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Mike FireBeard

@mikefirebeard.bsky.social
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Politics, Scifi and cat lover. Supporter of Humanism, Feminism, Toitū Te Tiriti, Worker and Disabled Rights and any others being exploited or othered.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I can’t speak for NZ’s electoral history, but can authoritatively say that nothing like what I'm studying at present around the far-right's influence operations, coordinated messaging, & related funding (propped by billionaires) was this evident in the lead up to the 2023 general election. #nzpol
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 30/09/2026
Today's chart after ACT got another $175k The system is rigged #nzpol
National $2,190,954
ACT $2,172,033
Labour $869,896
NZFist $753,000
Opportunistic $491,660
Green $343,194
Te Pāti Māori $114,000
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My #NZpol cartoon in the latest issue of the Listener, in print & online. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...
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Chris Slane’s cartoon of the week
Chris Slane shares his view on the week in politics.
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No new taxes... #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
Luxon: "No new taxes"Cartoon depicts PM Luxon on an election podium in fron of an audience. Luxon: "No new taxes."
Various audience members heckle: 
"Or nurses
Or Police
Or Ferries
Or houses
Or equal pay
Or libraries
Or Bridges
Or ideas."
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 26/09/2026
Comment: Gerry Brownlee held MPs to a double standard, with harsh punishments for the Opposition and leniency for the coalition.
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Gerry Brownlee, Parliament's ineffectual policeman, wraps up chaotic term
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey guys! GUYS! Damien Grant (convicted fraudster) thinks Hager's Dirty Work "falls well short" so don't read it ok? Ok guys? And if thats not enough to convince you, Chris Penk (who hasnt read it) says its a work of fiction, so please, dont read it. Please.
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Guy Body @bodycartoon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We’re up against the people with deep, deep pockets and everything to lose. Make a donation if you can 💚 #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/september_ma...
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Septembee Match Appeal
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#nzpol Headline has already been rewritten in the piece to remove the shame of our snivelling government of collaborators making UN delegates remain out of respect to this genocidal war criminal. I’m ashamed and sickened.
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Could Erica Stanford be one of the most nefarious Ministers next to Chris Bishop? Sure as hell sounds like it. Mandated propaganda teachings about NZ Taxpayers Union to kids from 2027 #kiwi #newzealand
Year 8 mandatory curricumum teaches kids about the NZ tapxyaers Union and takes their official propaganda lines into the teachings
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chris Penk getting his new column off to a great start by reviewing a book he hasn't read and declaring that it belongs "in the fiction section". I hope Stuff's editors are proud of themselves.
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amazing what you find in the comment section…the disgraced & frankly dangerous NZTPU is all up in the new education curriculum’s grill, for “children to study” 🤔 Erica is sick of “ideological indoctrination” so she wheeled in her own extremely nefarious one instead…🙄🤦‍♀️ #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NZ
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Grumpy Goblin Dawg @loosewheelnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greens are having a ‘match your gift’ (donation) thing at the mo. Up to $100k will be doubled by a donor Please donate if you can! #nzpol www.greens.org.nz/september_ma...
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Septembee Match Appeal
We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.
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Mike FireBeard @mikefirebeard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well done Chloe. youtu.be/2IklfJS25rI?...
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CHLÖE SWARBRICK - NOTHING gets in the way of their GROWTH AGENDA - Adjournment debate - 54th
YouTube video by Kiwi Pulse
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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please let that be the last Question Ttme we ever have to suffer the brain-dead word salad nonsense of the terminally unaware Christopher Luxon as PM.💩4️⃣🧠🥚 Hope he's already bought his ticket back to yankland. Win or lose he's getting rolled after the elections. Can't wait.👍 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
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GreenEggs| Toitū Te Tiriti @hekikakariki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#nickyhager #nzpol Keep talking about this e te whānau. Also an excellent interview youtu.be/Tip-dFuho-Q?...
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Nicky Hager and Dirty Work: the author responds to his critics
YouTube video by The Spinoff
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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Picked up my copy today. One thing I noticed as a saw RNZ with 3 “won’t someone think of the poor astroturf lobbyists” stories is that it sure feels like RNZ was trying to prove Hager right when he called media outlets uncritically platforming the TPU as enablers and complicit.
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 22/09/2026
with new zealand in an election year i would like to formally remind everyone that i am *not* right wing blogger david farrar. i am re-issuing this handy guide from six years ago about how to tell us apart. please RT: www.webworm.co/farrier/
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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I made this after too much coffee. Please stay for the alt text.
Two panel meme.

Panel 1. Smoke show boxer Anthony Joshua is winding up that right hand like it's a Looney Tunes cartoon. He's smiling like a man who's made millions of dollars rearranging a YouTubers facial bones and barely broken a sweat.

Joshua has a text label: Nicky Hager

Panel 2: You ever see a dog that's not sure how to swim leap into water that's deeper than the puddles they splash through? There's that momentary panicked look as their head dips under the water and then the instinct kicks in and they start doggy paddling.

Jake Paul doesn't have that instinct but he does look like a scared dog. He is seconds away from having his jaw neatly broken into pieces by someone who actually boxes in real life and theres a brief recognition that the water is deep and dark and cold and it is not giving you likes or subscribes.

Paul has a text label: NZ politics
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Frank @fmacskasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the Party (National) that demands personal responsibility from all of us... the hapless,inept Minister for Social Welfare,Louise Upston,has taken a "Claytons" responsibility: she won't resign. On the plus side,the nation can breath a sigh of relief: her own...(1) www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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'I accept responsibility' - Louise Upston fronts on MSD failures
More than three weeks after it was discovered thousands of pensioners and veterans had not received their winter energy payment entitlements the Minister has accepted responsibility for a series of mi...
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And yes, Henry's story about the engineer who's working six days a week for a successful company, but still earning less than his beneficiary neighbour, sounds like steaming bullshit to me.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Act is presumably claiming that the video it has released of last night's meeting bears out its version of what happened. It absolutely doesn't. Henry engages with @chewienz.bsky.social and even says "good question". He's already moving on when security swoops. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/med...
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Watch: 'That's not true' - Act releases new video of Paul Henry v podcast host confrontation
The podcast host was removed from venue by security and later arrested by police.
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Mike FireBeard @mikefirebeard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don't buy the governments gas-lighting.
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The Winter Energy Payment "OMISSION" was voted on back in 2025 - NZ Govt said NO
YouTube video by Kiwi Pulse
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
so clunkier, more central bureaucracy, less money for councils. man's a genius www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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National backtracked on a bed tax, so here’s what it’s offering councils instead
On Tuesday, Luxon announced a new plan to fund councils that hosted a lot of tourists.
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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finally got around to writing up the piece on how Simeon Brown crashed the NZ energy system. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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Simeon Brown's disastrous decision to cancel the Gas Transition Plan (and buy a lotto ticket instead) - Greenpeace Aotearoa
New Zealand is in the middle of an energy transition
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Rod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In today’s HeraldOnSunday
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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes have selected an overwhelmingly Pākehā student cohort.” — Professor Papaarangi Reid.
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David Seymour is afraid of MAPAS because it’s working | E-Tangata
“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes hav...
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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Shane Jones commits to sale of #newzealand conservation land. Tama Potaka's Conservation Amendment Law still prioritises economic goals over nature Jones says the sale of DOC land is still possible & National is working on it #nzpol This is what a vote for National represents
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Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If a pro-Palestine creator produced this video it would be denounced as antisemitic.
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 31/08/2026
Today's chart after ACT got another $75,000 Numbers are getting too big to fit in the columns The system is rigged #nzpol
National:  $1,938,074
Act:  $1,857,163
Labour:  $707,921
NZ First:  $573,000
Opportunistic: $491,660
Greens: $343,194
Te Pāti Māori: $114,000
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Mike FireBeard @mikefirebeard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is very good. #nzpol
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Chris Hipkins is batting for a draw
Hipkins has been so focused on negating the case against Labour that he never built a cohesive argument for Labour.
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lets be clear to ourselves, and to our friends and whanau who aren’t aware of politics: Luxon is not sorry. Upston is not sorry. National pushed (under urgency) for “tough love” that has caused unnecessary suffering and “mistakes” for those who even try to comply. This is intentional. #nzpol
RNZ Headline: “Another sorry from Christopher Luxon after beneficiaries miss out”Beehive post from Hon Louise Upston: Increased Accountability for Jobseeker Support (July 1 2025)Newsroom Headline: $55m less in benefit payments as Govt automates welfare decisions under urgency

The Ministry of Social Development will receive broad powers to let computers make decisions as part of a bill being rushed through Parliament
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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What the entire fuck is wrong with his man?
Screenshot of an RNZ article. A photo of PM Christopher Luxon looking like a belligerent middle manager berating an underling at the dick sucking factory. Text reads: "Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has apologised after people's benefits were wrongly suspended because officials were overwhelmed with paperwork.

