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"The moment someone in a meeting declares “I’m the adult here,” you are watching the Child, wearing daddy’s pants, stamping his tiny foot. The claim to adulthood is the one utterance the Adult never needs to make." This article from Andrew Dickson is a brilliant analysis of Luxon #nzpol

Same suits, new story - and everything National hopes you've forgotten. National is back on the trail asking voters to forget the record & judge them instead on a new set of promises. In a nutshell: they are asking voters for a political do-over. #nzpol wonderoutloud.substack.com/p/the-nation...

In 1997, a court ruled New York violated its own welfare laws by offering too small an allowance to put toward rent, leaving poor families with children at risk of homelessness. A new lawsuit argues that three decades later, that’s still happening. w/ @nysfocus.com

Have you asked every young person you know if they have registered to vote? Have you told them that the inequality is fixable via taxation &that corporates are buying influence they can’t afford every day to lock them out - but there is a solution. Voting.

Johnathan Bostons submission on the Climate Change Response (tort liability) amendment bill. Based on what I know, this bill opens the doors to ten different types of bad, but Bostons the expert #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/melanien...

The group Rural Women NZ is being slammed over a well thought out submission against the ridiculous gender identity bill. Facebook group NZ Farmers (populated mostly by cookers and Groundsmell members) is especially harsh. Plse go show RWNZ some love. #nzpol www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/r...

PERFECTLY NORMAL

📌 ICYMI @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The free-for-all in which former Government ministers are able to cash in on their connections, with little to no scrutiny, could be about to end, reports Josiah Mortimer

As Americans struggle with the cost of rent or mortgage payments, the president has a message for you: buzz off. He’s not interested. He made two billion off the presidency last year, and he couldn't care less about the hardships of ordinary people.

One for the property developers. Nothing matters except profit. Trump has narrowed the definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act. Destroying or degrading an endangered species habitat is no longer automatically illegal unless it directly injures or kills the animal, the NYT reports.

Celebrating British and Irish Entertainment 😆

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Unlike the Titanic, all lifeboats are reserved for the crew...

Placing the blame where it truly belongs.