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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Part of the reason for the organised vilification of the Ardern govt initial response to the COVID pandemic was that it was so effective in demonstrating how powerful decisive state intervention in the interests of the common good could be. The far-right and its big business backers were HORRIFIED.
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How NZ’s right turned culture war into political strategy
Nicky Hager’s latest book argues the tactics of New Zealand’s organised right have changed, but the interests behind them have not.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When our “CEO” teaches kids that K.A.T and K.A.R are acceptable spellings, when he doesn’t believe in dinosaurs and is in an evangelical cult that thinks “enlightenment” means committing genocide will lead them to heaven, it’s an obvious choice for any sane individual! #nzpol #nzelections2026
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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another bright young candidate close to winning her electorate off money machine National. Consider a donation or helping if you live in her electorate. sophiehandford.co.nz #nzpol #nzpolitics #TurnItRed
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Sophie Handford – For People, the Planet and Our Future
Discover Sophie Handford's journey as a Kapiti community leader, climate advocate and former councillor. Explore her mahi, values and vision for Aotearoa's future.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So you’d still keep these psychos in power? That means you’re not centrists, you are what Inthoight you were from the beginning.
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Family First NZ was rightly called a far-right organisation by @globalextremism.bsky.social It is anti-vaxx, anti-Te Tiriti, anti-trans, anti-LGBTIQA+, & a climate change denying Christian nationalist platform. It is with this known entity that Winston Peters did a *one-hour* interview with. #nzpol
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
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El Niño-fuelled wildfires destroy precious Indonesian forests – in pictures
Indonesian authorities intensify operations as fires continue to burn across Sumatra and Kalimantan, with haze spreading to Malaysia, Singapore and Philippines
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
nz media simply don't have to act as an amplifier for extremist speech - there have been well established ways to report on this stuff for over a decade now 3 out 3 major outlets acting as a megaphone for far-right rhetoric here we are past the point of this being "just reporting what was said"
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
That includes their Trojan horse Opportunity (TOP)
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wish they’d follow through!
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Depends what the board wants because they have final say.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Beware Opportunities is their Trojan horse. Loads of people tied to big tech and the funder Brian Cartmell is in companies with Peter Thiel. It’s undemocratic with the board having veto power, and they’re willing to put the worst people back in power. This is a Trojan horse, warm your mates! #nzpol
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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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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Koch is Satan, and his demons have helped him turn this world into hell
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
who’s to blame?
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I bet many have a NDA, or are scared because they know how damaging these people are and they “always reward with double”
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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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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hmm yeah nah Debbie!
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And this is why I’m glad it’s finally in the media because the network is huge due to it being funded by big pollution
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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
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yea so very cool and normal. Meanwhile our government will make it illegal for us to take on the nut jobs exacerbating the climate crisis, and funnelling our money to these billionaires that are killing us.
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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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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
RFK Jr. Seems very quiet on this
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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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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’m not sure all this is “errors”. Is the bug a feature? Because this seems to be happening a lot where people who need it the most are not getting what they’re entitled to while billionaires get whatever they ask for, no bugs, smooth easy flowing taxpayers money! www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
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Corporate welfare alive and well while families struggle with rising food bills
OPINION: Numerous Government departments and agencies continue to send Budgeting Services clients and staff for financial mentoring - but they won’t fund our work.
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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
If you’re okay with our money going to killing masses of people sure support the creeps that are aiding illegal wars and genocide. Personally I would warn everyone I know to vote this government out before we end up with AI data centres all over NZ running war machines for Trump and Netanyahu!
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s also killing babies!
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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
We don’t have a democracy anymore, they stole it last election when the billionaires funded mass disinformation campaigns and the cooker/freedumb movement.
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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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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How much public money is John Keys sham school “Crimson education” getting? It’s just another robbery of taxpayers money that he will get away with and hide offshore like the rest he has in Silicon Valley.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fantastic mahi again Paula 👏 Along with the false claims about “hiding evidence of myocarditis in youth”, the aim is to claim Labour killed kids, to distract from the policies of this coalition killing people of all ages. It’s not “pro-life” when you starve the children and expose them to diseases!
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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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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Anything to do with an appointment of a certain “doctor”?
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
But wait there's more, with the Opportunists Party, the lower you're paid, the higher your taxes. "But UBI will cover it?" No because there's no plan to have UBI until year three in government and that's only starting with 18-25 year olds. So paying more tax (except if you're wealthy) and an LVT.
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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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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
TOP is a Trojan horse, pops up out of the woodwork with unknowns every time an election is due. Their policies are not “left”, they do not solve inequality, they will serve the psychotic Silicon Valley Mafia funding them. The fact they will work with the far-right and accept their money says it all.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It was a good thing Tova pressed her, they stick to a carefully worded script, then she admits she would sit at the table with a part that has literal nazis in it. They serve the interests of wealth not solving inequality but Silicon Valley psychos like Cartmell (Thiels man), LVT is his idea.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
TOP will go with National, they’re a Trojan horse. There is no way they are not going to fulfill their tech overlords dreams of this “evidence based” ‘utopia’. There is a lot of red flags, I feel I need a thread on them because there’s a lot. They rebrand and recruit unknowns before every election.
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
TOP won’t meet any crisis, Greens need far more representation to be effective. TOP going with the far-right is telling. TOP do not plan for any of their main policies, if they managed to get them accepted, to be enacted until the end of their term in gov. Taxing billionaires less is their plan.
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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MekaKiwi @mekakiwi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How much did he spend on the last sham Covid inquiry and now wants a third to appease his base? If we had a reasonable government he would be stood down and they’d be getting him help they need but they’ve all gone to the dark side.
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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.
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‘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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