Justine
@kvetchings.bsky.social
Unionist and socialist. Founder of Dayenu: NZ Jews Against Occupation.
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.
June 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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.
June 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Damn I love old Labour election posters.
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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
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
If NZ’s richest can climb above $100b during a so-called “tough year”, then maybe the problem isn’t the economy it’s who the economy is working for?
Growth for the few. Cuts for the many. That’s not progress. That’s inequality.
TPM backs a wealth tax
fairness isn’t radical, it’s necessary.
#NZPol
Growth for the few. Cuts for the many. That’s not progress. That’s inequality.
TPM backs a wealth tax
fairness isn’t radical, it’s necessary.
#NZPol
New Zealand's Rich Listers climb above $100 billion despite 'tough' times
Meanwhile, the co-founders of Zuru Toys, the brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray retain top spot
www.rnz.co.nz
June 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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
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.
Just in case you were worried.
June 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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.
Just in case you were worried.
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This week Gazans will be spending another Eid in starvation. Donate if you are able.
June 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This week Gazans will be spending another Eid in starvation. Donate if you are able.
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how many more ways is this govt going to try to kill people faster
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.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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?
“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?
May 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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?
“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.
May 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
An honor and privilege to stand with Scabby the union rat at our protest outside an Auckland Business Chamber event hosting Nicola Willis.
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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.
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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.
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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
www.payequity.org.nz
May 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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
www.payequity.org.nz
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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.
Taking money from essential workers in female dominated industries, young families having new babies, KiwiSavers. It’s madness.
May 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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.
Taking money from essential workers in female dominated industries, young families having new babies, KiwiSavers. It’s madness.
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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
May 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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.
May 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
An awful budget that raids our retirement scheme, steals from working people and punishes the poor. Thanks, National.
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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...
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.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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...
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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.
Literal economic vandalism.
May 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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.
Literal economic vandalism.
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It's somehow even more shocking than it seemed.
Shameful bullshit.
Shameful bullshit.
The Government will save $11 billion from its pay equity changes, with the money going to tax breaks for businesses and frontline services.
Pay equity savings ploughed back into tax breaks, health, education and gas
newsroom.co.nz
May 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It's somehow even more shocking than it seemed.
Shameful bullshit.
Shameful bullshit.
This makes me sick. Literally stolen from workers.
May 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This makes me sick. Literally stolen from workers.
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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
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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
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"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...
www.oneroof.co.nz/news/apartme...
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.
www.oneroof.co.nz
May 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"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...
www.oneroof.co.nz/news/apartme...
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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...
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...
www.cnn.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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...
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.
May 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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.
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This is insanity what the fuck man
ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar sought imprisonment advice for Te Pāti Māori haka www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
ACT MP sought imprisonment advice for Te Pāti Māori haka
As the Privileges Committee considered what penalty to recommend against three disruptive MPs, Parmjeet Parmar asked for a “full spectrum” of options ‒ including jail time.
www.thepost.co.nz
May 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
This is insanity what the fuck man
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Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight: