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Foxy Santa

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social

Ray Chung vs Ray Chung #NZPol

July 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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Casey Explosion

@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

Constant mood

Illustration of someone being pelted with lemons coming out of a chute while in the process of pressing them into lemonade, it's a big mood

June 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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Wayne Smith 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🏳️‍⚧️

@wayneesmith.bsky.social

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

July 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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D Jukic She/her

@dejanajuk.bsky.social

“Put simply, despite its positive puffery, this Government’s actions have worsened the cost of living pressure on working Kiwis far more than they have reduced it.” #NZpol

Government has worsened cost of living for Kiwis, more than it’s reduced it

OPINION: Latest polls show the public think there is more spin than delivery in National’s appeal to hip-pocket issues

www.thepost.co.nz

July 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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LostArcNZ

@lostarcnz.bsky.social

It's just another example of the narrative of poverty being a choice:
- It's the fault of unemployed people there are no jobs
- It's your fault you don't own a house
- your fault you don't have parents who can feed you
- your fault, for everything really. Should have chosen better parents.

Melanie D. @melulater.bsky.social · Jul 5

Mark Mitchell made a rod for his own back with the claim this week that people sleeping on the street are making a "lifestyle choice".

Who chooses to sleep in a shop doorway?

People with no other choices.

July 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM

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Mountain Tui

@mountaintui.bsky.social

Wow! The Regulatory Standards Bill could force taxpayers to compensate polluters, stop all efforts to preserve nature/climate & cost tens of millions of dollars a year?!

Treasury and Ministry officials confirm Seymour's Regulatory Standards Bill is a hot mess.

#nzpol
#kiwi

Red-tape bill risks cost blow-outs, climate backsliding, officials warn

June 28, 2025

Toop says the concerns raised by officials echo many of those made in an open letter to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon from environmental groups including Forest & Bird, the Environmental Defence Society and WWF-New Zealand.

“It is the role of Government to govern for the collective wellbeing of the people it serves, and that includes protecting the environment and the climate on which we all depend,” Toop said.

“This Bill flips that around and tries to make our Government serve corporate interests instead. But clean drinking water, safe food and a liveable climate should never be made subservient to the so-called property rights of corporations.”

She said the bill represents “an unprecedented threat” to the environment and the Government’s ability to respond to the climate crisis.

“This bill has been rejected three times for good reason. This is the fourth attempt by ACT to get this dangerous bill across the line and this time they are advancing it in plainly undemocratic ways, including through a coalition agreement that was negotiated behind closed doors.”

ACT has been pushing versions of this idea for over a decade, with legislation drafted in 2006 and in 2012, and through an expert taskforce established in 2009. Seymour has embraced this, saying earlier this week that it is “probably the most consulted-on bill this century.”

Toop said it was “a direct attack” on democracy and called on National to withdraw support.

Undermining the foundational principles upon which the bill is built, Treasury found: “Not all of the principles proposed in the legislation are broadly accepted as good regulatory practice.”

MfE officials were equally scathing.

They warned the bill’s proposed principles — especially around individual liberties and “taking of property”— clash with environmental laws that prioritise long-term, collective wellbeing.

It could undermine managed retreat, weaken emissions controls, and reverse the “polluter pays” principle, potentially forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for pollution and resource overuse.

“These principles could make it harder for councils and government to enforce land use controls or limit development — even where it’s vital for climate adaptation or public health,” officials wrote.

MfE was also alarmed by the potential for retrospective compensation claims, which could saddle local councils with massive liabilities for past planning decisions — transferring risk from property owners to ratepayers and handcuffing future climate response efforts.

June 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway

@legallyfeminist.bsky.social

When online harassment is dressed in the authority of Parliament, it signals that ridicule is not just endorsed but institutional. That’s more than a little concerning. #nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Why a tiny crest on Seymour’s ‘victim of the day’ posts has raised big questions

One of the acting PM’s “victims of the day” say his posts are “online intimidation” and have the appearance of being endorsed by Parliament.

www.stuff.co.nz

June 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM

Luke D

@ldiamond40.bsky.social

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/lu...

PM Luxon: Uphold Codes of Conduct - Call David Seymour into line

Responsible leaders welcome advice from experts and when they are creating laws and policies. They know good decision making means planning for the long term, considering diverse points of view and ma...

our.actionstation.org.nz

June 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM

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Tj.

@tjeerd001.bsky.social

June 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Tory Whanau

@misswhanau.bsky.social

I spoke with Waatea News this morning about yesterday's letter and calls for greater accountability over Seymour's recent actions. It's vital we have an Aotearoa where our academic community is safe from harassment.

waateanews.com/2025/06/24/t...

Whanau takes on acting PM for online behaviour

waateanews.com

June 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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NinjaKitty 忍者キティ🥷🐈‍⬛

@ninjakitty.bsky.social

Me too
#nzpol

June 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM

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Jela

@jelamonsterart.com

Without Congress.

June 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM

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Dr. L., 🌊 🦋

@bluekentucky.bsky.social

June 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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Evan Sutton

@evansutton.bsky.social

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism

Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Jun 16

On the lack of federal terrorism charges in Minn. killings, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson says they "brought the charges that we think are appropriate right now."

June 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Ryan Schwartz

@ryanschwartz.tv

when no one attends your shitty dictator parade

June 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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Krassensteins

@krassenstein.bsky.social

Best image of the day:

June 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

@gwensnyder.bsky.social

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it.

And today showed us that beautifully.

No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

June 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM