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आंदोलनजीवी सपना सामंत. Dr. Sapna Samant ✊🏾🍉
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drsapna.bsky.social
Also, rates are never going to go down. Even 'basic' services will cost. Perhaps people can live in a flood prone bog then. 🤷🏾‍♀️
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
drsapna.bsky.social
Carmel praising Winston sideways is a precursor of post election alliance to come.
On Morning Report rn.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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publicaddress.bsky.social
This actually happened, when Nanaia Mahuta appointed commissioners to the completely dysfunctional Tauranga City Council in 2021. Lots of ominous talk about creeping government control, including ...
philbstewart.bsky.social Phil Stewart @philbstewart.bsky.social · 14d
If Labour/Greens had tried to pull a stunt like this it would have been all dancing cossacks and reds under your beds again. This looks pretty bad.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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nzgreenleft.bsky.social
More accurate headline:

Deloitte receives $435k of public funds to produce a report that recommends austerity, asset selling, and AI snake-oil for Wellington City Council.

#nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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maetl.bsky.social
Regardless of kayfabe comms and Nat equivocation in media, ACT always says the thing to its red-faced griefer audience
ACT attacking Ngai Tahu to its racist Facebook audience.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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norightturnnz.bsky.social
On NRT: Overturning local democracy - norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/11/over...
Overturning local democracy
A month ago we had local body elections in this country. As part of that, we elected new members to each of the country's eleven regional co...
norightturn.blogspot.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
drsapna.bsky.social
I am listening to Simon Watts on Checkpoint just now and sheesh! WTH is he talking about?
Democracy must be decentralised not coming out of one place only.
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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legallyfeminist.bsky.social
So in a few month's time when the govt is telling you the social media under 16 age ban is to protect children, remember that they don't actually care about children's safety. They don't care about trans kids. They don't care about tamariki Māori. They don't care about feeding kids. #nzpol
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
drsapna.bsky.social
WTH!
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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sassypolitico.bsky.social
I better not see any Nats at pride fucking hell
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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jennifilm.nz
PATHA's statement has been published: patha.nz/news
The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) condemns today's decision from Minister of Health Simeon Brown introducing a ban on new prescriptions of GnRH analogues (puberty blockers) for transgender children and young people who are not currently on them. This ideologically driven ban will have a devastating impact on the lives and wellbeing of our transgender and gender diverse young people. We know that children, young people and their whanau will be highly distressed by this decision. We also acknowledge health professionals' frustration at the way their expertise has been ignored and disregarded. "The ban will lead to a deterioration in mental health, increased risk of suicidality and increased dysphoria in gender diverse children and young people, and will put them at a higher risk of experiencing marginalisation and discrimination," says Dr Elizabeth McElrea, GP specialist in gender affirming care and PATHA Vice-President. "The prescribing of puberty blockers is always undertaken with the utmost care and consideration. They have been prescribed safely for decades for transgender children and banning their use will lead to profound distress in this already vulnerable group." This decision is not supported by the Ministry of Health's November 2024 evidence brief on this care. This decision is not supported by the Ministry of Health's November 2024 evidence brief on this care. While the evidence brief identified some limitations in the academic quality of evidence regarding the risks and benefits of GRH analogues, limitations in evidence quality are common across a number of areas of medicine, especially within paediatric medicine, and do not justify a ban on access. "PATHA supports evidence-based medicine, which consists of three key components: academic evidence, clinical experience, and patient preferences and values," says Dr McElrea. "When the quality of available academic evidence is of lower quality, it's incredibly common for clinicians to lean on guidelines drawn from clinical experience." "Practising medicine, and paediatric medicine (not just within gender affirming healthcare), often necessitates providing care without a high-quality evidence base. The absence of high-quality clinical evidence does not mean providing this care is wrong." "Children benefit from innovative medical treatments that improve their survival and quality of life. Pediatric care would all but cease if physicians denied treatments for which the evidence base is imperfect." (McNamara et al., 2024, p. 15) 'An Evidence-Based Critique of "The Cass Review" on Gender-affirming Care for Adolescent The new restrictions will be in place until the conclusion of clinical trials in the United Kingdom, which are not due until at least 2031. "In no other area of care would life-saving medication be withheld from a vulnerable population for six years. This will have a traumatic impact on a generation of transgender children," says Avery Zavoda, PATHA Executive Committee member. PATHA is strongly against the decision. It is a shocking act of discrimination against transgender children and young people. "That New Zealand First announced this news three hours before the Minister of Health shows the way this care has been politicised, and how politics have been prioritised over the wellbeing of New Zealand children," said Zavoda. "Banning puberty blockers will not prevent children from being transgender, despite the disinformation New Zealand First are promoting," says Jennifer Shields, PATHA President. "It's obvious that this has been a political decision made to appease a coalition partner based on an imported culture war, rather than a medical recommendation reflecting the expertise of NZ clinicians and researchers who have been working in this field for over 25 years." Identify, a 2022 New Zealand research survey on the experiences Identify, a 2022 New Zealand research survey on the experiences of rainbow young people showed "the proportion of young people who wanted puberty blockers and were able to use them was nearly half the number of young people who wanted these medications but could not access them." These findings made it clear that the prescription context and existing regulations "did not result in the easy access to young people who wanted puberty blockers that some people have claimed existed. In fact, the results demonstrate a seriously constrained prescription context that urgently needs further attention to be more equitable." "We call on the Ministry of Health to publish their consultation report immediately, so that health professionals, trans people, and the wider public can see that this decision has been made by politicians rather than based on clinical experience," says Shields. "We also look forward to the Minister now immediately allowing the updated guidelines for gender affirming healthcare to be published." "We also call on Labour, the Green Party, and Te Paati Mãori to commit to reversing this harmful decision if they are elected into government next year. Our communities need the reassurance that this ban will not last." "PATHA is committed to ensuring all trans children and children experiencing gender dysphoria have access to the best quality care.
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
drsapna.bsky.social
There is a tangi happening at my work. A well regarded kuia.
The grounds are full of people, some practising waiata.

