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& yet they are still polling +/- within their election night zone.

I swear there ought to be a test before voting

1: Is trickle down real
2: Is neoliberalism good
3: Is Winston Peters relevant

Answer yes to any of the three & you are not eligible to vote.

This clip will be forever burned into my brain. When @sanders.senate.gov told them they would be killing 51,000 people with their vote and they did it anyway. It was like watching him beg for mercy at a public execution.

Mother in Africa speaking to her children at dinner:

“You must eat all of your food, there are hungry children starving in America”

Oh smack - how many times did I hear that as a child?! Anybody else?

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.

what. the. hell.

maybe help reduce the number of people who don't have a goddamn roof over their heads instead of hiding them away.

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Hurricane Melissa didn’t just devastate homes -- it’s testing Jamaica’s entire health system.

The latest PAHO/WHO Situation Report (Nov 1) shows what a climate-fueled disaster looks like through a public-health lens. 🌀💊

Pass it on.

Honestly that end is the real kicker, where they explicitly make it all seem like a regular breakfast orders that’s simply comped rather than a whole process meant to show everyone you’re in need. It really shows they care and are empathetic to the stigma around welfare programs

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This is deep sea trawling. The last NZ government led the world in an international agreement to restrict the damage.

One of the first things this government did was tear it up. The US, Pacific islands, and Australia criticised NZ for doing so. Shane Jones doesn't care #nzpol

$5b-plus blowout for eight Roads of National Significance The Government's 17 Roads of National Significance will cost it at least $44 billion – enough to rebuild Dunedin Hospital 23 times over. Marc Daalder reports.

New from me: Just eight of the Government's 17 Roads of National Significance have already seen costs blow out by $5.1 billion - before any shovels are even in the ground.

The full programme would cost $44-$54 billion on the latest numbers.
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Wednesday's Chorus: The problem(s) with the RoNS and tolls Hipkins won't commit to build National's RoNS costing $50b, or the tolls to pay for them, but Bishop ploughs ahead anyway to spend $1.2b on designs & land without bipartisan plan or tolls consultation

Chris Hipkins won't commit to build National's RoNS costing $50b, or the tolls to pay for them, but Chris Bishop ploughs ahead anyway to spend $1.2b on designs & land without a bipartisan plan or tolls consultation. Open for all. #nzpol
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Reality bites: RoNS will bankrupt the nation The government’s mega-roads programme is now looking to cost an astonishing $40-50 billion, based on new documents released yesterday by the NZTA.On Monday, Transport Minister Chris Bishop touted the ...

What was actually in the fine print of yesterday's roading announcement: a $40-to-$50 billion bill that we could not pay without bankrupting ourselves. This has been implicit for a long time and should be in the damn headlines. greaterauckland.substack.com/p/reality-bi...

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Watch: Christopher Luxon on $515m spend-up for new roads The government will spend more than half a billion dollars buying properties for its Roads of National Significance.

Stopped school builds, hospital builds, water infrastructure builds but plenty of $ for roads #nzpol

"The government will spend more than half a billion dollars buying up properties & $1.2 billion has also been allocated for new roads"

When you think about it, it's kind of funny how the best things we could *actually* do for roads and travel times in AoNZ is rebuild our rail network and massively increase funding for public transport, walking and cycling

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

Latest🚨research from many well-known & highly respected doctors & professors:

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? (Oct 13, 2025)
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Good advice. #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NoPlanetB #ClimateCrisisNZ #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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I am dark. I am furious. But still kind enough to let this one be free, so you get a slice of what you get if you sign on.

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

'The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

god help me. this is just cruelty. these are human beings, you monsters.

NZ Government Sanction Israel Now Since October 2023 the world has witnessed the state of Israel perpetrate innumerable war crimes and human rights violations against the people of Gaza [1], while the violence, repression, and forced ...

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Black, brown and white dog with a pink collar dog sitting and looking at the camera with a pink flower on her head, grass and trees in the background

Dog & pūriri flower…spring is springing 🌸

From the nzpolitics community on Reddit: Winston Peters doctored the Palestine Cabinet paper to only include 2 of the 5 MFAT options Explore this post and more from the nzpolitics community

So Winston Peters doctored the Palestine statehood Cabinet paper to remove 3 of the 5 MFAT options. #nzpol #kiwi

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In today’s HeraldOnSunday

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it....

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice