With Mill Road back in the news again (as a campaign promise from the National Party), it's a good moment to look back at our previous coverage of this wildly overscoped project. Today's throwback post was first published in 2018, and we stand by our take: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/10/08/t...
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Further down today’s ranking of Politics: page 4 of 7.
Lazy clickbait media have lead us here. Good policy? Responsible governance? The common good? Nah. It’s about winning the day. #OvertonWindow #AusPol Australia’s ‘sensible centre’ is shifting radically right | The Point thepoint.com.au/opinions/26100…
The DNC faces a severe fundraising gap compared to Repubs. And the DNC is in debt. My cell messages have 11 requests for $ from Dems. Daily I rcv anywhere from 25+ such requests. The $ in politics and apparently lack thereof for Dems are problems. Ads cost. Staff costs. Travel costs. Answers?
Yes, anti-Semitism is a real problem - but to see an op-ed like this that ignores the many public statements by #NetanyahuAdminisration ministers and the well documented abuses in the #WestBank by "settlers"? Dismissing concerns about the Israeli abuses in #OccupiedPalestine will only aggravate anti-Semitism. This is exactly the sort of right wing Israeli messaging - oh, so calm and reasonable, while justifying #EthnicCleansing and #WarCrimes - that I have seen since Rabin was murdered, if not before. Three years on from the 7 October attacks, antisemitism has taken hold in Britain: Jews aren’t safe theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
A few years ago there was discourse about how the Guardian Australia's Inequality Reporter on the housing crisis had no experience of homelessness herself. On one hand, there was something messed up that this was branded as "class reductionism."
This is not a dry history lesson. It reads with the speed of a political thriller. #books #bookreview #Politics #TrueCrime thisgrandpablogs.com/watergate…
So I think one interesting thing about polling this election cycle is that the GOP isn't releasing internal polling. And that's because their internal numbers are as bad or worse than the public polling.
In 2004, S.D. moved from a city manager-style of gov’t to a strong mayor. It hasn’t gone well, with mayors mired in scandals or epically poor decisions. Now, even a routine transfer of data is fouled up. It’s time for S.D. voters to ask, why can’t we elect mayors who actually do the job? voiceofsandiego.org/2026/09/30…
After MIllie Weaver's Shadowgate documentary exposed a very sinister public private partnership, Matt Gaetz covered for Roger Stone during Jim Jordan's Weaponization of Government committee.
Advocates talk about making space for bikeways, bike lanes, and transit framed as "taking space from cars". But when it's time to pay for transit, advocates fracture between adding new taxes and taking from existing budgets (roads, drivers, highway expansion, etc.). bsky.app/profile/patr...
‘Nevadans can’t drink tax dollars’: Voters uneasy on data centers, water ahead of election "It doesn’t matter how much additional tax revenue data centers and new residents bring in,” said Mike Noble, the polling firm’s CEO, in a statement. “Nevadans can’t drink tax dollars if there isn’t enough water to go around.” reviewjournal.com/news/politic…
This is #TacticalUrbanism against fascism. bird.makeup/users/mphproject/s… AltText: The view down a 2-lane road. The road is closed with a "road closed" sign and some cones, but actually ensuring that cars can't get through are two large green raised beds filled w/ dirt & plants. They're probably 8ft long (the ends are out of frame so it's not certain), they're roughly 4ft tall and 4ft wide (a barely-visible wooden pallet was used to construct). Two people hold signs w/ names of people killed by ICE.
asking a question like this during election polling should have you struck from the pages of any serious media outlet - unfortunately NZ doesn't have any of those in mainstream any more Curia can absolutely not be trusted to avoid push-polling - thereby changing decisions - or to even be truthful
Our current National government proposing random drug testing for people on jobseekers benefits. Given the importance of their jobs, I think maybe it should be mandatory for MPs. That and breath testing for alcohol. Would be interesting, Hogseth has probably broken breathalyzers by being out of maximum range.
drazan in the debate a few minutes ago mentioned she had a proposal to balance the ODOT budget with existing revenue and neglected to say that she made the math work on that proposal by inventing $50 million in imaginary revenue www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
NC Dems need to get their acts together. You’ve got to be able to make the case for taxes when voters are about to be voting on constitutional amendments to cap taxes to an extent that will cripple state government. #ncpol
Saw a "factoid" posted on a trusted news program that stated half of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen. My wife and I understand propaganda, belonging and belief conceptually, but the magnitude of this statement shows how truly powerful belief, belonging and propaganda is. Using logic, one can fight lies, but fighting belonging and belief is not possible. Or is it? #belief #tribe
I personally have a hard time coming up with strong principled beliefs about provincial vs. municipal jurisdiction, so I focus on the merits of the policy. Trying to ban/limit housing near jobs and transit is dumb when municipalities do it and it’s dumb when provinces do it.
