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Maybe the ‘90% attendance for
each student each term’ that my teen’s school is pushing comes at too high a cost? And has anyone worked out how many others get infected and have to take time off if people go to school sick?

In Cuba, relentless US pressure tells in human suffering Trump’s oil blockade has driven the island’s long-standing humanitarian crisis to a new level. Cubans are running short of coping strategies.

The US blockade on oil shipments to Cuba is collective punishment; creating a full-blown humanitarian collapse. Healthcare, food systems, electricity, and public services are deteriorating rapidly and simultaneously. It’s the elderly and children suffering. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

Health insurance up, electricity up, gas up, petrol prices hiking, a loaf of decent bread approx $4.75, eggs over $12 a dozen. Lamb legs haven’t been under $17.99 a kg for three years. A block of good cheese is $17 on SALE. Veges in season are still high: peppers 🫑 $2.79, corn 🌽 3 cobs for $5

Gee, guess those back office staff were good for something after all

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“You should all just work hard so your bosses can buy more homes and build their futures while you rent from them, but also all of your problems are because of immigrants” - genuinely the message being sold to everyone by political parties and the media.

Nicola Willis told us to jolly our way thru the bad economy before, now we're "impatient" for yearning for a time we can afford mince & butter

Man it gets up my nose considering she owns 4 properties, earns a finance minister salary of $288,900 & is directly responsible for the bad economy #NZPol

About 20% of all LNG travels through the Strait of Hormuz. This is the energy source the NZ Govt wants to use instead of expanding renewables. A new LNG import terminal would be paid for by a new tax on our electricity bills (electricity which is mostly renewable). Nuts.

4 iran analysis stories on the Stuff home page, only the one about a Kiwi family in the Gulf is not a telegraph reprint.

3 of these 4 stories are reprints from the Telegraph. Outsourcing foreign policy analysis to a paper as nakedly ideological as that - and not informing readers until the END of the analysis - is A Choice that I think reflects poorly on stuff.

Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, “Our dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.” Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.

Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased

He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life

Gentlemen - you can't disrupt global energy supply! This is the war for oil!

Companies could favour road as KiwiRail assets face decline KiwiRail has to meet budget cuts of $200 million over the next three years.

So, let me get this right
They canceled the IREX, rail-enabled ferries that were due for delivery now, and, after an elephantine gestation Winnie produced smaller, rail-enabled ferries for "sometime after I'm dead"
So transporters, actually planning their business, are shifting to road-only

I can take naps

GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .•• Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

This attack proves there is no leadership within the US Military with any morals or any respect for international law #nzpol

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏

I arrived on the shores of Aotearoa over 12 years ago. Every year there have been cuts to public research and redundancies of public researchers. I cannot overstate how dire this is and how much of our future we are losing.
Public research is one way we look after one another. It matters. #NZPOL

National party policy for the 'squeezed middle' with some surprises On the morning of 30 August 2023, the National Party (National) released its tax policy for the upcoming general election, titled ‘National’s Back Pocket Boost’. The policy contains a number of changes to the New Zealand tax system, including changes to income tax rate thresholds, relaxation of the tax rules for residential property investment and two curious new taxes targeting non-residents.

1 October 2023 - Election 2023: Nat Party release 100 day action plan if elected

National Party released most of its policies at the end of August/September 2023 - i.e weeks before the election

Yet they are desperate for Labour to

Why?

#nzpol #newzealand

FLASHBACK - Is that it? Jack Tame on seeing Nicola Willis's budget model in 2023

The National Party released most of its policies only weeks before the 2023 election, but demand Labour to release theirs now #nzpol

Not only that, their costings didn't measure up - no surprise

Story framed as solar doesn't work when it's a technical issue. This is such a bullshit and misleading headline #nzpol

Let’s do THIS

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An important thread 🧵

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CC the media in New Zealand who just keep on pretending everything is normal and platforming the people who would happily destroy them #nzpol

“Oops, sorry no defence for harming pedestrians” Letter of the Week from Saturday’s Herald notes 5 school students hit by traffic this year inc. 10-year-old who was tragically killed after exiting bus 😭 time to re-prioritise vulnerable road users #saferspeeds #carbrain #oopssorry #nzpol

Lots of banking data out today (more later). Govt net spending is still pushing on up, but bond sales are sucking a bit more money out than Govt are pumping in.

Quite frankly the "less kind" can far cough

Gangs outnumber police in New Zealand - But That's Not All Gang profits have doubled, organised crimes are strengthening their hooks, NZ has lost experienced cops & can't even recruit 500 new ones

Gang profits have doubled, international organised crime strengthening their hooks, NZ has lost experienced cops, retail crime is up and often being ignored, drug use is in full blown crisis, domestic violence at 8 year highs, and the violent crime numbers are off base

#nzpol #kiwi

More top level journalism from Stuff on Jacinda's move to Australia quoting trolls from Elon's pedo social platform #nzpol