But he's standing by his statement to Parliament that had not happened, saying it was correct at the time."
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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 28/08/2026
Cowardly ghoul #nzpol
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Watch: Louise Upston dodges questions after benefits cut improperly
The Social Development Minister evaded members of the media on her way into the House.
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Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We have the very best government that money can buy #nzpol
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Lan Pham @lanpham.greens.org.nz · 28/08/2026
The lols + sarcasm is just a trauma and sleep deprivation response to the 4 days under urgency in the debating chamber grilling the Ministers on their nightmare of the Government's newly proposed resource management bills that embed environmental destruction for a quick buck ☠️ Share. Enrol. Vote ✊️💚
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
'The Post is reporting that the man who died was understood to be rough sleeping.' Goldsmith acknowledged the “upsetting situation” in a statement. “... it would be inappropriate to politicise it, or to comment further". Vote them out. Vote them all out. #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Person dies outside Paul Goldsmith’s Auckland office building
Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
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Gary Chiles 🚲 🍄 ☕ 🦚 🐱 𝟜 𝟚𝟘 @testtubeone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Has this homeless person been "moved on" enough to satisfy your sociopathic urges Goldsmith?😒😡 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If your kids are planning to go to university or any polytechs. Labour is not your friend. #nzpol #votegreen
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Aaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's a highly contested field, but arbitrarily cutting adults' off from access to the social safety net is right up there with the worst of it.
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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
371 Kāinga Ora developments (involving 1,576 planned homes) were cancelled by Chris Bishop when he came to power. Bishop also slashed the accessibility requirements for state housing. drbex.substack.com/p/social-hou...
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Social housing is a key part of solving homelessness
Cancelling over 1500 new social housing builds is both fiscally and socially irresponsible, given homelessness is on the rise
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Te wookie o te tāngata @chewienz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
what the fuck labour.
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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
National thwarting parliament's role of scrutinising the executive www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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National MPs 'misappropriate' time for questions in the House
National is being accused of making a mockery of Parliament's processes by deliberately not giving itself enough time to answer questions from Opposition MPs in the House.
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Mike FireBeard @mikefirebeard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Ij... I'll just leave this here. #nzpol
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How Atlas influences both sides of Parliament and how to stop it
YouTube video by Kaimataara
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I seem to have upset the TOP bots on r/nz again Pointing out an undemocratic party started by the wealthy, funded by the wealthy, run by a central committee owned by the wealthy might not be the democratic saviour 'we' wanted #nzpol
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This guy was on council for 30 years and Mayor for 3 while the infrastructure under our feet rotted away. He ran on no rates rises. In Wellington not having nice things. And now he’s moaning about everyone paying through the nose to fix the shit he ignored and actively worked against.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The same people who had big angry signs saying "Stop Three Waters" now have big angry signs saying "Stop Tiaki Wai", Tiaki Wai being the thing that happened because the government Stopped Three Waters. Tiaki Wai is still bad because a) We still have to pay for pipes; and b) It has a Māori name.
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Hundreds gather in Wellington to protest new Tiaki Wai bills
Stressed out, fed up, and worried about bills. Those are the messages some Wellington residents want to tell new water entity Tiaki Wait about what they see as soaring bills. Hundreds gathered in the ...
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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Sergeant Schulz solution to climate change.
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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 19/08/2026
National reported more than $600,000 in large donations on Friday, taking the party ahead of Act in receiving such contributions.
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The latest charts and data on Election 2026
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Miriam Ross @miriamruthross.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Imitation is the best form of flattery, etc, etc www.greens.org.nz/manifesto_20...
Screenshot of Herald Facebook post with title 'Opportunity promises reform of lobbying rules and political donations'
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