Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk 💪

New data from @MBIEgovtnz shows renewables made up a record 95.5% of New Zealand's electricity generation in the six months to March 2026. Solar generation was up 60% year-on-year.

1/ Pop culture quiz. Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star with over a million people aboard. Did you walk out of the cinema asking whether the Rebellion were terrorists? No. You knew who built the superweapon. Context told you exactly who to blame. Hold that thought. 🧵

Train wreck interview for Qiulae Wong and the Opportunities Party as they declare war on pensioners — punishing lifetime savers and those who are “asset-rich, cash-poor”. Wong effectively tells them: Downsize the family home you’ve scrimped and sacrificed for your whole life (essentially forced displacement), or defer the tax and rob your children’s inheritance by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wong then doubles down, arguing that those whose properties have risen by a million dollars or more should be taxed on those gains — seemingly blind to the fact these are mostly unrealised paper gains that have already driven up their rates. In reality, this policy could pressure thousands, if not tens of thousands of pensioners into selling their family home. Every dollar paid in Land Value Tax (or deferred) is money taken from healthcare, daily living costs, or gifts to the grandkids. The Opportunities Party is sacrificing pensioners for their housing redistribution experiment.

New research from @asianewzealand shows the share of New Zealanders who view the United States as a friend has fallen to just 39%, while China's 43% is its highest in eight years. 35% of Kiwis now consider the 🇺🇸 a threat, up from just 10% four years ago.

For the first time in 123 years, Argentina has achieved a sustained fiscal surplus without being in default. We are one of only 5 countries in the world in this position. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

Oh dear

What a Fisking!!!

So Labour conspired with Naidoo over many months to run a special process just for him, to hide his intentions from Police. Hipkins has made this far worse, by stating they didn't follow their normal process. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/l…

Our passport service is really world class. Not only can you easily do the entire application online, I completed my application on Friday, and today (two working days later) it has been dispatched to me. Great work from DIA @BrookevanVelden

As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride. This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP. Inclusion! WOO! 🙄 The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life. That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature. And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement. The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law. Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together. You know... Normal things. The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included". What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings. Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work. How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement? Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes. Somewhere along the way after the TQ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship. The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all. I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype. If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this. The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline. The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.

The Police Manual is explicit that employees must advise at the "earliest" opportunity. Closed case.

Kia ora, we're not looking into this. Generally, MP contact info on stationery items would not be considered an election advertisement. (1/3)

I have spent hours refusing to get up because I don’t want to disturb the cat sleeping on my lap. This is very normal

This is a key aspect. It was $600k for basically a website about a building.

Not a great start for Labour's top cop. He broke police rules by not telling his boss he was seeking nomination until the last moment, when he was required to inform at the earliest opportunity. thepost.co.nz/politics/36101…

Pure arrogance and hypocrisy from Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson, happily filmed speeding along the motorway. It’s worth noting that the Greens launched a petition against the coalition’s planned blanket speed limit increases. “The Government is ignoring the emphatic evidence that safe speeds save lives. Applying blanket speed limit increases will result in more deaths and serious injuries. We have very clear evidence of the benefits from the early evaluations of speed limit reductions. What they will notice is if a loved one doesn’t make it home because of a car crash.” — Julie Anne Genter, Green Party Transport Spokesperson

First time in history a third party has won Newspoll

He’s just passionate, according to Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson. Green Party candidate Michel Mulipola, who goes by the name “Bloody Samoan” has shared a social media post promoting a protest against the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill. The post features inflammatory and violent rhetoric, including a tombstone marked “RIP NACT.” The accompanying track is a song by the band The Muslims titled “Fuck These Fuckin Fascists”. Some of the lyrics include: Why try to hide (if you're really for them) Why white ass pride (show your colors or you're dead) Fuckin' why? Fuck these fuckin' fascists Fuck their family and friends They defend a fuckin' fascist They can fuck off 'til they're dead (and all their kids) Fuck off and die! Marama Davidson has defended Mulipola’s past conduct, including his descriptions of police officers as “cunts” and “pigs,” and his labelling of Minister David Seymour as “a piece of shit.” Mulipola has also previously celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk, produced and promoted “Death to the IDF” T-shirts, and posted content that normalises the glorification of violence and eliminationist thinking — even if not intended literally. Violent rhetoric directed at politicians by other politicians or candidates is inexcusable. It risks whipping up hostility and contributes to a toxic political climate. This week, a 24-year-old man was charged with arson after a suspicious fire at Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s Auckland electorate office.