Trump vs Musk
Two overly emotional, sociopathic, super egos having a cock fight on social media, or a man using his power to speak edifying and crystal clear truth.
Open mike 07/06/2025
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Daily review 06/06/2025
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Meta Ardern
This is about what’s good and what works and why.
Open mike 06/06/2025
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Daily review 05/06/2025
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The trouble with using AI bots
After David Seymour’s claim that 99.5% of submissions against his Regulatory Standards Bill were generated by AI bots it is relevant to review the time that he was implicated in the purchase of Russian sex bots to bolster his Instagram following.
The Three Wakas of the Coalition of Coxes
Once viewed through the right lens, the politics of the Coalition makes a lot more sense.
Open mike 05/06/2025
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Daily review 04/06/2025
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Louisa Wall – Project 2025 Is Silencing Māori Dissent — and It Didn’t Even Start Here
The attempt to punish Te Pāti Māori MPs for a haka protest is not just an internal matter—it reflects a broader, global effort to suppress dissent, erase cultural expression, and centralise power under the guise of order.
Work will not be so safe
Brooke Van Velden has announced changes to Workplace safety laws that will see prosecutions of Employers decrease but prosecutions of workers start.
Open mike 04/06/2025
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Daily review 03/06/2025
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Open mike 03/06/2025
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Writing in the time of Genocide
I want to share a writer’s journey – of living and writing through the Genocide. Because my country provides support to Israel and the US, I feel compelled to support Palestine by doing the one thing I know best: writing.
The existential moment we are in
As the world re-entangles and pushes our interdependence to the foreground, we need a new thesis on freedom.
Open mike 02/06/2025
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Shut up you dickhead
Chris Bishop has chosen to say loudly and publicly “what a load of crap” during a song celebrating Te Reo Maori performed during the Aotearoa Music Awards ceremony.
Open mike 01/06/2025
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Open mike 31/05/2025
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Daily review 30/05/2025
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Seeing Is Believing
A video post, starring Christopher Luxon, Chris Hipkins, Nicola Willis and Winston Peters. Featuring Debbie Ngarewa-Packer as star prosecutor.
Which animal does Labour resemble?
In the United States Republicans have been compared to Apex Predators and Democrats to a deer in headlights. Which animal does Labour resemble and which animal should it aspire to resemble?
Open mike 30/05/2025
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Daily review 29/05/2025
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Open mike 29/05/2025
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Daily review 28/05/2025
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Nicola Willis’s Debt Higher Than All 6 Years of Ardern Government
Current & planned debt will surpass Labour’s full term debt in less years. Willis also admitted Budget 2024 had a higher deficit than all of Grant Robertson’s bar Covid.
Migration: the spectre at the feast
The challenge posed by migration pressures is real and often underestimated. They are greater today than ever before in modern history.
The Peoples’ Select Committee on Pay Equity
In very bad news for the Government former National MP Marilyn Waring has announced that she will be doing something the Government did not do, organise hearings to consider the Government’s sabotaging of Pay Equity.
Open mike 28/05/2025
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Daily review 27/05/2025
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The weird similarities between the Trump and the Willis budgets
A comparison of Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Budget and Nicola Willis’s recent budget disclose remarkable similarities.
Open mike 27/05/2025
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Daily review 26/05/2025
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