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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon 'deeply supportive' of social media ban for under 16s The government is looking at the Australian model and other bans with a view to introducing legislation before next year's election, Christopher Luxon says.

I'm in the minority here, I know, but I don't think this move is the right thing to do about online safety (at least, as a first - and only - step).

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Reminder: National has always taken the side of Apartheid regimes.

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

Agree, that is really disappointing.

look personally i agree the earth is likely round, but we gotta meet these flat earthers where they're at ok? so our official position is now that the earth is a cube and we're working on taking a buncha rights away from people who still insist it's round. see, it's called coalition building,

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It's so important to point out that the systematic harassment (by not only other politicians, but the gallopingly obvious disproportionate media witchhunts) of brown women politicians but lack of consequences for it - is killing our democracy.

Hi new followers. Not sure what list I have might have ended up on. I won't follow for a follow, so please go away if that's why you are here. ❤️

Mānawatia a Matariki!

It's OK

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WFH 😡

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

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One thing that would dramatically improve our economics discourse? People understanding that Govt does not borrow to spend, it spends to borrow. What now?
Yes, Govt spend new money into existence when they pay nurses, doctors, builders etc. They then tax some of it back and destroy it. [🧵 1/n]

Gerard Otto speaks to the myriad of important questions left unanswered and the outrageous & dangerous incitement coming from none other than the Deputy Prime Minister of NZ! Sit the old fool down Luxon! #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #Aotearoa #nz #HateSpeech
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For people who are not yet members, there'll be a second fight at the AGM in July, where the FSU will try to roll back and changes and replace the board with their own people. In order to vote in the AGM, you need to becoming a member *now*.

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Queer people sitting and standing holding pride flags.

Beautiful day at Whangarei pride

Cost of living goes up
Number of children in poverty goes up
Unemployment goes up
Rents go up

Govt introduces Citizens Arrest powers for shoplifting etc

This govt is invested in suffering for profit.

Stats NZ now estimates that 1 in 7 children live in households where they experience material poverty – 156,000. That means households report missing out on essentials, live in cold & damp housing, because of cost. That's the highest number since 2015. For a country as wealthy as NZ that is a sin.

Time to channel Georgina Beyer confronting bigots outside the Parliament steps

Big love to our worldwide trans whānau today. Loved everyday, but acknowledging the particular fuckery going on in America today.

You are loved, you are welcome, you make the world brighter. We are lucky to have you. 🏳️‍⚧️🩵🤍🩷

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

What we should be doing rn is not entertaining fantasies where we don't need community - just because the world is letting us down. We need to talk to each other more than ever.

We need to think about what we're good at and what we have a surplus of - and fucking share and be there for each other.

So all this about "whites/young men/bigots need to be loved and told that they're just victims of capitalism" will end up DEFENDING their privilege/right to bigotry.

The way you defeat bigotry is imposing a social cost for it. And you do that by mobilising the VICTIMS, not trying to "win" the perpd

There is an underlying belief still hanging around that left-wing socioeconomic theory is "cuddly but stupid" and right-wing is "harsh but effective", when it turns out on mountains of data that left is "cuddly and effective" and right is "harsh and stupid"

We do not consider that this second category can be explicitly protected under the HRA. We believe it offers too many scenarios and options including no real way of determining whether or not an individual is even in the group... In the case of ‘non-binary or trans-identifying’ people, where confirmation of sex stereotypes is maintained (i.e. no body alteration), and gender identity is based on self-identification only, this group is unlikely to suffer discrimination in the public arena over which the HRA has jurisdiction.

Despite what they have claimed - and undoubtedly what they will claim when asked - SuFW have made it very clear in their Ia Tangata submission that they resolutely do not want trans and non-binary people in Aotearoa to be legally protected from discrimination.

A thank you to our interest rate-cutting heroes, the unemployed First we tell people they need to stop working to bring down inflation, then once they do, we tell them they’d better start working or else.

for some reason the people doing the heavy lifting on our interest rate cut, the unemployed, don't seem to be getting the appreciation they deserve thespinoff.co.nz/business/16-...

Carwyn Jones: The Treaty bill is an act of extreme bad faith | E-Tangata “It is an act of extreme bad faith for one party to a treaty to try to change the terms of that treaty without seeking the agreement from the other parties.” — Dr Carwyn Jones.

Such a good explainer. It should be given to everyone who's confused about this. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...