Update: Bishop has messaged me to advise he has deleted the tweet. #nzpol
07.08.2025 03:52 β π 62 π 2 π¬ 9 π 0@cindybax.bsky.social
π«π΅πΈ π³οΈββ§οΈ. Campaigning on climate, coal, seabed mining. Views very much my own. Aotearoa NZ; mother of doggo Pearl www.kasm.org.nz
Update: Bishop has messaged me to advise he has deleted the tweet. #nzpol
07.08.2025 03:52 β π 62 π 2 π¬ 9 π 0Apparently Jordan Williams from the "Campaign Company" purchased the Shutterstock image used for racist Hobsonβs Pledge Billboard.
William's Campaign Company organizes media for clients including Taxpayersβ Union NZ and Hobsonβs Pledge.
#NZpol
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he really nailed it didn't he.
Maybe Shane's getting cheers from his own supporters for his arrogance, but I can't see how this strategy is going to work for him in the long term, politically.
and very nicely done too
06.08.2025 23:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0screenshot of an opinion piece by Aaron Smale in The Listener that excoriates Jones for his fumbled dealings with MΔori, and his efforts to bundle all Ngapuhi hapu into a single negotiation will do as badly as everything else he's done.
"The way Shane Jones talks you'd think NZ First got 60%"
06.08.2025 23:00 β π 34 π 13 π¬ 4 π 0If fishers and farmers donβt want to be demonised, they should just stop doing stuff that plunders and destroys the natural environment and the climate. #nzpol
06.08.2025 00:16 β π 50 π 15 π¬ 2 π 0exactly. just not taken seriously
05.08.2025 23:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did you hear the RNZ interview with the blind woman who can't see a screen to access the WINZ site and whose entire support system was stopped b/c they decided to round her payment up by 1 cent instead of down by 1 cent? She sounded so calm. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
05.08.2025 23:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The joy of the 16:8 diet is that pigging out at breakfast (not til after 10 am) is not only allowed, it's encouraged. This morning I recreated Best Ugly's "White rabbit" with cream cheese, tomatoes and fresh basil on sourdough, slathered with Al Brown's divine lemon & fennel infused olive oil.
05.08.2025 23:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0what I hate is not only Luxon's mantra blaming Labour for leaving them an economy in a mess - but equally as bad is the media's refusal to call him out on it.
05.08.2025 23:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0and of course more people are poorer so there are more desperate people attempting to shoplift
04.08.2025 23:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On today's dogwalk I fantasised abt what I'd have 4 bfast.
Settled on sourdough cheese toastie, w bacon, cheese & feijoa chutney & fresh avo spread on the top (post-toasting); salad on the side; a smoothie (banana, berries, mango, yoghurt, spinach) a flat white.
No photo ate too fast
#kikorangi
Why post a 2 month old article?
04.08.2025 21:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly
04.08.2025 06:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What's so worrying is this:
"While no charges were laid during his lifetime, the cumulative evidence - had it been available and considered together - could have supported prosecution"
I wonder how many other cases like this were rejected on an individual level
#nzpol
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Probs fired the experts
04.08.2025 00:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My new oneβs due next year shld still be the Aotearoa first at that point
04.08.2025 00:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These guys have a plan for Methanex. Stop subsidising it!
350.org.nz/files/2024/1...
Aaaand, sheβs back! Great piece nice work π
Gotta somehow sort out Methanex.
I havenβt looked: what does official advice say? Are they ignoring it, again?
03.08.2025 21:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0People objecting to rates rises can thank this govt for disappearing 3 waters
03.08.2025 21:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks for making the sacrifice. I just couldnβt this morning, preferring silence.
03.08.2025 20:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"No, no you don't understand. We're starving seriously ill children to death. So those photos you see of children starving to death? They're actually photos of disabled or chronically ill children starving to death. Check. Mate."
There's no possible argument for what we've been witnessing. None.
oh god
03.08.2025 19:20 β π 272 π 64 π¬ 13 π 1And then theyβll tighten the rules to make it more difficult to get
03.08.2025 20:29 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Had to turn off radio. Canβt think of a worse way to start the week
03.08.2025 20:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If the CoC votes along party lines this is a done deal, right? Itβs not like Judith Collins is going to cross the floorβ¦ π€·π»ββοΈ
02.08.2025 23:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Exactly
02.08.2025 23:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I honestly donβt think they care.
02.08.2025 21:24 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I find myself agreeing with herπ€£
02.08.2025 21:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0