Jennifer Ward
@jenospeno.bsky.social
Tāmaki Makaurau based, ex-filmo, trying to live sustainably in the city & celebrating Te Rimutahi, the new civic space at 254 Ponsonby Road 💚. 254ponsonbyrd.org.nz
Born at 317ppm. Aspirational af🤜
Born at 317ppm. Aspirational af🤜
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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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What in the holy hell does this mean?
February 14, 2026 at 5:34 PM
What in the holy hell does this mean?
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Botstein has to resign.
This is a horror. It makes me feel sick.
At minimum, if Botstein did not understand how his own prestige would be borrowed and “used” by Epstein, his judgement is too awful for him to safely run *anything*.
This is a horror. It makes me feel sick.
At minimum, if Botstein did not understand how his own prestige would be borrowed and “used” by Epstein, his judgement is too awful for him to safely run *anything*.
February 14, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Botstein has to resign.
This is a horror. It makes me feel sick.
At minimum, if Botstein did not understand how his own prestige would be borrowed and “used” by Epstein, his judgement is too awful for him to safely run *anything*.
This is a horror. It makes me feel sick.
At minimum, if Botstein did not understand how his own prestige would be borrowed and “used” by Epstein, his judgement is too awful for him to safely run *anything*.
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Because he’s incapable of shame, and everyone on the @bardcollege.bsky.social board and faculty who are not calling for his resignation are incapable of self-respect.
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Because he’s incapable of shame, and everyone on the @bardcollege.bsky.social board and faculty who are not calling for his resignation are incapable of self-respect.
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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I refuse to allow contemporary white supremacists to determine that the slave catchers and their federal enablers were the "real Americans" of the antebellum era, while formerly enslaved people and their white and Black allies who worked to protect their freedom were somehow less "real Americans."
February 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I refuse to allow contemporary white supremacists to determine that the slave catchers and their federal enablers were the "real Americans" of the antebellum era, while formerly enslaved people and their white and Black allies who worked to protect their freedom were somehow less "real Americans."
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Now, the year ending 2025 looks a bit better, but it is too little too late. Maybe we will get a pile of eye-wateringly expensive PPP deals to help out - alongside another juicing up of the housing market? Woohoo. [11/n]
December 21, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Now, the year ending 2025 looks a bit better, but it is too little too late. Maybe we will get a pile of eye-wateringly expensive PPP deals to help out - alongside another juicing up of the housing market? Woohoo. [11/n]
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Ah, just a cool $5bn to $6bn of direct stimulus removed.
As you can see this appears to be due to the binning of capital projects *and* squeezing out the lazy lanyards. That funding would have supported tens of thousands of jobs - driving up taxes *and* giving kiwis a reason to stay. [10/n]
As you can see this appears to be due to the binning of capital projects *and* squeezing out the lazy lanyards. That funding would have supported tens of thousands of jobs - driving up taxes *and* giving kiwis a reason to stay. [10/n]
December 21, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Ah, just a cool $5bn to $6bn of direct stimulus removed.
As you can see this appears to be due to the binning of capital projects *and* squeezing out the lazy lanyards. That funding would have supported tens of thousands of jobs - driving up taxes *and* giving kiwis a reason to stay. [10/n]
As you can see this appears to be due to the binning of capital projects *and* squeezing out the lazy lanyards. That funding would have supported tens of thousands of jobs - driving up taxes *and* giving kiwis a reason to stay. [10/n]
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But the slump we are in is thanks to economic conditions over the last year or so. What does Treasury tell us about that period? The data is conclusive...
Govt spending / taxation / investment decisions led to a big step *down* in the fiscal impulse. They put the boot in. How hard? [9/n]
Govt spending / taxation / investment decisions led to a big step *down* in the fiscal impulse. They put the boot in. How hard? [9/n]
December 21, 2024 at 7:04 AM
But the slump we are in is thanks to economic conditions over the last year or so. What does Treasury tell us about that period? The data is conclusive...
Govt spending / taxation / investment decisions led to a big step *down* in the fiscal impulse. They put the boot in. How hard? [9/n]
Govt spending / taxation / investment decisions led to a big step *down* in the fiscal impulse. They put the boot in. How hard? [9/n]
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Does she think we have short memories?
February 14, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Does she think we have short memories?
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Yep, if not in revenue service already taking the 6m swells today like a champ she was designed to be at 225m in length
February 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Yep, if not in revenue service already taking the 6m swells today like a champ she was designed to be at 225m in length
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She first promised surplus by 2027 & has pushed it out ever since. She also cancelled the ferries with zero plan B. If she had honoured the deal signed by the Labour government, we would have the first ferry here doing sea trials now.
February 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
She first promised surplus by 2027 & has pushed it out ever since. She also cancelled the ferries with zero plan B. If she had honoured the deal signed by the Labour government, we would have the first ferry here doing sea trials now.
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Problem is Willis's policies have wiped $28.8 billion off GDP and triggered ongoing record migration to Australia since 2023. Bit hard to forget gross incompetence come November
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Problem is Willis's policies have wiped $28.8 billion off GDP and triggered ongoing record migration to Australia since 2023. Bit hard to forget gross incompetence come November
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Awkward moment when you ask your parents whether you can avoid cervical cancer and they say no.
Cairns Public Health Unit says students are increasingly missing their school HPV vaccinations because they do not have parental consent.
School HPV vaccination rate drops to 56pc in Far North Queensland
Cairns Public Health Unit says students are increasingly missing their school HPV vaccinations because they do not have parental consent.
www.abc.net.au
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Awkward moment when you ask your parents whether you can avoid cervical cancer and they say no.
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I miss the days when shame and incompetence was enough to get people like Noem to resign 🤦🏻♂️
Q: Can you confirm that CBP actually hit a party balloon it thought was a drone with a laser? And why wasn't that coordinated with the FAA?
KRISTI NOEM: You know, this was a joint agency task force, um, mission that was undertaken. And um, we're continuing to work on communication
*ends presser*
KRISTI NOEM: You know, this was a joint agency task force, um, mission that was undertaken. And um, we're continuing to work on communication
*ends presser*
February 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I miss the days when shame and incompetence was enough to get people like Noem to resign 🤦🏻♂️
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Apparently some folks in the east have had a boil water notice?
Anyway 3 Waters would’ve been a good idea, eh.
Anyway 3 Waters would’ve been a good idea, eh.
February 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Apparently some folks in the east have had a boil water notice?
Anyway 3 Waters would’ve been a good idea, eh.
Anyway 3 Waters would’ve been a good idea, eh.
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There's a stunning film fictionalizing some of this: Maria, Full of Grace. Highly recommend.
February 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
There's a stunning film fictionalizing some of this: Maria, Full of Grace. Highly recommend.
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Or a taco crawl, if you live in/near a city that has immigrants who need the support.
❤️
#ChingaLaMigra
#ICEOutForGood
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#ChingaLaMigra
#ICEOutForGood
February 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Or a taco crawl, if you live in/near a city that has immigrants who need the support.
❤️
#ChingaLaMigra
#ICEOutForGood
❤️
#ChingaLaMigra
#ICEOutForGood
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I'm lucky that in the Bay Area there are still a local flower growers, so I get most of the flowers for my home and for friends at farmers' markets.... The question for me in Orwell's Roses was: how do we or should we think about something that is aesthetically appealing and ethically hideous?
February 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I'm lucky that in the Bay Area there are still a local flower growers, so I get most of the flowers for my home and for friends at farmers' markets.... The question for me in Orwell's Roses was: how do we or should we think about something that is aesthetically appealing and ethically hideous?
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Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
Heavy rain is still hitting much of the North Island this morning, with forecasters watching conditions closely.
In Waikato, the worst of it has centred near Ōtorohanga , where one site recorded 180 millimetres of rain in 24 hours.
MetService says rainfalls have been highly localised, but intense.
In Waikato, the worst of it has centred near Ōtorohanga , where one site recorded 180 millimetres of rain in 24 hours.
MetService says rainfalls have been highly localised, but intense.
February 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Heavy rain is still hitting much of the North Island this morning, with forecasters watching conditions closely.
In Waikato, the worst of it has centred near Ōtorohanga , where one site recorded 180 millimetres of rain in 24 hours.
MetService says rainfalls have been highly localised, but intense.
In Waikato, the worst of it has centred near Ōtorohanga , where one site recorded 180 millimetres of rain in 24 hours.
MetService says rainfalls have been highly localised, but intense.
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I have a lot of friends who don’t support Trump, but their husbands do. And they have teenage girls. And I keep telling my friends ask your husband if he would let your daughter alone in a room with Donald Trump. It’s disgusting.
February 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I have a lot of friends who don’t support Trump, but their husbands do. And they have teenage girls. And I keep telling my friends ask your husband if he would let your daughter alone in a room with Donald Trump. It’s disgusting.
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Excellent article by @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social
Stop being ostriches NZ!
"Aotearoa New Zealand needs to get out of the pattern of crisis and response. We know that climate change charged weather events are going to become more frequent and more extreme, and we need to plan accordingly," CS
#nzpol
Stop being ostriches NZ!
"Aotearoa New Zealand needs to get out of the pattern of crisis and response. We know that climate change charged weather events are going to become more frequent and more extreme, and we need to plan accordingly," CS
#nzpol
NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut.
My story looking at last week’s storms
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My story looking at last week’s storms
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
January 29, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Excellent article by @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social
Stop being ostriches NZ!
"Aotearoa New Zealand needs to get out of the pattern of crisis and response. We know that climate change charged weather events are going to become more frequent and more extreme, and we need to plan accordingly," CS
#nzpol
Stop being ostriches NZ!
"Aotearoa New Zealand needs to get out of the pattern of crisis and response. We know that climate change charged weather events are going to become more frequent and more extreme, and we need to plan accordingly," CS
#nzpol
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This consultation closes in an hour (5pm Friday)
Proposes annual fees on foresters for ETS operations end 10 years after they stop earning credits. I don't see how that works long-term as monitoring and liabilities continue long-term and need to be paid for.
www.mpi.govt.nz/consultation...
Proposes annual fees on foresters for ETS operations end 10 years after they stop earning credits. I don't see how that works long-term as monitoring and liabilities continue long-term and need to be paid for.
www.mpi.govt.nz/consultation...
www.mpi.govt.nz
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 AM
This consultation closes in an hour (5pm Friday)
Proposes annual fees on foresters for ETS operations end 10 years after they stop earning credits. I don't see how that works long-term as monitoring and liabilities continue long-term and need to be paid for.
www.mpi.govt.nz/consultation...
Proposes annual fees on foresters for ETS operations end 10 years after they stop earning credits. I don't see how that works long-term as monitoring and liabilities continue long-term and need to be paid for.
www.mpi.govt.nz/consultation...