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so where are all of the people who thought that newsom’s feelings on this issue went no further than what they offensively and dangerously consider the ‘minor’ issue of trans athletes, now that he doesn’t even want kids being educated on the fact that trans people exist?

Shame on cops, shame on aerospace!! Please spread the word 🕊️
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A bill that basically allows teachers to acknowledge that trans people exist is too spicy for this nazi fluffer

Ka pai e te whānau - amazing mahi at our first day of picketing the National Aerospace Summit!

We’re looking forward to seeing you all again bright and early tomorrow - ready to shut down the business of war in our City of Peace!

Come to Te Pae from 8am onward to blockade the summit

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To whom this concerns. I wish to voice my concern & raise a formal complaint against the words of Ryan Bridge in his interview with Chloe Swarbrick in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGeLOArDRQY Dated 7 October 2025, in particular to the 1:10second period where he states 'this is a chick who went out..! The absolute misogynist characterisation of a woman in the news as a member of the animal kingdom is unbecoming of anyone who wishes to be considered a journalist. Language like that in our public political discourse went out a long time ago. There will be some who say 'it's his job to be provocative, I reject that assertion 100%, given the agressive derogatory nature of the term 'chick'. I would expect nothing less than an apology for his words, they are disgusting in 2025. Also could NZ Herald show some leadership & turn off the comments on these highly emotional subjects. The absolute torrent of abuse and hate directed at the leader of the Greens & the Green Party itself is unconscionable, and with NZ Herald leaving them up suggests NZ Herald condones these anonymous cowardly comments. Yours

Fuck Ryan Bridge, fuck NZ Herald.

formalcomplaints@nzherald.co.nz

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

It was political violence when Peters almost singlehandedly created so many persistent death threats it forced a takatāpui MP out of office. It’s political violence that rangatahi in Waitaha are now nearly a year without access to essential and time-critical healthcare bc of the actions of this govt

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Today marks 30 years since The Pharcyde released their certified classic track "Runnin".

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text from nz herald article "But although Peters condemned the attack on his house as a “disgrace”, he was quite happy to taunt Swarbrick as “crowbar Chlöe”. Shane Jones, vocal even by his standards in defence of his leader, freely bellowed: “Where’s the crowbar?” Either it’s a serious attack that threatened a politician’s family and crossed a line, or it’s something to tease your political opponent with. It shouldn’t be both."

Important point by Pearse in the Herald here - identifying that NZF et al don't REALLY care about what happened except as something to be weaponised. Would be great if a few more in the media/pol class were able to reflect on this BEFORE they spent the last 2 days escalating in their own right

After my interview with Bridge about women’s sport I heard from a LOT of women who’d had similar experiences. Many of them had complained. NZME are well aware Bridge is a raging misogynist and are happy to let him continue.

Why all the sudden noise about protests outside homes?

They want the Summary Offences Amendment Bill to pass, which risks criminalising legitimate protest, is vague/unnecessary, gives wide Police discretion, allows arrest without warning, and could chill free expression.

Wonder why they want that.

Part of a tweet by Winston Peters on 06/10/25: Those individuals in that flotilla knew, as well as you did, that it was all about ‘headline hunting’. They knew what they were doing and what was going to happen but they did it anyway. Shame on them and shame on you. You shout out “bring them home bring them home” outside my front door when they were told not to go in the first place. Now we have to spend all of our time and taxpayer money to solve their self righteous self inflicted petulant problems.

Would be good if NZ media spent less time focusing on some rando who broke a window and more time on the fact that NZ's foreign miniser abandoned NZers on the flotilla and gave tacit approval for the Israeli govt to treat them brutally.
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Someone is charged with burglary by Police for a broken window, and another has their means of living targeted. Meanwhile, Winston can send NZ forces to help kill people in Yemen & pass laws that ruin people's lives & devastate the land, yet he gets to live the high life free from consequence
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Worth remembering:

The coalition have destroyed more in value in lives and livelihoods than a single $50 window.

