Support more artists like @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
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Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A lot of “admin errors” depriving people of basic needs under this government. Are they trying to get rid of us so they can turn Aotearoa into Silicon Valley’s Mafia HQ? Guess they need lots of land for data centres and bunkers and us bottom feeders might get in the way.
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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Every time I think I could not appreciate Paula Penfold more, something like this happens - the whole article is *chef’s kiss*. This is what holding candidates to account for the things they say while very clearly posting as a political party candidate looks like - thank you Paula for this mahi.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu brags on Israeli television about manipulating the U.S. public into allowing Israel to drag the U.S. into a war with Iran.
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Kārikiōrangi @sharonm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
TOP‘s big donor this time has also donated heavily to National and ACT in other elections campaigns. He’s on the TOP board. The board can override caucus decisions. Convenient. Means voting TOP would ensure a National/ACT government. That’s why TOP will not say which party it would go with
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Lew @lewsos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Some days I think Josh is the best political writer in the country, and today is one of those days
If you're an old-fashioned leftist, you may know this term, or the related "dialectical materialism." If you're a newer leftist, you may have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. I'm about to disappoint both: the old leftists because I am extremely not a Marxist-Leninist and I think dialectical materialism is pseudoscientific bunk, and the rest of you because you are about to find out what dialectical materialism is.

This Wikipedia page does a decent job of explaining the concept, but here's a shorter version: the Hegelian dialectic began as a reasonably interesting line of philosophical enquiry by Marx and Hegel and ended, via a series of galaxy-brained expansions from the likes of Lenin and Stalin, as "dialectical materialism;" genocide-enabling gobbledegook that functioned as a kind of state religion for the Soviet Union. In this form it is absurd, but closer to its original incarnation, it can be an interesting way of resolving tensions between what seem like mutually exclusive truths.

