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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that disgraced National MP Chris Penk is now writing opinion pieces on the election for Stuff News is a real bad look for Stuff News. Why would Penks political opinion be anything but bias? He literally campaigned for National Party THIS YEAR

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Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hahaha hahaha latest one news poll has TOP on 8% in the kingmaker role after Luxon ruled them out. The man is a golem made of unforced errors

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is really stupid, but the president has repeatedly claimed that Iran’s military capabilities were totally destroyed, so I feel obligated to rhetorically ask what the US is shooting at and retaliating to if Iran has no military anymore? Why does anyone indulges such transparent lies at all?

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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The celebration of the life and brilliance of Jools Topp is just wonderful. Glorious. Joyful. The best of us, celebrating one of the best of us. ❤️💔❤️‍🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpaR... www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/...

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Livestream: The Celebration of Dame Jools Topp

YouTube video by RNZ Music

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The FSU's vision of free speech is that free speech *prevents* a gay man from speaking out against anti queer bigotry. This is 'insitutional neutrality' operating as its architects intend.

nzherald.co.nz

Uni denies Grant Robertson breached neutrality rules over 'man' and 'woman' definitions bill

Robertson called the bill 'unnecessary and disturbing' in an email to Otago students.

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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com · 28/05/2026

$15b in weather losses over the past decade. Moa Point dumped 70m litres of raw sewage into Wellington Harbour. Groundwater contamination is rising. Half our rivers are unsafe to swim. Budget 2026 drops water spend from $127m (2026) → $35m (2027) → $5m/yr (2028–30). Make it make sense.

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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

So, the Atlas Network affiliated NZ Initiative had their person on the inside, providing the conduit from NZ Initiative member companies to the Prime Minister. #revolvingdoors #lobbying #nzpol

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The CRL is a rational answer to transporting people in a big city. However it was opposed by all the usual right wing suspects. It took concerted campaigning by so many civil society organisations to get it going. Its opening will be a great victory for people power www.1news.co.nz/2026/05/03/c...

1news.co.nz

CRL opening update expected in weeks as fuel crisis adds pressure

Officials were planning station open days ahead of the launch, according to Auckland Transport.

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pollysoundsgood.bsky.social @pollysoundsgood.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Excrescence (noun) Medical: an unusual growth on an animal or one of its organs, or on a plant. Formal or literary: something considered to be very ugly. ~Cambridge Dictionary

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pollysoundsgood.bsky.social @pollysoundsgood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Patriarchy is extremely harmful to men, too.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

We shovel $10bn per year into the pockets of offshore companies to buy fuel - and that was before prices went nuts. You could easily employ every unemployed young person in NZ for $10bn - and buy thousands of solar panels.

Last week, its UK rival Shell said it anticipated “significantly higher” oil trading profits for the quarter.

Analysts have been upgrading their profit forecasts, with the US bank Citi raising its estimate for BP by 20% to $2.6bn adjusted net income in the January to March quarter - despite flat oil and gas production.

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

“… they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it… and if they are clever, they will eliminate any structural protections you had before the majority realizes the extent of the damage.” - Sarah Kendzior

nzherald.co.nz

'Tidiest solution': Goldsmith leans towards axing Broadcasting Standards Authority

It follows a jurisdiction ruling over Sean Plunket's The Platform.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

who should Couchfuck McGee visit next?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/04/2026

JD Vance went to Iran and accomplished absolutely fuck-all. Then he went to Hungary and accomplished absolutely fuck-all. The sweaty loser energy on that guy is positively cosmic.

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Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Send him to Moscow.

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Can we all agree now that we must exorcise ourselves of the oil industry and oligarchs that profit from bloodshed? Asking for a planet.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"

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PERFECTLY NORMAL @nzpom.com · 19/03/2026

Paging Simon Watts #nzpol

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Behind every number. Since 2022 the number of New Zealand children living in hardship has increased by 47,500. Seems like that’s by design. My #cartoon #Children #Hardship #poverty #NZpol #families #whānau

Cartoon. title: “Behind Every Number” Eight frames. In each frame, except the last one, is a child holding up a number. Numbers 1-6 have smiling, laughing children. Number seven has a sad child with the number 7 forming part of a banned symbol over their face. The last frame says, “One in seven NZ kids live in hardship. Up 47,500 since ‘22”

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Brett Roberts @brettroberts.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hey Chris Luxon, remind me again how much solar energy passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

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Happykiwi_nz @kiwihappy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Kiwis, check you haven't disappeared from the voting rolls enrol.vote.nz/app/enrol/?_... #kikorangi #nzpol

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Electoral Commission

Enrol, check or update your details here.

