ClareK@AucklandIsland

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"National MP Carl Bates owns 25 properties, which he did not disclose on the MP register. Many of the properties are rentals in Whanganui, making Bates’ family one of the biggest private landlords in his electorate."

Peak National Party #nzpol #kiwi

When you see David Seymour hand-wringing about political violence today, don't forget he called an opposition MP "a menace to freedom" and she received so many threats afterwards that she was provided with an extra security detail

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Bullying of candidates by pressure group alleged Dunedin City Council candidates say they have received a barrage of emails using "bullying and intimidation tactics", urging them to sign a New...

Council candidates say they've received a barrage of "bullying and intimidation tactics" from Taxpayers Union to sign their "pledge". One new candidate was emailed 17 times, "with an increasingly urgent tone and unsubstantiated claims that the majority of voters are in support". #nzpol #kiwi #atlas

Stuart Nash on Checkpoint sez Nz First is pro worker, and Labour has abandoned workers?

The same Nz First that *checks notes* voted with the Nats and Act to *rechecks notes* scrap 33 equal pay agreements?

Righto Mr Nash, please do carry on.

#hypocrisy

#FailedFormerMps

Wow! Didn't realise it was that bad.
Tautoko ,TPM.

Winston Peters performs again for the anti-woke & anti-vaxx brigades Peters opens re-election campaign with new appeal to anti-'woke' voters, saying migrants should sign 'Kiwi values' flag-saluting statement; Anti-vaxx parties' 30k votes lifted NZ First over 5% in 2023

FYI today’s Pick n’ Mixes & Dawn Chorus. A closer look at Winston Peters re-launching his re-election campaign with appeals to anti-'woke' voters. Anti-vaxx parties' collated the extra 30k votes that lifted NZ First over 5% in 2023. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/winston-pe...

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Stop the Government taking away Outdoor Education Outdoor Education gives young people opportunities they can’t always get in a classroom. It builds resilience, confidence, leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills. It keeps students engaged i...

This is such a dumb idea/false economy - please consider signing: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ke...

Bending the knee so far, they're kneeling. Grovelling even...

I’m hyperventilating. Our country could actually be this iconic if useless white men weren’t running it.

RFK Jr.’s enemies list just got a lot longer First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

Kennedy has fired thousands of HHS workers, boosted unproven treatments for measles while undermining vaccines, backed Medicaid cuts, fired former CDC Director Susan Monarez...

It's going to be SO funny if Luxon gets kicked for this given it's predominantly the work of Willis, Bishop and Brown absolutely slaughtering the economy and public services at the behest of extremist corporate lobbyists like NZI who have managed to directly insert their people into roles

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Senior doctors' union refuses arbitration, accuses Health Minister of illegally interfering in bargaining process The Health Minister gave the union and Health NZ until 4pm today to respond to his urgent request for arbitration.

"The Minister's actions are highly unusual and a direct intervention in bargaining, which is unlawful."

#nzpol

Didn't this literally happen to both NZME and Stuff??

Inquiry launched into phone ‘planted in Commons to play sex noises’ at PMQs Met police say they believe device found near frontbench was put there on purpose to disrupt house business

Meanwhile, everything is completely normal in England.

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It's 2025. Twenty-fucking-twenty-five y'all. There is no excuse for treating women like this.

If we can't even treat cis het women right, what hope do we have for treating anyone LGBTQIA+ right?

I heard your voice once
It rang inside my body
How could they kill you

#poetry #writingcommunity
##FreePalestine

#2WordPrompt
#prompt #writingcommunity
When does it end
The reign of Greed?
Only when we learn that the
End of the rat race
Is to just have enough.

The 2008 financial crisis started a massive transfer of wealth from the middle classes to the rich, which has been accelerating for 17 years since.

This is why the economy never recovered. And why ordinary people are getting poorer and poorer.

I made my money betting on this.

A freshly opened packet of gluten free Griffin's Gingernuts with all but one of the biscuits broken. And that sole unbroken biscuit broke as soon as I picked it up. 🤦‍♂️

<SIGH>

Interesting....
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Pinch Point: Working poor forced to live in cars "Sadly nowadays if you have got a car, it is more shelter than some have got".

This is obscene.
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Women's Day of Action: Rise up for Pay Equity Join us in building a better world

Be there or be square
www.together.org.nz/women_s_day_...?

"If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking." ~Andrea Junker