Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

A Policy nerd who never tweets (about Politics) 🤷🏽‍♀️ I do ordinary things. Waikato Maniapoto. She/her.

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

It took me 3 1/2 minutes to figure out where to write a tweet 🤦🏽‍♀️ Not exactly the auspicious TL start I was aiming for

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@rawhitip_ @maori_mermaid Encanto too. I need to learn how to 🏴‍☠️

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@Liquid_Times sub ‘looked’ for ‘been’ and I’m in 😂

[AK Press @AKPressDistro]

We know that many of you, like us, are trying to wrap your heads around what the next few years will hold. These are a few titles that have helped us think through what we are up against and the resistance we need. Please read them, share them, use them. https://t.co/sC5Rz6UHx0

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@SYSCAbout Ugh. Diabolical take

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@fuck_lupus Best Tuesday news I heard in forevs

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@fuck_lupus HURŌ!! 🥳🥳🥳

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@rawhitip_ 💘💘💘

[A.J Hendry @AeJayHendry]

Today the Government announced a new category for some of our most vulnerable and traumatised kids, labelling those who cause persistent harm as "Young Serious Offenders" Before the press conference was over the Prime Minister and Minister were directly referring to these kids

[Suhail Nassar @NassarSuhail]

No photos for today, just words, blood & tears.

[ֶָ֢ @lumonheiress]

my favorite out of context lines from derry girls, a thread:

[missfalasteenia @missfalsteenia]

I feel the need to say it again.

[John Hart @farmgeek]

Sorry, not sorry

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@Moce_Doce 🤡💩💀💀💩🤡

[Bronwyn @4crosspurposes]

@_breadcapital

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@fuck_lupus Yup, all this

[hine ahu one @rawhitip_]

I find it so funnyyy when pakehas say Māori is a 'useless language' and that we should 'learn another useful language'
here's what linguistic skills I can pick up w flying colours bc I know te reo: a thread

[John Campbell @JohnJCampbell]

"Hikoi - Speaking Our Truth" is out on @TVNZ this Sunday. It will be up on TVNZ+ and broadcast on TVNZ 1.

Brilliantly fronted by @tamatiRS.

Twenty years on from the Foreshore and Seabed Hikoi arriving at Parliament, it feels super relevant here & now.

Truly worth a watch. 😊

[Kia tau te rangimarie, e mete 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @mearapata]

@alxjasper This is so funny and true