LIP

Almost a century since Keynes predicted the 15 hour work week. All we get from establishment media & political parties is telling us we will have to work until we die.

People with moderate ideas to actually improve workers lives (like this) are thoroughly marginalised.

taking 1 for the team by being sexist about willis in the week before the election through tears & gritted teeth

Boil notices will manifest as a series of disasters tasted through empathy with imagination that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one drinking it

house prices should go up for house owners & down for non house owners

Ok but is that good or bad? If we could see previous % increases it would mean something

1/200 S2E181 - Cuba and Venezuela — 1/200 Dr Josephine Varghese and Kieran Kelly chat about her participation at the 60th anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana Cuba, during which the US strike on Venezuela and the kidnapping ...

1200 S2E181 - Cuba and Venezuela

Dr Josephine Varghese and @krkelly.bsky.social chat about her participation at the 60th anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference in Havana Cuba, during which the US strike on Venezuela and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president happened.

People often talk about politics podcast people being alt right or problematic, meanwhile this is the top 5 in nz. All performing establishment sensible centrism in unreconstructed 2015 style.

1/200 S2E180 - 70 Million Litres of Untreated Wastewater — 1/200 The government coalition have heavily signaled their 2026 campaign approaches but this has gone mostly missed by the media. NZ infrastructure is on its last legs and there’s no overt push to bring tha...

1/200 S2E180 - 70 Million Litres of Untreated Wastewater

The coalition have heavily signaled 2026 campaign approaches

NZ infrastructure is on its last legs and there’s no overt push to bring that into a national conversation.

w/ @l11p.bsky.social @mythros.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social

you can't bloody say anything any more without the politically correct brigade cracking down & i hope the @freespedchunoin use their marketing funding to start a fund for him

guy who only reads headlines voice: imagine how bad the stats would be if erica stampfart didn't fix education last year

you didn't have to agree with her but the national party of judith collins would never have acted like the national party of today

it's anti scandi discrimination 🤌

Everyone remembers this rousing chant from 2020:

'George Floyd should have been tried in criminal court for counterfeiting, what has *happened* is illegal'

heart warming: watching conservatives letting liberals borrow the 'He Was No Angel' banners when it's international law instead of domestic

“Grok says” - you might as well be quoting a Magic 8-Ball, what the fuck is wrong with you

oh and it was a decade of offending at least, by the way...

what the FUCK does a 'good character' discount even MEAN in this scenario??

many are calling this the most inspiring & reassuring campaign launch of all time

'The thing about me is, 2 years ago when I promised things, they were lies. And the government I was in lied for years about what we would accomplish. But next time will be different' ✊ #Labour2026

Here it is!!

With significant work from one of our contributors we're soft-relaunching the 1/200 newsletter this summer

Includes a round-up of links for progressive articles AND what we hope will become a more substantive "gig guide" of upcoming protests, strikes and petitions

Please share!

Hoping that we'll soon be bringing everyone a weekly round-up of critical reporting, actions and campaigns for a progressive NZ audience

It's been a massive gap in the media ecosystem for a while, and we've talked about it for years but not had the capacity/resource to deliver

Watch this space

I don't think it's unlikely the centre right will win again. I'm just suggesting the correlation isn't very meaningful. If I were a National MP with an electorae I'd be taking my chances, but not because of that historical pattern

That's true re PM rolled, but surely the causation is more like to go the other way around.

Wow thank you Deb that is the highest compliment I can imagine 🙏

1/200 S2E174 - Te Pāti Māori Korero w/ Jack McDonald — 1/200 If you're not involved in Māori politics, there's a good chance you haven't known what to make of the conflict in Te Pāti Māori. We spoke with Jack McDonald about the history of the Party, the under...

1/200 S2E174 - Te Pāti Māori Korero

If you're not involved in Māori politics there's a good chance you haven't known what to make of the conflict in Te Pāti Māori

We spoke w/ @tautokai.bsky.social about the history, underlying issues, & paths forward

w @l11p.bsky.social @kyledchurch.bsky.social

National & New Zealand First want to take more out of workers pay every year & put it on the stock market. You can have it back if you make it to 65 as a little treat.

Don't tell me your Values, show me which portfolios you gave to Act MPs & I'll tell you your Values

1/200 S2E169 - Back to the Future Fund — 1/200 New Zealand's 2 top economists* discuss Labour's first policy announcement this term - a Future Fund! Comparisons with other funds in NZ and overseas, debate over whether detail is important and most ...

1/200 S2E169 - Back to the Future Fund

New Zealand's 2 top economists* discuss Labour's first policy announcement this term - a Future Fund! Comparisons with other funds in NZ and overseas, debate over whether detail is important and most importantly... what is it for?

w/ @l11p.bsky.social, Paul

A choice so good it didn't even cross my mind. One of the most strategic, efficient & kind operators I've met in #nzpol.

Greens are taking 2026 very seriously.

stuff article thumbnail pic: luxon spacing out while holding a microphone headline: Hipkins’ $600k house flipping attack on me is a diversion from Labour’s failures, says Luxon

oh nz media is just doing first person missives without quote marks for the National Party now. Ludicrous?!

I guess they're taking the mouthpiece role VERY seriously

The top negotiator for one side claims he doesn't know the demands of the other side.

He is explicitly admitting he is unable to do his job. He needs to be replaced.