Suz from Aotearoa

I discussed this with a friend on a visit to Chicago. His advise was to always carry the amount of cash you are happy to give away in small value notes. Then scatter it around with no judgement. If they need to get intoxicated to live another day so be it.

The increase in unemployed, unhoused, cost of living, making it harder to get emergency housing, reducing food bank funding & benefit sanctions was always going to drive some people to alternative pathways to meet their needs.

Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes

FYI I’ve opened this one up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Earthlings!
Bernard discuses the cold economic facts of the “move on orders” policies from this government.
TLDR: Not only is it heartless it is shitty economics. #nzpol #cruelty #economics #prisonindustrialcomplex #homelessness #humanity #kindness

Likewise.

IT'S FEBRUARY 2026.

THE RAIL ENABLED HYUNDAI FERRIES FOR I REX WERE MEANT TO ARRIVE BY NOW.

Instead we have no rail enabled ferries, the two we have are clunky as fuck, and there will be no replacement ferries until 2029 at the earliest.

He did nothing useful at all. Didn't apprehend the thieves. Didn't protect the girls at the outside table. Didn't help the staff organise their customers.
A calm organiser is more useful than a reactionary fighter.

Great news

My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass.

It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved.

I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it.

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We have to stop having those photos go viral.

It is a tiny step in the right direction. We need to do so much better.

No!

Yip. We need to move further left than Labour to get out of this mess.

I do wonder if we should search the Epstein files for some NZ politicians & business leaders names.

"The phone call is coming from inside the house"
#nzpol
( Bluesky "trumpist" search link
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He is the opposite of everything Jesus said to be.

They are traitors.

Now look into the credibility of the group claiming to have found them. The RNZ appears to have dropped the ball on this article.

We’re doing backdoor deals with an openly fascist government? I’d appeal to the decency of the people working on this, but they don’t have any; we know the sorts of shit those minerals are going to be used to do, the tools and weapons they are going to build, and so does everyone making this deal.

There should NOT be a single person in New Zealand doing, or even considering doing, ANY business with the US under Trump!!
If you are Maori & considering it, you are an absolute traitor to your people and this country!
#NZPol

This doesn't seem like 18 years ago. I am glad he isnt being released.

#NZpol

There's people from all walks of life and backgrounds who do understand the multiple threats posed by, particularly, the Far Right and those sympathetic to them *globally*. That very much includes *here too*.

So if you can make it, to show unity *against* such divisive tactics, get there 👍✊

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Insurer temporarily halts new policies in Westport due to flood risk The decision will be the first of many as the full force of climate change arrives in New Zealand, a researcher says.

And here we go: Remember you might not believe in climate change but your insurance company most certainly does and here comes our first example of No Insurance due to High or Very High Natural Hazard Risks. Aka 1% AEP events repeating too often
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

it is incredible how everyone just moved on from the fact the US kidnapped another country’s president and is now effectively the puppet master of the government it left in power

Why Some are Calling for a World Cup Boycott Prominent soccer figures have called for fans to watch the tournament on TV instead of in the U.S., while some European lawmakers have even called for teams to pull out of playing.

Calls for a #Boycott of the #WorldCup Grow
- time.com/7358117/fifa... they need to grow until they are implemented...

I wonder what the trend is on this. Are the supporters increasing?

Kiwis overseas help us kick this lot out so we can build an Aotearoa you want to come back to #nzpol

By cancelling the Climate Emergency Response Fund, the government was telling us there was nothing to see here. The past week has shown they could not have been more wrong. We need a government that takes climate change seriously because it's only going to get worse. #nzpol

People, it’s time to just freaking vote #Greens Start supporting them now. Get involved - like, actually involved. We need to sort all this shit out already.
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