Change is hard - be brave

Passionate about a fair, productive and sustainable world and how policy and politics can make a difference. Lucky, loved and curious.

[edward miller @labourcartel]

Govt's surplus rests on a real health cut of $1.65 billion from 2027 to 2030. While spending is swinging towards the over-65 population, per capita health spending for over-65s is down $1537 to 2030 and $512 for under-65s. Health cuts strangle productivity.

[Richard Hills @RichardHills_]

Guys. They’ve fixed the economic crisis. By… increasing the font size of the English words and making the te reo Māori words smaller. It’s just what you all were hoping was a priority right now.

Imagine being new minister & this is what you think is important. How embarrassing.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

[Mountain_Tui @Mountain_Tui]

Young Kiwi photographer Tom Rae's “Night at the Remarkables”

The Milky Way is arched over The Remarkables in the Southern Alps, while the lights of Queenstown glow far below.

Stunning & beautiful - the Earth is worth protecting

[Maria Sherwood @MariaSherwood2]

What a fucking coward. It will be Morning Report next.
https://t.co/ItObDonlj8

[Musical Chairs @MusicalChairs14]

Four things that everyone should know about the whole 'Labour blew up inflation.. bbbut we're responsible economics managers'.
1. The world caught a bout of inflation. NZ was pretty muted - mainly because of where we are and because we're not reliant on imported gas (yet) [🧵1/4]

[Plain Runner @plainrunner2]

Things I learned last night watching "Project Hail Mary."

Amazon can, in fact, produce a movie befitting the cinema.

Ryan Gosling is the best actor of his generation.

The notion that puppetry could ever be completely replaced by CGI (or worse, AI) is the fever dream of morons. Rocky is the greatest onscreen Muppet since Yoda.

Teens still want to believe in goodness, truth, and beauty (the row behind me was all noise and obnoxiousness during the previews, but they were captured once the story kicked in. They even applauded during a certain moment).

Disney did not realize what they had when they fired Lord and Miller from "Solo."

Andy Weir deserves his success.

Movie popcorn and I are no longer on speaking terms.

Hollywood needs to stop trying to engineer this sort of thing, and really just let movies live again.

I can not only cry in a theater, but I can, apparently, still honestly laugh. That felt so good.

I loved this film.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🇪🇸 BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu

He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.”

He also adds that the EU will suspend its Association Agreement with Israel very soon.

This is what true leadership looks like.

[Plague Poems @PlaguePoems]

I have read a statement
that “a whole civilization
will die tonight,
never to be brought back again,”
and as I read that statement
and as I reread that statement
I cannot shake the feeling
that the civilization
from which that statement comes
is one that is already dead.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is one of the most resilient acts the world has ever seen:

The people of Iran are forming human chains around their power plants & bridges as Trump threatens to drop a nuclear bomb and end their entire civilization tonight.

[Maria Sherwood @MariaSherwood2]

Luxon didn't know his own ministers. Walked right by them. After this morning it confirms he's a total idiot. https://t.co/qsdqf6MqB2

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

We should work toward nuclear disarmament in the entire world, but it should start with disarming the two nations that pose the most serious threat to global peace: Israel and the United States.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Wake up: he is calling for A NUCLEAR STRIKE. Seek his removal immediately.

[Anni3ru0k🌈🐾 @anni3ru0k]

This is diabolical, Willis should surely resign...she can't even count but she sure can twist the truth... #ResignWillis #NicolaNoBoats #ResignLuxon #ConArtists

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.

[Spider Hoof @spider_hoof]

Christopher Luxon is the worst PM in NZ history

[Ayn Randy @AynRandy666]

Step 1 - start an ideological crusade against Wgtn public servants via huge cuts because you blew $14 billion on "tax cuts" & landlords

Step 2 - drive skilled young Wgtn people overseas because there are no jobs

Step 3 - watch as your business "base" gets annihilated 🙄 #nzpol

[Amazonia - Kaua e tautohetohe ki nga riwai @Jandal_It]

Who canceled BUDGETED fuel storage, @mangonui08 ?
That would be YOU.

Lake Onslow? YOU.

Solar? YOU.

Ev rebates + Chargers? YOU.

Bike/walkways? YOU.

Public transport? YOU.

Hybrid ferries? YOU.

This is ALL on YOU. Wankers.

[Amazonia - Kaua e tautohetohe ki nga riwai @Jandal_It]

What grace did @NZNationalParty EVER show
@nzlabour for outright brilliance across YEARS of Covid? Five weeks in & they play a violin for themselves?

Just no.

BOO HOO.

They've politicised it unrelentingly, deeply dishonest, to serve their own ends.

Just NO.