Extremely paraphrased, the Hegelian dialectic is that ideas take the form of a thesis; and an opposed idea, the antithesis. And if you're trying to be a smartypants, you can reconcile these ideas with a synthesis.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
He’s clearly unwell, and if he were a family member we’d be talking about, & insisting on an urgent (mental) health intervention. With respect to the Greens, this is far more than a distraction - and it’s telling the Speaker didn’t intervene at all. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361... #nzpol
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Winston Peters launches tirade against Chinese-Kiwi Green MP
“This is called democracy, unlike what you're used to. So go back to where you come from, you loud mouth, and maybe you'll learn something,” Peters said.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/07/2026
Anonymous artists placed a 10-foot-tall “Iran War Participation Trophy” in Manhattan. “While some concern themselves with military strategy ... President Trump demonstrated the courage to participate regardless of the final score,” a plaque reads.
washingtonpost.com
‘Iran War Participation Trophy’ mocking Trump arrives in New York
The work, which was first displayed in D.C., is the latest installment by a group of anonymous artists that trolls the president. Passersby had mixed reactions.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You couldn't make it up ... well unless you are generative so-called intelligence. For this they are trashing the planet and disrupting communities with data centres? www.ft.com/content/7e14...
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PwC published reports on AI marred by AI hallucinations
Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Relentlessly attacked by…. whom exactly?? and for whose profit motive, and to what end for the 🔥🔥⛽️💀Earth we borrow from our children, and their children? Another non-elected fossil fuel approved PM for #UKPol Do take note #Ausol #NZpol #Canpol
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is (relatively) good news. Brazilian President Lula’s pledge to protect the Amazon appears to have paid off. In 2025 the smallest amount was burned in 40 years. It’s still a tragedy that any of it is getting burned, but this is real progress.
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Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline of area burned in 2025
The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If I even whisper something about being Jewish, I have people screaming at me about Israel (a country I have never even visited). But a gov employee talking about Jesus Christ on the job as the Christian Nationalists who run the US bomb Iran in a religious war? That's just life in America.
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Shaun Hendy @hendysh.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
So pleased to see that the defamation claims against @sanjanah.bsky.social and @tvnz.bsky.social did not succeed. It’s still very concerning to see billionaires attempt to stifle public discourse through the courts. Who would want to put themselves through that? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
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Julian Batchelor ‘wholly unsuccessful’ in defamation claim against TVNZ
Julian Batchelor’s defamation claim against TVNZ has been thrown out.
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SpecsChic: Show me cats! I love real specs, not perve glasses! @specschic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Simeon Brown and the rest of the CoC should learn from this but as they refuse to listen to experts, or use real evidence, I despair that we are in for more fatalities under this government #nzpol
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I mean, it’s pretty fucking obvious to me…👀🤷‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This coalition of cruelty has made sure every policy creates more homeless people so they could lock them up. They got rid of thousands of jobs, underfunded public support systems, no tenants rights, sold public housing, all to benefit the wealthy. Next on the Project25 list is privatising jails.
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Government announces homeless move-on orders - for all town centres, not just Auckland
Police can move on rough sleepers or people displaying disorderly behaviour as young as 14-years-old.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Billionaires take so much more resources than the average human. This is why they’re trying to convince you that you need their products over clean air, water, and a liveable planet. We don’t require AI slop to live. #BanBillionaires they’re the biggest beneficiaries and a drain on society!
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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Winston Peters is SuperMad. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol
Cartoon. Title: “Super Mad” Image shows Winston Peters in a Superman outfit, braced for action, and saying, “STAND BACK! I must protect these older white folk from Wokesters, Indians, Chinese, and a pesky Rarotongan who dares to call our fine country ‘Aotearoa’”
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Peters is no longer relevant, we don’t need another old far-right populist so desperate to hold onto power he will sell out his own. We need more Māori representation, not someone who destroys our whenua and people for foreign powers!
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Paris prosecutors raid the offices of Elon Musk's X. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X
The Paris prosecutor's office said a search was underway at the French offices of Elon Musk's social media network X on Tuesday as part of an investigation opened in January 2025.
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NPR @npr.org · 03/02/2026
A federal judge on Monday blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S., dealing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda another legal setback. n.pr/4rxZWrE
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Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians
A federal judge on Monday blocked the end of protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live in the U.S., dealing President Donald Trump's immigration agenda another legal setback.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Judith Collins will head the law commission, meaning it’s no longer independent and run by a very untrustworthy National plant. John Key today was asked about her “departure from politics” on @rnzrss.bsky.social claiming she was cleared of everything in the #DirtyPolitics book, it‘s an outright lie.
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
No, authors aren't burnt out because "writing without AI is slow" We're burnt out because we're paid dirt so we need day jobs to survive
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/01/2026
It appears that the White House edited this image using AI
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A ‘War of Stories’: Humanitarianism in the Disinformation Age | @heatherleson.bsky.social from the @theifrc.bsky.social invited me to pen this article mid-2024. I sent it to her months ago, and finally got around to publishing it.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Peters exposes tactics as he and Slater gear up for another smear campaign, telling the audience to support it without evidence. This is why they destroyed public media, so please support independent media! Expect a lot more #dirtypolitics with NZME amplifying it! thisquality.com/the-fading-s...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/01/2026
The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Please share the he’ll out of this and get in submissions asap. This is being rushed through before Xmas, likely because we are distracted and busy this time of year! www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/fa...
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Fast-track amendments another blow to environment and local communities
A new Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill slams the door shut on communities, says Forest & Bird.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trump keeps admitting in public that he's directly running all DOJ operations—which would include deciding to keep the Epstein Files hidden to protect himself—and media keeps pretending not to hear him. Here, he states unambiguously that he *personally decides* on all DOJ payouts to alleged victims:
cnn.com
Trump says he ‘could be’ seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he “could be” seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department as compensation for past investigations into him, though he professed to have little knowled...
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The looters are allowed in Aotearoa again, and of course there’s full transparency of who and what these buggers are up to. Just joking, apparently an Aussie company set up two months ago, no email, and how searching for a finite resource that (if there) is killing the planet “lasting value for NZ”?
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Everyone should heed the words of Nobel Peace Laureate @mariaressa.bsky.social “please choose courage over comfort, facts over fiction, hope over fear… please act now before it’s too late”
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Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Greens are “so woke rn”! Rather be woke than the alternative with NZF voters less likely to survive a pandemic. Winston Peters may have made a bold move to get into power, but how many of his angry grey base will make it to the next election?
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
National has introduced a bill to allow pest species to destroy national parks, in the name of protecting "herds of special interest" for hunters legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...
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Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill 151-1 (2025), Government Bill – New Zealand Legislation
The Bill ensures that there is no requirement to exterminate valued introduced species that have been designated as herds of special interest.
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🫜🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚🫜 @catespice.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Unsurprisingly, ’Speak Up For Women New Zealand’ have said exactly nothing about this latest attack on women by the Government. Don’t worry, they’re both laser focused on the big issues - like where Caitlin Spice should wee and poo.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/05/2025
An anti-government militia group is making threats against weather equipment that it says is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned employees.
washingtonpost.com
Anti-government group threatens crucial weather radars, NOAA warns
Veterans on Patrol, which spread conspiracy theories in the wake of Hurricane Helene, has encouraged followers to visit sites hosting weather equipment.
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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NEW: 13 ex-Palantir employees condemn work with the Trump administration as violating Palantir's code of conduct, including using products to collect data on immigrant children. "These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build." www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...
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Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration
In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work with the Trump administration violates the company's founding principles.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Shameful. Those poor families are being traumatized all over again for purely political reasons.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NOTE: There are more people *in this frame of television* than there are transgender athletes in the State of Maine *All* of this is theater for stupid people
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
A Caroll diagram consisting of four rectangles arranged in a square.
The Y axis is labelled MOVE and split into FAST and SLOW.
The X axis is labelled THINGS and split into BREAK and FIX

Top left image: (Move Fast and Break Things) Tech Bro 
Bottom left image: (Move slow and break things) Runaway Steamroller 
Top right image: (Move fast and fix things) Emergency Plumber
Bottom left image: (Move slow and fix things) Grandpa with a toolbox
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(((𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚊𝙲𝚘𝚘𝚔))) @creativeelc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Please can folk share far and wide. This isn't the only genocide in the world but it's the most digitally recorded one in history. Executions of medical staff - how can we accept this? How can we turn away? I like to think of myself as a mosquito. Small but a good irritant ✊
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