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Rob✅✅ @robdickinson.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

China - installs 5GW renewable every week UK - cues up 1.3GW new wind before 2029 Ukraine - installs 1.3GW solar in a year during war New Zealand - Installs 45% profit margins for gas addicted cash cow gentailers #nzpol

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Clint Fern @clintfern.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Marc Daalder on why the new LNG terminal is likely to shape up as a bad financial and climate decision. Examines Watts and Luxons facile talking points and takes them apart. Should be material for Hipkins but will he use it?

newsroom.co.nz

Why the new LNG terminal could raise, not lower, your power bill

Analysis: Energy Minister Simon Watts is confident importing gas will lower power prices, but questions remain about the scheme and its costs.

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psheth.bsky.social @psheth.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Come on Labour, this is such an easy target: "We put aside recovery money for landslide victims. Luxon stole it and gave it to his rich mates. Elect us and we'll bring it back"

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There is a fucking dude being professor of Lolita (basically) at Auckland University and people just think this is a normal guy? How fucking naïve is this country?

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Men, it's worth pondering that these academic men are the same ones that teach young women straight out of school. These are the men given academic authority over young women's careers. It's really challenging for young women to negotiate the minefield of creepiness these men create for them.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We had a $6B climate resilience fund and Nationals squandered it all on tax cuts for their mates so now we get boxes of KFC after weather events instead of properly funded supports and help. Yay for us I guess??

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I CANAE BREATHE!!!

Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’
Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We're down a billion in revenue, but, don't worry, agencies are spending $2.3bn less than expected on people and services, so... we're winning $1.1bn! Govt will work out one day where the money to pay taxes comes from. Govt spends money into the economy, and *then* taxes it back out again ffs.

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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions @nzctu.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

On the 7th of November the country will go to the polls. Let’s come together to get rid of this anti-worker Government and elect a new progressive government that is committed to delivering bold change for working people.

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MichNz @michnz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The amount of BS this world has to put up with because of one, small dicked asshle is astounding.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Really seems like crises are opening on many fronts.

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pollysoundsgood.bsky.social @pollysoundsgood.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This week, Helen Clark has been de facto leader of both the Labour Party, and the country IMO. How much of a waste of space is Luxon, yeesh. 🤦‍♀️

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/12/2025

There's always a Tweet.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

If you're a staffer at 60 Minutes who worked on that CECOT segment that got yanked by Bari Weiss at the last minute, figure out a way to leak it. Not saying it's an easy decision or there won't be consequences, but ask yourself why you got into journalism in the first place.

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A key reason that cutting spending into a downturn is a shit strategy is that it contributes to a tanking tax take - creating a doom loop of spending cuts and revised targets as Govt tries to hit it's operating balance target. [7/n]

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

What the 2024 and 2025 data shows is that Govts pulled around $10bn of investment in an obvious recessionary period. Even the ghouls would predict that this would cause a prolonged downturn - particularly given how high and long RBNZ held interest rates up. [6/n]

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

So… big news. (Keep reading.)

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Folks in New Zealand should pick up latest copy of Listener magazine. Peter Bale's long form journalism is excellent, and comprehensively captures pulsating far-right landscapes, and what it all risks evolving into given Govt's platforming of, & dalliance with thinly-veiled extremist ideologues.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 03/12/2025

The Paediatric Society of NZ - representing the clinical field most relevant here - have released maybe the strongest statement of all the medical bodies: “puberty blockers are an established, safe, reversible, and life-saving treatment option”

paediatrics.org.nz

PSNZ responds to government announcement on puberty blockers

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pollysoundsgood.bsky.social @pollysoundsgood.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: ~INXS (1st big concert, aged 11!) ~Patti Smith (x 3 so far, hopefully more) ~Hall & Oates (Hollywood Bowl, circa 2011. Hall was shitfaced) ~Bob Dylan (VERY disappointing live) ~ Grace Jones (also Hollywood Bowl, some time in the 2010s, amazing 🤩)

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

If Labour won't commit to restoring pay equity, it might as well rename itself to "capital" and stop pretending.

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