Kaz

Do you ever just rewatch the final lineout of the Rugby World Cup 2021, played in 2022? No?

You really should. It’s one of the best moments of my life.

Just to put some things in perspective. The IOF has killed more Palestinian per month (more than 2,000 on average) since October 2023 than Hamas has killed in its entire existence (less than 2,000 total since 1987).

Mark Cuban posts: Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch marthapearce55.bsky.social replies: You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

All the celebrities* running in local elections around the country this year Invercargill is basically Madame Tussauds at this point....

All the celebrities* running in local elections around the country this year

So the PM's chief of staff, who made the decision to un-designate the Proud Boys as a terrorist group is the same guy who, along with some ACT party mates, successfully drove the Waikato students Union into voluntary-membership - & thus oblivion - in the 90s.
Leopards, spots etc.

All you need to know.

Quick video for the 'we saved too many lives, spent too much $, sent inflation to the moon, made interest rates go up, and now we have to pay for our sins 😢' crowd.
The idea that NZ could have 'opted out' of global inflation surge is daft. Almost as daft as NZ opting almost uniquely for a recession.

“He’s cooking the books to hide the collapse.”

#nzpol #NZpol 👀⬇️⬇️⬇️

Former finance minister says Nicola Willis needs to ‘face up’ to Treasury A Treasury report has pointed out that government spending is still near its peak during the pandemic. This comes after finance minister Nicola Willis said

-Treasury report has pointed out government spending is still near its peak during the pandemic.

- Nicola Willis said her government won’t repeat previous government’s mistakes.

Former finance minister Ruth Richardson - Nicola Willis needs to face up to what Treasury is telling her.’
#nzpol

We found the waste, fraud, and abuse…

Extract from Matthew Hooton's Herald opinion column about the coalition and Hobson's Pledge thinking it's"a good idea to have another argument about race"

Crikey. Agreeing with Hooton again. #NZpol

On Vaccines, Kennedy Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream

In firing immunization experts and canceling mRNA vaccine funding - including gov support for an anticipated bird flu vaccine - Kennedy is breaking sharply with REALITY, peddling LIES, further shredding public trust, and signing death warrants!

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/h...

What da F**k?

From aecnz.substack.com/p/at-the-marae

Andrew at @nzccl.org.nz did a brilliant submission on this one

I was horrified, while working at the MoE last year that in March, one of the two lifts that announced the floors in te reo Māori, no longer did it; that we were instructed in April to stop using the term akonga.
These small, deadly things is what just about sent me over the edge.

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While not excusing this arsehole for one moment, I'd venture that this abuse - and these threats - are worse, and largely unseen until someone tells us, as they did yesterday:

Christopher Bishop @jsbishop • 26m Meanwhile, anti-Semitic graffiti appears in Wellington and the Mayor says nothing. 'Solidarity and hope: Wellington forms partnershi... From nzherald.co.nz 6 274 25 In 773 个

Except that I did and have told Bishop this directly. He needs to stop spreading misinformation and delete this tweet.

Story here www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

Chart showing total number in employment from June 2010 to June 2025. Latest data indicates declining number in employment since peak in December 2023.

#nzpol

More from jobs data …

Number in employment increased nearly 120,000 in year from Jun 2022 to Jun 2023.

Since track-realignment …

Number in employment has decreased nearly 22,000 in two years from Jun 2023 to Jun 2025.

Turning corner 🤔…

Keep voting peeps! Hobsons Pledge are using this in their ads.

Yes!

“BECAUSE WE CAN” 🤔

They’re not even hiding it.
Fascism is here. 🇺🇸

Glasgow's LEZ has led to improved air quality, report finds

Air quality in Glasgow City centre has improved significantly since the Low Emission Zone was enforced, according to the latest monitoring report.

When Donald Trump needlessly deployed armed soldiers against Americans in Los Angeles, it wasn't just a disgrace — it was a massive waste of taxpayer dollars.

My office is filing a Freedom of Information Act request to uncover the true cost of Trump's political theater.

Ok team, not sure if anyone has already done this, but feel free to go vote in the Stuff poll on the name of our country. #kikorangi #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Simon Wilson: Why National’s got the country and itself into such a mess Opinion: National either knows what it's doing or it doesn't, but the outcome is the same.

Look, Simon Wilson is always good but this article is mighty! I have posted as a *Gift* link so you can slide past the paywall and read it up! #NZPol

Well, and terrifyingly, said.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?