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D Jukic She/her
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Enthusiastic amateur gardener. Dalmatian. Croatian. Pākehā. Tangata Tiriti. Parent. Partner. Baba. Teta. Cis. She/her. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Hand of the market at work innit? The market pays the politicians, the politicians make laws that help out the market.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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I tend to think the NZ government's proposal to build an LNG facility for electricity resilience is fairly silly...

But it's always nice to get some perspective on how much stupider things could get.
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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“Resources minister Shane Jones is jubilant” that should tell you whose target. Just oil and gas (again),…

“…but could be even more valuable to the sector than the $200m set aside for the Government to take equity shares in gas fields”

#nzpol
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Has New Zealand Energy Corp go anything to do with the proposed new infrastructure to shore up the ailing domestic gas industry? I know Willis' dad doesn't work there anymore, but I'm guessing the family have a shitload of shares....
February 11, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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James Willis is now "a lawyer representing oil and gas interests".

There is no corruption in New Zealand
There are no sheep on our farms
Govt's 'Think Big' Investment Boost: There. Is. No. Limit.
Tower buildings. Gas rigs. Irrigation dams and power plants. By the Government's own admission, the tax incentive is inspired by the Think Big schemes of Nicola Willis' predecessor, Sir Robert Muldoon...
newsroom.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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Really good to have things summed up so succinctly. Imagine if we actually had a "media" capable of this.

#nzpol
Did Nicola Willis just appoint Atlas Network connections to her surprise RBNZ Covid Inquiry?
Willis launches a surprise Covid inquiry with results to come out 6 weeks before the election. Most NZ publications noted her hiring of "independent" experts. I looked further into it.
open.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:36 AM
I know you do and your kind thoughts mean a lot. ❤️
February 11, 2026 at 6:16 AM
Thanks Cath. It was much welcomed news. As to the tart it’s another easy as dish recipe that is almost impossible to fail at especially if you use bought pastry.
February 11, 2026 at 6:06 AM
A history of their picks and the money they throw at them is a dead giveaway.
February 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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I did wonder who he was. Of COURSE they would pick a sycophant like that.
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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Athanasios Orphanides is a Milton Friedman acolyte so it's got a pre-determined outcome.

He has argued against central banks having a mandate for protecting employment, so is likely to damn any such policy.
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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Athanasios Orphanides is a Milton Friedman acolyte so it's got a pre-determined outcome.

He has argued against central banks having a mandate for protecting employment, so is likely to damn any such policy.
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 AM
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Don't play their game on their pitch using their rules, you literally cannot win in any way that is meaningful because they fundamentally do not care about your ideas, thoughts, position or argument. It's all self promotional right wing glysophate towards free speech.
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Going on the Free Speech Union podcast is validating their ridiculously bad faith operating model and ideology, it's a few degrees away from when those "left" wingers Trotter (yes I know, he's not) was coopted by them to show they were bipartisan when they're nothing but right wing shit heads.
February 11, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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A while back now RNZ approached me to debate Liam Hehir on some stupid ass thing about cancel culture or academic freedom and after considering it I realised that by turning up I'd give some weight to his fucking nonsense. So I said no, and they didn't do the piece.
February 11, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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The funniest thing about the "DEBATE ME DEBATE ME" right wing is that saying

1. No

and

2. You're clowns

Will make them as mad as shit.
February 11, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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That guy was always dodgy, way too political, but the Nats loved him. Maybe a bit more due diligence next time?
#nzpol
The Govt's retail crime advisory group is disbanding four months early - after spending hundreds of thousands on their salaries, catering their meetings and cooking up policies that make workers LESS safe.

RNZ: www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/586... #nzpol
February 11, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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Anyway I asked FSU to front up on their Facebook page but no doubt they’ve hidden my comments already.
February 11, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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It's 100% designed to give her a platform to blame the previous government for economic conditions ahead of this year’s general election!! FFS!!!
#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Who’s to blame for the cost-of-living crisis? Willis opens Covid monetary probe
Finance Minister Nicola Willis said the review would assess decisions made by the RBNZ during the pandemic.
www.stuff.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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The purpose of the review is to do Winston being tempted away. Certain groups still live for this bs.
📢 Finance Minister says purpose of the review of Covid-19 monetary policy is 'to learn from experience'
Government launches independent review of NZ's monetary policy response to Covid-19
www.interest.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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February 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
You are 100 per cent right, what a wasteful fiasco.
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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Like I said...
This will probably only ask certain questions so that it makes Labour look bad.

Due for public release in September, right before the elections.

It will be Nationals swan song.
#nzpol
📢 Finance Minister says purpose of the review of Covid-19 monetary policy is 'to learn from experience'
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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This will probably only ask certain questions so that it makes Labour look bad.

Due for public release in September, right before the elections.

It will be Nationals swan song.
#nzpol
📢 Finance Minister says purpose of the review of Covid-19 monetary policy is 'to learn from experience'
Government launches independent review of NZ's monetary policy response to Covid-19
www.interest.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 AM