Patsy Wakefield

There is a reason our fundy PM appointed another fundy as the Minister of Health and it is because they share the same beliefs on many issues, including abortion #nzpol

more innovation lol. less costs lol. like getting rid of the requirement for treated timber to be used in house framing, that sort of innovation/ cost saving. that went well didn't it. ( actual cost of H1 treatment at the time was $70 a cu/m). your builder would have spent more on biscuits at smoko.

Peters promises to repeal two-day old Regulatory Standards Act "We will campaign at the next election to repeal it," says NZ First leader.

Then WTAF did you vote for it days ago? Waste of money, time and resources. Winston doesn’t deserve to be back. #nzpol

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... ‘We’ll get rid of it’: NZ First leader Winston Peters promises to repeal two-day-old Regulatory Standards Act

"Please sign my petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide"-ass government

LAW dork = I am certain that someone thought this was particularly witty when they came up with the name, but it's honestly one of the more offensive possibilities these hateful authoritarians could have used. Even on its face, using the name of a beloved children's book as the name of your anti-immigrant, mass-arrest operation is appalling. But, to use a book authored by E.B. White as your name is an offense to history. White was a leading voice for American democracy and freedom and against fascism and tyranny. Abusing his life's work like this cannot stand without a response.

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it.

Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

The biggest mistake the McSkimming complainant made was not labelling her warning emails to PM as

'URGENT - Waiheke Rates Relief'

#nzpol

a man in a police uniform has a lanyard around his neck that reads police ALT: a man in a police uniform has a lanyard around his neck that reads police

Are we going to buy that all the gov ministers sent Mcskimming warning emails didn't get through / deleted by sleeper police agents or in Luxon's case forwarded back to the police... #nzpol

Media. Yes

Worst NACT act of the week ? Passing the Regulatory Stds Bill into law despite 99% of 156,000 submissions opposed to a bill spearheaded by a party with just 8.64% of the people’s vote. This is not democracy and it really saddens me.

#nzpol

A judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop to view evidence in jail. He still hasn't gotten it Months after a judge said Luigi Mangione could have a laptop in jail to review evidence, lawyers for the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson say the device has yet to be deliver...

In August, a judge ruled that Luigi Mangione could have a laptop to view evidence while in jail. He still hasn’t gotten one.

Maybe he should ask Ghislaine Maxwell if he can borrow hers. She's had no trouble getting one. And she’s convicted of her crime, not just accused.
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I was a faculty member at IU in 2016, and after the election that year, I had to change the way I taught my 200+ student Intro Sociology class, because a handful of students started flooding the class whiteboard app by posting "MAGA" over and over again.

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The stunning thing all this year was how Republicans were sticking with Trump through everything. This is the first poll I've seen where he's started to lose some of their support.

Never forget that this is this logical direction David Seymour and his ilk really want to get to.
#nzpol

Yep. It's disgusting

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

I approve this f-ing message, eh?

Can you get into your bsky account?

'Calm down' - Auckland Central MP Chlöe Swarbrick on coalition's homeless plan The Auckland Central MP says moving rough sleepers out of the city centre will only shift the problem to another place.

Thousands of people are homeless in this country thanks to Chris Bishop and his cronies.
As Chlöe says "They have intentionally chosen to make more people homeless" and now they want to push homeless people into places they can't be seen by the wealthy #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

I’ve been over on FB, in a couple of NZ education sites. I’ve been heartened to find that school boards are finding ways around Stanford’s hijacking of our education system 🙌 #nzedu #nzpol

They’re calling big races in 20-30 minutes tonight. Republicans that failed to distance themselves from Trump are going down in flames.

Will “smart” Republicans figure out it’s time to cut Trump loose?

That's lovely

💔

YouTube video by Gmph10 John Farnham & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Your the voice

This is Australia's legend, John Farnham, performing with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This song is perfect for right now. "You're the Voice". Its one of my favourite live performances of all time. It will uplift your spirit. There's a reason we called him "The Voice" 💙
youtu.be/6m2m_9Uijso?...

JD Vance obvs just pissing off Usha so he can sleep with the couch

'Battle lines drawn': Group behind attempted charter school takeover A trust behind a plan to change a public school to a charter school against its will says it is facing abuse.

A hostile takeover attempt against a fucking public school is insane looking-glass-world crap dystopia shit

Anyone who warned about this sort of carryon before the election would have been mocked, but here the fuck we are

www.1news.co.nz/2025/10/30/b...

A new school built on ‘western civilisation’ is coming to Wellington The former Free Speech union boss says he’s excited to have a school that could “remember the virtue of civilisation that has come from the West”.

I assumed that whole "men think about the Roman Empire every day" kerfuffle a few years ago was just more social media nonsense but apparently some men literally will start a charter school rather than confront just how weird it is to do that ...

Property investors get tax cut from National. Yes please single us out

Property investors to pay Labour's C.G.T. Waily waily waily, we are being singled out
#NZPol