Reposted by Mark IllingworthAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection? 533151871802
Reposted by Mark IllingworthCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026“The Guardian wins the ‘Caption of the Year’ competition: - William Merrin @theguardian.com 10163031462
Reposted by Mark Illingworthconifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Fourteen years. Every election. Including the ones he won. Tonight, it had the FBI Director sitting in the front row. I want to tell you about an awards show. Years ago, before any of this…a reality television program called The Apprentice kept not winning Emmys. Year after 381059301
Mark Illingworth @millingworth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Damned if I know how but Keith Richards is still walking this earth and dragged his band into the studio and their new record is bloody good 000
Reposted by Mark IllingworthBrant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I thought this was on Point…. 344205766121
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Selling off & opening up to privatisation 60% of NZ's conservation land is tragic. Tourism is one of NZ's biggest earners, and mining only gets us royalties of 2% while being on the hook for billions of clean up costs, while they suck our resources dry. Let alone our wildlife, ecosystems #nzpol 48028
Reposted by Mark IllingworthHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243375590
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMusical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Greens appear to have worked out that if Government wants to tax back more of the money they spend, they have to go after the hungry hippos that grab it all. 48118
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026She was whipped by men whose religion, which was created by other men, doesn't think men have the self-control not to be tempted to assault her if they simply see her hair. Seems that the wrong people are being whipped.independent.co.ukIranian singer sentenced to 74 lashes for performing without hijab - rights groupThe 29-year-old and eight other musicians have been punished by the autocratic regime for sharing ‘vulgar and immoral content’ 22943821216
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMenin Myhead @diegom824.bsky.social · 02/06/2026@diegom824.bsky.social 804993852
Reposted by Mark IllingworthAaron Hawkins @ahawkins.bsky.social · 23/05/2026If you're working fulltime on minimum wage, you'll take home less money per week than the Minister for Social Development gets paid for LIVING IN HER OWN HOUSE. On top of a $320k salary, earned by making housing less affordable for low income households. The absolute state of it. 823574
Reposted by Mark IllingworthCath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 16/05/2026@dallasbarnett.com has an important audition callback tonight & injured himself the other day. Sending best wishes, good luck and pain-free vibes etc. Can we cheer him on?media.tenor.coma man wearing glasses and a vest says good luck you got thisALT: a man wearing glasses and a vest says good luck you got this 5121
Reposted by Mark IllingworthGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Denial is among the most immature and destructive of human traits. Yet it is all around us: Denial of antisemitism Denial of Islamophobia Denial of climate breakdown Denial of democratic breakdown. We should put away childish things and face our monsters. 471160275
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMarc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 19/11/2025If only NZ was as ambitious as... any country other than Iceland. 48731
Reposted by Mark Illingworthemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Wild graphic on front page of WSJ. 15954172004
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMusical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 03/10/2025The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies. He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus? 1414047
Reposted by Mark IllingworthGrumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Palestine is not Hamas any more than Ireland is the IRA or Aotearoa is ACT 516544
Reposted by Mark IllingworthFrancisco Blaha @franciscoblaha.bsky.social · 21/09/2025You mean like the University you studied, the support you got, the social housing that was available at the time, the airlane you used to go places, the health system that was available to you and now you want to take away from everyone else you tosser! www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/24/s...1news.co.nzSeymour pushes for privatisation: 'Govt hopeless at owning things'"We need to get past squeamishness about privatisation," the ACT leader says. 1210131
Reposted by Mark IllingworthRussell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 01/09/2025You could safely bet that the people screaming and making death threats against councillors are the same people who furiously opposed Three Waters. They're stuck with the bad solution they loudly demanded. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571... 915327
Mark Illingworth @millingworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Oops ...might have accidentally bought some new speakers for the hifi 000
Reposted by Mark IllingworthPeter Green @petergreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025New Zealand lost its AA+ rating under Key, and regained it under Ardern. If political journalists were willing to include that sort of context it would be much harder for Nicky No-boats to lecture the left on fiscal responsibility. #nzpol 527092
