Paula Browning
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
This should worry all of us. #FactsMatter
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
This should worry all of us. #FactsMatter
Thank goodness for #LocalMedia & journalists like Kirsty
Fossil fuel companies were given confidential drafts of legislation during their (successful) two-year campaign to weaken oil and gas regulation and overturn the offshore exploration ban - new reporting from me via the OIA
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
How the oil and gas industry helped rewrite New Zealand’s drilling rules
A paper trail shows just how far ministers went to accommodate the oil and gas industry's wishlist.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thank goodness for #LocalMedia & journalists like Kirsty
AI as ancestral intelligence is way more valuable than that artificial intelligence. Grounded in human experience and storytelling, it will take humanity further for all. #LoveLocal #GoGlobal #NZCreativityCounts
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
AI as ancestral intelligence is way more valuable than that artificial intelligence. Grounded in human experience and storytelling, it will take humanity further for all. #LoveLocal #GoGlobal #NZCreativityCounts
You know the world’s on fire when….this headline could be about a long list of countries (not just Australia, which it is actually referring to)
Who will the Coalition target next over the cost of living? | Fiona Katauskas
Who will the Coalition target next over the cost of living? | Fiona Katauskas
You’ll never guess Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
You know the world’s on fire when….this headline could be about a long list of countries (not just Australia, which it is actually referring to)
Brilliant!
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Brilliant!
One day we’ll start talking about diversification of our trade portfolio to include digital trade & markets other than the ones we’ve rely on too heavily for years 🙄
📢 The Trade Minister expected beef exports would return to the volume from before the tariffs were introduced.
US drops tariffs on $2 billion of NZ exports - McClay
www.1news.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One day we’ll start talking about diversification of our trade portfolio to include digital trade & markets other than the ones we’ve rely on too heavily for years 🙄
One person should not be earning $1t while children are going hungry. Something is wrong with the world.
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
One person should not be earning $1t while children are going hungry. Something is wrong with the world.
Someone tell Shane Jones #FastTrack
Since the mid 1990s, Norway has imposed a 56 per cent "special tax" for oil and gas companies, alongside a 22 per cent corporate tax rate.
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Australia could learn a lesson from this and make companies pay their fair share for our natural resources.
@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Someone tell Shane Jones #FastTrack
This is totally obscene.
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide.
The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is totally obscene.
The support for @siouxsiew.bsky.social Pledge Me request in the past few days has been simply wonderful 🩷 So good to hear the initial target has been reached.
a pink heart with a star in the middle is surrounded by glitter
ALT: a pink heart with a star in the middle is surrounded by glitter
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The support for @siouxsiew.bsky.social Pledge Me request in the past few days has been simply wonderful 🩷 So good to hear the initial target has been reached.
If this game is meant to be an exhibition/ marketing opportunity for rugby & the AB brand it’s doomed to fail. Too slow & messy.
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If this game is meant to be an exhibition/ marketing opportunity for rugby & the AB brand it’s doomed to fail. Too slow & messy.
Reposted by Paula Browning
Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Support Dr Siouxsie After She Supported Us! | PledgeMe
Support Dr Siouxsie to recover some of the money she spent fighting her legal case to protect employees experiencing online abuse
www.pledgeme.co.nz
October 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Exciting day today. Not only is it Halloween, but my crowdfunding campaign is also live! Please support me by making a pledge and/or sharing on all your socials and with your friends, family, and colleagues. Thanks to everyone offering rewards. You rock! www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Wow! Silver Ferns are on fire 🔥
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Wow! Silver Ferns are on fire 🔥
This is why we need to sustain our creative sector - telling our own stories, our way, with our people. Congratulations to everyone involved with Pike River.
#NZCreativityCounts
#NZCreativityCounts
REVIEW: Pike River is a damn near-perfect film. It can’t present every point of view and some people will criticise it for that. But it succeeds thunderously well at bringing to life the story it sets out to tell.
Pike River is a moving, human tribute. Go see it
REVIEW: Pike River is a damn near-perfect film. It can’t present every point of view and some people will criticise it for that. But it succeeds thunderously well at bringing to life the story it sets out to tell.
dlvr.it
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is why we need to sustain our creative sector - telling our own stories, our way, with our people. Congratulations to everyone involved with Pike River.
#NZCreativityCounts
#NZCreativityCounts
You can tell how open a business is to hearing from its customers (for both good & bad reasons) by how easy they make it to get in touch with them. Complete fail One NZ 🤬
October 18, 2025 at 5:17 AM
You can tell how open a business is to hearing from its customers (for both good & bad reasons) by how easy they make it to get in touch with them. Complete fail One NZ 🤬
Australia has awards for politicians doing positive things - who knew! If we had the equivalent in NZ who would our local government & central government winners be?
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Australia has awards for politicians doing positive things - who knew! If we had the equivalent in NZ who would our local government & central government winners be?
Lots of obvious responses to this worthless waste of our world’s resources….but interesting that a Big Tech company can suddenly do age verification?? They’ve been arguing against it for years!
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Lots of obvious responses to this worthless waste of our world’s resources….but interesting that a Big Tech company can suddenly do age verification?? They’ve been arguing against it for years!
Seriously? Copyright growing pains? You steal the world’s content as the engine of your business model and that’s a “growing pains”? You could have avoided it….by not stealing! 🤬🤬🤬
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
www.scientificamerican.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Seriously? Copyright growing pains? You steal the world’s content as the engine of your business model and that’s a “growing pains”? You could have avoided it….by not stealing! 🤬🤬🤬
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U.S. President Donald Trump described Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as “a beautiful young woman”, as she stood behind him on stage at a Gaza summit in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The government has targets to increase NZs soft power ranking. This is a complete own-goal towards achieving that. We’ve just demonstrated we can’t be trusted. Trust is hard to win & easy to lose. We just lost it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
New Zealand accused of ‘full-blown climate denial’ over cuts to methane reduction targets
Farmers praised the move, but scientists and opposition parties criticised it as ‘weak’ and ‘unambitious’
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The government has targets to increase NZs soft power ranking. This is a complete own-goal towards achieving that. We’ve just demonstrated we can’t be trusted. Trust is hard to win & easy to lose. We just lost it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Hoping the comms team for the next election will do better that what we got this time where everything was about “going back”. We need the country to move forwards, not backwards.
October 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Hoping the comms team for the next election will do better that what we got this time where everything was about “going back”. We need the country to move forwards, not backwards.
Don’t fall for it UK! These tech companies are like the oil companies of old - extractive. They’ll take you £ & your data & your electricity and pay you next to nothing in tax.
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister
Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed.
The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Don’t fall for it UK! These tech companies are like the oil companies of old - extractive. They’ll take you £ & your data & your electricity and pay you next to nothing in tax.
Ok. Own up. Who put Mike Lee back in Waitematā?
a woman in a plaid shirt is sitting on a couch and saying `` but why though ? ''
ALT: a woman in a plaid shirt is sitting on a couch and saying `` but why though ? ''
media.tenor.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Ok. Own up. Who put Mike Lee back in Waitematā?
A question I’m sure @haydendonnell.bsky.social will know the answer to….is there a turnout “floor” % of votes for elections that sends us back to the polls to get a higher turnout?
October 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A question I’m sure @haydendonnell.bsky.social will know the answer to….is there a turnout “floor” % of votes for elections that sends us back to the polls to get a higher turnout?