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Imagine if RUC/ fuel taxes reflected the entire maintenance, expansion and replacement cost of the network levied in strict proportion to damage caused by wear and tear (relative axle weight to the power of 4) 😳

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Andrew R _ @andrewr4.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What is it called when every single economic indicator is worse than 3 years ago? Failmaxxing ? Look what he said before the last election - and why would anyone now believe his growth promises this time? #nzpol

Luxon before the last election :

But he said the country had gone backward under the Labour government and it needed to "get its mojo back."
We want to be a government that's going to turn it around and get some ambition and some aspiration and some positivity and optimism in the country going forwardiẠạ

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/10/2026

"My days-long decisive victory over Iran is now in its 8th humiliating, oil-price-inflating month, so I'm going to go secure like a day's worth diesel by helping Putin pay the bills on his >4 year long 3 day military special operation."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/10/2026

For those playing along at home: To give the appearance of action on the impacts of his humiliating blunder on the world stage, the President of the United States is making a humiliating blunder on the world stage by bailing the Russian president out of a humiliating blunder on the world stage.

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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.

stuff.co.nz

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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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The NZIER report referenced here is worth a read. Sets out clearly how young people are being screwed all ways by Govt economic and social policy. The economy is being throttled, migration settings have loosened, and the Govt are victim blaming. Let young people earn a living ffs. Simple as that

https://www.interest.co.nz/economy/140611/crisis-level-nzier-warns-economic-recovery-alone-wont-solve-surging-youth

https://www.nzier.org.nz/hubfs/Public%20Publications/Insights/NZIER%20Insight%20131%20Youth%20unemployment.pdf

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.

bbc.co.uk

Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'

Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".

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Chumbles (chum_bles) @susanjharper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you enrolled to vote? Make sure at vote.nz/enrolling/en... before midnight on October 25. If you want a pdf of this image, it's here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cerF...

Orange NZ election mascot person points at "Are you enrolled to vote?" above a QR code for spot to check that at https://vote.nz

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Kent Lundberg @kentlundberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Minor correction: “When in doubt, ANNOUNCE roads” www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

thepress.co.nz

Roads of electoral significance

EDITORIAL: Transport policies offer different views of the future.

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“There must be a degree of cognitive dissonance involved in announcing new roads at a time when fewer and fewer of us can afford to drive. The current oil price spike will not last forever, of course, but to talk grandly of bigger, faster roads in this economic climate seems tin-eared.”

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

- Attacking the ICC - Palling around with Russia - Broadcasting executions

static.klipy.com

Are We The Baddies? Meme

ALT: Are We The Baddies? Meme

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Latest NZ balance sheet data is out. Always a pleasure. We can start with our apparently perilously indebted government. Errrm, see those blue bars? They're higher than the yellow line, right? Yep, the private sector is in net debt to the Govt. Daft. [🧵1/n]

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is the journalistic equivalent of advertising Christmas parties in August or Easter eggs on boxing day. 🤦🏻‍♂️ The season is FIVE games old FGS!! #NFFC #PremierLeague #gamesgone

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Classic case of 'change from' rather than a clear strategy to 'change to' 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What is odd is Gareth (as an economist knows better) deliberately misuses the term regressive which has an objective technical meaning of taxes that hit poorer people harder as a % of income than wealthier people. Like GST. But precisely the opposite of capital gains, wealth or land value taxes 🤷🏻‍♂️

ono.ist

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Will the same authors now conclude that adding a third of a year onto the school leaving age will create economic benefits of 2 trillion and a net return of $6000 per person?

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miravox @miravox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nice work from Neale Jones on Nat-drop-in-the-polls bene-bashing history $1.5m/yr on 10k drug tests will find not much -Jobseekers have had to pass a drug test for any job that requires one since 2013 -2018: 47,115 tests, only 170 failed (incl those who didn't turn up i.e. 0.36% of referrals #nzpol

thespinoff.co.nz

Sliding in the polls, have a crack at beneficiaries: National's drug test policy follows a well-worn pattern | The Spinoff

It's just the latest example in the party's sorry history of framing an economic failure as a personal one.

