Dr Bex

Climate resilience $0
Water infrastructure $0
Cutting loads of jobs $18278399
Cancelling projects $29287473

Someone who's good at economy help me it's very sick

#nzpol New unemployment data from Stats NZ today, showing the impact of an economy that isn't working. An additional 5,000 people became unemployed during the quarter, rising to levels last seen in 2015. 164,000 people are now unemployed, up 39,000 in just 2 years. A🧵

Right-wing media figures are furious at activists for using whistles during ICE activity Right-wing media figures are lashing out at community members in Minnesota for using whistles to alert others of federal immigration enforcement in the area, asserting that whistles should be “conside...

These guys two months ago: ha ha I hope there's a civil war we'll make those LIBERAL BITCHES cry for mercy

These guys now: waaaaaa they're using whistles it's not FAIR waaaaa

(You can get free community safety whistles, quantity 100 to 1000, from here:

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)

exactly. this is not difficult.

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"The PM finally started talking about the weather on the morning six people were buried under a landslide. Perhaps he could now talk honestly about the climate."

Refer to when Luxon actually once did.

"There is no room for climate deniers or climate MINIMALISTS in the twenty first century"
#nzpol

Government rejects plan to prevent landslides and save hundreds of millions in Gisborne Plan pitched as a model for other regions too.

97% of central govt expenditure was on responding to and recovering from natural disasters, only 3% spent on risk reduction and resilience.

Yet…“the Government cannot commit to providing financial support for the business case at this stage”.

#nzpol

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Here's What's at Stake for Babies, Young Children and Families Major changes to the early childhood sector increase risk to children. 📌Here's the latest update - it's quick to read and easy to share.

David Seymour is squeamish about kids in ECEs being safe if it impacts provider profits in anyway at all. #nzpol

Seymour’s “changes risk weakening safety, lowering quality, and reducing accountability across early childhood services.” www.myece.org.nz/proposed-lic...

Step 1: deliberately scare people with misinformation and lies about what a proposed policy or plan will do. Step2: wait for misinformed people to complain. Step 3: say that “clearly people are concerned,“ so we should “listen to the people“ and reject the plan. The Populist Playbook

Step 4: mainstream media “reports the controversy” rather than the fact it was manufactured, and the amplify the quotes of those who manufactured it.. Step5: other elected leaders who know the truth, still vote against the good plan or policy, because they’re too afraid of the “heat.“

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?”

A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages.

It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning.

Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

Do the steps sound familiar?

This is painfully, wearyingly familiar.

Remember Willis has wiped $28.8b off GDP since 2023
That is all you need to know

These men have fucked our economy, fucked our environment, fucked our welfare systems, fucked our education systems, fucked the climate, and fucked our kids.

I hate them.

The Right's Greatest Fear Is an Organized Left What's happening in Minneapolis is deep democratic participation, and the right says it can't be real.

The Right's Greatest Fear Is an Organized Left
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We might actually get decent social services. Functioning ministries. Proper climate policies. Environmentally decent decisions. Fair and equitable pay for workers. Oh the horror 😱

YouTube video by Mountain Tui Labour & Green Leaders: "Coming together as a country is important"

Good to see some get the memo: "We are stronger together as a country" - Green Party & Labour leaders #nzpol #kiwi

Having girl dinner tonight only its a selection of the kids school lunch snacks accompanied by a large glass of a very average white wine.

This…

In my experience politicians who say it’s complex don’t want to even try and do the right thing. They’re hoping you don’t realise political will could get it across the line #nzpol

This guy is a Fellow of RSNZ and received their prestigious Rutherford Medal in 2020 (worth $100K) for "preeminent research, scholarship or innovation".

This is what "merit-based" appointments serve up. Absolutely shameful. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a bad interview.

The novel "Lolita" is a really valuable cultural artefact because within one sentence of anyone talking about it you can tell if their hard drive needs to be impounded

According to Tama Potaka and Ryan Hamilton, both speaking at the Stack the Station rally, the Te Huia train will get a 12 month extension! Would love to have that confirmed by someone in the National Party who has any actual say over that.

My skin crawled reading it *shudders*

The editor of Newsrooms literary section is Steve Braunias who many folks will recognize as

Fifteen ways Luxon is increasing climate pollution (and the one way he says he is making it better but is not) - Greenpeace Aotearoa After the deadly storms, made worse by climate change, the Luxon Govt has tried to claim that it takes climate change seriously. But here are 15 pollution policies that speak louder than words.

After all the climate-amplified deadly weather, the Luxon Govt claimed it is taking action on climate change. But is it action to make it worse by increasing emissions? Here is the evidence: www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

From: Brian Boyd <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz> To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:25:35 +0000 Hi Jeffrey, No, nothing looming: I'm hunkering down to do the Popper biography, which will require another trip to Europe (although the bulk of the research travel I did some time ago) but not for quite some time. You suggested a while back we should work out the details of the money transfer. Can we go back over things, first? When you asked me how long I would need to write the book on Lolita that's the top of my wish list, I said a year. You asked me how much money would that take. Being naturally antigrabbity, I said $50K, thinking not that that's a year's salary (you assumed from that that I was maybe still an associate professor) but that that's the 25% of my salary that the Faculty of Arts pays (the rest comes from the University center) and that covers my teaching courses (I have a reduced teaching load in any case). You promptly said that's not enough and counterproposed $75K. But the more I think about it, the more I realize how much else other than the undergraduate teaching encroaches on my time: the admin (not bad at all for someone at my level, but still an interference), the supervision of PhD and sometimes other graduate students. To do the book in a year I'd really need to take a full year of unpaid leave and be free of all university obligations here. So that's just for you to reflect on; I'm very appreciative of what you've already offered, and that should indeed allow me to buy out of all my undergraduate teaching. Anyway, whatever you decide, here are my bank details: Bank: Bank of New Zealand Branch: Auckland Store, 80 Queen Street, Auckland 1010

Uhhhhhh #nzpol

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

What the world can learn from Paris’s cycling revolution The Paris cycling change did not happen by accident. It was driven by political will, strategic use of data, and a willingness to rethink street space.

“Paris, long known for traffic jams and crowded boulevards, has rapidly transformed into a city defined by bikes. In just five years, cycling’s modal share in the French capital has more than doubled, rising from 5% to 11%…This surge didn’t happen by accident…” via @momentummag.bsky.social

Exactly. We are meant to be horrified and aghast at Humberts actions and casual disregard for both his wife (who he repeatedly drugs, causing blackouts) and his stepdaughter (who he abducts, drugs, and rapes). He is not someone to aspire to ffs!!

Wherein a journo actively channels the unreliable narrator pedophile from Lolita, confuses the author (Nabakov) with their fictional character (Humbert), perves on a SCHOOL CHILD riding a public bus, and Newsroom just....publishes it???!!!!

WHY ARE JOURNOS ACTIVELY OGLING SCHOOL CHILDREN?? Worse, why is newsroom publishing this wannabe Humbert pedo guff?!

MEN. MEN. WHAT ARE YOU DOING