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It's like she's doing Pokemon Go but with Nazi war criminals.

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Government lowers methane target, rules out methane taxes The government is lowering its biogenic methane target for the next 25 years and is ruling out agricultural taxes on methane emissions.

Can’t wait to see the regulatory impact statement that outlines the impact of this decision on everyone who isn’t a farmer

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The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like:
"We need to make people work for more years"
"We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way"
"We have to cut benefits for young people"

never:
"We need to tax the rich"

19-year-old charged after sending death threats to Green MP who since resigned Detective Inspector Warren Olsson said the nature and volume of the threats met the threshold for investigation and subsequent prosecution.

Thought so. I shall wait for all of the social media posts from various political actors clearly condemning this political violence and unacceptable behaviour against Parliament's first nonbinary MP.

#nzpol

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Hundreds of teens with a health condition, disability may be cut from Jobseeker benefit The government is ending Jobseeker payments to 18- and 19 year olds whose parents earn more than $65,000.

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Downplaying an act of violence might have been the appropriate response from him, and might not be the appropriate in our current moment - I don't know - but the complete refusal to make political hay out of it is night and day from the current Government.

Compare and contrast: A statement from an NZ First spokesman 6 months ago about the actions of a party member and supporter, and a statement today from that same party’s leader.

Winston Peters strolled around and anti-vax picnic and spoke with people who had chanted and written threats of hanging on gallows of Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield and so on, but this was all OK as it was just harmless opportunistic politicking #NZPol

Worth noting that we only see decent job growth for young kiwis when the economy is running hot - that's when employers give less experienced people a chance.
RBNZ respond to hotness by hiking interest rates to slow the economy down. Youth unemployment is a feature of our economic model, not a bug.

You can't fit thousands of job seekers into tens of jobs.
And while Luxon might call himself sorted, the country isn't, even if he doesn't want to do anything about it.

this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol

Luxon says we're friends with both Israel and Palestine

We watch a people go through an attempted genocide, and we sit back and say you are no people. You have no state.

For you see, we are friends with both you and your murderer.

Perfect example of the Freeze Peach Warrior ethos.

'In the spirit of free speech [I don't think academics with your opinion should be part of a university]'

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

When you see David Seymour hand-wringing about political violence today, don't forget he called an opposition MP "a menace to freedom" and she received so many threats afterwards that she was provided with an extra security detail

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The Government just administered an inflation shock RBNZ highlights scale of hikes in Government fees & charges and council rates rises in latest bout of inflation. Voters have noticed and now see Labour as a better manager of inflation.

The Government just administered an inflation shock. Now, the RBNZ has highlighted the scale of hikes in fees & charges and council rates rises in the latest bout of inflation. Voters have noticed too, and now see Labour as a better manager of inflation. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/the-govern...

You could safely bet that the people screaming and making death threats against councillors are the same people who furiously opposed Three Waters. They're stuck with the bad solution they loudly demanded. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571...

US revokes visas of Palestinian president and other officials ahead of UN General Assembly Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked the visas of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and 80 other officials ahead of next month’s annual high-level meeting of the U.N.

The Trump Administration joined the Netanyahu regime in support of Hamas by undermining their moderate rivals and unlawfully preventing officials of the PA from attending the UN meeting in NY. apnews.com/article/isra...

Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton, and some other government officials in the Situation Room.

It remains a disgrace that New Zealand police have no in-car or body-worn cameras.

There are absolutely privacy and operational issues to consider, but those aren't novel and can absolutely be addressed with legislation, technology and policy.

Put cameras on cops!

As predicted ... here is the NZBORA s7 report on the Government's Electoral Amendment Bill, in which the removal of same-day enrolment and voting for the entire advance voting period is declared to be an unjustifiable limit on the right to vote.

Turns out you can have it all. So long as you’re prepared to be a c... to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet. https://www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360681822/girl-math-budget-will-cut-deep-especially-women

Goodness gracious Andrea Vance #nzpol

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

The cherry-picker behind the Benjamin Doyle hit is crying because a newspaper “picked out” his own “saltiest” (ie: most vile and abusive) tweets. Incredible.

The bike stick meme, but a bunch of cyclist cause their own accidents and blame Jeffrey Goldberg

I hadn't seen anyone doing this meme yet, so thought I would make it.

I keep thinking about how "journalistic objectivity" is something that is unsuited for now. News organisations need to be more willing to provide clarity and judgement in reporting.

Right-wing media has been doing it for years, while the others play a "everyone is reasonable" game.

United Healthcare had $6.06 billion in net income in the last quarter and American healthcare remains in an entirely different class from OECD countries, far more expensive both in per capital costs and in direct costs to patients, with far less coverage.

But sure, "positive effect."

People within the Ministry of Education expressed in writing their unease with the actions of the MAG led by Michael Johnstone and the writing group led by Elizabeth Rata.