Geoff Palmer

I don’t always agree with Bernie Sanders but he’s right on point with this one:

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Blame game at the highest levels continues in McSkimming case It’s the latest development in the blame game merry-go-round that marks the fallout of the Jevon McSkimming scandal.

Tick tock, Minister's going down

I can't wait
#nzpol

“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )

Sex tape charge against former govt employee dropped An ex-government employee who was caught with footage of the Christchurch mosque shootings has had a sex-tape charge against him dropped.  The...

All sounds very familiar ... Charges dropped too. #nzpol

www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Old Teslas Are Falling Apart On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.

Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:

Same headline.

Seven years apart. 🤡

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

New Android malware lets criminals control your phone and drain your bank account Albiriox now targets over 400 financial apps and lets criminals operate your phone almost exactly as if it were in their hands.

"Albiriox is a new family of Android banking malware that gives attackers live remote control over infected phones, letting them quietly drain bank and crypto accounts during real sessions."

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.

#peaceprize
#tacos

Interesting how Coster and other powerful white men get to speakout meanwhile the actual victim can't as she's still being prosecuted by police.. #nzpol

Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain - and the consequences could be global The Southern Ocean may be "sweating" more in response to climate change - but what does that mean?

Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain - and the consequences could be global

Government rejects all of Climate Change Commission's emissions target recommendations It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.

"The government has rejected all of the Climate Change Commission's recommendations to strengthen New Zealand's emissions targets.

The move comes despite the Commission warning the effects of climate change are hitting New Zealand sooner and more severely than expected..."

#nzpol

Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Revealed a Big Surprise A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

Cool!

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

THIS IS FINE

Ministers were warned against removing schools' Treaty obligations The Education Ministry advice preceded the decision to delete a clause in the Education and Training Act that required schools to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi.

"In summary, we do not recommend changes to Te Tiriti provisions in the Act without further engagement and design with Māori. This is because of the clear guidance to Ministers and public service departments on the constitutional position of Te Tiriti," the report said.
#nzpol

An army boss sent a d... pic in uniform. It didn’t stop him getting a top job A consensual explicit image sent on deployment was deemed ‘poor judgement’ but not a military offence.

Quelle surprise. Of course it didn’t, it’s light weight. In NZ you can assault a woman and get a top job, you can get given the Chair of a committee if you spread salicious gossip about women & she gets hounded out of town. Women lose jobs and promotions for complaining about SA. #nzpol #rapeculture

A coup to roll Christopher Luxon was foiled when the Prime Minister outmanoeuvred would-be challenger Chris Bishop, a Sunday Star-Times political column says.

How shit do you have to be if you’re politically outmanoeuvred by Luxon? 🤣 #nzpol

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360903547/chris-bishop-behind-failed-national-leadership-coup-report

Letter to the editor eviscerating Luxon’s leadership and personality, and describing the mess the coalition has made. A few snippets: ‘The highly-touted meeting with Trump seems eons ago. Even there, Luxon’s diplomatic coup was simply being shorter and balder than the president.’ Luxon’s “hands-free” leadership style has enabled his coalition partners to pursue divisive and extremist policies, allowing him to be relentlessly focussed on securing the next selfie.’ And the kicker: ‘In a work dominated by personality politics, he is at a distinct disadvantage in not having one.’

Found on twitter. Natalie from Oamaru taking Luxon to the cleaners. That last sentence - oof.
#nzpol

Wow, Paul Goldsmith really is a special type of moron.

Good to see the govt under pressure for its human rights abuses and discrimination against Maori, from the UN in Geneva.

#nzpol #OneTermGovernment #luxon #goldsmith #paulgoldsmith

Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches The possibility that students may have eaten contaminated lunches "fills me with horror", says a Christchurch school principal.

'The school has its own commercial kitchen and wanted to make its own meals, but the ministry had always argued that was a risk to food security, she said.' #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#nzpol

The UK has just BANNED wet-wipes containing plastics, but the Luxon Government says it won’t.

Of course not.

They seem allergic to doing anything worthwhile.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.