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Taking this off the books means it will likely never be recouped for public good and probably one of their mates already had it earmarked before the election. Nats looting the country to pay for landlord tax cuts.

Really pleased we're spending a billion dollars for a secure cheap LNG terminal rather than renewables #nzpol

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

America Has Already Lost the War in Iran As I watched scores of panic-stricken fathers in Iran, bloodying their hands, desperately tearing through the hulking rubble entombing their children, I grieved deeply.

We have lost the war to live in a nation where all people can see when a sitting president launches a brutal act of lawless military aggression to avoid legal accountability for his sexual crimes and the political reckoning of a free and fair election.

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I’m so sorry to the children of the world. We have all failed them so totally & completely. We’ve destroyed their future utterly, for those that will even have one.

You know what won’t get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?

Sunlight and solar panels.

#MakeOilHistory

Meanwhile Chris Bishop and Luxon continue their #WarOnNature www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Election 2026: National’s Nicola Willis says New Zealanders are ‘impatient’ for expecting quick cost-of-living turnaround

Have you noticed that Nicola Willis is always blaming us because she can't do her job? #NZPol

"Luxon hit back at Clark saying: 'What is disgraceful is a regime that kills its own people they way it has'."

wow, can't believe Luxo has come out this hard against the US...

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Dearest people who don’t read or remember history:

The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Very pleased to see Helen Clark calling the current NZ govt’s response the disgrace that it is.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

Finally, if anyone's going to complain about the left critiquing Hipkins, they better be make an equal or greater number of posts complaining about Hipkins' persistent undermining of the Greens and TPM.

But for some reason every time I point this out y'all act confused.

Glowing character references for abusers to be banned in court ‘As if being a ‘good bloke’ cancels out the violence you perpetrate.’

This needs to happen in AoNz

Character references to be scrapped in Victorian courts for crimes including rape and assault
‘As if being a ‘good bloke’ cancels out the violence you perpetrate.’

At least 70 people, including some 60 children, were killed when U.S. and Israeli strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, according to the Fars News. The attack reportedly struck during school hours, with about 170 girls inside. Videos show families screaming and digging through rubble as rescue crews searched for survivors. Tehran has vowed retaliation. Dr. Foad Izadi of the University of Tehran told Al Jazeera: “We are fighting the epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs little girls.”

At least 70 people, including some 60 children, were killed when US & Israeli strikes hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, according to the Fars News.

The attack reportedly struck during school hours, w/ about 170 girls inside. Vids show families screaming...

What no one seems to be talking about is that there *was* a nuclear accord signed in 2015, one that Iran appeared to be keeping to – and Trump tanked it in his first term, essentially because the US had negotiated and signed it during Obama's presidency.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

As an Iranian in exile as some call it, I want nothing more than a regime change in Iran.

But what I don't want is my country destroyed, people killed, and all looted by Americans!

#FuckYourWar

I told you. Apparently only Israel has the right to defend itself. #nzpol

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

#nzpol
Pay attention Aotearoa NZ.
The National/NZ First/ACT coalition govt are 'considering' giving your legally protected private biometric data to a foreign country being led by white supremicist fascists who are rounding up 20 million US residents for mass deportation via concentration camps.🧐🤬

America needs regime change.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

Watch Luxon not condemn America & Israel’s illegal attack on Iran…. #nzpol

Thinking of all the ordinary people who will be killed, injured & traumatised by more war. It’s always the innocents that suffer the most. 🥺