Reposted by Mark IllingworthGrumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 17/08/2025"Labour fiscal policies are unsustainable" they cried as they set fire to Labour fiscal policies, major investment, jobs, and economic growth, sobbing that Jacinda made them do it because she's a witch Misogyny is a hell of a drug 26422
Reposted by Mark IllingworthDavid Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Look we’ve just got to have faith in the PM. It’s a matter of Truss. 4326
Reposted by Mark IllingworthRussell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Whole damn thread nails it. We should be talking very clearly about what a debacle this is, and how it will almost certainly cost us more than the $671m in money. 814852
Reposted by Mark IllingworthGrumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025David Seymour says that NZ's politicians shouldn't wear clothing or accessories that suggest they favour one side in a 'conflict' over another. A) it's not a 'conflict', it's genocide B) Fuck Off, Seymour 1021136
Mark Illingworth @millingworth.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Dirty Great big London Plane tree in the back yard has unfurled her 1st leaf declaring her intention Spring has arrived. It would be churlish to argue with a tree 000
Reposted by Mark IllingworthGrumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025So, this government's entire policy is simply "Labour spent too much/invested too much/created too many jobs, so we're going to undo all that" and, yet, they still say it's Labour's fault that this has created a financial fuck-up that will last for years and years? 2307
Mark Illingworth @millingworth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Oh great, now the Orange treasonweasel shitgibbon is threatening nuclear war with Russia as a distraction from his pedo rapist past in the Epstein files 020
Reposted by Mark IllingworthRoscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025#NZPol Fails to mention Nact firing thousands or stopping hundreds of inflight and planned construction projects. Fails to mention corporate price gouging. Not only these vast oversights but also implies things are turning around. They’re not, it’s still getting worse. Please do better RNZ. 14618
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature 8145721334
Reposted by Mark IllingworthLouise LaHatte @louiseofgreylynn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Just witnessed from a bus Destiny church people assault a man carrying a Palestinian flag on Queen St, Tāmaki Makaurau. Their march was hate filled and anti immigrant. Free Palestine! End the killing and the hate 15817
Reposted by Mark IllingworthTe Pāti Māori @tepaatimaori.bsky.social · 19/06/2025These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in. Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau. You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them. #HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori #NZPolrnz.co.nzKāinga Ora halts hundreds of housing developments, sells vacant landThe projects would have included 3500 homes, as the state housing provider also sells a fifth of its vacant land. 723694
Reposted by Mark IllingworthCraig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 17/06/2025#nzpol Minimum Wage increased 1.5% this year. Data just released by Stats NZ shows: - Food Prices up 4.4.% - Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3% - Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7% - Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4% - Rent up 2.8% Laser focussed on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...stats.govt.nzSelected price indexes: May 2025 | Stats NZFood prices increased 0.5 percent in the month of May 2025, and increased by 4.4 percent in the 12 months to May 2025. 18289137
Reposted by Mark IllingworthRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar? 409168787572
Mark Illingworth @millingworth.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Plus it might not be so hard to outmanouvre and embarass a high command of 1x Orange idiot, 1x ghoul Nazi from Santa Monica and an alcoholic white supremacist from Fox News - Kia Kaha from Aotearoa - stand fast 000
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/06/2025Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot. 48112212880
Reposted by Mark IllingworthSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/06/2025I hate the caricature of Americans as couch potatoes who don’t do anything about fascism. People in LA and NYC are doing the international legacy of stuff like the Battle of Cable Street proud. 41086154
Reposted by Mark IllingworthRod Emmerson @rodemmerson.bsky.social · 31/05/2025In today’s HeraldOnSunday #nzpol 923875
Reposted by Mark IllingworthStanley Big Feet @stanleybigfeet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025When you are told we can't have a top tax rate of 45% like most OECD countries because the high wealth earners will just hide their incomes. Reply with, "So we have a Tax Crime problem not a govt deficit issue". #TalkAboutTax 1133
Reposted by Mark IllingworthMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions. 8314255912199
Reposted by Mark IllingworthDavid Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 15/05/2025It'd be real funny if every opposition MP had the courage to stand up and perform a haka during this. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...rnz.co.nzPrivileges Committee report on Te Pāti Māori's haka to be debated, voted on next TuesdayThe Privileges Committee report on Te Pāti Māori's haka last year will be debated and voted on next Tuesday. 44411
Reposted by Mark IllingworthDylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 10/05/2025Wait until they find out the size of the US Military's net loss in the last fiscal year. 1172