#ReformUK member wears #pervertglasses in the Siambr. "Last week, Nation.Cymru reported how MSs had raised suspicions that Pontypridd Cynon Merthyr MS Jason O’Connell had used a teleprompter function on a pair of smart glasses in order to deliver a key speech during a debate. One MS told us they caught glimpses of text moving down O’Connell’s lenses. Several others noted that the Reform politician did not look down at his script during his contribution, unlike many of his other past speeches when he has relied heavily on notes." #Senedd nation.cymru/news/senedd-worki…
Zohran looked into arresting Netanyahu if he could find it possible, and trying to crack down on sales of illegal settlements in Gaza. Yes, in the end, Zohran is a politician, and he has to do politician things, but he's cooking so far. He's still ONLY a Mayor.
Communities worry for their health after Trump weakens pollution limits: 'It's a kick in the gut' Biden-era changes to the Clean Air Act would have tightened regulations for industrial sites, but the Trump administration has given exemptions to hundreds of facilities. People living near the sites are concerned about air quality and their well-being. #pollution #health #EPA #USpol kcur.org/environment-agricultu…
I don’t hate the MidAmerica airport extension or whatever but it truly is a difference in state politics that Illinois will fund transit projects to the middle of nowhere but Missouri won’t fund transit to dense areas of its largest city/metro area.
The idea that if a government holds stock in a media company, it has the right to litigate the editorial decisions of the company’s news outlets, is an attempt to do an end-run around the First Amendment. fair.org/home/floridas-lawsuit…
Taiwan elections 2026: New Taipei DPP candidate Su Chiao-hui set to be interviewed by Jaw Shaw-kong on October 21st. It's interesting Jaw is suddenly interested in getting DPP figures on his show. On the surface, the ratings and views boost must be irresistible. news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...
I wrote about the Christa Pike case, the Cornell Seven, Dr. Roger Marshall suing his patients, and the strong showing by Bolsonaro, Jr. in Brazil over the weekend—all of which point to the fact that an end to Trumpism is only the beginning of the changes that we have to make. degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/ki…
"France jettisoning neoliberalism" assumes the problem was the ideology, not the constraint. The real shift: treating real resources and employment as the binding limits, not the deficit. That's not post-neoliberal. That's MMT. #MMT #UKGreenParty #Economics #UKPolitics #EUEconomics
"As exporters shipped more to the US to beat the looming new 50% tariffs from the Trump administration, Canada's exports to the country surged 8.1% in August, while imports were down 2.5%, Statistics Canada reported." LOL. There's an inherent mismatch with the trade expectations of Trump and his USTR Jamieson Greer and reality. It turns out, Canadians really aren't into US goods, soured by Trump and Greer, while Americans absolutely can't do -- and rightfully so -- without goods from Canada. The zero-sum game is growing more negative for Trump. #USPol #Canada reuters.com/world/americas/can…
The US has been doing this since it inception. Aside from separating enslaved Black families, my mind went immediately to Native boarding schools.
We can follow statewide voter turnout at the California Secretary of State's Office. As of the first day, 16,000 ballots were in. Those numbers will begin rising sharply into the millions. But the system is working. So get out there and vote early! elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/state…
Decades of neoliberal scamonomics have led to social wealth trickling up to a tiny parasitical elite. We need politicians who will repossess what has been taken from us and use it to repair our broken society and economy.
Everything we have—from housing and medicine to food—we owe to the labor of the working class. Yet, the working class has no power over its own labor. While we recognize that the working class cannot afford to fall ill—and distribute masks to prevent disease—we also know that capitalism has hijacked both science and the fruits of our labor. The right to housing and the right to disease prevention share the same enemy: the bourgeoisie. Housing is turned into a business; disease is turned into a business. We refuse to normalize evictions. We refuse to normalize preventable deaths. We refuse to normalize the lack of prevention. If the working class produces everything, then everything belongs to it.
Canada can build major projects faster without weakening environmental protections, science, transparency or accountability. I just wrote to my MP asking them to strengthen Bill C-39. You can too 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/have...
