MsWonderOutLoud
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Shane Jones called a trade deal with India a "butter chicken tsunami" this week. So here's Taika Waititi from 2017, still relevant, still necessary. Give nothing to racism.
🎬 youtu.be/g9n_UPyVR5s
🎬 youtu.be/g9n_UPyVR5s
Give Nothing To Racism
YouTube video by Te Kāhui Tika Tangata NZ Human Rights Commission
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April 25, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Shane Jones called a trade deal with India a "butter chicken tsunami" this week. So here's Taika Waititi from 2017, still relevant, still necessary. Give nothing to racism.
🎬 youtu.be/g9n_UPyVR5s
🎬 youtu.be/g9n_UPyVR5s
Luxon cancelled Breakfast over TVNZ staff conduct. Hosking named 5 National MPs as disloyal leakers on air. All of them say it's rubbish and fake news. One of those MPs has a formal Media Council complaint pending. Will Luxon cancel his appearance on Hosking's show?
April 25, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Luxon cancelled Breakfast over TVNZ staff conduct. Hosking named 5 National MPs as disloyal leakers on air. All of them say it's rubbish and fake news. One of those MPs has a formal Media Council complaint pending. Will Luxon cancel his appearance on Hosking's show?
Luxon cancelled Breakfast after 3 cheeky interviews with Tova O'Brien. Ardern cancelled Newstalk ZB after ~49 hostile interviews with Hosking — four years of being called dangerous, narcissistic, and a control freak. These two things are not the same.
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In the matter of: Hosking v Ardern and O'Brien v Luxon
A case of mistaken equivalence. Three interviews vs. forty-nine. These two things are not the same.
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April 24, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Luxon cancelled Breakfast after 3 cheeky interviews with Tova O'Brien. Ardern cancelled Newstalk ZB after ~49 hostile interviews with Hosking — four years of being called dangerous, narcissistic, and a control freak. These two things are not the same.
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Why is Jacinda Ardern such a threat to so many right wing men?
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Why are so many men still so triggered by Jacinda Ardern?
From “naïve” to “dictator” — and what that contradiction reveals
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January 2, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Why is Jacinda Ardern such a threat to so many right wing men?
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Heading into 2026, I’m wishing for politics with less performative certainty, and more authentic care - from politicians, journalists, and all of us.🐎 2026, let’s get the horse back in the stable. Happy 2026.
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Getting the horse back in the stable
What it might take to steady the reins in an election year
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December 31, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Heading into 2026, I’m wishing for politics with less performative certainty, and more authentic care - from politicians, journalists, and all of us.🐎 2026, let’s get the horse back in the stable. Happy 2026.
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Polls bounce. Trust sticks. Who's got it in 2025. Who lost it? And where is it wobbly?
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A trust snapshot: how the parties stack up
Who's stacking up, who's wobbly and who's collapsing?
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December 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Polls bounce. Trust sticks. Who's got it in 2025. Who lost it? And where is it wobbly?
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Love this. This is normal America.
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Love this. This is normal America.
@clrenney.bsky.social how are under-employed hours counted? I am only employed for 15 hours a week - would like to work full-time, but I don't think I am showing in any data because I do not qualify for government support. I imagine there are many like me in a similar boat?
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@clrenney.bsky.social how are under-employed hours counted? I am only employed for 15 hours a week - would like to work full-time, but I don't think I am showing in any data because I do not qualify for government support. I imagine there are many like me in a similar boat?
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December 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Let's roll up our sleeves and get involved - whether Labour or the Greens (or TPM or TOP). If you want better messaging or more visibility on social media or whatever, then join your local branch, offer your skills, volunteer, donate etc. Send your local lefty MPs positive & encouraging messages.
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Let's roll up our sleeves and get involved - whether Labour or the Greens (or TPM or TOP). If you want better messaging or more visibility on social media or whatever, then join your local branch, offer your skills, volunteer, donate etc. Send your local lefty MPs positive & encouraging messages.
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Changing this govt will require all of us ordinary ppl to find a way to work together and build each other up and encourage each other and promote a narrative of hope and change and that another way is possible. While also disagreeing with each other 🤣
Harder, but feasible I think?
Harder, but feasible I think?
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Changing this govt will require all of us ordinary ppl to find a way to work together and build each other up and encourage each other and promote a narrative of hope and change and that another way is possible. While also disagreeing with each other 🤣
Harder, but feasible I think?
Harder, but feasible I think?
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It's easy to point at each other and criticise each other for not being left enough or purist enough or good enough etc etc. Especially when we are scared and worried and desperately afraid of what another 3 years of NACT will mean for us all.
December 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It's easy to point at each other and criticise each other for not being left enough or purist enough or good enough etc etc. Especially when we are scared and worried and desperately afraid of what another 3 years of NACT will mean for us all.
Top tip for National for 2026: You got elected on promising to fix the economy and the cost of living crisis. Stop blaming Labour, and just get on with it. Less moaning, and more doing.
December 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Top tip for National for 2026: You got elected on promising to fix the economy and the cost of living crisis. Stop blaming Labour, and just get on with it. Less moaning, and more doing.
When one MP using ChatGPT it is “cheating”… but a whole room of staff drafting, editing, and pressure-testing questions is “just politics”. Amazing what counts as scandal when you don’t understand the tool.
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
When one MP using ChatGPT it is “cheating”… but a whole room of staff drafting, editing, and pressure-testing questions is “just politics”. Amazing what counts as scandal when you don’t understand the tool.
David Seymour's view on democracy: Where 300 000 submissions can be ignored, while one email can spark legislative change.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
David Seymour's view on democracy: Where 300 000 submissions can be ignored, while one email can spark legislative change.
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The government gives up the ghost on our youth
and calls it policy.
and calls it policy.
October 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The government gives up the ghost on our youth
and calls it policy.
and calls it policy.
Poor people just need better accountants. It works for farmers.
October 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Poor people just need better accountants. It works for farmers.
Gaslighting the public can only work for so long. It's time to take responsibility for the state of the economy.
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Stuff
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September 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Gaslighting the public can only work for so long. It's time to take responsibility for the state of the economy.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Opinion: New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice
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New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice
Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.
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September 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Opinion: New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice
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Vanessa Weenink reckons it doesn't matter if the leader of the party is not the strongest player? In theory perhaps, but in reality this is how resentment builds.
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September 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Vanessa Weenink reckons it doesn't matter if the leader of the party is not the strongest player? In theory perhaps, but in reality this is how resentment builds.
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September 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Loved this Jon Stewart and Jacinda Ardern conversation. Too many leaders weaponise fear. True leadership treats power as responsibility—to act with empathy, optimism & courage, and to improve lives. A good reminder right now.
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Jacinda Ardern - “A Different Kind of Power” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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September 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Loved this Jon Stewart and Jacinda Ardern conversation. Too many leaders weaponise fear. True leadership treats power as responsibility—to act with empathy, optimism & courage, and to improve lives. A good reminder right now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJg1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJg1...