Trouble

[Samuel Hudson @foundersam]

Jordan Williams is currently at the Taxpayers’ Union office.

[Melanie D. @melulater]

A former Minister of Education confirmed to me today that Education Minister Erica Stanford is severely over reaching into the writing of the Phase 5 English Curriculum.
The video in the Herald today confirms what we have heard from other curriculum writing teams, Erica has...

[Mountain_Tui @Mountain_Tui]

Lots of astroturfers tonight claiming Atlas Network, and even Nicky Hager - NZ's top investigative journalist - are just "conspiracy theories/theorists"

Sure... #kiwi #dirtywork #nickyhager

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

On March 16, 1968, US troops were raping and massacring Vietnamese civilians including children and babies at My Lai.

Then an American helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson Jr. saw what was happening — and decided he could not stand by.

Thompson was flying a reconnaissance mission in an OH-23 Raven with his two crewmen, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. Their job was to scout ahead of the ground troops and identify enemy positions.

But something was terribly wrong.

From the air, Thompson noticed bodies everywhere — women, children, infants and elderly people. There was virtually no return fire.

He marked wounded civilians with smoke so they could receive medical help.

But when he came back, he discovered that some of the people he had marked as wounded had been shot dead.

He watched a wounded Vietnamese woman lying on the ground. An American soldier approached her, prodded her with his foot — and shot her in the head.

Thompson was horrified.

He then saw a group of 12–15 Vietnamese women and children fleeing toward a bunker while American soldiers pursued them.

He landed his helicopter between the civilians and the soldiers.

Thompson confronted the Americans and ordered his crew to cover the civilians. He told his gunner, Lawrence Colburn, to train his M60 on the American troops and fire if they opened fire on the Vietnamese.

Think about that.

An American soldier had reached the point where he was willing to risk shooting fellow American soldiers to prevent them from committing more war crimes.

Thompson then helped get the civilians out of the bunker and called in other helicopters to evacuate them.

His crew helped rescue Vietnamese survivors and wounded children.

After returning to base, Thompson immediately reported what he had witnessed to his superiors.

Hugh and his men deserve to be remembered, not because they were American soldiers, but because they chose humanity when others had abandoned it.

While others were killing innocent people, these three Americans risked their lives to save them.

That is courage. That is humanity. This is Thompson Hugh Jr.

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

Can we make a reality show where boomers have to apply for jobs in 2026 using their own advice and see how quickly they have a mental breakdown?

[Jan Renwick @nettieg3]

No more money for our hospitals just for wealthy entertainers from overseas.

[cool timothy @dreadconquest]

this would be a great step towards making democracy in new zealand a lot fairer, and more honest

[Mountain_Tui @Mountain_Tui]

Thanks for your service, Nicky Hager
Let's not forget the last time Hager unveiled the dirty underbelly of #NZ politics & media, that Matthew Hooton (Editor in Chief,The Post) & David Farrar doxxed Hager's personal address in the hope rich Chinese would "chop chop" him #dirtywork

[Kapiti @kapiti_coaster]

Nicky Hager's title of the book has been confirmed: "Dirty Work: The Taxpayers Union and NZ's Hard Right". 

The book's cover added: "Part three of the Dirty Politics trilogy".

It should be a good (and disheartening) read of the dirt by the National & ACT parties.

[DrRawiriTaonui @rtaonui]

Says it all.

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

It's been revealed that Nicky Hager's new book Dirty Work focuses on the Taxpayers' Union & co-founder Jordan Williams.

Here's a primer while you wait to get your hands on this explosive exposé of a group used by our current government to take down their political opponents:

[Maria Sherwood @MariaSherwood2]

Is the TPU shitting themselves yet? Chapter 5 is about Maiki Sherman and how they had a hand in her sacking.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

When Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933 the first thing he did was to ban the press.

Sounds familiar.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

As of today you need to earn

$7869 per week

To have the same spending power a minimum wage boomer kid had in 1971

[Samuel Hudson @foundersam]

I told Jared he has no mandate from the people of Aotearoa to change our Foreign Policy by stealth to sell off our assets and land. He responded by blocking me. That response speaks volumes about how he intends to handle scrutiny and disagreement.

[ᴀɴᴅʀᴇw вıԍԍs @biggsintweets]

we’re not.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

“Trump TV” is being launched at 7pm EST after all the major TV news networks pulled out of the White House.

This is state sponsored media.

You will only see, hear and read what they want you to know.

It won’t be the truth.

It won’t be journalism.

It’ll be 24/7 propaganda.

[Scott Nickerson @totaraforest]

Giving the Health Minister an ‘achieved’ for shorter waits in EDs after the winter we’ve just had is just fucking gaslighting us. https://t.co/NQnyceB4zs

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many many more.

If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them.

Instead there will be silence.

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

Imagine working at Dairy NZ, Beef & Lamb, Fonterra, Fed Farmers. Your job is to block law to protect the 'life supporting capacity' of ecosystems. Large ag cos want to emit so much pollution it is incompatible with 'life-supporting capacity' of ecosystems https://t.co/CDPxpbpSbH