Yet the media (of course) willingly concentrate on the broken window, rather than the broken country.

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There is *literally* only one side inciting & escalating political violence & almost all NZ msm are claiming it's the other way around

This is the fascist turn happening in real time. Sorry to break it to you - a bunch of propagandists & decision makers across media & business have chosen sides

The way media and business have IMMEDIATELY escalated and wrapped around to attack activists smacks of the same tacit coordination that we saw in the US when the far right weaponised Charlie Kirk’s death. This is being led by government ministers & is a massive attack on free speech & protest rights

Part of a tweet by Winston on 06/10/25: Those individuals in that flotilla knew, as well as you did, that it was all about ‘headline hunting’. They knew what they were doing and what was going to happen but they did it anyway. Shame on them and shame on you. You shout out “bring them home bring them home” outside my front door when they were told not to go in the first place. Now we have to spend all of our time and taxpayer money to solve their self righteous self inflicted petulant problems.

And Winston's job is to try and safeguard the NZers who were part of the flotilla, but instead he gave tacit approval for the Israeli govt to treat them brutally. All of this makes it hard for me to sympathise with him.

For me, I fail to see how breaking a solitary window compares with the levels of harm and abuse that Winston and the NZ govt have enacted and supported here and around the world. Yet the person being charged is the window breaker, while politicians with body counts walk free.

Winston's govt has sent NZ forces to help bomb Yemen. He has celebrated working alongside Rubio (who proudly enabled the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans), but I don’t see WP condemning him.

Someone is getting charged with burglary for that broken window. Meanwhile Winston has helped carry out & support levels of violence, abuse & bigotry that dwarf that to a massive degree, resulting in many broken lives, yet Winston is free to continue his actions. I think that's profoundly unjust.

Consider also, the endless level of abuse directed by Winston toward migrants, and transgender and non-binary New Zealanders.

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers The Prime Minister is urging young people to look for work in the sector amid changes to the Jobseeker benefit.

The lie was so blatant that employers are speaking out. Makes no difference to Luxon who appears happy to lie to NZ at the same time as removing crucial support from young adults based on those lies.

“Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers”

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Partner of NZ woman detained in Israel says she 'can't stand hearing the screams' It's a constant feeling of trepidation, you have no idea, there's no set date or anything like that,"

Meanwhile, in the real world, this is the situation faced by flotilla members [2/2]

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

Imagine thinking we should have sympathy for NZ's Minister of Foreign Affairs when this is what he said yesterday about Chloe Swarbrick and the New Zealanders who were on the Gaza flotilla [1/2]
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A screenshot of the June 2025 Benefit Facts Snapshot, showing the number of people receiving Jobseeker Support by benefit type at the end of the last six June quarters. The latest stats show around 44% of people on Jobseeker support are in the health condition or disability category. They literally can’t currently work, but would if they could, if and when they get better. (There’s a separate Supported Living payment for those not expected to get better. None of this is as fair, sensible or dignified as it should be.)

But seriously: journalists, please ask govt if this policy includes the 18 & 19 year olds who are unable to work for health & disability reasons* (as indicated in May www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-an...)

* across all age groups that’s ~44% of jobseeker support recipients
www.msd.govt.nz/documents/ab...

I’ll feel bad for winnie’s window after he apologises for all the shit he’s said about the queers and wahine Māori he’s worked with. #nzpol

Even if Winston’s right that it was politically motivated, consider how the govt is making it harder to exercise ‘legitimate’ forms of political activity (e.g. restricting voting rights, tougher laws on protesting, aiming to remove Maori wards). That’s political repression on a large scale
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Just noticed my typo. Kinda makes sense though 💀

According to a number of politicians, breaking a window is a clear case of political violence, but pushing people into poverty and poor health, destroying the environment, ripping up Te Tiriti, and making the military more lethal is business ss usual.
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