MadSheahan

Are enough of us watching though? And what say our leaders? Hello…? 🦗🦗🦗

What do these corporations have in common?

-Amazon
-AT&T
-Home Depot
-Microsoft
-Palantir

They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine.

Always follow the money.

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???!!!!

“Visionless” “aimless” “pie in the sky” is putting it politely

And this is who the UK government want to give NHS data to?

Shane Jones’ rhetoric soars like a pigeon into a jet engine

#nzpol

“We might trade on being clean and green, but Aotearoa operates one of the most linear and wasteful economies in the developed world […] less than one percent of Aotearoa generates one of the highest per-capita waste volumes in the OECD.
700-750kg pp goes to municipal landfills each year.”

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The issue isn't whether "Melania" is a good movie or a bad one. It's that one of the richest men in America, with business interests affected by public policy, gave the President's family $75 million to make it. Like that's somehow legal.

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NZ pumps out these anti Maori Christo conservative clones like they're milk powder.. #nzpol

I insist we call Waitemata station ‘The Post Office’

Did someone say exploitative resource extraction by foreigners destroying our ecosyst-

What happened at Mauao should be central at the election Comment: The tragic loss of life should cause us to reflect on our relationship with vulnerable landscapes in a changing climate.

This is excellent from @manucaddie.bsky.social & @newsroom.co.nz

Absolutely well worth your time to read, it's evidence- & science- based, rooted in history and deep knowledge of the maunga.

newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/29/w...

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance”

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What happened at Mauao should be central at the election Comment: The tragic loss of life should cause us to reflect on our relationship with vulnerable landscapes in a changing climate.

Excellent piece by Manu Caddie on Newsroom.

Conclusion worth quoting in full

"In an election year, New Zealanders should demand more than expressions of sympathy. We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate-risk reduction, ..."

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‘Low-job, high-damage:’ Forestry not the great economic contributor it claims - report The paper’s findings have been rejected by the NZ Forestry Owner’s Association as “biased”, “incomplete” and “narrowly-framed”.

“Forestry in Tairāwhiti is a low-job, high-damage industry that survives by shifting billions of dollars of costs onto communities while exporting profits offshore. […]the current model is economically irrational, socially unjust, and environmentally catastrophic,”
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut.

My story looking at last week’s storms

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Layoffs over the last year:

UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000

Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.

Oh won't somebody please think of the memes ! #nzpol

Giving this portfolio to BVV/ACT was a choice made by CLuxon with entirely predictable results. How careless is he with matters he’s less passionate about?

elon musk posts “Whites are a rapidly dying minority” while quote tweeting tucker carlson

i continue to ask what people are still doing on the fascist white supremacy platform that generates child pornography

Once again, I ask, in good faith & without trying to be overly alarmist, what anyone has seen in the last year to make them believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any traditional meaning of the words?

Councillor refuses to attend meeting because it’s at a marae Steve Gibson said the venue had changed “at the eleventh hour” from a “neutral civic venue to a marae”.

Purist capitalist ideologues can’t deal with karakia cos they can’t see themselves as a part of something bigger, ie the natural world & human continuum. They talk secularism but this view proves they’re stuck in standard religion. Also grifting is too ick for marae
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

it's totally fine that this Netflix-grade sociopath is in charge of delivering nutrition to our most vulnerable kids at a crucial stage of their development

"Economise on the volume you eat" what fresh Marie Antoinette hell is this

Coming soon to AoNZ if Simeon & co have their way. Universal healthcare funded through tax costs taxpayers less than any semi or full privatised alternative. Fact.

And I presume the PM is backing Todd McLay's support of the mutinational forestry companies who caused the latest round of slash and sediment, and told that to everyone he met on his fly in/fly out visit

#nzpol

Sorry, but it had become a ridiculous country before Minnesota. What a clusterfucking tragedy.