ICE/CBP is the American Gestapo. Let me repeat: ICE/CBP is the American Stasi. Let me repeat: ICE/CBP is the American NKVD/KGB. *Everyone* who is part of ICE or CBP, from the lowest agent up through the entire management chain, right to the very tippy top, is part of a criminal/unconstitutional conspracy to commit crimes such as Federal kidnapping (potentially a capital offense - 18 U.S. Code § 1201 - Kidnapping ) These people must be indicted, tried, and, in many cases i would hope, convicted. (Of course El Cheato - who ought to be one of the defendants despite the SCOTUS grant of immunity - will pardon them.) democracydocket.com/news-alert… law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
Excellent podcast series about Mississippi using the legal system to torture of Curtis Flowers in the name of White Supremacy features.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/
Solidarity with the Folkston hunger strikers! "A group of people detained inside a privately run Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in Georgia have launched a mass hunger strike this week to protest against their prolonged detention and the facility’s conditions, according to advocates and family members. "Advocates estimate at least 73 detained immigrants are participating in the hunger strike inside the Folkston D Ray James ICE processing center in south-east Georgia. The Folkston facility, a former state prison, is run by the private prison company GEO Group under a contract with ICE." theguardian.com/us-news/2026/o… For more information, see the social media links here: flow.page/shutdownfipc #antiracist #ICE #Georgia
The BC election call paused proposed controversial changes to Agricultural Land Reserve food processing rules. Story includes recent comments from David Eby and Lorne Doerkson, plus perspectives of ALC, BC Agriculture Council and more #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10/07/ALR…
Worth noting this when reflecting on Badenoch's speech yesterday. Tories are very good at making promises, but not quite as good at delivering them
Make Miners Cough Up Their Lungs Again #DJT's rollback of protections and promotion of "Clean Coal" is bringing back worst levels of Black Lung since 1970s npr.org/2026/08/05/nx-s1-58948… #Coal #Workers #Miners #ProtectWorkers #workersrights
I’ve been wrestling a bit with whether I get myself into a contradiction when I decry provincial interference like this (where they do it to squash municipal policy I approve of) but quietly rejoice when higher levels of government act ro get other cities to adopt more pro-housing measures.
Victorians say 'lazy planning' leading to poor social housing outcomes Residents near a proposed social housing project in Bendigo say the state government's… ABC News · Tasmania abc.net.au/news/2026-10-08/res… #News #Tasmania
One reason why I'm surprised wealthy people and corporations don't invest more in elections. The return on investment is huge. US spends less on elections than deodorant.
After they take a beating in the midterms, I expect the GOP will cooperate in removing Trump from office in an attempt to avoid the same in 2028, either via the 25th Amendment or impeachment and conviction. Trump will become the scapegoat, and they'll try to make him the cause of ALL the problems. Then we'll have a year or two of Vance to deal with while the GOP tries to rehab their image with voters. Will it work? #25thAmendment #ImpeachConvictRemove
I don't know how many times we're going to need to explain this to people but you can not use the 25th Amendment to remove the President against his will. The process for doing that is called "impeachment". And Newsom should know that. My post on it: ordinary-times.com/2019/02/18/m...
Rail district blamed for sending wrong ballots to 800K Aurora area voters, prompting call to cancel the vote County clerks will determine a way to identify the mistaken ballots and ensure Question 7A isn’t tallied in the vote count sentinelcolorado.com/metro/rai… #AuroraCO #COleg #CoCo #NoPaywall
People still like to pretend that the US only interferes in Latin American elections (if they even admit that), but the truth is that every UK general election of my lifetime has been won by the US's preferred option. And that's very unlikely to be a coincidence
The homelessness crisis wasn’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight, but the status quo is unacceptable. I declared a homelessness emergency on day one.
Like I've been saying: those mid-term elections in the US aren't going to happen. #USPol
Mamdani has genuinely made some missteps on i/p and on policing. The reason thr protest against him has such bad rhetoric/messaging is because the local chapter has opted against pushing him from the left, leaving the lane open to ultras.
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades ms.now/news/trump-midterms-osc…
A word at the end of the day about people saying "I'm okay with drug testing if all MPs have to do it". No. That is *not* where we want to go. Part of the danger of National's stunt policy is that it sets us off down a slippery slope where the privacy and human rights of *everyone* are infringed.