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I actually think the disapproval of its founder is a feather in the cap of Opportunity. It has come of age, shown independence, and embraced evidence over libertarian economic policy. #nzpol

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Brad Company @waeherebro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How can we not tax the wealthy. Everyone else is paying. #nzpol

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is EXACTLY why we should not work with Palantir.

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ooh. What is the tool that produced that assessment? Looks v useful

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

British people will walk past a Starbucks, Burger King, Costa Coffee, Taco Bell, Blank Street and not even notice. Then they'll see an independent shop called Al-Badr Supermarket and cry about how the UK is being taken over by foreigners.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do live here, and I endorse this message 💯👇

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The people who say that their main concern is integration of refugees and migrants should be particularly happy today at her success in integrating. But I suspect they are very angry instead. It's almost as if the integration arguments are often made in bad faith.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Even by this administration's dire standards "President encourages pogrom against Somali-Americans" plus "Defence Secretary promises televised execution" makes for a dark week

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

via Anti Reform Hub

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Barbara @barbara-nz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In RNZ: "’The threshold for banning content under New Zealand law is high and requires that we balance freedom of expression with the likelihood of harm,’ NZ Chief Censor Caroline Flora said.” Surely there is huge likelihood of harm in allowing this livestream in Aotearoa. Our govt must ban it.

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

4D chess?! Reverse psychology on Act / Nat/ NZ1 voters that if Chippie is critical they will be drawn to Opportunity perhaps. Risky. If it backfires and opportunity drop below 5% Lab chances of governing fall IMO

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Govt reduces spending from 32% of GDP to 30% of GDP and the private sector doesn't grow, what happens to GDP? Anyone know?

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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 08/10/2026

Make The Onion Satire Again

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2026

NEW YOUGOV POLL 🚨 52% of people would vote to rejoin the EU, only 27% want to stay outside

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Two charts (ftpoo). First shows Govts actual financial position. Yep, we are one of the few countries where Govt has a positive financial worth. Graph two, related to the first, Govt interest payments, net. These two charts should be force fed to the commentariat. Scarcity mindset is killing NZ.

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How lovely. Tino pai. Congratulations!

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know I'm always going on about how we need to drag political discourse away from its relentless focus on "the economy" But if we MUST talk about, it I demand an equally relentless hammering of the point that ~the economy~ as we have designed it REQUIRES UNEMPLOYMENT TO FUNCTION

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2. Nice new spending commitment you've got there. Shame if anything happened to it #nzpol

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

2 Fundamental points. 1. Everyone in NZ is a beneficiary of government spending. A landlord getting a tax break. Someone seeing their doctor. Driving on a public road. Drinking water from the tap. If random drug testing is appropriate for some of us it is appropriate for all of us #nzpol

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The headline buries the lede: ❌️ Cutting benefit rates after 2yrs ❌️ Incr stand down to 26wks (up from 13wks) ❌️ Incr minimum residence period to qualify benefits from 2yrs to 5yrs These are awful, horrifying policies that will drive povery and misery #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

rnz.co.nz

National promises random drug testing for jobseeker beneficiaries

National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The thing is, this isn't some gotcha memory test about "what precise amount of money will this cost/raise" of the type beloved by interviewers in election campaigns. It's the most basic question imaginable - "how will this thing work?" She has no idea.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

hmm should we prioritise a motorway parallel to the existing motorway that ends up in a destination the existing motorway also goes to

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's pretty smart comms

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This amateur statistician has observed that the NZ media does not cover the parties in proportion to their seats in Parliament. It does not cover them in proportion to their current polling average. It does cover them approximately in proportion to their total donations #NZpol #ViciousCycle

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Pete Husky @petehusky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I predict Kemunism supported by the iron fist of the Kemlin

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