Brad Crone

This is the most outrageous cognitive dissonance I ever heard.

By my count Labour won 50 of the 68 (74%) local government races they contested. They should be very happy happy with this result - and hopefully it encourages more local government efforts in the future. #nzpol

Not only is this rude, inappropriate, partisan, costly, and illegal, it reveals the fundamentally anti-American idiocy of this administration’s policy of handing over to China the most important economic sector of the 21st century.

a person is laying on the ground in a dark room with a window . Alt: Indiana Jones escapes by rolling under a heavy stone door, rapidly closing guillotine-style … and manages to reach back in and snatch his hat at the last second.

With polls now officially closed on this local election day…

✊ Kudos to everyone who managed to get your votes in under the wire

🤞And best of luck to all candidates, currently keeping your cool (and holding onto your hats) while we wait for the counts to come in

Democracy ftw, hopefully! #nzpol

You could argue that the next council has no mandate to govern if this is the turnout.

Isochrone map showing area within 45-minute e-bike trip to city centre Auckland.

E-bikes as rapid transit. There is a sweet spot, 8-14km from the city centre, where gaps in the mass rapid transit network and slow buses can be filled by e-bikes. Map = 45 minute e-bike travel time.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Renewables overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity this year, a think tank analysis shows.

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some quotes from New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon:

• “The world doesn’t owe you a living”
• “I'm wealthy, I'm ‒ you know ‒ sorted.”
• “just make a marmite sandwich”
• “I don’t care.” (said multiple times since becoming PM)

Guy is a stone cold psycho.

"The world doesn't owe you a living"

If the world doesn't owe me a living, then I don't owe my boss any labour.

If the world doesn't owe me a living, then the market doesn't owe you a profit.

If the world doesn't owe us a living, then we don't owe the leaders of it any respect.

#nzpol

What strange gifts.

Shameful, we on the wrong side of history here.

We aren't going to recognise Palestine because Israel has invaded it and so Palestine doesn't control its own territory ...

#nzpol

Do we have to do this all the time?

beehive.govt.nz/release/20-mil…

It’s not new funding. “the initiative will be funded from Health New Zealand’s baseline”. So it’s actually being cut from somewhere else.

We already underfunded the health system at the Budget. This is a further cut

Stage 1 of my new painting.

"A republic, if you can keep it"

-- Benjamin Franklin

Grumpy Facebook rant ahoy. 🩷

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"

So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

What I Read this Week Chinese engineers vs American lawyers; the decimation of the US middle class; and the failure of carbon capture and storage.

"The US became a lawyerly society because it became a monopoly capitalist society – not the other way around (as people like Klein and Wang might argue).

The inefficiency and corruption evident in US society flows from the structure of the capitalist economy."
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

Excellent piece calling bullshit on the story that NZ can and should transform our economy in the same ways that Ireland and Singapore shifted theirs.

Artist’s impression of the new Tūhono train for the lower North Island to be manufactured by Alstom.

The new trains, named Tūhono for their role in connecting and uniting people in the lower North Island, will be the first battery electric trains in the Southern Hemisphere. Alstom will also support local jobs and local business and help develop capacity for NZ’s rail industry. 3/

The candidate for the last century:

Amazon to Invest $4.4 Billion in New Zealand Data Centers Amazon has formally launched cloud services in New Zealand and dusted off a plan first announced in 2021 to invest more than NZ$7.5 billion ($4.4 billion) in data centers in the South Pacific nation.

Funny to see New Zealand’s prime minister try to take credit for a plan announced four years ago then delayed by Amazon.

I find it hard to believe Amazon’s figures, but even more than that it’s wild to see the fanfare over greater dependence on US cloud firms in light of Trump and the CLOUD Act.

How desperate.

Police recently disrupted a firearms diversion ring, which included a dealer. The arrests were based on pre-registry information. Luckily the registry makes these investigations much easier. The seized weapons include many duplicates: a surefire sign of diversion.
www.police.govt.nz/news/release...

Screenshot from NZ Herald app - featured article is headlined “Council has a gun to ifs head”: local leaders urge oressure on Govt at Akl housing protest meeting, over photo of Paul Goldsmith speaking into microphone and behind him Ōrakei Local Board member Troy Churton pretends to shoot him with his fingers.

It’s not ok to point your fingers at someone speaking at a public meeting and pretend to shoot them, and I don’t understand why media aren’t talking about this when they literally have photos.

About roughly 2 years. As someone who lives nearby to it.

'Council has a gun to its head': Local leaders urge pressure on Govt at Akl housing protest meeting Nearly 600 Mt Eden and Kingsland properties are set to lose Special Character status.

Time to get going starting with Mt Eden. Time Auckland grew up and the Herald to get with the picture.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

C&R’s big transport policy this election is to reverse the Dominion Road bus lane time extension.

Folks, you could’ve had Light Rail down that road but National’s local govt grouping won’t even let you have bus priority at peak times.

10,000 people bus through there each day!