Justine

I went on Hinge because that’s what you do when you’re single for the first time in 8 years (it’s okay, it’s life) and I HATED it. Can we go make to the ridiculously old neighborhood Jewish woman being full-time matchmakers.

Damn I love old Labour election posters.

A wealth tax isn’t radical. It’s fair.

While the richest 100 now hold over $100b, whānau are struggling to pay for kai, rent, & power.

Te Pāti Māori’s wealth tax would shift the burden off working people & back onto those who can afford it.

Tax wealth, not wages.
That’s how we fix this.
#NZPol

Good news everyone, despite the planet dying, public services collapsing, wages going down and workers' rights being trampled on, the rich have gotten richer!

Just in case you were worried.

This week Gazans will be spending another Eid in starvation. Donate if you are able.

New 24-7 health service could 'dismantle' general practice, doctor says A leading GP says the new 24-7 health service due to go live soon is not fixing the problem.

how many more ways is this govt going to try to kill people faster

TIL

“What's the story, filthy Tory? Out! Out! Out”

Is a classic protest chant from the Muldoon era.

We brought that one back today. Any other classics for anti-National protests?

An honor and privilege to stand with Scabby the union rat at our protest outside an Auckland Business Chamber event hosting Nicola Willis.

David Seymour got his pet Ministry for Regulation, and now wants to pass a Regulatory Standards Bill which would allow him to appoint a board to review all legislation to check it meets David Seymour, The Minister for Regulation's, standards. This Bill is opposed by the Ministry for Regulation.

A group of former MPs from across parties are running their own select committee on pay equity A group of 10 former women MPs from across the political spectrum announced today that they have a formed what they're calling the 'people’s select committee on pay equity' to examine the Government’s changes to the Equal Pay Act. It will serve as an extra-parliamentary committee tasked with considering public submissions and independently examining the new law. Parliament passed the law changes, under urgency, on May 12 which meant it did not go through the select committee process, or have input from the public. Finance Minister Nicola Willis said the swift process gave people 'certainty'. Professor Marilyn Waring, a former National MP, said the former women MPs, have set up this committee to collect the evidence and hear the voices of New Zealanders regarding the policy debate on pay equity.

The People's Select Committee of 10 former MPs is taking submissions on the Pay Equity changes. Since nobody got a say before the govt passed it under urgency.

www.payequity.org.nz

Just about everything Nicola Willis is announcing in this budget is bad for our future, bad for climate, bad for our society.
Taking money from essential workers in female dominated industries, young families having new babies, KiwiSavers. It’s madness.

The Government is halving its contribution to people’s KiwiSaver accounts. Currently, people saving in KiwiSaver can get $521 a year from the taxpayer, this has been cut down to just $260.72.

makes sense, if things had carried on the way they were going, Millennials were in danger of having enough money to survive to age 67 or even 68

An awful budget that raids our retirement scheme, steals from working people and punishes the poor. Thanks, National.

Budget 2025: Coalition claws back savings from pay equity, KiwiSaver in Budget There's big cuts and savings, changes to Best Start and a surprise tax cut for businesses as the government opens the books.

So cuts for real people, tax breaks for business, all paid for by stealing from women. Oh, and deliberately conflict the government in its role as regulator for the fossil industry. What a crock of shit. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Classic National. Destroying retirement funds because they’re so shit at the economy. Muldoon did it in the early 80s and if he hadn’t, we’d be such a wealthy nation by now. But no. National are fuck knuckles who keep fucking is over through financial incompetence.

Literal economic vandalism.

It's somehow even more shocking than it seemed.

Shameful bullshit.

This makes me sick. Literally stolen from workers.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Apartment boss’ effing rage: How planning rules stuffed New Zealand’s housing market We opened the back door to overpriced, low-value housing that won’t sell, says Ockham founder Mark Todd.

"They've created a disincentive to build high-quality affordable housing. It can take six to nine months or more to get resource consent for apartment projects... Meanwhile, terraced-housing developers get a free pass to skip the resource consent process"

www.oneroof.co.nz/news/apartme...

Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

She’s on the case

Trying to convince my mom that Stanley Tucci has renounced his cooking show and come out as vegan. She’s watching him eat rabbit. Will update.

This is insanity what the fuck man

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

🔴 BREAKING: Israel blocks entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza after first phase of truce ends.

LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc

The Jewish-Palestinian-Māori Queer Socialist Agenda.

Show this to a fascist to spook them.

Aw hell no Gladiator II was incoherent and scattered much like the times we live in. Bring back grad narratives!

Awkwardly walking the dog on the sidelines of the protest because she wasn’t happy in the crowd.