The only other time I have witnessed this is when I used to work at Porirua Union's satellite clinic at the marae and there was a gang member's tangi.
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
drsapna.bsky.social
Business summit stereotypes ethnic communities as worthy only of they make money.

That's the headline.
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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gurtejsingh.bsky.social
The Slow Capture of Local Democracy
faultline.report/2025/11/16/t...
The Slow Capture of Local Democracy
Lately, I have begun to see Wellington’s mayors through the city’s water pipes, which are nothing more than rusted veins that burst each summer, spilling not just water but the fatigue of a city th…
faultline.report
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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dejanajuk.bsky.social
Former PM Key - who laid hands on a waitress without her permission & when she spoke out she got pilloried & fired - says public's trust in police threatened by recent events McSkimming case. Why is he even getting to comment ffs? It was a lesser offence but on the the same spectrum. #nzpol
Former PM John Key says public's trust in police threatened by recent events McSkimming case
Sir John's comments come after a report that found senior police leaders mishandled accusations of sexual offending by former deputy commissioner Jevon McSkimming.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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writagal.bsky.social
Thank you to all the usual commentators who *are* saying that misogyny in New Zealand is a defining, baked in, cultural feature - who say it every single time we act surprised by behaviour that is normalised, and backed up by statistics.

We need action - so we can stop saying the same damn thing.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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fmacskasy.bsky.social
Freight companies and other businesses just don't get it.National & Act have an agenda for USER PAYS.They will cut taxes,but make up for it in increased levies such as Road User Charges & tolls.

If I - a Leftie - gets it, then why are business leaders to dim to get it.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Road tolling changes will be tough 'for users to swallow', freight companies say
It will be difficult for the government to justify some of its changes to road tolling, Transporting New Zealand says.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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dailyindignation.bsky.social
It's okay, Heather isn't just mad about a woman emailing a man's wife (??), no, what really riles her up is judges taking into account childhood trauma when sentencing (???).
"Just because Jevon McSkimming is a creep and clearly the villain of the story doesn't mean that she is necessarily innocent. I mean, look at the allegations. Allegedly emailing a police officer is one thing. Allegedly emailing his wife is something else. And this is after some pretty bunny-boiler behaviour, including sending 300 emails to McSkimming and others over a series of years. Now, there will be some people who have complete sympathy for her in this, who will say that the allegations show that she is a woman driven mad by being ignored and gaslit by the very people that she was asking for help. And that may well be true, and I suspect that it is, and I feel sorry for her, and I feel sorry for the horrible situation that Jevon McSkimming, the absolute creep, has put her in. But I still don't think it justifies alleged lawbreaking as a response, because that logic is the very same logic that is used by the soft judges who read cultural reports about offenders' childhoods and then excuse them for what they did because of what was originally done to them when they were kids. Do you follow what I'm saying?"
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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lostarcnz.bsky.social
I keep on coming back to the irrefutable fact that the people in New Zealand that don't want to address the impact of colonisation and argue "it's in the past, the current generation are not responsible for that" continue to enjoy benefits that flowed directly from that colonisation.
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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tonywelly.bsky.social
Spending money on Judith's Space force rather than fire fighting equipment and planes on planet earth.

Please make it make sense
#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
‘Air attack’ on enormous Tongario fire as more trampers evacuated
A fire at Tongariro National Park is still out of control and has spread to around 1000 hectares overnight.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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krveale.bsky.social
Uncontrolled wildfires in Aotearoa and it's not even REMOTELY summer yet.

I'm sure that's a good sign. #nzpol
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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alranz.bsky.social
We will define what a woman is: anyone who is fed up with ppl trying to define a woman. A woman is someone who is fed up w/the current govt going back on equal pay. A woman is someone who sees a 🚩 when the anti-choice PM puts an anti-choice politician as Minister of Health #nzpol #abortion #equalpay
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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brianvan.bsky.social
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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joannakidman.bsky.social
“Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

(It's a Freirean kind of day)
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM